Sixth Annual IAM Retreat 2010 - Institute of Applied Mathematics

Speaker: Sixteen Speakers

Location: Inverholme Schoolhouse, Deas Island Regional Park

Intended Audience: Public

The Sixth Annual IAM Seminar Retreat was organised by Prof. Dan Coombs (IAM Faculty, Mathematics), Prof. Neil Balmforth (IAM Director, Earth and Ocean Sciences and Mathematics) and Dr. Marek Labecki (IAM Research/IT Manager), and took place on Friday, April 16th, 2010. This time, our venue was Inverholme Schoolhouse, a heritage building located in Deas Island Regional Park. The retreat was one of our best ever, with the total of 41 participants and 16 high quality talks covering various areas of applied mathematics. During our lunch break, we took a long walk to the westernmost tip of the island, meeting almost eye-to-eye with a bald eagle resting nearby. The weather was excellent, providing us with great views of the river and the mountains. Feel free to browse through our Retreat Pictures and get the feel of this wonderful event.

Retreat Schedule

Time	Presenter	Talk Title
9:00-9:40	ARRIVAL, SETUP, REFRESHMENTS
9:40-9:45	WELCOMING REMARKS
9:45-11:00	SESSION ONE
9:45	Will Thompson	Analysis of Synchronization of Conditional Oscillators Due to a Weak Common Noise Source
10:00	Andy Wan	Finding Conservation Laws for PDEs
10:15	David Simpson	Mixed Mode Oscillations in a Stochastic, Piecewise-Linear System
10:30	Georg Walther	Stochastic Simulations of Cell Polarization with Respect to Rho GTPases
10:45	Kerstin Wielage	PELICANS – An Implementation Tool for Solvers of PDEs
11:00-11:30	GROUP PHOTO AND REFRESHMENTS
11:30-12:30	SESSION TWO
11:30	Yana Nec	Front Propagation Problems with Subdiffusion
11:45	Nessy Tania	A Mathematical Model of Cell Motility Regulation by the Cofilin Pathway
12:00	Ben Vanderlei	A Mechanical Model of Cell Polarization and Shape Regulation
12:15	Jennifer Morrison	Deciphering Multi-State Mobility in Single Particle Trajectories with Hidden Markov Models
12:30-15:00	LUNCH AND WALK
15:00-16:00	SESSION THREE
15:00	Michael Lindstrom	Modeling Magnetic Field Profiles Asymptotically Within Type I Superconductors in the London Limit
15:15	Peter Bell	Are the European Carbon Markets Efficient?
15:30	Jun Allard	Extended Body Mechanics Coupled with Biochemistry in Cells
15:45	Alan Lindsay	An Eigenvalue Optimization Problem in Mathematical Ecology
16:00-16:15	BREAK
16:15-17:00	SESSION FOUR
16:15	Ian Hewitt	Subglacial Meltwater Channels
16:30	Peng Gao	Propulsion of Water Walkers: A Fluid Dynamic Study
16:45	Eric DeGiuli	Statistical Mechanics for Granular Media
17:00-17:30	CLEANUP
17:30	DEPARTURE

Our Group by the shore of Fraser River

Presenters and Audience

Island Walk

A Break Outside