Past Events

PIMS is pleased to invite our extended network to our second annual open house on September 15, 2022 at 1:00pm. This is an opportunity to hear from our Directors about our future direction and institute goals. They will also review current PIMS...

It is well-known that hydrodynamical limits of large particle systems with mean-field interactions are given by McKean-Vlasov equations where a particle evolves by an SDE whose parameters are functions of its law that itself satisfies a PDE such as...

We consider L-functions L 1, . . . , L k from the Selberg class having polynomial Euler product and satisfying Selberg’s orthonormality condition. We show that on every vertical line s = σ+it in the complex plane with σ ∈ (1/2, 1), these L-functions...

The regulation and maintenance of an organ’s shape is a major outstanding question in developmental biology. The Drosophila wing imaginal disc serves as a powerful system for elucidating design principles of the shape formation in epithelial...

Naively implemented, statistical procedures are prone to leaking information about their training data, which can be problematic if the data is sensitive. Differential privacy, a rigorous notion of data privacy, offers a principled framework to...

It has long been the case that representation theory played an important role in understanding the spectrum of states in physics. I will describe how it can be used to describe some universal aspect of d-dimensional unitary conformal field theories...

A Subshift of Finite Type (SFT) is a translational-invariant set of colourings of a lattice by a finite alphabet, induced by a finite set of local forbidden patterns. Ergodic theory allows for a bridge between SFTs and a more probabilistic approach...

In optimal transport problems on a finite set, one successful approach to reducing its computational burden is the regularization by the Kullback-Leibler divergence. Then a natural question arises: Are other divergences not admissible for...

Human behavior and social factors play important roles in the spread of infectious diseases, understanding the influence of them on the spread of diseases can be key to improving control efforts. In this talk I will introduce some recent studies on...

In this talk, I will discuss: (1) the new BGG-type resolutions of finite dimensional representations of simple Lie algebras that lead to BGG-relations expressing finite-dimensional transfer matrices via infinite-dimensional ones, (2) the...