CFD Research Group Meeting

Mondays at 2:30 pm in TASC2-8500

This is a schedule of upcoming (and past) meetings of the "CFD Group" in applied mathematics at SFU.

Apr 30: Version control software for code and papers (svn, git, ...)

John: on software for bibliography and paper management (Papers, Mendeley).

Spring 2012

Apr 16: Planning for summer semester.

Apr 9: No meeting: Easter Monday.

Apr 2: Katrina Williams (UBC Okanagan): on models for spore dispersal.

Sudeshna: on IB simulations of gravitational settling.

Mar 19, 26: No meeting.

Mar 12: All: FFT discussion based on . . .

The paper: "Nearly optimal sparse Fourier transform", by Hassanieh et al.
News release from MIT.
The original FFT paper: "An algorithm for the machine calculation of complex Fourier series", by Cooley and Tukey (Math. Comput., 19:297-301, 1965).
Optional extra reading: "Fast Fourier transforms: A tutorial review and a state of the art", by Duhamel and Vetterli (Signal Processing, 19:259-299, 1990).

Mar 5: No meeting: BC teachers' strike

Feb 27: Jeff: on IPAM traffic workshop.

Maurizio: on RISM school on Multiphase and Multiphysics Problems.

Feb 20: Group report: plotting/graphics software discussion.

Jan 30,
Feb 6, 13: No meeting.

Jan 23: John: on scientific graphics.

Jan 16: Planning for spring semester.

Fall 2011

Nov 28:	Reanne: practice for MSc defense on Dec 1.
	Bamdad: on Dissipative Particle Dynamics and simulating polymer solutions.
Nov 21:	John: on the life of an academic. [slides]
	Will: on large-scale ocean flows.
Nov 14:	Sudeshna: on porous immersed boundaries.
Nov 7:	John: on literature searches. [slides]
	Bamdad: on shape optimization.
Oct 24, 31:	No meeting.
Oct 17:	John: on porous media flow in soils.
Oct 10:	No meeting: Thanksgiving.
Oct 3:	Bebart: on modelling of sap flow in trees.
Sep 26:	Brian: on preparing an academic CV.
	Reanne: on solving Riemann problems in traffic/crowd flow.
Sep 19:	Maurizio: on models for freezing/thawing of sap and dissolution of gas in a maple tree.
	Jeff: on designing a professional (academic) web page. [link]
Sep 12:	Introductions.

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Last modified: Wed Mar 28 2012

Apr 30:	Version control software for code and papers (svn, git, ...)
	John: on software for bibliography and paper management (Papers, Mendeley).

Apr 16:	Planning for summer semester.
Apr 9:	No meeting: Easter Monday.
Apr 2:	Katrina Williams (UBC Okanagan): on models for spore dispersal.
	Sudeshna: on IB simulations of gravitational settling.
Mar 19, 26:	No meeting.
Mar 12:	All: FFT discussion based on . . . The paper: "Nearly optimal sparse Fourier transform", by Hassanieh et al. News release from MIT. The original FFT paper: "An algorithm for the machine calculation of complex Fourier series", by Cooley and Tukey (Math. Comput., 19:297-301, 1965). Optional extra reading: "Fast Fourier transforms: A tutorial review and a state of the art", by Duhamel and Vetterli (Signal Processing, 19:259-299, 1990).
Mar 5:	No meeting: BC teachers' strike
Feb 27:	Jeff: on IPAM traffic workshop.
	Maurizio: on RISM school on Multiphase and Multiphysics Problems.
Feb 20:	Group report: plotting/graphics software discussion.
Jan 30, Feb 6, 13:	No meeting.
Jan 23:	John: on scientific graphics.
Jan 16:	Planning for spring semester.