Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
SFU Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Tyler Kelly
November 24, 2022
Simon Fraser University
A Landau-Ginzburg (LG) model is a triplet of data (X, W, G) consisting of a regular function $W:X\to\mathbb{C}$ from a quasi-projective variety $X$ with a group $G$ acting on $X$ leaving $W$ invariant. One can build an analogue of Hodge theory and...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS- UVic Discrete Math Seminar: Jiaxi Nie
November 24, 2022
University of Victoria
Given a finite simple graph $G$, an {\em odd cover of $G$} is a collection of complete bipartite graphs, or bicliques, in which each edge of $G$ appears in an odd number of bicliques and each non-edge of $G$ appears in an even number of bicliques. We...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC DG + MP + PDE Seminar: Tobias Barker
November 24, 2022
University of British Columbia
The last 10-15 years have seen several works aimed at understanding the behaviour of scale-invariant norms near a potential blow-up time/finite maximal time of existence for a variety of PDE. Most of these results and proofs are qualitative and...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS CRG Seminar Series: L-functions in Analytic Number Theory: Sanoli Gun
November 24, 2022
Hybrid
This event is part of the PIMS CRG Group on L-Functions in Analytic Number Theory. More details can be found on the webpage here: https://sites.google.com/view/crgl-functions/crg-weekly-seminar?authuser=0
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Probability Seminar: Yinon Spinka
November 23, 2022
University of British Columbia
Given a nonamenable transitive graph, does the plus state of the Ising model at low temperature stochastically dominate a high-density Bernoulli percolation? We'll discuss this question (asked by Liggett and Steif) and other questions of stochastic...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Jack Hughes
November 23, 2022
University of British Columbia
Here I will present some results on the dynamics of cell polarity models. I investigate two different models, one for the concentration of actin in the cytoskeleton of the cell and another for the concentration of nucleation promoting factors (NPF)...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Discrete Math Seminar: Kelvin Chan
November 22, 2022
University of British Columbia
The left regular representation of the symmetric group has a graded cousin constructed as a coinvariant quotient of the polynomial ring in n variables. This theory has fruitfully produced many interesting generalizations with a rich interplay between...
Scientific, Seminar
UVic Dynamics Seminar: Elizabeth Carlson
November 22, 2022
University of Victoria
Many systems whose physics is generally well understood are modeled with differential equations. However, many of these differential equations have the property that they are sensitive to the choice of initial conditions. If one instead has snapshots...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Harmonic Analysis and Fractal Geometry: Shengwen Gan
November 22, 2022
University of British Columbia
In this talk, I will discuss a conjecture made by Fässler and Orponen on the restricted projections in R^3. In the first part, I will introduce some background on the projection problems and its relation with Furstenberg set problem and Szemerédi...
Scientific, Seminar
UAlberta Math Bio Seminar: Kai Wang
November 21, 2022
University of Alberta
In this talk, I will introduce two SIS reaction-diffusion epidemic models with cognition, and the cognitive diffusion either takes a Fokker-Planck type diffusion obtained by Chapman's diffusion law (called random diffusion) or follows Fick's...