Simon Fraser University

I will present an overview of various results on dynamics and equilibria of a simple first-order aggregation model. In spite of its simplicity, there is rich mathematics and a variety of issues that can be investigated for this model.

We prove two related concentration inequalities concerning the points of elliptic curves contained within subsets of F_p^2. In particular we investigate the probability of a large difference between the portions of quadratic residues and non-residues...

Mechanical properties of materials are usually determined by defects, their evolution and interaction. Therefore, the key to design new and better materials than those available nowadays relies on understanding, controlling, and ultimately...

The idea of this event is to offer graduate students in Statistics and Actuarial Science with an opportunity to attend a seminar with accessible talks providing them an introduction to active areas of research in the field. For three students from...

We present an algorithm for coupling inexpensive low-fidelity model simulations with high-fidelity simulation data of parameterized differential equations. The goal is to grab a "free lunch": simulation accuracy of the high-fidelity model with...

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The response of the muscle-tissue unit (MTU) to activation and applied forces is affected by the architectural details as well as the material properties of this nearly-incompressible tissue. We will describe the (highly nonlinear) elastic equations...

Wachs and White introduced four statistics on restricted growth functions or RGFs. An RGF is a sequence of positive integers $w=w_1w_2\dots w_n$ such that $w_1=1$ and $w_i \leq 1+\maw_1w_2\dots w_{i-1})$. We say that an RGF $w$ avoids $v$ if there is...

This talk is intended for those who, like the speaker, have at some point wondered whether there is a theory of three- or higher-dimensional matrices that parallels matrix theory. A d-dimensional hypermatrix may be viewed as a coordinate...

What do toothpaste, paint and glaciers have in common? All three fluids usually behave like a plastic solid, but as soon as the stress exceeds a critical threshold, they suddenly begin to flow like a viscous liquid. Rheologists refer to such...