Past Events

A video of this event is available on mathtube.org. A fundamental problem of algebraic geometry is to determine which algebraic varieties are rational, that is, isomorphic to projective space after removing lower-dimensional subvarieties from both...

We will describe a geometric interpretation of Khovanov homology as Lagrangian Floer homology of two immersed curves in the 4-punctured 2-dimensional sphere. The main ingredient is a construction which translates Khovanov (or Bar-Natan) invariant of...

Any cobordism spectrum M associated to a classifying space BG is naturally equipped with a so-called Thom diagonal M->M ^ BG+ and Thom isomorphism M ^ M -> M ^ BG+ . In the homotopy category, these maps give M the structure of a cotorsor for the...

This 4-day workshop, set at the border of grassland and forest in the Canadian Prairies, will foster interactions between established and junior researchers working on the large-scale geometry and physics of moduli spaces arising from gauge theory...

The purpose of the meeting is to discuss recent developments in various aspects of domain decomposition methods bringing together mathematicians, computational scientists, and engineers who are working on numerical analysis, scientific computing, and...

A video of this event is available on mathtube.org. Class number of a number field is one of the fundamental and mysterious objects in algebraic number theory and related topics. I will discuss the class numbers of some quadratic fields. More...

Changes in cell-substrate adhesion are believed to signal the onset of cancer metastasis, but such changes must be quantified against background levels of intrinsic heterogeneity between cells. Variations in cell-substrate adhesion strengths can be...

We propose a mathematical model based on non-equilibrium thermodynamics to describe the mechanical behavior of an active polymer gel created by the inclusion of molecular motors in its solvent. When activated, these motors attach to the chains of the...

Environmental challenges, such as pollution and anti-biotics, can cause populations to decline towards extinction. But declining populations can also be rescued from extinction by sufficiently fast adaptive evolution. In this talk I’ll describe some...

Dr. Denise Daley PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Daley is trained as a statistical geneticist with PhDs in Epidemiology and Biostatics and she currently holds a Canada Research...