University of Alberta

Cancer is a complex disease with many unknown features. The evolution of tumors greatly depends on the interaction network among different cell types, including immune cells and cancer cells in the tumor. To overcome some of the outstanding...

In this talk, I will introduce an SIS patch endemic model with cognitive dispersal. When $\mathcal{R}_0>1$, I give a sufficient condition for the uniqueness of endemic equilibrium. At the unique endemic equilibrium, I prove that the disease...

Malignant gliomas are highly invasive brain tumors. Recent attention has focused on their capacity for network-driven invasion, whereby mitotic events can be followed by the migration of nuclei along long thin cellular protrusions, termed tumour...

The data association problem is the difficult part of the multi-object tracking problem. The problem is to: (i) classify measurements (e.g., position, shape, etc) as true positives or false positives, ( ii) classify tracked objects as observed (i.e...

The Game of Cycles, introduced in my book Mathematics for Human Flourishing, is played on a connected planar graph together with its bounded cells, and players take turns marking edges with arrows according to a sink-source rule that gives the game a...

The nonlinear incidence mechanism is a more general disease transmission mechanism to fit the data in clinical observations or laboratory experiments. In a heterogeneous environment, how to describe the cognitive dispersal of individuals is also an...

Gliomas are the most prevalent, aggressive, and invasive subtype of primary brain tumors, characterized by fast cell growth, strong invasion capability, and well-developed tumor vasculature. Their growth and migration in the brain is a highly complex...

Transient dynamics are referred to as those dynamics that happen on ecologically relevant timescales, in which classical modelling techniques often fail to capture. Due to the ever-changing environments and ecosystems, increased interest has been...

Functions of microorganisms like looking for nutrition and biological processes such as infection and reproduction are possible due to microfluidic motion. Developments over the past two decades in tracking and manipulation at the microfluidic level...

The Riemann zeta function plays a central role in our understanding of the prime numbers. In this talk we will review some of its amazing properties as well as properties of other similar functions, the Dirichlet L-functions. We will then see how the...