The PIMS Distinguished Lectures Series is sponsored by the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) for the purpose of bringing prominent national and international mathematical scientists to the University of Regina community. This on-going series began in 2009 and continues to be a valuable and important endeavour.

2024 Lectures

Marco Gualtieri, University of Toronto

Generalized Geometry, Stacks, and Physics.  April 9, 2024.

Teena Gerhardt, Michigan State University

Interactions Between Topology and Algebra: Advances in Algebraic \(K\)-theory.  March 8, 2024.

David Haziza, University of Ottawa

Statistical Inference in the Presence of Imputed Survey Data Through Regression Trees and Random Forests.  February 12, 2024.

2023 Lectures

Ben Williams, University of British Columbia

Topology and Azumaya Algebras.  October 20, 2023. 

Colva Roney-Dougal, University of St Andrews

Counting Permutation Groups.  October 6, 2023. 

Jacob Tsimerman, University of Toronto

Transcendence of Period Integrals over Function Fields.  September 22, 2023.

Jiguo Cao, Simon Frasher University

Machine Learning for Functional Data.  September 15, 2023.

Emily Riehl, John Hopkins University

A Reintroduction to Proofs. February 10, 2023.

2022 Lectures

Alexander Kupers, University of Toronto

Diffeomorphisms of Discs. October 28, 2022.

Tatjana Miljkovic, Miami University

An Overview of the Recent Loss Modeling Approaches and Their Impact on Risk Measures. October 14, 2022.

Stefaan Vaes, KU Leuven

Classification Questions in Operator Algebras and Ergodic Theory. February 11, 2022.

2021 Lectures

Adrian Ioana, UC San Diego

Classification and Rigidity for Group von Neumann Algebras. May 4, 2021.

2019 Lectures

Gary MacGillivray, University of Victoria

Colouring Oriented Graphs. October 15, 2019.

Alexander Melnikov, University of Alberta

Option Pricing Via Path-wise Comparison of Stochastic Processes and Market Completions. September 19, 2019.

2018 Lectures

Kenneth R. Davidson, University of Waterloo

Multivariable Operator Theory. October 19, 2018.

2017 Lectures

Chi-Kwong Li, College of William and Mary

Geometrical Properties of the (p,q)-Matricial Range. November 17, 2017.

Tomás Caraballo, Universidad de Sevilla

A Comparison Between Random and Stochastic Modeling in Epidemiology. September 7, 2017.

Su-Fen Yang, National Chengchi University

A New Approach for Monitoring Process Variance. June 16, 2017.

Ram Murty, Queen's University

Twin Primes. April 12, 2017. 
PIMS 20th Anniversary

2016 Lectures

Masoud Khalkhali, Western University

Spectral Invariants of Noncommutative Spaces. November 3, 2016.

Mikhail Muzychuk, Netanya Academic College

Non-commutative Association Schemes of Rank 6. October 20, 2016. 

Harm Bart, Erasmus University

Vector-Valued Logarithmic Residues, Vanishing Sums of Itempotents and Unusual Cantor Sets. August 25, 2016.

John Oprea, Cleveland State University

Mathematics, Soap Films, and (a Touch of) Biology. April 26, 2016. 

Leandro Cagliero, Universida Nacional de Córdoba

The Nash-Moser Theorem of Hamilton and Rigidity of Lie Algebras. April 6, 2016. 

2015 Lectures

Vladimir G. Troitsky, University of Alberta

Vector Lattices, Order Convergence, and Regular Sublattices. November 27, 2015.  L

Alexandru Suciu, Northeastern University

Hyperplane Arrangements: at the Crossroads of Topology and Combinatorics. August 14, 2015. 

2014 Lectures

Stephen Kirkland, University of Manitoba

Sensitivity Analysis for Perfect State Transfer in Quantum Spin Networks. November 7, 2014.

Peter Zvengrowski, University of Calgary

The Riemann Zeta Function: a Horizontal View Point. March 17, 2014.

2013 Lectures

Yuly Billig, Carlton University

Vector Fields on a Torus and Their Representation Theory. October 18, 2013. 

Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz, University of Toronto

The McKay Correspondence and Ubiquity of Coxeter-Dynkin Diagrams. September 24, 2013. 

The McKay Correspondence and Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry. September 25, 2013.

Yet Another Look:  The McKay Correspondence, Preprojective Algebras, and Maximal Cohen-Macaulay Modules. September 26, 2013.

Ejaz Ahmed, Brock University

Perspectives on Human Bias Versus Machine Bias: Generalized Linear Models. March 22, 2013.

2012 Lectures

Alejandro Adem, University of British Columbia

Topology of Spaces of Commuting Matrices. November 29, 2012.

Jürgen Garloff, University of Applied Sciences/HTWG Konstanz and University of Konstanz

Feasibility of Methods for the Solution of Systems of Linear Interval and Parametric Equations. October 26, 2012.

Vern Paulsen, University of Houston

The Kadison-Singer Problem. March 5, 2012.

2011 Lectures

Volker Runde, University of Alberta

Big Things are Rarely Amenable. November 18, 2011.

Marcelo Laca, University of Victoria

Broken Symmetries. November 9, 2011.

Richard Anstee, University of British Columbia

Forbidden Configuations: A Survey. September 29, 2011.

Sebastian Cioba, University of Delaware

Eigenvalues of Graphs. September 22, 2011.

Peter Lancaster, University of Calgary

Canonical Structures for Matrix Functions. May 5, 2011.

2010 Lectures

David Kerr, Texas A&M University

Entropy in Dynamics. November 12, 2010.

Michael Lamoureux, University of Calgary

Properties of Gabor Multipliers for Physical Modelling. March 15, 2010.

2009 Lectures

Arturo Pianzola, University of Alberta

The Language of Forms. October 30, 2009.

James A. Mingo, Queens University

A Graph of Matrices. October 2, 2009.

Jianer Chen, Texas A&M University

New Algorithmic Techniques for Parameterized Computation. August 24, 2009.

Roger Horn, University of Utah

Matrix Canonical Forms. April 27, 2009.