Simon Fraser University

The concept of equivalence has played a central role in mainstream linguistic theory over the last century, e.g., in the definition of linguistic "form" in Bloomfield's (1926, 1933) attempts to axiomatize linguistic theory, in debates on the nature...

The idea of this event is to offer graduate students in Statistics and Actuarial Science with an opportunity to attend a seminar with accessible talks providing them an introduction to active areas of research in the field. For three students from...

Lattice paths are very classic objects in both probability theory and enumerative combinatorics. In particular, weighted models bridge the gap between the two approaches very neatly. We consider an example, the Gouyou-Beauchamps model of lattice...

A digraph is semicomplete if it has no pair of non-adjacent vertices. A tournament is a semicomplete digraph with no directed 2-cycles. Tournaments form the most well studied class of directed graphs and a lot is known about their structure, ranging...

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) was founded in 1996, and Simon Fraser University is a founding member. The members of PIMS now include all the major Canadian research universities west of Ontario, as well as universities in...

The response of the muscle-tissue unit (MTU) to activation and applied forces is affected by the architectural details as well as the material properties of this nearly-incompressible tissue. We will describe the (highly nonlinear) elastic equations...

"Cops and Robbers" is a well-known pursuit game played on a graph. There are two players, one controls the cops and the other controls the robber, who take turns moving along edges of the graph. The goal of the cops is to capture the robber, which is...

Wachs and White introduced four statistics on restricted growth functions or RGFs. An RGF is a sequence of positive integers $w=w_1w_2\dots w_n$ such that $w_1=1$ and $w_i \leq 1+\maw_1w_2\dots w_{i-1})$. We say that an RGF $w$ avoids $v$ if there is...

This talk is intended for those who, like the speaker, have at some point wondered whether there is a theory of three- or higher-dimensional matrices that parallels matrix theory. A d-dimensional hypermatrix may be viewed as a coordinate...

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