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• Asymptotic analysis of localized patterns in PDEs (CAIMS)
• Canadian Symposium on Fluid Dynamics (CSFD)
• Modeling Fluid-Structure Interaction in Naval Architecture (CAIMS)
• Models for transmission of communicable diseases (CAIMS)
• Models of Motion in Biology (CAIMS)
• New software for the numerical solution of differential equations (CAIMS)
• Singular perturbations and the Ginzburg-Landau model (CAIMS)

Asymptotic analysis of localized patterns in PDEs (CAIMS)    [PDF]

• Guillemette Chapuisat - Model of spreading depression and existence of travelling front
• David Iron - Stability of curved interfaces to the two dimensional perturbed Allen-Cahn equations
• Theodore Kolokolnikov - Ring solutions in R^N and smoke-ring (vortex) solutions in R³ for Gierer-Meinhardt Model
• Michal Kowalczyk - Stationary spot solutions in an activator-inhibitor system
• Yasumasa Nishiura - Dynamics of Particle Patterns in Dissipative Systems
• Xiaofeng Ren - Ideal and Defective Solutions to a Free Boundary Problem from Block Copolymer Morphology
• Michael Ward - Self-Replicating Spots for Reaction-Diffusion Models in Two Space Dimensions
• Rebecca White

Canadian Symposium on Fluid Dynamics (CSFD)    [PDF]

• Peter Bartello
• John Bowman - Casimir Cascades in Two-Dimensional Turbulence
• Jahanshah Davoudi - Variability of the equilibrium mass flux distribution with altitude
• Yohann Duguet - The role of finite-amplitude solutions in transition to turbulence in pipe flow
• Richard Karsten - Assessment of Tidal Current Energy in Minas Passage, Bay of Fundy
• Nicholas Kevlahan - Three-dimensional Floquet stability analysis of the wake in cylinder arrays
• Serpil Kocabiyik - Free surface flow with an oscillating cylinder based on a two-fluid model
• Rouslan Krechetnikov - On the transition to turbulence problem
• Gregory Lewis - Transitions in an air-filled differentially heated rotating annulus
• Sherwin Maslowe - Stability of Swirling Flows
• Francis Poulin - The effect of stochasticity on linear waves
• Bartosz Protas - Shape Optimization and Free Boundary Problems in Fluid Mechanics
• Marek Stastna - Numerical modeling of internal wave-boundary layer interaction
• Lennaert van Veen - The computation of 2D unstable manifolds in models of turbulent shear flow
• Divakar Viswanath - The critical layer and transition to turbulence in shear flows
• Michael Waite - Atmospheric boundary layer effects in a two-mode multicloud model
• Thomas Wihler - hp-Discontinuous Galerkin methods for the Stokes equations

Modeling Fluid-Structure Interaction in Naval Architecture (CAIMS)    [PDF]

• Tim Dunbar and Dave Whitehouse - Simulation of structural failure from contact underwater explosions
• Serguei Iakovlev - Modeling shell-shock interaction in a multi-fluid environment
• Cedric Leblond and Jean-François Sigrist - Semi-analytical methods for the study of transient fluid-structure interaction problems
• Julie Young - Numerical Investigation of Shock and Blast Loads on Composite Marine Structures

Models for transmission of communicable diseases (CAIMS)    [PDF]

• Chris Bowman - Population-Wide Emergence of Antiviral Resistance during an Influenza Pandemic
• Dan Coombs - Within-host evolution of viruses and epidemiological implications
• David Fisman - ... But the Bugs Bounce Back: Simple Transmission Models and `Failure' of Bacterial STD Control Programs
• Hongbin Guo - Global Dynamics of an SP Model with Random Amelioration and Deterioration
• Jane Heffernan - Vaccination and waning immunity: An immuno-epidemiological model for measles
• Rongsong Liu - Optimal control of vaccination and treatment in a two strain influenza model
• Robert Smith - Explicitly accounting for antiretroviral drug uptake in theoretical HIV models predicts long-term failure of protease-only therapy
• Lin Wang - Oscillations in a Patchy Environment Disease Model

Models of Motion in Biology (CAIMS)    [PDF]

• Catherine Beauchemin - Capturing the Mechanisms Guiding T Cell Motion within Lymph Nodes
• Gustavo Carrero - Studying nuclear actin and histone H1 dynamics using FRAP experiments
• Daniel Coombs - Models of motion in biology
• Raibatak Das - The motion of cell-surface proteins analyzed with a hidden Markov model
• Ryan Lukeman - Collective Motion in Animals Groups from an Idealized Perspective
• Frithjof Lutscher - The effect of landscape heterogeneity on spread and persistence in integrodifference equations
• Hannah Mckenzie - First passage time: insights into animal movement
• Chad Topaz - A model for rolling migratory locust swarms

New software for the numerical solution of differential equations (CAIMS)    [PDF]

• Tony Humphries - COLFDE: A differential-difference equation BVP Solver
• Paul Muir - New Software for the Numerical Solution of Differential Equations
• Ned Nedialkov - DAETS: a Differential-Algebraic Equation code in C++ for high index and high accuracy
• George Patrick - Towards automatically generated variational integrators
• Hossein Zivari Piran - Developing a User-Friendly Delay Differential Equations Modeling Package
• Greg Reid - Geometric Algorithms for PDAE and DAE
• Larry Shampine - BVP Solver that Controls Residual and Error
• Warren Weckesser - VFGEN: A Code Generation Tool for Vector Fields

Singular perturbations and the Ginzburg-Landau model (CAIMS)    [PDF]

• Yaniv Almog - Radially symmetric local minimizers of the Ginzburg-Landau energy functional
• Patricia Bauman - Stable Solutions of a Variational Model for Bentcore Liquid Crystals
• Dmitry Golovaty - A Ginzburg-Landau-type model of carbon nanotubes
• Radu Ignat - A G-convergence result for Néel walls in micromagnetics
• Vincent Millot - Symmetry of locally minimizing solutions for the 3D Ginzburg-Landau system
• Dan Phillips - Smectic energies and existence theorems for liquid crystals
• Itai Shafrir - A nonlocal problem arising in the study of magneto-elastic interactions
• Peter Sternberg - Time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau model with an applied current