2009 Conference Programme

Saturday, January 24

08:40-09:00 Registration
09:00-09:15 Opening remarks
09:15-10:15 Student Presentations
    09:15 Olga Trichtchenko - Creating harmonies using neural networks
    09:35 Cameron Christou - Dither and error diffusion in image processing
    09:55 Xiaosheng Zhuang - Matrix extension and its application to wavelets
10:15-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:05 Student Presentations
    10:45 Maryam Namazi - Effect of barotropic shear on Kelvin waves associated with the first baroclinic mode
    11:05 Bryan Quaife - Integral equation methods for two elliptic operators
    11:25 Marc Ryser - The cellular dynamics of bone remodeling: a mathematical model
    11:45 Abdalla Mansur - The Maslov index and instability of the periodic solutions for the rhombus four body problem
12:05-12:20 Opportunities for students in applied math
Alexandra Jilkine - MITACS Student Advisory Committee
TBA - PIMS
12:20-13:40 Lunch (catered by Nature's Garden Organic Deli)
13:40-15:00 Student Presentations
    13:40 Julia Nalven - Modeling shock demagnetization to detect unexploded ordnances
    14:00 Simon Gemmrich - Boundary integral equations for the Laplace Beltrami operator on the unit sphere
    14:20 Seungji Ha - Finite amplitude evolution of baroclinic waves
    14:40 Reinel Sospedra-Alfonso - Global classical solutions to the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system with bounded spatial density
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-16:30 Student Presentations
    15:30 Joel Phillips - Finite elements on pyramids
    15:50 Maria Khomenko - Instabilities in gravity driven flows under stiff boundary conditions
    16:10 Jeffrey Haroutunian - A spatial generalization of the Ricker model: break of chaos
16:30-16:40 Closing Remarks
17:30-21:30 Dinner/Social event

Abstracts of all talks are available on the abstracts page.