Past Events

The Niven Lecture is an annual lecture given to graduating math students, their family members and the general public at UBC. Between 1905 and 1910 the idea of the random walk, now a major topic in applied math, was invented simultaneously and...

The 5th Math & CS Climate Day event will take place at the University of Calgary on May 22, 2025 in MS427. It will be a day full of presentations, workshops and discussions about how we as mathematicians, statisticians and computer scientists can...

This workshop is hosted by Simon Fraser University. It is supported by the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences and the NSERC-EU project FoQaCiA. The goal of this meeting is to connect mathematicians, physicists and computer scientists...

Invited Minisymposia: IM1: Descriptive combinatorics ( Anton Bernshteyn, UCLA and Felix Weilacher, UC Berkeley) IM2: Pursuit-evasion games on graphs ( Anthony Bonato, Toronto Metropolitan University) IM3: How Many? The Art and Craft of Counting (...

Come celebrate the contributions of women in mathematics, learn some cool mathematics, and connect with other members of the Math department! SFU’s Department of Mathematics EDI Advisory Group kindly invites you to join in festivities on May 12th...

The Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar is sponsored by the following participating institutions: Lewis and Clark College, Oregon State University, Pacific University, Portland State University, Seattle University, University of British Columbia...

In this talk we discuss two backward uniqueness theorems for extrinsic geometric flow of possibly non-compact hypersurfaces in general ambient complete Riemannian manifolds. These are applicable to a wide range of extrinsic geometric flow, including...

It is conjectured that many models of statistical mechanics have a rich, fractal-like behaviour at and near their points of phase transition, with power-law scaling governed by critical exponents that are expected to depend on the dimension but not...

Let 𝔽_q be a finite field, and let ℙ²(𝔽_q) denote the projective plane over 𝔽_q. A subset B ⊆ ℙ²(𝔽_q) is called a blocking set if it intersects every line defined over 𝔽_q. Given an algebraic plane curve C in ℙ², under what...

In this talk, we will discuss how Ricci flow smoothing can be used to produce expanding Ricci solitons coming out of a metric cone, when the curvature is non-negative. We will discuss how its relation to problem in Hamilton-Lott pinching conjecture...