University of Calgary

First we introduce some results about certain simple diophantine equations involving linear recurrence sequences. Then we present 2 applications. The first application involves the so-called Orbit Intersection Problem for the arithmetic dynamics of...

A video of this event is available on mathtube.org. In this talk, I will give a survey of recent work I have done—some published, some unpublished—on the historical, mathematical, and philosophical problems related to the assignment of "sizes" to...

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The University of Calgary 2019 Sonia Kovalevsky Day will focus on answering the question where is math in the world, interdisciplinary mathematics, and communicating math. The students will start their day by collaboratively brainstorming about where...

In this talk, I will outline the basic ideas in Langlands’ Beyond Endoscopy proposal, and the role of summation formulas and the nontempered automorphic spectrum. I will discuss the various approaches of Frenkel-Langlands-Ngô, Altug, and Ngô to the...

The four-week industry fellowships, which are being run in partnership with Cybera, bring together six companies wanting to leverage data science, and 22 newly trained data scientists in Edmonton and Calgary. The companies have presented a challenge...

When you send your credit card number over the Internet, cryptography helps to ensure that no one can steal the number in transit. Julius Caesar and Mary Queen of Scots used cryptography to send secret messages, in the latter case with ill-fated...

This meeting serves many purposes. It allows faculty and graduate students working in probability and statistics at different universities in Alberta to interact, make contacts, and discuss their research. It serves as a training vehicle for highly...

A one-day workshop on Using R with Professor John Braun from the University of British Columbia (Okanagan), is the latest in the increasingly popular and high-quality series of workshops offered by the University of Calgary Biostatistics Centre (UCBC...