Events

All upcoming and recent events from the past six months:

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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Title: Background Connectivity: Understanding the brain's functional organization
Speaker: Mikayla Holmes, University of Victoria
Date and time: 19 May 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: David Strong Building C128
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: Finite-time blowup for the restricted Euler equation
Speaker: Evan Miller, UBC, PIMS
Date and time: 10 May 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: MacLaurin D 207
Event type: Applied math seminar
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Title: Anticipate the Surge: A Predictive Learning Model for Forecasting Acute Care Admissions during Infectious Disease Outbreaks
Speaker: Adel Guitouni, Gustavson School of Business, UVic
Date and time: 03 May 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: MacLaurin D 207
Event type: Applied math seminar
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Title: Hierarchical Model for Evaluation of Physician Care in the ICU
Speaker: Jianping Yu, University of Victoria
Date and time: 26 Apr 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: Continuous Data Assimilation: Insights and Connections to Understanding Turbulent Flows
Speaker: Elizabeth Carlson, University of Victoria
Date and time: 19 Apr 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: MacLaurin D 207
Event type: Applied math seminar
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Title: A Uniqueness Theorem for C*-algebras of Hausdorff Étale Groupoids
Speaker: Gavin Goerke, University of Victoria
Date and time: 18 Apr 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: David Strong Building C124
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: The half-Alexander polynomial and Knot concordance
Speaker: Wenzhao Chen, UBC
Date and time: 14 Apr 2023, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: DSB C130
Event type: Topology seminar
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Title: Convex Optimization Methods for Bounding Lyapunov Exponents
Speaker: Hans Oeri, University of Victoria
Date and time: 14 Apr 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: Supercritical Phase Transitions from Number Theory
Speaker: Tyler Schulz, University of Victoria
Date and time: 13 Apr 2023, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: David Strong Building Room C128
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: Beltrami fields: mathematical aspects and applications to equilibrium models in solar physics and in fusion
Speaker: T. Boulmezouad , University of Victoria
Date and time: 12 Apr 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: MacLaurin D 207
Event type: Applied math seminar
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Title: Response to Improving abundance estimation by combining capture-recapture and presence-absence data: example with a large carnivore
Speaker: Jack Thomas, University of Victoria
Date and time: 11 Apr 2023, 9:30am - 10:30am
Location: David Strong Building C128
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: The Schoenflies monoid
Speaker: Ryan Budney, University of Victoria
Date and time: 07 Apr 2023, 10:30am - 11:30am
Location: DSB C130
Event type: Topology seminar
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Title: Sum-Thing to Talk About
Speaker: Kate Nimegeers, University of Victoria
Date and time: 06 Apr 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: COR A121
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Trace formulas and zeta functions
Speaker: Tyler Schulz, University of Victoria
Date and time: 05 Apr 2023, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: CLE A330
Event type: Operator theory seminar
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Title: PIMS Distinguished Lecturer Seminar - Proving the Kahn-Kalai conjecture
Speaker: Jinyoung Park, New York University and IAS
Date and time: 05 Apr 2023, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: Cornett B143
Event type: PIMS lectures
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Title: Phase Transition threshold and stability of magnetic skyrmions
Speaker: Slim Ibrahim, University of Victoria
Date and time: 05 Apr 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: COR A125
Event type: Applied math seminar
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Title: On linear models selected by the constrained minimum criterion
Speaker: Meifan Lin, University of Victoria
Date and time: 05 Apr 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: Using data-driven stochastic lattice models to improve the representation of convection and clouds in Climate Models
Speaker: Kumar Roy, University of Victoria
Date and time: 05 Apr 2023, 9:30am - 10:30am
Location: via Zoom registration required
Event type: PIMS lectures
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Title: Probabilistic Zero Forcing on Hypercubes and Grids
Speaker: Natalie Behague, University of Victoria
Date and time: 04 Apr 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: DSB C128
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: PIMS Distinguished Lecturer Colloquium - Proving the Kahn-Kalai conjecture
Speaker: Jinyoung Park, New York University and IAS
Date and time: 04 Apr 2023, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: Cornett B143
Event type: PIMS lectures
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Title: Aharoni's rainbow cycle conjecture holds up to an additive constant
Speaker: Tony Huynh, Sapienza Università di Roma
Date and time: 30 Mar 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: COR A121 to watch via Zoom
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Higher Dimensional Heisenberg Cycles: Recent Results and Directions
Speaker: Brendan Steed, University of Victoria
Date and time: 29 Mar 2023, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: Cle A330
Event type: Operator theory seminar
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Title: Modelling SARS-CoV-2 immuno-epidemiological dynamics
Speaker: Chadi M. Saad-Roy, University of Berkeley
Date and time: 29 Mar 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: COR A125
Event type: Applied math seminar
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Title: Randomness of flows in negative curvature
Speaker: Emilio Corso, University of British Columbia
Date and time: 28 Mar 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: DSB C128
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: Single Cell RNA-Sequencing and cell-type annotation
Speaker: Yushan Hu, University of Victoria
Date and time: 28 Mar 2023, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: CLE C115
Event type: Statistics seminar
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Title: PIMS Network-Wide Colloquium: Free boundary regularity for the obstacle problem
Speaker: Alessio Figalli, ETH Zurich
Date and time: 23 Mar 2023, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: via Zoom - Registration required
Event type: PIMS lectures
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Title: Keeping up with the Cross-Sperners: An Introduction to Cross-Sperner Systems
Speaker: Akina Kuperus, University of Victoria
Date and time: 23 Mar 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: COR A121
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: A faithfulness theorem for C*-algebras of étale groupoids
Speaker: Gavin Goerke, University of Victoria
Date and time: 22 Mar 2023, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: CLE A330
Event type: Operator theory seminar
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Title: Reproductive value for time homogenous branching population models
Speaker: Neha Bansal, UBC Okanagan
Date and time: 21 Mar 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: DSB C128
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: Topology in Economics
Speaker: Alan Mehlenbacher, University of Victoria
Date and time: 17 Mar 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: DSB C126
Event type: Topology seminar
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Title: PIMS Distinguished Lecturer Colloquium - Incidences and line counting: from the discrete to the fractal setting
Speaker: Pablo Shmerkin, University of British Columbia
Date and time: 16 Mar 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: DSB C108
Event type: PIMS lectures
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Title: On the Nonexistence of Generalized Bent Functions
Speaker: Shuxing Li, SFU
Date and time: 16 Mar 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: COR A121
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Groupoid models purely infinite, simple classifiable C*-algebras
Speaker: Ian Putnam, University of Victoria
Date and time: 15 Mar 2023, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: CLE A330
Event type: Operator theory seminar
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Title: The Relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell System: local smooth solvability for weak topologies
Speaker: Slim Ibrahim, University of Victoria
Date and time: 15 Mar 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: COR A125
Event type: Applied math seminar
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Title: Daily Mortality and Air Quality with Case-Crossover Models
Speaker: Dr. Patrick Brown, University of Toronto and Centre for Global Health Research, St. Michael’s Hospital
Date and time: 15 Mar 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: Elliot 162
Event type: Statistics seminar
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Title: Deep Learning With Functional Inputs
Speaker: Dr. Jiguo Cao, Statistics, Simon Fraser University
Date and time: 14 Mar 2023, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: CLE C115
Event type: Statistics seminar
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Title: Pseudoku: The Ongoing Hunt for Fractional Sudoku Completion Conditions
Speaker: Kate Nimegeers, University of Victoria
Date and time: 09 Mar 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: COR A121
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Groupoid models purely infinite, simple classifiable C*-algebras
Speaker: Ian Putnam, University of Victoria
Date and time: 08 Mar 2023, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: CLE A330
Event type: Operator theory seminar
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Title: Math Mania at St. Margaret's
Date and time: 07 Mar 2023, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Location: 1080 Lucas Ave.
Event type: Education and outreach
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Title: Generation of measures by statistics of rotations along sets of integers
Speaker: Mate Wierdl, Memphis
Date and time: 07 Mar 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: Spatial Modal Regression
Speaker: Dr. Tao Wang, Economics, UVic
Date and time: 07 Mar 2023, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: CLE C115
Event type: Statistics seminar
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Title: Characterizing Statistical Noise in Persistent Homology
Speaker: Dayten Sheffar, University of Victoria
Date and time: 03 Mar 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: DSB C126
Event type: Topology seminar
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Title: Additive structure in convex translates
Speaker: Gabriel Currier, University of British Columbia
Date and time: 02 Mar 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: COR A121
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Statistics for COVID-19: Four Applications
Speaker: Dr. Lloyd T. Elliott, Statistics, Simon Fraser University
Date and time: 01 Mar 2023, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: DSB C126
Event type: Statistics seminar
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Title: Random growth on a random surface
Speaker: Ahmed Bou-Rabee, Cornell University
Date and time: 28 Feb 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: DSB C128
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: Math Challengers Vancouver Island Regional Competition
Date and time: 24 Feb 2023, 12:30pm - 5:30pm
Location: Camosun College Interurban Campus
Event type: Education and outreach
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Title: Virtual knots and (algebraic) concordance
Speaker: Hans Boden, McMasters
Date and time: 24 Feb 2023, 11:30am - 12:30pm
Location: DSB C114
Event type: Topology seminar
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Title: Understanding form and function in vascular tumours
Speaker: Helen Byrne, University of Oxford
Date and time: 16 Feb 2023, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: via Zoom
Event type: PIMS lectures
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Title: Two Equivalent Results on Plane Triangulations
Speaker: Kieka Mynhardt, University of Victoria
Date and time: 16 Feb 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: COR A121
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Equilibrium states for self-similar actions
Speaker: Marcelo Laca, University of Victoria
Date and time: 15 Feb 2023, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: CLE A330
Event type: Operator theory seminar
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Title: Large deviations for projections of high-dimensional measures
Speaker: Yin-Ting Liao, Irvine
Date and time: 14 Feb 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: DSB C128
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: Two kinds of over-dispersion affect regional DNA methylation patterns
Speaker: Celia Greenwood, McGill
Date and time: 14 Feb 2023, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: CLE C115
Event type: Statistics seminar
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Title: Math Challengers Online Regional Competition
Date and time: 11 Feb 2023, 9:30am - 4:00pm
Location: Online
Event type: Education and outreach
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Title: Extending a theorem of Farrell and Jones
Speaker: Ryan Budney, University of Victoria
Date and time: 10 Feb 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: DSB C126
Event type: Topology seminar
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Title: A Multi-disciplinary Perspective on the Ethics of Decision-making Systems
Date and time: 09 Feb 2023, 3:00pm - 5:30pm
Location: ECS Building, room 660
Event type: PIMS lectures
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Title: Permutations, probability and graph embeddings
Speaker: Jesse Campion Loth, Simon Fraser University
Date and time: 09 Feb 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: COR A121
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Fast construction on a restricted budget
Speaker: Peleg Michaeli, Carnegie Mellon
Date and time: 07 Feb 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: Valid inference after clustering with application to single-cell RNA-sequencing data
Speaker: Lucy Gao, UBC
Date and time: 07 Feb 2023, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: CLE C115
Event type: Statistics seminar
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Title: Sliding into My DMS
Speaker: Kate Nimegeers, University of Victoria
Date and time: 02 Feb 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: COR A121
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Morita correspondences between Noncommutative spaces
Speaker: Heath Emerson, University of Victoria
Date and time: 01 Feb 2023, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: CLE A330
Event type: Operator theory seminar
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Title: The (symmetric) Ising perceptron: progress and problems
Speaker: Will Perkins, Georgia Tech
Date and time: 31 Jan 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: Multivariate One-sided Tests for Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models with Censored Responses
Speaker: Lang Wu, UBC
Date and time: 31 Jan 2023, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Statistics seminar
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Title: Helly numbers of exponential lattices
Speaker: Nora Frankl, Open University
Date and time: 26 Jan 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: COR A121
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Growth rates for some axisymmetric Euler flows
Speaker: Stephen Gustafson, UBC
Date and time: 25 Jan 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: COR A125
Event type: Applied math seminar
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Title: Stein’s method for conditional central limit theorem
Speaker: Grigory Terlov, University of Illinois
Date and time: 24 Jan 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: A novel machine learning approach for gene module identification and prediction via a co-expression network of single-cell sequencing data
Speaker: Li Xing, University of Saskatchewan
Date and time: 24 Jan 2023, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: CLE C115
Event type: Statistics seminar
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Title: 3-colouring via flows
Speaker: Benjamin Moore, Charles University
Date and time: 19 Jan 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: COR A121
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Verifying global stability of fluid flows despite transient growth of energy
Speaker: David Goluskin, University of Victoria
Date and time: 18 Jan 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: COR A125
Event type: Applied math seminar
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Title: Characterizing nonamenability through stochastic domination and finitary factors
Speaker: Gourab Ray, University of Victoria
Date and time: 17 Jan 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: DSB C128
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: Numerical Blowup Solutions for Boundary Value Models
Speaker: Duyeng Hoang, University of Victoria
Date and time: 13 Jan 2023, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: DSB C114
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: The Strong Nine Dragon Tree Conjecture for d <= k+1
Speaker: Sebastian Mies
Date and time: 12 Jan 2023, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: COR A121
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Singularly perturbed differential operators and the stochastic analytic counterparts
Speaker: Yu-Ting Chen, University of Victoria
Date and time: 11 Jan 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: COR A125
Event type: Applied math seminar
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Title: Non-Probabilistic Supermartingales
Speaker: Sebastian Ferrando, Toronto Metropolitan University
Date and time: 10 Jan 2023, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: DSB C128
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: The i-Graph and Other Variations of the y-Graph
Speaker: Laura Teshima, University of Victoria
Date and time: 14 Dec 2022, 9:00am - 10:00am
Location: HHB 110 and Zoom
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: Algebraic Cycles on Products of Generically Smooth Quadrics
Speaker: Guangzhou Zhu, University of Victoria
Date and time: 09 Dec 2022, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: David Strong Building C114
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition
Date and time: 03 Dec 2022, 8:00am - 4:00pm
Location: DTB A102
Event type: Education and outreach
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Title: Saturate the Rainbow. Taste the Rainbow
Speaker: Shannon Ogden, University of Victoria
Date and time: 01 Dec 2022, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: MAC D116
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Imprimitivity theorems arising from self-similar actions
Speaker: Boyu Li, University of Victoria
Date and time: 30 Nov 2022, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: To be confirmed
Event type: Operator theory seminar
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Title: Evaluation of Logrank, MaxCombo and Difference in Restricted Mean Survival Time in Immuno-Oncology (IO) trials - A retrospective analysis in patients treated with anti-PD1/PDL1 agents across solid tumors
Speaker: JiaBu Ye, MSD
Date and time: 29 Nov 2022, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Statistics seminar
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