Computational Math Day

  • Date: 08/12/2011
Speaker(s):

Andrew Rechnitzer

Nils Bruin

Anne Greenbaum

Nilima Nigam

Mary-Catherine Kropinski 

Mike Monagan

Location: 

Simon Fraser University

Description: 

Computational Math Day will have speakers and posters on a range of topics focussing on computation. 

 

Session Titles:

- GAS sampling of polygons and knot probability ratios

- Decidability of the existence of rational points on algebraic curves

- Crouzeix's Conjecture and Perturbed Jordan Blocks

- How do bones grow? From lab to desktop, a mathematical journey

- Fast intergral equation methods for the heat equation and the modified Helmholtz equation in two

  dimensions

- Sparse Polynomial Interpolation

 

 

Please see the official event page for further information:

http://events.irmacs.sfu.ca/Computational_Math_Day/

Schedule: 

Date: Thursday, August 12, 2010 Location: IRMACS Centre, Simon Fraser University

 

8:30am Registration

9:00am Andrew Rechnitzer (UBC) "GAS sampling of polygons and knot probability ratios"

9:45am Nils Bruin (SFU) "Decidability of the existence of rational points on algebraic curves"

10:30am Coffee Break / Poster Set Up

10:45am Poster Session

12:15pm Lunch at the Himalayan Peak

1:30pm Anne Greenbaum (UW) "Crouzeix's Conjecture and Perturbed Jordan Blocks"

2:15pm Nilima Nigam (SFU) "How do bones grow? From lab to desktop, a mathematical journey"

3:00pm Poster Awards

3:05pm Coffee Break

3:30pm Mary-Catherine Kropinski (SFU) "Fast intergral equation methods for the heat   equation and the modified Helmholtz   equation in two dimensions"

4:15pm Mike Monagan (SFU) "Sparse Polynomial Interpolation"

5:00pm Closing Remarks

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