Past Events

In addition to frequent single-nucleotide mutations, mammalian and many other genomes undergo rare and dramatic changes called genome rearrangements. These include inversions, fissions, fusions, and translocations. Although analysis of genome...

The main topic of this talk is the non-linear stochastic wave equation in spatial dimension greater than 3 driven by spatially homogeneous Gaussian noise that is white in time. In dimensions greater than 3, the fundamental solution of the wave...

The basic reproductive number, R_0, which is generally defined as the expected number of secondary infections per primary case in a totally susceptible population, is an important epidemiological quantity. It helps us to understand the possible...

This is joint work with Eric Friedlander, Julia Pevtsova and Andrei Suslin. We consider modules over an elementary abelian group on which every element in the radical, but not the square of the radical, has the same Jordan canonical form. Such...

The event consists of 7 or 8 talks from algebraists, mainly from Alberta and British Columbia, and some from outside the PIMS jurisdiction. The workshop includes a banquet on the evening of April 18th, 2009.

In this talk I show that the space of almost commuting elements in a compact Lie group G splits after one suspension.

The aim of this talk is to highlight the usefulness of continuous time branching process theory in understanding refined asymptotics about various random network models. We shall exhibit their usefulness in two different contexts: (1) First passage...

Breathing is an interesting and essential life-sustaining behavior for humans and all mammals. Like many rhythmic motor behaviors, breathing movements originate due to neural rhythms that emanate from a central pattern generator (CPG) network. CPGs...

Consider the classical balls-and-bins setup: n balls are thrown independently and uniformly into n bins. The most loaded bin then has log n/log log n balls with high probability. What happens when instead of throwing balls completely by random, there...