Past Events
Scientific, Summer School
Summer School on Operator Algebras and Non-commutative Geometry
June 14–25, 2010
University of Victoria
The Summer School will feature three 10-Lecture Series: 1. The structure of nuclear C*-algebras (Brown and Toms) 2. KK-theory and the Baum-Connes conjecture (Emerson and Meyer) 3. C*-dynamical systems (Laca and Neshveyev)
Scientific, Seminar
Mathematical Biology Seminar: Human strategy updating in a spatial game
June 10, 2010
University of British Columbia
Probably the most thoroughly studied mechanism that can explain the evolution and maintenance of costly cooperation among selfish individual is population structure. In the past years, hundreds of papers have mathematically modeled how cooperation...
Scientific, Seminar
Inference in Hybrid Bayesian Networks with Deterministic Variables
June 8, 2010
University of Regina
The main goal of this presentation is to describe an architecture for solving large hybrid Bayesian networks (BNs) with discrete, continuous and deterministic variables. In the presence of deterministic variables, we have to deal with non-existence...
Scientific, Seminar
SCAIM Seminar: Preconditioning Iterative Methods for the Optimal Control of the Stokes Equations
June 8, 2010
University of British Columbia
Solving problems regarding the optimal control of partial differential equations (PDEs) - a type of PDE-constrained optimization - is a frontier area of numerical analysis. Of particular interest is the problem of flow control, where one would like...
Scientific, Seminar
Bayesian Methodologies Seminar: Inference in hybrid Bayesian networks with deterministic variables
June 8, 2010
University of Regina
The main goal of this presentation is to describe an architecture for solving large hybrid Bayesian networks (BNs) with discrete, continuous and deterministic variables. In the presence of deterministic variables, we have to deal with non-existence...
Scientific, Summer School
MITACS-PIMS-UBC Summer School in Risk Management and Risk Sharing
June 7 – July 9, 2010
University of British Columbia
GRADUATE COURSE 1 Instructor: Bruno Bouchard (University Paris-Dauphine) Title: Portfolio management under risk constraint. Course Material and Topics: The aim of this lecture is to discuss classical and recent techniques used for the hedging and...
Scientific, Seminar
Mathematical Biology Seminar: Analysis of TcR diversity in CD4+ T cells
June 1, 2010
University of British Columbia
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
2010 Niven Lecture: The Search for Randomness
May 31, 2010
University of British Columbia
About the Niven Lectures: Ivan Niven was a famous number theorist and expositor; his textbooks won numerous awards, have been translated into many languages and are widely used to this day. Niven was born in Vancouver in 1915, earned his Bachelor's...
Scientific, Seminar
UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Quasirandom Processes
May 28, 2010
University of Washington
Probability theory is concerned with regularities in random processes, such as laws of large numbers and limit-shape theorems. Recent work by researchers at the interface between probability and combinatorics shows that many of these regularities...
Scientific, Seminar
Game-theoretic Probability and its Applications
May 26, 2010
University of Regina
The game-theoretic framework, introduced by Vovk and myself in 2001 (www.probabilityandfinance.com), uses game theory instead of measure theory as a mathematical framework for probability. Classical theorems are proven by betting strategies that...