Maria Gillespie (Colorado State University)
Title: A positive combinatorial rule for psi class products on multicolored spaces
Mauricio Bustamante (Universidad Católica de Chile)
Title: The Euler class of big mapping class groups.
Arturo Arellano Arias (McGill University
Title: A shape theorem for the d-dimensional branching Brownian motion in periodic environments.
PhD Oral Defence: Mr. Elio Abi Younes
DATE: Thursday, February 26, 2026
TIME / PLACE:
Defence 2:15 p.m. / BURN 1025
TITLE: Simulation-based Bayesian inference via neural posterior modeling
CHAIR: Prof. Jerome Vetois
SUPERVISOR: Prof. David A. Stephens
INTERNAL
MEMBER: Prof. Archer Yang
INTERNAL
2026 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize lecture – Robert McCann
Title: The monopolist's free boundary problem in the plane: an excursion into the economic value of private information