University of Victoria

In 1958, Olga Taussky-Todd proposed an exploration into potential unified treatments of a list of properties shared by various classes of “positive matrices”. For instance, item (4) on her original list sought explanations concerning the fact that...

The total domination number of a graph G is the minimum cardinality of a set S of vertices so that every vertex of G is adjacent to a vertex in S, while the transversal number of a hypergraph H is the minimum cardinality of a subset of vertices in H...

A collection of ten talks on topics in discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science by speakers from universities in BC and the surrounding regions.

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...