Past Events

Vantage College is an academic program integrating content and language instruction for first-year international students at UBC. Specially designed MATH 100 and MATH 101 courses have been offered to Vantage Science students since the program started...

Depth functions were developed to extend the univariate notions of median, quantiles, ranks, signs, and order statistics to the setting of multivariate data. Whereas a probability density function measures local probability weight, a depth function...

Zoonotic diseases are infectious diseases transmitted to humans from vertebrate animals. Many of these diseases originate from a viral pathogen and are associated with spillover from wildlife. Viral pathogens represent a large proportion of emerging...

Stochastic fluctuations in temperature, precipitation and a host of other environmental factors occur at multiple spatial and temporal scales. As the survival and reproduction of organisms, whether they be plants, animals, or viruses, depend on these...

The human brain has a complex geometric structure consisting of white and gray matter, blood vessels, ventricles, skull etc. It forms a highly anisotropic medium. Glioma in the brain are known to invade along white matter tracks and along other brain...

Let K/k be a Galois extension of number fields with Galois group G, and let rho be a non-trivial irreducible representation of G of dimension n. The Artin holomorphy conjecture asserts that the Artin L-function attached to rho extends to an entire...

This talk describes our attempt to attack two longstanding problems in the model dimensionality (order) when criteria that are based on eigen-decomposition of target matrices are used in practice. First, due to the existence of some dominating...

The programme will consist of three and a half days of plenary talks, workshops, poster sessions and the WIP working group meetings. The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) is delighted to announce that the 6th conference in this...

A brief introduction of translation-invariant kernel based methods, aka radial basis function methods, for function approximation and PDEs will be given. These methods do not require meshes, but in return, we have to deal with highly ill-conditioned...

A general framework on Dirichlet spaces is developed to prove a weak form of the Bakry-Emery estimate and study its consequences. In the classical setting of Riemannian manifolds, this is equivalent to having Ricci curvature lower bounds. However...