University of Regina

Discs are among the simplest manifolds, but their groups of diffeomorphisms can be very complicated. I will describe the techniques from geometry topology and dynamics that were used to understand these groups in low dimensions, the relationship of...

The “key risk measures” such as Value-at-Risk (VaR) and Conditional Tail Expectation (CTE) are important for capital allocation decisions as they inform actuaries and risk managers about the degree to which a line of business or a company is exposed...

“What kind of rings can be represented as singular cohomology rings of spaces?” is a classic problem in algebraic topology, posed by Steenrod. When the rings are polynomial, this problem was especially well studied by various approaches, and finally...