Past Events
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
PIMS Distinguised Lecture: Su-Fen Yang
June 16, 2017
University of Regina
Control charts are effective tools for signal detection in both manufacturing processes and service processes. Much of the data in service industries comes from processes having non-normal or unknown distributions. The commonly used Shewhart variable...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
StormGraph: A graph-based clustering algorithm for the analysis of super-resolution microscopy data
June 13, 2017
University of British Columbia
With super-resolution microscopy techniques such as Direct Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy (dSTORM), it is possible to image fluorescently labeled proteins on a cell membrane with high precision. Often, the extent to which such proteins...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
Introduction to SageMath, a free mathematics software system
June 6, 2017
Simon Fraser University
SageMath is free and open-source mathematical software which started in 2004. Its features cover many aspects of mathematics, from basic arithmetic and calculus to advanced research mathematics in algebra,mcombinatorics, numerical mathematics...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
UW-PIMS Colloquium: Robert McCann
June 2, 2017
University of Washington
In the last few decades, the theory of optimal transportation has blossomed into a powerful tool for exploring applications both within and outside mathematics. Its impact is felt in such far ?ung areas as geometry, analysis, dynamics, partial...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
Optimal Control of Thermoblasticity
May 30, 2017
University of British Columbia
Elastoplastic deformations play a tremendous role in industrial forming. Many of these processes happen at non-isothermal conditions. Therefore, the optimization of such problems is of interest not only mathematically but also for applications. In...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
2017 Niven Lecture: Daniel A. Spielman
May 29, 2017
University of British Columbia
Networks describe how things are connected, and are ubiquitous in science and society. Networks can be very concrete, like road networks connecting cities or networks of wires connecting computers. They can represent more abstract connections such as...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
Number Theory Seminar: Florian Herzig
May 25, 2017
University of British Columbia
We discuss Serre weight conjectures for GLn and some more general reductive groups, with a particular focus on explicit versions for Galois representations that are semisimple locally at p. This is joint work with T. Gee and D. Savitt.
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
Jared Weinstein: Period maps in p-adic geometry, Lecture 4
May 19, 2017
University of British Columbia
On a complex variety, you can integrate a differential form over a cycle to get a period. For instance, an elliptic curve has two periods, whose quotient gives an element of the upper half plane. There is a family of concepts (Hodge decomposition...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
Wieslawa Niziol: p-adic etale cohomology of p-adic symmetric spaces, Lecture 4
May 18, 2017
University of British Columbia
We will present different ways to compute the p-adi etale cohomology of layers of the Drinfeld tower, and give applications to the p-adic local Langlands correspondence. (Lecture 4 of 4)
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
Jared Weinstein: Period maps in p-adic geometry, Lecture 3
May 17, 2017
University of British Columbia
On a complex variety, you can integrate a differential form over a cycle to get a period. For instance, an elliptic curve has two periods, whose quotient gives an element of the upper half plane. There is a family of concepts (Hodge decomposition...