8th Annual IRMACS Day

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On Friday, April 12th, 2013, the IRMACS Centre celebrated its 8th anniversary of operation.
This event was also dedicated to Dr. Peter Borwein, the Founding Director of the IRMACS Centre, on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

Members of the IRMACS Project Community as well as they greater SFU Community participated in the talks and the IRMACS Open House. This was done by merely attending the day's activities, by submitting posters with themes related to research, by demonstrating devices and software developed by various groups, and by giving short presentations about research topics.

See below for the complete IRMACS Day schedule.

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Friday, April 12, 2013
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10:00 am - 10:30 am ASB 10900	Using Mathematical Modelling and Optimization to Mitigate Earthquake Damage Warren Hare, Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Statistics, University of British Columbia, Okanagan The damages observed from seismic pounding, i.e., heavy and repeated collision of buildings, are devastating. Earthquake-prone areas with high population density, such as the lower-mainland, are in particular danger. Fortunately, modern engineering has demonstrated that damper connectors can reduce pounding damage and increase the seismic resistance of a structure. Unfortunately, such connectors are very expensive and often... More Details Click to watch (Duration: 39:21)
10:30 am - 11:00 am ASB 10900	MoCSSy Semester End Presentations: "The MoCSSynergies of interdisciplinary research" 10:40-11:00: Philippe Giabbanelli (Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, SFU) "The MoCSSynergies of interdisciplinary research" More Details Click to watch (Duration: 9:07)
11:00 am - 11:30 am ASB 10900	MoCSSy Semester End Presentations: "Pursuing Complexity in Social Systems" 11:00-11:20: Piper Jackson (School of Computing Science, SFU) "Pursuing Complexity in Social Systems" More Details Click to watch (Duration: 19:45)
11:30 am - 12:00 pm ASB 10900	MoCSSy Semester End Presentations: "Complex social systems: Creating coherence using mathematical and computer models" 11:20-11:40: Hilary Kim Morden (School of Criminology, SFU) "Complex social systems: Creating coherence using mathematical and computer models" More Details Click to watch (Duration: 18:17)
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm ASB 10900	MoCSSy Student Presentations: Closing Remarks More Details Click to watch (Duration: 6:18)
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm ASB 10900	Break More Details
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm ASB 10900	Welcome / Opening Remarks Veselin Jungic, IRMACS Deputy Director Mario Pinto, Vice President Research More Details Click to watch (Duration: 1:00:18)
12:30 pm - 12:40 pm ASB 10900	Launch of IRMACS 2013 Thematic Year / Peter Borwein Scholarship Award Presentation Felix Breden, IRMACS Deputy Director More Details
12:40 pm - 12:55 pm ASB 10900	Peter Borwein's contributions to research Stephen Choi, Department of Mathematics More Details
12:55 pm - 1:05 pm ASB 10900	Peter Borwein's contributions to community Derek Bingham, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science More Details
1:05 pm - 1:15 pm ASB 10900	Break More Details
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm ASB 10900	Mathematical models: Uses, abuses, and non-uses Andrew Odlyzko, Professor, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota Models are indispensable, but have to be used with caution. Some early quantitative models, drawn from the early history of British railways and related to the ubiquitous gravity models of transportation, urban planning, spacial economics, and related areas, will be presented. They demonstrate how even clearly false models can be useful, and how sometimes they are misused or tragically not used. More Details Click to watch (Duration: 1:06:04)
2:15 pm - 3:30 pm IRMACS Atrium	IRMACS Open House, Presentations, Demonstrations and Refreshments - Math Catcher Outreach Program - Small Number Animated Films and Activities – The Math Catcher Team - 3D IQ Station Demonstration – Dr. Brian Corrie - Tree of Life - OneZoom Demonstration – Dr. Jeffrey Joy - Interactive Robotics – Dr. Shahram Payandeh - Live 3D Stereoscopic Video Capture Demonstration – Mr. Andy Gavel - Visual Analytics - From Data to Knowledge Software... More Details Click to watch (Duration: 22:03)
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm ASB 10900	PIMS/CSC Distinguished Lecture Series: High-Order and Adaptive Time Stepping Methods for Energy Gradient Flows Tao Tang, Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University The phase-field method is very useful for modeling interfacial phenomena. The key idea of the phase-field methodology is to replace sharp interfaces by thin transition regions where interfacial forces are smoothly distributed. One of the main reasons for the success of the phase-field methodology is that it is based on... More Details
4:45 pm - 6:30 pm ASB 10900	8th Annual IRMACS Day & 60th Birthday Reception More Details