08 Sep 2003: IAM Seminar Series
Michael Ward, Department of Mathematics, UBC
"Oscillatory and Competition Instabilities of Localized Patterns in the Gierer-Meinhardt and Gray-Scott Models" (abstract)

15 Sep 2003: IAM Seminar Series
Doron Levy, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
"Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Dispersive Equations" (abstract)

22 Sep 2003: Seventh IAM-PIMS Distinguished Colloquium Series
Jorge Nocedal, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University
"The New Faces of Nonlinear Optimization" (abstract)

06 Oct 2003: Seventh IAM-PIMS Distinguished Colloquium Series
Harry Swinney, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin
"Spatial Patterns and Shock Waves in Sand" (abstract)

Tuesday, 14 Oct 2003, 3-4 pm, PIMS seminar room, 1933 West Mall, UBC: IAM Seminar Series
Roy Adler, IBM Thomas Watson Research Lab, New York
"A Dynamical System and Color Printing" (abstract: html  pdf)

20 Oct 2003: IAM Seminar Series
Dan Coombs, Department of Mathematics, UBC
"Periodic Chirality Inversions Propagating on Bacterial Flagella" (abstract)

27 Oct 2003: IAM Seminar Series
Steven Ruuth, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
"Monotonicity-Preserving Time Discretization Methods" (abstract)

03 Nov 2003: Seventh IAM-PIMS Distinguished Colloquium Series
Chris Bretherton, Department of Atmospheric Science and Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington
"Understanding the Circulation of the Tropical Atmosphere Using Simple Mathematical Models" (abstract)

10 Nov 2003: IAM Seminar Series
Felix Herrmann, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, UBC
"Imaging, Characterization and Modeling of Seismic Reflectors" (abstract)

17 Nov 2003: IAM Seminar Series
Ian Frigaard, Department of Mathematics and Department of Mechanical Engineering, UBC
"The Mathematics of Cementing Oil Wells" (abstract)

24 Nov 2003: IAM Seminar Series
John Stockie, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
"Parametric Resonance in Immersed Elastic Boundaries" (abstract)

12 Jan 2004: IAM Seminar Series
Brian Seymour, Department of Mathematics, UBC
"Nonlinear Acoustic Resonance and RMS" (abstract)

19 Jan 2004: Seventh IAM-PIMS Distinguished Colloquium Series
Mary Pugh, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
"The Richness of Thin Films" (abstract)

26 Jan 2004: IAM Seminar Series
Gordon Semenoff, Department of Physics, UBC
"Random Matrix Ensembles and Strings" (abstract)

02 Feb 2004: IAM Seminar Series
Dominik Schötzau, Department of Mathematics, UBC
"Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for the Time-Harmonic Maxwell Equations" (abstract)

09 Feb 2004: IAM Seminar Series
Rustum Choksi, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
"Scaling Laws and Pattern Formation in Two Physical Systems" (abstract)

23 Feb 2004: Seventh IAM-PIMS Distinguished Colloquium Series
Marco Avellaneda, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
"Reconstructing Volatility" (abstract)

15 Mar 2004: Seventh IAM-PIMS Distinguished Colloquium Series
Stephen Boyd, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
"Recent Advances in Convex Optimization" (abstract)