Tenth Annual IAM Retreat 2014 - Institute of Applied Mathematics

Speaker: Twenty two participants

Location: Minnekhada Lodge, Minnekhada Regional Park

Intended Audience: IAM members

The tenth IAM retreat is held at Minnekhada Lodge. Special thanks to Student Committe efforts in organizing this event. There are many participants and presenters covering a variety of topics in applied mathematics.

Retreat Schedule

Time	Presenter	Talk Title
07:30	Bus leaves UBC
08:00	Bus leaves Cambie & 41 Ave
08:20	Bus leaves Commercial Dr. & Broadway
09:30-10:25	Brian Wetton’s group
	Michael Lindstrom
	Iain Moyles
	James Ferguson	Models of surging Glaciers
	Yi Sui	Locomotion over a washboard
	Leo Liu
10:25-10:30	Break
10:30-11:25	Michael Ward’s group
	Will Thompson
	Jiaxing Wang
	Laurent Charette
	Yifan Chang	The Stability of Periodic Patterns of Spots for the Brusselator in 2-D
	Eamon Kavanagh
11:25-11:30	Break
11:30-13:00	Dan Coombs’ group
	Amirhossein Mafi	Modeling dorsal closure during Drosophila embryogenesis
	Reza Asad
	Bernhard Konrad
	Alejandra Herrera	Drosophila FRAP data analysis
	Josh Scurll	Single Particle Tracking to Study Receptor Dynamics in B-cells
	William Carlquist	Modelling protein pattern formation
	Stilianos Louca	Microbial Ecology at the metagenome level
	Haihan Lan	A Biomechanical Model for Cell Polarization and Intercalation
	Tenghu Wu	A mechanical model for fluidization of cells under dynamic strain
13:00-14:00	Lunch
14:00-16:00	Activities: groupphoto,hike,frisbeeetc.
16:00-17:00	IAM office discussion
17:00-17:30	Clean up and pack up
17:30	Bus leaves

Our group outside Minnekhada Lodge