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The University of Washington PIMS site office is located in the Department of Mathematics at (Padleford building) the University of Washington (Map).

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UW-PIMS MathematicsColloquium:Eyal Lubetzky
May 20, 2011
University of Washington
The Ising model, one of the most studied models in mathematical physics, was introduced in 1925 to model ferromagnetism. Over the last three decades, significant effort has been dedicated to the analysis of stochastic dynamical systems that both...
Scientific, Seminar
UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Rekha Thomas
April 29, 2011
University of Washington
Polynomial optimization concerns minimizing a polynomial subject to polynomial equations and inequalities. While this is a natural model for many applications, there are many difficulties (usually numerical and algorithmic) that have prevented their...
Scientific, Seminar
UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Hariharan Narayanan
March 29, 2011
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Increasingly, we are confronted with very high dimensional data sets. As a result, methods of avoiding the curse of dimensionality have come to the forefront of machine learning research. One approach, which relies on exploiting the geometry of the...
Scientific, Seminar
UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Bela Bollobas
February 18, 2011
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In this talk I shall sketch some results Oliver Riordan of Oxford and I have obtained on critical probabilities in percolation. Recently, Scullard and Ziff noticed that a broad class of planar percolation models are self-dual under a simple condition...
Scientific, Seminar
UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Richard Stanley
January 14, 2011
University of Washington
An alternating permutation w=a1⋯an of 1,2,…,n is a permutation such that ai>ai+1 if and only if i is odd. If En (called an Euler number) denotes the number of alternating permutations of 1,2,…,n, then ∑n≥0Enxnn!=secx+tanx. We will discuss such topics...
Scientific, Seminar
UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Joel Spencer (Courant/NYU)
October 14, 2011
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Erdös Magic, aka The Probabilistic Method, is a powerful tool for proving the existence of a combinatorial object, such as a coloring. A probability space is created for which the probability of success is positive. Hence the desired object must...
Scientific, Seminar
UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Greg Galloway
November 8, 2011
University of Washington
There is a widely held belief in physics that a true astrophysical black hole, formed from the gravitational collapse of some stellar object, can be described by a certain exact solution to the Einstein equations discovered by Kerr in the 60s. This...
Scientific, Seminar
UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Christopher Hacon
April 6, 2012
University of Washington
Abstract In this talk we will discuss issues related to the existence of a moduli space for varieties of general type. Recall that varieties of general type are the higher dimensional analog of Riemann surfaces of genus at least 2. We will explain...
Scientific, Seminar
UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Bruce Reznick
May 18, 2012
University of Washington
Abstract: Polynomial identities can reflect deeper mathematical phenomena. In this talk, I will discuss some of the stories behind four identities (and their relatives). The stories involve algebra, analysis, number theory, combinatorics, geometry...

Staff

Position Name Email Phone # Office
PIMS Site Director, University of Washington Jayadev Athreya jathreya@uw.edu +1 (206) 616-2481 C-419, Padelford Hall
Site Administrator - University of Washington Michael Munz munz@math.washington.edu +1 (206) 543-0397
Name Position Research Interests Supervisor Year
Pawel Morzywolek PIMS-Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington Statistics Alex Luedtke 2024
Anastassiya Semenova PIMS-Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington Applied mathematics and nonlinear science Bernard Deconinck 2023
Daniel Kessler PIMS-Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington Statistics Daniela Witten 2023
Samuel Van Fleet PIMS-Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington Numerical Analysis and PDE Jingwei Hu 2023
Amrei Oswald Postdoctoral Researcher Non-commutative Algebra James Zhang 2022
Shiping Cao Postdoctoral Researcher Fractals Zhen-Qing Chen 2022
Xiaowen Zhu PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington Mathematical Physics Alexis Drout 2022
Jesse Daniel Raffa University of Washington Statistics Elizabeth A. Thompson 2014
Nicholas W. Reichert University of Washington Partial Differential Equations Robin Graham 2014