Marni Mishna | PIMS - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

Professor of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University

Originally from Edmonton, Marni successively obtained degrees in pure mathematics from the University of Waterloo, Simon Fraser University and the Université du Québec à Montréal. She held an NSERC Postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Bordeaux and the Fields Institute in Toronto before returning to Simon Fraser as faculty in 2005. Her distinctions include an NSERC University Faculty Award, and numerous invited positions in France. She has served on the NSERC Scholarships and Fellowships committee

Marni is an expert in combinatorics. Her research investigates interactions between discrete structures and many diverse areas such as representation theory, functional equations, and algebraic geometry. Her specialty is the development of analytic tools to study the large-scale behaviour of discrete objects. She is a leader within the international combinatorics community, and has organized several major conferences, workshops and schools.

Marni was a member of the PIMS SRP from 2019-2020

12:30 - 1:30 PM: Lunch/Coffee/Tea/Snacks 1:30 - 1:35: Opening Remarks 1:35 - 1:50: Jonathan Hermon A simple characterization of the effective resistance metric on vertex transitive graphs The effective resistance satisfies the triangle inequality and...

Mathematical transcendence refers to objects (usually numbers or functions) that do not satisfy any polynomial equation, that is, they are not algebraic. The numbers $\pi$ and $e$ are famous transcendental numbers, and $e^x$ and the Gamma function...

The goal of this event is to link our research programs and students and provide a jumping off point for future collaboration.

Lattice paths are very classic objects in both probability theory and enumerative combinatorics. In particular, weighted models bridge the gap between the two approaches very neatly. We consider an example, the Gouyou-Beauchamps model of lattice...