First Annual IAM Retreat 2005 - Institute of Applied Mathematics

Speaker: Eighteen Speakers

Location: Minnekhada Lodge, Minnekhada Regional Park

Intended Audience: Public

The First Annual IAM Seminar Retreat was organised by Prof. Dan Coombs (IAM Faculty, Dept. of Mathematics), Prof. Michael Ward (IAM Director, Dept. of Mathematics) and Dr. Marek Labecki (IAM Research/IT Manager). The event took place from 9 am to 5 pm on Monday, April 11th, 2005, inside the stylish Minnekhada Lodge, located in the Minnekhada Regional Park. We had a total of 18 talks covering a variety of topics in Applied Mathematics (see the Retreat Schedule for more details). Despite a temporary power outage in the afternoon, all sessions went quite smoothly and everybody had a fantastic time. During the lunch break, most of us took a walk to explore the picturesque grounds of the Minnekhada Park.

Retreat Schedule

Time	Presenter	Talk Title
9:00	ARRIVAL
9:15	WELCOMING REMARKS AND INTRODUCTIONS
9:30-11:00	SESSION ONE
9:30	Sarah Mitchell	An Asymptotic Framework for Finite Hydraulic Fractures Driven by Multiple Physical Processes
9:45	Catherine Dupuis	Seismic Signal Characterization Using Redundant Dictionaries
10:00	Pengtao Yue	A Finite Element Technique for Diffuse-Interface Method Based on Adaptive Unstructured Mesh
10:15	Chunfeng Zhou	An Adaptive Unstructured Mesh Generation Technique for the Diffused-Interface Method
10:30	Mei Wang	Conditional Source-Term Estimation with Intrinsic Low-Dimensional Manifold (ILDM) in Large Eddy Simulation of a Turbulent Non-Premixed Flame
10:45	Zhenguo Pan	A Numerical Method for a Coupled Surface and Grain Boundary Motion
11:00-11:30	REFRESHMENT BREAK
11:30-12:30	SESSION TWO
11:30	Richard Kublik	Modeling the Initiation of Type 1 Diabetes
11:45	Rosalía Aguirre-Hernández	RNA Secondary Structure Design
12:00	Alexandra Jilkine	Modelling the Interactions of Rho GTPases in Moving Cells
12:15	Omer Dushek	Modelling Cell Adhesion in the Immune System
12:30-14:30	LUNCH AND WALK AROUND MINNEKHADA PARK
14:30-15:30	SESSION THREE
14:30	Jens Rademacher	Selfreplication and Stability on Growing Domains
14:45	Colleen Ball	Examining Viral Fitness of HIV at the In-Host and Between-Host Level
15:00	Na Yu	Noise-Induced Coherence and Synchrony in Quiescent ‘Neurons’
15:15	Daniel Olmos	A Numerical Study of Excitable Systems
15:30-15:45	REFRESHMENTS
15:45-16:45	SESSION FOUR
15:45	Shreyas Mandre	Dynamics of Roll Waves
16:00	Andreas Putz	Viscoplastic Materials: A Variational Approach
16:15	Paul Chen	Drop/Interface Coalescence in Non-Newtonian Fluids
16:30	Alexei Cheviakov	Symmetries of Nonlinear PDEs in Applied Mathematics
16:45	CLOSING REMARKS AND CLEANUP
17:00	DEPARTURE