Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
Math Biology Seminar: Alejandra Harrera
March 13, 2019
University of British Columbia
Work in progress talk. STORM is a super-resolution technique that uses photoswitchable fluorophores to achieve resolutions at or below 20nm. A downside of STORM is the possibility of recording several blinks from one fluorophore, affecting the...
Scientific, Seminar
Topology Seminar: Eric Hogle
March 13, 2019
University of British Columbia
The Grassmannian manifold of $k$-planes in $\mathbb{R}^n$ has a group action if $\mathbb{R}^n$ is taken to be a real representation of the group. When the group is $C_2$, the Schubert cell construction of the Grassmannian generalizes to an...
Scientific, Seminar
Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Peng-Jie Wong
March 12, 2019
University of Lethbridge
Siegel zeros (or Landau-Siegel zeros) are potential counterexamples to the generalised Riemann hypothesis (for L-functions). Such zeros, if exist, have to be "very close" to 1 over the complex plane. In this talk, we will discuss some results...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS - IAM Distinguished Colloquium: Paul Kulesa
March 11, 2019
University of British Columbia
The neural crest offers a unique model system to study cell migration mechanisms during vertebrate embryogenesis since migrating cells are accessible to in vivo time-lapse imaging and manipulation. We recently discovered by single cell profiling that...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS-SFU Applied & Computational Math Seminar: Brian Wetton
March 8, 2019
Simon Fraser University
Adaptive time stepping methods for meta-stable dynamics of the Allen Cahn and Cahn Hilliard equations are investigated in the spatially continuous, semi-discrete setting. Predicted behaviour of the number of time steps with specified local error...
Scientific, Seminar
Math Biology Seminar: Douglas Altshuler
March 6, 2019
University of British Columbia
My research program is motivated by fascination with bird flight. My laboratory group uses a multi-disciplinary approach that includes biomechanics, physiology, and neuroscience to examine flight ability. Our current research is organized around two...
Scientific, Seminar
Topology Seminar: Maxime Bergeron
March 6, 2019
University of British Columbia
I will discuss joint work with Lior Silberman in which we describe the topology of spaces of representations of Baumslag-Solitar groups into complex reductive algebraic groups.
Scientific, Seminar
Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Joy Morris
March 4, 2019
University of Lethbridge
A Digraphical Regular Representation (DRR) for a group G is a directed graph whose full automorphism group is the regular representation of G. In 1981, Babai showed that with five small exceptions, there is at least one DRR for every finite group. A...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS Mini-course on High-Dimensional Data in Uncertainty Quantification of PDEs
March 4–5, 2019
Simon Fraser University
Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) is an increasingly popular subject in computational science and engineering, that deals with assessing the impact on the PDE solution of the uncertainty on the coefficients of the same PDE. Coefficients here is a term...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS - IAM Colloquium: Leo Rebholz
March 1, 2019
University of Alberta
We propose, analyze and test Anderson-accelerated Picard iterations for solving the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations (NSE). Anderson acceleration has recently gained interest as a strategy to accelerate linear and nonlinear iterations, based on...