University of Victoria

Climate change has the potential to affect all of our lives. But is it really happening, and what has maths got to do with it? In this talk I will take a light hearted view of the many issues concerned with predicting climate change and how...

Motivated by a mounting tide of drug resistant bacteria, the search for new antibacterial agents is embracing technologies that lie outside traditional bounds. One promising source of compounds is the lysins encoded by bacteriophages (viruses that...

The glass ceiling may be defined as “the unseen, yet unbreakable barrier that keeps minorities and women from rising to the upper rungs of the corporate ladder, regardless of their qualifications or achievements”. Although undesirable, it is well...

The conventional view holds that girih (geometric star-and-polygon) patterns in medieval Islamic architecture were conceived by their designers as a network of zigzagging lines, and drafted directly with a straightedge and a compass. I will describe...

The International Biometric Conference scientific programme is made up of three main components: invited sessions, contributed papers and short courses. Invited sessions for the conference have been selected. Seventeen (17) invited sessions will be...

We first give an accessible overview of combinatorial optimization and highlight the role of mathematics and theoretical computer science in developing efficient solution techniques. Tree structures have appeared persistently both in the models and...

In this talk, we will introduce a deterministic malaria model for determining the drug administration protocol that leads to the smallest first malaria episodes during the wet season. To explore the effects of administering the malaria drug on...

This one-day meeting aims to bring together for regional researchers in Dynamical systems. The core is work in ergodic theory, as applied to the dynamics of homogeneous spaces. This area has seen intense activity recently, around work of...

In 1961 B. Gordon defined a group to be sequenceable if its elements could be written in a sequence g_1,g_2,...,g_n such that the partial products g_1g_2...g_i are all distinct for i = 1 through n. In 1974 Ringel asked for a sequencing of the non...

When does a majority exist? How does the geometry of the political spectrum influence the outcome? What does mathematics have to say about how people behave? When mathematical objects have a social interpretation, the associated results have social...