Past Events
Scientific, Conference
PIMS Vancouver Econometrics Workshops
January 1, 2009 – March 31, 2010
University of British Columbia
Scientific, Seminar
International Conference on Cluster Algebras and Related Topics
December 8–20, 2008
Morelia, Mexico
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS Special Speakers: Hamilton paths in vertex-transitive graphs
December 5, 2008
University of Victoria
Scientific, Seminar
2008 DG-MP-PDE Seminar-18
December 2, 2008
University of British Columbia
The question is examined, as to whether a given rigid body will float or sink in a bath of liquid under the influence of surface tension, in a prescribed gravity field.
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS Postdoctoral Colloquium 01
November 28, 2008
University of British Columbia
Time & Date: 12:00 p.m., Friday, November 28, 2008 Speaker: Weiyong He, PIMS Subject: ``Extremal metrics and the Calabi flow'' Location: WMAX 216 Abstract: In 1980s, Calabi introduced extremal metrics over K\"ahler manifolds as a generalization of...
Scientific, Seminar
2008 DG-MP-PDE Seminar-17
November 27, 2008
University of British Columbia
We survey some recent results on Hessian, gradient estimates, regularity, and global rigidity for special Lagrangian equations with certain convexity. The gradient graph of the solutions are minimal Lagrangian submanifolds in Euclidean space. The...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS Special Speaker
November 20, 2008
University of Victoria
Scientific, Seminar
2008 DG-MP-PDE Seminar-16
November 18, 2008
University of British Columbia
The problem of prescribing curvature of manifolds has been studied quite a lot during the last decades. In this talk I will present a (non complete) overview of existence/non existence results for hypersurfaces for different types of curvature (mean...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS Special Speaker-Problems in computational topology: Where pure mathematics meets computer science
November 13–14, 2008
University of Victoria
Scientific, Seminar
Statistical analysis
November 13, 2008
University of British Columbia
Place: WMAX 110, West Mall, UBC Semi-competing risks data frequently arise in clinical and observational studies. In these cases, the subject can experience both non-terminal and terminal events where the terminal event (e.g., death) censors the non...