Past Events
Educational
Math Mania - Aboriginal Youth Tours
February 19, 2009
None
The University of Victoria is providing opportunities for local First Nations school students (grades 1-12) to engage in hands-on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math activities. This is achieved through the collaborative efforts of the...
Scientific, Conference
Random Processes and Systems
February 16–19, 2009
Kyoto University, Japan
Scientific, Seminar
2009 DG-MP-PDE Seminar - 01
February 12, 2009
University of British Columbia
In this talk we present two stability results. Firstly we present a stability result for graphical, rotationally symmetric, translating solutions to mean curvature flow. There we obtain that for initial data that converge spatially at infinity to...
Scientific, Seminar
2009 Math Biology Seminar - 04
February 12, 2009
University of British Columbia
Calcium is a ubiquitous signaling molecule involved in the regulation of a wide range of processes. In cardiac cells, calcium plays a key role in mediating the electrical-excitation and contraction processes. Three mathematical models of calcium...
Scientific, Seminar
2009 Number Theory Seminar - 05
February 12, 2009
Simon Fraser University
Primitive Feynman graphs in Phi^4 theory give rise to transcendental numbers which, from the work of people like David Broadhurst, are multiple zeta values in known examples. Very little is known in general. Even how to predict the weight of the zeta...
Scientific, Seminar
2009 Number Theory Seminar - 06
February 12, 2009
Simon Fraser University
The study of certain error terms arising in number theory can lead to very interesting results. For example, it was a great surprise when Littlewood discovered in 1914 that pi(x)-Li(x) changes sign infinitely often. Since then, finer questions have...
Scientific, Seminar
2009 Topology Seminar - 04
February 11, 2009
University of British Columbia
An orientable manifold is called amphicheiral if it admits an orientation-reversing self-map and chiral if it does not. Many familiar manifolds like spheres or orientable surfaces are amphicheiral but chiral manifolds have also been known for many...
Scientific, Seminar
2009 Discrete Maths Seminar - 03
February 10, 2009
University of British Columbia
We look at the problem of recovering a graph from its chromatic symmetric function. For any graph we show that some basic data can be recovered, and for special cases of trees and unicyclic graphs we can recover the graph completely.
Scientific, Seminar
2009 SCAIM Seminar - 03
February 10, 2009
University of British Columbia
Numerical methods for the solution of multibody, frictional contact problems are in demand in a wide variety of application areas that include structural engineering, robotics, computer animation, interactive medical simulation, biomechanics, and...
Educational
Math Mania - Lauwelnew Tribal School
February 10, 2009
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Several Co-op students from UVic Science Outreach and PIMS UVic Education Coordinator David Leeming visited the grade 5-6 class at the ŁÁU,WELNEW Tribal School on the TSARTLIP Reserve at Brentwood Bay to present selected Math Mania activities. The...