Events

All upcoming and recent events from the past six months:

Title: TBA
Speaker: Hao Chen, University of Science and Technology of China
Date and time: 28 Nov 2024, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: CLE D134
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: TBA
Speaker: Candida Bowtell, University of Birmingham
Date and time: 21 Nov 2024, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: CLE D134
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: TBA
Speaker: Shivaramakrishna Pragada, Simon Fraser University
Date and time: 07 Nov 2024, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: CLE D134
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: TBA
Speaker: Haley Freigang, University of Victoria
Date and time: 31 Oct 2024, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: CLE D134
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: TBA
Speaker: Hermie Monterde, University of Manitoba
Date and time: 17 Oct 2024, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: CLE D134
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: TBA
Speaker: Natasha Morrison, University of Victoria
Date and time: 10 Oct 2024, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: CLE D134
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: TBA
Speaker: TBA
Date and time: 03 Oct 2024, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: CLE D134
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: TBA
Speaker: Shamik Ghosh, Jadavpur University
Date and time: 26 Sep 2024, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: CLE D134
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Boxicity: Representing graphs with low-dimensional boxes
Speaker: Marco Caoduro, University of British Columbia
Date and time: 19 Sep 2024, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: CLE D134
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Nuclearity results for Toeplitz Algebras of Product Systems
Speaker: Marcelo Laca, University of Victoria
Date and time: 18 Sep 2024, 3:30pm - 4:45pm
Location: CLE A 330
Event type: Operator theory seminar
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Title: New numerical methods for computing optimal regression designs
Speaker: Julie Zhou, University of Victoria
Date and time: 18 Sep 2024, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: DTB A203
Event type: Statistics seminar
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Title: Scaling limit of high-dimensional random spanning trees
Speaker: Eleanor Archer, Université Paris-Dauphine
Date and time: 17 Sep 2024, 2:30pm - 3:20pm
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: The development and application of computational approaches to moving-habitat models in one and two dimensions
Speaker: Jane MacDonald, Simon Fraser University
Date and time: 16 Sep 2024, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: David Strong Building (DSB) C-130
Event type: Math biology seminar
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Title: Counting lattice paths under a boundary of rational slope by flaws
Speaker: Amarpreet Rattan, Simon Fraser University
Date and time: 12 Sep 2024, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: CLE D134
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Café Scientifique: Moving Forward on the Environment, One Equation at a Time
Speaker: Mark Lewis, Kennedy Chair in Mathematical Biology
Date and time: 11 Sep 2024, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Hermann's Jazz Club
Event type: Education and outreach
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Title: Machine assisted proofs
Speaker: Terence Tao, UCLA
Date and time: 10 Sep 2024, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: Online. Registration required
Event type: PIMS lectures
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Title: Large Deviation Principle for the Directed Landscape
Speaker: Sayan Das, (U Chicago)
Date and time: 05 Sep 2024, 2:30pm - 3:20pm
Location: DSB C130
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: Metastability for Curie Weiss Potts model
Speaker: Vicente Lenz, TU Delft
Date and time: 04 Sep 2024, 2:30pm - 3:20pm
Location: DSB C130
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: AdaptVarLM: A Linear Regression Model for Covariate-Dependent Non-Constant Error Variance
Speaker: Wanmeng Wang, University of Victoria
Date and time: 16 Aug 2024, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: On Bilevel Programs and Minimax Problems
Speaker: Xiaoxiao Ma, University of Victoria
Date and time: 12 Aug 2024, 9:00am - 10:00am
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: A non-local reaction advection-diffusion model for self-interacting species
Speaker: Zongzhi Yue, Universiity of Victoria
Date and time: 01 Aug 2024, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: David Strong Building C128
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: Development of a disease analytic model for estimating the hidden population using the stratified-Peterson estimator
Speaker: Siying Ma, University of Victoria
Date and time: 01 Aug 2024, 9:00am - 10:00am
Location: DTB A203
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: Peaceful Colourings
Speaker: Bruce Reed, Academia Sinica
Date and time: 18 Jul 2024, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: DSB C128
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Invariant conic optimization with basis-dependent cones: scaled diagonally dominant matrices and real *-algebra decomposition
Speaker: Khashayar Neshat Taherzadeh, University of Victoria
Date and time: 17 Jul 2024, 9:00am - 10:00am
Location: ECS Room 130
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: IMAGINING UVic Math Camp for Grade 11-12 Girls
Date: 02 Jul  to  05 Jul 2024
Location: University of Victoria
Event type: Education and outreach
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Title: Counting X-free sets
Speaker: Ashna Wright, University of Victoria
Date and time: 13 Jun 2024, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: DSB C108
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: Star and monotone factorizations and Jucys-Murphy elements
Speaker: Amarpreet Rattan, Simon Fraser University
Date and time: 16 May 2024, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: ECS 104
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Science Rendezvous
Date and time: 11 May 2024, 10:00am - 3:00pm
Location: UVic and Camosun Interurban
Event type: Education and outreach
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Title: Analytic approach to extremal combinatorics
Speaker: Daniel Král', Masaryk University
Date and time: 07 May 2024, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: DSB C118
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Analytic approach to extremal combinatorics
Speaker: Daniel Král', Masaryk University
Date and time: 07 May 2024, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: DSB C118
Event type: Colloquia
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Title: Large-scale structures in two-dimensional Rayleigh–Bénard convection driven by fixed heat fluxes
Speaker: Mathew Lewis, University of Victoria
Date and time: 03 May 2024, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: DSB C114 and Zoom
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: The choice of prediction curve method and its effect on the estimated amount of DNA
Speaker: Morgan Magee, University of Victoria
Date and time: 22 Apr 2024, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Location: David Strong Building Room C126
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: On the Prediction Accuracy of Models Chosen by Constrained Minimum Criterion
Speaker: Xinning Liu, University of Victoria
Date and time: 18 Apr 2024, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: Twisting in Hamiltonian flows and prefect fluids
Speaker: Tarek El-Gindi, Duke University
Date and time: 17 Apr 2024, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: DSB C126
Event type: Applied math seminar
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Title: A Bayesian Approach to Response Optimization on Data with Multistratum Structure
Speaker: Professor Po Yang, University of Manitoba
Date and time: 17 Apr 2024, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: DSB C114
Event type: Statistics seminar
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Title: Comparisons of Ramp Functions and Michaelis-Menten Functions in Biochemical Dynamical Systems
Speaker: Skye Dore-Hall, University of Victoria
Date and time: 12 Apr 2024, 9:00am - 10:00am
Location: Clearihue B021 and Zoom
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: PIMS Data Science Seminar: Data thinning to avoid double dipping
Speaker: Lucy Gao, University of British Columbia
Date and time: 10 Apr 2024, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: DTB A102 and Zoom
Event type: Statistics seminar
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Title: Triangulating surfaces in Mathematics and in Computer Graphics
Speaker: Joel Hass , U.C. Davis
Date and time: 08 Apr 2024, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: MacLaurin A144
Event type: Colloquia
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Title: On the prevalence of cycles and chaos in natural ecosystems
Speaker: Evan Johnson, Math and Stats, University of Alberta
Date and time: 08 Apr 2024, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: Cornett A225 and Zoom
Event type: Math biology seminar
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Title: PIMS Data Science Seminar: Functional Nonlinear Learning
Speaker: Jiguo Cao, Simon Fraser University
Date and time: 05 Apr 2024, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: DTB A102 and Zoom
Event type: Statistics seminar
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Title: Cops and Robber on surfaces of constant curvature
Speaker: Vesna Iršič, University of Ljubljana
Date and time: 04 Apr 2024, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: COR A128
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Computable Gelfand duality (2 of 2)
Speaker: Chris Eagle, University of Victoria
Date and time: 03 Apr 2024, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: CLE A221
Event type: Operator theory seminar
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Title: Stochastic path integrals: classical and new
Speaker: Yu-Ting Chen, University of Victoria
Date and time: 02 Apr 2024, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: DSB C108
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: Sidorenko-type inequalities for Trees
Speaker: Lina Simbaqueba, University of Victoria
Date and time: 28 Mar 2024, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: COR A128
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Computable Gelfand duality (1 of 2)
Speaker: Chris Eagle, University of Victoria
Date and time: 27 Mar 2024, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: CLE A221
Event type: Operator theory seminar
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Title: Lorentz gases on quasicrystals
Speaker: Agnieszka Zelerowicz, UC Riverside
Date and time: 26 Mar 2024, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: DSB C114
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: Estimating the population size of persons contending with homelessness using electronic health data
Speaker: Gracia Dong, University of Victoria/University of Toronto
Date and time: 25 Mar 2024, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: MacLaurin D283
Event type: Math biology seminar
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Title: Counting X-free sets
Speaker: Ashna Wright, University of Victoria
Date and time: 21 Mar 2024, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: COR A128
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Classifying Virtual Pfister Neighbours with Geometric Invariants
Speaker: Khai Quigley, University of Victoria
Date and time: 20 Mar 2024, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: CLE A221
Event type: Operator theory seminar
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Title: Moment Equations for Liquid, Vapor, and their Interface
Speaker: Henning Struchtrup, Mechanical Engineering, UVic
Date and time: 20 Mar 2024, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: COR B145
Event type: Applied math seminar
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Title: Discrete Gaussian Free Field and Invariant Measures for the Non-Linear Schrödinger Equation
Speaker: Kesav Krishnan, University of Victoria
Date and time: 20 Mar 2024, 9:30am - 10:30am
Location: via Zoom registration required
Event type: PIMS lectures
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Title: Ergodic Theory on Coded Shifts
Speaker: Tamara Kucherenko, City College of New York
Date and time: 19 Mar 2024, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: Environmental controls and phenology of future Arctic biogeochemistry
Speaker: Antoine Haddon, Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria
Date and time: 18 Mar 2024, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: Cornett A225
Event type: Math biology seminar
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