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The simplicial complex of talk I consists of pieces of the classifying spaces of symmetric groups. We use this to investigate the homology of moduli spaces. At the end, we discuss generalizations, where the symmetric groups are replaced by other...

In this talk a finite dimensional approximation of the recently constructed Wasserstein diffusion on the unit interval is presented. More precisely, the empirical measure process associated to a system of interacting, two-sided Bessel processes with...

The workshop takes place at two sites: The Fields Institute in Toronto and The IRMACS Centre in Vancouver. While participants are welcome at either site, we anticipate that most participants will choose the closer or easier site. We will share (by...

The Min system in E.coli -- a group of three interacting proteins playing a role in cell division -- has attracted a lot of attention by modellers, some claiming it to be the 'measurement stick' in the rod-shaped bacterium. Different models have been...

We study the controllability of a shape changing body immersed in a perfect fluid. The shape changes are prescribed as functions of time and satisfy constraints ensuring that they are due to the work of body's internal forces only. The net locomotion...

Growth is involved in many fundamental biological processes such as morphogenesis, physiological regulation, or pathological disorders. It is, in general, a process of enormous complexity, involving genetic, biochemical, and physical components at...

The Benjamin-Ono equation is a model for several physical phenomena, including gravity-driven internal waves in certain density-stratified fluids. It has the features of being a nonlocal equation (the dispersion term involves the Hilbert transform of...

The hp-adaptive finite elements combine elements of varying size h and polynomial order p to deliver approximation properties superior to any other discretization methods. The best approximation error converges exponentially fast to zero as a...

Abstract: This talk is based on a joint work with St\'ephane Kirsch. Pulsating traveling fronts are solutions of heterogeneous reaction-advection-diffusion equations that model some population dynamics. Fixing a unitary direction $e$, it is a well...