Past Events

The rapid increase of fentanyl and fentanyl analogues in British Columbia has led to a public health emergency being declared and a rapid increase in overdoses and overdose-related deaths in the province. Numerous interventions have been proposed in...

Let B be the unit ball of a norm in the d-dimensional space and assume that V is a finite subset of B, and the sum of the vectors in V is the zero vector. A theorem of Steinitz from 1914 says that there is an ordering v_1,...,v_n of the vectors in V...

In this talk we will explore deep neural networks from a dynamical systems point of view. We will show that the learning problem can be cast as a path planning problem with PDE constraint. This opens the door to conventional Computational techniques...

Primality testing has a number of important applications. In particular in cryptographic applications the complexity of existing deterministic algorithms causes increasing latency as the size of numbers we must test grow and the number of tests we...

The rapid increase of fentanyl and fentanyl analogues in British Columbia has led to a public health emergency being declared and a rapid increase in overdoses and overdose-related deaths in the province. Numerous interventions have been proposed in...

Concentration waves of swimming bacteria Escherichia coli were described in his seminal paper by Adler (Science 1966). These experiments gave rise to intensive PDE modelling and analysis, after the original model by Keller and Segel (J. Theor. Biol...

We establish a poset structure on combinatorial bases of polynomials, defined by positive expansions. These bases include the well-studied Schubert polynomials, Demazure characters and Demazure atoms, as well as the recently-introduced slide and...

Probability measures are key objects in many scientific and engineering areas that deal with randomness, distributions, data sets, etc. When coupled with optimization, many interesting questions naturally arise. In this talk, I will explain a few of...

Diophantine equations are one of the oldest, frequently celebrated and most abstract objects in mathematics. They crop up in areas ranging from recreational mathematics and puzzles, to cryptography, error correcting codes, and even in studying the...

Hopf invariants, a basic construction in homotopy theory, are closely related to Lusternik–Schnirelmann category which, in turn, can be defined as the sectional category of a certain evaluation map. In this talk I'll introduce the notion of Hopf...