University of Alberta

Ordinal outcomes are common in scientific research and everyday practice, and we often rely on regression models to make inference. A long-standing problem with such regression analyses is the lack of effective diagnostic tools for validating model...

We propose, analyze and test Anderson-accelerated Picard iterations for solving the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations (NSE). Anderson acceleration has recently gained interest as a strategy to accelerate linear and nonlinear iterations, based on...

Parkinson’s disease is a debilitating condition causing highly disruptive motor complications. Although this condition has long been recognized and treated medically, many aspects of the disease and its treatment are not well understood. In fact...

The goal of this conference is to drastically rethink the first-year university mathematics curriculum. What skills and knowledge do we want students to develop and gain in mathematics courses? What pedagogical methods are most effective? How can we...

Midpoint rule is a numerical integrator for ordinary differential equations. When used to simulate mechanical systems, it may reveal various structure-preserving features, such as symplecticity. The talk will discuss the variational origins and...

The inverse algebraic approximation is addressed and established the direct and inverse approximation of algebraic polynomials in the Jacobi-weighted Sobolev and Besov spaces. With the approximation theory of algebraic polynomials, we investigate the...

The Canadian Conference on General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics (CCGRRA) has been an important conference for the community of general relativists and relativistic astrophysicists in Canada for over 30 years. The meeting will bring...

The Sixth G. J. Butler International Conference on Differential Equations and Population Biology will be held on the University of Alberta campus, Edmonton, from July 23-27, 2018. This conference in the memory of our late colleague, Geoffrey James...

When a sequence of numbers is slowly converging and when it is impossible to have access to the process producing it, it can be transformed, by a sequence transformation, into a new sequence which, under some assumptions, converges faster to the same...

Stochastic fluctuations in temperature, precipitation and a host of other environmental factors occur at multiple spatial and temporal scales. As the survival and reproduction of organisms, whether they be plants, animals, or viruses, depend on these...