Past Events

Speaker: Vipul Periwal "Dynamics of Adipose Tissue Growth" Abstract: Adipose tissue grows by two mechanisms: hyperplasia (cell number increase) and hypertrophy (cell size increase). Genetics and diet affect the relative contributions of these two...

The stability of our Solar System has been debated since Newton devised the laws of gravitation to explain planetary motion. Newton himself doubted the long-term stability of the Solar System, and the question has remained unanswered despite...

Abstract: A Chow motive of an algebraic variety may be thought of as an attempt to define a universal cohomology theory for algebraic varieties, through the use of the Chow ring. The Chow ring in algebraic geometry is an analog of the cohomology ring...

I will give an introduction to the mathematics of combinatorial games. We shall examine the similarities and differences between Normal Play rules where the last player wins and Mis\`ere Play rules where the last player loses. The complete analysis...

We consider homogenization of the operator $u \mapsto -\text{div} (\sigma \nabla u)$, which is parameterized by symmetric $\sigma \in \real^{2\times 2}$ for the special case where the domain $\Omega \subset \real^2$. We refer to $\sigma$ as the...

I will give a transverse introduction to how Boundary Integral techniques (or their numerical version, the Boundary Element Method) have been and are being used for scattering problems. While in the beginning the field of boundary integral equations...

Khovanov homology gives rise to a simple invariant of knots and links taking values in the positive integers. Referred to as the width of a link, this invariant is a measurement of the homology's support. In general this quantity is not very well...

Cellular decisions rely upon a cell making some measurement of its surroundings and then regulating its behaviour based on this measurement. For many cellular processes this decision is regulated by the transcriptional output of a gene which is...

The Schramm-Loewner evolution (SLE) is a one-parameter family of random growth processes that has been successfully used to analyze a number of models from two-dimensional statistical mechanics. Currently there is interest in trying to formalize our...