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

For r ≥ 1, a graph has r-friendship property if every pair of vertices has exactly r common neighbours. The motivation for this definition is from the friendship theorem, which is on the graphs with 1-friendship property. The friendship theorem...

In recent years, the problem of optimal transport has received significant attention in statistics and machine learning due to its powerful geometric properties. In this talk, we introduce the optimal transport problem and present concrete...

Abstract: We investigate the interaction between a Platonic solid and an unbounded inertial flow. For a fixed Platonic particle in the flow, we consider three different angular positions: face facing the flow, edge facing the flow, and corner facing...

The semi-random graph process can be thought of as a one player game. Starting with an empty graph on n vertices, in each round a random vertex u is presented to the player, who chooses a vertex v and adds the edge uv to the graph (hence 'semi-random...

Despite being the most efficient set of computational techniques available to the theoretical physicist, quantum field theory (QFT) does not describe all the observed features of the quantum interactions of our universe. At the same time, its...

Abstract: TBC Read more about our PIMS PDS on our Medium feature here. This event is part of the Emergent Research: The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Colloquium Series.

I will give a very broad overview discussing various uses and generalizations of the shift operator (and its adjoint). In the classical case we consider the Hardy space of analytic functions on the complex disk with square summable Taylor...

TBC This event is part of the Emergent Research: The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Colloquium Series.

A classical question in polytope theory is whether an abstract polytope can be realized as a concrete convex object. Beyond dimension 3, there seems to be no concise answer to this question in general. In specific instances, answering the question in...

The question of which functions acting entrywise preserve positive semidefiniteness has a long history, beginning with the Schur product theorem [Crelle 1911], which implies that absolutely monotonic functions (i.e., power series with nonnegative...