Past Events
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Kantorovich Initiative Seminar: Robert McCann
July 23, 2024
University of British Columbia
While Einstein’s theory of gravity is formulated in a smooth setting, the celebrated singularity theorems of Hawking and Penrose describe many physical situations in which this smoothness must eventually breakdown. In positive-definite signature...
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PIMS-UVic Discrete Math Seminar: Bruce Reed
July 18, 2024
University of Victoria
A proper conflict-free colouring of a graph is a (vertex-)colouring with no monochromatic edges such that for every nonisolated vertex v, the neighbourhood N(v) contains a vertex w coloured with a colour not appearing on N(v)-{w}. For a real number h...
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SFU Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Pranabesh Das
July 4, 2024
Simon Fraser University
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UBC DG MP PDE Seminar: Gang Zhou
June 27, 2024
University of British Columbia
I will report the progress we made on the ETH approach for quantum measurements. Here E stands for Events, T stands for Trees and H for histories. I will start with presenting some basics of quantum mechanics, for example, the probabilistic nature of...
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PIMS-CORDS SFU Operations Research Seminar: Yohan Song
June 20, 2024
Simon Fraser University
A skew shape is a difference of two Young diagrams where one diagram contains the other. In 2017, Jenna Rajchgot, Matthew Satriano, and Wanchun Shen showed that skew shapes can be used to study the Gerstenhaber problem, a matrix algebra problem in...
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Optimization and Data Seminar: Amitabh Basu
June 3, 2024
University of Washington
We consider the problem of minimizing a convex function under convex constraints, where some or all of the decision variables are constrained to be integer, with access to first-order oracles for the objective function and separation oracles for the...
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UW Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Fiona Young
May 29, 2024
University of Washington
One way to define an integer polymatroid ρ is via its independent set polytope, whose faces are parallel translations of the independent set polytopes of the minors of ρ. To better understand the interior of this polytope, we endow a structure on...
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UBC DG MP PDE Seminar: Gang Tian
May 28, 2024
University of British Columbia
In this talk, I will discuss a long-standing problem on type II singularity of Ricc flow. First I recall some known results on long-time behavior of Ricci flow, then I will present our solution to the above problem. I may also discuss a related...
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SFU Mathematics of Computation, Application and Data ("MOCAD") Seminar: Gregor Maier
May 24, 2024
Simon Fraser University
Over the past few years, operator learning – the approximation of mappings between infinite dimensional function spaces using ideas from machine learning – has attracted increased research attention. Approximate operators, learned from data, hold...
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Kantorovich Initiative Seminar: Laetitia Chapel
May 23, 2024
University of Washington
Optimal transport operates on empirical distributions which may contain acquisition artifacts, such as outliers or noise, thereby hindering a robust calculation of the OT map. Additionally, it necessitates equal mass between the two distributions...