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October 5, 2025

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Monday, October 6

3:00 PM, Fields, 210

Dante Mata (Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM))
Optimal time to sell a stock in the presence of default and volatility risks

Wednesday, October 8

BrainModes

9:00 AM, Fields Institute, Room 230

Speakers:

Axel Hutt, Dimitris Pinotsis, & F. David Wandler
Stephen Coombes
Lyle Muller, Seb Coleman, & Xiou Xang

Part of the Thematic Program on the Mathematics of Neuroscience

Distinguished Lecture: Karl Friston

5:30 PM, SickKids Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning (686 Bay St., Toronto, ON M5G 0A4)

Karl Friston (University College London)
Lecture 01: I am therefore I think

Part of the Thematic Program on the Mathematics of Neuroscience

Thursday, October 9

BrainModes

9:00 AM, Fields Institute, Room 230

Speakers:

Petra Ritter, Leon Stefanovski, & Minarose Ismail
Shella Keilholz, Tiago Duarte-Pereira, & Amrit Kashyap
Joana Cabral, Giuseppe de Alteriis, & Rodrigo Rojas Leyton

Part of the Thematic Program on the Mathematics of Neuroscience

Geometric Analysis Colloquium

2:00 PM, Fields Institute, Room 309, Stewart Library

Christos Mantoulidis (Rice University)
Generic perturbations of mean curvature flows

2025-2026 Toronto Vision Seminar

3:00 PM, Bahen Centre for Information Technology, Room 5166 (DGP Seminar room)

Vincent Sitzmann
Modeling the world (and yourself) from vision

Geometric Analysis Colloquium

3:30 PM, Fields Institute, Room 309, Stewart Library

Mingyang Li (Simons Center for Geometry and Physics)
Gravitational instantons and harmonic maps.

Distinguished Lecture: Karl Friston

5:30 PM, SickKids Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning (686 Bay St., Toronto, ON M5G 0A4)

Karl Friston (University College London)
Lecture 02: Active inference and belief propagation in the brain

Part of the Thematic Program on the Mathematics of Neuroscience

Friday, October 10

BrainModes

9:00 AM, Fields Institute, Room 230

Speakers:

Christoph Mathys, Szymon Tyras, & Rodrigo De Carvalho
Andreea Diaconescu, Larissa Albatankis, & Peter Bedford
Jérémie Lefebvre & Jacob Duda

Part of the Thematic Program on the Mathematics of Neuroscience

Quantum Information Seminar

10:00 AM, Physics Department, 60 St. George Street, MP 408

Wenyuan (Mike) Wang, University of Calgary
Decoy-state optical quantum information processing with coherent states

Quantum Information Seminar

11:00 AM, Fields Institute, Room 309, Stewart Library

Eduardo Martin-Martinez, University of Waterloo
Impossible measurements and particle detectors in relativistic quantum information

Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar

12:00 PM, Fields Institute, Room 332

Ada Stelzer (UIUC)
Grothendieck polynomials, determinantal varieties, and equivariant Hilbert series

Centre for Mathematical Medicine Seminar

12:00 PM, Fields Institute, Room 309

Parisa Shooshtari (Western University)
From Genotype to Function: Integrating Single-Cell Sequencing and Predictive Data Science to Decode Complex Disease Mechanisms

Geometric Structures Laboratory

2:00 PM, Fields Institute, Room 309

Benjamin Gammage, University of Toronto
Introduction to wrapped Fukaya categories (Part 2)

Distinguished Lecture: Karl Friston

5:30 PM, Adel Sedra Auditorium (BA1160), Bahen Centre for Information Technology (40 St George St., Toronto, ON M5S 2E4)

Karl Friston (University College London)
Lecture 03: Active inference and artificial curiosity

Part of the Thematic Program on the Mathematics of Neuroscience