Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Dr. James Glazier's Visit and Graduate Presentations
November 20, 2024
University of British Columbia
Join us for a unique opportunity to meet and learn from Dr. James Glazier, a pioneer in computational biology and a renowned cell and tissue modelling expert. Dr. Glazier’s visit will feature a full day of activities, including a showcase of our...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Discrete Math Seminar: Andy Hsiao
November 19, 2024
University of British Columbia
Matroids are combinatorial objects that abstract the notion of independence. Given any matroid, Feichtner and Yuzvinsky defined a graded commutative ring called the Chow ring, inspired by algebraic geometry. To each matroid, we can define a linear...
Scientific, Seminar
L-functions in Analytic Number Theory Seminar: Hung Bui
November 19, 2024
Online
We establish the fourth moments of the real and imaginary parts of the Riemann zeta-function, as well as the fourth power mean value of Hardy's Z-function at the Gram points. We also study two weak versions of Gram's law. We show that those weak Gram...
Scientific, Seminar
UAlberta Math Biology Seminar: Frédéric Hamelin
November 18, 2024
University of Alberta
We study a simple SIS epidemic model accounting for human behaviour. Individuals can decide at each instant of time whether or not they adopt prophylactic (hereafter protection) measures such as mask wearing or social distancing. These measures...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Jonathan Yang
November 18, 2024
University of British Columbia
Matroids are combinatorial objects that abstract the notion of independence. The motivating examples are matroids arising from vector configurations. An important tool for studying matroids is the associated Chow ring. A recent result of Adiprasito...
Scientific, Colloquia
UWashington-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Semyon Dyatlov
November 15, 2024
University of Washington
Anosov flows are a standard model for strongly chaotic behavior in dynamical systems. A classical example is the geodesic flow on a compact negatively curved Riemannian manifold. The chaotic behavior of an Anosov flow manifests in decay of...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS-CORDS SFU Operations Research Seminar: Anjali Nair
November 15, 2024
Simon Fraser University
A well-known conjecture in physical literature states that high frequency waves propagating over long distances through turbulence eventually become complex Gaussian distributed. The intensity of such wave fields then follows an exponential law...
Scientific, Colloquia
UBC Math Department Colloquium: Jacob Fox
November 15, 2024
University of British Columbia
Szemerédi's regularity lemma and its variants are some of the most powerful tools in combinatorics. For example, Szemerédi used an early version in the proof of his celebrated theorem on long arithmetic progressions in dense sets of integers. It has...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Number Theory Seminar: Abbas Maarefparvar
November 15, 2024
University of British Columbia
For a number field K, the P\'olya group of K, denoted by Po(K), is the subgroup of the ideal class group of K generated by the classes of the products of maximal ideals of K with the same norm. In this talk, after reviewing some results concerning Po...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS-CORDS SFU Operations Research Seminar: Betty Shea
November 14, 2024
Simon Fraser University
The practical performance of an optimization method depends on details such as using good step sizes. Strategies for setting step sizes are generally limited to hyperparameter tuning (for a fixed step size), step size schedules and line searches. For...