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Oilsands tailings ponds are waste reservoirs where bioavailable organic materialcan be largely converted into methane. This methane is produced by activemethanogenic and bacterial communities capable of surviving even undernutrient-poor conditions...

The West Coast Optimization Meeting will take place on October 18, 2025 on the Okanagan Campus of the University of British Columbia. The organizers (Aleksandr Aravkin Warren Hare, Tim Hoheisel, Yves Lucet, and Amy Wiebe) are pleased to invite all...

There are many synergies between probability theory and convex geometry, especially in high-dimensional settings. We discuss some classical examples and then focus on a recent development concerning a famous theorem of von Neumann, which establishes...

A set $A\subset\mathbb{Z}$ tiles the integers by translations if there is a set $T\subset\mathbb{Z}$ such that every integer $n\in\mathbb{Z}$ has a unique representation $n=a+t$ with $a\in A$ and $t\in T$. It is well known that the translation set in...

Glass Klein bottles? Sure! How about knots and knot-compliments? A Boys Surface? Plenty of topological manifolds work well in glass. With good fortune, SFU's glass-blower, Lucas Clarke, will demonstrate his art in making mathematical manifolds in...

Abstract: A new frontier for the modeling and analysis of reaction-diffusion PDE systems is where the diffusing species are nonlinearly coupled through dynamic interactions on the domain boundaries. Some specific examples of such systems, including...

The Rudin-Shapiro polynomials $p_{m}$ were first studied by Rudin, Shapiro, and Golay independently nearly 80 years ago and are defined recursively by $p_{0}(x) = q_{0}(x) = 1$ and $$ p_{m}(x) = p_{m-1}(x) + x^{2^{m-1}} q_{m-1}(x), $$ $$ q_{m}(x) = p...

In this talk we will discuss recent results concerning stochastic (and deterministic) free boundary problems, particularly arising in fluid structure interaction (FSI). We will begin by considering a nonlinearly coupled FSI system perturbed by...

Networks are everywhere in biology - from molecules that interact within a cell to neurons that communicate across the brain. Understanding how signals flow through these networks is key to uncovering how biological systems function - and how they...

Pick your favorite manifold M and a positive integer r : how many r rank (topological) complex vector bundles are there over M up to isomorphism? While the question is accessible via K-theory in the stable range, unstably such bundles become much...