Emergent Research: The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar | PIMS - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

PIMS is pleased to present an ongoing lecture series featuring our Postdoctoral Fellows. These lectures provide an opportunity to connect with emerging research in the mathematical sciences from a PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow. PIMS PDFs are amongst the top young researchers in Canada, and this is an excellent opportunity to learn about them and their work.

The PIMS PDF program sponsors positions across the PIMS network each year. Outstanding young researchers are invited to apply through our mathjobs page. Applicants must be sponsored by a scientist or department affiliated with PIMS, please see the mathjobs posting for details.

These events are shared online. To participate, please see the individual events for connection details. Please also see our effective virtual events document for tips on getting the most out of PIMS online events.

All talks are 9:30 AM Pacific/ 10:30 AM Mountain / 11:30 AM Central

These seminars are recorded, and the recordings are available on mathtube.org. Please note: PIMS reserves the right to restrict participation in online or in-person.

Past Seminars

With the advancement in the high performance computing (HPC), it has become feasible to simulate various physical processes and phenomena. Such processes have applications ranging from energy & transportation sector to biological research. The...

Abstract: I will begin by introducing some of the most basic combinatorial objects - partitions. It turns out that their generating function is a prototypical example of a modular form. These are objects with infinite symmetry, in turn giving them...

Let \(p\) be a prime number. For each positive integer \(k\geq 2\), it is widely believed that the smallest prime that is a k-th power residue modulo p should be \(O(p^{\epsilon})\), for any \(\epsilon>0\). Elliott proved that such a prime is at most...

I will discuss several geometric constraints of the finite-time blowup of smooth solutions of the Navier-Stokes equation in the regularity criteria related to the eigenvalue structure of the strain matrix and to the vorticity direction. These...

Knot Floer homology is a package of widely-used knot invariants constructed via pseudo-holomorphic curves. In this talk, we will restrict our attention to the knot Floer homology of a class of knots called satellite knots; understanding these...

Let \(G\) be a finite group acting transitively on \(X\). We say \(g,h \in G\) are intersecting if \(gh^{-1}\) fixes a point in \(X\). A subset \(S\) of \(G\) is said to be an intersecting set if every pair of elements in \(S\) intersect. Cosets of...

Abstract: Motivated by biological questions related to DNA packing and the movement of molecules through channels, it is of interest to determine whether a specific knot or link type can be realized in a confined volume. In this talk, we will discuss...

Abstract: In this talk, we study an algebraic approach to fusions of synchronization models. The Lohe tensor model is a generalized synchronization model which contains three synchronization models; the Kuramoto model(on the circle), the swarm sphere...

Abstract: I will introduce a skeleton obtained directly from monomial relations in a finite quiver without cycles, and relate the construction to some classical examples in mirror symmetry. This is work in progress with David Favero. Speaker...

Hurwitz numbers are counts of maps between Riemann surfaces with specified ramification profiles. Alternatively, they may be seen as counting decompositions of the identity in symmetric groups into permutations of given cycle type or as certain...