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Monday, May 12th |
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8:00 - 9:00 |
Registration / Breakfast, IRMACS
Atrium |
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9:00 - 9:15 |
Welcome by Dr. Michael
Stevenson, President, SFU Opening Remarks by Dr. Tom
Archibald, Chair of the Organizing Committee |
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9:15 - 10:15 |
Kevin Hare, A history of, and
recent results on Beta-expansion |
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10:15 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break, IRMACS Atrium |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
George Labahn, Recent
developments in order basis |
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11:00 - 11:30 |
Agnes Szanto, Moment
matrices, trace matrices and the radical of ideals |
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11:30 - 11:45 |
Coffee Break |
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11:45 - 12:15 |
Doron Lubinsky, On the q
disease on the unit circle |
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12:15 - 12:45 |
Sinai Robins, New measures of
discrete volumes for polytopes whose vertices have arbitrary real coordinates |
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12:45 - 1:30 |
Lunch, IRMACS Atrium |
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1:30 - 2:30 |
Tamás Erdélyi, A few highlights
of Peter Borwein's work with me |
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2:30 - 2:45 |
Coffee Break, IRMACS Atrium |
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2:45 - 3:15 |
Victor Moll, 2-adic
valuations of a sequences arising from a rational integral |
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3:15 - 3:45 |
Jason Bell, Integer factorial
ratios |
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3:45 - 4:00 |
Coffee Break, IRMACS Atrium |
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4:00 - 4:30 |
Renate Scheidler, Construction
of all cubic function fields of a given discriminant |
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4:30 - 5:00 |
Mark Bauer, The trials and
tribulations of cubic function fields in characteristic three |
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5:00 - 7:00 |
Wine and Cheese Reception,
IRMACS Atrium Welcome by Charmaine dean, Burnaby Mountain Research Chair in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, SFU |
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Tuesday, May 13th |
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8:30 - 9:00 |
Registration / Breakfast, IRMACS
Atrium |
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9:00 - 10:00 |
David Bailey, High-performance
computing and Peter Borwein |
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10:00 -10:15 |
Coffee Break, IRMACS Atrium |
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10:15 - 10:45 |
Friedrich Littmann, Approximation
of functions that are analytic in a strip |
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10:45 - 11:15 |
Bruce Richmond, On the
maximum of the Stirling numbers |
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11:15 - 11:30 |
Coffee Break, IRMACS Atrium |
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11:30 - 12:00 |
Richard Askey, Inequalities
and special functions |
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12:00 - 12:30 |
Songping Zhou, Convergence
problems of some Fourier series |
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12:30 - 1:15 |
Lunch, IRMACS Atrium |
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1:15 - 2:15 |
Michael Mossinghoff, Peter
Borwein, plane geometry, polynomials, and polygons |
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2:15 - 2:30 |
Coffee Break, IRMACS Atrium |
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2:30 - 3:00 |
Ping Zhou, Padé approximants
associated with functional equations |
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3:00 - 3:30 |
John Fournier, Paley's
theorem for Hankel matrices via the Schur test |
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3:30 - 4:00 |
Nils Bruin, Local-to-global
obstructions on curves |
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4:00 - 4:15 |
Coffee Break, IRMACS Atrium |
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4:15 - 4:45 |
1. Chris Sinclair, Repulsion between imaginary quadratic numbers on the unit circle (room ASB 10900) 2. Brett Hemenway, Locally-decodable
codes based on hidden Chinese remaindering (room ASB 10908) |
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4:45 - 5:15 |
1. Alexa van der Waall, Priority
based allocation of police resources to crime related investigations (room ASB 10908) 2. Adrian Belshaw, Modular Normality of Integer Sequences (room ASB 10908) |
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Wednesday, May 14th |
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8:30 - 9:00 |
Registration / Breakfast, IRMACS
Atrium |
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9:00 - 10:00 |
Hugh Williams, Primality, proving,
polynomials and sieving |
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10:00 - 10:15 |
Coffee Break, IRMACS Atrium |
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10:15 - 10:45 |
Mark Giesbrecht, Detecting
perfect powers of lacunary polynomials |
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10:45 - 11:15 |
David Borwein, Surprising
sinc sums and integrals |
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11:15 - 11:30 |
Coffee Break, IRMACS Atrium |
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11:30 - 12:00 |
Chris Smyth, Lehmer's problem
for integer symmetric matrices |
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12:00 - 12:30 |
Jeffrey Vaaler, A Banach
space determined by the Weil height |
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12:30 - 1:15 |
Lunch, IRMACS Atrium |
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1:15 - 2:15 |
Richard Crandall, The
partition function of number theory: a computational perspective |
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2:15 - 2:30 |
Coffee Break, IRMACS Atrium |
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2:30 - 3:00 |
Frank Garvan, Congruences for
the rank and crank of partitions |
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3:00 - 3:30 |
Karl Dilcher, Stern
polynomials and continued fractions |
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3:30 - 3:45 |
Coffee Break, IRMACS Atrium |
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3:45 - 4:15 |
Luis Goddyn, The lower bounds
for subset sums |
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4:15 - 5:15 |
Jonathan Borwein, Peter
Borwein revisited |
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5:45 - 9:00 |
Banquet at the Diamond Alumni
Center |
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Thursday, May 15th |
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8:30 - 9:00 |
Registration / Breakfast, IRMACS
Atrium |
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9:00 - 10:00 |
Cam Stewart, Neighbouring
Powers |
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10:00-10:15 |
Coffee Break, IRMACS Atrium |
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10:15 - 10:45 |
Soroosh Yazdani, On
maximality of certain Littlewood polynomials |
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10:45 - 11:15 |
Petr Lisonek, On zeros of
Kloosterman sums |
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11:15 - 11:30 |
Coffee Break, IRMACS Atrium |
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11:30 - 12:00 |
Matt Klassen, Generalized van
der Monde determinants, interpolation, and splines |
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12:00 - 12:30 |
Michael Monagan, How fast can
we multiply and divide sparse polynomials? |
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12:30 - 1:15 |
Lunch, IRMACS Atrium |
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1:15 - 2:15 |
Annie Cuyt, Continued
fractions for special functions: handbook and software |
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2:15 - 2:30 |
Coffee Break, IRMACS Atrium |
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2:30 - 3:00 |
Imin Chen, Quartic Q-derived
polynomials with distinct roots |
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3:00 - 3:30 |
Greg Martin, Absolutely
abnormal numbers |
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3:30 - 3:45 |
Coffee Break, IRMACS Atrium |
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3:45 - 4:15 |
1. Greg Fee, Zeros and poles
in Padé approximates to the symmetric zeta function (room ASB 10900) 2. Michael Coons, Sums of
completely multiplicative signature functions (room ASB 10908) |
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4:15 - 4:45 |
1. Vahid Dabbaghian, The Impact
of Social Interactions on the Spread of HIV Infection among Injection Drug
Users: A Cellular Automaton Model (room
ASB 10900) 2. Jens Happe, On the
relationship between the nonreal zeros and the Fourier critical points of
real polynomials (room ASB 10908) |
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4:45 - 5:15 |
1. Warren Hare, Mathematical
challenges and aides to tuning models to complex social systems (room ASB 10900) 2. Idris Mercer, The cosine
problem (room ASB 10908) |
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Friday, May 16th |
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8:30 - 9:00 |
Registration / Breakfast, IRMACS
Atrium |
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9:00 - 10:00 |
John Friedlander, Selberg and
the sieve: a positive approach |
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10:00 - 10:15 |
Coffee Break, IRMACS Atrium |
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10:15 - 10:45 |
Colin Ingalls, Noncommutative
surfaces |
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10:45 - 11:15 |
Nathan Ng, The distribution
of the Mobius function in short intervals |
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11:15 - 11:30 |
Coffee Break, IRMACS Atrium |
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11:30 - 12:00 |
Arthur Baragar, Ruler and
compass constructions |
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12:00 - 12:30 |
Heinz Bauschke, 8 queens,
sudoku and projection methods |
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12:30 - 1:15 |
Lunch, IRMACS Atrium |
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1:15 - 2:15 |
Ron Graham, Iterated
partitions of triangles |
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2:15 - 2:30 |
Coffee Break, IRMACS Atrium |
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2:30 - 3:00 |
Michael Filaseta, Miscellaneous
problems on the factorization of 0,1-polynomials |
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3:00 - 3:30 |
Peter Sziklai, An extreme polynomial with two variables |
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3:30 - 3:45 |
Coffee Break, IRMACS Atrium |
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3:45 - 4:15 |
Joris Van Deun, The Riemann
zeta function and asymptotics for Stieltjes fractions |
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4:15 - 4:45 |
Bruce Aubertin, Algebraic numbers and harmonic analysis |
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4:45 - 5:00 |
Closing Remarks |