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CECM97 cONFERENCE ON eXPERIMENTAL AND cONSTRUCTIVE mATHEMATICS 97 |
TIME: Monday June 23rd and Tuesday June 24th (1997)
PLACE: K9509, Simon Fraser University.
This is a collection of (informal) talks in and around the general areas of interest to CECM (analysis, computational mathematics, experimental mathematics, number theory, symbolic algebra, and more).
Sponsored by the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIms) and the Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics (CECM).
Everyone is welcome. There is no registration fee.
Visitor information on Simon Fraser University and CECM is available at http://wayback.cecm.sfu.ca/visitor_info/visitor_info.html.
For further information contact Peter Borwein.
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MONDAY MORNING: June 23
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| SESSION 1: | NONLINEAR ANALYSIS | |
| 9:30--10:00 | Jim Zhu, Western Michigan University "Sensitivity analysis for optimization problems in reflexive Banach spaces" | 10:15--10:45 | Zili Wu, University of Victoria "Proximal subgradients and integration" |
11:00--11:30 | Pierre Marechal, Simon Fraser University "On the regularization of the Fourier Synthesis inverse problem and related topics" |
11:45--12:15 | Mihaela Radelescu, University of British Columbia "The convex function associated with a monotone operator" |
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MONDAY AFTERNOON: June 23
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| SESSION 2: | OPTIMIZATION PLUS | |
| 2:00--3:00 | John Dennis, Rice University "Trust-Region Methods for Optimization with Some Applications" | |
| 3:30--4:00 | Werner Kratz, Ulm University "Observability and the optimal regulator" | |
| 4:15--4:45 | Hans Sterk, Eindhoven, The Netherlands "Interactive lecture notes on algebra" | |
| 5:00--5:30 | Stephen Braham, Simon Fraser University "Demonstration of Polynet Technology" | |
6633 East Hastings Street, Burnaby at 6:15pm. Telephone: 299-3777
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TUESDAY MORNING: June 24
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| SESSION 3: | COMPUTATION and COMBINATORICS | |
| 9:30--10:00 | Pal Fischer, University of Guelph "Some new logarithmic inequalities and Maple" | |
| 10:15--10:45 | Dominique Villard, Simon Fraser University "The use of Automatic Differentiation for computing efficient dynamic models of multibody systems" | |
| 11:00--11:30 | Ian Affleck, Simon Fraser University "Minimizing Expected Broadcast Time in Arc-unreliable Networks" | |
| 11:45--12:15 | Scott Allen, Toronto "A Procedure for Generating Alternate Representations of Zeta Functions" | |
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TUESDAY AFTERNOON: June 24
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| SESSION 4: | NUMBER THEORY | |
| 2:00--2:30 | David Boyd, University of British Columbia "The order of vanishing at x = 1 of polynomials with coefficients in {-1,1}" | |
| 2:45--3:15 | Doug Bowman, University of Illinois (Urbana) "Best irrationality measures" | |
| 3:30--4:00 | Mike Mossinghoff, Appalachian State University "Perturbed products of cyclotomic polynomials" | |
| 4:15--4:45 | Luis Goddyn, Simon Fraser University "A Cute Little Problem Regarding the Distribution of Primes and arising from J. Will's 'Lonely Runner Problem'" | |
| 5:00--5:30 | Hugh Edgar, San Jose State University "Sum Problems in Number Theory" | |