Past Events

In this talk, we will discuss several inequalities in convex geometry inspired by sumset estimates in additive combinatorics and inequalities in information theory. We begin by investigating sharp constants in convex geometry analogues of Plünnecke...

Christos Thrampoulidis, the 2024 PIMS/UBC Early Career Award Winner, will present a talk. Abstract Deep learning models are often seen as black boxes, their complexity stemming from integrating numerous architectural components across multiple layers...

One of the primary responsibilities of my consulting work is to produce an electricity price forecast for Alberta. In addition to being a product in its own right, the forecast drives significant consulting work in asset valuation, strategy and...

Blood is a crucial life-saving product in healthcare systems. Red blood cells are perishable, and managing these stocks in British Columbia and other regions of Canada, with remote / rural hospitals is challenging. Demand must be satisfied without...

Long DNA and RNA molecules encode the genetic code of viruses and living organisms. We study the changes in DNA topology mediated by essential processes such as DNA packing and transcription of DNA into RNA. These processes are highly regulated, and...

Despite extensive research, it is not known whether Oort's conjecture about the existence of supersingular curves is true or false. In the first part of the talk, I will describe supersingular curves and discuss the status of Oort's conjecture (both...

Algebraic graph theory begins by associating a matrix to a graph and asking how the eigenvalues of the former relate to the structure of the latter. In the past fifteen or so years, horizons have broadened to include variants of graphs (such as...

Given a strongly local Dirichlet form on a metric measure space that satisfies Gaussian heat kernel bounds, we show that the martingale dimension of the associated diffusion process coincides with Cheeger's analytic dimension of the underlying metric...

In this talk, I will present a roadmap for deriving minimal necessary conditions for diffusion-driven instability for a 3-component reaction-diffusion system with linear cross-diffusion. For the reaction kinetics, we postulate and formulate a new 3...

We consider the model in which uniform random points are added to the unit interval at a constant intensity and independently vanish each at rate 1. The stationary distribution is a Poisson point process. Our goal is to investigate the time until an...