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Cellular decisions rely upon a cell making some measurement of its surroundings and then regulating its behaviour based on this measurement. For many cellular processes this decision is regulated by the transcriptional output of a gene which is...

The Schramm-Loewner evolution (SLE) is a one-parameter family of random growth processes that has been successfully used to analyze a number of models from two-dimensional statistical mechanics. Currently there is interest in trying to formalize our...

Anomaly detection is the early recognition of significant events that occur within a communications network. The use of graph metrics such as graph edit distance and graph diameters to model changes in networks and to detect anomaly has been well...

I will give a transverse introduction to how Boundary Integral techniques (or their numerical version, the Boundary Element Method) have been and are being used for scattering problems. While in the beginning the field of boundary integral equations...

In microscopic systems formed by living cells, the small numbers of some reactant molecules can result in dynamical behavior that is discrete and stochastic rather than continuous and deterministic. An analysis tool that respects these dynamical...

A famous congruence equation question is the solvability of x y = c (mod q) with x, y in intervals of length q^{1/2 + epsilon}. In this talk, we will discuss its history and recent developments. We will show that it is solvable for almost all pairs...

In [Mazur, Visualizing elements of order three in the Shafarevich-Tate group, Asian J. Math. 3 (1999), no. 1, 221-232], Mazur proves that any element in Sha[3](E/K) can be made visible in an abelian surface. Mazur did not comment on whether this...

Almost twenty years ago, the celebrated theorem of Witten-Kontsevich asserted that the intersection theory of Deligne-Mumford space is governed by KdV-hierarchies. Around the same time, Witten proposed a sweeping generalization which leads to the...