Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
UVictoria Dynamics and Probability Seminar: Partha Dey
February 27, 2024
Online
We consider a class of disordered mean-field combinatorial optimization problems, focusing on the Gibbs measure, where the inverse temperature does not vary with the size of the graph and the edge weights are sampled from a general distribution. We...
Scientific, Seminar
SFU Mathematics of Computation, Application and Data ("MOCAD") Seminar: Lisa Kreusser
February 26, 2024
Simon Fraser University
Recent and rapid breakthroughs in contemporary biology, climate science, and data science have unveiled a spectrum of intricate mathematical challenges which can be tackled through the fusion of applied and numerical analysis, as well as optimisation...
Scientific, Seminar
UAlberta Math Biology Seminar: Hoang-Hung Vo
February 26, 2024
University of Alberta
In this talk, I will review some different notions of principal eigenvalues, their qualitative properties and applications in some long time dynamics of Fisher-KPP equations with nonlocal dispersals including the time-periodic case.
Scientific, Seminar
L-functions in Analytic Number Theory: Biitu
February 26, 2024
University of Lethbridge
Scientific, Seminar
UVic - PIMS Data Science Seminar: Chi-Kuang Yeh
February 23, 2024
University of Victoria
Measuring the serial dependence across time is critical in model identification and diagnosis in time series (TS) analysis. In classic TS analysis, the autocorrelation function is perhaps the most widely used method to examine the temporal...
Scientific, Seminar
UCalgary Peripatetic Seminar: Blake Whiting
February 23, 2024
University of Calgary
Acyclic models, as its commonly seen today, is a proof technique used to show when two chain complexes are chain equivalent or have isomorphic homology. It originated as a theorem by Eilenberg and MacLane (1953), where it was immediately used to show...
Scientific, Seminar
05C50 Online Seminar: Sooyeong Kim
February 23, 2024
Online
Kemeny's constant, a fundamental parameter in the theory of Markov chains, has recently received significant attention within the graph theory community. Originally defined for a discrete, finite, time-homogeneous, and irreducible Markov chain based...
Scientific, Seminar
SFU Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Eleonore Faber
February 22, 2024
Simon Fraser University
Conway-Coxeter friezes are arrays of positive integers satisfying a determinantal condition, the so-called diamond rule. Recently, these combinatorial objects have been of considerable interest in representation theory, since they encode cluster...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Probability Seminar: Jeffrey Rosenthal
February 22, 2024
University of British Columbia
Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms, such as the Metropolis algorithm, are designed to converge to complicated high-dimensional target distributions, to facilitate sampling. The speed of this convergence is essential for practical use. In this...
Scientific, Seminar
UW Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Yirong Yang
February 21, 2024
University of Washington
Reconstructing simplicial complexes from partial information has been a problem of interest for decades. A triangulation of a d-dimensional sphere is obtained by gluing a collection of d-dimensional simplices (“higher dimensional triangles”) along...