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The HIV prevalence in the MSM population of Vancouver is slowly increasing, but the amount of Syphilis cases is increasing very rapidly. Since Syphilis facilitates the infection of HIV, there is a certain relation between the infected populations. In...

Gender equality is a major issue within science communities. While efforts to be proactive and bring awareness to gender inequality have been made in recent years, still only 1/8th of academic scientists are women. A recent paper published in PLOS...

We develop a mimetic multiscale method to simulate quasi-static Maxwell's equations in frequency domain. This is especially useful for extensive geophysical models that include small-scale features. Applying the concept of multiscale methods, we...

Description (in plain text format): The modularity theorem tells us that for every elliptic curve E over the field Q of rational numbers, there is a modular form f such that the L-function L(s,f) for f coincides with the L-function L(s,rho) for the...

Systems of points with Coulomb, logarithmic (or more generally inverse powers of the distance) interactions arise in various settings: an instance is the classical Coulomb gas which in some cases happens to be a random matrix ensemble, another is...

An intriguing application of Deep Learning research is the use of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) for image processing, as seen for example in the Prisma app and the Deep Dream algorithm. At SFU SIAT's iVizLab, we are using DCNNs within...

We will discuss the concept of the general monotonicity of sequences/functions. Some applications to various problems of harmonic analysis and approximation theory will be considered.

The Min system is an important regulator network involved in E-coli cell division. However, although the effects and chemicals involved in this network are known, there still remain a variety of hypotheses about the exact reactions and mechanisms...

I am working with colleagues on several projects modelling Lithium Ion batteries. Experimental results are fit to simple models of performance and "State of Health", a vaguely defined measure of the change of battery characteristics with use and age...

A "Strongly Regular Graph", SRG(?,k,lambda,mu), is a k-regular graph with v vertices such that every two adjacent vertices have lambda common neighbors, and every two non-adjacent vertices have mu common neighbors. Let M be any power of 2, and let M'...