University of Alberta

Modern physics involves beautiful and intricate mathematics, and entirely new mathematical structures often emerge from physical theories. An example of this is the concept of Airy structures, which was first introduced by Kontsevich and Soibelman in...

Advances in microscopy can now provide snapshot images of individual RNA molecules within a nucleus. Decoding the underlying spatiotemporal dynamics is important for understanding gene expression, but challenging due to the static, heterogeneous, and...

Reovirus is a nonpathogenic virus that inhabits the enteric tract of mammals. It is a double-stranded RNA virus that showed the ability to naturally infect and lyse tumors under in vitro and in vivo conditions. Unmodified reovirus (T3wt) is currently...

Together with climate change, the increase in anthropogenic and natural disturbances affects the envi- ronmental conditions of an ecosystem and thus can cause a pronounced change in its functionality. It, therefore, becomes critical to have an...

The basis of protein localization to membraneless compartments within cells has been a longstanding question that is increasingly thought to reflect biological phase separation, but other strategies may exist. To this end, the presentation will show...

On a few examples, such as the permanent of a matrix, (partition function for a system of bosons), matching polynomial of a graph (partition function in a monomer-dimer system), and the independence polynomial of a graph (partition function in the...

Many natural and social phenomena involve individual agents coming together to create group dynamics, whether the agents are drivers in a traffic jam, cells in a developing tissue, or locusts in a swarm. Here I will focus on the specific example of...

Tulips have captivated human interest for centuries, with their vibrant colors and unique shapes. Particularly striped tulips have been highly popular, leading to the “tulipomania” in the Dutch Golden Age. But how do the tulips get their stripes...

The moduli space of Higgs bundles on a complex algebraic curve — an object that originates from Yang-Mills theory in theoretical physics, but which now lies at the interface of algebraic geometry and geometric representation theory — is perhaps best...

Dynamical systems are inevitably subject to noise perturbations, making the study of the stability issues under noise perturbations a fundamental problem. Often used to characterize the complexity of dynamical behaviours, invariant measures...