AMGSC 2008 Programme
Saturday, January 26
| 08:40-09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00-09:15 | Opening remarks |
| 09:15-10:15 | Student Presentations |
| 09:15 | Todd Keeler - The Fast Multipole Method and Related Research |
| 09:35 | Evgeniy Lebed - Seismic data interpolation |
| 09:55 | Jenny Li - State-dependent Queues |
| 10:15-10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45-11:45 | Student Presentations |
| 10:45 | Helen Alexander - A burst-death life history model: fitness and fixation probability for beneficial mutations |
| 11:15 | Qianglong Wen- Some Irreducible Characters of GL(2,Z/pnZ) and GL(3,Z/pnZ) |
| 11:45-12:15 | Opportunities for students in applied math |
| Alexandra Jilkine - MITACS Student Advisory Committee | |
| TBA - PIMS | |
| 12:15-13:40 | Lunch (catered by Nature's Garden Organic Deli) |
| 13:40-15:00 | Student Presentations |
| 13:40 | Andrea Blazenko - A Simple Model for Fluid Flow on a Sphere: Rotating Shallow Water and Potential Vorticity |
| 14:00 | Nathan Zhang - RAMs: a Realistic Anonymous Multicast System |
| 14:20 | Matthew Hennessy - Flow Transitions in the Differentially Heated Rotating Channel |
| 14:40 | Alexandra Jilkine - Wave-pinning and Cell Polarity from a Bistable Reaction-diffusion |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30-16:30 | Student Presentations |
| 15:30 | Greg Orosi - Spline Based Representation of the Implied Volatility Surface |
| 15:50 | Craig Thompson - Observations on composite Newton methods |
| 16:10 | Hanqing Zhao - Discrete Wavelets on Intervals and their Applications to Image Compression |
| 17:30-21:30 | Social Event - Bowling at REVS Bowling Centre and Dinner |
Sunday, January 27
| 09:00-10:00 | Student Presentations |
| 09:00 | Jason Boisvert - Automatic Differentiation: Theory and Applications |
| 09:20 | Xi Liu - Stability analysis of networked control systems with limited bandwidth |
| 09:40 | Chiaka Drakes - Asymptotic Solution of the Viscous Burgers Equation with Piecewise Constant Initial Data |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30-11:30 | Student Presentations |
| 10:30 | Shidong Shan - A solver for large-scale nonlinear least-squares with simple bounds |
| 10:50 | Tyler Helmuth - An Algebraic Method of Magnetotelluric Inversion |
| 11:10 | Joseph Lo - Brownian Motion and the Rate of Chemical Reaction |
| 11:30-11:40 | Closing Remarks |
Abstracts of all talks are available on the abstracts page.