University of Manitoba

A video of this event is available on mathtube.org. Matrices contain combinatorial information. They may provide alternative representations of combinatorial ideas. Examples include permutation matrices as representations of permutations of a finite...

The extent to which climate change may affect human health by facilitating biological invasion and vector-host interaction to increase vector-borne diseases has been under considerable debate, resolution of which imposes significant challenge for...

The focus of the conference is on current topics in discrete and computational geometry, including both theoretical and applied results. CCCG has been held annually since 1989; as of 2010, CCCG will have been hosted at sixteen different Canadian...

The 2008 Western Canada Linear Algebra Meeting (WCLAM) will be held at the University of Manitoba in rooms E2 330 and E2 350 of the Engineering Building on May 30-31, 2008. This is the 8th in a series of meetings that have been held since 1993; the...

The intersection of graph searching and probabilistic methods is a new topic within graph theory, with applications to graph searching problems such as the game of Cops and Robbers and its many variants, Firefighting, graph burning, and acquaintance...

We develop a dynamic programming methodology that seeks to maximize investor outcomes over multiple, potentially competing goals (such as upgrading a home, paying college tuition, or maintaining an income stream in retirement), even when financial...

In meiosis, DNA is copied from parents to offspring, so that individuals who share common ancestors may have identical DNA copies from those ancestors through repeated meiosis. This identical-by-descent (IBD) DNA underlies the similarities between...

When subjects are exposed to full field flicker in certain frequencies, they perceive a variety of complex geometric patterns that are often called flicker hallucinations. On the other had, when looking at high contrast geometric patterns like op art...

The relationship between mapping class groups of surfaces and low-dimensional topology has long been a fruitful one. From Thurston's characterization of geometric structures on mapping tori in terms of the Nielsen-Thurston type of the mapping class...

A video of this event is available on mathtube.org. Given a matrix-valued function F that depend nonlinearly on a single parameter z, the basic nonlinear eigenvalue problem consists of finding complex scalars z for which F(z) is singular. Such...