Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
Math Biology Seminar: Gerardo Ortigoza
October 31, 2018
University of British Columbia
Chikungunya is a viral disease transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes: Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. It causes fever and severe joint pain. Other symptoms include muscle pain, headache, nausea, fatigue and rash. Joint pain is often...
Scientific, Seminar
Discrete Math Seminar: Ethan White
October 30, 2018
University of British Columbia
This is the second part of a two part series on the triangle-free process. The triangle-free process begins on an empty graph and adds edges at random, provided no triangle is created with the existing edges. One of the original motivations for this...
Scientific, Seminar
Scientific Computing, Applied and Industrial Mathematics (SCAIM) Seminar: Stephen Thomas
October 30, 2018
University of British Columbia
Communication-avoiding and pipelined variants of Krylov solvers are critical for the scalability of linear system solvers on future exascale architectures. We present low synchronization variants of iterated classical (CGS) and modified Gram-Schmidt...
Scientific, Seminar
Number Theory Seminar: David Roberts
October 30, 2018
University of Washington
We summarize the theory of Plancherel measures for real groups in a way which makes direct connections with L-functions through their gamma factors. These measures give a "first guess" as to how many L-functions there should be with certain numerical...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS - IAM Distinguished Colloquium: Barry C. Sanders
October 29, 2018
University of British Columbia
Quantum computing is moving from concept to experimental proofs-of-principle and even to commercial products. Various types are considered such as universal quantum computers, quantum simulators and quantum annealers. Promising media include atoms...
Scientific, Seminar
Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Dave Morris
October 29, 2018
University of Lethbridge
For every generating set S of any finite group G, there is a corresponding Cayley graph Cay(G;S). It was conjectured in the early 1970's that Cay(G;S) always has a hamiltonian cycle, but there has been very little progress on this problem. Joint work...
Scientific, Seminar
Probability Seminar: Alexander E. Holroyd
October 24, 2018
University of British Columbia
How can individuals cooperate to satisfy local constraints without a central authority? Examples might include autonomous drones navigating in a swarm, or university departments scheduling their seminars. Individuals can make random choices and...
Scientific, Seminar
Math Biology Seminar: Caroline Colijn
October 24, 2018
University of British Columbia
While vaccines are available and are effective in protecting against colonisation and disease with Streptococcus pneumoniae, their effectiveness is limited by strain (serotype) replacement following widespread vaccination. Understanding the post...
Scientific, Seminar
Discrete Math Seminar: Ethan White
October 23, 2018
University of British Columbia
This is the first part of a two part exposition on the triangle-free process. The triangle-free process begins on an empty graph and adds edges at random, provided no triangle is created with the existing edges. One of the original motivations for...
Scientific, Seminar
Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Hyunju Kwon
October 23, 2018
University of British Columbia
We consider the Cauchy problem of 3D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for uniformly locally square integrable initial data. The existence of a time-global weak solution has been known, when the square integral of the initial datum on a ball...