Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Chapin Korosec
April 23, 2025
University of British Columbia
Following a vaccine inoculation or disease exposure an immune response develops in time, where the description of its time evolution poses an interesting problem in dynamical systems. The principal goal of theoretical immunology is to construct...
Industrial, Seminar
M2PI Case Studies Virtual Seminar: Irushi Jayathunga and Hiva Gheisari
April 23, 2025
Online
In this talk, we will share a comparison of how well different search engines find relevant articles, focusing on nautical crimes. The project involved collecting and cleaning data, looking at how many articles each engine retrieved, when those...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC DG-MP-PDE Seminar: Tom Wessel
April 17, 2025
University of British Columbia
In this talk we study interacting fermions on a discrete finite lattice subject to a homogeneous magnetic field at positive temperature. One prime example of such systems is the Hofstadter-Hubbard model. We show that the magnetization is equal to the...
Scientific, Seminar
UW Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Jasper Moxuan Liu
April 16, 2025
University of Washington
Let Mat n × n ( C ) be the affine space of n × n complex matrices with coordinate ring C [ x n × n ] . We define graded quotients of C [ x n × n ] where each quotient ring carries a group action. These quotient rings are obtained by applying the...
Scientific, Seminar
SFU MOCAD Seminar: Brynjulf Owren
April 16, 2025
Simon Fraser University
Recently, Sherry et al. (2024) reconsidered the pioneering work of Dahlquist and Jeltsch (1979) on circle-contractivity for the study of neural networks. This theory can be used to analyse and improve the robustness of architectures that are devised...
Scientific, Seminar
UWashington Distinguished Seminar in Optimization and Data: Tselil Schramm
April 14, 2025
University of Washington
For many optimization problems, we lack time-efficient algorithms; in many cases this is true even for "average-case" inputs from simple data models. To what extent can tools for complexity theory be adapted to this average-case setting? In this talk...
Scientific, Seminar
SFU MOCAD Seminar: Jay Gopalakrishnan
April 11, 2025
Simon Fraser University
TBA
Scientific, Seminar
SFU Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Katrina Honigs
April 10, 2025
Simon Fraser University
The classical McKay correspondence shows that there is a bijection between irreducible representations of finite subgroups GG of S L ( 2 , C )SL(2,C) and the exceptional divisors of the minimal resolution of the singularity C 2 / GC2/G. This is a...
Scientific, Seminar
UCalgary Algebra and Number Theory Seminar: Fatemehzahra Janbazi
April 10, 2025
Online
A classical theorem of Birch and Merriman states that, for fixed n the set of integral binary n -ic forms with fixed nonzero discriminant breaks into finitely many G L 2 ( Z ) -orbits. In this talk, I’ll present several extensions of this finiteness...
Scientific, Seminar
Kantorovich Initiative Seminar: Arnaud Doucet
April 10, 2025
Online
Denoising Diffusion models have revolutionized generative modeling. Conceptually, these methods define a transport mechanism from a noise distribution to a data distribution. Recent advancements have extended this framework to define transport maps...