University of Alberta

I will begin by introducing the Penrose tiling -- the most famous example of a self-similar quasi-periodic pattern. In addition to its beauty and mathematical interest, this pattern has a famous physical application to exotic materials called...

Determining information about the state of a complex physical system from observations of its behavior is a fundamental problem in scientific inference and engineering design. Often, this can be formulated as the stochastic inverse problem of...

Biodegradation in soils has many implications for humankind. The importance of studying this process relies upon, for example, the impact of global warming, increasing food security and mitigating soil degradation. From the diverse problems to tackle...

This work describes how machine learning may be used to develop accurate and efficient nonlinear dynamical systems models for complex natural and engineered systems. We explore the sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy) algorithm, which...