Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
DG-MP-PDE Seminar: Nicola Gigli (University of Nice)
February 1, 2011
University of British Columbia
Aim of the talk is to make a survey on some recent results concerning analysis over spaces with Ricci curvature bounded from below. I will show that the heat flow in such setting can be equivalently built either as gradient flow of the natural...
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Topology Seminar: Cihan Okay
January 31, 2011
University of British Columbia
This talk is the second talk in a series of talks about Hochschild (co)homology and cyclic (co)homology
Scientific, Seminar
Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Ben Davison (Oxford)
January 31, 2011
University of British Columbia
I will describe recent work on motivic DT invariants for 3-manifolds, which are expected to provide a refinement of Chern-Simons theory. The conclusion will be that these should be possible to define and work with, but there will be some interesting...
Scientific, Seminar
IAM-PIMS-MITACS Distinguished Colloquium: Prof. Michael Ward
January 31, 2011
University of British Columbia
The dynamics and stability of multi-spot patterns to the Gray-Scott (GS) reaction-diffusion model in a two-dimensional domain is studied in the singularly perturbed limit of small diffusivity ε of one of the two solution components. A hybrid...
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Mathematical Biology Seminar: Jennifer Jacquet (UBC)
January 28, 2011
University of British Columbia
Humans are currently jeopardizing the other species in life's fabric and potentially our own future due to our overuse of common resources. Over the last two decades, a large effort has focused on trying to persuade individuals to consume differently...
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Number Theory Seminar: Himadri Ganguli
January 27, 2011
Simon Fraser University
Abstract. In recent past we were interested to study some special composition of polynomial equation f(g(x)) = f(x)hm(x) where f, g and h are unknown polynomials with coefficients in arbitrary field K, f is non-constant and separable, deg g ! 2, g! "...
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Topology Seminar: Alejandro Adem (UBC)
January 27, 2011
University of British Columbia
We discuss generators for the ideal of truncated symmetric polynomials and some applications to topology. This is joint work with Z. Reichstein.
Scientific, Seminar
DG-MP-PDE Seminar: Dong Li (Iowa)
January 27, 2011
University of British Columbia
The Skyrme model is one of the important nonlinear sigma models in quantum field theory. In this talk I will report some recent progress on the dynamics of Skyrmions, focusing on the (3+1) space-time case.
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Number Theory Seminar: Nils Bruin
January 27, 2011
Simon Fraser University
AbstractIn modern language, Fermat's Descent Infini establishes that an elliptic curve has a Mordell-Weil group of rank 0. Since then, the method has been generalized to provide an upper bound on the rank of any elliptic curve and further work also...
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Mathematical Biology Seminar: Jennifer Jacquet (UBC Fisheries)
January 27, 2011
University of British Columbia