Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Elina Robeva
March 30, 2026
University of British Columbia
The main task of causal discovery is to learn direct causal relationships among observed random variables. These relationships are usually depicted via a directed graph whose vertices are the variables of interest and whose edges represent direct...
Scientific, Seminar
Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Didier Lesesvre
March 30, 2026
University of Lethbridge
L-functions appear as generating functions encapsulating information about various objects such as Galois representations, elliptic curves, arithmetic functions, modular forms, Maass forms, etc. Studying L-functions is therefore of utmost importance...
Scientific, Seminar
Joint Maud Menten /Math Bio Seminar: Leah Edelstein-Keshet
March 30, 2026
University of Victoria
The classic Lotka-Volterra model for species competition has traditionally been associated with ecological settings where living species compete for limited resources. Here I will discuss two recent examples from work in my group where similar ideas...
Educational, Workshop
ELMACON 2026 - Preparation Session 3
March 28, 2026
University of British Columbia
ELMACON preparation sessions are free events which take place in the lead up to the ELMACON competition . At each session, an instructor students you through past ELMACON questions and teaches them techniques for tackling them. Subjects covered...
Scientific, Seminar
SFU MOCAD Seminar: Laura Weidensager
March 27, 2026
Simon Fraser University
In this talk, we focus on the problem of reconstructing a multivariate function from discrete d-dimensional samples. Beyond achieving accurate function recovery, we aim to enhance interpretability by identifying how individual variables and their...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
URegina-PIMS Distinguished Lecture: Zilin Jiang
March 27, 2026
Online
Equiangular lines are collections of lines in Euclidean space, all passing through the origin and forming the same angle with one another. Given a fixed angle, a fundamental question is: what is the maximum number of such lines? I will present a...
Scientific, Colloquia
UBC Math Department Colloquium: Didier Lesesvre
March 27, 2026
University of British Columbia
In 1671, Bachet conjectured that every natural number can be written as sum of four squares. A century of efforts and ideas was needed for Lagrange to reach a proof, and almost another century for Jacobi to quantify precisely this result. Today...
Scientific, Seminar
USaskatchewan-PIMS GAP Seminar: Yun Gao
March 27, 2026
University of Saskatchewan
The infinite dimensional Galilean conformal algebra is an infinite dimensional extension of the finite dimensional Galilean conformal algebra in ( d + 1 ) -dimensional space-time, which was introduced by Bagchi and Gopakumar in order to construct a...
Scientific, Seminar
USaskatchewan-PIMS GAP Seminar: Chris Raymond
March 26, 2026
University of Saskatchewan
Quantum Hamiltonian reduction is an algebraic procedure that produces new vertex algebras from known ones, with the best understood examples being the W-algebras that arise from affine vertex algebras. Recent work has focused on morally inverting...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems Seminar: Brian Marcus
March 26, 2026
University of British Columbia
Abstract: After reviewing some basic concepts and examples in topological dynamics, we will focus on the conjugacy problem for shifts of finite type, which has been open for more than fifty years.