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Fall02 to Fall03


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Old Events 99/00 98/99 97/98


CECM Colloquia
Wednesdays, 3:30-4:30pm in K9509
Michael Monagan (Director)
CECM
CECM Colloquium,

Angel Kumchev of the University of Austin at Texas will speak on "Applications of the large sieve to additive prime number theory".

Details
Summer 2004 Schedule

 


Regular Events
Regular Events
Thursday, 3:30-5:00 in CoLab
Jonathan Borwein
CoLab/SFU
CoLab Meeting
Please come to the next CoLab Meeting and visit us on the web at CoLab or see a bit of what we do as Online Demos.

Next CoLab meeting 3.30- 5.00pm, Thursday November 27, 2003 at CoLab
Information

Alternate Wednesdays in CoLab
Jonathan Borwein
CoLab/SFU
Adrian Lewis
CECM/SFU
Applied Analysis and Optimization Seminar
Next Meeting: 2:30-3:30, November 26 in CoLab.
Jon Borwein and Herre Wiersma, "40 Years of Monotone Operator Decomposition"

Full Winter-Spring Schedule
Mondays, 3:30-4:30 in K9509

Michael Monagan


CECM/SFU
Computational Algebra Group
Meeting / Seminar

(Supported by PIMS/MITACS)
Summer 2004 Schedule
Thursdays, 3:30-5:00 in CoLab, P8493
Jonathan Borwein
CoLab/CECM
Weekly CoLab Group Meeting

NewMIC CV Group meets at same time. Meetings are shared virtually, with an openhouse once a month.
Meeting Information and More

Thursdays Continuing this Semester
4:00-4:50 in K9509Thursdays, 2003
Joint UBC-SFU Number Theory Seminar

Schedule
Tuesday October 29, 2:00-2:50 in EAA 1100
Bruce Reed
McGill University
Discrete Math Seminar
"Tree Width and Excluded Minors"

Refreshments will be served before the lecture.
More Information
Thursday February 14, 10:30 in EAA
Martin Groetschel
Technical University of Berlin
Discrete Math Seminar
"Graph Coloring and Frequency Assignment"

More Information
Thursday February 21, 2002, 3.00-3:45pm in K9509, SFU
Alf van der Poorten
Macquarie University
Joint UBC-SFU Number Theory Seminar talk on "Pseudo-elliptic Integrals."
Information
Thursday March 14, 2002 at 2:30 in B9200
Ken Perlin
CSS Distinguished Speaker Series 2001/2002
"Star Wars Chess on the Holodeck."

All members of the University and the public are invited to attend. Light refreshments will be provided.
Full Schedule
Wednesday May 19th, 3:30-4:30pm in K9509.
CECM
SFU
Steering Committee Meeting
Agenda
Links
SFU
Discrete Studies @ SFU
Events
Thursdays 3:30-4:30.
UBC
Number Theory Group Seminar
Events
Wednesday April 10, 3:30 - 4:20pm in EAA 1100
PIMS/Discrete Math
SFU
Ladislav Stacho, "Edge Disjoint Cycles Through Prescribed Vertices"
Schedule
Thursday July 5, 2001
PNWNTC
East Academic Annex
SFU
Pacific Northwest Number Theory Seminar Series

(Sponsored by: PIMS/MITACS and CECM)

This event is a one-day conference.

Abstract
Variable 2000 - 2001

2001
Pacific NorthWest Number Theory Events
Past Events
Thursday January 25, 2001
Sgt. Wayne Mather,
RCMP Resourcing Task Force
PIMS/MITACS
2:30-3:30 in the East Annex Room 1100 "Problems of Scheduling of Police Resources"
Schedule
Tuesday September 19 at 10:30-12:00 in K9509
Andrew Seary
SFU
Algebra/Combinatorics Instructional Seminar
"Analysing data from the needle exchange program"
Schedule

 


Special Events
Special Events
July 5 - 9, 2004
Workshop on Computational Arithmetic Geometry
PIMS SFU
Workshop Computational Arithmetic Geometry
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby Campus

Information

November 18, 2003
The Alan Mekler Lecture 2003
AQ 3149
Mathematics in Stone and Bronze
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby Campus

Helaman and Claire Ferguson

All welcome
Information

Oct 3-4, 2003
WCOM 03
Fall Meeting
West Coast Optimization Meeting 2003
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby

All welcome
Information

July 31, 2003
CECM Annual Summer Meeting 2003
Halpern Centre
CECM 2003: Computational Mathematics
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby Campus

All welcome
Information

May 9-10, 2003
WCOM
Seattle
West Coast Meeting
University of Washington, Seattle

All welcome
Information

April 5 and 6, 2003
Univ. of Washington
Seattle
Seventh Pacific Northwest Number Theory Conference

Information

Friday, March 14, 2003 in the afternoon
CoLab and K9509
SFU
CoLab School OpenHouse for Pi Day

Information

Thursday, March 13, 2003 at 6:00pm
Harbour Centre
SFU
Jon Borwein lectures on
"The Fields Medals"

on mathematicians Nevanlinna Prize winner Madhu Sudan, USA, and Fields Medallists Vladimir Voevodsky, USA and Laurent Lafforque, France

Information

Friday, March 7, 2003
CECM/CoLab (P8493)
SFU
IRMACS planning open house
(two floors directly below the mathematics department office)

Information

Friday, March 7, 2003
NewMIC Harbour Centre
SFU
Greg Buck lectures on "Knots"
at 12 noon.

Information

Thursday and Friday, January 23-24, 2003
CECM/CoLab (P8493)
SFU
Workshop on
Special Functions in the Digital Age

Schedule and Information

Wednesday December 4, 2002 at 2:30pm in AQ 3005
2002/2003 Mekler Lecture
SFU
Jeff Weeks
The Curvature of Space

Schedule and Information

Friday November 22, 2002 at 2:30pm in Images Theatre
CSS Lecture
SFU
Stephen Wolfram:
A New Kind of Science

All welcome - Registration Necessary
Schedule and Information

Friday Nov 1-2, 2002
WCOM
Seattle
West Coast Meeting
University of Washington, Seattle

All welcome
Links in HTML and and full programme in Postscript.

Friday August 9, 2002
CECM 2002
SFU
CECM 2002 Summer Workshop on
Computer Assisted Mathematics and Advanced Collaboration

All welcome - Registration Necessary
Schedule and Information

June 28-30, 2002
MathML 2002
MathML and Math on the Web International Conference
Hickory Ridge Conference Center, Chicago, Illinois
Information
June 17, 2002 to June 28, 2002
Intensive Graduate Course in Computational Number Theory
SFU
EXCURSIONS in COMPUTATIONAL NUMBER THEORY -- Polynomials with Integer Coefficients
Organized by: Peter Borwein (Simon Fraser University) and Michael Filaseta University of South Carolina)
Information
Fri. & Sat. May 3-4, 2002
West Coast Optimization Meeting
SFU EAA (Room 1100)
The Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences is sponsoring the Spring 2002 West Coast Optimization Meeting. This informative meeting brings together researchers and practitioners
Schedule and Information
Friday April 26, 2002, 17:00 - 18:00
Brent Davis
Faculty of Education, University of Alberta
Changing the Culture Conference
"Rigour : Mathematics : : Intuition : Teaching ... And Vice Versa"

Fletcher Challenge Theatre, SFU Harbour Centre Campus
Organized by: Malgorzata Dubiel (Simon Fraser University) Sponsored by the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences. For more information, see http://www.pims.math.ca/ctc/
Information
PNWNT 2002, April 20-21,2002
PNWNTC 2002
East Academic Annex
SFU
Pacific Northwest Number Theory Meeting
Sponsered by: CECM, Number Theory Foundation and PIMS.

This event has NO registration fee.

Speakers include: Kristin Lauter: Microsoft, Greg Martin: University of British Columbia, Carl Pomerance: Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, Fernando Rodriguez Villegas : University of Texas, Hugh Williams: University of Calgary

Abstract
February 15 - 17, 2002
International Math Union, CEIC
4th Annual CEIC Meeting and Workshop
at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, SFU
Schedule
Thursday February 14, 2002 in B9201 at 3:30pm
Mekler Lectures
Mekler Lecturer Martin Groetschel
talks on "Mathematical Opportunities in Telecommunication".
Reception to follow in K9509 at 4:30pm.
Schedule
Friday, January 18th, 2002, 10am-2pm
THE FUTURE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE CLUSTER COMPUTING - Seminar SFU
Dell Computer Corporation invites you to attend a technical seminar on High Performance Cluster Computing. Simon Fraser University - Diamond University Centre - Thompson & Fraser Room
Speakers are Dr. Jenwei Hsieh, Dr. Reza Rooholamini, Kevin Libert, Dale Peddie, and Robert Mah
Schedule
Sunday January 13, 2002, 9:15 - 2:45
PIMS Graduate Weekend
PIMS Graduate Recruitment takes place in Vancouver.
at the East Accademic Annex, SFU
Rm 1100
Schedule
November 2-3, 2001
WCOM
West Coast Optimization Meeting
at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Schedule in Postscript
September 24 - 26, 2001, Schloss Hagenberg
MKM 2001

First International Workshop on Mathematical Knowledge Management
& OpenMath Workshop
RISC, A-4232 Schloss Hagenberg, Linz, Austria
Information
Thursday July 27 & 28, 2001, K9509
CECM 2001
SFU
Analysis, Computation and Collaboration

(Sponsored by CECM/MITACS/PIMS)

All welcome - Registration Necessary
Schedule and Information

Thursday July 5, 2001, East Academic Annex Room 120
PIMS/MITACS
SFU
Pacific Northwest
Number Theory Seminar Series

A DAY of NUMBER THEORY

(Sponsored by PIMS/MITACS and CECM)

All welcome - No Registration - Free Lunch
Schedule and Information

Wed 16 to Fri 18 May, 2001
Pacific Institute
SFU
Workshop on "Design Theory: Resolvability and Parallelisms"
Schedule and Information
Fri. May 11, 2001
PIMS
SFU at Harbour Centre
Changing the Culture 2001
The theme of this year's conference is:
Writing, Speaking and Thinking Mathematics

Information and Registration.

Fri. & Sat. May 4-5, 2001
West Coast Optimization Meeting
SFU EAA (Room 1100)
Schedule and Information
Thursday March 8, 2001, 3:30 in K9500
The 2001 Alan Mekler Lecture
Math Dept.
SFU
Yuri Gurevich Microsoft Research, "What is an Algorithm?"

4:30 Refreshments in K9509

Abstract
Saturday January 27, 2001, 11am - 4pm
Joint Number Theory Event
Harbour Center, SFU.
Nils Bruin (PIMS, SFU, UBC), "Generalised Fermat equations"
Adrian Iovita (University of Washington, Seattle) "Explicit description of the local Galois representations attached to modular forms"
and
Stephen Choi (Simon Fraser University) "A Problem of Cohn on Classifying Characters"
Abstracts
Saturday January 13, 2001, 11am - 4pm
Joint Number Theory Event
University of Washington Seattle.
Michael Spiess, University of Nottingham, UK, "Logarithmic differential forms on p-adic symmetric spaces."
and
Imin Chen, Simon Fraser University, "On relations between induced representations for GL_2(Z/p^2) and applications to modular curves"
Abstracts
October 28-29, 2000
Numerical Analysis Weekend Vancouver
Numerical Potlatch 2000 Saturday, October 28, 2000
Fast Multipole Workshop Sunday, October 29, 2000
More information
Wednesday October 25 at 12 noon in CECM.
CECM
SFU
Goodbye Lunch for Loki Jörgenson
Let us know if you can attend :)
Signup for Event
October 20-21, 2000
WCOM
West Coast Optimization Meeting
at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Schedule Schedule with Abstracts in Postscript
October 12-14, 2000
SIAM Workshop
SIAM Regional Math in Industry Workshop
at the University of Washington, Seattle.
More information
Thursday Oct 5 at 10:30 & Tuesday Oct 10 at 10:30
PIMS/MITACS
EAA 1100, SFU
Professor Veso Junjic
"Two Special Lectures on the work of Timothy Gowers"
Abstract
Friday September 22, 2000 at 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
PIMS/MITACS
LSK 301, 6356 Agricultural Road, UBC
Professor Peter J. Rousseeuw
"Depth Tests of Symmetry and Regression"
Abstract
Thursday September 21, 2000 at 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
PIMS/MITACS
CICSR 208, 2366 Main Mall, UBC
Professor Peter J. Rousseeuw
"An Introduction to Regression Depth"
Abstract
Tuesday September 12 at 2.30 in CECM
Jon Borwein
SFU
HPC@SFU Meeting.
Agenda
Friday September 15, 2000 at 6pm
Food and Fun
P O T L U C K at
Jon and Judi's House

You are invited to a BEGINNING OF TERM POTLUCK. Come alone or bring friends. Bring food or drink. As always, we will provide the basics.
Sign Up and Info
June 19-23, 2000 from 8:30am - 5:00pm in K9509
Shrum Science Centre
Maple Course
Sign Up and Info
June 19-20, 2000 in Diamond University Centre
Burnaby Mountain
SFU
Live Collaborative Mathematics on the Net
Sign Up and Info
June 16, 2000 at SFU in MPX 8501
Dr. Ulrich Kortenkamp
Berlin University
Creating Interactive Geometry With Cinderella
(Centre for Educational Technology Instructional Lab) Burnaby Mountain
Abstract
1:30 PM, Wednesday, June 14, 2000, UBC, Math Annex 1102
Hugh Montgomery
University of Michigan
Greedy sums of distinct squares
Abstract

 

 
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