University of Calgary

The Theory Canada conference was initiated in 2005 as a satellite conference for the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) congress. Theorists present work in frontiers of knowledge to an audience comprising of students and researchers from all...

Markov chains are a much-studied class of stochastic processes, and it is well known that if the transition matrix A associated with a Markov chain possesses a certain property called primitivity, then the long-term behaviour of the Markov chain is...

A fundamental result by Karger (1994) states that for any k-edge connected graph with n nodes, independently sampling each edge with probability p = Omega(logn / k) results in a graph that has edge connectivity Omega(kp), with high probability. We...

Optimization is an interdisciplinary area of mathematics and computer science that, simply speaking, amounts to choosing the best element from some set of available alternatives and studying its properties. Optimization has become ubiquitous to...

This talk will demonstrate some of the surprising connections between the mystery of magic and the art of juggling, and some interesting ideas from mathematics. Lecture is free and open to the public. Intended for a general audience.

The sign is a fundamental invariant of an abelian variety defined over a local (archimedian or p-adic) or global (number or function) field. The sign of an abelian varieties over a global field has arithmetic significance: it is the parity of Mordell...

The Canadian Number Theory Association (CNTA) was founded in 1987 at the International Number Theory Conference at Laval University (Quebec), for the purpose of enhancing and promoting learning and research in number theory, particularly in Canada...

The Langlands program predicts that for every n-dimensional Abelian variety over Q there is an automorphic representation of GSpin(2n+1) over Q whose L-function coincides with the L-function coming from the Galois representation on the Tate module of...

Let K be a quadratic imaginary field, and p be a prime which is inert in K. It is known that the mod p reductions of the j-invariants of elliptic curves defined over the algebraic closure of Q p which admit CM by an order of K are equidistributed...