Simon Fraser University

With the advance of huge distributed parallel clusters manyof the current discretizations of parabolic problems are becoming slow and inefficient which opens the need for the development of new techniques. The usual bottleneck of the parallel...

Cancer comes about by a sequence of mutations that change the cells' fitness and create advantageous phenotypes. These phenotypes displace other cells and spread, thus winning the evolutionary competition. It is possible that in order to create those...

Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC) is the only Cryptography conference series held annually in Canada. SAC proceedings are published by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Since 1994 the SAC conference has been organized 19...

Finding ways of getting from place to place has occupied humanity since the dawn of civilization. The Romans built roads, Moses parted the waters, Dorothy clicked her heels (cf. the Wizard of Oz). Mathematicians settle for studying graphs. A graph is...

Hypergeometric functions occur in many shapes and flavours throughout mathematics and mathematical physics. The first such functions were introduced by Euler and studied in depth by Gauss.Since the end of the 19th the concept of hypergeometric...

Things hypergeometric reach out in various directions that may be a little surprising. In this talk we will look at some nineteenth-century developments. Beginning with some results of Gauss, we will sample from work by E. E. Kummer (who, in...

The hypergeometric functions of Gauss formed the perfect testing ground for Riemann's ideas on analytic continuation of complex analytic functions. Many properties of hypergeometric functions became evident through the use of the so-called monodromy...