Featured Presentations
2012
Dr. Carol Gerson
Professor and Graduate Chair, Department of English SFU, Simon Fraser University
Abstract
In Canada, some 650 people are currently designated as national historic persons, defined as "People who have made an outstanding and lasting contribution to Canadian history," under the aegis of the...
Dr. Eirikur Palsson
Department of Biology
Abstract
A three-dimensional mathematical model was developed to explore by simulation and visualization how cell signaling, adhesion, motility, and stiffness affect cell movements and growth in multicellular...
Dr. John Clague
Department of Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Abstract
Changes in the level of the sea relative to the land occur on timescales differing by ten orders of magnitude, from a few minutes to thousands of years. Along many coastlines, daily and seasonal tidal...
Dr. Alison Malcolm
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
Seismic images are typically made using the single scattering assumption, which linearizes the inverse problem. I will discuss extensions to two seismic imaging methods to include multiply scattered...
2011
Piper Jackson
Ph.D. Candidate, School of Computing Science, SFU
Azadeh Alimadad & Tim Wu
Faculty of Health Science, SFU
Hilary Kim Morden
School of Criminology, SFU
Dr. Stephen Wright
Canada Research Chair in Social Psychology, Department of Psychology
Abstract
Abstract: Negative attitudes and unequal treatment across social groups remains a compelling human problem, and understanding the nature, the causes and the reduction of prejudice has been a major theme...
Dr. Mike Steel
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Abstract
Phylogenomic data often exhibit partial taxon coverage, whereby each loci is present or sequenced only for some corresponding subset of the species under study. This leads to some interesting mathematical...
