Past Events

In this talk, I will present some recent advances for analyzing stochastic optimization methods without the bounded variance assumption. It is well-known that the bounded variance assumption is violated for even the most standard problems such as...

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...

The Briançon-Skoda theorem is a comparison relating the integral closure of powers of a finitely generated ideal with its ordinary powers. Originally proved using analytic methods for coordinate rings of smooth varieties over the complex numbers in...

The study of the cohomology of line bundles on (partial) flag varieties is an important problem at the intersection of algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, and representation theory. Over fields of characteristic zero, this is well-understood...

In this talk, I'll introduce the Simply Typed Lambda Calculus (STLC), describing how it connects constructive propositional logic and computation. I then discuss how Cartesian Closed Categories serve as models of the STLC, and how the categorical...

UBC Mathematics and the Institute of Applied Mathematics will host an all-day colloquium featuring a series of talks in mathematical biology, bringing together postdoctoral fellows from mathematics and zoology. Tentative Schedule: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM...

Modular forms are certain holomorphic functions on the upper half-plane that play a central role in number theory. In this talk, I will explain how to relate such functions to the topology of certain manifolds, showing how geometric ideas can be used...

In my talk I am going to present the ways Bowen's method of thermodynamic formalism can be extended and applied to settings other than the one we covered in the seminar last term. In particular, I am going to expand on Bowen's original motivation...

Abstract: In my talk I am going to present the ways Bowen's method of thermodynamic formalism can be extended and applied to settings other than the one we covered in the seminar last term. In particular, I am going to expand on Bowen's original...

After a brief review of the modular method, in this talk we will explain how hyperelliptic curves have emerged as an important tool in recent years to approach generalized Fermat equations.