Graduate Student Conference

January 30, 2001

All talks are in Room 156, Western Science Centre, 9:00 am.

9:00 am - Welcome

SESSION I: Chairperson - Alan MacIsaac
9:05 am - Farrukh Chishtie - Next Order Estimate of Higgs Glue-Glue Rate
9:30 am - Gurjeet Litt - Algorithms in Computational Linear Algebra
9:55 am - Stewart Gaede - Optimization in Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
10:20 am - Weiguang Yao - Improving Security of Communication Via Chaotic Synchronization

10:45 am BREAK

SESSION II: Chairperson: Vic Elias
11:15 am - Ivan Saika-Voivod - The Fragile to Strong Transition in Liquid Silica
11:40 am - Lindsay Anderson - A Simulation Approach to Modelling Electricity Prices
12:05 pm - Yuan Yuan - The Simplest Normal Forms Associated With Zero Eigenvalues

12:30 pm: LUNCH

SESSION III: Chairperson: Matt Davison
1:30 pm - Sharon Wang - Signal Processing Using Matching Pursuits
1:55 pm - Xiaorang Li - Fractional Calculus and Applications
2:20 pm - Andrea Doeschl - A Cellular Model For Braided Rivers

2:45 pm: BREAK

SESSION IV: Chairperson: Matt Davison
3:15 pm - Mhenni Benghorbal - Approximate Solution of the Eigenvalue Problem Dy=?y
3:40 pm - Songhui Zhu - Computation of Central Manifolds and Normal Forms of Differential Equations 4:05 pm - Matt Thompson - A Continuous Time Approach to Modelling Electricity Prices 4:30 pm Closing