Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Dan Kessler
February 21, 2024
Online
Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) is a method for analyzing pairs of random vectors; it learns a sequence of paired linear transformations such that the resultant canonical variates are maximally correlated within pairs while uncorrelated across...
Scientific, Seminar
UVic Frontiers in Mathematical Modeling
February 17–18, 2024
University of Victoria
In recognition of Rod Edwards’ remarkable contributions to the field of Mathematical Modeling, we are inviting Rod’s current and former students, postdocs, close collaborators, friends and colleagues to attend this event, scheduled to take place on...
Scientific, Seminar
SFU Mathematics of Computation, Application and Data ("MOCAD") Seminar: Timon Gutleb
February 16, 2024
Simon Fraser University
I will be presenting a frame approach for computing solutions of differential equations inspired by recent progress in frame theory and sparse spectral methods. The primary case study for our method will be a very general family of equations...
Scientific, Seminar
UCalgary Peripatetic Seminar: Samuel Steakley
February 16, 2024
University of Calgary
A colorful diagrammatic language for the 2-category of categories has been exposited in a recent monograph by Dan Marsden and Ralf Hinze. In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to use the language, and we will emphasize its benefits for the study...
Scientific, Seminar
SFU Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Peter McDonald
February 15, 2024
Simon Fraser University
The Direct Summand Theorem states that if $R$ is a commutative Noetherian ring, then any finite extension $R\to S$ splits as a map of $R$-modules. This suggests the notion of a splinter as a class of singularities, where we say a scheme $X$ is a...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Number Theory Seminar: Ertan Elma
February 15, 2024
University of British Columbia
In this talk, we will discuss an estimate for a discrete mean value of the Riemann zeta function and its derivatives multiplied by Dirichlet polynomials. Assuming the Riemann Hypothesis, we obtain a lower bound for the 2kth moment of all the...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS-UVic Discrete Math Seminar: Kiara McDonald
February 15, 2024
University of Victoria
In Graph Theory, the well-known problems of packing and independence are generalized by broadcast packing and broadcast independence. As an analogy, placing cell towers (of various powers) in a network so that the signals do not interfere is a...
Scientific, Seminar
UW Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Moshe Rosenfeld
February 14, 2024
University of Washington
Moshe’s Insanity is a fascinating puzzle based on the game Instant Insanity. It was created for the ACM ICPC competition in 1994. The premise of the puzzle is relatively straightforward: you are given eight cubes, and your task is to arrange these...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Probability Seminar: Naotaka Kajino
February 14, 2024
University of British Columbia
For each $p\in(1,\infty)$, a p-energy form $(\mathcal{E}_p,\mathcal{F}_p)$, a natural $L^p$-analog of the standard Dirichlet form for $p=2$, was constructed on the (two-dimensional standard) Sierpinski gasket $K$ by Herman--Peirone--Strichartz...
Scientific, Seminar
Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Abbas Maarefparvar
February 14, 2024
University of Lethbridge
The class number one problem is one of the central subjects in algebraic number theory that turns back to the time of Gauss. This problem has led to the classical embedding problem which asks whether or not any number field K can be embedded in a...