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I will discuss recent results on the analysis of the vanishing viscosity limit, that is, whether solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations converge to solutions of the Euler equations, for incompressible fluids when walls are present. At small...

The ternary Goldbach problem stated that every odd integer greater than 5 can be written as sums of three primes. This was proved by Vinogradov for all sufficiently large odd integers and completely proved by Helfgott. On the other hand, by using...

We are faced with a flood of molecular and clinical data. We are measuring interactions between various bio-molecules in a cell that form large, complex systems. Patient omics datasets are also increasingly becoming available. These systems-level...

Motivated by cotyledon patterns in conifer embryos, we study pattern emergence in solutions of systems reaction-diffusion partial differential equations on evolving curved surfaces. We start by reviewing results on a static domain. Then, we go over...

We shall give an overview of what Khovanov cohomology and its relatives have told us about knot concordance over the past 15 years. No knowledge required. Includes joint work with Lukas Lewark and Peter Feller.

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a ubiquitous infection worldwide and is associated with the development of several kinds of cancers. Rates of EBV replication and disease are higher in individuals who are co-infected with HIV-1; however, the causes of...

The conjugate gradient algorithm (CG) is a widely used iterative method for solving large symmetric positive definite linear systems Ax=b. Beginning in the 1980's (and, even earlier, in the thesis of Paige dating back to 1971), a great deal of...

The Math Catcher Outreach program aims to promote mathematics and scholarship in general by encouraging elementary and high school students to recognize how math is used in everyday life and how it forms the basis for many of our daily decisions and...

L-functions associated with automorphic forms are vast generalizations of Riemann zeta functions and Dirichlet L-functions. Although the theory of L-functions play a fundamental role in number theory, it is still largely conjectural. If π is an...

Let A be a finite-dimensional algebra. A fundamental theorem of Drozd shows that the complexity of the representation theory of A belongs to exactly one of three rather distinct classes, called finite, tame or wild representation type. I will explain...