Past Events

Reproduction in mammals is controlled by the pulsatile release of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH). About 800~2000 GnRH neurons participate in the generation of GnRH pulses. Their cell bodies are distributed in a scattered manner in designated...

Motivated by applications to Brill-Noether theory and higher-rank Brill-Noether theory, we discuss several variations on Grassmannians. These include "doubly symplectic Grassmannians", which parametrize subspaces which are simultaneously isotropic...

The recent solution of M. Hill, M. Hopkins and D. Ravanel of the Kervaire invariant problem is likely to lead to a new area in the study of homotopy groups of spheres. In this talk I will explain that problem, and indicate what the above three...

Venue: Naramata Centre Friday, October 1st 17:00-18:00 Dinner 18:00-18:30 welcome, divide students into grant evaluation group and hand out applications to evaluate 18:30-21:00 poster session 21:00-22:00 faculty pow-wow Saturday, October 2nd 07:00-08...

The main aim of the talk is to describe how to embed the experimental results recently obtained studying the detachment force of single adhesion bonds in a multiphase model developed to describe the growth of tumours and tissues in general. In order...

Vortex solitons are standing wave solutions with complex phase that is an (integer) multiple of the angular polar coordinate. This multiple we call the 'spin', and indexes a family of solutions with increasing L2 norm. In the case of no spin, Merle...

I consider the inference of subsurface medium parameters from measurements of (acoustic) seismic waves. The source of such waves may be either man-made --as is the case in oil&gas exploration -- or natural -- as in global seismology. Naturally, this...

In this talk we will describe the underlying construction of the main theorem of Galatius' paper. This main theorem is a generalization of the Pontryagin-Thom construction and establishes a weak homotopy equivalence between the classifying space of a...