Past Events

The school will introduce participants to three exciting aspects of algebra they are unlikely to encounter in a typical undergraduate curriculum in this form. Three main courses will focus on selected topics in: Algebraic geometry Lie theory Number...

Speaker's biography: Efim Zelmanov is one of the world's leading algebraists. He is best known for his ground breaking work in Jordan algebras, Lie algebras and combinatorial group theory. In 1994 he was awarded a Field's medal for his solution of...

The 2nd Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference was held on May 25-28, 2009, at the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques in Montréal (Canada). This was the second conference in a new series on discrete mathematics that is held every...

This talk identifies thirty of the great algorithms of numerical analysis, from Gaussian elimination to automatic differentiation, and asks in each case: Who were the main inventors? Were they mathematicians or engineers, academics or industrialists...

This talk presents joint work with Kee Lam of UBC and Nancy Cardim, Maria Herminia de Mello, and Mario Olivero da Silva in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Given the total space of any orthogonal sphere bundle over a sphere, we determine its stable span and...

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The ties between combinatorics and probability run so deep that for many deep and interesting problems, it is nonsensical to try to assign one category or the other. The subject of this workshop is these sorts of problems, many of which in fact come...