Understand the principles of efficient algorithms for dealing with large scale data sets and be able to select appropriate algorithms for specific problems. Understand and be able to apply the main ...

What do a river, earthquakes and the internet have in common? If you asked statistics professor Ilya Zaliapin, he would tell you the answer is tree graphs (or, simply – trees). “Research-wise, I am ...

For thousands of years, philosophers have pondered cardinality: knowing “how many.” Using a series of crude estimates, the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes worked out the approximate number of ...

When a Yule tree is not a yule tree: in 1924, G. U. Yule created a graph to map genealogical history. At this time of year, the words “Yule tree” may conjure images of brightly decorated balsam firs.