Videos & Presentations

This webpage showcases videos and presentations that promote the Mathematics program at Simon
Fraser University. If you are interested in learning more about how a mathematics degree may help you pursue your career and life goals, or would like further information about our programs and courses, please contact our Undergraduate Advisor, Tina Nagra (e-mail: math_advice@sfu.ca, phone: 778.782.4980).

SFU Math Videos:

Recruitment
MATH 150 Distance Ed
Outreach

Math Girl
On Television
Seminars and Conferences

Recruitment

Math Recuitment Video: Jumpstart your Career

Check out our new Math Recruitment video! Find out about our programs, potential careers and the student experience.

SFU Mathematics: What will I learn in Higher Mathematics?
Find out more about the applications of Mathematics. This is an interesting and challenging field of study which leads to many career possibilities. Do consider making Math your major at SFU.

SFU Envision Video Contest

Check out this Video submission by Math students Adam Fong, Ken Calder, and Sherman Siu.

Math 150 Distance Education

MATH 150 Online: Calculus I with Review:
Change the Rate of your Morning
Professors Jamie Mulholland and Veselin Jungic have prepared a special online version of of MATH 150: Calculus I with Review. This class will give you a break from that unevitable early morning rush.

MATH 150 Online: Calculus I with Review:
Caculus from the Comfort Of Home
This video will give you a taste of what MATH 150 Distance is like. Online video lectures are used to bring the vertitable "Classroom Experience" to students, while having the convenience of home.

MATH 150 Online: Calculus I with Review: The Basic INFO

Enough humour! This video outlines the basics--the knitty-gritty--of MATH 150 Distance. Have a look.

Outreach

Small Number Counts To 100

This short animation movie is a math education resource based on Aboriginal culture. For more information, visit: http://www.math.sfu.ca/~vjungic/Small...

Math Girl

Math Girl Episode 1: Differentials Attract

Math Girl uses her linear approximator to save her friend Pat Thagoras when he was stuck on Square Root Mountain. The episode illustrates the use of linear approximation and the differential of a function.

Math Girl Episode 2 - Zero!'s Dis-Continuity

When Zero! constructs the Sin T Over T Roller Coaster, Math Girl and Pat Thagoras use their epsilon-delta device and the limit to patch the hole on the top of the coaster and save the Big Math's twins from a danger.

Math Girl Episode 3 - Rationalize This

It is Pi Day in Calculopolis and Big Math is ready to inaugurate the Fountain of Pi as part of the Memorial of the Unknown Mathematician. Zero! sends his army of zeros to make pi finally equal 3.14 and to spoil the celebration. Math Girl and Pat use their BBP device to foil Zero!'s evil plan. (BBP stands for Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula).

On Television

Lab with Leo Laporte Episode 119 - Todd Keeler

Computerized Simulations of Fluids and Smoke
Todd Keeler
Date: 2007

Seminars and Conferences

Peter Browein Conference 2011

A workshop on Computational and Analytical Mathematics 2011

The Once and Future Jon

Dr. Peter Borwein
Date: May 18, 2011

Minimal Polynomials of Kloosterman Zeros

Dr. Petr Lisonek
Date: May 19, 2011

Sparse Polinomial Interpolation

Dr. Michael Monagan
Date: May 19, 2011

SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series

Dr. Nilima Nigam: At the Confluence of Exterior Calculus, approximation theory and numerical analysis: High Order FEM Appriximations on Pyramids

      SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series
      Dr. Nilima Nigam, Canada Research Chair in Applied Mathematics
      Date: Feb 24, 2011

Dr. Bojan Mohar: How to draw with small number of crossings

SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series
Dr. Bojan Mohar, Canada Research Chair in Graph Theory
Date: Feb 26, 2009

Dr. Paul Tupper - From Distance to Diversity: Extending the Concept of a Metric Space

SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series
Dr. Paul Tupper, Canada Research Chair in Applied Mathematics
Date: Sep 16, 2010

Coast to Coast Seminars

Fourier Spectral Computing on the Sphere

Coast to Coast Seminar Series
David Muraki, Andrea Blazenko, and Kevin Mitchell
Date: Jan 20, 2009
Small Size

Peter Browein Conference 2008

	Quartic Q-derived polynomials with distinct roots Peter Borwein Conference 2008 Dr. Imin Chen Date: May 15, 2008
	How fast can we multiply and divide sparse polynomials? Peter Borwein Conference 2008 Dr. Michael Monagan Date: May 15, 2008
	On zeros of Kloosterman sums Peter Borwein Conference 2008 Dr. Petr Lisonek Date: May 15, 2008
	The lower bounds for subset sums Peter Borwein Conference 2008 Dr. Luis Goddyn Date: May 15, 2008
	Modular Normality of Integer Sequences Peter Borwein Conference 2008 Adrian Belshaw Date: May 15, 2008
	Local-to-global obstructions on curves Peter Borwein Conference 2008 Dr. Nils Bruin Date: May 15, 2008
	Integer factorial ratios Peter Borwein Conference 2008 Dr. Jason Bell Date: May 15, 2008