Wenyuan Liao | PIMS - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

PIMS Site Director, & Professor of Mathematics University of Calgary

Wenyuan Liao is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Calgary. His research focuses on computational mathematics and his research interests include

Inverse modeling & Industrial applications
Seismic Inversion & Applications
High Performance Computing and Scientific Computation
Numerical Methods for PDEs
Mathematical modelling
Numerical methods and applications to geophysics and industrial problems

Prof. Liao currently serves as the PIMS Site Director for the University of Calgary.

Abstract Artificial intelligence and machine learning are transforming numerous fields—including engineering, business, science, and healthcare—by enabling more accurate, data-driven decision-making. These techniques help us gain deeper insights from...

Plenary Talk Abstracts De-clawing graph theory (Stephanie van Willigenburg) This talk requires no prior knowledge and will be a gentle introduction to colouring graphs, suitable for a broad audience including students. We will start with some...

M2PI matches graduate students and postdoctoral fellows with industry partners to engage in a two week long collaboration to solve an industrial mathematics challenge. M2PI participants gain valuable skills making them ready to work in non-academic...

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a novel seismic wave equation-based data-driven approach characterized by exploiting full waveform information from all types of seismic data. It can image the subsurface with high resolution, up to half the...

Recently, the optimal transport distance, or so-called Wasserstein distance has been introduced to full waveform inversion to compute the misfit between two seismograms. This measure has great potential to account for time and space shifts of events...