Submitted by ccunning on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 10:07am.
ThePIMS Voyageur Colloquium provides a forum for researchers to give a colloquium-style talk in Calgary while traveling home from the Banff International Research Station (BIRS). An honorarium and one night at the Hotel Alma are provided by the PIMS Calgary Office. To organize a speaker please contact the PIMS Calgary Site Director. To look for potential speakers follow the link to the BIRS Events Calendar and browse the upcoming events. Confirmed participants are listed on each event web page.
Submitted by ccunning on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 11:22am.
May 28 2012 - 2:00pm
May 28 2012 - 3:00pm
Speaker:
Henry Wolkowicz, University of Waterloo
Location:
MS 431
Taking advantage of Degeneracy in Cone Optimization; Applications to Euclidean Distance Completion Problems including: Sensor Network Localization and Molecular Conformation.
The elegant theoretical results for strong duality and strict complementarity for linear programming, LP, lie behind the success of current algorithms. However, the theory and preprocessing techniques that are successful for LP can fail for cone programming over nonpolyhedral cones.
Submitted by rmmoffat on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 9:29am.
Mar 30 2012 - 3:00pm
Mar 30 2012 - 4:00pm
Speaker:
Dr Ian Putnam, FRSC, University of Victoria Canada Research Chair in Operator Algebras and Dynamical Systems
Location:
MS 431
In the 1960's and 70's, mathematical patterns in Euclidean space were discovered which displayed a high degree of order, but which were not periodic. Later, Daniel Shechtman found physical materials (quasicrystals) which can be modeled by such patterns.
Submitted by ccunning on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 7:24pm.
Apr 17 2012 - 3:30pm
Apr 17 2012 - 4:30pm
Speaker:
Charles Doran, University of Alberta
Location:
MS 431
We will explore how the classification of elliptic curves with involution sheds light on dualities between variant string theories, studying both through the topological lens of a real variant of K-theory.
