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The questions of how healthy colonic crypts maintain their size under the rapid cell turnover in intestinal epithelium, and how homeostasis is disrupted by driver mutations, are central to understanding colorectal tumorigenesis. We propose a three...

Let $(M^n,g)$ be compact Riemannian manifold, it is a classical result that if $(M^n,g)$ has Ricci curvature bigger than the standard sphere, its volume and diameter are smaller than those of the sphere. If $(M^n,g)$ only has scalar curvature bigger...

For a population model that encodes parent-child relations, an ordered representation is a partial or complete labelling of individuals, in order of their descendants’ long-term success in some sense, with respect to which the ancestral structure is...

How many ways are there to write a given permutation as a product of m transpositions (i_1, j_1) (i_2, j_2) \dots (i_m, j_m)? For example, there are three ways to write (1,2,3) as a product of two transpositions: (1,2)(1,3), (1,3)(2,3) and (2,3)(1,2)...

In 2000, Shiu proved that there are infinitely many primes whose last digit is 1 such that the next prime also ends in a 1. However, it is an open problem to show that there are infinitely many primes ending in 1 such that the next prime ends in 3...

The Deligne-Mumford compactification, $\overline{M_{0,n}}$, of the moduli space of $n$ distinct ordered points on $\mathbb{P}^1$, has many well understood geometric and topological properties. For example, it is a smooth projective variety over its...

In recent years, machine learning procedures have attracted much attention in National Statistical Offices (e.g., Statistics Canada). In particular, random forests are currently being scrutinized as an alternative to traditional imputation procedures...

A tangent of a compact set is an accumulation point in Hausdorff distance given by 'zooming in' at a given point. For general compact sets, it is well-known that the Assouad dimension is characterized by dimensions of weak tangents (where the...

A collection of identical and independent rare event first passage times is considered. The problem of finding the fastest out of $N$ such events to occur is called an extreme first passage time. The rare event times are singular and limit to...

A standard topic in a somewhat more advanced graduate course in complex analysis are elliptic functions. These are doubly-periodic meromorphic functions in the complex plane. According to Liouville's basic theorems, each elliptic function has to have...