Third Annual IAM Retreat 2007

Annual Retreat
April 13, 2007 4:00 pm

Speaker:  Sixteen Speakers

Location:  Minnekhada Lodge, Minnekhada Regional Park

Intended Audience:  Public

The Third IAM Seminar Retreat 2007 took place – in brave defiance of any superstitions – from 9 am to 5:30 pm on Friday, April 13th, and 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). As in the past two years, we used the hospitable facilities of the beautiful Minnekhada Lodge, located in the Minnekhada Regional Park. We had almost 40 participants and a total of 16 talks covering a variety of topics in Applied Mathematics (see the Retreat Schedule). All sessions went very smoothly, and most speakers kept their talks perfectly within the alloted time limit, making Dan Coombs’ famous time-enforcing gun largely unemployed throughout the day. During the lunch break, despite a somewhat uncooperative weather, most of us took a walk around Minnekhada Park, including a visit to its highest point, the High Knoll.

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 Omer Dushek Signaling in the Immune Synapse: Serial Engagements of T-Cell Receptors by a Few pMHC Molecules
10:00 Alan Lindsay Plate MEMS Capacitor Devices
10:15 Ryan Lukeman The Rotating Formation in a Self-Propelled Particle Model
10:30 Zhenguo Pan Numerical Study of Coupled Surface and Grain Boundary Motion
10:45 Jelena Sirovljevic Incomplete Preconditioners for Symmetric Quasi-Definite Systems
11:00-11:30 REFRESHMENT BREAK
11:30-12:30 SESSION TWO
11:30 Dan Li Large Scale Finite Element Solution for the Time-Harmonic Maxwell Equations
11:45 Chunfeng Zhou Self-Assembly of Droplets in a Nematic Liquid Crystal
12:00 Sandra Merchant Spatiotemporal Pattern Formation and Stability in Predator-Prey Invasions
12:15 Xiaoxi Wei DG-CG Finite Element Methods for an Incompressible Magneto-Hydrodynamic System
12:30-15:00 LUNCH, GROUP PHOTO, WALK AROUND MINNEKHADA PARK
15:00-16:00 SESSION THREE
15:00 Raibatak (Dodo) Das A Hidden Markov Model for Single Particle Tracks
15:15 Peter Borowski Playing with a Polymer Model for the Cell Division in E. Coli
15:30 Wan Chen Self-Replication and Annihilation of Spot Patterns in 2-D Gray-Scott Model
15:45 Na Yu Stochastic Phase Dynamics in the Presence of Mixed-Mode Oscillations
16:00-16:15 REFRESHMENT BREAK
16:15-17:00 SESSION FOUR
16:15 Ewout van den Berg Primal-Dual Interior-Point Methods for Solving Basis Pursuit
16:30 Bruno L’Espérance Stopping Problem in Consumption and Portfolio Optimization
16:45 Joseph Lo The Numerical Collocation Method for the Solution of the Schrödinger Equation
17:00 CLEANUP
17:15 DEPARTURE

 

Our group by the Minnekhada Lodge

Our group by the Minnekhada Lodge

 

Audience and Presenters

Omer DushekAlan LindsayZhenguo PanJelena Sirovljevic

Ryan LukemanDan LiChunfeng ZhouWan ChenSandra MerchantXiaoxi WeiPeter BorowskiNa YuEwout van den BergBruno L'EspéranceRaibatak DasJoseph Lo

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