Past Events

What protects your computer password when you log on, or your credit card number when you shop on-line, from hackers listening on the communication lines? Can two people who never met create a secret language in the presence of others, which no one...

Interdisciplinary research is proposed as one way or even the way to tackle complex scientific problems, as individual researchers or disciplines lack sufficient knowledge or expertise to do so. Statisticians are well suited to interdisciplinary...

Alberta has rich sources of administrative health data and the Ambulatory Care Classification System provides an opportunity for research focused on Emergency Department (ED) presentations. I have examined the epidemiology of ED presentations for...

This talk underscores the importance of design methods and practices in approaching challenges in the representation of big data. The talk will first reference debates regarding the role and nature of aesthetics and the importance of these to...

We report on the work on endoscopic classification for quasi-split unitary groups. We will highlight some local and global results that are corollaries of the theory.

Bootstrap percolation, one of the simplest cellular automata, can be viewed as an oversimplified model of the spread of an infection on a graph. In the past three decades, much work has been done on bootstrap percolation on finite grids of a given...

Given a probability measure $\mu$ on a domain $\Omega \subset \R^d$, we consider the symmetric version of the Monge-Kantorovich theorem on the product space $\Omega^N$, where the cost function $c$ is symmetric and all the prescribed marginals are...

Mathematics often is described as the language of science, particularly suited to speak to problems in physics, chemistry, engineering, and so on. Is mathematics also the language of life, suited to speak to problems in biology? Indeed, mathematics...

In this talk we will give a non-singular compactification of Hilbert modular surfaces by constructing a particular toric variety for each cusp. Other than the familiar compactification of modular curves this illustrative example is the simplest case...

Many scientific research problems are concerned with relationships among a group of variables. In real data analysis often some of these variables cannot be directly or precisely measured, and instead indirect or imprecise measurements have to be...