Past Events
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UBC DG + MP + PDE Seminar: Xiangwen Zhang
April 27, 2023
University of British Columbia
Geometric flows have been proven to be powerful tools in the study of many important problems arising from both geometry and theoretical physics. Aiming to study the equations from the flux compactifications of Type IIA superstrings, we introduce the...
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UCalgary Peripatetic Seminar: Florian Schwarz
April 27, 2023
University of Calgary
A partial monoid is a set A with a multiplication and a unit, but the multiplication is only defined on a certain subset of pairs. This means the multiplication m:AxA -> A is a partial map, a map that is only defined on a certain subset of its domain...
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The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Jane Shaw MacDonald
April 26, 2023
Online
Biological populations are responding to climate-driven habitat shifts by either adapting in place or moving in space to follow their suitable temperature regime. The shifting speeds of temperature isoclines fluctuate in time and empirical evidence...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC DG + MP + PDE Seminar: Yu Yuan
April 25, 2023
University of British Columbia
We present joint work with Ravi Shankar on Hessian estimate and interior regularity for the sigma-2 equation in four dimensions. Our method also provides respectively a Hessian estimate for smooth solutions satisfying a dynamic semi-convexity...
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05C50 Online Seminar: Nair Abreu and Claudia Justel
April 21, 2023
University of Manitoba
In this talk, our objective is to convince you that, in recent years, the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of matrices associated with graphs are one of the most important topics to be learned in Applied Linear and Computational Mathematics. We will try...
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UBC Math Bio Seminar: Troy Day
April 19, 2023
University of British Columbia
In this talk I will present a model of how individuals’ and politicians’ incentives to use physical distancing change during an infectious disease outbreak. I show that there is a fundamental difference in the expected behaviour depending on the...
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The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Nicholas Rouse
April 19, 2023
Online
Work of Thurston and Perelman implies that every compact 3-manifold decomposes into pieces each of which supports one of eight possible geometric structures. Among these eight geometries, the hyperbolic geometry leads to the richest and least well...
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UBC Discrete Math Seminar: Ilya Shkredov
April 18, 2023
University of British Columbia
We develop the theory of the additive dimension dim(A), i.e. the size of a maximal dissociated subset of a set A. It was shown that the additive dimension is closely connected with the growth of higher sumsets nA of our set A. We apply this approach...
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PIMS - UBC Ergodic Theory Seminar: Charles Favre
April 17, 2023
University of British Columbia
In a celebrated paper Gromov computed the topological entropy of endomorphisms of the complex projective space. In a recent joint work with Junyi Xie and Tuyen Trung Truong we extended Gromov's arguments to the non-archimedean case. We shall present...
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SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Daniel Panario
April 14, 2023
Simon Fraser University
When we iterate functions over finite structures, there is an underlying natural functional graph. For a function $f$ over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$, this graph has $q$ nodes and a directed edge from vertex $a$ to vertex $b$ if and only if $f(a)...