Simon Fraser University

Particle-laden flows are ubiquitous in environmental, geophysical and engineering processes. The intricate dynamics of these two-phase flows is governed by the momentum, heat and mass transfer between the continuous fluid phase and the dispersed...

Compressive sensing in its most practical form aims to recover a function that exhibits sparsity in a given basis from as few function samples as possible. One of the fundamental results of compressive sensing tells us that $O(s \log^4 N)$ samples...

The talk is aimed at a general academic mathematical audience, so should be suitable for graduate students, post-docs, and faculty. The set of solutions to a diophantine equation is strongly influenced by the geometry of the associated algebraic...

The vast majority of organisms, because of their small size, live in a regime where their inertia is negligible. Familiar strategies for locomotion through fluids, such as imparting momentum onto the surrounding medium, are ineffective at this scale...

Before Mazur proved his theorem on the possible torsion groups on elliptic curves over Q, Manin had shown in 1969 that for a fixed number field K and prime p, the p-primary torsion of elliptic curves over K was uniformly bounded. We will explain a...

The alignment of genetic and protein sequences has taught us an enormous amount about biology, evolution, and disease. The alignment of biological networks has the potential to be equally enlightening, because if we can align a network of a well...

The search for oil and gas has three objectives: to identify and evaluate hydrocarbon-bearing reservoirs; to bring hydrocarbons to the surface safely and cost-effectively, without harming the environment; and to maximize the yield from each discovery...