Past Events

The first speaker will be Dr. William Witczak-Krempa of the Université de Montréal. His talk will be "Conformal field theories & quantum phase transitions: an entanglement perspective". The talk is intended for both mathematics and physics audiences...

The Number theory and combinatorics seminar is starting up again today at noon. There will be an organizational meeting and problem session. If you would like to attend the registration link is here. Register in advance for this meeting. After...

The Cascade Topology Seminar is a semi-annual conference hosted in the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada. It features topology of all kinds. This year's event will be hosted online. Confirmed Speakers: Hannah Alpert (UBC) [ video] Title...

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Wilson's algorithm allows efficient sampling of the uniform spanning tree (UST) by using loop-erased random walks. This connection gives a tractable method to study the UST. The strategy has been fruitful for scaling limits of the UST in the planar...

Abstract: A triangulation of a surface is a way to divide it into a finite number of triangles. Let us pick a random triangulation uniformly among all those with a fixed size and genus. What can be said about the behaviour of these random geometric...

Consider three gamblers with initial capital A,B,C. Each time, a pair of them is chosen at random, a fair coin is flipped and $1 is transferred. Classically, the chance that the first gambler wins all the money is A/ (A + B + C). Consider the first...

In his 1965 seminal paper on edge colouring, Vizing proved that a (Delta+1)-edge colouring can be reached from any given proper edge colouring through a series of Kempe changes, where Delta is the maximum degree of the graph. He concludes the paper...

The University of Saskatchewan Centre for Hydrology is offering an intensive course on the fundamentals of process-based hydrological modelling, including model development, model application, and model evaluation. The course will explain the model...

Cells often chemotax, directing their motion in response to a chemical signal. We develop models of strategies for chemotaxis in complex environments. Groups of cells may cooperate to sense a chemical signal. One strategy is to specialize into leader...