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STORM is a super-resolution technique that uses photoswitchable fluorophores to achieve resolutions at or below 20nm. A downside of STORM is the possibility of recording several blinks from one fluorophore, affecting the estimation of the number of...

The Western Canada Linear Algebra Meeting (W-CLAM) provides an opportunity for mathematicians in western Canada and US working in linear algebra and related fields to meet, present accounts of their recent research, and to have informal discussions...

Introduction to the block element method, a new mathematical method based on high-level mathematics. The method is applicable to boundary value problems for partial differential equations and their systems. The method includes a number of other...

Oregon Number Theory Days is a triannual number theory seminar rotating between Oregon State University, Portland State University, and the University of Oregon. Our May speakers include Rachel Pries and Özlem Ejder. Rachel Pries , Lecture I: Newton...

In the Kirchoff-Love theory, the vertical displacement of a homogeneous, thin clamped plate under pure bending satisfies the biharmonic equation in a two dimensional domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions (the value and normal derivative are...

We start with a general introduction to pro-objects in topological and geometric settings, with descriptions of well-known examples, including Postnikov towers, absolute Galois groups, and etale homotopy types. This is followed by a brief discussion...

Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) is a vector-borne disease endemic to rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa. Over the last 150 years the disease has been a serious challenge to the people of Africa, with multiple outbreaks resulting the deaths of...

I will describe recent joint work with Jeroen Sijsling, Drew Sutherland, John Voight and Dan Yasaki on genus 2 curves over Q. Our work has three primary goals: (1) produce an extensive table of genus 2 curves and their associated invariants; (2)...

Predicting the impacts of environmental change on species requires a mechanistic understanding of biological processes such as foraging, migration, and reproduction. However, the continuous behavioural data needed to assess how these processes change...

In this talk, I will discuss recent joint work with Wissam Raji. We show that, on average, the L-functions of cuspidal Hilbert modular forms with sufficiently large weight k do not vanish on the line segments I(s)=t0, R(s)∈(k−12,k2−ϵ)∪(k2+ϵ,k+12)...