University of Calgary

In many applications, ranging from engineering to economics and applied mathematics, it is often desired to locate an extremum of a functional that captures the performance of the system. Typically, such an extremum has to be found subject to a set...

Palaeontology has traditionally focused on describing new fossils and determining the relationships and evolutionary history of extinct life forms. Sometimes, it even attempts to understand how the unusual animals of the past would have gone about...

The use -- and misuse -- of financial derivatives has a long history, and the current crisis is not the only one in which they have been implicated. In this talk I'll tell some of these stories, and give an introduction to the mathematical ideas that...

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This two week intensive learning experience is designed to give graduate students in the Mathematical Sciences an opportunity to learn industrial mathematical modelling techniques under the guidance of renowned industrial researchers. Graduate...

Randomness pervades the biochemical processes that make up life at the cellular level; variations in the dynamic behaviour of cellular processes have been observed even if cells are genetically identical and located in identical environments...

There is a long-standing assumption that more effective mathematics teaching is linked to taking more courses in mathematics. Unfortunately, despite extensive efforts, there is virtually no proof to support this suspicion. That dearth of evidence has...