Past Events

The emergence of novel infectious diseases has become a major public health concern, with zoonotic diseases such as avian and swine flu providing prominent examples. Although initially poorly adapted to their new host, such pathogens have the...

Goresky and MacPherson observed that certain pairs of algebraic varieties with torus actions have equivariant cohomology rings that are "dual" in a sense that I will define. Examples of such pairs come up naturally in both representation theory and...

Reinhard Illner (University of Victoria), Traffic flow and traffic jams: from kinetic theory to functional differential equations I will speak on certain kinetic and macroscopic models of traffic flow. After a review of the concept of a fundamental...

I will speak on certain kinetic and macroscopic models of traffic flow. After a review of the concept of a fundamental diagram the high-density regime will be considered, and the emergence of macroscopic models with nolocalities will be discussed...

A common problem in seismic interpretation is the search for discontinuities such as faults. The usual approach to identifying these features is the coherency method (Bahorich and Farmer, 1995). The phase congruency algorithm detects corners and...

In animal cells, a "bleb" is a balloon-like protrusion of the plasma membrane that forms when the membrane separates from the underlying cytoskeletal network and is pushed outward by pressure-driven cytosol. The protrusion later retracts due to the...

We describe a fourth order family generalizing the linear-mobility thin film equation on R^n. In joint work with R. McCann we derive formally sharp converence rates to self-similarity, using a link to Denzler-McCann's analysis of a second order...

In this talk the Meshing program Netgen and the Finite Element library NGSolve are introduced. The possibilities of this software package will be highlighted with the help of two modern examples for Advanced Higher Order Finite Element Methods: A...

In the first part of the talk, I will explain why we may need to go beyond the standard framework of transition state theory (TST) to describe activated processes and reactive events, and I will present another framework, termed transition path...

In the first of a two lecture series (to be completed by Dave Anderson immediately following), we present a new geometric interpretation of equivariant cohomology in which one replaces a smooth, complex $G$-variety $X$ by its associated arc space $J_...