Events

All upcoming and recent events from the past six months:

Title: TBA
Speaker: Logan Pipes, Memorial University
Date and time: 12 Aug 2025, 11:30am - 12:20pm
Location: David Strong C128
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: The Calogero-Sutherland derivative NLS equation
Speaker: Rana Badreddine, UCLA
Date and time: 11 Jun 2025, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: TBD
Event type: Applied math seminar
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Title: Are Convertible Bonds Efficiently Priced in the Chinese Market? Insights from a Simulation-Based Pricing Model
Speaker: Shuyi Long, University of Victoria
Date and time: 05 Jun 2025, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: Buoyancy-Driven Flows With Navier-Slip Boundary Conditions
Speaker: Fabian Bleitner, McMaster University
Date and time: 30 Apr 2025, 2:30pm - 3:20pm
Location: DSB C130
Event type: Applied math seminar
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Title: The Topology of Brain Imaging - Improving Functional Connectivity with Geometry
Speaker: Andrea Marino, University of Victoria
Date and time: 23 Apr 2025, 2:30pm - 3:20pm
Location: DSB C130 and Zoom
Event type: Applied math seminar
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Title: Breeding Patterns of Ancient Murrelet: A Multievent Model Approach
Speaker: Seyedeh Shaghayegh AhooeiNejad, University of Victoria
Date and time: 15 Apr 2025, 10:30am - 11:30am
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: Graph-theoretic and chemical properties of anionic fullerenes
Speaker: Aaron Slobodin, University of Victoria
Date and time: 15 Apr 2025, 9:00am - 10:00am
Location: Clearihue Building B019
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: Quasirandom forcing in Regular Tournaments
Speaker: Lina Simbaqueba Marin, University of Victoria
Date and time: 11 Apr 2025, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: Clearihue B021
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: Deterministic and Stochastic Modelling of Infectious Diseases in the Early Stages
Speaker: Manting Wang, University of Victoria
Date and time: 11 Apr 2025, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: CLE B019
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: Global perturbation of isolated equivariant chiral skyrmions from the harmonic maps
Speaker: Slim Ibrahim, University of Victoria
Date and time: 09 Apr 2025, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: TBD
Event type: Applied math seminar
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Title: Maud Menten Lecture: Nonlocal Models in Life Sciences: Applications in Biosocial Dynamics, Ecology, and Brain Studies
Speaker: Roderick Melnick, Wilfred Laurier University
Date and time: 07 Apr 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: ECS Room 130 and Zoom
Event type: Math biology seminar
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Title: Extending Matchings in Hypercubes to Hamiltonian Cycles
Speaker: Joy Cooper, University of Victoria
Date and time: 03 Apr 2025, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: CLE A329
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Math Mania at Macaulay Elementary
Date and time: 01 Apr 2025, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Location: 1010 Wychbury Ave
Event type: Education and outreach
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Title: On Uniformly Chosen Integer Valued Lipschitz Functions on Regular Trees
Speaker: Kesav Krishnan, University of Victoria
Date and time: 01 Apr 2025, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: DSB C114
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: Maud Menten Lecture: Robust inference and model selection for particle tracking in live cells
Speaker: Scott McKinley, Tulane University
Date and time: 31 Mar 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: ECS Room 130 and Zoom
Event type: Math biology seminar
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Title: Quasirandom forcing in regular tournaments
Speaker: Lina Simbaqueba, University of Victoria
Date and time: 27 Mar 2025, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: CLE A329
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Linearized dynamic stability for vortices of Ginzburg-Landau evolutions
Speaker: José Palacios, University of Toronto
Date and time: 26 Mar 2025, 2:30pm - 3:20pm
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Applied math seminar
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Title: Sharp character bounds and cutoff profiles for symmetric groups
Speaker: Lucas Teyssier, University of British Columbia
Date: 25 Mar 2025
Location: DSB C114
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: Growth Dynamics of an Arctic Fish: Do Reproductive State and Sex Matter?
Speaker: Arjun Banik, University of Victoria
Date and time: 24 Mar 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: ECS Room 130 and Zoom
Event type: Math biology seminar
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Title: PIMS Network-wide Colloquium: The geometry and topology of DNA and RNA
Speaker: Mariel Vázquez, University of California, Davis
Date and time: 20 Mar 2025, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: via Zoom
Event type: PIMS lectures
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Title: Oriented graphs with few distinct Hermitian Eigenvalues.
Speaker: Maxwell Levit, Simon Fraser University
Date and time: 20 Mar 2025, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: CLE A329
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Synchronous quantum games
Speaker: Adina Goldberg, Waterloo
Date and time: 19 Mar 2025, 3:30pm - 4:45pm
Location: CLE A326
Event type: Operator theory seminar
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Title: Non-uniqueness for the Navier-Stokes equations from critical data
Speaker: Dr. Stan Palasek, IAS, Princeton
Date and time: 19 Mar 2025, 2:30pm - 3:20pm
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Applied math seminar
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Title: Estimating the time until a large gap appears in a dynamic Poisson process
Speaker: Eric Foxall, UBC, Okanagan
Date and time: 18 Mar 2025, 2:30pm - 3:20pm
Location: DSB C114
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: Maud Menten Lecture - Life at the Extremes: Harnessing Machine Learning for Biodiversity Informatics and Extremophile Genomics
Speaker: Lila Kari, University of Waterloo
Date and time: 17 Mar 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: ECS Room 130 and Zoom
Event type: Math biology seminar
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Title: The Peaceable Queens Problem
Speaker: Tony Huynh, Sapienza Università di Roma
Date and time: 13 Mar 2025, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: CLE A329
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: What Does Nature Minimize in Every Incompressible Flow?
Speaker: Haithem Taha, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering UC Irvine
Date and time: 12 Mar 2025, 2:30pm - 3:20pm
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Applied math seminar
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Title: Relaxing, mixing and cutoff for random walks on nilpotent groups
Speaker: Jonathan Hermon, UBC
Date and time: 10 Mar 2025, 3:30pm - 4:20pm
Location: DSB C130
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: Maud Menten Lecture: Twists and turns in the modelling of recombination and its evolution
Speaker: Sally Otto, UBC
Date and time: 10 Mar 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: ECS Room 130 and Zoom
Event type: Math biology seminar
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Title: Women in Math Seminar: Phase transitions and critical phenomena in lattice percolations
Speaker: Lily Reeves, Caltech
Date and time: 06 Mar 2025, 3:30pm - 4:20pm
Location: DSB C118
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: Creating Mathematically-Optimal Timetables for Schools
Speaker: Richard Hoshino, Northeastern University (Vancouver)
Date and time: 06 Mar 2025, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: CLE A329
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Higher temperature phase transitions (Part 2, but with a different abstract)
Speaker: Marcelo Laca, University of Victoria
Date and time: 05 Mar 2025, 3:30pm - 4:55pm
Location: CLE A4326
Event type: Operator theory seminar
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Title: Wave propagation in hydrodynamic stability
Speaker: Michele Coti-Zelati, Imperial College, UK
Date and time: 05 Mar 2025, 2:30pm - 3:20pm
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Applied math seminar
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Title: Math Mania at James Bay Elementary
Date and time: 04 Mar 2025, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Location: 140 Oswego Street
Event type: Education and outreach
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Title: Maud Menten Lecture: Recent developments in the estimation of animal home ranges: Investigations of learning, establishment, and population-level attributes
Speaker: William Fagan, University of Maryland
Date and time: 03 Mar 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: ECS Room 130 and Zoom
Event type: Math biology seminar
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Title: PIMS Network-wide colloquium: A conjecture of Smyth and solving non-deterministic equations
Speaker: Jordan Ellenberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date and time: 27 Feb 2025, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: via Zoom registration required
Event type: PIMS lectures
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Title: Exploring Geometric and Combinatorial Configurations
Speaker: Joy Cooper, University of Victoria
Date and time: 27 Feb 2025, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: CLE A329
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: A high-temperature phase transition
Speaker: Marcelo Laca, University of Victoria
Date and time: 26 Feb 2025, 3:30pm - 4:45pm
Location: CLE A326
Event type: Operator theory seminar
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Title: Journeys of Black Mathematicians Film Screening
Date and time: 25 Feb 2025, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location: DSB C118
Event type: Education and outreach
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Title: The stabilized automorphism group of minimal systems
Speaker: Jennifer Jones-Baro, Northwestern University
Date and time: 25 Feb 2025, 2:30pm - 3:20pm
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: Network Control Theory in Neuroscience: Characterizing the Brain’s Energy Landscape
Speaker: Puneet Velidi, University of Victoria
Date and time: 24 Feb 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: ECS Room 130 and Zoom
Event type: Math biology seminar
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Title: Matroid depth and width parameters
Speaker: Dan Kráľ, Masaryk University
Date and time: 24 Feb 2025, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: CLE A330
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: PIMS Statistical Data Science Seminar: Polyploidization and Divergence: Evolutionary Insights Through Genomic Analysis
Speaker: Dr. Yue Zhang, Thompson Rivers University
Date and time: 19 Feb 2025, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: DTB A203 and Zoom
Event type: Statistics seminar
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Title: PIMS Math Colloquium: Urn Respect
Speaker: Mark Holmes, University of Melbourne
Date and time: 14 Feb 2025, 3:30pm - 4:20pm
Location: ECS 104
Event type: PIMS lectures
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Title: Journeys of Black Mathematicians Film Screening
Date and time: 13 Feb 2025, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location: DSB C118
Event type: Education and outreach
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Title: Characterization of tempered representations on stationary spaces
Speaker: Ebrahim Samei, University of Saskatchewan
Date and time: 12 Feb 2025, 3:30pm - 4:45pm
Location: CLE A326
Event type: Operator theory seminar
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Title: Cooperative hunting and competition for prey shape group formation
Speaker: Talia Borofsky, Princeton University
Date and time: 10 Feb 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: ECS 130 and Zoom
Event type: Math biology seminar
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Title: The Independence Number in Combinatorial Geometry
Speaker: Felix Christian Clemen, University of Victoria
Date and time: 06 Feb 2025, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: CLE A329
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: Patterns, games and thickness
Speaker: Alexia Yavikoli, University of British Columbia
Date and time: 04 Feb 2025, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: Maud Menten Institute /Mathematical and Statistical Biology Seminar: Mathematical Modelling of DNA Topology
Speaker: Chris Soteros, University of Saskatchewan
Date and time: 03 Feb 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: ECS 130 and Zoom
Event type: Math biology seminar
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Title: Counting Tilings of a Board
Speaker: Joy Cooper, University of Victoria
Date and time: 30 Jan 2025, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: CLE A329
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: A MathOverflow Problem – Probability of Brownian Motion having a zero in a set
Speaker: Anthony Quas, University of Victoria
Date and time: 28 Jan 2025, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: DSB C114
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: Integrated model for dependent spatial capture-recapture and presence-absence data
Speaker: Mehnaz Jahid, University of Victoria
Date and time: 27 Jan 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: ECS Room 130 and Zoom
Event type: Math biology seminar
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Title: Dynamical symmetry is atypical
Speaker: Amie Wilkinson, The University of Chicago
Date and time: 23 Jan 2025, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: via Zoom registration required
Event type: PIMS lectures
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Title: A Notion of Stability for Solutions of Random Optimization Problems
Speaker: Souvik Ray, UNC Chapel Hill
Date and time: 21 Jan 2025, 2:30pm - 3:20pm
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: PIMS Statistics Seminar: Particle Swarm Optimization as a general-purpose optimization tool
Speaker: Professor Weng Kee Wong, University of California at Los Angeles
Date and time: 20 Jan 2025, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: DTB A203
Event type: Statistics seminar
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Title: Evolutionary Dynamics at the Leading Edge of Biological Invasions
Speaker: Silas Poloni Lyra, University of Victoria
Date and time: 20 Jan 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: ECS Room 130 and Zoom
Event type: Math biology seminar
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Title: Mixed graphs, switchings and homomorphisms
Speaker: Gary MacGillivray, University of Victoria
Date and time: 16 Jan 2025, 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: CLE A329
Event type: Discrete math seminar
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Title: The computability of K-theory for operator algebras
Speaker: Timothy McNicholl, Iowa State University
Date and time: 15 Jan 2025, 3:30pm - 4:45pm
Location: CLE A326
Event type: Operator theory seminar
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Title: Measures of maximal entropy of bounded density shifts
Speaker: Carlos Gustavo Reyes, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí
Date and time: 14 Jan 2025, 2:30pm - 3:20pm
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Probability and Dynamics seminar
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Title: Vaccination Decisions: Revealing the Proportions of Decision-Making Types Disorder
Speaker: Azadeh Aghaeeyan, Brock University
Date and time: 13 Jan 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: ECS Room 130 and Zoom
Event type: Math biology seminar
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Title: A primer on topological full groups: what are they, why are they interesting and why were they invented by operator algebraists
Speaker: Ian Putnam, University of Victoria
Date and time: 08 Jan 2025, 3:30pm - 4:45pm
Location: CLE A326
Event type: Operator theory seminar
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Title: A Comparative Review of Stock Market Forecasting Models with a Simulation Study on GARCH Dynamics
Speaker: Farbod Esmaeili, University of Victoria
Date and time: 13 Dec 2024, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: via Zoom
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: Optimal Designs for Quadratic, Cubic, Quartic and Quintic Polynomial Models in Balls
Speaker: Naresh Neupane, University of Victoria
Date and time: 13 Dec 2024, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: DTB A203
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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Title: PIMS-sponsored statistical seminar series: Deep Learning-Based Radiogenomics for Precision Oncology Research
Speaker: Pingzhao Hu, Western University
Date and time: 09 Dec 2024, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: DTB A102 and Zoom
Event type: Statistics seminar
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Title: Entropy bounds for Glass networks
Speaker: Benjamin Wild, University of Victoria
Date and time: 09 Dec 2024, 9:00am - 10:00am
Location: CLE B007 and Zoom
Event type: Graduate dissertations
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