University of Victoria

We present a new representation of the Mallows permutations to stable matchings on a random bi-partite graph. We also derive new results for the scaling limits of the cycles in the Mallows permutations in terms of the Ethier-Kurtz diffusion. Joint...

Leslie Hogben is the Dio Lewis Holl Chair in Applied Mathematics and Professor of Mathematics at Iowa State University, and the Associate Director for Diversity of the American Institute of Mathematics. She received her B.A. from Swarthmore College...

Inverse eigenvalue problems appear in various contexts throughout mathematics and engineering, and refer to determining whether or not there is a matrix with a prescribed structure (e.g., tridiagonal) and prescribed spectral property (e.g., having a...

Building secure cryptographic implementations is notoriously hard. In this talk, I will outline a general methodology that delivers formal guarantees on assembly-level implementations through a combination of ideas from deductive program verification...

Two lectures from this event are available on mathtube.org. Public Goods, from Biofilms to Societies - Simon Levin, Public Lecture Mathematical ecology: A century of progress, and challenges for the next century - Simon Levin, Plenary Lecture To...

This is a conference in honour of Professor Andrew J. Majda’s 70th birthday. A public lecture on dinosaurs and the theories of mass extinction will be given on July 24th by Gerta Keller. The local organizer of the conference is by Boualem Khouider...

For the past 40 years the demise of the dinosaurs has been attributed to an asteroid impact on Yucatan, a theory that is imaginative, popular and even sexy. From the very beginning, scientists who doubted this theory were threatened into silence or...

ABSTRACT: Optimization and optimal dynamical control are used to investigate the accuracy of analytical estimates for solutions of some basic nonlinear partial differential equations of mathematical hydrodynamics. Even though many mathematical...

Improvements in sequencing technology mean that we have rich data on how infections evolve and spread. In this talk I will describe two settings where this calls for new mathematics. Trees -- in the sense of graphs with no cycles -- are a cornerstone...

New kinds of data are giving rise to exciting new opportunities in public health. The recent revolution in DNA sequencing means that for the first time, we can read the sequences of viruses and bacteria that cause human disease. This allows us to...