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Scientific, Seminar
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Alice Lacaze-Masmonteil
February 11, 2026
Online
The game of Cops and Robber played on graphs is a turn-based game between a set of $k \geqslant 1$ cops and a single robber. Cops and robber alike sit on the vertices of the graph with the cops first selecting their starting vertices. At the...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Reginald L. McGee
February 11, 2026
University of British Columbia
Sickle cell pain presents in acute episodes in pediatric patients, as opposed to the chronic pain observed in adults. The episodic nature of pain events in pediatric patients necessitates a distinct approach from what has been used to mathematically...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Probability Seminar: Yinon Spinka
February 11, 2026
University of British Columbia
Consider a point process in Euclidean space obtained by perturbing the integer lattice with IID Gaussians. Our goal is to match the perturbed points with the points of the lattice in an invariant way and such that the typical matching distance is as...
Scientific, Seminar
UW AGD Seminar: Alex Rodriguez
February 11, 2026
University of Washington
Given a Jordan curve in the plane, we can associate a circle homeomorphism (conformal welding) via the conformal welding correspondence. These homeomorphisms arise naturally in Teichmuller theory, Mathematical physics and dynamics. In this talk, we...
Scientific, Seminar
UVictoria Discrete Math Seminar: Sammy Luo
February 12, 2026
University of Victoria
A central tool in additive combinatorics is the polynomial method, a family of powerful techniques for proving results about combinatorial objects by encoding them in algebraic terms. In this talk, we give a brief overview of some iconic modern...
Scientific, Colloquia
PIMS Network Wide Colloquium: Helen Byrne
February 12, 2026
Online
Immune cell infiltration in solid tumours was once regarded as clear evidence of the body’s attempt to eradicate a malignant threat. It is, however, now well established that tumours can co-opt immune cells, reprogramming them from tumour-suppressive...
Scientific, Seminar
SFU NTAG Seminar: Yu Shen
February 12, 2026
Simon Fraser University
In this talk, I will discuss the category of twisted sheaves on a scheme $X$. Let $\mathcal{M}$ be a quasi-coherent sheaf on $X$, and $\alpha$ in $\mathrm{Br}(X)$. We show that the functor $ - \otimes_{\mathcal{O}_X} \mathcal{M} : \operatorname{QCoh}...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems Seminar: Ignacio Rojas
February 12, 2026
University of British Columbia
Abstract: Take the unit interval [0,1] and a number, b, between 0 and 1. At each step, split every interval of maximal length into two pieces in proportion b: (1-b). This recursive scheme is known as the Kakutani splitting procedure and in 1976...
Scientific, Seminar
05C50 Online Seminar: John Urschel
February 20, 2026
Online
Given a symmetric matrix with a given sign pattern, what can the sign patterns of its eigenvectors look like? This simple question is closely related to the study of discrete nodal statistics, and draws strong parallels with classical results in...
Scientific, Seminar
UWashington Y Math Seminar: Emilie Purvine
February 20, 2026
University of Washington
Real-world systems—from academic collaborations and computer networks to biological systems and power grids—are often large, heterogeneous, and highly interconnected. A first step towards understanding these systems is choosing an appropriate...