Ninth Annual IAM Retreat 2013 (Joint with SFU Applied Math)

Speaker: Seventeen Speakers from UBC and SFU

Location: Room 1700 (Labatt Hall), SFU Harbour Centre, 555 W Hastings St, Vancouver, B.C. Canada

Intended Audience: IAM members

The Ninth IAM retreat was held at Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre on Tuesday April 9th, 2013. This year was an extra-special event, joint with our colleagues in applied mathematics at Simon Fraser University. Special thanks to Prof. Dan Coombs (IAM Faculty, Mathematics) for his administrative efforts in organizing this event. We had another record number of 51 participants and 17 excellent talks covering a variety of topics in applied mathematics (see the Retreat Schedule).

Retreat Schedule

Time	Presenter	Talk Title
9:15	Call to order and introductory items
9:30 – 11:00	SESSION ONE
	Lee Safranek, SFU	Nonlinear age dynamics of cyclical neutropenia
	Lars Ruthotto, UBC	Hyperelastic Image Registration – Theory, Numerical Methods, and Applications
	Andrew Adams, SFU	Quantifying the relationship between HIV-1’s mutation rate and clinical markers of disease progression
	Simon Tse, UBC	Some explicitly solvable stability problems in reaction diffusion systems that model crime and bulk-membrane coupling
	Will Ko, SFU	A study of the cochlea with parametric forcing using the immersed boundary method
	Bernhard Konrad, UBC	Mathematical models that predict the length of the window period for HIV infection
11:00 – 11:30	REFRESHMENT BREAK
11:30 – 12:45	SESSION TWO
	Michael Lindstrom, UBC	Numerical and asymptotic modelling of a spherically symmetric magnetized target fusion reactor
	Xin Yang, SFU	A paradox of state-dependent diffusion and how to resolve it
	Jielin Zhu, UBC	Asymptotic Analysis for Tipping Points Problems
	Bebart Janbek, SFU	A 2D porous media model for transpiration driven fluid flow through maple trees
	Sohrab Towfighi, UBC	Simulations on Bubble-Wall Collisions
12:45 – 15:00	LUNCH AND WATERFRONT STROLL
15:00 – 15:45	SESSION THREE
	Jia Gou, UBC	Spatiotemporal Oscillations in a System of Multiple Cells coupled by a Diffusive Molecule
	Jeff Wiens, SFU	A Massively Parallel Algorithm for simulating Fluid-Structure Interaction
	Ian Zwiers, UBC	Simulation of Soliton Stability
15:45 – 16:00	BREAK
16:00 – 16:45	SESSION FOUR
	Iain Moyles, UBC	Ring Solutions for Reaction Diffusion Equations
	Emily Walsh, SFU	Monge Ampere and mesh alignment
	May Ann Mata, UBC	Predicting the features of actin waves model using Local Perturbation Analysis
16:45	CLOSING REMARKS AND ADJOURN TO PUB

Notes: morning refreshments and lunch will be provided.

Our group outside Harbour Centre