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The eccentricity matrix ε(G) of a connected graph G is obtained from the distance matrix of G by keeping the largest nonzero entries in each row and each column, and leaving zeros in the remaining ones. The eigenvalues of ε(G) are the ε-eigenvalues...

A revolution has been underway in wave physics in recent years based around concepts of resonance and microstructured media often coupled with periodicity. This has resulted in materials known as metamaterials that have, for instance, negative...

If a tricky devil challenged you to complete a Sudoku puzzle of their design, what restrictions could you place on their design to guarantee it was impossible for them to thwart your attempts? More specifically, if you could dictate exactly how many...

Our introduction of the notion of a non-linear Kantorovich operator was motivated by the celebrated duality in the mass transport problem, hence the name. In retrospect, we realized that they -and their iterates- were omnipresent in several branches...

It is well-known in quantum information theory that a positive operator valued measure (POVM) is the most general kind of quantum measurement. A quantum probability is a normalised POVM, namely a function on certain subsets of a (locally compact and...

Sea lice are a threat to the health of both wild and farmed salmon and an economic burden for salmon farms. Open-net salmon farms act as reservoirs for sea lice in near coastal areas, which can lead to elevated sea louse levels on wild salmon. With a...

Euler's divergent series $\sum_{n=0}^\infty n!z^n$ which converges only for $z=0$ becomes an interesting object when evaluated with respect to a p-adic norm (which will be introduced in the talk). Very little is known about the values of the series...

We will characterize members that maximize/minimize the second largest adjacency eigenvalue in certain families of trees. Joint work with H. Kumar, B. Mohar and S. Pragada.

A momentous legacy of twentieth-century mathematics is the realisation that deterministically evolving systems frequently exhibit, when observed for sufficiently extended periods of time, a statistical behaviour akin to the limiting behaviour of...

Central limit theorem is a significant result in probability. It states that under some assumptions, the behavior of the average of identically distributed independent random variables tends towards that of the standard Gaussian random variable as...