Fourteenth Annual IAM Retreat 2018

Annual Retreat
April 9, 2018 2:00 pm

Speaker:  IAM Graduate Students

Location:  Minnekhada Lodge

Intended Audience:  IAM members

The IAM has an annual retreat on the day between the end of classes and the beginning of exams.  This year it is Monday, April 9, 2018. Please save that date if you can.  The venue is Minnekhada Lodge.  Two smaller busses are booked, one starting on campus and the other Commercial Skytrain station.

The IAM has an annual retreat on the day between the end of classes and the beginning of exams.  This year it is Monday, April 9, 2018. Please save that date if you can.  The venue is Minnekhada Lodge.  Two smaller busses are booked, one starting on campus and the other Commercial Skytrain station.

BUS 1
07:30 Pick up from Museum of Anthropology, UBC (6393 NW Marine Dr., Vancouver)
08:30 Estimated Drop off at Minnekhada Lodge (4455 Oliver Rd, Coquitlam, BC)
17:00 Pick up from Minnekhada Lodge
18:00 Estimated Drop off at Museum of Anthropology, UBC

BUS 2
08:00 Pick up from Commercial Sky Train Station (Beside Safeway on Broadway area)
09:00 Estimated Drop off at Minnekhada Lodge (4455 Oliver Rd, Coquitlam, BC)
17:00 Pick up from Minnekhada Lodge
18:00 Estimated Drop off at Commercial & Broadway Sky Train Station area

You can see what we have done in previous years: https://iam.sites.olt.ubc.ca/events_asr_past.  All IAM members are encouraged to come.

Retreat Schedule
Presenter Field Title
Clinton Durney Mathematical Biology Opening Remarks
Joshua Scurll Mathematical Biology Building a pipeline to study proteomic heterogeneity in B-cell lymphomas
Lisanne Rens Mathematical Biology TBD
Andreas Buttenschoen Mathematical Biology Non-Local Cell Adhesion Models: Steady States and Bifurcations
Mingfeng Qiu Fluid Mechanics Particles on liquid crystal surfaces
Seyed Arman Abtahi Fluid Mechanics Ellipsoidal Particles in Complex Fluid
Parisa Sarmadi Fluid Mechanics A novel method for heavy oil transport
Babak Nasouri Fluid Mechanics Dynamics of poroelastocapillary rise
Ronak Gupta Fluid Mechanics Micellar Solutions – Dynamical Phenomena and Rheology/td>
Coffee Break
Gabriela Clara Racz Glaciology Estimating Permeability of the Subglacial Drainage System Using Inverse Modelling
Alastair Jamieson-Lane Mathematical Biology Dynamical bottleneck leads to amplification of noise in cartoon biochemical system
Alejandra Herrera Mathematical Biology Counting fluorophores
Amin Arefi Mathematical Biology Numerical Simulation of Cancer Cells Trans-endothelial Migration
Mike Irvine Mathematical Biology Modelling of Provincial opioid overdose epidemic
Jummy David Mathematical Biology HIV and Syphilis co-interaction and testing rate
William Carlquist Mathematical Biology A numerical-solution-free multi-functional optimization method for parameter estimation in differential equations
Brian Merchant Mathematical Biology Modelling Neural Crest Cell Migration: Progress and Prospects
Sarafa Iyaniwura Mathematical Biology Quorum sensing in Bulk diffusion model
Charu Datt Fluid Mechanics Particles in shear-thinning fluids
Chen Wang Fluid Mechanics Analysis of zombie vortex
Lunch 12:30 – 1:15
Hike 1:30-2:45
Yue Liu Mathematical Biology Cell polarization and wave pinning
Katie Faulkner Mathematical Biology Modeling Lactation and Infant Milk Consumption
Frédéric Paquin-Lefebvre Nonlinear Dynamics and Applied PDEs Coupled Bulk-Surface Reaction-Diffusion Systems: Bifurcation Analysis on the Disk
Laurent Charette Nonlinear Dynamics and Applied PDEs Closest Point Method Adapted to Non-Isotropically Changing Domains
Chu Alex Shiu Lun Nonlinear Dynamics and Applied PDEs Solving heat equation via a combined method of CPM and RBF
Aaron Berk Image and Data Processing When the Lasso breaks
Ignacio Rozada IAM Alumni Speaker TBD
Our group at the Minnekhada Lodge

Our group at the Minnekhada Lodge

Presenters and Audience

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