Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
Probability Seminar: Behavior of Heat Kernel for Jump Process
January 14, 2010
University of British Columbia
In this talk, we discuss the behavior of heat kernel for symmetric jump-type process with jumping kernels comparable to radially symmetric function on the spaces. Parabolic Harnack principle and sharp two-sided heat kernel estimates for both small...
Scientific, Seminar
Probability Seminar: Behavior of Heat Kernel for Jump Process
January 13, 2010
University of British Columbia
In this talk, we discuss the behavior of heat kernel for symmetric jump-type process with jumping kernels comparable to radially symmetric function on the spaces. Parabolic Harnack principle and sharp two-sided heat kernel estimates for both small...
Scientific, Seminar
SCAIM Seminar: A hybrid asymptotic-Hermite Cubic scheme for solving Plane Strain Hydraulic Fracture Problems
January 13, 2010
University of British Columbia
In this talk I will describe the coupled integro-partial differential equations that model the evolution of a fluid-driven fracture propagating in a state of plain strain. I will discuss the use of the Mellin Transform and matched asymptotics to...
Scientific, Seminar
Mathematical Biology Seminar: Dose-response reveals the importance of T cell receptor - peptide-MHC kinetics in T cell activatio
January 13, 2010
University of British Columbia
Scientific, Seminar
Algebraic Geometry Seminar: On the decomposition of etale gerbes
January 12, 2010
University of British Columbia
Let G be a finite group. A G-gerbe over a space X may be intuitively thought of as a fiber bundle over X with fibers being the classifying space (stack) BG. In particular BG itself is the G-gerbe over a point. A more interesting class of examples...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS Symplectic Geometry Seminar: Geometric quantization of integrable systems
January 6, 2010
University of British Columbia
Scientific, Seminar
Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Duistermaat-Heckmann measure for reductive group actions
December 21, 2009
University of British Columbia
In his influential works, A. Okounkov showed how to associate a convex body to a very ample G-line bundle L on a projective G-variety X such that it projects to the moment polytope of X and the push-forward of the Lebesgue measure on it gives the...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS PDF Colloquium: Counting Sheep -- Bayesian Methods to Account for Time-Dependent Covariates in Open-Population Capture
December 10, 2009
University of British Columbia
Scientific, Seminar
Mathematical Biology Seminar: Infectious Diseases and Cancer
December 8, 2009
University of British Columbia
Scientific, Seminar
Topology Seminar: Fully irreducible outer automorphisms of a free group
December 8, 2009
University of British Columbia
Abstract: Fully irreducible outer automorphisms of a free group are analogous to loxodromic isometries of hyperbolic space, or to pseudo-Anosov elements of the mapping class group of a surface. We develop methods for constructing customized fully...