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From the common cold to crop blights, the consequences of host-parasite interactions on our daily lives are unavoidable. Beginning with an overview of the diversity and abundance of host-parasite interactions I will explore several of the...

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.

As its name is meant to suggest, the subject of p-adic Hodge theory was historically concerned with the relationship between different cohomology theories attached to p-adic algebraic varieties. Within p-adic Hodge theory, the concept of a perfectoid...

Representations in Arithmetic: Interactive Broadcast with Prof. Kiran Kedlaya PIMS UBC will broadcast 3-4 lectures on Representations in Arithmetic- Adic spaces. • Feb 20th: 3:00pm PST • Feb 21st: 3:00pm PST • Feb 28th: 10:00am PST • Feb 28th: 3:30pm...

The Traveling Salesman Problem asks for the shortest route through a collection of cities. This classical problem is very hard, but, by applying Linear Programming (and other techniques), the optimal route has been found in test cases that have tens...

Mechanical properties of materials are usually determined by defects, their evolution and interaction. Therefore, the key to design new and better materials than those available nowadays relies on understanding, controlling, and ultimately...

Representations in Arithmetic: Interactive Broadcast with Prof. Kiran Kedlaya PIMS UBC will broadcast 3-4 lectures on Representations in Arithmetic- Adic spaces. • Feb 20th: 3:00pm PST • Feb 21st: 3:00pm PST • Feb 28th: TBC Background Notes : https:/...

Suspensions of micron-size particles in Newtonian fluids are present in a broad spectrum of biological and engineering applications and understanding their rheological properties is a crucial task. Computational studies of such systems are...

I will discuss some aspects of the tight connection between the study of certain dynamical systems and number theory (most notably to questions in Diophantine approximation and the geometry of numbers).

In recent years, important families of symmetric group representations have come to be better understood through the perspective of representation stability, a viewpoint introduced and developed by Thomas Church, Jordan Ellenberg, and Benson Farb...