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Biological aggregations such as insect swarms, bird flocks, and fish schools are arguably some of the most common and least understood patterns in nature. In this talk, I will discuss recent work on swarming models, focusing on the connection between...

Group field theory is the higher-dimensional generalization of random matrix models. As it has built-in scales and automatically sums over metrics and discretizations, it provides a combinatoric origin for space time. Its graphs facilitate a new...

Gauss-Lobatto spectral elements, based on hexahedral meshes, provide a very efficient way to solve transient wave equations in terms of storage and of computational time. Unfortunately, it is very difficult and almost impossible in some cases to...

If H is a variation of Hodge structure over a variety S, then there is a family of complex tori J(H) over S associated to H. Admissible normal functions are certain sections of J(H) over S. Roughly speaking, they are the ones that have the...

The Northwest Functional Analysis Seminar (NWFAS) is a bi-annual regional scientific meeting of researchers (faculty and postdoctoral) and graduate students in functional analysis. Participants are drawn from universities in Western Canada and the...

This talk demonstrates a new metric for measuring phonetic similarity between speech sounds, based on several types of phonetic data collected for a set of 130 consonants and vowels. Phonetic similarity is frequently invoked for explaining a wide...

Equivariant Lefschetz invariants have already appeared in algebraic topology. Here I will show how to approach them using the so-called equivariant KK-theory of Kasparov — the main tool of the new field of noncommutative geometry. I will sketch the...

We study and determine a homotopy type of the moduli space of all generalized Morse functions on d-manifolds for given d. This moduli space is closely connected to the moduli space of all Morse functions studied by Madsen and Weiss and classifying...

After an introduction on Tikhonov regularization for linear inverse problems, we will encounter an example from inverse electromyography, where the classical Tikhonov method runs into numerical trouble. We will then look at an alternative approach...