Featured Presentations
2012
Simon Pratt, M.A., War Studies,
King's College London, United Kingdom
Vijay Mago, Post Doctoral Fellow,
MoCSSy Program, Simon Fraser University
SFU Royal Society of Canada Seminar Series: "Against putting ideology ahead of realism in economics"
Dr. Lawrence Boland
Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University
Abstract
In 1966 Lawrence Boland joined the Department of Economics to teach methodology and mathematical economics. He had taught the previous year at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He received a B.Sc. in...
Dr. Shawn O'Connor
Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University
Dr. Nils Bruin
Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
Abstract
Most people associate the greek letter pi in mathematics with the constant relating the diameter and the circumference of a circle. However, in mathematics there are many concepts and only a limited...
Dr. Arne Eigenfeldt
School of Contemporary Arts, SFU
Abstract
Artist Philip Galanter proposes that that generative art "refers to any art practice where the artist uses a system, such as a set of natural language rules, a computer program, a machine, or other...
Dr. Bojan Mohar
Canada Research Chair in Graph Theory, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
Abstract
In 1994, Carsten Thomassen published a beautiful simple proof confirming that every planar graph is 5-list-colourable. Another beautiful proof on a similar topic was given a few years later by Mike...
Dr. Bernard Crespi
Department of Biological Sciences, SFU
Abstract
Human evolution is characterized by enlargement and elaboration of the 'social brain', the set of cognitive-affective phenotypes that subserve the detection, processing and deployment of social...
Dr. Lisa Craig
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SFU
Abstract
Type IV pili are hair-like filaments on the surfaces of a number of pathogenic bacteria. These pili mediate many critical functions in bacterial colonization and survival in the host and are thus key...
Dr. Abraham Punnen
Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
Abstract
We discuss new integer programming models for routing and scheduling of a heterogeneous fleet of ferries used in inter-island traffic. Also we report new heuristic approaches and results of a case study....
