Monday, 12 Sep 2005, 3:00-4:00 pm
The Steacie Fellowship Prize Lecture
Prof. Michael Doebeli, Department of Mathematics and Department of Zoology, UBC
"Evolution and Diversity" [abstract]

Monday, 19 Sep 2005, 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 Sep 2005, 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 Sep 2005, 3:00-4:00 pm
Ninth 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 Sep 2005, 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 Oct 2005, 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 Oct 2005, 4:00-4:30 pm
IAM Student-Faculty Seminars
Dr. Nataliya Ivanova, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, UBC
"Symmetries of Differential Equations" [abstract]

Wednesday, 12 Oct 2005, 4:00-5:00 pm
Special Guest Seminar
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 Oct 2005, 3:00-4:00 pm
Ninth 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 Oct 2005, 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 Oct 2005, 3:00-4:00 pm
IAM Seminar Series
Prof. Brian Wetton, Department of Mathematics, UBC
"Modeling Hydrogen Fuel Cell Stacks" [abstract]

Wednesday, 26 Oct 2005, 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 Oct 2005, 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 Nov 2005, 4:00-4:30 pm
IAM Student-Faculty Seminars
Daniel Olmos, Department of Mathematics, UBC
"A Numerical Study of Excitable Systems" [abstract]

Monday, 07 Nov 2005, 3:00-4:00 pm
Ninth 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 Nov 2005, 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 Nov 2005, 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 Nov 2005, 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 Nov 2005, 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 Nov 2005, 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 Nov 2005, 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 Nov 2005, 4:00-4:30 pm
IAM Student-Faculty Seminars
Dr. Livio Gibelli, Department of Mathematics, Milan Polytechnic, Italy
"Elements of Kinetic Theory" [abstract]

Monday, 09 Jan 2006, 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 Jan 2006, 3:00-4:00 pm
Ninth 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 Jan 2006, 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 Jan 2006, 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 Feb 2006, 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 Feb 2006, 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 Feb 2006, 3:00-4:00 pm
IAM Seminar Series
Prof. Ralf Wittenberg, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
"One-Dimensional Spatiotemporal Chaos" [abstract]

Wednesday, 22 Feb 2006, 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 Feb 2006, 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 Mar 2006, 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 Mar 2006, 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 Mar 2006, 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 Mar 2006, 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 Mar 2006, 3:00-4:00 pm
Ninth 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 Mar 2006, 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 Mar 2006, 3:00-4:00 pm
Ninth 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 Mar 2006, 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 Apr 2006, 9:00 am-5:30 pm
Second Annual IAM Seminar Retreat
Location: Minnekhada Lodge, Minnekhada Regional Park