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Math Mania presents a variety of interactive demonstrations, games and art such as soap bubbles, 'get your goat' (Monty Hall game), the penny game, the Set Game, the 'Game of 24', kaleidoscopes and hexaflexagons, Nim, Tower of Hanoi, the amazing...

A video of this event is available on The Pennsylvania Department of Correction operates 29 correctional facilities (prisons) and about 50,000 prisoners (inmates) each year. The assignments of inmates to appropriate correctional facilities is a...

Final list of Projects Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Dr. Jack Tuszynski: "Optimization of Drug Structure for Protein Targets Using Molecular Morphology Characterization." SinoVeda, Edmonton, Dr. Y.K. Tam: "Optimization of Multi-Drug Composition...

Join us for lunch and a presentation highlighting opportunities offered by NSERC and Mitacs to establish connections between industry and academics. Students and industry professionals are welcome to attend. NSERC offers several programs that might...

Part one: Jupyter and the PIMS Hub. The Jupyter Notebook is an open web application for quickly creating mathematical documents with TeX, live computer code, data analysis, and visualization. We will demonstrate Jupyter in use for both teaching and...

Games are everywhere. We play games to entertain ourselves, motivate ourselves, and educate ourselves. This is particularly true of children, where games are educational tools that both encourage and evaluate mastery of many mental skills. What about...

The American Statistical Association (ASA) DataFest is a celebration of data in which teams of undergraduates work around the clock to find and share meaning in a large, rich, and complex data set. From March 29–31, undergraduate students from...

I shall first explain the concept of sparse solution of rectangular linear system. Algorithms such as L1 minimization and greedy strategy will be introduced for finding a sparse solution of underdetermined linear system. As an example, economic...

In many fields such as medicine, engineering, economics and psychology, we often encounter a pooled population and its observations while the subpopulation identification is of interest but unobserved. For example, primary care physicians want to...