Simon Fraser University

We present the CORSING (COmpRessed SolvING) method for the numerical approximation of PDEs. Establishing an analogy between the bilinear form associated with the weak formulation of a PDE and the signal acquisition process, CORSING combines the...

Scientists and engineers use computer simulations to study relationships between a physical model's input parameters and its outputs. However, thorough parameter studies---e.g., constructing response surfaces, optimizing, or averaging---are...

Scientists and engineers use computer simulations to study relationships between a physical model's input parameters and its outputs. However, thorough parameter studies---e.g., constructing response surfaces, optimizing, or averaging---are...

The concept of equivalence has played a central role in mainstream linguistic theory over the last century, e.g., in the definition of linguistic "form" in Bloomfield's (1926, 1933) attempts to axiomatize linguistic theory, in debates on the nature...

The idea of this event is to offer graduate students in Statistics and Actuarial Science with an opportunity to attend a seminar with accessible talks providing them an introduction to active areas of research in the field. For three students from...

Lattice paths are very classic objects in both probability theory and enumerative combinatorics. In particular, weighted models bridge the gap between the two approaches very neatly. We consider an example, the Gouyou-Beauchamps model of lattice...

A digraph is semicomplete if it has no pair of non-adjacent vertices. A tournament is a semicomplete digraph with no directed 2-cycles. Tournaments form the most well studied class of directed graphs and a lot is known about their structure, ranging...

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) was founded in 1996, and Simon Fraser University is a founding member. The members of PIMS now include all the major Canadian research universities west of Ontario, as well as universities in...

The response of the muscle-tissue unit (MTU) to activation and applied forces is affected by the architectural details as well as the material properties of this nearly-incompressible tissue. We will describe the (highly nonlinear) elastic equations...

"Cops and Robbers" is a well-known pursuit game played on a graph. There are two players, one controls the cops and the other controls the robber, who take turns moving along edges of the graph. The goal of the cops is to capture the robber, which is...