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Po-Shen Lo

PIMS welcomes back Po-Shen Loh to UBC on Saturday, October 9 at 11:30 am for a talk titled “AI Is Here. How Can We Help All the Humans? Answer: Math, With a Twist”.

PIMS-BIRS-Simons Travel Award

PIMS-BIRS-Simons Travel Award helps provides funding for researchers attending a BIRS 5-day (or longer) program to maximize the impact of their travel by visiting a PIMS site for collaboration.

PIMS-UBC Math Job Forum

Postdocs and grad students - please join us on October 22 at 12:30 PM PT for the PIMS-UBC Math Job Forum. A panel of four experts will advise job applicants on the job application process in academia and industry.

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A matrix is called totally positive if all of its minors are positive. These matrices are important in mathe- matics, but checking whether a large matrix is totally positive can be challenging. In this talk, we explore whether certain matrices...

A fundamental aim of evolutionary biology is to describe and explain biodiversity patterns; this aim centers around questions of how many "species" exist, where they are most/least abundant, how this distribution is changing over time, and why...

The Poisson boundary of a random walk on a group is a probability space used to study the long-term behavior of the random walk. Because the group naturally acts on the Poisson boundary, various questions regarding the structure of this action can be...

Richard Stanley asked in 1995 whether a tree is determined up to isomorphism by its chromatic symmetric function. This question remains unanswered and frequently keeps the speaker awake at night. Our approach to understanding the strength of the...

The synthetic analogue of the bar comonad controls the universal differentials in the bar spectral sequence of algebras over spectral operads. This can be viewed as a deformation of Koszul duality of such algebras. I will explain ongoing work with...

Let $G$ be a graph with $n$ vertices. Let $A(G)$ be its adjacency matrix. Let $\lambda_1(G), \lambda_2(G)$ denote the largest and second largest eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix. Bollob\'{a}s and Nikiforov (2007) conjectured that for any graph $G...

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The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) and Distriq, the Quantum Innovation Zone of Quebec have entered a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), establishing a collaborative partnership...

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PIMS is please to welcome Professor Eric Woolgar as the new Interim Site Director representing the University of Alberta. Professor Woolgar began his one-year term on July 1, 2024. A professor of...

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