cecMathematics Talks
Fall99 through Summer00

Date and Time	Speaker or Group	Title
Friday, August 11, 10:30 in K9509	Jon Vanderwerff, La Sierra, California	CECM Seminar. Jon Vanderwerff A variant of weak uniform rotundity and Asplund spaces
Friday, August 4, 2:30 in K9509	Chris Budd, University of Bath, U.K.	CECM/APMA Seminar. Chris Budd Geometric integration of ODEs with scaling invariance
Wednesday, August 2, 3:30 in K9509	Mark V. Lawson, University of Wales, Bangor, U.K.	CECM/Algebra Colloquium. M. V. Lawson Tiling Semigroups
Wednesday, July 26, 3:30 - 5:20 in K9509	Four Short Presentations on Simplification and Differential Systems(CECM) Jamie Mulholland, Hans Bauck, Petr Lisonek, and Allan Wittkopf	CECM/CAG Colloquium. J. Mulholland Factorization in Q[s,c]/ and Simplification of Quotients of Trigonometric Polynomials H. Bauck A Design for a Simplifier for the Elementary Constants and Functions. P. Lisonek An Implementation of the Unwinding Number K(z) and its Application to the Simplification of Algebraic Formulae Involving Roots and Logarithms. A. Wittkopf Determination of Maximal Symmetry Groups of Classes of Differential Equations. Refreshments will be served.
Wednesday, July 19 3:30 - 5:20 in K9509	Mike Monagan, Craig Pastro, Jennifer de Kleine, Allan Wittkopf (CECM)	CECM/CAG Colloquium. M. Monagan Applying Automatic Differentiation to Solve Stiff Systems C. Pastro The dense modular GCD algorithm in Z[x,y,z,...] and Zp[w][x,y,z,...] J. de Kleine The sparse modular GCD algorithm of Zippel A. Wittkopf On the Design and Implementation of Brown's GCD Algorithm. Refreshments will be served.
Friday, July 7 2:30pm in K9509	Dr. Adrian Lewis, University of Waterloo	Math Seminar. Adrian Lewis ILL-CONDITIONED GENERALIZED EQUATIONS
Wednesday, July 5 3:30 - 4:50 in K9509	Greg Fee (CECM)	CECM/CAG Colloquium. Greg Fee The Smith Normal Form of a rectangular matrix and how to solve linear systems over the integers.
Wednesday, June 28 3:30-4:50 in K9509	Andrew Solomon (CECM)	CECM/CAG Colloquium. Andrew Solomon Wasting time with GAP
Wednesday, June 21 2:00pm in K9509	Giovanni Alberti	Joint Applied Math / CECM Seminar. Giovanni Alberti Variational convergence for functionals of Ginzburg-Landau type
Friday, 16 June 2000 2:30PM in K9509	Prof. Jim Verner	CECM/APMA Seminar. Prof. Jim Verner Applications of Deriving Runge --Kutta Methods: Some Two-step Pairs
Wednesday, June 14 1:30 - 2:30 in K9509	Giovanni Alberti University of Pisa	CECM/CAG Colloquium. Professor Giovanni Alberti Variational convergence for functionals of Ginzburg-Landau type
Wednesday, May 31 1:30 - 4:30 in K9509	Jozef Siran, Nora Hartsfield, Peter Borwein (CECM)	CECM/CAG Colloquium. Jozef Siran, Nora Hartsfield, Peter Borwein (CECM) talks on Algebraic Methods in The Degree/Diameter Problem, An Elementary Introduction to Current Graphs, The Unreasonable Efficacy of Symbolic Computation - or - Imagine If Gauss had Maple .
Wednesday, May 24 3:30 - 4:30 in K9509	Edgardo Cheb-Terrab and T. Kolokolnikov (CECM)	CECM/CAG Colloquium. Edgardo Cheb-Terrab and T. Kolokolnikov talks on ODEs
Wednesday, April 12 1:30 - 3:30 in K9509	CECM\Math Combinatorics Seminar	CECM\Math Combinatorics Seminar. Luis Goddyn (CECM) talks on "Balanced Circulations and Flow Numbers of Graphs" Pavel Chebotarev talks on "Spanning Forests of a Digraph and Marginal Probabilities of Markov Chains." Fruits and Coffee will be served.
Wednesday April 5, 3:30--4:30 in K9509, SFU	Idris Mercer (CECM)	A Survey of Nonexistence Results for Cyclic Difference Sets.
Tuesday March 28, 1:30 - 3:30 in K9509	CECM\Math Combinatorics Seminar	CECM\Math Combinatorics Seminar. Anna Galluccio on "Optimization via Enumeration: a new algorithm for the Max Cut Problem" Moshe Rosenfeld on "The Shannon Capacity of Noisy Channels, some specially intriguing graphs." Fruits and Coffee will be served.
Tuesday 14 March, 1:30 - 3:30 in K9509	CECM\Math Combinatorics Seminar	CECM\Math Combinatorics Seminar. Jiri Matousek on "The tale of d-intervals" Ladislav Stacho on "Cycles in Graphs" Cookies and Coffee will be served.
Tuesday 15 February: 3.30 in K9500	Prof Persi Diaconnis	The Alan Mekler Lecture Series.
Saturday 12th February: Afternoon in CECM	PIms Recruiting Day	Graduate Students Recruiting. Please turn up to demo things on your screens. Light refreshments (cookies, juice, coffee) etc will be provided in the seminar room.
Tuesday 18 January: 2.30-4:30 in K9509	CECM/MITACS	Afternoon of Number Theory.
Tuesday 13 January: 1:30 in K9509	Prof Adrian Lewis	Optimization of Eigenvalues
November 10: 2.30-4.00 and 17: 3.30-4.30	CFI Computing Proposal Meeting	Discussions of Proposed Proposal
November 3: 3.30	Prof Jin Ho Kwak (Korea)	Enumeration of Graph Coverings and Related Problems
October 20: 3.30	Nike Vatsal, UBC	P-adic properties of L-functions
September 29: 3.30	June Lester, CECM and UNBC	Mathematics on the Web: what works, what doesn't, and what will work in the future. (Maybe. Eventually. With luck ... )
September 22: 3:30	Peter Borwein, CECM	Visible Number Theory
September 8: 3:30	Jon Borwein, CECM	Introductory Meeting and talk on Maximizing Surprise

(Top)

(Top)