# Events

All upcoming and recent events from the past six months:

Title: The Mathematics of Bats
Speaker: Cédric Villani, University of Lyon & Institut Henri Poincaré
Date and time: 14 Nov 2014, 6:45pm - 8:00pm
Location: Bob Wright Centre, room B150
Event type: PIMS lectures

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Title: The tight groupoid of an inverse semigroup
Speaker: Ruy Exel, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Date and time: 15 Oct 2014, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: Clearihue C109
Event type: Operator theory seminar

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Title: A geometric approach for relative equilibria solutions in the curved N-body problem with negative curvature
Speaker: Ernesto Pérez-Chavela, Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico City, Mexico
Date and time: 14 Oct 2014, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: HHB 116
Event type: Applied math seminar

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Title: Templates for Hecke triangles
Speaker: Tali Pinsky, UBC
Date and time: 10 Oct 2014, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: HSD A270
Event type: Topology seminar

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Title: Edge-criticality in Cops and Robbers
Speaker: Shannon Fitzpatrick, UPEI
Date and time: 09 Oct 2014, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: MacLaurin D109
Event type: Discrete math seminar

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Title: An Introduction to Cuntz-Pimsner Algebras and their Application to Substitution Tilings
Speaker: Peter Williamson, University of Victoria
Date and time: 08 Oct 2014, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: Clearihue C109
Event type: Operator theory seminar

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Title: Analysis of a Model of Human African trypanosomiasis
Speaker: Justin Munganga, University of South Africa
Date and time: 07 Oct 2014, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: HHB 116
Event type: Applied math seminar

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Title: A little obstruction theory
Speaker: Ryan Budney, University of Victoria
Date and time: 03 Oct 2014, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: HSD A240
Event type: Topology seminar

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Title: Motion of an array of plates in a rarefied gas caused by radiometric force
Speaker: Kazuo Aoki, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Science, Kyoto University
Date and time: 30 Sep 2014, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: HHB 116
Event type: Applied math seminar

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Title: Colour Graphs of Complete Multipartite Graphs
Speaker: Stefan Bard, University of Victoria
Date and time: 30 Sep 2014, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: MacLaurin D109
Event type: Discrete math seminar

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Title: Skeleta of Affine Hypersurfaces
Speaker: Helge Ruddat, University of Mainz
Date and time: 26 Sep 2014, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: HSD A240
Event type: Topology seminar

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Title: Reorienting tournaments by pushing vertices
Speaker: Joe Friesen, University of Victoria
Date and time: 25 Sep 2014, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: MacLaurin D109
Event type: Discrete math seminar

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Title: Introduction to group actions and non commutative geometry
Speaker: Heath Emerson, University of Victoria
Date and time: 24 Sep 2014, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: Clearihue C109
Event type: Operator theory seminar

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Title: Kinetic Data Structures and the Reverse K-Nearest Neighbor Problem
Speaker: Sue Whitesides, Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria
Date and time: 23 Sep 2014, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: HHB 116
Event type: Applied math seminar

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Title: Graph divisible designs
Speaker: Peter Dukes, University of Victoria
Date and time: 18 Sep 2014, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: Maclaurin D109
Event type: Discrete math seminar

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Title: Network Modelling with Random-k Tree
Speaker: Dr Kui Wu, Computer Science, University of Victoria
Date and time: 16 Sep 2014, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: HHB 116
Event type: Applied math seminar

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Title: Smoothing SQP methods for solving nonsmooth and nonconvex constrained optimization problems
Speaker: Jane Ye, University of Victoria
Date and time: 11 Sep 2014, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: DTB A144
Event type: Applied math seminar

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Title: A dichotomy for family trees
Speaker: Anthony Quas, University of Victoria
Date and time: 11 Sep 2014, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: Maclaurin D-115
Event type: Discrete math seminar

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Title: A fractal approach to spectral triples on aperiodic tilings
Speaker: Mike Whittaker, University of Wollongong
Date and time: 10 Sep 2014, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: Clearihue C109
Event type: Operator theory seminar

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Title: Epidemiological and Marketing Models on Random Networks
Speaker: Reinhard Illner, University of Victoria
Date and time: 09 Sep 2014, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: HHB 116
Event type: Applied math seminar

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Title: Probing Networks to Understand Nature
Speaker: Leonid Chindelevitch, Harvard School of Public Health
Date and time: 02 Sep 2014, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: ECS 660
Event type: Colloquia

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Title: "Haven't I seen you before? Accounting for partnership duration in epidemic spread"
Speaker: Joel Miller, Monash University
Date and time: 08 Jul 2014, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: DSB C126
Event type: Applied math seminar

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Title: Dynamical systems modulo universal null sets
Speaker: Mike Boyle, Maryland, and Distinguished PIMS Visitor, UBC
Date and time: 02 Jul 2014, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: DSB C108
Event type: Dynamics seminar

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Title: Combination-based permutation tests: theory and applications
Speaker: Luigi Salmaso, University of Padova
Date and time: 26 Jun 2014, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: HHB 120
Event type: Statistics seminar

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Title: Bringing New Techniques from Statistics into Neuroimaging Meta-Analysis
Speaker: Timothy Johnson, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan
Date and time: 20 Jun 2014, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: Hickman Building (HHB) 120
Event type: Statistics seminar

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Title: A Spatial Generalized Linear Mixed Model and the Estimation of Spatially-Varying Coefficients with Application to Multiple Scler
Speaker: Timothy Johnson, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan
Date and time: 19 Jun 2014, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: Hickman Building (HHB) 120
Event type: Statistics seminar

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Title: Links of divides vs. L-space knots
Speaker: Ken Baker, U. Miami
Date and time: 16 May 2014, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: DSB C114
Event type: Topology seminar

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Title: An action of the splicing operad on the functor calculus Taylor tower
Speaker: Ryan Budney, University of Victoria
Date and time: 09 May 2014, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: TBA
Event type: Topology seminar

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Title: Lit-only $\sigma$-game
Speaker: Yaokun Wu, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Date and time: 09 May 2014, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: DSB C114
Event type: Discrete math seminar

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Title: Workshop on Kinetic Theory and Related Topics
Dates: 14 Nov  to  15 Nov 2014
Location: The University of Victoria
Event type: PIMS lectures