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The mathematical modelling of SARS-CoV-2 infection and the spread of the disease COVID-19 is focussing on two major objectives. The first one is to understand and manage the epidemiology of the disease. To understand the transition of the epidemic...

Metastability is a wide-spread phenomenon in the dynamics of non-linear systems subject to noise. In the narrower perspective of statistical physics, metastable behaviour can be seen as the dynamical manifestation of a first-order phase transition. A...

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This is a continuation of the first lecture given on Monday. See here for more details

Given a discrete subset V in the plane, how many points would you expect there to be in a ball of radius 100? What if the radius is 10,000? Due to the results of Fairchild and forthcoming work with Burrin, when V arises as orbits of non-uniform...

Throughout the lifespan of an organism, tissues are remodeled to shape organs and organisms and to maintain tissue integrity and homeostasis. Apical constriction is a ubiquitous cell shape change of epithelial tissues that promotes epithelia folding...

This is a continuation of the first lecture given on Monday. See here for more details

Mixing and hitting times are fundamental parameters of a Markov chain. In this mini-course I will discuss connections between them for reversible Markov chains.

We thank all registrants for their interest in this event. However, ithe organizers have decided to cancel this event in the interest of public health and safety. If you had registered for this event, an email will be sent to you on the refund...

This talk will present Veech's criterion for an ergodic probability measure preserving system to be prime. It will define factors of measure preserving systems, prime and self-joinings and provide examples. It uses disintegration of measures, the...