Past Events

E.g., Oct 30, 2025

Dr. Clinton H. Durney

British Columbia Cancer Research Institute
Math-Bio: Mathematical Models of Tobacco Use Dynamics: Products, Flavors, and Networks

October 8, 2025

ESB 4133

Mathematical biology offers powerful tools to tackle pressing problems at the interface of health and public policy. In this talk, I will share two vignettes demonstrating how mathematical and simulation modelling can be applied to tobacco regulatory science. The first uses a Markov state... Read more

  • Mathematical Biology

Andrew Warren

UBC
Entropy properties of nonlocal diffusion equations

October 7, 2025

ESB 4127 (PIMS)

Nonlocal diffusion equations are evolution equations which resemble the heat equation except that, instead of describing an ensemble of a large number of particles undergoing Brownian motion, the particles are instead governed by a jump process. In this talk, I will explain a variational... Read more

  • Differential geometry
  • Mathematical Physics
  • Partial Differential Equations

Niall Taggart

Queen's University Belfast
Algebraic models for functor calculus

October 7, 2025

There is a striking and useful analogy between equivariant homotopy theory and functor calculus. In the equivariant setting, Greenlees conjectured that the category of rational G-spectra has an algebraic model - meaning it is equivalent to the derived category of an abelian category with... Read more

Thomas Geisser

Rikkyo University
Brauer groups and Neron-Severi groups of surfaces over finite fields.

October 6, 2025

MATH 126

For a smooth and proper surface over a finite field, the formula of Artin and Tate relates the behavior of the zeta-function at 1 to other invariants of the surface. We give a version which equates invariants only depending on the Brauer group to invariants only depending on the Neron-Severi... Read more

  • Algebra and Algebraic geometry

Thomas Geisser

Rikkyo University
Brauer groups and Neron-Severi groups of surfaces over finite fields

October 6, 2025

For a smooth and proper surface over a finite field, the formula of Artin and Tate relates the behavior of the zeta-function at 1 to other invariants of the surface. We give a version which equates invariants only depending on the Brauer group to invariants only depending on the Neron-Severi... Read more

  • Algebra and Algebraic geometry


Oct3 colloquium: free slot

October 3, 2025

ESB 2012 and Zoom

If you happen to have a visitor at this time who excels in giving talks in addition to being a talented researcher, we would greatly appreciate it if you could let us know. Read more


p-adic Afternoon

October 3, 2025

ESB 4133

Get ready for a p-adic (representation theory) afternoon! On October 3rd, we're hosting three talks by distinguished mathematicians: Claus Sorensen (UC San Diego), Justin Trias (University of East Anglia), Mishty Ray (UBC).

12 PM - 1:20 PM Lunch 1:20 PM - 2: 20 PM Talk:... Read more
  • Number Theory

Antonio Trusiani

University of Rome Tor Vergata
Extremal Kähler metrics on modifications

October 2, 2025

ESB 4127

I will present the invariance of extremal Kahler manifolds under a suitable class of bimeromorphic morphisms.

Focusing mostly on the cscK (constant scalar curvature Kähler) case, I will show how the main result is obtained as a consequence of a general uniform coercivity estimate for... Read more

  • Differential geometry
  • Mathematical Physics
  • Partial Differential Equations


UBC Math-Bio Colloquium

October 1, 2025

ESB 4133

The UBC Mathematics-Biology research group is delighted to host four distinguished speakers from South Africa as part of the University Staff Doctoral Program: Building Capacity in Applied Mathematics (USDP-BCAM). This international collaboration, which includes six universities across South... Read more

  • Mathematical Biology

Olver Sheehan


Numerical Analysis Meets Representation Theory

September 26, 2025

ESB 2012 and Zoom

In this talk we see how representation theory can be used in numerical methods for partial differential equations (PDEs) and how numerics can give more efficient methods for computational problems in representation theory. In particular, we will see that representation theory tells us the ways... Read more