Emergent Research: The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar | PIMS - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) is proud to present an ongoing seminar series highlighting the work of our Postdoctoral Fellows (PDFs). This series offers a unique opportunity to engage with cutting-edge research in the mathematical sciences and to learn more about the exceptional early-career researchers supported by PIMS.

Each year, PIMS sponsors postdoctoral positions across its network. These highly competitive fellowships attract top young talent from around the world. Interested applicants can apply via our MathJobs page, and must be sponsored by a scientist or department affiliated with PIMS. For full application requirements and deadlines, please refer to the MathJobs posting.

The seminars are held online and are open to the public. Please consult the individual event listings for connection details. Sessions are scheduled across multiple time zones: 1:30 PM PT / 2:30 PM MT / 3:30 PM CT.

Advance registration via Zoom is required to receive access links and event reminders.

All lectures are recorded and made available through mathtube.org. Please note that PIMS reserves the right to limit participation in either online or in-person events as necessary.

Upcoming Seminars

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Past Seminars

We have all been treated to the excitement of a good science story. Think Discovery Channel or National Geographic. The stories are really engaging! Well, the very same tools and techniques that make great science stories can be used to strengthen...

This talk will discuss two inference problems in dynamical systems, both motivated by applications in mathematical biology. First, we will discuss the classical gene regulatory network inference problem for time-stamped single-cell datasets and...

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The study of surface gravity waves is crucial for understanding the formation of rogue waves and whitecaps in ocean swell. Waves originating from the epicenter of a storm can often be approximated as unidirectional. In this presentation, we will...

The Polya group of a number field K is a specific subgroup of the ideal class group Cl(K) of K, generated by all classes of Ostrowski ideals of K. In this talk, I will discuss the equality Po(K)=Cl(K) in two directions. First, we will see this...

In this talk, we will introduce the Weak and the Strong Lefschetz Properties (WLP and SLP) focusing on Artinian complete intersections. A famous result of Stanley shows that every Artinian monomial complete intersection over a field of characteristic...

A $P$-matrix is a matrix all of whose principal minors are positive. In this talk, we demonstrate that the fractional powers of a $P$-matrix are also $P$-matrices. This insight allows us to affirmatively address a longstanding conjecture raised in [D...

A matrix is called totally positive if all of its minors are positive. These matrices are important in mathe- matics, but checking whether a large matrix is totally positive can be challenging. In this talk, we explore whether certain matrices...

For a fixed $d \in \mathbb{N}$, the non-commutative (nc) universe $\mathbb{M}^d$ is defined as the graded (disjoint) union of $d$-tuples of $n \times n$ (complex) matrices over $n \in \mathbb{N}$. A function $f : \mathbb{M}^d \to \mathbb{M}^1$ is...

In this talk, I will discuss recent progress on the directed Oberwolfach problem. A directed variant of the famous Oberwolfach problem, the directed Oberwolfach problem considers the fol- lowing scenario. Given m people and t round tables of size m1...