Seminars and colloquia

E.g., Nov 8, 2024

Emily Quesada-Herrera

University of Lethbridge
On the vertical distribution of the zeros of the Riemann zeta-function

November 8, 2024 - 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm

ESB 4133 & Online

In 1973, assuming the Riemann hypothesis (RH), Montgomery studied the vertical distribution of zeta zeros, and conjectured that they behave like the eigenvalues of some random matrices. We will discuss some models for zeta zeros - starting from the random matrix model but ... Read more
  • Number Theory

Amit Singer

Princeton. (Host: K Dao Duc)
Mathematics of Cryo-Electron Microscopy

November 8, 2024 - 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

ESB 2012

Single particle cryo-EM is an increasingly popular technique for determining 3-D molecular structures at high resolution. The 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three of the pioneers of cryo-EM, and already in the early stages of the global pandemic, cryo-EM was ... Read more

Abbas Maarefparvar

University of Lethbridge
The Ostrowski Quotient for a finite extension of number fields

November 15, 2024 - 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm

ESB 4133 & Online

For a number field $K$, the P\'olya group of $K$, denoted by $Po(K)$, is the subgroup of the ideal class group of $K$ generated by the classes of the products of maximal ideals of $K$ with the same norm. In this talk, after reviewing some results concerning $Po(K)$, I will ... Read more
  • Number Theory

Jacob Fox

Stanford. (Hosts: J Zahl and J Solymosi)
Advances on regularity methods and its applications

November 15, 2024 - 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

ESB 2012 and Zoom

Szemerédi's regularity lemma and its variants are some of the most powerful tools in combinatorics. For example, Szemerédi used an early version in the proof of his celebrated theorem on long arithmetic progressions in dense sets of integers. It has also played a central role ... Read more

Andy Hsiao

UBC
Andy Hsiao TBA

November 19, 2024 - 4:00 pm

ESB 4133 (PIMS library)

  • Discrete mathematics


Nov22 FREE SLOT colloquium

November 22, 2024 - 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

If you happen to have a visitor at this time who excels in giving talks in addition to being a talented researcher, we would greatly appreciate it if you could let us know. After arranging distinguished colloquium talks, we’ll add regular colloquium talks (visitors). Thank you ... Read more

Stephanie van Willigenburg

UBC
How to write an EDI statement for job applications

November 26, 2024 - 4:00 pm

ESB 4133 (PIMS Library)

This will be an in-person version of a Zoom workshop to be given at Grad and Postdoc Studies in December. It is open to all grad students and postdocs, not just those on the job market this year. Please come, learn, ask questions afterwards and give feedback. Read more
  • Discrete mathematics

Tom Hutchcroft

Caltech
The scaling limit of high-dimensional percolation

November 27, 2024 - 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

I will give an overview of forthcoming work proving that large critical percolation clusters in high-dimensional lattices converge under rescaling to the expected universal limit object: superBrownian motion. A key step is to compute the first-order asymptotics of k-point ... Read more
  • Probability

Jinyeop Lee


Jinyeop Lee Title TBA

November 28, 2024 - 3:30 pm

In-person talk in ESB 4133

Abstract TBA Read more
  • Differential geometry
  • Mathematical Physics
  • Partial Differential Equations

Augusto Gerolin

U Ottawa. (Host: C Ortner)
Distinguished Colloquium: Augusto Gerolin

November 29, 2024 - 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

ESB 2012 and Zoom