Past Events

PIMS UVic will be offering a mini-version of Math Mania to 40 hearing-impaired children at the: Elizabeth Buckley School 1309 Hillside Ave. Victoria, BC V8T 2B3 The event will be held at the school from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm on Tuesday, April 7, 2009.

A well known result of Clemens and Griffiths says that a smooth cubic threefold can be recovered from its intermediate Jacobian. In this talk I will discuss the possible degenerations of these abelian varieties, and thus give a description of the...

It has been known for over a century that there are many Riemannian metrics on the 2-sphere with the property that all of their geodesics are closed. Zoll, a student of Hilbert, constructed an infinite dimensional family of surfaces of rotation with...

Let a, a_0, a_1, ..., a_m be integers with a nonnegative, and define f_a(x) = sum_{j=0}^m a_j x^j / (j+a)!. Schur (in 1929) proved that f_0(x) with |a_0| = |a_n| = 1 is irreducible for all m. Schur's result has been generalized by many authors by...

I will give an expository talk about half integer weight modular forms. Definitions and basic properties of this space will be given. Then, the Shimura correspondence will be discussed. Roughly speaking, this associates to a modular form of half...

We consider the one-dimensional discrete Schrödinger operator (Hf)(x)=f(x-1)+f(x+1)+v(x)f(x), on the interval {1,2,...,N} with Dirichlet boundary conditions f(0)=f(N+1)=0. We assume that v(x) are independent random variables for a very small fraction...

Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formalisms in Field Theories are equivalent when the Lagrangian is regular. Nevertheless, there are many interesting instances where the regularity is not guaranteed. This is the case of those variational problems on...