Seminars and colloquia

E.g., Oct 24, 2026

Ka-Kit (KK) Tung

University of Washington
A New Model Formulation of the Spread of Epidemics: Why Were Traditional Models So Inaccurate for COVID-19?

October 27, 2026 - 11:00 am to 12:00 pm

MATH 126

Dynamical modeling for the spread of an infectious disease has 100 years of history. Traditional compartmental models such as SIR and SEIR, empirical models and data-driven models were all used during the COVID-19 epidemic. They played an important role in advising policy ... Read more
  • Mathematical Biology

Katrina Honigs

SFU
Quadratic forms and linear systems on abelian surfaces

October 27, 2026 - 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

PIMS/ESB 4133

Although there is an explicit isomorphism that relates the Hilbert scheme of points on an abelian surface to compactified Jacobians of curves in a linear system on the dual abelian surface, computing its action directly is challenging. However, quadratic forms can be used to ... Read more
  • Algebra and Algebraic geometry


PIMS-UBC Math Academic Job Forum

October 28, 2026 - 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Online

The forum will explore a range of academic career paths, including research-stream positions at research-intensive universities, educational leadership positions, and positions at teaching-focused universities and colleges. The speakers will bring varied perspectives, ... Read more

Liam Watson

UBC
Snapshots of Excellence: UBC's Killam Accelerator Research Fellows' Showcase

October 28, 2026 - 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm

Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

Four early-career UBC researchers were given two years to focus on a challenge that could advance their vastly different fields of study. Hear what they discovered and sample the incredible breadth of research and scholarly activity across our two campuses. The questions they ... Read more

Mishty Ray

UBC
Local Arthur packets: why we care, and how we compute them

October 28, 2026 - 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm

MATH 126

Local components of important classes of automorphic representations associated to a number field can be organised into sets of representations of p-adic groups - these sets are called local Arthur packets. Computation of Arthur packets is an important question in ... Read more
  • Number Theory

Jonathan Mattingly

Duke University
The Computational Challenges in Sampling for Quantifying Gerrymandering

October 28, 2026 - 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm

ESB 2012 and Zoom

I will begin with a brief description of how computational sampling methods have been critical in developing methods to detect political maps which are gerrymandered. I will discuss some of the court cases and political implications in US elections. I then will dive into some ... Read more

Sebastian Gant

SLMath
TBA

October 30, 2026 - 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

TBA

  • Topology

Jonathan Hermon

UBC
From independent walks to interacting particles

October 30, 2026 - 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

ESB 2012 and Zoom

Abstract: Suppose that labelled particles occupy the vertices of a graph. Whenever an edge rings, the particles at its endpoints exchange places. The resulting process, known as the interchange process, can equivalently be viewed as a random walk on the symmetric group. How ... Read more

Joshua Turner

UBC
Triply-graded link homology and recursions

November 4, 2026 - 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Math 204

Khovanov-Rozansky homology (also called HHH) is a triply-graded link invariant that categorifies the HOMFLY-PT polynomial. We will give some background on HHH and its connections to other link invariants and other combinatorial and geometric objects. Then we will talk about ... Read more
  • Topology

Joe Buhler

University of Minnesota
colloquium Nov 6, Joe Buhler (University of Minnesota)

November 6, 2026 - 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

ESB 2012 and Zoom

TBA ***** There will be coffee, tea and snacks at PIMS from 2:30 PM to 3 PM. ***** UBC Math Colloquium 2026-2027 Zoom info: Meeting ID: 663 8015 7380 Passcode: 31415 Read more