University of Manitoba

The consensus problem plays a central role in the theory of distributed computing. I will prove that consensus is impossible to solve in some asynchronous shared memory systems and I will present some algorithms for solving it in others, together...

The field of Mathematical Biology has experienced a rapid development in the last decade. Current mathematical tools are approaching a level of sophistication that allows for a high-level application of these techniques to real biological problems...

A video of this event is available on mathtube.org Modern symbolic computation systems provide an expressive language for describing mathematical objects. For example, we can easily enter equations such asf=x^{2^{100}}y^2 + 2x^{2^{99}+1}y^{2^{99}+1}...

The purpose of this two-day meeting is to bring together researchers in discrete mathematics from across the prairies and neighbouring provinces and states. The topics of the meeting will be areas of discrete mathematics including graph theory...

We develop a dynamic programming methodology that seeks to maximize investor outcomes over multiple, potentially competing goals (such as upgrading a home, paying college tuition, or maintaining an income stream in retirement), even when financial...

WCLAM provides an opportunity for researchers and mathematicians in linear algebra and related fields to meet, present accounts of their research, and hold informal discussions. Although the meeting has a regional base, it attracts a number of...

A video of this event is available on mathtube.org. This will be a general talk about the role of dilation theory in studying operators on Hilbert space, illustrated in part by some recent work of mine with Raphaël Clouâtre on multivariable operator...

The geodesics on a sphere (the prototypical positively curved surface) are the great circles, all of which are closed (that is, each great circle eventually returns to its initial point, in the same direction as it left). It is a remarkable fact that...

This will be a general talk about the role of dilation theory in studying operators on Hilbert space, illustrated in part by some recent work of mine with Raphaël Clouâtre on multivariable operator theory.

A video of this event is available on mathtube.org. Matrices contain combinatorial information. They may provide alternative representations of combinatorial ideas. Examples include permutation matrices as representations of permutations of a finite...