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Seminars
Graduate Seminars of Colleagues Imparting Academic Lessons (Grad SOCIAL)
The Grad SOCIAL is a biweekly seminar and social event for SFU’s graduate math community.
Join us to connect with peers and faculty, and to get useful career advice from professionals. Each session consists of two 20-minute talks and a break to connect with each other and indulge in the snacks provided.
Current organizer: Haggai Liu
Due to COVID-19, the Grad SOCIAL is currently on hold.
Spring 2020 SOCIAL Lineup
DATE |
SPEAKER |
TOPIC |
February 12 |
Haggai Liu |
An Irredundant Method to Count the Rationals |
February 26
|
Daniel Tarnu |
Introduction to Ergodic Theory and a (Partial) Proof of Roth's Theorem |
Peter Bradshaw |
Transversals in bipartite graph families |
|
March 11 |
Vince Tao |
TSSU RA Update |
Fall 2019 SOCIAL Lineup
DATE |
SPEAKER |
TOPIC |
September 26 |
Haggai Liu |
A Penalty Method for Stress Minimization with Box Constraints |
Alisa Stanton |
Health Services Presentation |
|
October 10 |
Alexandra Wesolek |
Infecting graphs: Boostrap percolation |
October 24 |
Tian Chen |
Black boxes and sparse polynomial interpolation |
Nilima Nigam |
How and where to find a job |
|
November 7 |
Ivan Lau |
Yang-Baxter equation and Jacobson radicals |
November 21 |
Benny Wai |
Data Science at Translink |
Summer 2019 SOCIAL Lineup
DATE |
SPEAKER |
TOPIC |
May 16 |
Sasha Zotine |
Global Generation of Vector Bundles over Elliptic Curves |
June 6 |
Yifan Jing (UIUC) |
On the structure of non-expanders |
Brenda Badgero |
Exploring Careers in Math and Beyond |
|
July 11 |
Qinghong (Jackie) Xu |
Compressive Imaging with Total Variation Regularization |
Daniel Lewis |
Rational points on curves |
|
August 8 |
Garrett Paluck |
A new bivariate Hensel lifting algorithm for n factor |
Spring 2019 SOCIAL Lineup
DATE |
SPEAKER |
TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
January 24 |
Garrett Paluck (SFU) |
Solving Multi-Diophantine Polynomial Equations |
February 7 |
Michael Monagan (SFU) |
The P = RP Conjecture |
March 7 |
Reza Dastbasteh(SFU) |
Construction of Quantum Codes from Additive Codes |
Paul Tupper (SFU) |
How to Change Fields |
|
March 21 |
Masood Masjoody (SFU) |
Cops and Robbers on Graphs with a Set of Forbidden Induced Subgraphs |
Amarpreet Rattan (SFU) |
Parking functions: a light introduction |
|
April 4 |
Anton Iatcenko (SFU) |
A Model of Drag Force and Gas-Disk Interaction |
Nathan Ilten (SFU) & Steven Ruuth (SFU) |
Graduate Program: Questions and Concerns |
Fall 2018 SOCIAL Lineup
DATE |
SPEAKER |
TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
October 4 |
Nicola Mulberry (SFU) |
HIV control strategies in sex worker-client contact networks |
Doris Li (Technical Safety BC)
|
Technical Safety in BC with AI and IoT |
|
October 18 |
Avi Kulkarni (SFU) |
Aspects of the arithmetic of uniquely trigonal genus 4 curves |
Sophie Burrill (SFU) |
Teaching: there's something to learn |
|
November 1 |
John Stockie (SFU) |
Careers in industry for mathematicians |
November 15 |
Brandon Elford (SFU) |
Orthonormal Representations of Chordal Rings Graphs |
Ludvig af Klinteberg (SFU) |
Numerical integration of (nearly) singular integrals --- why and how |
|
November 29 |
Sepehr Yadegarzadeh (SFU) |
On density of the forms that produce primitive solutions for the Diophantine equation Ax^2+By^3+Cz^3=0 locally at a prime |
Manfred Trummer (SFU) |
Mathematics of Medical Imaging & 42 and other answers to life, the universe and everything |
Summer 2018 SOCIAL Lineup
DATE |
SPEAKER |
TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
May 31 |
Jane Jian |
Game Theoretic Models of Clear versus Plain Speech
|
Stefan Hannie |
Strong embeddings of graphs on surfaces |
|
June 21 |
Ian May |
Domain decomposition solvers and preconditioners for the
|
Tom Archibald |
User’s Guide to Conferences and Meetings |
|
July 12 |
Daniel Messenger |
Modelling Self Organization in Domains with Boundaries |
Tony Botelho &
|
SFU Career Services Presentation |
|
August 9 |
Charles Turo |
A combinatorial description of the cup product on
|
Ray Walsh |
An Accessible Introduction to Finite Difference
|