Simon Fraser University

We are faced with a flood of molecular and clinical data. We are measuring interactions between various bio-molecules in a cell that form large, complex systems. Patient omics datasets are also increasingly becoming available. These systems-level...

The Winter 2018 SFU/UBC Joint Seminar is the second of two seminars taking place in the 2017/2018 school year between the UBC department of Statistics and the SFU department of Statistics and Actuarial Science. It is intended to give graduate...

The talk will be devoted to a simple introduction to stochastic PDEs (SPDEs) driven by Wiener processes, including both forward and backward (in time) cases. Some motivations, as well as the duality relationship between forward and backward SPDEs...

The purpose of this summer school is to introduce students in applied and computational mathematics to neural networks and deep learning. It will feature three days of lectures and hands-on tutorials, and be followed by a one-day workshop showcasing...

In this talk I will present the personal journey that the study of mathematics has allowed me to travel so far. It begins with a typical academic career, focused on research in applied mathematics, and specifically the mathematics related to the...

Computers can be programmed to do a variety of tasks which, if a human had done them, we might identify as creative tasks. But does that mean that they themselves are creative? We examine the state of the art in computer-generated poetry, and examine...

Let G=(V,E) be an undirected graph on n vertices and λ:E →2^N a mapping that assigns to every edge a non-empty set of positive integer labels. These labels can be seen as discrete times when the edge is present. Such a labeled graph G'=(G,λ) is said...

Integer programming is one of the most fundamental problems in discrete optimization. While integer programming is computationally hard in general, there exist efficient algorithms for special instances. In particular, integer programming is fixed...

What is a game? Mathematically speaking, a game has players, strategies and scores to explain why the players win or lose. Games which are modelled with differential equations are called differential games. Common examples are pursuit-evasion games...