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July 19, 2006
Contact: Jonathan Jedwab, 604.291.3337, jed@sfu.ca
Margaret Gardiner, 604.268.6655, margaret@pims.math.ca
Carol Thorbes, pamr, 604.291.3035, cthorbes@sfu.ca
The cream of the crop cross-pollinate
A four-day conference hosted by Simon Fraser University is bringing together the cream of the crop in mathematics and engineering to exchange ideas on sequences and coding. Wireless communications, radar design and quantum error-correcting codes are all based on these areas of mathematics, which use advanced algebra, number theory and algorithms to drive technology.
Jonathan Jedwab, an SFU associate professor of mathematics and formerly a digital communications researcher at Hewlett Packard, has helped organize this conference, Sequences and Codes. It is on until July 21 at IRMACS, the centre for interdisciplinary research in the mathematical and computational sciences at SFU Burnaby.
Jedwab has brought together a who’s who list of mathematicians and engineers to discuss research that could improve cellular communication, radar transmission and all kinds of devices driven by digital technology.
As well as holding public lectures, Robert Calderbank and Ingrid Daubechies will hold a session exclusively for undergraduate and graduate students.
Calderbank is a co-inventor of space-time codes, the foundation of greatly improved wireless technology. Daubechies helped found the theory of wavelets, a type of image analysis used in finger print recognition.
Calderbank, a specialist in coding theory, is a professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University. Daubechies, also from Princeton, is an expert on time-frequency analysis and an applied and computational mathematics professor.
“To design technology well today,” says Jedwab, “you need advanced mathematical techniques. This conference will contribute to the development of a pool of mathematical scientists who are armed with powerful computational and analytical tools and excited about applying mathematics in an interdisciplinary context.”
PIMS, MITACS and the U.S.-based National Science Foundation, co-sponsors of this conference, are financially subsidizing — about $50,000 total — the attendance of close to 70 up-and-coming researchers.
PIMS, the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, is a consortium of five western Canadian universities, including SFU, and the University of Washington It funds and promotes basic and industrial research in math.
MITACS, the Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems centre of excellence, is headquartered at SFU. It brings together university and industry researchers to address design and productivity problems.
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Website: www.pims.math.ca/science/2006/06seqcodes/
Margaret Gardiner, 604.268.6655, margaret@pims.math.ca
Carol Thorbes, pamr, 604.291.3035, cthorbes@sfu.ca
The cream of the crop cross-pollinate
A four-day conference hosted by Simon Fraser University is bringing together the cream of the crop in mathematics and engineering to exchange ideas on sequences and coding. Wireless communications, radar design and quantum error-correcting codes are all based on these areas of mathematics, which use advanced algebra, number theory and algorithms to drive technology.
Jonathan Jedwab, an SFU associate professor of mathematics and formerly a digital communications researcher at Hewlett Packard, has helped organize this conference, Sequences and Codes. It is on until July 21 at IRMACS, the centre for interdisciplinary research in the mathematical and computational sciences at SFU Burnaby.
Jedwab has brought together a who’s who list of mathematicians and engineers to discuss research that could improve cellular communication, radar transmission and all kinds of devices driven by digital technology.
As well as holding public lectures, Robert Calderbank and Ingrid Daubechies will hold a session exclusively for undergraduate and graduate students.
Calderbank is a co-inventor of space-time codes, the foundation of greatly improved wireless technology. Daubechies helped found the theory of wavelets, a type of image analysis used in finger print recognition.
Calderbank, a specialist in coding theory, is a professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University. Daubechies, also from Princeton, is an expert on time-frequency analysis and an applied and computational mathematics professor.
“To design technology well today,” says Jedwab, “you need advanced mathematical techniques. This conference will contribute to the development of a pool of mathematical scientists who are armed with powerful computational and analytical tools and excited about applying mathematics in an interdisciplinary context.”
PIMS, MITACS and the U.S.-based National Science Foundation, co-sponsors of this conference, are financially subsidizing — about $50,000 total — the attendance of close to 70 up-and-coming researchers.
PIMS, the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, is a consortium of five western Canadian universities, including SFU, and the University of Washington It funds and promotes basic and industrial research in math.
MITACS, the Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems centre of excellence, is headquartered at SFU. It brings together university and industry researchers to address design and productivity problems.
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Website: www.pims.math.ca/science/2006/06seqcodes/