2013 Program
The 2013 SFU Symposium on Mathematics and Computation was a showcase of research in computational mathematics at SFU, UBC, and UVic.
Program Schedule
Date: Wednesday, August 7th, 2013 Location: The IRMACS Centre, Simon Fraser University
| Time | Event or Speaker | Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00am | Registration and Welcome Coffee |
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| 9:30am | Lily Yen (Capilano) |
Automation for the generating series of coloured set partitions |
|
10:15am |
Pavol Hell (SFU) | |
| 11:00am | Morning Coffee and Poster Setup | |
| 11:15am | Poster Session and Judging | |
| 12:15pm | Buffet Lunch |
|
| 1:15pm | Alexandre Bouchard-Côté (UBC) | Inference algorithms for continuous time Markov chains over large state spaces |
| 2:00pm | Roberto Armenta (SFU) |
High-Order Finite-Difference Methods for Modelling Electromagnetic Wave Propagation |
| 2:45pm | Afternoon Coffee | |
| 3:00pm | Robert Bridson (UBC) | Simulating Smoke without Volumes |
| 3:45pm | Award Ceremony | Awards for Putnam participants, Undergraduate Research Prize recipients, Operations Research Team Award, and Poster Prizes. |
| 4:15pm | Poster Presentations by Award Winners | |
| 4:30pm | Closing Remarks |
