Simon Fraser University

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...

By the end of the 1980's several authors introduced the concept of hypergeometric function on a finite field. Although this is a purely number theoretical finite sum, it shares many properties with its analytic counterpart. The special values of...

The Mathematics Department at Simon Fraser University is pleased to present The 2013 SFU Symposium on Mathematics and Computation, which will be held on Wednesday, August 7th, 2013 at the IRMACS Centre, SFU Burnaby Campus. This annual event showcases...

Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks are one of the biggest threats in the Internet. The predominant approaches to deal with DoS-attacks are to use filtering, redundancy and information hiding. However, against an insider, all of these mechanisms might be...

Since 2005 the graduate students of the Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science get together with their peers from UBC to organize two joint workshops every year. The workshop is organized by the students for the students. The objective is to...

An intensive one month program for Canadian and international students. The core of the program is a course which provides an elementary introduction to multiple zeta values and their applications in combinatorics, number theory and quantum field...