University of Victoria

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...

The CUMC is an academic conference aimed at undergraduate students studying mathematics or mathematical fields. Presentations will be given on a wide range of topics within the field of mathematics, as well as physics, computer science, biology...

Zombies are a popular figure in pop culture/entertainment and they are usually portrayed as being brought about through an outbreak or epidemic. Consequently, we model a zombie attack, using biological assumptions based on popular zombie movies. We...

Wednesday, March 1st @ 4pm University of Victoria, Hickman Building, room 105 23andMe is a company that pioneered the direct-to-consumer genetics market and recently started offering its technology services as an end-to-end solution to researchers...

Zoonotic diseases are infectious diseases transmitted to humans from vertebrate animals. Many of these diseases originate from a viral pathogen and are associated with spillover from wildlife. Viral pathogens represent a large proportion of emerging...

All talks will be in DTB A102. Schedule Saturday 9:30am Reception, Tea and Coffee. Room TBA 10:30am Liam Watson 11:40am Geoffroy Horel 12:40pm Lunch 2:00pm Tomasz Kacynski 3:10pm Tea / Coffee. Room TBA 3:40pm Keiichi Sakai Saturday night we will have...

A key measure of the maturity and quality of a scientific community is how it judges and values accomplishments and (or versus) scholarship. To address this question, I will describe the motivation or drive for accomplishments and/or scholarship at...