Abstract: Bats in North America have been dying off due to the invasion of a fungal disease (White Nose Syndrome). In this talk, I'll present a very simple linear algebraic […]
TOPIC: Exploring the fascinating world of prime numbers, Part I The study of patterns in the sequence of prime numbers has fascinated mathematicians for centuries. Are there formulas that generate prime […]
The exchange algorithm enables Bayesian posterior inference for models with intractable likelihoods, such as Ising, Potts, or exponential random graph models (ERGM). Crucially, this algorithm relies on an auxiliary Markov […]
Moment generating functions (Laplace transforms) are a means for transforming probability problems into problems involving polynomials. Here I will concentrate on the binomial distribution, and use the mgf to link […]
Abstract: In 1960 Rudolph Kalman published what is arguably the first paper to develop a systematic, principled approach to the use of data to improve the predictive capability of mathematical models. As our […]
When Charles Darwin began writing “On the Origin of Species” he knew that explaining cooperative behavior in the context of “survival of the fittest” was problematic. In fact, this apparent […]
Frequency hopping is a method of transmitting signals by rapidly switching between many frequency channels, following some sequence of frequencies known to the transmitter and the receiver. This technique is used in […]
In this talk we use the unit-graphs and the special unit-digraphs on matrix rings to show that every n x n nonzero matrix over F_q can be written as a […]
Growth regulation and pattern formation are two main problems in developmental biol- ogy. How cells know when to stop growing at certain tissue size with specic shape is an important […]
It has been observed that motor neuron synapses in the worm C. elegans are remarkably evenly spaced, even during growth and development. In this work, we propose a novel mechanism […]
The Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem is one of the most important open problems in modern mathematics. Ya. Sinai and D. Li have proposed a renormalization approach to constructing a counter-example […]
