Second Annual IAM Retreat 2006

Annual Retreat
April 10, 2006 4:00 pm

Speaker:  Thirteen Speakers

Location:  Minnekhada Lodge, Minnekhada Regional Park

Intended Audience:  Public

This year’s 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 5:30 pm on Monday, 10th April, 2006, inside the stylish Minnekhada Lodge, located in the Minnekhada Regional Park. We had a total of 13 talks covering a variety of topics in Applied Mathematics (see the Retreat Schedule for more details). All sessions went quite smoothly, and during lunch break our group took a 2-hour scenic walk around Minnekhada Park.

Retreat Schedule
Time Presenter Talk Title
9:00-9:35 ARRIVAL AND REFRESHMENTS
9:35-9:40 WELCOMING REMARKS AND INTRODUCTIONS
9:40-11:00 SESSION ONE
9:40 Anmar Khadra Modeling the Autocrine Effect of GnRH-Hormone on Hypothalamic GnRH-Neurons Generating Pulsatile and Synchronized Neurosecretion
10:00 Kerstin Wielage Immiscible Displacement of Generalized Newtonian Fluids Along a Plane Channel
10:20 Zhenguo Pan A Computational Method for Fuel Cell
10:40 ColleenBall Modeling the Dynamics of Competing Virus Strains
11:00-11:30 REFRESHMENT BREAK AND GROUP PHOTO
11:30-12:30 SESSION TWO
11:30 Andreas Putz Slow Flow of a Viscoplastic Fluid Along a Wavy-Walled Channel
11:50 Na Yu Complicated Dynamical Behavior of Weakly Coupled Oscillators
12:10 Alexandra Jilkine Spatial Extensions of Bistable Systems
12:30-14:50 LUNCH AND WALK AROUND MINNEKHADA PARK
14:50-15:50 SESSION THREE
14:50 Hui Huang Mesh Denoising with Intrinsic Texture
15:10 Wan Chen Dynamics of Pulse in Gray-Scott Model
15:30 Timothy Rees A Preconditioner for Linear Systems Arising in Linear and Quadratic Programming
15:50-16:00 REFRESHMENTS
16:00-17:00 SESSION FOUR
16:00 Raibatak (Dodo) Das A Bayesian Analysis of Single Particle Tracks
16:20 Ryan Lukeman School Formation in Self-Propelled Particles
16:40 James Bailey Effects of Transport and Decay Saturation in a Coupled Two-Compartment Model with Step Forcing
17:00 CLOSING REMARKS AND CLEANUP
17:30 DEPARTURE

 

In front of Minnekhada Lodge

In front of Minnekhada Lodge

 

Audience and Presenters

Our seminar room A bird's view at the audience Another view from aboveJames holding an imaginary brain in his hand to explain the challenges of Alzheimer's disease Ryan did not hesitate to use his own body in order to highlight the important points of his presentationDodo used animated hand movement to illustrate the principles of single particle tracking

Prof. Dan Coombs loading his gun to signal to the speaker that the end of the talk was imminent Prof. Dan Coombs executing with ruthless precision his time enforcement duty

Other Photos

Under a blossoming tree On the High KnollView from the High Knoll

In front of Minnekhada Lodge

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