October 12-14, 2007
Pure Math Graduate Student Conference 2007
Simon Fraser University




All talks will be in room K9509 (map).

Schedule - PMGSC 2007
Friday, October 12
8:00-8:50 Registration and Refreshments
8:50-9:00 Opening remarks
9:00-9:55 Jason Bell, Growth in algebras
9:55-10:15 Coffee Break
10:15-10:40 Stephen Benecke, Trees with Domination Subdivision Number One
10:40-11:05 Michael Coons, A density-residue theorem
11:05-11:30 Adam Clay, Densely Ordered Braid Subgroups
11:30-11:55 Karel Casteels, Generalizations of De Bruijn Cycles
11:55-13:30 Lunch (on your own)
13:30-13:55 Christopher Phan, Generalized Koszul properties for filtered algebras
13:55-14:20 Mamad Ghebleh, On colourings of planar graphs
14:20-14:45 Tak Lun Koo, On the generation of the coefficient field of a newform by a single Hecke eigenvalue
14:45-15:05 Coffee Break
15:05-15:30 Beth Powell, R-Universal Central Extensions
15:30-15:55 Amy Yielding , A family of Spectrally Arbitrary Zero-Nonzero
15:55-16:20 Liam Watson, Aspects of Khovanov homology
18:30-22:00 Student Social (SFU Highland Pub)
Saturday, October 13
8:45-9:30 Refreshments
9:30-9:55 Matthew Ballard, Some homological algebra for A-infinity algebras
9:55-10:20 Laurel Miller-Sims, Variants of Hilbert's 17th Problem in Valued Fields
10:20-10:40 Coffee Break
10:40-11:05 Andrew Arnold, Calculating Cyclotomic Polynomials
11:05-11:30 Kseniya Garaschuk, On binary and ternary Kloosterman sums
11:30-11:55 Mahdad Khatirinejad, Regular structures of lines in the complex spaces
11:55-13:30 Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:30 Greg Martin, Prime numbers: what we know, and what we know we think
14:30-14:50 Coffee Break
14:50-15:15 Nathan Grieve, Simplicial complexes and minimal generators of lattice ideals
15:15-15:40 Bradford Hovinen, Matrix factorizations of the classical discriminant
15:40-16:05 Dennis D.A. Epple, Characterizing bipartite (2,1)-polar graphs
16:05-16:30 Robert Bradshaw, SAGE: Open Source Mathematics Software
Sunday, October 14
8:45-9:30 Refreshments
9:30-9:55 Oznur Yasar, Fast Searching
9:55-10:20 DeAnne Morris, The Peripheral Spectrum of a Nonnegative Matrix
10:20-10:40 Coffee Break
10:40-11:05 Jie Sun, Descent constructions for central extensions of infinite dimensional Lie algebras
11:05-11:30 Emilie Dufresne, Separating Invariants: an Introduction
11:30-11:55 Javad Ebrahimi B, On the sum of two largest eigenvalues of a graph and Gernert's conjecture
11:55-13:30 Lunch (Himalayan Peak Restaurant)
13:30-14:30 Petr Lisonek, Steganography with linear codes
14:30-14:50 Coffee Break
14:50-15:15 Maryam Verdian-Rizi, On Coloring and Structure of Fisk Triangulation
15:15-15:40 Paul Vrbik, Maple Demo
15:40-16:05 Masrour Zoghi, A Generalisation of the Universal Enveloping Algebra
16:05-16:30 Awards presentation and closing remarks