Past Events
Scientific
2025 PIMS Open House: Meet the Directors
September 11, 2025
Online
Directorate Open-house We invite you to meet with our PIMS Directors and review current and future PIMS scientific and educational funding opportunities. Time 12:00 PM Pacific/ 1:00 PM Mountain/ 3:00 PM Eastern.
Scientific, Seminar
UVictoria Discrete Math Seminar: Lianna Hambardzumyan
September 11, 2025
University of Victoria
The log-rank conjecture is a longstanding open problem with multiple equivalent formulations in complexity theory and mathematics. In its linear-algebraic form, it asserts that the rank and partitioning number of a Boolean matrix are quasi...
Scientific, Workshop
Physics Informed Neural Networks (PINNS) CRG Seminar: Dr. Charles Cheung
September 10, 2025
Simon Fraser University
In this tutorial, we will walk through the basic of AI methodology such as Physics Informed Neural Network (PINNs), Neural Operator, etc for solving physical problems. i.e., PDE problem. We will introduce PhysicsNeMo, an SDK for training PINNs and...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Probability Seminar: Markus Heydenreich
September 10, 2025
University of British Columbia
The incipient infinite cluster is a critical percolation cluster that is conditioned on being infinitely large. Even though the condition has probability zero, Kesten demonstrated the first such construction for critical two-dimensional percolation...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Cindy Greenwood
September 10, 2025
University of British Columbia
The rainbow and the brain have in common that frequencies are produced. In both cases there is a function of frequency, f, called the power spectral density (PSD). In both cases invasive investigation spoils the investigated object. This talk will...
Scientific, Seminar
URegina Topology & Geometry Seminar: Francis Bischoff
September 9, 2025
University of Regina
I will give an introduction to Poisson geometry, starting with its role in the dynamics of physical systems and its relationship to symplectic geometry. Through the use of illustrative examples, I will highlight some of the basic features of Poisson...
Scientific, Seminar
SFU MOCAD Seminar: Dr. Charles Cheung
September 8, 2025
Simon Fraser University
Machine learning is transforming the way we approach the laws of nature. PhysicsML — the fusion of machine learning with physics-based modeling — is rapidly advancing fields from computational biology and climate forecasting to product design and...
Scientific, Workshop
PIMS-BIRS-UBCO: Gender Equity in the Mathematical Study (GEMS) of Optimization
August 3–9, 2025
University of British Columbia Okanagan
This workshop aims to build a community of mathematicians who self-identify as gender minorities in mathematics and who work in optimization at the intersection of combinatorics, algebra, and geometry. To achieve this goal, the workshop focuses both...
Scientific, Workshop
Kantorovich Initiative Event: A small workshop in Optimal Transport
July 18, 2025
University of British Columbia
Schedule 09:00am - 10:00am: Marco Cuturi 10:00am - 10:30am: coffee break 10:30am - 11:00am: Andrew Warren 11:00am - 11:30am: Rentian Yao 11:30am - 12:00pm: Jakwang Kim 12:00pm - 01:00pm: Lunch (sandwich) 01:00pm - 01:30pm: Sybille Marcotte 01:30pm -...
Scientific, Conference
2025 West Coast Coin Flippers Conference
July 17–18, 2025
University of Washington
The talks will be in Paccar Hall Room 291. Abstracts to the talks can be found on the Program page. July 17 : 8:30 - 9: 0 0: Coffee + Opening Remarks 9:00 - 9:30 : Jonathan Novak (UCSD) - Invariant ensembles for coin flippers 9:30 - 10:00: Arnab Sen...