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IAM Seminars 2005/06 |
Schedule: Jan-Apr 2006
Schedule: Sep-Dec 2005 |
| IAM Home IAM Distinguished Colloquium Series IAM Distinguished Alumni Lectures |
| Previous IAM Seminar Series: 2004/05 2003/04 2002/03 2001/02 2000/01 1999/00 1998/99 1997/98 1996/97 1995/96 1994/95 1993/94 |
| TIME: |
IAM Seminar Series and
IAM-PIMS-MITACS Distinguished Colloquium Series:
Mondays 3:00-4:00 pm, unless noted otherwise (refreshments start at 2:45 pm) IAM Student-Faculty Seminars: Wednesdays 4:00-4:30 pm (refreshments start at 3:30 pm) IAM Joint and Other Seminars: Various times as posted |
| PLACE: |
IAM Seminar Series,
IAM-PIMS-MITACS Distinguished Colloquium Series, and
IAM Student-Faculty Seminars:
Room 301, Leonard S. Klinck Building, 6356 Agricultural Road, UBC, unless noted otherwise
(refreshments served before the talks in the IAM Lounge, Room 306) IAM Joint and Other Seminars: Various locations as posted |
| ORGANIZERS: |
IAM Seminar Series and
IAM-PIMS-MITACS Distinguished Colloquium Series: IAM Student-Faculty Seminars: Please contact the organizers if you would like to give a talk or wish to nominate a friend or visitor as a speaker. |
| NOTES FOR SPEAKERS: |
1. Please send us the title and abstract of your talk at least 4 days before the seminar date, so they can be posted on the IAM web site and distributed through email. 2. Please let us know beforehand about your technical requirements (projector, laptop, etc.). If you would like to use our laptop, please send or bring your presentation early enough, so it can be loaded and tested on our machine. 3. Whether you use your own laptop or ours, please let us know beforehand if you would like us to test the display of fonts, pictures, and movies in your presentation on the computer projector. |
Monday, 09 January, 3:00-4:00 pm
IAM Seminar Series
Prof. Mark Jellinek,
Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, UBC
"How Continents Influence the Way in Which the Earth Cools:
An Example of "Self-Optimization" in a Convecting System?"
[abstract]
Monday, 16 January, 3:00-4:00 pm
IAM-PIMS-MITACS Distinguished Colloquium Series
Prof. Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan,
Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics,
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
"Geometry and Elasticity in Physical Packing Problems"
[abstract]
Monday, 23 January, 3:00-4:00 pm
IAM Seminar Series
Prof. Roderick Edwards,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria
"Gene Regulatory Networks and Dynamical Systems"
[abstract]
Monday, 30 January, 3:00-4:00 pm
IAM Seminar Series
Prof. Wayne Nagata,
Department of Mathematics, UBC
"Bifurcations of Gyroscopic Systems near a 0:1 Resonance"
[abstract]
Monday, 06 February, 3:00-4:00 pm
IAM Seminar Series
Dr. Martin Snajdr,
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UBC
"Applications of High Resolution Shock Capturing Methods in Relativistic Hydrodynamics"
[abstract]
Wednesday, 08 February, 4:00-4:30 pm
IAM Student-Faculty Seminars
Prof. Michael Ward,
Department of Mathematics, UBC
"Eigenvalue Optimization for the Laplacian and the Neumann Green's Function"
[abstract]
Monday, 20 February, 3:00-4:00 pm
IAM Seminar Series
Prof. Ralf Wittenberg,
Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
"One-Dimensional Spatiotemporal Chaos"
[abstract]
Wednesday, 22 February, 4:00-4:45 pm
Special IAM Meeting and Open Forum Discussion
Chaired by the IAM Director, Prof. Michael Ward.
Open to all IAM students, faculty, and postdoctoral fellows.
Monday, 27 February, 3:00-4:00 pm
IAM Seminar Series
Prof. W. Kendal Bushe,
Department of Mechanical Engineering, UBC
"Fluctuations in the Autoignition Delay Time of Methane/Air Systems"
[abstract]
Monday, 06 March, 3:15-4:15 pm (Note: 15 min later than usual)
IAM Seminar Series
Prof. Steven Plotkin,
Department of Physics and Astronomy, UBC
"How Does a Protein Fold? The Effects of Structure and Many-Body Interactions"
[abstract]
Friday, 10 March, 3:30-5:00 pm
Room C225, UBC Robson Square, 400 Robson Street, Vancouver, B.C.
Joint Seminar by the UBC Scientific Computing and
Industrial Applied Mathematics (SCAIM) and the SFU Centre for Scientific Computing,
co-sponsored by the IAM
Dr. Tamara Kolda,
Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California
"Multilinear Algebra and Its Application to Higher-Order Web
Link Analysis"
(abstract)
Monday, 13 March, 3:00-4:00 pm
IAM Seminar Series
Prof. Michael Novak,
Faculty of Land and Food Systems, UBC
"Proper and Complete Surface Energy Balance of a Bare Drying Soil:
Agassiz 1978 Revisited"
[abstract]
Wednesday, 15 March, 4:00-4:30 pm
IAM Student-Faculty Seminars
Wan Chen, PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, UBC
"Residual Velocities in Steady Free Boundary Problems of Vector Laplacian Type"
[abstract]
Monday, 20 March, 3:00-4:00 pm
IAM-PIMS-MITACS Distinguished Colloquium Series
Prof. Philip Holmes,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
NIMH Silvio O. Conte Center for Neuroscience Research, Princeton University
"Optimal Decisions in the Brain: From Neural Oscillators to Stochastic Differential Equations"
[abstract]
Wednesday, 22 March, 4:00-4:30 pm
IAM Student-Faculty Seminars
Hui Huang, PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, UBC
"Mesh Denoising with Intrinsic Texture"
[abstract]
Monday, 27 March, 3:00-4:00 pm
IAM-PIMS-MITACS Distinguished Colloquium Series
Prof. John Tyson,
Department of Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
"Computational Cell Biology: From Molecular Networks to Cell Physiology"
[abstract]
Wednesday, 29 March, 4:00-4:30 pm
IAM Student-Faculty Seminars
Lloyd Bridge, PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, UBC
"Numerical Methods for Capturing a Two-Phase/Vapour Interface in a Porous Medium"
[abstract]
Monday, 10 April, 9:00 am-5:30 pm
IAM Seminar Retreat
Location:
Minnekhada Lodge,
Minnekhada Regional Park
Monday, 12 September, 3:00-4:00 pm
IAM Seminar Series: The Steacie Fellowship Prize Lecture
Prof. Michael Doebeli,
Department of Mathematics and Department of Zoology, UBC
"Evolution and Diversity"
[abstract]
Monday, 19 September, 3:00-4:00 pm
IAM Seminar Series
Prof. Michael Ward,
Department of Mathematics, UBC
"The Stability of Stripes, Rings, and Spots, in Some Reaction-Diffusion Systems"
[abstract]
Wednesday, 21 September, 4:00-4:30 pm
IAM Student-Faculty Seminars
Prof. Michael Ward,
Department of Mathematics, UBC
"Localized Pattern Formation: Some Examples and Open Problems"
[abstract]
Monday, 26 September, 3:00-4:00 pm
IAM-PIMS-MITACS Distinguished Colloquium Series
Prof. Eli Tziperman, Pamela and Vasco McCoy Jr, Prof. of Oceanography and Applied Physics, Harvard University
"Rapid Past Climate Change: It's the Sea Ice"
[abstract]
Wednesday, 28 September, 4:00-4:30 pm
IAM Student-Faculty Seminars
Dr. Alexei Cheviakov,
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, UBC
"Modelling the Equilibrium States of Plasmas: PDE Properties, Exact Solutions and Physical Models"
[abstract]
Monday, 03 October, 3:00-4:00 pm
IAM Seminar Series
Prof. J. F. Williams,
Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
"Adaptive Strategies for the Numerical Simulation of PDEs with
Finite-Time Singularities"
[abstract]
Wednesday, 05 October, 4:00-4:30 pm
IAM Student-Faculty Seminars
Dr. Nataliya Ivanova,
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, UBC
"Symmetries of Differential Equations"
[abstract]
Monday, 10 October: No seminar (Thanksgiving)
Wednesday, 12 October, 4:00-5:00 pm
IAM Student-Faculty Seminars: Special Guest
Prof. Bo Wahlberg,
Department of Signal, Sensors & Systems,
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
"Modelling and Identification with Rational Orthogonal Basis Functions"
[abstract]
Monday, 17 October, 3:00-4:00 pm
IAM-PIMS-MITACS Distinguished Colloquium Series
Prof. Eitan Tadmor,
Department of Mathematics, Institute for Physical Science & Technology,
Director of the Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling,
University of Maryland
"Edge Detection, Hierarchical Decompositions and Velocity Averaging"
[abstract]
Wednesday, 19 October, 4:00-4:30 pm
IAM Student-Faculty Seminars
Omer Dushek,
Department of Mathematics, UBC
"Calculating Diffusion Coefficients for Cell Surface Molecules
Using the Fluorescence Recovery after Photobleaching (FRAP) Technique"
[abstract]
Monday, 24 October, 3:00-4:00 pm
IAM Seminar Series
Prof. Brian Wetton,
Department of Mathematics, UBC
"Modeling Hydrogen Fuel Cell Stacks"
[abstract]
Wednesday, 26 October, 4:00-4:30 pm
IAM Student-Faculty Seminars
Prof. Daniel Coombs,
Department of Mathematics, UBC
"Understanding Parasite Fitness in Simple Models"
[abstract]
Monday, 31 October, 3:00-4:00 pm
IAM Seminar Series
Prof. Neil Balmforth,
Department of Mathematics and Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, UBC
"Snailballs and More"
[abstract]
Wednesday, 02 November, 4:00-4:30 pm
IAM Student-Faculty Seminars
Daniel Olmos,
Department of Mathematics, UBC
"A Numerical Study of Excitable Systems"
[abstract]
Monday, 07 November, 3:00-4:00 pm
IAM-PIMS-MITACS Distinguished Colloquium Series
Prof. Gregory Kriegsmann,
Foundation Chair of Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology
"Microwave Heating of Materials: A Mathematical and Physical Overview"
[abstract]
Wednesday, 09 November, 4:00-4:30 pm
IAM Student-Faculty Seminars
Prof. George Bluman,
Department of Mathematics, UBC
"Connections between Symmetries and Conservation Laws"
[abstract]
[full paper (pdf)]
Monday, 14 November, 3:00-4:00 pm
IAM Seminar Series
Prof. Peter Berg,
Faculty of Science, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
"Linking Cellular Automata and Optimal-Velocity Traffic Models Through Wave Selections at Bottlenecks"
[abstract]
Wednesday, 16 November, 4:00-4:30 pm
IAM Student-Faculty Seminars
Shreyas Mandre,
Department of Mathematics, UBC
"Pouring Things Down an Incline and Related Flows"
[abstract]
Monday, 21 November, 3:00-4:00 pm
IAM Seminar Series
Prof. Ulrich Horst,
Department of Mathematics, UBC
"Queuing Theoretic Approaches to Financial Price Fluctuations"
[abstract]
Wednesday, 23 November, 4:00-4:30 pm
IAM Student-Faculty Seminars
Miguel Moyers-Gonzalez,
Department of Mathematics, UBC
"Transient Effects in Oilfield Cementing Flows"
[abstract]
Monday, 28 November, 3:00-4:00 pm
IAM Seminar Series
Prof. James J. Feng,
Department of Mathematics and Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, UBC
"Recent Adventures on Interfaces of Simple and Complex Fluids"
[abstract]
Wednesday, 30 November, 4:00-4:30 pm
IAM Student-Faculty Seminars
Livio Gibelli,
Department of Mathematics, Milan Polytechnic, Italy
"Elements of Kinetic Theory"
[abstract]
| Previous IAM Seminar Series: 2004/05 2003/04 2002/03 2001/02 2000/01 1999/00 1998/99 1997/98 1996/97 1995/96 1994/95 1993/94 |
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