Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
Kantorovich Initiative Seminar: Jia-Jie Zhu
December 16, 2024
University of British Columbia
Gradient flows have emerged as a powerful framework for analyzing machine learning and statistical inference algorithms. Motivated by several applications in statistical inference, generative models, generalization, and robustness of learning...
Educational, Workshop
ELMACON 2025 Preparation Session 1
December 14, 2024
ESB 1013
As in previous years, we will be running three preparation sessions to help you keep your math skills sharp and get you ready for the competition. The first preparation session will take place on Saturday, December 14th from 10am-12pm in Earth...
Scientific, Seminar
Kantorovich Initiative Seminar: Yousef Mroueh
December 13, 2024
University of British Columbia
Current LLM alignment techniques use pairwise human preferences at a sample level, and as such, they do not imply an alignment on the distributional level. We propose in this paper Alignment via Optimal Transport (AOT), a novel method for...
Scientific, Lunchbox Lecture
PIMS Lunchbox Lecture: Vakhtang Putkaradze
December 12, 2024
University of Calgary - Downtown
Abstract: Recently, Machine Learning (ML) approaches to data assimilation and modeling have been very successful in interpreting large amounts of data, such as human behavior prediction, marketing, etc. However, direct applications of machine...
Educational, Workshop
Math Circles
December 9, 2024
SWING 105
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...
Seminar
Kantorovich Initiative Seminar: Marco Cuturi
December 9, 2024
University of British Columbia
I will introduce our recent work on parameterising OT problems with elastic costs, i.e. ground costs that mix the classic squared Euclidean distance with a regularizer (e.g. L1 norm). After highlighting the properties of OT maps that follow such...
Scientific, Colloquia
UBC Math Department Colloquium: Krystal Taylor
December 6, 2024
University of British Columbia
A vibrant and classic area of research is that of relating the size of a set to the finite point configurations that it contains. Here, size may refer to cardinality, dimension, or measure. It is a consequence of the Lebesgue density theorem, for...
Scientific, Colloquia
USaskatchewan Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium: John Baez
December 6, 2024
Online
Mathematical models of human interactions are important and widely used in epidemiology and many other fields, but building and working with these models at scale is challenging. I will explain two software tools for doing this, both based on...
Scientific, Seminar
05C50 Online Seminar: Edinah Gnang
December 6, 2024
Online
There has been extensive study of diagonalization of matrices. Diagonalization can be viewed as using a similarity transform to concentrate the magnitude of all entries within as small a subset of entries as possible. We motivate and present results...
Scientific, Seminar
UCalgary Algebra and Number Theory Seminar: Paul Péringuey
December 5, 2024
Online
Let ord p ( a ) be the order of a in ( Z / p Z ) ∗ . In 1927, Artin conjectured that the set of primes p for which an integer a ≠− 1 , ◻ is a primitive root (i.e. ord p ( a ) = p − 1 ) has a positive asymptotic density among all primes. In 1967...
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