Past Events

The Fourteenth Colloquiumfest will explore the present state of Fixed Point Theory and its applications in analysis, algebra and computer science. The second theme is fractals, in particular the various existing definitions and the question how to...

The Combinatorial Potlatch is an international one-day conference, usually occuring in mid-November. It has been held for many years at various locations around Puget Sound and southern British Columbia, and is an opportunity for combinatorialists in...

Hodge theory has played an important role in understanding the interaction between mathematics and physics over the past two decades. For instance, the predictions of mirror symmetry can be understood as expansions of the period integrals at the...

The workshop will have three main objectives:(i) Provide professional development activities tailored to mathematical biology graduate students. The theme will be on "Career Transitions and Development in Math Biology". We will invite representatives...

Since 2005 the graduate students of the Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science get together with their peers from UBC to organize two joint workshops every year. The workshop is organized by the students for the students. The objective is to...

This meeting is part of our celebration of the International Year of Statistics (2013). There is no registration. Everyone interested is welcome to attend! Please note the earlier start time.

Location All events will be held on the 6th floor lounge of the Department of Computer Science, located in the Engineering and Computer Science Building Room 660 ( Google map). Registration There is no registration fee, but please register online so...

This conference is the second of two Joint Alberta-British Columbia four-day Seminars. The first seminar took place at the University of British Columbia in 2012. Participants Enrico Au-Yeung (University of British Columbia) Elena Braverman...

David Sankoff is known as one of the founding father of molecular bioinformatics and computational biology. As stated by Pavel Pevzner in a recent book, “He (M. Waterman) and David Sankoff are responsible for transforming bioinformatics from a ‘stamp...