McGill Computational Science and Engineering Seminar

For the Winter 2005 Semester: Biweekly on Fridays at 2:30pm in McConnell Engineering Building Room 13

Coffee and snacks served afterwards in Room 603.

For Students, Researchers and Professionals Involved in Scientific Computing

Program for the Fall/Winter Semesters 2004/2005

24-Sep-2004: Godfried T. Toussaint, School of Computer Science, McGill University: Linkage Reconfiguration: Geometric and Computational Aspects with Applications to Knot Theory, Robotics, Polymer Physics, and Bioinformatics

08-Oct-2004: Peter Christoffersen, Finance, McGill University: Option Valuation with Volatility Components

13-Oct-2004: Michel Bercovier,School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Modeling and Numerical Simulation of Drug Release: Simulation Applied into Real Life

22-Oct-2004: Igor Tsukerman, Electrical & Computer Engineering, The University of Akron: Macromolecules, Microparticles, and Flexible Approximation

05-Nov-2004: Greg Lewis, School of Science, University of Ontario Institute of Technology: Numerical Computation of Bifurcations in Models of Differentially Heated Rotating Fluids

12-Nov-2004: Tim Myers,Visiting Professor, Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of British Columbia: The Flow and Solidification of a Thin Water Layer on a Cold Surface

19-Nov-2004: Chen Greif, Computer Science, University of British Columbia: Arnoldi-type Algorithms for Computing Stationary Distribution Vectors with Application to PageRank

03-Dec-2004: Robert Paknys, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Concordia University: High Frequency Hybrids and Computational Electromagnetics

21-Jan-2005: Roni Khazaka, Electrical & Computer Engineering, McGill University: Efficient Circuit Simulation using Model Order Reduction

04-Feb-2005: Alexandre Ern, Department of Mathematics & Engineering Science, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees (ENPC), France: Adaptive Multimodeling and Local Mesh Refinement Controlled by A poseteriori Error Estimates

18-Feb-2005: Christopher E. Elmer, Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology: Finding Traveling Wave Solutions to Reaction Diffusion Equations on Spatially Discrete Domains and Some Applications

04-Mar-2005: Dinesh K. Pai, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University: Human Movement Computation: from science to cinema.

18-Mar-2005: Andraws Swidan, Computer Engineering Department, University of Jordan: Residue Number System Arithmetic: Potentials, Research Areas and Future Perspectives.

8-Apr-2005: E. McKay Hyde, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University: Fast, High-Order Integral Equation Methods for Scattering by Inhomogeneous Media.

For any questions contact dennis.giannacopoulos@mcgill.ca, poppy@ece.mcgill.ca, bartello@zephyr.meteo.mcgill.ca,
chang@cs.mcgill.ca, crtlz@ametista.mecheng.mcgill.ca, or humphries@math.mcgill.ca