Events

All upcoming and recent events from the past six months:

Title: PIMS Data Science Seminar: Artificial intelligence for data integration in biology and medicine
Speaker: Youlian Pan, National Research Council of Canada
Date and time: 14 Dec 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: David Strong Building C108 and Zoom
Event type: Statistics seminar
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Title: Putnam math competition
Date: 02 Dec 2023
Location: DTB A102
Event type: Education and outreach
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Title: The relationship between zero forcing and vertex covers
Speaker: Michael Young, Carnegie Mellon University
Date and time: 30 Nov 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: Clearihue C111
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: PIMS Emergent Research PDF Seminar: Spaces of geodesic triangulations of surfaces
Speaker: Yanwen Luo, SFU and UVic
Date and time: 29 Nov 2023, 9:30am - 10:30am
Location: via Zoom registration required
Event type: PIMS lectures
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Title: Random interlacement is a factor of i.i.d.
Speaker: Balazs Rath, Budapest University of Technology/ Renyi Institute
Date and time: 28 Nov 2023, 10:30am - 11:30am
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: The Heisenberg Spectral Triple and Associated Zeta Functions
Speaker: Brendan Steed, University of Victoria
Date and time: 27 Nov 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: David Turpin Building, Room A203
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: PIMS Data Science Seminar: A novel evolutionary, ensemble method for intrusion detection
Speaker: Belaid Moa, University of Victoria and Digital Research Alliance of Canada
Date and time: 24 Nov 2023, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: Cornett A128 and Zoom
Event type: Statistics seminar
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Title: Innovative CVX-based Algorithms for Optimal Design Problems on Discretized Regions
Speaker: Hanan Abousaleh, University of Victoria
Date and time: 23 Nov 2023, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: David Turpin Building, Room A203
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: Stacking Number for Eternal Domination
Speaker: Ethan Williams, University of Victoria
Date and time: 23 Nov 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: Clearihue C111
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Clustering for Climate Science Insights
Speaker: Dr. John R.J. Thompson, UBC Okanagan
Date and time: 22 Nov 2023, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: via Zoom registration required
Event type: Statistics seminar
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Title: PIMS Emergent Research PDF Seminar: Around Artin's primitive root conjecture
Speaker: Paul Péringuey, University of British Columbia
Date and time: 22 Nov 2023, 9:30am - 10:30am
Location: via Zoom registration required
Event type: PIMS lectures
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Title: Some results on Levy spin glasses
Speaker: Arnab Sen, University of Minnesota
Date and time: 21 Nov 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: Zoom
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: PIMS Network-wide Colloquium: AI4Crypto
Speaker: Kristin Lauter, Meta
Date and time: 16 Nov 2023, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: via Zoom registration required
Event type: PIMS lectures
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Title: Ramsey numbers of bounded degree trees versus general graphs
Speaker: Matias Pavez-Signe, University of Chile
Date and time: 09 Nov 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: via Zoom and Clearihue C111
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Dimers on a Riemann surface and compactified free field
Speaker: Mikhail Basok, University of Helsinki
Date and time: 07 Nov 2023, 9:30am - 10:30am
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: Coast Combinatorics Conference
Date: 04 Nov 2023
Location: Clearihue Building, Room A127
Event type: Conferences and workshops
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Title: Using auxiliary information for estimation with left truncated data
Speaker: Leilei Zeng, University of Waterloo
Date and time: 03 Nov 2023, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: Cornett A128 and Zoom
Event type: Statistics seminar
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Title: Counting unit area and unit perimeter triangles
Speaker: Kenneth Moore, University of British Columbia
Date and time: 02 Nov 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: Clearihue C111
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: How the Tulips get their Stripes
Speaker: Thomas Hillen, University of Alberta
Date and time: 01 Nov 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: DTB A203
Event type: Applied math seminar
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Title: Lie-Poisson Neural Networks (LPNets): Data-Based Computing of Hamiltonian Systems with Symmetries
Speaker: Vakhtang Putkaradze, University of Alberta
Date and time: 30 Oct 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: DTB A-203
Event type: Applied math seminar
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Title: imii: an automated workflow for plant virus diagnostics using high-throughput genome sequencing data
Speaker: Haochen Ning, University of Victoria
Date and time: 27 Oct 2023, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: Cornett A128
Event type: Statistics seminar
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Title: The distributive absorption method in Latin squares
Speaker: Alp Muyesser, University of College London
Date and time: 26 Oct 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: Clearihue C111
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: C*-algebras of submonoids of the Thompson group F, Part 2
Speaker: Marcelo Laca, Universiity of Victoria
Date and time: 25 Oct 2023, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: CLE A 326
Event type: Operator theory seminar
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Title: Weyl's law for Liouville quantum gravity
Speaker: Mo Dick Wong, Durham UK
Date and time: 24 Oct 2023, 10:30am - 11:30am
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: PIMS Network-wide Colloquium: Surface sums and Yang-Mills gauge theory
Speaker: Scott Sheffield, MIT
Date and time: 19 Oct 2023, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: via Zoom registration required
Event type: PIMS lectures
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Title: Stability analysis of a single-species logistic model with time delay and constant inflow
Speaker: Yasuhiro Takeuchia, Aoyama Gakuin University, Kanagawa, Japan
Date and time: 19 Oct 2023, 11:30am - 12:30pm
Location: DSB C114
Event type: Applied math seminar
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Title: Structural Ramsey theory and group actions
Speaker: Chris Eagle, University of Victoria
Date and time: 19 Oct 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: Clearihue C111
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: C*-algebras of submonoids of the Thompson group F
Speaker: Marcelo Laca, University of Victoria
Date and time: 18 Oct 2023, 3:30pm - 4:45pm
Location: CLE A 326
Event type: Operator theory seminar
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Title: Some Trees are Always More Plentiful than Others
Speaker: Jon Noel, University of Victoria
Date and time: 17 Oct 2023, 2:30pm - 3:20pm
Location: DSB C130
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: Multivariate Point Process Frameworks for Simultaneously Recorded Neural Spike Trains
Speaker: Reza Ramezan, University of Waterloo
Date and time: 13 Oct 2023, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: CLE A320
Event type: Statistics seminar
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Title: Borel line graphs
Speaker: Anton Bernshteyn, Georgia Institute of Technology
Date and time: 12 Oct 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: Clearihue C111
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Fibre-Dirac classes for discrete group actions on manifolds
Speaker: Heath Emerson, University of Victoria
Date and time: 11 Oct 2023, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location: CLE A326
Event type: Operator theory seminar
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Title: Convex optimization for statistical mechanics
Speaker: Minjae Cho, Princeton
Date and time: 11 Oct 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: DTB A203
Event type: Applied math seminar
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Title: Characterizing the law of branching diffusion by minimizing relative entropy
Speaker: Nitya Gadhiwala , University of British Columbia
Date and time: 10 Oct 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: Proper rainbow saturation
Speaker: Andrew Lane, University of Victoria
Date and time: 05 Oct 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: Clearihue C111
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: High-dimension expansion of the critical intensity of the random connection model
Speaker: Mathew Dickson, UBC
Date and time: 03 Oct 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: Lansdowne Lecture: Development and evaluation of statistical methodology - Lessons from genome-wide association studies
Speaker: Dr. Shelley Bull, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Date and time: 28 Sep 2023, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Clearihue C112
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Title: The number of distinct eigenvalues realized by a symmetric matrix with a given graph
Speaker: Shahla Nasserasr, Rochester Institute of Technology
Date and time: 28 Sep 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: Clearihue C111
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Fokas Diagonalization
Speaker: Dave Smith, Yale-NUS
Date and time: 27 Sep 2023, 2:30pm - 3:20pm
Location: DTB A203
Event type: Applied math seminar
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Title: UVic Math Competition
Date and time: 26 Sep 2023, 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Location: DSB C130
Event type: Education and outreach
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Title: Lansdowne Lecture: Genome-wide association studies: How molecular technology, biology, epidemiology, and statistical genetics came together
Speaker: Dr. Shelley Bull, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Date and time: 26 Sep 2023, 3:30pm - 5:20pm
Location: Cornett A225
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Title: Monomer-Dimer Models in the Disordered Setting
Speaker: Kesav Krishnan, University of Victoria
Date and time: 26 Sep 2023, 2:30pm - 3:20pm
Location: DSB C130
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: Investigating the Relationship between Bayes Factors and Credible Intervals
Speaker: Zoe Lyu, University of Victoria
Date and time: 22 Sep 2023, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: PIMS Network-Wide Colloquium - Understanding arithmetic and geometry through cutting and pasting
Speaker: Ravi Vakil, Stanford University
Date and time: 21 Sep 2023, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: via Zoom registration required
Event type: PIMS lectures
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Title: Nowhere-zero 8-flows in 3-edge-connected signed graphs
Speaker: Kathryn Nurse, Simon Fraser University
Date and time: 21 Sep 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: Clearihue C111
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Ramsey theory of random graphs: On the Kohayakawa-Kreuter conjecture
Speaker: Joseph Hyde, Universiity of Victoria
Date and time: 19 Sep 2023, 2:30pm - 3:20pm
Location: DSB C130
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: Recent progress on the eternal eviction game
Speaker: Virgelot Virgile, Universiity of Victoria
Date and time: 14 Sep 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: Clearihue C111
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: The Oseledets Theorem and AF-algebras
Speaker: Ian Putnam, University of Victoria
Date and time: 13 Sep 2023, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: CLE A326
Event type: Operator theory seminar
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Title: A walk with relative equilibria from the plane to the sphere S2
Speaker: Ernesto Prerez Chavela, ITAM Mexico
Date and time: 13 Sep 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: ECS 130
Event type: Applied math seminar
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Title: Approximate Marginal Likelihood Inference in Mixed Models for Grouped Data
Speaker: Alex Stringer, University of Waterloo
Date and time: 12 Sep 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: DSB C130
Event type: Statistics seminar
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Title: Some results on linear dynamical systems
Speaker: George Lee, University of Victoria
Date and time: 24 Aug 2023, 9:00am - 10:00am
Location: David Strong Building, Room C126
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: A meta-analysis of genome-wide associations with body mass index
Speaker: Guojun Ma, University of Victoria
Date and time: 21 Aug 2023, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: Iimi: A novel automated workflow for plant virus diagnostics from high-throughput sequencing data
Speaker: Haochen Ning, University of Victoria
Date and time: 18 Aug 2023, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: David Strong Building, Room C130
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: Some underrated facts about solenoids
Speaker: Rodrigo Trevino, University of Maryland
Date and time: 15 Aug 2023, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: David Strong Building C130
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: Estimating the Size of the COVID-19 Population in British Columbia Using the Stratified Petersen Estimator
Speaker: Tuan Viet Dao, University of Victoria
Date and time: 14 Aug 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: virtual defence
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: The Edwards–Sokal Coupling for the Potts Higher Lattice Gauge Theory on Z^d
Speaker: Yakov Shklarov, University of Victoria
Date and time: 09 Aug 2023, 9:30am - 10:30am
Location: DSB C108
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: Saturation Problems on Graphs
Speaker: Shannon Ogden, University of Victoria
Date and time: 19 Jul 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: David Strong Building, Room C108
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: Cross-Sperner Systems
Speaker: Akina Kuperus, University of Victoria
Date and time: 18 Jul 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: David Strong Building, Room C108
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: Topological Data Analysis: Persistent Homology of Uniformly Distributed Points
Speaker: Ranjit Sohal, University of Victoria
Date and time: 05 Jul 2023, 9:00am - 10:00am
Location: David Strong Building C126
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: A New Numerical Approach to Solve 1D Viscous Plastic Sea Ice Momentum Equation
Speaker: Fahim Alam, University of Victoria
Date and time: 26 Jun 2023, 9:30am - 10:30am
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: Pancyclicity of highly-connected graphs
Speaker: Shoham Letzter, University College London
Date and time: 01 Jun 2023, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: Cornet B129
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Typical Ramsey properties in abelian group
Speaker: Robert Hancock, Heidelberg University
Date and time: 01 Jun 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: DSB C108
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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