University of Alberta

The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) invites the mathematical community to the 2016 CMS Summer Meeting in Edmonton, Alberta, from June 24-27. All meeting activities are taking place at University of Alberta (116 St & 85 Ave, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3)...

This conference is a unique and important opportunity for graduate students in mathematics and statistics to meet their peers and discover the wide range of research currently undertaken in Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest. Participants will...

I will discuss the following question: Is any smooth or analytic orientation preserving diffeomorphism of the circle $f$ with an irrational rotation number $\alpha$ almost reducible in the sense that there exists a sequence of smooth or analytic...

In this talk, I will present the chaotic phenomenon of a dynamical system with positive entropy. It is shown that a dynamical system has positive entropy if and only if it has a weak horseshoe. Particularly, I will show that a Lorentz attractor has a...

The first part of the summer school takes place parallel to the CAIMS Annual Meeting. The summer school is followed by the Sixth International IMS-FIPS Workshop, which takes place July 7-9, also at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

We derive boundary conditions for the vorticity equation with solid wall boundaries. The formulation uses a Dirichlet condition for the normal component of vorticity, and Neumann type conditions for the tangential components. In a Galerkin (integral)...

The lecture deals with the homogenization of strongly heterogeneous elastic plates satisfying the Reissner-Mindlin or the Kirchhoff-Love hypotheses. We rigorously justify the limit models obtained by the asymptotic analysis which describe the...

One version of homological mirror symmetry relates the algebraic geometry of certain varieties to the symplectic topology of a Lefschetz pencil. Extracting symplectic (i.e. Floer theoretic) invariants from these fibrations is quite difficult, even in...

Spatially localized structures arise frequently in nature. Examples include localized buckling, spot-like structures in optics and in reaction-diffusion models, vortices in fluid dynamics, as well as localized oscillations known as oscillons. In all...