Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Discrete Math Seminar: Jonathan Tidor
January 9, 2025
University of British Columbia
The degeneracy of a graph is a measure of sparseness that gives important information about its Ramsey- and Turán-type properties. I will talk about the hypergraph extension of these problems. The typical notion of hypergraph degeneracy does not give...
Scientific, Seminar
SFU Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Romina M. Arroyo
January 9, 2025
Simon Fraser University
The question of which nilpotent Lie algebras admit complex structures is far from being understood. In recent decades, progress has primarily focused on providing algebraic obstructions to the existence of such structures, with classification results...
Scientific, Workshop
Joint Mathematics Meetings - CRM-PIMS-AARMS Special Session on Indigenous Voices in Mathematics
January 8–9, 2025
Seattle Convention Center
This session will highlight the research of Indigenous mathematicians and mathematics, showcasing the breadth and depth of their contributions across various mathematical disciplines. From theoretical research to practical applications and...
Scientific, Seminar
Kantorovich Initiative Seminar: Jia-Jie Zhu
December 16, 2024
University of British Columbia
Gradient flows have emerged as a powerful framework for analyzing machine learning and statistical inference algorithms. Motivated by several applications in statistical inference, generative models, generalization, and robustness of learning...
Educational, Workshop
ELMACON 2025 Preparation Session 1
December 14, 2024
ESB 1013
As in previous years, we will be running three preparation sessions to help you keep your math skills sharp and get you ready for the competition. The first preparation session will take place on Saturday, December 14th from 10am-12pm in Earth...
Scientific, Seminar
Kantorovich Initiative Seminar: Yousef Mroueh
December 13, 2024
University of British Columbia
Current LLM alignment techniques use pairwise human preferences at a sample level, and as such, they do not imply an alignment on the distributional level. We propose in this paper Alignment via Optimal Transport (AOT), a novel method for...
Industrial, Lunchbox Lecture
PIMS Lunchbox Lecture: Vakhtang Putkaradze
December 12, 2024
University of Calgary - Downtown
Abstract: Recently, Machine Learning (ML) approaches to data assimilation and modeling have been very successful in interpreting large amounts of data, such as human behavior prediction, marketing, etc. However, direct applications of machine...
Educational, Workshop
Math Circles
December 9, 2024
SWING 105
Students of grades 5 to 7 are invited to challenge and develop their thinking and creativity skills at the Math Circle Workshops. This is an enrichment program for students organized by the faculty members of the Department of Mathematics at the...
Seminar
Kantorovich Initiative Seminar: Marco Cuturi
December 9, 2024
University of British Columbia
I will introduce our recent work on parameterising OT problems with elastic costs, i.e. ground costs that mix the classic squared Euclidean distance with a regularizer (e.g. L1 norm). After highlighting the properties of OT maps that follow such...
Scientific, Colloquia
UBC Math Department Colloquium: Krystal Taylor
December 6, 2024
University of British Columbia
A vibrant and classic area of research is that of relating the size of a set to the finite point configurations that it contains. Here, size may refer to cardinality, dimension, or measure. It is a consequence of the Lebesgue density theorem, for...