Simon Fraser University

The goal of this event is to link our research programs and students and provide a jumping off point for future collaboration.

David Blackwell preferred to write short, direct papers dissectingproblems cleanly and showing the rest of us why things have to be theway they are. I plan to talk about David's life, describe a few of thethings he is famous for (Markov Chains...

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...