Past Events
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
PIMS - UVic Distinguished Colloquium: Nancy Flournoy (Cancelled)
March 26, 2020
University of Victoria
Phase I clinical trials explore the toxicity of new therapeutic agents. Phase II trials seek to establish some sign of efficacy. But practical applications vary creating a suite of statistical expressions for these trials’ goals and objectives. There...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Math Biology Webinar: Alastair Jamieson-Lane
March 25, 2020
Online
A variety of strategies and approaches have been proposed, and implemented by governments, for COVID mitigation. In this presentation, I introduce some of these, briefly discuss some of the resulting difficulties - in particular in the context of the...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Discrete Math Seminar: David Wood (Cancelled)
March 24, 2020
University of British Columbia
TBA
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Math. Phys. Seminar: Jason Bramburger (Cancelled)
March 24, 2020
University of British Columbia
In this talk we will discuss how bistability in a spatially extended system can lead to fascinating localized steady-state solutions. We will primarily focus on the Swift-Hohenberg equation, which is a is known to support a variety of spatially...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Math Department Colloquium: Daniel Gomez (Cancelled)
March 20, 2020
University of British Columbia
TBA
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
UBC Math Biology Webinar: Dan Coombs
March 19, 2020
University of British Columbia
This talk was originally delivered on January 31st and will now be livestreamed online on 19th March, 2020 at 4pm. To join, please follow the link here. ____ I will talk about mathematical modelling reports from around the world for the emerging...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Math. Phys. Seminar: Norbert Pozar (Cancelled)
March 17, 2020
University of British Columbia
In this talk I will give an overview of the notion of viscosity solutions for the crystalline mean curvature flow in an arbitrary dimension, introduced recently in joint work with Yoshikazu Giga from the University of Tokyo. This problem serves as a...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Math. Phys. Seminar: John Ma (Cancelled)
March 17, 2020
University of British Columbia
TBA
Scientific, Seminar
SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Pengyu Liu
March 17, 2020
Simon Fraser University
Tree structures emerge in various sciences. It is challenging to compare and analyze tree structures as both the size and the number of trees are increasing and there are few tools to describe tree structures in a quantitive, accurate, comprehensive...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Kuan-Wen Lai (Cancelled)
March 16, 2020
University of British Columbia
It is conjectured that two cubic fourfolds are birational if their associated K3 categories are equivalent. We prove this conjecture for very general cubic fourfolds containing a Veronese surface, where the birational maps are induced from a Cremona...