Abstracts - grouped by symposium

Abstracts are displayed on the website for information only and are not to be considered a published document. Some inconsistencies in display of fonts may occur in some web browser configurations.

Abstracts will appear on the website within 10 working days of the date of submission.

• Plenary Speakers
• Prizes
• Jeffery-Williams Lecture
• CMS Excellence in Teaching Award
• CAIMS Cecil Graham Doctoral Dissertation Award
• CAIMS Research Prize
• Public Lecture
• 16th Canadian Symposium on Fluid Dynamics
• Applications of Invariant Theory to Differential Geometry
• Classical Analysis in honour of David Borwein's 80th Birthday
• Dynamical Systems
• Financial Mathematics
• General Topology and Topological Algebra
• Graphs, Games and the Web
• History of Mathematics
• Hopf Algebras and Related Topics
• Mathematical Education
• Nonlinear Dynamics in Biology and Medicine
• Numerical Algorithms for Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems
• Qualitative Behaviour and Controllability of Partial Differential Equations
• Topology
• Topos Theory
• Contributed Papers Session
• Poster Session

---

Plenary Speakers

• Peter Cameron - Homogeneity, randomness, and homomorphisms
• Craig Fraser - Calculus of Variations and Mathematical Existence in the Nineteenth Century
• Mark Lewis - Mathematical models for carnivore territories
• Alan C. Newell - How Kolmogorov spectra are formed
• Peter Olver - Moving frames
• Frank T. Smith - Multi-branching and networks in biomedical applications
• Mikhail Zaicev - Group gradings on algebras

Prizes

• Jeffery-Williams Lecture
  • Joel Feldman - Construction of a 2-d Fermi Liquid
• CMS Excellence in Teaching Award
  • Leo Jonker - How to have fun with elementary school mathematics, and turn it to advantage in a university course
• CAIMS Cecil Graham Doctoral Dissertation Award
  • Ramadan Akila
• CAIMS Research Prize
  • Robert D. Russell - A Review of Some Adaptive Methods for Solving Differential Equations

Public Lecture

• Edward Barbeau - Getting at the truth

16th Canadian Symposium on Fluid Dynamics

• Andreas Acrivos - Front propagation in suspensions driven by AC dielectrophoresis
• Yakov Afanasyev - Vortex dipoles and wakes in a viscous fluid: asymptotic theory, numerical simulations and laboratory experiments
• John C. Bowman - Spectral Reduction of the GOY Shell Model of Turbulence
• James H. Buchholz - Wake Structures and Thrust Produced by Low Aspect Ratio Flapping Panels
• Paul Choboter - A New Exact Solution of a Nonlinear Model of Coastal Upwelling
• Aline Cotel - Thermal Impingement at a Stratified Interface-Vorticity and Interface Dynamics
• Serge D'Alessio - Sheared Flow Past A Cylinder
• Robert W. Derksen - The optimization of a biplane configuration
• J. Maciej Floryan - On the Laminar-Turbulent Transition in Flows over Rough Surfaces
• Jannette B. Frandsen - Frequency predictions in water tank structural systems
• Ian A. Frigaard - On static bubbles in a visco-plastic fluid
• James Gottlieb - Seeking Solutions to Unsolved Problems Involving Shock Reflections in Gases and Condensed Matter
• Alexander E. Hay - Large-amplitude internal tides and internal waves in the lower Bay of Fundy
• David M. Holland - Internal hydraulic jumps and mixing in two-layer flows
• Serguei Iakovlev - Shock loading on a fluid-filled cylindrical shell
• Manish Jugroot - Modelling of Neutral and Ion Transport in Mass-Spectrometer Systems
• Nicholas Kevlahan - Suppression of 3D flow instabilities in tightly packed tube bundles
• Maria L. Kilfoil - Two ways to reorient liquid crystal polymers
• Fotini Labropulu - MHD stagnation point flow of a viscoelastic fluid with heat transfer
• Ulrike Lohmann - Aerosols and Climate: The Cloud Connection
• Rossitza Marinova - Efficient Coordinate Operator Splitting for Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations
• Pier Marzocca - Linear/Nonlinear Indicial Methods for 2-D Lifting Surfaces Aeroelasticity
• Catherine Mavriplis - An Adaptive Spectral Element Method for Complex Fluid Flow
• Julio Militzer - Numerical Simulations of Vortex Induced Vibrations in Long Cylinders with the Numerical Wind Tunnel
• Patrick Montgomery - Deceleration of purely rotating curling rocks through wet friction
• Yuri Muzychka - Asymptotic Methods and Scaling Principles in Laminar Internal Flows
• Richard Peltier - On the resonant generation of large amplitude internal solitary and solitary-like waves
• Francis Poulin - An Oscillating Jet in the Cape Cod Bay
• Tim Rogalsky - Influence of Airfoil Representation on Aerodynamic Design
• Barry R. Ruddick - Differential mixing of heat and salt by breaking internal waves
• Siv Sivaloganathan - The use of quasilinear viscoelasticity theory in calculating the ventricular boundary motion in hydrocephalus
• John Stockie - Parametric Resonance in Immersed Elastic Boundaries
• David Straub - Mechanical energy input and dissipation in wind-driven ocean circulation
• Bruce Sutherland - Reflection, Transmission and Tunnelling of Internal Waves
• Gordon E. Swaters - Meridional flow of grounded source driven abyssal currents in a basin with topography
• Laurette S. Tuckerman - Computational Study of Turbulent-Laminar Bands in Couette Flow
• Henry van Roessel - Some Results on Coagulation Equations
• Michael J. Ward - Summing Logarithmic Expansions in a Low Reynolds Number Flow
• Timothy Wei - Fundamental Fluid Dynamics and Olympic Swimming
• Mary Williams - Flow past a cylinder: practical applications in ocean engineering
• Jianying Zhang - Taylor dispersion for generalised non-Newtonian fluids

Applications of Invariant Theory to Differential Geometry

• Stephen Anco - Moving frames and integrable PDE maps
• I. Anderson - Homogeneous Spaces and Maple
• Claudia Chanu - The Riemannian background of the separation of variables
• Mark Fels - Non-reductive pseudo-Riemannian manifolds of dimension four
• P. Gilkey - The spectral geometry of the Riemann curvature tensor
• Sigbjørn Hervik - Negatively curved left-invariant metrics on Lie groups
• Evelyne Hubert - Constructive differential algebra for differential invariants
• Irina Kogan - Noether correspondence for group-invariant variational problems
• Kayll Lake - An invariant generalization of R and T regions of spacetime
• Gloria Mari-Beffa - Invariant evolutions of curves in flat homogenous spaces
• Benjamin McKay - The Blaschke conjecture
• Nicos Pelavas - VSI_i Spacetimes and the e-property
• Juha Pohjanpelto - Differential Invariants for Pseudogroup Actions
• Vojtech Pravda - VSI spacetimes in higher dimensions
• Alena Pravdova - All spacetimes with vanishing curvature invariants
• Roman Smirnov - A new invariant theory: Invariants, covariants and joint invariants of Killing tensors
• Dennis The - Invariants of Killing tensors and their applications

Classical Analysis in honour of David Borwein's 80th Birthday

• Heinz Bauschke - Asymptotic behaviour of the composition of two resolvents
• Grahame Bennett - Summability for those without
• Peter Borwein - The Mahler Measure of Polynomials with Odd Coefficients
• Peter Cass - A Retrospective on David Borwein's contribution to mathematical research
• Michael Overton - Optimal Stability and Eigenvalue Multiplicity
• Bruce Shawyer - Tribute and a Plethora of Remarkable Concurrences
• Bruce Watson - Discrete Power Series Methods
• Jim Zhu - A variational proof of Birkhoff's theorem on doubly stochastic matrices

Dynamical Systems

• Bernard Brooks - Rumour Propagation Modeled as a Dynamical System on a Network
• Sharene Bungay - Numerical analysis of a bi-directional ring neural network with delayed feedback
• Monica Cojocaru - Projected Dynamical Systems and Evolutionary Variational Inequalities with Applications to Dynamic Traffic Networks
• Marshall Hampton - On Smale's 6th Problem: A solution in the four-body case
• Kris Heidler - Using the Collage Method on the Lorenz System
• Herbert Kunze - Using Collage Coding to Solve Inverse Problems
• Tchavdar Marinov - Solitary-Wave Solutions Identification of Boussinesq and Korteweg-de Vries Equations as an Inverse Problem
• Michael A. Radin - Trichotomy behavior of solutions of a rational difference equation
• Weiguang Yao - Immune System Memory Realization in A Lattice Population Model

Financial Mathematics

• Joe Campolieti - A Path Integral Formulation for Pricing Exotic Derivatives under Alternative Price Processes
• Oliver Chen - Discrete Credit Barrier Models
• Alexey Kuznetsov - Unifying the Three Volatility Models
• Yongzeng Lai - Simulating Financial Derivative Sensitivities by Malliavin Calculus and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods
• Stephan Lawi - Generating Functions for Stochastic Integrals
• Roman Makarov - Efficient Monte Carlo Pricing of Path Dependent Options Using High Performance Computing
• Mark Reesor - Distortion, Relative Entropy Optimisation, and Copulas

General Topology and Topological Algebra

• Max Burke - Renormings of C(X) and Borel measurability of separately continuous functions
• Ilijas Farah - Between von Neumann's and Maharam's problems
• Neil Hindman - Almost disjoint large subsets of semigroups
• Wojciech Jaworski - Contractive and weakly contractive authomorphisms of locally compact groups
• Dan Kucerovsky - Unusual ideals in the multipliers of C(X)ÄK
• Gábor Lukács - Hereditarily h-complete groups
• Michael Megrelishvili - Relatively minimal subgroups
• Matthias Neufang - Decomposability of von Neumann algebras and applications
• Vladimir Pestov - Some results and questions about topological subgroups of the unitary group
• Slawomir Solecki - Free groups and small subsets of Polish groups
• Benjamin Steinberg - On the profinite monoid of closed subsets of a profinite group
• Juris Steprans - Translation Invariants of Group Actions
• Paul Szeptycki - A new class of Lindelof-S spaces
• Murat Tuncali - On Suslinian Continua
• Ed Tymchatyn - Lifting paths on quotient spaces
• Vesko Valov - Extension dimension of maps between metrizable spaces

Graphs, Games and the Web

• Michael Albert - Candy Nim
• Elwyn Berlekamp - Quantitative Go, and some other combinatorial games
• Anthony Bonato - A unifying model for massive self-organizing networks
• Nancy Clarke - Variations on the Cops and Robber Game
• Colin Cooper - Random graph models of large networks
• Eric Duchene - A new deletion game on graphs : "Le Picarète"
• Shannon Fitzpatrick - Cops, Robbers and Isometric Paths
• Matt Harren - Federations in Go Endgames
• Jeannette Janssen
• François Laviolette - Cop-win graphs and bridge graphs
• Lionel Levine - Fractal sequences and Restricted Nim
• Xiangwen Li - Pursuit-Evasion in graphs without a K_{3, 3}-minor
• Hongyu Liu
• Paul Ottaway - Even-Odd Games
• David Pike - Iterated 2-Cycle Contractions and Strong Connectivity in Random Directed Graphs
• Aaron Siegel - Calculating values of loopy games
• David Wolfe - Partisan Subtraction Games

History of Mathematics

• Thomas Archibald - Hilbert and Bernstein
• Eisso Atzema - Lessons on Train Schedules: From String Charts to Teaching Tools
• Fernando Gouveia - After the Marquis: the post-history of L'Hospital's rule
• Hardy Grant - Mathematics in Plato's Thought

Hopf Algebras and Related Topics

• Yuri Bahturin - Group gradings on Lie algebras and Casimir elements
• Sebastian Burciu - On some representations of the Drinfeld double of a Hopf algebra
• William Chin - Hereditary Coalgebras
• Luzius Grunenfelder - On Hopf algebras with radical a Hopf ideal
• Thomas Guedenon - Semisimplicity of the categories of Yetter-Drinfeld modules and Long dimodules
• Michiel Hazewinkel - Hopf algebras of endomorphisms of Hopf algebras
• Erik Jespers - Quadratic algebras of skew type
• Yevgenia Kashina - Higher Frobenius-Schur Indicators for Hopf Algebras
• Louis Kauffman - Quantum Invariants of Virtual Knots and Links
• Vladislav Kharchenko - Braided version of Shirshov-Witt theorem
• Mikhail Kochetov - Orderability of Hopf algebras
• Leonid Krop - Simple Modules for the Quantum Double of the Frobenius-Lusztig Kernels
• Yuanlin Li - Trivial Units For Group Rings With G-adapted Coefficient Rings
• Mitja Mastnak - About Yetter-Drinfel'd modules over semisimple Hopf algebras
• Akira Masuoka - More Hopf-algebraic approach to affine (super)group basics
• Francisco Cesar Polcino Milies - Free groups and involutions in the group of units of a group algebra
• Susan Montgomery - Stability of the Jacobson radical under Hopf algebra actions
• Siu-Hung Ng - Frobenius-Schur Indicators for Semi-simple Quasi-Hopf Algebras
• James Osterburg - The Final Value Problem
• Mike Parmenter - Generalized Lie nilpotence and Lie solvability of integral group rings
• David Radford - Representations of Pointed Hopf Aglebras
• David Riley - Group algebras whose augmentation ideal is Jacobson radical
• Peter Schauenburg - Hopf powers and Hopf orders in some bismash products
• Sergey Skryabin - Projectivity and Freeness over Comodule Algebras
• Sarah Witherspoon - Deformations arising from quantum group actions on algebras

Mathematical Education

• Richard Hoshino - Bridge-Building Initiatives in Atlantic Canada
• Caroline Jones - Addressing Transitional Issues at UNB
• Leo Jonker - Creating Opportunities for Engagement
• Harley Weston - Bridge Building and Maintenance in Regina

Nonlinear Dynamics in Biology and Medicine

• Mostafa Adimy - A singular transport system describing a proliferating maturity structured cell population
• Julien Arino - Competitor-mediated coexistence in a chemostat with variable yield
• Jacques Bélair - Bifurcations in a model of the production of white blood cells
• Bernd Blasius - Synchronization of epidemic outbreaks in networks of cities
• Fred Brauer - Infection-age dependent disease models
• Sue Ann Campbell - Delayed Coupling Between Two Neural Network Loops
• John Clements - Simulation and localization of cardiac dysfunction: from modeling the dynamics to clinical applications
• Troy Day - Modeling the Effectiveness of Quarantine Strategies
• Leah Edelstein-Keshet - Clonal selection of T cells in autoimmune diabetes
• Andrew Edwards - Using state-space models to investigate why some fish populations increase under industrial fishing
• Randy Ellis - Computer-Assisted Surgery for Bone Deformities
• Herb Freedman - ODE Models of Cancer Treatment
• Stephen Gourley
• Abba Gumel - Modelling the Impact of Some Anti-HIV Control Strategies
• Alun Lloyd - Drug Resistance in Acute Viral Infections
• Connell McCluskey - Global Results for a Chemostat with Two Species and Two Resources
• Shigui Ruan
• Yasuhiro Takeuchi - Permanence of Dispersal Population Models
• Pauline van den Driessche - Dispersal in Predator-Prey Systems
• James Watmough - Multiple setting disease transmission models: quarantine and isolation
• Jianhong Wu - Modeling Delay and Diffusion via Hyperbolic-Parabolic Equations
• Yicang Zhou - SARS Prediction in China
• Huaiping Zhu - Modelling the West Nile virus among birds and mosquitoes

Numerical Algorithms for Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems

• David Cottrell - A backward analysis of simple collisions
• Eusebius Doedel - Bifurcation of periodic orbits in the Circular Restricted 3-Body Problem
• Martin Gander - Moving Mesh Methods and Energy Conservation
• Wayne Hayes - A Practical Shadowing-based Timestep Criterion for Galaxy Simulations
• Tony Humphries - Numerics and Dynamics
• Ned Nedialkov - Solving Differential-Algebraic Equations by Taylor Series
• Raymond Spiteri - A Comparison of Stiffness Detection Methods for Initial-Value ODEs

Qualitative Behaviour and Controllability of Partial Differential Equations

• David Amundsen - Resonant Solutions of the Forced KdV Equation
• Sean Bohun - The Wigner-Poisson System with an External Coulomb Field
• Shaohua Chen - Boundedness and Blowup for the Solution of an Activator-Inhibitor Model
• Stephen Gustafson - Scattering for the Gross-Pitaevskii Equation
• Horst Lange - Noncontrollability of the nonlinear Hartree-Schrödinger and Gross-Pitaevskii-Schrödinger equations
• Hailiang Li - On Well-posedness and Asymptotics of Multi-dimensional Quantum Hydrodynamics
• Dong Liang - Analysis of the S-FDTD Method for Three-Dimensional Maxwell Equations
• Kirsten Morris - Controller Design for Partial Differential Equations
• Keith Promislow - Nonlocal Models of Membrane Hydration in PEM Fuel Cells
• Tai-Peng Tsai - Boundary regularity criteria for suitable weak solutions of Navier-Stokes equations

Topology

• Kristine Bauer - The identity functor and rational homotopy theory
• Peter Booth - On the Classification of Fibrations whose Fibres are Products of Eilenberg-MacLane Spaces
• Carlos Broto - The theory of p-local finite groups: a link between homotopy theory and group theory
• Davide Ferrario - A cellular (co)homology theory of fibred spaces
• Phil Heath - Groupoids and Nielsen product/sum theorems
• Keith Johnson
• Igor Nikolaev - On number fields associated to hyperbolic 3-manifolds
• Doug Ravenel - Using Abelian varieties to construct cohomology theories
• Laura Scull - Equivariant Formality
• Afework Soloman
• Stephen Theriault - The H-structure of low rank torsion free H-spaces
• Peter Zvengrowski - The Order of Real Line Bundles

Topos Theory

• Denis-Charles Cisinski - Higher topological Galois theory
• Jonathan Funk - Recent results on complete spread geometric morphisms
• André Joyal - Higher stacks and quasi-categories
• F. William Lawvere - The map from Euler reals to Dedekind reals
• Jacob Lurie - On Infinity-Topoi
• Susan Niefield - Spaces over B and Homotopy in the Topos of Sheaves on B
• Bob Pare - The Linear Algebra of Categories
• Dorette Pronk - Hammocks and Free Adjoints, an Equivalence of Localizations
• Walter Tholen - Categories of lax algebras as quasitopoi

Contributed Papers Session

• Claudia Daniela Calin - Coagulation equation with unbounded kernels, particle sources and sinks
• Megan Dewar - Universal Cycles and Block Designs
• Zhipeng Duan - Impingement Air-Cooled Plate Fin Heat Sinks-Pressure Drop Model
• Jeanette Edge - Fully Developed Flow of Non-Newtonian Fluids in Non Circular Ducts
• Cristian Enache - Some maximum principles for a class of elliptic boundary problems
• Kristi Holloway - Numerical simulations of viscous fingering involving a single fluid
• Ranis Ibragimov - Generation of Internal Tides by an Oscillating Background Flow Along a Corrugated Slope
• Boualem Khouider - A numerical model for the barotropic-baroclinic interactions of equatorial waves
• Greg Lewis - Bifurcations in a differentially heated rotating spherical shell
• Colin Macdonald - Constructing High-Order Runge-Kutta Methods with Embedded Strong-Stability-Preserving Pairs
• Franklin Mendivil - Chaos Games for Wavelet Analysis and Wavelet Synthesis
• Susan Molloy - Uncertainty Analysis of Powering Prediction Methods of Podded Propulsor Models
• Benjamin Ong - A Moving Mesh Method Based On Level Set Ideas
• Matiur Rahman - Seismic response of earth dams: a theoretical investigation
• Mateja Sajna - Almost self-complementary graphs
• Samuel Shen - The Mathematics in the IPCC Report on Detection, Prediction and Uncertainty of Climate Changes
• Marina Tvalavadze - Classification of simple decompositions of Jordan algebras and superalgebras
• Teymuraz Tvalavadze - Simple decompositions of Lie superalgebras
• Naveen Vaidya - Grown-in Defects Modeling of InSb Crystals
• Michael Waite - Numerical simulations of vortical and wave motion in stably stratified turbulence
• Qiang Wang - Generalized Inflations and Null Extensions
• Rong Wang - A numerical study of time integration schemes for the cubic Schrödinger equation
• Jin Yue - The 1856 Cayley Lemma Revisited

Poster Session

• Marina Blokhina - Baroclinic instability in the Black Sea: laboratory experiments
• Sharene Bungay - Kinetics of thrombin generation in the absence of feedback
• Gustavo Carrero - Modelling the compartmentalization of splicing factors
• Adriana Dawes - Actin network organization at the leading edge of a motile cell
• Jae-Hun Jung - The inverse polynomial reconstruction method for the resolution of the Gibbs phenomena
• Sehjeong Kim - Stability of Switching Systems with Time Delay
• Vasily Korabel - Vortex streets behind translating point force
• Elaine Lin - Theoretical investigation of the particle boundary layer in particle-driven gravity currents
• Rongsong Liu - Media/Psychological Impact on Multiple Outbreaks of Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Muddassir Nazir - Revised Estimates for Continuous Shoreline Fumigation: A PDF Approach
• Felix Oppong - Microrheology of complex fluids
• Zhengyan Sun - Automated Segmentation of Cerebral Ventricles on CT Images
• Tara Taylor - Computational Topology and Fractal Trees
• Geng Tian - Level set methods and applications for motion under curvature, merging and breaking
• Ming Wu - Lightning Patterns And Lightning-Caused Transmission Line Outages Patterns In Alberta
• Hui Xu - Enhancements to a Runge-Kutta BVODE solver
• Qingling Zeng - Identify the Parameters in the Modeling of Infectious Disease