Past Events

The classical McKay correspondence shows that there is a bijection between irreducible representations of finite subgroups GG of S L ( 2 , C )SL(2,C) and the exceptional divisors of the minimal resolution of the singularity C 2 / GC2/G. This is a...

A classical theorem of Birch and Merriman states that, for fixed n the set of integral binary n -ic forms with fixed nonzero discriminant breaks into finitely many G L 2 ( Z ) -orbits. In this talk, I’ll present several extensions of this finiteness...

Denoising Diffusion models have revolutionized generative modeling. Conceptually, these methods define a transport mechanism from a noise distribution to a data distribution. Recent advancements have extended this framework to define transport maps...

Schubert polynomials concretely embody the remarkable connection between the geometry of the flag variety G L ( n ) / B and the combinatorics of the symmetric group. This talk will develop similar story for the forest polynomials recently introduced...

In this talk, we study a variational problem that provides a way to extend minimizing geodesics connecting two given probability measures in the Wasserstein space for all times. This is achieved by allowing negative coefficients in the classical...

Shape analysis is a framework for treating complex data and obtain metrics on spaces of data. Examples are spaces of unparametrized curves, time-signals, surfaces and images. In this talk we discuss structure preservation and deep learning for...

Life is a nonequilibrium phenomenon where nonlocal processes play a prominent and increasingly important role. Nonlocal models have emerged as a robust mathematical framework for capturing interactions across spatial and temporal scales in the life...

Sharon and Joerg are members of the Boeing Applied Mathematics organization. They partner with business units to develop applied math solutions and tools that help Boeing reduce costs, improve products and operations. In this presentation, Sharon and...

Since defending my PhD in the UBC Mathematics Department in 2023, I have worked as a sessional instructor both at UBC and at Corpus Christi College, which is one of UBC’s affiliate colleges, located at the northeast corner of campus. At UBC, I taught...

The van Eeden seminar is a yearly event in which graduate students vote for their favorite statisticians. The winner is contacted by the organizing committee and invited to give a talk in the department’s seminar. The speaker spends one or two days...