Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Number Theory Seminar: Mishty Ray
October 28, 2026
University of British Columbia
Local components of important classes of automorphic representations associated to a number field can be organised into sets of representations of p-adic groups - these sets are called local Arthur packets. Computation of Arthur packets is an...
Scientific, Colloquia
Special PIMS-UBC Math Colloquium/Probability Seminar: Jonathan Mattingly
October 28, 2026
University of British Columbia
I will begin with a brief description of how computational sampling methods have been critical in developing methods to detect political maps which are gerrymandered. I will discuss some of the court cases and political implications in US elections...
Scientific, Seminar
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Peter McDonald
October 28, 2026
Simon Fraser University
Let $G$ be a finite subgroup of $SL_2(\mathbb{C})$ and consider its natural action on $X=\mathbb{C}^2$. The quotient $X/G$ has an isolated singularity, and the McKay correspondence is a series of beautiful connections between the representation...
Scientific, Workshop
PIMS-UBC Math Academic Job Forum
October 28, 2026
University of British Columbia
The forum will explore a range of academic career paths, including research-stream positions at research-intensive universities, educational leadership positions, and positions at teaching-focused universities and colleges. The speakers will bring...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Katrina Honigs
October 27, 2026
University of British Columbia
Abstract: Although there is an explicit isomorphism that relates the Hilbert scheme of points on an abelian surface to compactified Jacobians of curves in a linear system on the dual abelian surface, computing its action directly is challenging...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Math Biology Seminar: Ka-Kit Tung
October 27, 2026
University of British Columbia
Abstract: Dynamical modeling for the spread of an infectious disease has 100 years of history. Traditional compartmental models such as SIR and SEIR, empirical models and data-driven models were all used during the COVID-19 epidemic. They played an...
Scientific, Seminar
Asymptotic Geometric Analysis, Convex and Discrete Geometry, and Combinatorics CRG Seminar: Jan Kotrbatý
October 27, 2026
Online
Abstract of the talk: In his 1938 thesis, C. Godbersen conjectured that, among convex bodies of fixed positive volume, the mixed volume of a body and its reflection about the origin is maximized by simplices. Although not stated explicitly in...
Educational, Workshop
Math Circles Fall 2026 Session 2
October 26, 2026
Students of grades 5 to 7 are invited to challenge and develop their thinking and creativity skills at the Math Circle Workshops. This is an enrichment program for students organized by the faculty members of the Department of Mathematics at the...
Scientific, Seminar
UW Analysis, Geometry and Dynamics Seminar: Bjoern Bringmann
October 26, 2026
University of Washington
We construct the 2D Yang-Mills-Higgs (YMH) measure via stochastic quantization. To this end, we show global well-posedness and uniform-in-time bounds for the associated Langevin dynamics, which is given by the 2D stochastic YMH equations. A key...
Scientific, Seminar
UAlberta Math Biology Seminar: Vitali Vougalter
October 26, 2026
University of Alberta
The work deals with establishing the solvability of a system of integro-differential equations in the situation of the double scale anomalous diffusion. Each equation of such system involves the sum of the two negative Laplace operators raised to two...