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

The congruent number problem is the following question. Consider a right-angled triangle; what natural numbers can arise from its area, all of whose sides have lengths that are rational numbers? Though this question is easy to frame, it is related to...

Quantum computing is believed to provide many advantages over traditional computing, particularly considering the speed at which computations can be performed. One of the challenges that needs to be resolved in order to construct a quantum computer...

This talk introduces a probabilistic approach to numerically compute geometric convergence rates in discrete or continuous stochastic systems. Choosing appropriate coupling mechanisms and combining them together, works well in many settings...

For non-negative integers $a,b$ and $n$, let $$ \begin{align*} t(a,b;n)=& \# \left\{ (x_1,\ldots,x_a,y_1,\ldots, y_b) \in \mathbb{Z}^{a+b} ~ \mid ~n= \frac{x_1(x_1-1)}{2} + \cdots + \frac{x_a(x_a-1)}{2} \right. \\ & \left. + 3\frac{y_1(y_1-1)}{2}...

Abstract: A broad class of convex geometry problems deals with questions on retrieval of information about (convex) sets from data about different types of their projections, sections, or both. Examples of such assumptions are volume estimates...

As the underlying configuration behind many elegant finite structures, partial difference sets have been intensively studied in design theory, finite geometry, coding theory, and graph theory. Over the past three decades, there have been numerous...

Abstract: A triangulation of a surface is a way to divide it into a finite number of triangles. Let us pick a random triangulation uniformly among all those with a fixed size and genus. What can be said about the behaviour of these random geometric...