Simon Fraser University

Before Mazur proved his theorem on the possible torsion groups on elliptic curves over Q, Manin had shown in 1969 that for a fixed number field K and prime p, the p-primary torsion of elliptic curves over K was uniformly bounded. We will explain a...

The alignment of genetic and protein sequences has taught us an enormous amount about biology, evolution, and disease. The alignment of biological networks has the potential to be equally enlightening, because if we can align a network of a well...

The search for oil and gas has three objectives: to identify and evaluate hydrocarbon-bearing reservoirs; to bring hydrocarbons to the surface safely and cost-effectively, without harming the environment; and to maximize the yield from each discovery...

The Department of Mathematics at Simon Fraser University is pleased to present The 2016 SFU Symposium on Mathematics and Computation, which will be held on Monday, August 15 at the IRMACS Centre, SFU Burnaby Campus. This annual event showcases the...

Most current methods of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) reconstruction interpret raw signal values as samples of the Fourier transform of the object. Although this is computationally convenient, it neglects relaxation and off–resonance evolution in...

Program: 2:00pm Robert Calderbank (Duke University) Remembering Shannon Abstract - The foundation of our Information Age is the transformation of speech, audio, images and video into digital content, and the man who started the digital revolution was...

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...