# Mathematics Department

Last updated: 2019/04/25 - 6:20am

#### The Stabilisation of Equilibria in Evolutionary Game Dynamics through Mutation

##### Johan Brauer (City University of London)
Thursday, April 25 - 3:15 pm
119 Physics

The multi-population replicator dynamics (RD) can be considered a dynamic approach to the study of multi-player games, where it was shown to be related to Cross-learning, as well as of systems of co-...

#### On the geometry of algebraic varieties

##### Christopher Hacon (University of Utah, Mathematics)
Thursday, April 25 - 3:30 pm
Physics 130

Algebraic varieties are geometric objects defined by polynomial equations. The minimal model program (MMP) is an ambitious program that aims to classify algebraic varieties. According to the MMP,...

#### Birational geometry in characteristic $p>5$

##### Christopher Hacon (University of Utah, Mathematics)
Friday, April 26 - 12:00 pm
Physics 119

After the recent exciting progress in understanding the geometry of algebraic varieties over the complex numbers, it is natural to try to understand the geometry of varieties over an algebraically...

#### Prym varieties of genus four curves

##### Nils Bruin (Simon Fraser University)
Friday, April 26 - 3:15 pm
119 Physics

Many arithmetic properties of hyperbolic curves become apparent from embeddings into abelian varieties, in particular their Jacobians. For special curves, particularly those that arise as unramified...

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Monday, April 29 - 12:00 pm
119 Physics

#### STA 741/ECE 741 Compressed Sensing and Related Topics Poster Session

##### Hoted by Galen Reeves
Tuesday, April 30 - 1:00 pm
Gross Hall, Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall, Room 330

Poster session for STA/ECE 741 class. Refreshments will be provided!

#### Some mathematical and computational challenges arising in structural molecular biology

##### Bruce Donald (Duke University)
Thursday, May 2 - 12:30 pm
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Computational protein design is a transformative field with exciting prospects for advancing both basic science and translational medical research. New algorithms blend discrete and continuous...

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##### Caryn Werner (NOTE UNUSUAL TIME)
Wednesday, May 22 - 11:00 am
119 Physics

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##### Zoran Grujic (University of Virginia)
Wednesday, September 18 - 12:00 pm
Physics 119

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##### Boris Khesin (U of Toronto)
Wednesday, October 23 - 12:00 pm
Physics 119