Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
UVictoria Discrete Math Seminar: Hao Chen
November 28, 2024
University of Victoria
Many fundamental problems in extremal combinatorics can be expressed as inequalities in graph homomorphism densities. In this talk, I will introduce some new results on this topic. Our research involves Sidorenko's conjecture, Kohayakawa-Nagle-R{\"o...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Probability Seminar: Tom Hutchcroft
November 27, 2024
University of British Columbia
I will give an overview of forthcoming work proving that large critical percolation clusters in high-dimensional lattices converge under rescaling to the expected universal limit object: superBrownian motion. A key step is to compute the first-order...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Hermann Eberl
November 27, 2024
University of British Columbia
Fire blight is a bacterial plant disease that affects apple and pear trees. We present a mathematical model for its spread in an orchard during bloom (sometimes referred to as blossom blight). This is a PDE-ODE coupled system, consisting of two...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Discrete Math Seminar: Stephanie van Willigenburg
November 26, 2024
University of British Columbia
This will be an in-person version of a Zoom workshop to be given at Grad and Postdoc Studies in December. It is open to all grad students and postdocs, not just those on the job market this year. Please come, learn, ask questions afterwards and give...
Scientific, Seminar
UVictoria Probability and Dynamics Seminar: Garrett Mulcahy
November 26, 2024
University of Victoria
This talk will present a novel discretization scheme for Wasserstein gradient flows (i.e. curves of steepest descent for functions of probability measures) based on the successive computation of Schrödinger bridges with equal marginals. In doing so...
Scientific, Seminar
L-functions in Analytic Number Theory Seminar: Nicol Leong
November 26, 2024
Online
Bounds on the logarithmic derivative and the reciprocal of the Riemann zeta function are studied as they have a wide range of applications, such as computing bounds for Mertens function. In this talk, we are mainly concerned with explicit bounds...
Scientific, Seminar
Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Golnoush Farzanfard
November 25, 2024
University of Lethbridge
The Riemann zeta function is a fundamental function in number theory. The study of zeros of the zeta function has important applications in studying the distribution of the prime numbers. Riemann hypothesis conjectures that all non-trivial zeros lie...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Arnab Kundu
November 25, 2024
University of British Columbia
Motivic cohomology is a cohomology theory that can be defined internally within Grothendieck's category of motives. Voevodsky developed this theory for smooth varieties, demonstrating its profound connections to algebraic cycles and algebraic K...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
URegina-PIMS Distinguished Lecture: Shakhawat Hossain
November 22, 2024
University of Regina
In this talk, we consider the non-penalty shrinkage and pretest estimation methods for the regression parameters of the generalized log-logistic proportional hazards (PH) model. This model, a simple extension of the log-logistic model (which...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Number Theory Seminar: Clifton Cunningham
November 22, 2024
University of British Columbia
David Vogan's 1993 paper on the local Langlands correspondence showed that there are advantages to simultaneously considering representations of a p-adic group together with its pure inner forms. Combined with other insights, this opened the door to...