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An intriguing application of Deep Learning research is the use of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) for image processing, as seen for example in the Prisma app and the Deep Dream algorithm. At SFU SIAT's iVizLab, we are using DCNNs within...

We will discuss the concept of the general monotonicity of sequences/functions. Some applications to various problems of harmonic analysis and approximation theory will be considered.

The Min system is an important regulator network involved in E-coli cell division. However, although the effects and chemicals involved in this network are known, there still remain a variety of hypotheses about the exact reactions and mechanisms...

I am working with colleagues on several projects modelling Lithium Ion batteries. Experimental results are fit to simple models of performance and "State of Health", a vaguely defined measure of the change of battery characteristics with use and age...

A "Strongly Regular Graph", SRG(?,k,lambda,mu), is a k-regular graph with v vertices such that every two adjacent vertices have lambda common neighbors, and every two non-adjacent vertices have mu common neighbors. Let M be any power of 2, and let M'...

Surface tension is the driving force of a large number of phenomena of great theoretical and practical importance. In this seminar I will attempt to give a general overview of the theoretical and numerical techniques available to accurately model...

Surface tension is the driving force of a large number of phenomena of great theoretical and practical importance. In this seminar I will attempt to give a general overview of the theoretical and numerical techniques available to accurately model...

The algebraic K-theory, due to Quillen, of a field is related to a theory defined by Milnor called Milnor K-theory and denoted K^M. In the 1980s, Andrei Suslin constructed a map K_n(F) -> K^M_n(F), and conjectured that the image was the subgroup (n-1...

It has long been known that many interesting questions in probability have a formulation in the language of spin systems. However, it has been only rather recently that the methods developed for spin systems were applied to finally obtain answers to...

Pattern formation is quite recurrent in the natural world such as in the stripes or dots in some animals' coat. The morphogen hypothesis introduced by Turing in 1952 has been used and studied extensively to explain such patterns on several different...