Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
Math Colloquium: Statistics of quadratic congruences and generalizations
January 14, 2010
University of British Columbia
We present the uniform distribution of roots of quadratic congruences on the unit circle. Several proofs have been rediscovered over the years. I will review some of the very different methods involved -- ergodic theory, exponential sums, automorphic...
Scientific, Seminar
Probability Seminar: Behavior of Heat Kernel for Jump Process
January 14, 2010
University of British Columbia
In this talk, we discuss the behavior of heat kernel for symmetric jump-type process with jumping kernels comparable to radially symmetric function on the spaces. Parabolic Harnack principle and sharp two-sided heat kernel estimates for both small...
Scientific, Seminar
Probability Seminar: Behavior of Heat Kernel for Jump Process
January 13, 2010
University of British Columbia
In this talk, we discuss the behavior of heat kernel for symmetric jump-type process with jumping kernels comparable to radially symmetric function on the spaces. Parabolic Harnack principle and sharp two-sided heat kernel estimates for both small...
Scientific, Seminar
SCAIM Seminar: A hybrid asymptotic-Hermite Cubic scheme for solving Plane Strain Hydraulic Fracture Problems
January 13, 2010
University of British Columbia
In this talk I will describe the coupled integro-partial differential equations that model the evolution of a fluid-driven fracture propagating in a state of plain strain. I will discuss the use of the Mellin Transform and matched asymptotics to...
Scientific, Seminar
Mathematical Biology Seminar: Dose-response reveals the importance of T cell receptor - peptide-MHC kinetics in T cell activatio
January 13, 2010
University of British Columbia
Scientific, Seminar
Algebraic Geometry Seminar: On the decomposition of etale gerbes
January 12, 2010
University of British Columbia
Let G be a finite group. A G-gerbe over a space X may be intuitively thought of as a fiber bundle over X with fibers being the classifying space (stack) BG. In particular BG itself is the G-gerbe over a point. A more interesting class of examples...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS Symplectic Geometry Seminar: Geometric quantization of integrable systems
January 6, 2010
University of British Columbia
Scientific, Seminar
Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Duistermaat-Heckmann measure for reductive group actions
December 21, 2009
University of British Columbia
In his influential works, A. Okounkov showed how to associate a convex body to a very ample G-line bundle L on a projective G-variety X such that it projects to the moment polytope of X and the push-forward of the Lebesgue measure on it gives the...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS PDF Colloquium: Counting Sheep -- Bayesian Methods to Account for Time-Dependent Covariates in Open-Population Capture
December 10, 2009
University of British Columbia
Scientific, Seminar
Mathematical Biology Seminar: Infectious Diseases and Cancer
December 8, 2009
University of British Columbia