Simon Fraser University

Error bounds, which refer to inequalities that bound the distance of vectors in a test set to a given set by a residual function, have proven to be extremely useful in analyzing the convergence rates of a host of iterative methods for solving...

Computer simulations of the dynamics of complex systems have become an integral tool of science and engineering. Large scale numerical models of systems evolving over a wide range of temporal and spatial scales are routinely encountered in a variety...

A spectral method for the solution of integral and differential equations is generally understood to be an expansion of the solution in a Fourier series. Chebyshev polynomials are often the preferred basis set for many problems. In kinetic theory...

The RAIN Meet is a gathering of researchers for rapid and informal communication of ongoing research activities in computational and applied mathematics in the northwest region. It is intended to complement the PNWNAS, which feature longer lectures...

In many applications one wishes to minimize an objective function that is not convex and is not differentiable at its minimizers. We discuss two algorithms for minimization of nonsmooth, nonconvex functions. Gradient Sampling is a simple method that...

SageMath is free and open-source mathematical software which started in 2004. Its features cover many aspects of mathematics, from basic arithmetic and calculus to advanced research mathematics in algebra,mcombinatorics, numerical mathematics...

The West Coast Optimization Meeting (WCOM) has a long tradition as a regional meeting bringing together scientists working in optimization and related areas. This will be third time SFU has hosted this meeting. Last year's meeting at UBC featured 8...

Optimization problems with sparsity enhancing norms have helped enable the tremendous success of computational compressed sensing techniques in the past decade, where the goal is to recover a signal from a small number of measurements. In this...

We study the propagation of chaos for the N-particle chemotaxis system subject to the Brownian diffusion. More precisely, we present a probabilistic proof of the distance between the exact microscopic and the approximate mean-field dynamics, which...

The rapid increase of fentanyl and fentanyl analogues in British Columbia has led to a public health emergency being declared and a rapid increase in overdoses and overdose-related deaths in the province. Numerous interventions have been proposed in...