Past Events

Increasing equity, diversity and inclusion in science, technology, engineering and math. Join us for a conversation with Julie Angus, Open Ocean Robotics, Mina Hoorfar, UVic Engineering and Computer Science, Sue Paish, Canada’s Digital Technology...

In this talk, we introduce the notions of matching matrices in groups and vector spaces, which lead to some necessary conditions for existence of acyclic matching in abelian groups and its linear analogue. We also discuss the linear local matching...

Synthetic biology offers bottom-up engineering strategies that intends to understand complex systems via design-build-test cycles. In development, gene regulatory networks emerge into collective cellular behaviors with multicellular forms and...

We develop a general framework for identifying phase reduced equations for finite populations of coupled oscillators that is valid far beyond the weak coupling approximation. This strategy represents a general extension of the theory from [Wilson and...

In this presentation, we discuss the Variational AutoEncodeur (VAE): a latent variable model emerging from the machine learning community. To begin, we introduce the theoretical foundations of the model and its relationship with well-established...

Abstract: The insulated conductivity problem is a question about the strength of the electric field between two almost-touching insulators. Mathematically it is a question about harmonic functions which is extremely simple to state, yet the optimal...

We prove that a well-known graphical expansion of the Ising model, known as the Loop O(1) model, is a factor of i.i.d. on unimodular random rooted graphs under various boundary conditions and in the presence of a non-negative external field. As an...

How roots of a polynomial evolve under repeated differentiation is a classical question, which goes back to Gauss, Lucas, Marcel Riesz and many others. The dynamics can be described by a partial differential equation, formally derived by Stefan...

Let G be a finite group acting transitively on X. We say g, h ∈ G are intersecting if gh -1 fixes a point in X . A subset S of G is said to be an intersecting set if every pair of elements in S intersect. Cosets of point stabilizers are canonical...

Motivated by recent work with biologists, I will showcase some mathematical results on Turing instabilities in complex domains. This is scientifically related to understanding developmental tuning in a variety of settings such as mouse whiskers, human...