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The study of infinite geodesics in first passage percolation have received a lot of attention since the work of Hoffman [`05] and [08], Damron and Hanson [`14] and more recently Ahlberg and Hoffman [`16]. In this talk we discuss further advances in...

In analysis of single particle tracking data, identifying and estimating the rate of absorption on a partially permeable boundary may be challenging. In this talk, I will present a technique for estimating the rate of absorption on these type of...

A Toda system is a nonlinear second order elliptic system with exponential nonlinearity. It is very commonly observed in physics and has many ties with algebraic geometry. From analytic viewpoints it is challenging since the solutions do not have...

Twin prime powers are used in the construction of some very interesting combinatorial objects. In an old paper they are used in the construction of regular Hadamard matrices. In a recent work, they are used to show the existence of an infinite class...

I will present an overview of various results on dynamics and equilibria of a simple first-order aggregation model. In spite of its simplicity, there is rich mathematics and a variety of issues that can be investigated for this model.

23andMe is a company that pioneered the direct-to-consumer genetics market and recently started offering its technology services as an end-to-end solution to researchers conducting genetic studies. With over 1,000,000 individuals genotyped, and...

Our work on modulo p smooth representations of reductive p-adic groups (classification of irreducible admissible representations, functoriality properties, Satake homomorphisms, with Abe, Henniart, Herzig, Ollivier), raises questions for which a kind...

We shall survey over the general issue of `specializations which preserve a property', for a parametrized family of algebraic varieties. We shall limit ourselves to a few examples. We shall start by recalling typical contexts like Bertini and Hilbert...

Wednesday, March 1st @ 4pm University of Victoria, Hickman Building, room 105 23andMe is a company that pioneered the direct-to-consumer genetics market and recently started offering its technology services as an end-to-end solution to researchers...

Joint work with Kazuhiro Bessho. Classical population genetic theory generally assumes either a fully haploid or fully diploid life cycle. However, many organisms exhibit more complex life cycles, with both free-living haploid and diploid stages...