AMGSC 2007 Programme

08:40-09:00 Registration
09:00-09:15 Opening remarks
09:15-10:15 Student Presentations
    09:15 Thomas Humphries - Mathematics of SPECT imaging
    09:35 Daniel Benvenuti - A complete characterization of strong Hamiltonicity for weighted graphs with constant Hamiltonian cycle cost
    09:55 Majid Gazor - Simplest Normal Form of Parameterized Planar Vector Fields with Hopf Singularity
10:15-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-11:45 Student Presentations
    10:45 Liang Xu - Large-Scale Numerical Optimization with Simple Bounds
    11:05 Phillip Poon - One-Dimensional Spatiotemporal Chaos in the Nikolaevskii Equation
    11:25 Benjamin Willson - Folner nets on semidirect products of groups
11:45-12:15 Opportunities for students in applied math
Rustum Choksi - PIMS
Laurence Meadows - MITACS
12:15-14:00 Lunch at the Himalayan Peak
14:00-15:00 Student Presentations
    14:00 Garth Boucher - The Geometry of Spacetime
    14:20 Malcolm Roberts - A Multi-Spectral Decimation Scheme for Turbulence Simulations
    14:40 Badri Ratnam - Finite Elements in Vibrations
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-16:30 Student Presentations
    15:30 Qiuying Lin - Variable Selection via the Bridge Regression
    15:50 Mohamed Mahmoud - Image Registration methods based on solving the Monge-Ampere Equation
    16:10 Somayeh Moazeni - Control of Execution Costs in Multi-trader Markets
16:30-16:40 Closing remarks

You can find the abstracts of these talks on our abstracts page.

There be a social event in the evening.