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PIMS Events

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Women in Optimization Workshop

Submitted by ppaterso on Thu, 05/30/2013 - 10:42am.
Jun 13 2013 - 9:00am
Jun 14 2013 - 5:00pm
Location: 
TBA

The first workshop for women in optimization, Women Optimize in the West (WOW), is held in June 13 from 9:00 am till 4:30 pm (optimization) and June 14 from 1:00 to 4:00 (leadership and career opportunities) at the University of Calgary.

The Use of Algebraic Groups in Algebra and Number Theory

Submitted by ccunning on Tue, 05/28/2013 - 9:42am.
May 28 2013 - 1:30pm
May 28 2013 - 2:30pm
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Speaker: 

Jean-Pierre Serre, Collège de France

Location: 
MS 337 (Hilbert Seminar Room)

Sometimes, problems on group representations and number theory can be successfully attacked by using linear algebraic groups. We shall give several such examples.

Multiresolution for Interactive Modeling

Submitted by ppaterso on Tue, 05/14/2013 - 12:36pm.
May 21 2013 - 12:00pm
May 21 2013 - 1:00pm
Speaker: 

Dr Faramarz F. Samavati

Department of Computer Science, UofC

Location: 
Calgary Place Tower 1 Room 1104

In the past three decades the field of Computer Graphics has experienced a revolution, benefiting from significant research and technical achievements.

The local Langlands correspondence: from real to p-adic groups

Submitted by ppaterso on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 1:27pm.
May 3 2013 - 4:30pm
May 3 2013 - 5:30pm
Speaker: 

Dr Moshe Adrian, University of Utah

Location: 
MS337

I will discuss the general notions in the local Langlands correspondence for real groups and describe an analogue for p-adic groups.

Visual Computing Challenges and Solutions for Smart Oil/Gas Exploration & Production

Submitted by ppaterso on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 11:29am.
May 14 2013 - 12:00pm
May 14 2013 - 1:00pm
Speaker: 

Dr. Mario Costa Sousa

Dept of Computer Science, Uof C

Location: 
Calgary Place Tower 1 (330 5th Avenue SW), Room 1116

Exploration and Production (E&P) of oil/gas involve economically valuable but complex tasks.