| Jun 28: | TBD. |
| Jun 14: | John: parametric resonance in a model of cochlear dynamics. |
| May 31: | John: industrial mathematics. |
| PoW: T. Kolda and V. Torczon, "Top ten ways to lose an audience", SIAM News 44(3), April 2011. | |
| May 17: | Bamdad: well-posed Bayesian inverse problems beyond Gaussian priors. |
| PoW: N. Higham, "In search of the perfect numerical analysis textbook", SIAM News 50(4), May 2017. | |
| May 10: | All: research update. |
| Apr 3: | PhD Movie 2 (trailer) |
| Mar 20: | John: how to prepare a budget. |
| Mar 6: | Bamdad: Bayesian inverse problems with infinitely-divisible priors. |
| Feb 20: | Juan: parameter estimation using Gaussian process regression. |
| Feb 6: | John: CVs and job applications. |
| Jan 23: | All: research update. |
| Jan 9: | John: Lax equivalence theorem. |
| Jan 2: | PoW: U. Rüde et al., "Research and education in computational science and engineering", Report on a SIAM Workshop, September 2016. |
| Dec 19: | PoW: S.G. Krantz, "A Primer of Mathematical Writing" (second ed.), 2016. |
| Dec 5: | PoW: P.D. Lax and R.D. Richtmyer, "Survey of the stability of linear finite difference equations", Commun. Pure. Appl. Math. 9:267-293, 1956. |
| Nov 28: | John: project management and grant applications. |
| PoW: K.M. Moroney et al., "Asymptotic analysis of the dominant mechanisms in the coffee extraction process", SIAM J. Appl. Math. 76(6):2196-2217, 2016. | |
| Nov 14: | All: PhD Movie #1. |
| Oct 31: | Alamgir: modelling glacier advance and retreat using the level set method. |
| Bamdad: visit to ICES at UT Austin. | |
| Oct 17: | All: what is "big data"? |
| Oct 3: | PoW: I. Laba, "A brief guide to a full professor's administrative work", The Accidental Mathematician blog post, 15 Jan 2012. |
| Sep 26: | John: performing a literature search. |
| Sep 12: | All: progress report and planning for summer semester. |
| PoW: R.J. LeVeque, "Top ten reasons to not share your code (and why you should anyway)", SIAM News 46(3):7-8, April 2013. |
| Jun 5: | PoW: N. Rott, "Note on the history of the Reynolds number", Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech., 22:1-12, 1990. |
| PoW: D. Jackson and B. Launder, "Osborne Reynolds and the publication of his papers on turbulent flow", Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech., 39:19-35, 1997. | |
| May 24: | John: writing and publishing an academic paper. |
| PoW:
O. Mesnard and L. Barba, "Reproducible and replicable
CFD: it's harder than you think", arXiv:1605.04339v2
[physics.comp-ph], 2016. See also the related blog post by Alecia Carter and an article on reproducibility in Nature. |
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| May 10: | All: progress update. |
| Feb 2: | PoW: G.K. Batchelor. "Research as a life style", Appl. Mech. Rev. 50(8):R11-R20, 1997. |
| Oct 25: | PoW: D. Barley et al. "The rise of fully turbulent flow", Nature 526:550-553, 2015. |
| Jul 27: | Movie: Good Will Hunting. |
| Jul 13: | All: progress update. |
| Jun 15: | TBA. |
| May 25: | John: Mathematical Genealogy Project. |
| PoW: A.S. Reimer and A.F. Cheviakov. "A Matlab-based finite-difference solver for the Poisson problem with mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions", Comput. Phys. Commun. 184(3):783-798, 2013. | |
| May 4: | All: summer semester plans. |
| Apr 17: | Bamdad: practice for thesis proposal (note the special date and time, 11:30am). |
| Apr 13: | Will: practice for thesis defence. |
| Apr 6: | PoW: F. Dyson. "Birds and frogs", Notices AMS 56(2):212-223, 2009. |
| Mar 30: | All: model for skate skiing. |
| PoW: A. Goodman and others. "Ten simple rules for the care and feeding of scientific data", PLoS Comput. Biol. 10(4):e1003542, 2014. | |
| Mar 26: | All: sushi and beer night. |
| Mar 23: | John: model for skate skiing. |
| Mar 9: | John: Keller's theory of competitive running (reprise). |
| Feb 26: | Melvin Tyree (Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi, China):
Cavitation and embolism: Modeling the tempo of embolus formation
following cavitation events. Professor Tyree's bio can be found here. |
| PoW: S. Yang and M.T. Tyree, "A theoretical model of hydraulic conductivity recovery from embolism with comparison to experimental data on Acer saccharum", Plant Cell Env. 15(6):633-643, 1992. | |
| Feb 25: | Special event - Sap flow modelling workshop (SFU Harbour Centre, all day). Special guest: Melvin Tyree. |
| Feb 16: | John: Keller's theory of competitive running. |
| PoW: Science Lives: Alexandre Chorin, Simons Foundation, 20 April 2012 (interview by Jamie Sethian). | |
| Feb 2: | Maryam: aerodynamic shape optimization of airfoils based on control theory. |
| PoW: M. Knauff and J. Nejasmic, "An efficiency
comparison of document preparation systems used in academic research
and development", PLoS ONE 9(12):e115069, 2014.
Then read this blog entry by Daniel Lemire. |
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| Jan 29: | Movie night: "The Imitation Game" at Metrotown. |
| Jan 19: | All: spring semester plans. |
| Jan 12: | PoW: J. Oxley, "Writing a teaching statement", Notices AMS 62(1):59-61, 2015. |
| Dec 8: | PoW: T. Hopper, "Should I get a PhD? An interview series". |
| Dec 1: | All: progress update. |
| PoW: S. Vogel, "Exposing life's limits with dimensionless numbers", Phys. Today 51:22-29, 1998. | |
| Nov 17: | All: CV discussion. |
| Nov 3: | John: preparing an academic CV. |
| Oct 20: | John: computational science vs. scientific computation. |
| Oct 15: | Isabell: sap exudation in maple trees. |
| Oct 13: | No meeting: Thanksgiving holiday. |
| PoW: S. Schnell, R. Grima and P.K. Maini, "Multiscale modeling in biology", Amer. Sci. 95:134-142, 2007. | |
| Oct 6: | John: what's in a title? |
| Sep 29: | All: discussion of Ascher and Roosta-Khorasani paper. |
| Bamdad: Fields Industrial Problem-Solving Workshop. | |
| Sep 8: | All: progress update and plans for fall. |
| John: applying for scholarships and grants. | |
| PoW: U. Ascher and F. Roosta-Khorasani, "Algorithms that satisfy a stopping criterion, probably", arXiv:1408.5946 [cs.NA], 2014. |
| Aug 20: | PoW: E. Lauga, M.P. Brenner and H.A. Stone, "Microfluidics: The no-slip boundary condition", Ch. 19 in "Handbook of Experimental Fluid Dynamics", eds. C. Tropea et al. (Springer), 2007. | Jul 30: | All: progress update. |
| PoW: J.T. Oden, "Predictive computational science", IACM Expressions 35, 2014. | |
| Jul 23: | Jeff: practice for thesis defense. |
| Jul 9: | Peter Johnston (Griffith University): Modelling blood flow in human coronary arteries. |
| Barbara Johnston (Griffith University): Determining cardiac conductivities from potential measurements made in living tissue. | |
| Jun 18: | Will: An immersed boundary model of the cochlea with parametric forcing. |
| John: Challenges and Opportunities in "Mathematics For Industry". | |
| May 21: | John: mathematical modelling. |
| PoW: J. Gunawardena, "Models in biology: `accurate descriptions of our pathetic thinking'", BMC Biology 12:29, 2014. | |
| May 7: | All: progress update and summer plans. |
| Jeremy: machine learning. | |
| PoW: R.J. Vanderbei, G. Scharf and D. Marlow, "A regression approach to fairer grading", SIAM Review 56(2):337-352, 2014. |
| Apr 9: | Bamdad: inverse problems for estimating atmospheric pollutant emissions. |
| John: a cool summer project. | |
| Mar 26: | Will: spherical harmonics. |
| Mar 5: | Mohammad Rahnama (Kerman University): deformation of a spherical capsule in shear flow using combined immersed boundary lattice Boltzmann finite element method. |
| Jeremy: 3-minute thesis talk. | |
| PoW: H.K. Moffatt, "Helicity and singular structures in fluid dynamics", PNAS 111(10):3663-3670, 2014. See also the profile of Keith Moffatt in the same issue. | |
| Feb 19: | Jeremy: honeybee thermoregulation. |
| PoW: T. Tao, "Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation", arXiv:1402.0290 [math.AP], 2014. | |
| Jan 15: | All: progress update, plan for spring semester. |
| PoWs: W. Bangerth and T. Heister, "What makes computational open source software libraries successful?", Comput. Sci. Disc. 6:015010, 2013. | |
| D. Lemire, "When delegating . . . consider quality, maintenance and learning" (blog entry), Dec. 20, 2013. |
| Dec 2: | David Neusius (Kaiserslautern, Germany): granular flow. |
| PoW: Y. Davit et al., "Homogenization via formal multiscale asymptotics and volume averaging: How do the two techniques compare?", Adv. Water Res. 62:178-206, 2013. | |
| Nov 25: | No meeting. |
| Nov 18: | Bamdad: inverse problems, part 3. |
| Nov 4: | John: counting triangles. |
| Oct 28: | John: academic conferences. |
| Oct 21: | Bamdad: inverse problems, part 2. |
| PoW: T. Wei, R. Mark and S. Hutchison, "The fluid dynamics of competitive swimming", Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech. 46:547-565, 2014. | |
| Oct 14: | PoW: A.S.-H. Chen and S.W. Morris, "On the origin and evolution of icicle ripples", New J. Phys. 15:103012, 2013. |
| Oct 7: | Bamdad: inverse problems, part 1. |
| PoW: G. Luo and T.Y. Hou, "Potentially singular solutions of the 3D incompressible Euler equations", arXiv:1310.0497v1 [physics.flu-dyn], 2013. | |
| Sep 30: | PoW: B.J. McCartin, "Seven deadly sins of numerical computation", Amer. Math. Monthly 105(10):929-941, 1998. |
| Sep 23: | Bebart: variational image processing. |
| Sep 16: | All: paper reviewing session. |
| PoW: J.P.A. Ioannidis, "Why most published research findings are false", PLoS Medicine 2(8):e124, 2005. | |
| Sep 9: | All: progress update. |
| John: peer review process. |
| Aug 12: | Bamdad: MSc defense practice. |
| Jul 29: | Graham and John: RC circuit (and other) models for sap flow in trees. |
| PoW: A.J. Smith, "The task of the referee", Computer 23(4):65-71, 1990. | |
| Jul 22: | John: social media in math research. |
| Jul 15: | All: progress update. |
| PoW:
V. Magar, G. Tomonobu and T.J. Pedley, "Nutrient uptake by a
self-propelled steady squirmer", Quart. J. Mech. Appl. Math.
56(1):65-91, 2003. See also the limerick competition results based on this paper (page down to the "Steady Squirmer Poet" entry). | |
| Jul 8: | Jeremy: thermoregulation in honeybee clusters. |
| Graham: models for sap flow in trees. | |
| Jun 24: | Bamdad: moment conditions for interpolation of delta-function source terms. |
| Jun 10: | John: academic journal publishing. |
| Jun 3: | Isabell: periodic homogenization of PDEs. |
| PoW: H.K. Moffatt, "G.K. Batchelor" (biography), Biogr. Memoirs Fell. Roy. Soc. 48:25-41, 2002. | |
| May 27: | All: tips on giving a scientific talk, dimensional analysis. |
| PoW: H.A. Stone, "Interfaces: in fluid mechanics and across disciplines", J. Fluid Mech. 645:1-25, 2010. | |
| May 20: | PoW: R.I. Saye and J.A. Sethian, "Multiscale modeling of membrane rearrangement, drainage, and rupture in evolving foams", Science 340:720-724, 2013. |
| May 13: | All: how to give a scientific talk, and discussion of Priem's paper. |
| PoW: W. Bangerth, lectures on "Finite element methods in scientific computing." [ videos ] | |
| May 6: | John: Stefan problems (part 2). |
| Apr 29: | All: planning for summer semester. |
| PoW: R.J. LeVeque, "Top ten reasons to not share your code (and why you should anyway)", SIAM News 46(3):7-8, April 2013. |
| Apr 8: | Bebart: random matrices. |
| Apr 1: | PoW: J. Priem, "Scholarship: Beyond the paper", Nature 495:437-440, 2013. |
| Mar 25: | John: Stefan problems (part 1). |
| Mar 11: | TBA. |
| PoW: R. Hamming, "You and your research", Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar, 7 March 1986. | |
| Mar 4: | Sudeshna: practice run of PhD thesis defence. |
| PoW: S. Chellappa, F. Franchetti and M. Püschel, "How to write fast numerical code: a small introduction", LNCS 5235:196-259, 2008. | |
| Feb 25: | Haowen: practice run of MSc thesis defence. |
| Jeff: practice for USask talk. | |
| Feb 18: | John: delta functions in the immersed boundary method. |
| PoW: G. K. Karch et al. "Dye-based flow visualization", Comput. Sci. Eng. 14(6):80-86, 2012. | |
| Feb 4: | Haowen: latest results on simulating jellyfish. |
| PoW: K.R. Rajagopal, "A new development and interpretation of the Navier-Stokes fluid which reveals why the 'Stokes assumption' is inapt", Int. J. Nonlin. Mech. 50:141-151, 2013. | |
| Jan 28: | All: tips on how to give a good research presentation. |
| Jan 21: | All: Matt Might's "How to peer review" and Ristroph et al.'s PNAS paper on "Sculpting of an erodible body by flowing water". |
| PoW: "The Mathematical Sciences in 2025", US National Research Council, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Washington, DC, 2013. | |
| Jan 14: | All: progress update. |
| Dec 24: | PoW: Y. Liu and Y. Mori, "Properties of discrete delta functions and local convergence of the immersed boundary method", SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 50(6):2986-3015, 2012. |
| Dec 10: | PoW: C. Moler, "1976 Matrix Singular Value Decomposition Film." [ video ] |
| Nov 26: | All: bibliography and paper management (Mendeley and Papers). |
| PoW: L. Ristroph et al., "Sculpting of an erodible body by flowing water", PNAS, in press. | |
| Nov 19: | All: progress update. |
| Nov 5: | All: version control systems (git, subversion, etc.) |
| Oct 29: | All: "Best practices for scientific computing". |
| Oct 22: | All: purchase of new lab computing equipment. |
| PoW: E. Tadmor, "A review of numerical methods for nonlinear partial differential equations", Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 49(4):507-554, 2012. | |
| Oct 15: | Maurizio: modelling sap exudation in maple trees. |
| Oct 1: | PhD Movie. |
| PoW: D.A. Aruliah et al., "Best practices for scientific computing," arXiv:1210.0530 [cs.MS], Oct. 2012. | |
| Sep 24: | Dave Muraki: waves travelling faster than the characteristic speed (in ASB 10901). |
| PoW:
J.B. Keller, "Ponytail
motion", SIAM J. Appl. Math.
70(7):2667-2672, 2010.
Keller won an IgNobel Prize last week for this work! In fact, Keller is a double IgNobel winner, having been retroactively awarded a 1999 IgNobel for his work in fluid mechanics related to design of teapot spouts. |
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| Sep 17: | All: progress update (in ASB 10901). |
| Aug 6: | PoW: U.S. National Research Council, "Assessing the reliability of complex models: Mathematical and statistical foundations of verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification", 2012. |
| Jul 30: | Bebart: report #2 on industrial problem-solving workshop (Calgary). |
| Bamdad: adjoint problem for PDEs. | |
| PoW: R. Hilfer, "Macroscopic capillarity and hysteresis for flow in porous media", Phys. Rev. E 7:016307, 2006. | |
| Jul 23: | Bamdad: report on industrial problem-solving workshop (Calgary). |
| Jul 16: | All: progress update. |
| Jun 11: | All: scientific ethics, based on a paper by Benos et al. |
| May 28: | All: discussion of the articles "Choosing your referees" and "Manage your career". |
| May 7: | John: parametric resonance in immersed elastic boundaries. |
| Apr 16: | planning for summer semester. |
| Apr 2: | Katrina Williams (UBC Okanagan): models for spore dispersal. |
| Sudeshna: IB simulations of gravitational settling. | |
| Mar 12: | All: FFT discussion based on . . .
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| Feb 27: | Jeff: IPAM traffic workshop. |
| Maurizio: RISM school on Multiphase and Multiphysics Problems. | |
| Feb 20: | Group report: plotting/graphics software discussion. |
| Jan 23: | John: scientific graphics. |
| Jan 16: | planning for spring semester. |
| Nov 28: | Reanne: practice for MSc defense on Dec 1. |
| Bamdad: dissipative particle dynamics and simulating polymer solutions. | |
| Nov 21: | John: the life of an academic. [slides] |
| Will: large-scale ocean flows. | |
| Nov 14: | Sudeshna: porous immersed boundaries. |
| Nov 7: | John: literature searches. [slides] |
| Bamdad: shape optimization. | |
| Oct 17: | John: porous media flow in soils. |
| Oct 3: | Bebart: modelling of sap flow in trees. |
| Sep 26: | Brian: preparing an academic CV. |
| Reanne: solving Riemann problems in traffic/crowd flow. | |
| Sep 19: | Maurizio: models for freezing/thawing of sap and dissolution of gas in a maple tree. |
| Jeff: designing a professional (academic) web page. [link] | |
| Sep 12: | Introductions. |
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