University of Alberta

Part one: Jupyter and the PIMS Hub. The Jupyter Notebook is an open web application for quickly creating mathematical documents with TeX, live computer code, data analysis, and visualization. We will demonstrate Jupyter in use for both teaching and...

Games are everywhere. We play games to entertain ourselves, motivate ourselves, and educate ourselves. This is particularly true of children, where games are educational tools that both encourage and evaluate mastery of many mental skills. What about...

A video of this event is available on The Pennsylvania Department of Correction operates 29 correctional facilities (prisons) and about 50,000 prisoners (inmates) each year. The assignments of inmates to appropriate correctional facilities is a...

Physical, geophysical, chemical, living and man-made systems often show behaviors that cannot be understood by studying their building blocks or constituents to ever finer detail but that are emergent. The concept of emergence can be summarized by...

The American Statistical Association (ASA) DataFest is a celebration of data in which teams of undergraduates work around the clock to find and share meaning in a large, rich, and complex data set. From March 29–31, undergraduate students from...

I shall first explain the concept of sparse solution of rectangular linear system. Algorithms such as L1 minimization and greedy strategy will be introduced for finding a sparse solution of underdetermined linear system. As an example, economic...

Chronic disease management often involves sequential decisions that have long-term implications. Those decisions are based on high dimensional information, which pose a problem for traditional modeling paradigms. In some key instances, the disease...

With advanced in computer and sensor technologies, large-scale data sets are now routinely generated and recorded from a wide range of sources in business, sciences, engineering, health care and medical research, etc. Although data-driven method...

In many fields such as medicine, engineering, economics and psychology, we often encounter a pooled population and its observations while the subpopulation identification is of interest but unobserved. For example, primary care physicians want to...

We present a technique called M-adaptation, based on the mimetic finite difference method, for minimizing numerical dispersion error in edge discretizations of the time-domain vector wave equation on square meshes. The temporal discretization uses...