Fourth Annual IAM Retreat 2008

Annual Retreat
April 14, 2008 4:00 pm

Speaker:  Fourteen Speakers

Location:  Minnekhada Lodge, Minnekhada Regional Park

Intended Audience:  Public

The IAM Seminar Retreat 2008 took place on Monday, April 14th, and was organised by Prof. Michael Ward (IAM Director, Dept. of Mathematics), Prof. Dan Coombs (IAM Faculty, Dept. of Mathematics) and Dr. Marek Labecki (IAM Research/IT Manager). Once again, we could not resist the hospitability and the beautiful surroundings of the Minnekhada Lodge, located in the Minnekhada Regional Park. We had a total of 35 participants and 14 excellent-quality talks covering a variety of topics in applied mathematics (see the Retreat Schedule). During the lunch break, most of us took a refreshing walk on the trails of Minnekhada Park, including a visit to its highest point, the High Knoll.

Retreat Schedule
Time Presenter Talk Title
9:00-9:38 ARRIVAL, SETUP, REFRESHMENTS
9:38-9:43 WELCOMING REMARKS
9:43-11:08 SESSION ONE
9:43 Alexei Cheviakov Models of Ball Lightnings
10:00 Sandra Merchant Wavetrain Selection Following Predator Invasion in Oscillatory Reaction-Diffusion Models
10:17 Marisol Flores Garrido Challenges in Nonnegative Matrix/Tensor Factorizations
10:34 Diwen Zhou Simulation of Selective Withdrawal in Viscoelastic Fluid Systems
10:51 Jun Allard Zippering, Crashing and Cortical Microtubules in Plants
11:08-11:35 REFRESHMENT BREAK
11:35-12:43 SESSION TWO
11:35 Rayan Saab Stable Sparse Approximations via Nonconvex Optimization
11:52 Ewout van den Berg Exact Sparse Reconstruction and Neighbourly Polytopes
12:09 Alan Lindsay Optimal Resource Placement
12:26 Alexandra Jilkine Analysis of a Wave-Based Pattern Formation Mechanism in a Model of Cell Polarization
12:43-15:20 GROUP PHOTO, LUNCH, WALK AROUND MINNEKHADA PARK
15:20-16:11 SESSION THREE
15:20 Chunfeng Zhou Heart-Shaped Bubbles Rising in Anisotropic Liquids
15:37 Samara Pillay The Narrow Escape Problem in Two Dimensions
15:54 Sydney Pachmann Swimming in Slime
16:11-16:25 REFRESHMENT BREAK
16:26-17:00 SESSION FOUR
16:26 Liang Zhu A Robust A Posteriori Error Estimator for Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Convection-Diffusion Equations
16:43 Majid Hosseini Industrial Flow Simulation with SPH Method
17:00 CLEANUP
17:20 DEPARTURE

 

Our group on the rock by the Minnekhada Lodge

Our group on the rock by the Minnekhada Lodge

 

The Speakers

Alexei CheviakovSandra MerchantMarisol Flores Garrido

Jun AllardRayan SaabEwout Van Den BergAlan LindsayChunfeng ZhouDiwen ZhouAlexandra JilkineSydney PachmannMajid HosseiniLiang Zhu

Enjoy a walk around Minnekhada Park

 

View of the Lower Marsh and the mountains in the north

View of the Lower Marsh and the mountains in the north

 

 

By the banks of the marsh

By the banks of the marsh

 

Lower Marsh and the High Knoll

Lower Marsh and the High Knoll

 

Moss on the trees

Moss on the trees

 

Looking through back-lit trees along the Fern Trail

Looking through back-lit trees along the Fern Trail

 

A distant view of the Golden Ears massif from Addington Lookout

A distant view of the Golden Ears massif from Addington Lookout

 

View of Pitt River from the High Knoll

View of Pitt River from the High Knoll

 

Reflections in the pond of the Lower Marsh

Reflections in the pond of the Lower Marsh