Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
Number Theory Seminar: Otmar Venjakob
March 16, 2017
University of British Columbia
In this talk on joint work with Rebecca Bellovin we discuss the “local ε-isomorphism” conjecture of Fukaya and Kato for (crystalline) families of G_{Q_p}- representations. This can be regarded as a local analogue of the global Iwasawa main conjecture...
Scientific, Seminar
Probability Seminar: Ben Wallace
March 15, 2017
University of British Columbia
The correlation length of order p for the |\varphi|^4 spin model (a continuous-spin version of the O(n) model) is a normalization of the p-th moment of its two-point function. We will outline the proof (based on a renormalisation group method of...
Scientific, Seminar
Math Biology Seminar: Gabriela Cohen Freue
March 15, 2017
University of British Columbia
In many current applications scientists can easily measure a very large number of variables (for example, several thousands of gene expression levels) some of which are expected be useful to explain or predict a specific response variable of interest...
Scientific, Seminar
Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Nassif Ghoussoub
March 14, 2017
University of British Columbia
This is part II of the February 28 talk. Original abstract: I will describe how deterministic and stochastic dynamic optimal mass transports are to Mean Field Games what the classical calculus of variations offers to classical mechanics.
Scientific, Seminar
Scientific Computation and Applied & Industrial Mathematics: Iain Moyles
March 14, 2017
University of British Columbia
Many chemical systems exhibit a regular pattern of precipitate bands known as Liesegang rings in tribute to the chemist Raphael E. Liesegang who demonstrated them using a reaction of silver nitrate and potassium dichromate. A variety of theories have...
Scientific, Seminar
Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Forrest J. Francis
March 13, 2017
University of Lethbridge
In 1909, Landau showed that the lim sup of the quotient of n by ϕ(n) log log n is exp(γ), where ϕ(n) is Euler's function. Later, Rosser and Schoenfeld asked whether there were infinitely many n for which n/ϕ(n) is greater than (log log n) exp(γ)...
Scientific, Seminar
Fluid Mechanics Seminar:Thomas S. Eaves
March 10, 2017
University of British Columbia
Transitional phenomena are ubiquitous in fluid dynamics; they occur whenever there are multiple states in which a flow can reside. Frequently, we are able to investigate when and how a flow transitions from one state to another by performing a linear...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS- SFU CSC Seminar: Jessica Bosch
March 10, 2017
Simon Fraser University
The Cahn-Hilliard equation models the motion of interfaces between several phases. The underlying energy functional includes a potential for which different types were proposed in the literature. We consider smooth and nonsmooth potentials with a...
Scientific, Seminar
Number Theory Seminar: Niccolo' Ronchetti
March 9, 2017
University of British Columbia
Recently, Venkatesh introduced a global version of the derived Hecke algebra to explain extra endomorphisms on the cohomology of arithmetic manifolds: the crucial local construction is a derived version of the spherical Hecke algebra of a reductive p...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Topology Seminar: Bernardo Villarreal Herrera
March 8, 2017
University of British Columbia
A classical approach to understanding spaces of homomorphisms is to describe its connected components. We mainly focus in the spaces Hom(N_{n,q},SU(2)), where N_{n,q} denotes the free q-nilpotent group on n-generators. We show that the connected...