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How social traits evolve remains an open question in evolutionary biology. Two traits of particular interest are altruism (where an individual incurs a cost to help others) and spite (where an individual incurs a cost to harm others). Both traits...

Inverse eigenvalue problems appear in various contexts throughout mathematics and engineering, and refer to determining whether or not there is a matrix with a prescribed structure (e.g., tridiagonal) and prescribed spectral property (e.g., having a...

Environmental governance can be viewed as the process by which a group of individuals builds a set of feedbacks into their social and economic systems to maintain some set of stable structures that promote wellbeing. These feedbacks often take the...

In the history of philosophy, much has been made of the disagreements between W. V. O. Quine and Rudolf Carnap on the nature of mathematical and scientific knowledge. But when the dust settles, the points of agreement are more substantial...

p-Adic modular forms have first been defined by J.-P. Serre as q-expansions and have later been interpreted geometrically by N. Katz as sections of certain modular line bundles over the ordinary locus of the relevant modular curves. Katz also defined...

Understanding incidence, spread, prevalence and control of an infectious disease requires a multidisciplinary approach that encompasses many fields of inquiry in Natural and Social Sciences. Several biological, environmental and economic/social...

Functions appearing in many applications, for example as the solution of an integral or differential equation, are usually discretized and approximated in a basis. Each function in a certain space can be uniquely represented in that basis...

In this talk we will begin by discussing the main goals of number theory and by explaining why zeta and L-functions are important. We will then introduce the Mahler measure, which is a function on the roots of polynomials but can also be extended to...

Three of the statistical causes for the lack of reproducibility of science will be discussed, along with a suggested cure. The first cause is the common misinterpretation of p-values; the second is the frequent lack of sufficient adjustment for...

Let E/Q be an elliptic curve. In Iwasawa Theory, we study the behaviours of E over a tower of number fields. For example, it is known that the Mordell Weil ranks of E over all p-power cyclotomic extensions of Q are bounded when p does not divide the...