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A workshop on
Computational and Analytical Mathematics
In honour of Jonathan Borwein’s 60th birthday

The IRMACS Centre, Simon Fraser University
May 16 - May 20, 2011
 

All sessions are scheduled in the IRMACS Centre, rooms ASB 10900 and ASB 10908

Monday, May 16th

Time Talk Title Speaker Venue/Room
8:00 am - 9:00 am Registration / Breakfast IRMACS Atrium
9:00 am - 9:15 am Welcome by Dr. Clair Cupples, Dean of Science, SFU ASB 10900
9:00 am - 9:15 am Opening Remarks by Dr. Heinz Bauscke, Member of the Organizing Committee ASB 10900
9:15 am - 10:15 am Variational Analysis and Economic Equilibrium

Rockafellar, Terry

 ASB 10900
10:15 am - 10:30 am Coffee Break IRMACS Atrium
10:30 am - 11:00 am Variational Analysis of Sparsity Optimization

Luke, Russel

 ASB 10900
11:00 am - 11:30 am Maximally Monotone Linear Subspace Extensions of Monotone Subspaces: Explicit Constructions and Characterizations

Wang, Shawn

 ASB 10900
11:30 am - 11:45 am Coffee Break IRMACS Atrium
11:45 am - 12:15 pm Inexact Newton methods for variational inequalities

Dontchev, Asen L.

 ASB 10900
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch IRMACS Atrium
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Notes on the Ekeland Variational Principle

Beer, Gerald

 ASB 10900
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm Variational Methods in Trading

Zhu, Qiji

 ASB 10900
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm Coffee Break IRMACS Atrium
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Mixture Densities

Burke, James

 ASB 10900
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm Viscosity characterizations and convex analysis of quasiconvex and robustly quasiconvex functions

Goebel, Rafal

 ASB 10900
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm Coffee Break IRMACS Atrium
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Monotone+Skew Decomposition of Inclusion Problems: Algorithms and Applications

Combettes, Patrick

 ASB 10900
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Wine and Cheese Reception. Welcome by Dr. Peter Borwein, Chair of the Organizing Committee IRMACS Atrium

Tuesday, May 17th

Time Talk Title Speaker Venue/Room
8:30 am - 9:00 am Registration / Breakfast IRMACS Atrium
9:00 am - 10:00 am Automatic Proofs of Identities

Salvy, Bruno

 ASB 10900
10:00 am - 10:15 am Coffee Break IRMACS Atrium
10:15 am - 10:45 am On averages of firmly nonexpansive mappings

Bauschke, Heinz

 ASB 10900
10:45 am - 11:15 am The Andrews spt-function and higher-order generalizations

Garvan, Frank

 ASB 10900
10:45 am - 11:15 am Legendre functions whose gradients preserve convexity

Knecht, Alexander

 ASB 10908
11:15 am - 11:30 am Coffee Break IRMACS Atrium
11:30 am - 12:00 pm Computing the Conjugate of Convex Piecewise Linear-Quadratic Bivariate functions

Lucet, Yves

 ASB 10900
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Aspects of Thermoacoustic Tomography

Marechal, Pierre

 ASB 10900
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch IRMACS Atrium
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Pseudodigits

Curry, Eva

 ASB 10900
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm Bad semidefinite programs: they all look the same

Pataki, Gabor

 ASB 10900
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm Coffee Break IRMACS Atrium
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm A Quartically Convergent Square Root Algorithm

Bailey, David H.

 ASB 10900
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm Prox-regular sets

Thibault, Lionel

 ASB 10900
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm Coffee Break IRMACS Atrium
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Mahler measures and modular funs

Zudilin, Wadim

 ASB 10900
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Computing Bernoulli and Tangent numbers

Brent, Richard

 ASB 10900
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm What I am doing in Australia

Borwein, Jonathan

 ASB 10900
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm The susceptibility of the two-dimensional Ising model

Guttman, Tony

 ASB 10900

Wednesday, May 18th

Time Talk Title Speaker Venue/Room
8:30 am - 9:00 am Registration / Breakfast IRMACS Atrium
9:00 am - 10:00 am Optimization for Feedback Control

Noll, Dominikus

 ASB 10900
10:00 am - 10:15 am Coffee Break IRMACS Atrium
10:15 am - 10:45 am Constraint qualifications and optimality conditions for nonconvex semi-infinite and infinite programs

Mordukhovich, Boris

 ASB 10900
10:45 am - 11:15 am Attainment and (sub)differentiability of the infimal/supremal convolution of a function and of the square of the norm

Fabian, Marian

 ASB 10900
11:15 am - 11:30 am Coffee Break IRMACS Atrium
11:30 am - 12:00 pm On Some Problems of the Regularity Theory of Variational Analysis

Ioffe, Alexander

 ASB 10900
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Analytic characterizations of Mazur's intersection property

Cheng, Lixin

 ASB 10900
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch IRMACS Atrium
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm An Inverse Central Binomial Series

Glasser, Lawrence

 ASB 10900
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm Garcia Numbers

Hare, Kevin

 ASB 10900
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm Coffee Break IRMACS Atrium
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm Minimizing irregular convex functions

Thera, Michael

 ASB 10900
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm Gauss Factorials: Properties and Applications

Dilcher, Karl

 ASB 10900
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm Coffee Break IRMACS Atrium
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm The Once and Future Jon

Borwein, Peter

 ASB 10900
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm Conference Banquet Diamond Alumni Center

Thursday, May 19th

Time Talk Title Speaker Venue/Room
8:30 am - 9:00 am Registration / Breakfast IRMACS Atrium
9:00 am - 10:00 am Hand-to-hand combat with thousand-digit Integrals

David H. Bailey

 ASB 10900
10:00 am - 10:15 am Coffee Break IRMACS Atrium
10:15 am - 10:45 am Translational tilings of Euclidean space by a convex body, with multiplicity

Robins, Sinai

 ASB 10908
10:15 am - 10:45 am A Feast of Factoring

Chamberland, Marc

 ASB 10900
10:45 am - 11:15 am Stieltjes, Poisson and similar representations of functions

Corless, Rob, and Kalugin, German

 ASB 10900
10:45 am - 11:15 am On a sufficient condition for equality of two maximal monotone operators

Burachik, Regina S.

 ASB 10908
11:15 am - 11:30 am Coffee Break IRMACS Atrium
11:30 am - 12:00 pm Computing Bernoulli convolutions with Excel

Girgenshon, Roland

 ASB 10900
11:30 am - 12:00 pm Lipschitzian properties of the infinite-diemsional dual pair

López, Marco A.

 ASB 10908
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Compactness, Optimality and Risk

Orihuela, Jose

 ASB 10900
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch IRMACS Atrium
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Applications and evaluations of log-sine integrals

Straub, Armin

 ASB 10908
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Visualisation and Aesthetics: Taking research mathematics into the k-12 classroom

Sinclair, Nathalie

 ASB 10900
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm Minimal polynomials of Kloosterman zeros

Lisonek, Petr

 ASB 10900
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm SSDB spaces and maximal monotonicity

Simons, Stephen

 ASB 10908
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm Coffee Break IRMACS Atrium
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm Load-Balancing for Parallel Derivative-Free Optimization Methods on Shared Computing Networks

Macklem, Mason

 ASB 10908
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm Sparse Polynomial Interpolation

Monagan, Michael

 ASB 10900
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm Analysis with Crystals

Taylor, Keith F.

 ASB 10900
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm Coffee Break IRMACS Atrium
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm On the fractal distribution of brain synapses

Crandall, Richard

 ASB 10900
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm Two Approaches to the Growth of Random Fibonacci Sequences

Mclellan, Karyn

 ASB 10900
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm Chipping Away

Chan, O-Yeat

 ASB 10908
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm Asymptotics of the weighted Delannoy numbers

Noble, Rob

 ASB 10900
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm Eigenvalues of random integer matrices

Wong, Erick

 ASB 10908

Friday, May 20th - Happy birthday Jon!

Time Talk Title Speaker Venue/Room
8:30 am - 9:00 am Registration / Breakfast IRMACS Atrium
9:00 am - 10:00 am Nonsmooth optimization and semi-algebraic sets

Lewis, Adrian

 ASB 10900
10:00 am - 10:15 am Coffee Break IRMACS Atrium
10:15 am - 10:45 am Semivectorial Bilevel Convex Optimal Control Problems

Bonnel, Henry

 ASB 10900
10:45 am - 11:15 am Sinc Integrals

Borwein, David

 ASB 10900
11:15 am - 11:30 am Coffee Break IRMACS Atrium
11:30 am - 12:00 pm A Continuity Characterization Of Asplund Spaces

Giles, John R.

 ASB 10900
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Subdifferential estimate of the directional derivative and optimality criterion for lower semicontinuous functions

Lassonde , Marc

 ASB 10900
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch IRMACS Atrium
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Fragmentability of groups and metric-valued function spaces

Moors, Warren

 ASB 10900
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm A q-analog of Euler's reduction formula for the double zeta function

Bradley, David

 ASB 10900
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm Coffee Break IRMACS Atrium
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm Derivative-Free Optimization via Proximal Point Methods

Hare, Warren

 ASB 10900
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm Strong Duality in Semidefinite Programming and Facial Reduction with Applications to Sensor Network Localization and MolecularConformation

Cheung, Vris, and Wolkowicz, Henry

 ASB 10900
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm Closing Remarks ASB 10900