When you are eating a salad, do you ever wonder where your vegetables come from? Not which farmers were responsible for growing them, but rather, how have these plants evolved into the vegetables we know today? What did the genomes
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Most people’s idea of a zombie survival kit consists of guns, canned food, cricket bats and Dire Straits records. They don’t tend to include calculus textbooks, but I’d argue they should. If you’re faced with an enormous, apparently intractable problem,
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When Professor Robert Smith? (written with a question mark) told students in his graduate level interdisciplinary mathematics class for biology students that they could model any contagious disease for their final assignment, he wasn’t envisaging a study of the meteoric
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Mathematician. The word might not conjure up the most exciting career picture for some, but the excitement in Monica Nevins’ voice when she talks about her work just might change a few minds. Nevins is an associate professor in the
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Earlier this month, the University of Ottawa Press (UOP) published Braaaiiinnnsss!: From Academics to Zombies, edited by Robert Smith?, associate professor of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics (the question mark is part of Smith?’s name). The book has had
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