University of Victoria

Hugh C. Morris Lecture: Cedric Villani

This conference aims to bring together applied topologists and spatial statisticians that are curious about each-other's work. We anticipate having two relatively-distinct groups: 1) topologists that have been working with applied algebraic...

Orthogonal arrays have numerous applications in various disciplines including statistics, engineering and cryptography. We will revisit the celebrated Bose-Bush bound on orthogonal arrays and examine how an elementary approach, based on a certain...

Mechanism design is the problem of computing an optimal allocation of resources under criteria such as social welfare or revenue. The problem is more challenging than algorithm design because the inputs have to be elicited from selfish agents who may...

Rarefied Gas Dynamics (RGD) is a multidisciplinary field encompassing atomic and molecular physics, mathematics and computer simulation techniques. Its foundations trace back to the fathers of statistical mechanics, Ludwig Boltzmann and James Clerk...

In 1958, Olga Taussky-Todd proposed an exploration into potential unified treatments of a list of properties shared by various classes of “positive matrices”. For instance, item (4) on her original list sought explanations concerning the fact that...

The total domination number of a graph G is the minimum cardinality of a set S of vertices so that every vertex of G is adjacent to a vertex in S, while the transversal number of a hypergraph H is the minimum cardinality of a subset of vertices in H...

A collection of ten talks on topics in discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science by speakers from universities in BC and the surrounding regions.