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Applied Combinatorics
PIMS CRG 27:2013--2017
Our Research
Discrete models and their properties underlie many physical phenomena and hence combinatorics has long been applied to study problems in physics and chemistry. Meanwhile, the field of combinatorics is an independent subject which has evolved considerably over the past 20 years. Not coincidentally, so have computational technologies and the field of theoretical computer science. The application of combinatorics to problems in physics, biology and chemistry are under-used despite their wide applicability. In fact, given a proper understanding of the underlying combinatorial structure, and modern computing power, one can now predict large scale behaviour, and understand whether a given property is rare, or expected. Enumeration, random generation, parameter analysis — each are steadily becoming within reach for increasingly complex models.
A central aim of this proposed collaborative research group is to transport known results about combinatorial structures to other domains of science.
People
CRG Leaders
Marni Mishna
Simon Fraser University
Andrew Rechnitzer
University of British Columbia
Chris Soteros
Mathematics, University of Saskatchewan
Karen Yeats
Combinatorics & Optimization, University of Waterloo
Participating Faculty
Richard Bowles
University of Saskatchewan
Cedric Chauve
Simon Fraser University
Caroline Colijn
Simon Fraser University
Michael Szafon
University of Saskatchewan
Lily Yen
Capilano College & Simon Fraser University
Past Events
- Journées Combinatoires Franco-Vancouvéroises
- FPSAC 2016
- SAGE DAYS
- Miniconference: Combinatorial Structures in Perturbative Quantum Field Theory
- Applied Combinatorics Summer School Saskatoon SK, May 18-29, 2015
- CanaDAM 2015 Saskatoon SK, June 1-4 2015
- FPSAC 2016, Vancouver BC, July 4 - 8 2016
- PIMS Analytic RNA Combinatorics Workshop April 15- 16 2014
- PIMS Summer school on multiple zeta values
- CAIMS 2014 Annual Meeting
- Satellite meeting to CAIMS: Combinatorial Applications to Biology, Chemistry and Physics, Saturday and Sunday June 21-22 2014.
- SIAM DM meeting (Minneapolis 2014): Polymer Models and Combinatorics