The 2014 SFU Symposium on Mathematics and Computation is a showcase of research in computational mathematics at SFU, UBC, and UVic.
Program Schedule
Date: Wednesday, August 6th, 2014
Location: The IRMACS Centre, Simon Fraser University
| Time | Event or Speaker | Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00am | Registration and Welcome Coffee |
|
| 9:30am | Ben Adcock (SFU) |
Getting more from less: compressed sensing and its applications |
|
10:15am |
Stephanie van Willigenburg (UBC) | |
| 11:00am | Morning Coffee and Poster Setup | |
| 11:15am | Poster Competition and Judging | |
| 12:15pm | Buffet Lunch |
|
| 1:15pm | Chris Sinclair (Oregon) | Mathematics in the computer age: exploration and exposition |
| 2:00pm | Greg Mori (SFU) |
Discriminative Latent Variable Models for Human Action Recognition |
| 2:45pm | Afternoon Coffee | |
| 3:00pm | Andrew King (D-Wave) | Working with the D-Wave quantum computer: Modeling, minors, and mitigation |
| 3:45pm | Award Ceremony | Awards for Putnam participants, Undergraduate Research Prize recipients, and Poster Prizes. |
| 4:15pm | Poster Presentations by Award Winners | |
| 4:30pm | Closing Remarks |