Past Events

E.g., Jul 16, 2025

Shamil Asgarli

Santa Clara University
Blocking sets and plane curves over finite fields

May 7, 2025

MATH 204

Let Fq be a finite field of order q. A subset B of a projective plane over Fq is called a blocking set if every line defined over Fq intersects B. Given an algebraic plane curve C, under what conditions does the set of Fq-points on C form a blocking set? We show that curves of low degree do not... Read more

  • Number Theory

Jaye Sudweeks

UBC
Environmental feedback can maintain cooperation in viruses

May 7, 2025

MATX 1100

The evolution and maintenance of cooperation is a fundamental problem in evolutionary biology. Because cooperative behaviors impose a cost, cooperators are vulnerable to exploitation by defectors that do not pay the cost to cooperate but still benefit from the cooperation of others. Viruses... Read more

  • Mathematical Biology

Theodore Kolokolnikov

Dalhousie University
Large-scale pattern formation for spikes in reaction-diffusion systems

May 7, 2025

MATH 225

Many reaction-diffusion systems exhibit patterns consisting of spikes (or spots), and numerous techniques have been developed over the years to study them. In the limit of many spikes, we develop a mean-field theory to describe an effective spike density. The resulting description consists of... Read more

  • Scientific Computing

Pam Sargent

University of Toronto
Learning Together: Team Teaching for Students and Educators

May 7, 2025

MATH 104

TBA

Pam is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Toronto. She completed her Ph.D. at UBC in 2018 under the supervision of Ailana Fraser. Before arriving at the University of Toronto, she worked as a lecturer at Yale University and as... Read more

  • Mathematics education

Cole Zmurchok

AbCellera
Model-Informed Drug Development: Applications in Antibody and Cell Therapy

May 7, 2025

MATX 1100

Mathematical modelling is increasingly central to pharmaceutical research and development through the framework of model-informed drug development (MIDD). This talk will introduce the core principles of MIDD and showcase its practical application using various modelling techniques, with a focus... Read more

  • Mathematical Biology

Miguel Moyers-Gonzalez

University of Canterbury
From Ducts to Glaciers: Computational Methods for Viscoplastic Flow and Inverse Problems in Complex Fluids

May 7, 2025

MATH 203

This talk presents an overview of computational methods frequently used for viscoplastic flow and inverse problems, highlighting their evolution from industrial applications to environmental modeling. Initially, we demonstrated that while regularisation techniques are commonly employed in... Read more

  • Fluids

Huang Liding

Xiamen University
The form-type Calabi-Yau equation on a class of complex manifolds

May 7, 2025

MATH 202

The Calabi-Yau theorem says that given any smooth representative $\Phi$ of the first Chern class, there exists a unique K\”ahler metric $\omega$ cohomologous to $\alpha$ such that $Ricci(\omega)=\Phi$. It is natural to investigate whether similar results hold when the manifolds is non-K\”ahler.... Read more

  • Differential geometry

Katherine Stange

University of Colorado Boulder
Elliptic Curves, Division Polynomials, and Pairings

May 7, 2025

MATH 204

Elliptic divisibility sequences are integer sequences associated to the multiples of a point on an elliptic curves. They carry a lot of information about the curve, including pairing information. I'll explain this connection then mention some recent work on generalizations. Read more

  • Number Theory

Alan Lindsay

University of Notre Dame
The mathematics of diffusion and application to biological signaling and movement.

May 7, 2025

MATH 225

In this talk I will review progress over the last few decades in the application of asymptotic analysis and numerical methodologies to the understanding of diffusive signaling with applications to biological signaling. We will review now classic results on describing the MFPT and narrow escape... Read more

  • Scientific Computing

Carmen Bruni


A Mathematicians Apology

May 7, 2025

MATH 104

At its core, mathematics itself has remained fundamentally unchanged. However, the emphasis on certain areas has evolved significantly over the past century. This discussion will explore the historical context, the current state of mathematics, future developments, and why an apology may be... Read more

  • Mathematics education