Past Events

Several years ago, Dr Kathryn Isaac, a UBC professor and clinical surgeon contacted me with an intriguing problem. In her work on cosmetic reconstructive for post-breast-cancer-surgery patients, she encounters cases of failure that result (weeks or...

Originally distributions were introduced in PDE-theory to generalize the notion of functions. However, this analytical concept also has some purely algebraic properties, which are worth considered. In particular, they are an important example of...

For centuries, mathematicians have relied on computers to perform calculations, to suggest conjectures, and as components of mathematical proofs. In the light of more modern tools such as interactive theorem provers, machine learning algorithms, and...

Directorate Open-house We invite you to meet with our PIMS Directors and review current and future PIMS scientific and educational funding opportunities. Time 12:00 PM Pacific/ 1:00 PM Mountain/ 3:00 PM Eastern.

This talk introduces a newly developed computational method for rigorously evaluating the Hadamard derivative of Laplacian eigenvalues, which plays an important role in studying shape optimization problems. To evaluate the Hadamard derivative, this...

Transportation of measure underlies many powerful, contemporary tools for Bayesian inference, density estimation, and generative modeling. The essential idea is to couple the target probability distribution with a simple, tractable ``reference''...

In my talk I will discuss the notion of local volume for singularities. For the special case of toric singularities this turns out to be closely related to the notion of Mahler volume in convex geometry. This opens a connection between algebraic...

The directed landscape is a random directed metric on the plane that arises as a scaling limit of a classical metric models in the KPZ universality class. In this talk, we will discuss a functional large deviation principle (LDP) for the entire...

The directed landscape is a random directed metric on the plane that arises as the scaling limit of classical metric models in the KPZ universality class. In this talk, we will discuss a functional large deviation principle (LDP) for the entire...

We analyse the metastable behaviour of the disordered Curie-Weiss-Potts (DCWP) model subject to a Glauber dynamics. The model is a randomly disordered version of the mean-field q-spin Potts model (CWP), where the interaction coefficients between...