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Alternating sign matrices (ASMs) were introduced by Robbins and Rumsey in the early 1980s. Together with Mills they conjectured an enumerative formula for the number of ASMs of size n×n, which was proved independently by Zeilberger and Kuperberg...

We show that various classical theorems of real/complex linear incidence geometry, such as the theorems of Pappus, Desargues, Möbius, and so on, can be interpreted as special cases of a single "master theorem" that involves an arbitrary tiling of a...

Nonsmoothness and nonconvexity are significant challenges in large-scale optimization problems, such as training neural networks and solving inverse problems in computational imaging. Although first-order methods are commonly used to address these...

This short workshop is being hosted at the University of Washington and is in honor of Prof Adrian Lewis in recognition of his fundamental contributions to nonsmooth optimization Schedule: Aug 9: 9 am -- 5pm & Invited talks at the University of...

The theory of large deviations provides with a way to compute asymptotically the probability that an interacting particle system moves from a given configuration to another one over a fixed time interval. The problem of finding the most likely...

The optimal transport problem provides a fundamental and quantitative way to measure the distance between probability distributions. Recently, it has been successfully used to analyze the evolutionary dynamics in physics and biology. Motivated by...

The "ABC algebra workshops" is a series of PIMS-sponsored research workshops on algebra and related topics. Originally designed to bring together researchers from the Universities of Alberta and British Columbia (thus the acronym ABC), these...

The meeting begins with a dinner party at Terry Rockafellar's home Friday evening.The conference lectures will take place on Saturday, May 3, in Smith Hall room 304.Breakfast items (bagels, donuts, fruit), refreshments, and coffee will be served...

0:30 Yuri Burda (UBC) What is the simplest dynamics of a polynomial mapping? 12:00-2:30 Lunch 2:30pm José González (UBC) Bivariant Equivariant Cobordism 4:00 Amnon Neeman (Australian National University) Hochshcild homology, Grothendieck duality and...