Past Events
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
PIMS- UW Distinguished Colloquium: Arunima Bhattacharya
November 19, 2021
University of Washington
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
PIMS Network Wide Colloquium: Rafe Mazzeo
November 18, 2021
Online
Gauge-theoretic moduli spaces are often noncompact, and various techniques have been introduced to study their asymptotic features. Seminal work by Taubes shows that in many situations where the failure of compactness for sequences of solutions is...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
USaskatchewan Second Annual Peter Scherk Lecture in Geometry
November 16, 2021
University of Saskatchewan
Abstract: The Jones polynomial of a knot, discovered in 1983, is a very subtle invariant that is related to a great deal of mathematics and physics. This talk will be an overview of quantum field theories in dimensions 2, 3, 4 and 5 that are...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
PIMS - UWashington Math Colloquium: Heather Lee
November 13, 2021
Online
Mirror symmetry is a duality between symplectic geometry and complex geometry. The homological mirror symmetry (HMS) conjecture was formulated by Kontsevich in 1994 to fully capture this phenomenon for compact Calabi-Yau manifolds. Since then, it has...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
CRG on Movement and Symmetry in Graphs Distinguished Lecture Series: Cheryl E Praeger
November 10, 2021
Online
The talk is about finite connected 4-valent graphs admitting an edge-transitive and vertex-transitive subgroup \(G\) of automorphisms which preserves an orientation of the edges. But I will first talk about the general approach to describing families...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
ULethbridge - Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Angsuman Das
November 10, 2021
University of Lethbridge
Associating graphs with groups date back to Arthur Cayley. In this lecture, we will discuss about another graph, called co-maximal subgroup graph Γ( G) introduced by Akbari et al. in [1]. The co-maximal subgroup graph Γ( G) of a group G whose...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Sacha Ikonicoff
November 10, 2021
Online
Divided power algebras were defined by H. Cartan in 1954 to study the homology of Eilenberg-MacLane spaces. They are commutative algebras endowed, for each integer n, with an additional monomial operation. Over a field of characteristic 0, this...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
PIMS-SFU Computational Math Seminar: Thomas Hillen
November 5, 2021
Simon Fraser University
Abstract. The mathematical modelling of metastasis is a challenge. The occurrence of metastasis is basically random, and the role of the immune response is not at all clear. In this talk I will discuss two models, one for the spatial spread of...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
ULethbridge - Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Connor Riddlesden
November 3, 2021
University of Lethbridge
Harary and Sabidussi were the first to study the automorphisms of repeated graphs using the wreath product. Later Hemminger would go on to provide necessary and sufficient conditions for these of repeated automorphisms through the introduction of...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
PIMS Network Wide Colloquium: Maryanthe Malliaris
October 28, 2021
Online
Recent progress in model theory is changing our understanding of how the finite and infinite interact. One aspect of this story has to do with the emerging appearance of complexity in so-called simple unstable theories, which provide a model...