Past Events

Science Rendezvous is a FREE festival that takes science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) research and innovation out of the lab and onto the street. See the UBC Science Rendezvous Page for activities taking place at UBC.

What is May 12? May 12 is a joyful opportunity for the mathematical community to celebrate women in mathematics. The celebration takes place every year, all around the world. The goal of the day is to inspire women everywhere to celebrate their...

SFU's Association for Women in Mathematics Student Chapter, in collaboration with the Department of Mathematics EDI Advisory Group, is hosting a series of events for the International Women in Mathematics Day. The celebration begins with a Women’s...

Back in the old days, before the invention of Apple Wireless Airpods, people were more familiar with the tendency of the headphones in their pockets to become knotted. It seems natural to expect that the probability that a random curve is tangled...

Schedule Part I: Invited talks by visitors (25 min + 5 min Q) 10:30 Coffee, tea & cookies; (intro’s and tech set-up) 11:00 Carsten Beta, (U Potsdam) Composite active matter – how motile cells move passive micro-cargo 11: 30 Arik Yochelis (Ben Gurion...

Borsuk’s number b(n) is the smallest integer such that any set of diameter 1 in the n-dimensional space can be covered by b(n) sets of a smaller diameter. Exponential upper bounds on b(n) were first obtained by Shramm (1988) and later by Bourgain and...

The space of homomorphisms from the fundamental group of a compact surface to a Lie group is a remarkably rich and versatile object, playing a key role in mathematical developments spanning disciplines of algebra, analysis, geometry, and mathematical...

In this talk I will present several eigenvalue bounds on the independence number and the distance chromatic number of graph powers. We will see how to use polynomials and mixed-integer linear programming in order to optimize such bounds. Some...

The 20th Annual Alberta Mathematics Dialogue (AMD) 2023 will be held May 4- 5 (Thurs-Fri) 2023 at Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta. This event, formerly held jointly as the North-South Dialogue in Mathematics (which began in 2001 as a...

In 2016, Gay and Kirby showed that every compact smooth 4-manifold can be decomposed into three standard pieces. A particularly nice feature of this decomposition is that the smooth topology of the 4-manifold can be encoded by curves on a surface. In...