Emergent Research: The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar | PIMS - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

PIMS is pleased to present an ongoing lecture series featuring our Postdoctoral Fellows. These lectures provide an opportunity to connect with emerging research in the mathematical sciences from a PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow. PIMS PDFs are amongst the top young researchers in Canada, and this is an excellent opportunity to learn about them and their work.

The PIMS PDF program sponsors positions across the PIMS network each year. Outstanding young researchers are invited to apply through our mathjobs page. Applicants must be sponsored by a scientist or department affiliated with PIMS, please see the mathjobs posting for details.

These events are shared online. To participate, please see the individual events for connection details. Please also see our effective virtual events document for tips on getting the most out of PIMS online events.

All talks are 9:30 AM Pacific/ 10:30 AM Mountain / 11:30 AM Central

These seminars are recorded, and the recordings are available on mathtube.org. Please note: PIMS reserves the right to restrict participation in online or in-person.

Past Seminars

In this talk, we examine a deterministic particle method for the aggregation- diffusion equation and the Landau equation. Particle method solutions are a linear combination of Dirac delta-functions located at certain points. The weights and locations...

The generic representations of p-adic groups are used in different contexts but still carry a touch of mystery. I will explain their use, and some central results about them. Further, I will give an account on a recent work with Cunningham, Fiori and...

The wavefunction of a particle describes everything that could be known about a quantum mechanical system. One of the key insights over the past few decades is that a wavefunction, despite its name, is not an ordinary function, but should be regarded...

Order convergence on a partially ordered set is a topological-like structure induced by the order, which usually fails to be an "actual" topology. However, on Boolean algebras and vector lattices this convergence satisfies the definition of a so...

The questions of how healthy colonic crypts maintain their size under the rapid cell turnover in intestinal epithelium, and how homeostasis is disrupted by driver mutations, are central to understanding colorectal tumorigenesis. We propose a three...

Every group admits a unitary representation on a Hilbert space. In other words, every group can be realized concretely as symmetries on a Hilbert space. From these representations we can construct objects known as C*-algebras. This invites the use of...

An algebraic variety is a central object of study in algebraic geometry. A special kind of algebraic variety has caught the attention of analysts recently. These are called distinguished varieties because they intersect the topological boundary of a...

Consider a poker game where you have to mix the deck of cards between two turns. How (many times) should you shuffle it to prevent any cheating? In this talk we will introduce the theory of mixing times, and explain how representation theory can be...

In 1962, Tutte proposed a simple method to produce a straight-line embedding of a planar graph in the plane, known as Tutte's spring theorem. It leads to a surprisingly simple proof of a classical theorem proved by Bloch, Connelly, and Henderson in...