Past Events

The Birnbaum Lecture in Probability will be delivered by Robin Pemantle (University of Pennsylvania) in 2023. Northwest Probability Seminars are mini-conferences held at the University of Washington and organized in collaboration with the Oregon...

Variational phase-field models of fracture have been at the center of a multidisciplinary effort involving a large community of mathematicians, mechanicians, engineers, and computational scientists over the last 25 years or so. I will start with a...

In life history studies one often encounters situations where individuals in a population are eligible to enroll only if the response time does not exceed an associated censoring time, which leads to the so called left truncated lifetime data. While...

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...

Fano varieties are projective algebraic variety with “positive curvature”. Recently, using the notion of K-stability which originates in differential geometry, projective moduli spaces for Fano varieties have been constructed. In this talk I will...

Shared rides, which pool individual riders into a single vehicle, are essential for mitigating congestion and promoting more sustainable urban transportation. However, major ridesharing platforms have long struggled to maintain a healthy and...

For every positive integer n, the quotient ring Z/nZ is the natural ring whose additive group is cyclic. The "multiplicative group modulo n" is the group of invertible elements of this ring, with the multiplication operation. As it turns out, many...

A broad class of problems in extremal geometry can be characterized as follows. Fix a positive integer k and a property of k-tuples of points in R^2. The problem is then to determine how many k-tuples in an n-point set in R^2 can have the chosen...

We will describe a discretization of Chern-Simons theory using Whitney forms. Derived moduli spaces are often described using L-infinity algebras and it is interesting to explore how a derived moduli space varies as we modify the 'governing L...

Mathematical biomedicine is an area of research where questions that arise in medicine are addressed by mathematical methods. Each such question needs first to be represented by a network with nodes that includes the biological entities that will be...