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The notions of noise sensitivity and stability were recently extended for the voter model, a well-known and studied interactive particle system. In this model, vertices of a graph have opinions that are updated by uniformly selecting edges. We...

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A directed variant of the famous Oberwolfach problem, the directed Oberwolfach problem considers the following scenario. Given n people seated at t round tables of size m1,m2…,mt, respectively, such that m1+m2+⋯+mt=n, does there exist a set of n−1...

To effectively reduce methane emissions from oil sands tailings ponds, it is crucial to comprehensively understand the characteristics of methane input and the specific contribution of each element to the overall emission. In this procedure, one must...

Let E be an elliptic curve over a number field F. We will discuss the structure of certain modules that arise in the Iwasawa theory of elliptic curves and their applications to the growth of Mordell-Weil ranks along infinite Galois extensions of F...

In a seminal paper, Kannan and Lovász (1988) considered a quantity µ K L ( Λ , K ) which denotes the best volume-based lower bound on the covering radius µ ( Λ , K ) of a convex body K with respect to a lattice Λ . Kannan and Lovász proved that µ ( Λ...

The principal-agent problem is an important paradigm in economic theory for studying the value of private information; the nonlinear pricing problem faced by a monopolist is one example; others include optimal taxation and auction design. For...

Stellarators are promising magnetic fusion devices for electricity generation, because the dynamics of the hot fusion fuel - called a plasma - is largely determined by external control, as opposed to dynamical self-organization, as is the case for...

Let f and g be two newforms with equal coefficient fields. In this talk we will see how a congruence between the Galois representations of f and g for a sufficiently large prime p implies strong conditions between the algebras of endomorphisms of the...

In everybody’s first course in category theory, we learn that categories have two different flavours of morphism: 0-morphisms (which are categories themselves), 1-morphisms (which are functors), and 2-morphisms (which are natural transformations). In...