Canadian Applied Mathematics Society / Société Canadienne de Mathématiques Appliquées
CAMS Minisymposia

1. MINI TITLE: Nonlinear Waves MINI ORGANIZER: Catherine Sulem
Israel Micheal Sigal, University of Toronto	"The Ginzburg-Landau Equation"
Keith Promislow Simon Fraser University	"Stability of Traveling Waves in Birefringent Fibre Optics"
Misha Vishik University of Texas at Austin	"Regularity for Incompressible Flows of an Ideal Fluid"
Walter Craig Brown University	"Normal Forms for the Evolution of Fluid Surfaces and Interfaces"
Roland Mallier University of Western Ontario	"A Viscous Benny-Lin Triad"

2. MINI TITLE: Geophysical fluid dynamics MINI ORGANIZER: Gordon Swaters
Richard Greatbatch, Memorial University of Newfoundland	"Parametrising Mesoscale Eddies in Ocean Circulation Models"
Gilbert Brunet Service de l'Environnement Atmosperique	"Dynamically Constrained Statistical Basis for Stochastically Forced Geophysical Flows"
Tom Warn McGill University	"Self-Similarity of Decaying Two-Dimensional Turbulence"
Susan Allen University of British Columbia	"Geometric Effects on Low Frequency Flow over Submarine Canyons"

4. MINI TITLE: Computer Technology in Applied Mathematics Education MINI ORGANIZER: Prof. Robert Corless
Jonathan M. Borwein Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics	"Doing Mathematics on the Web"
Sam Dooley IBM T. J. Watson Research Center	"A Derivational Problem-Solving System for Elementary Linear Algebra"
Keith O. Geddes University of Waterloo	"Maple for Mathematics and Computer Science Education"
David J. Jeffrey University of Western Ontario	"Mathematics for the Million: Automating Mathematics using Computers"

5. MINI TITLE: Numerical Analysis of Differential Equations MINI ORGANIZER: Uri M. Ascher
Joseph E. Flaherty Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	"An Adaptive and Parallel Framework for Partial Differential Equations"
Peter Forsyth U. Waterloo	"A General Approach for Numerical Solution fo Two-Factor PDE Models in OPtion Pricing"
Linda Petzold University of Minnesota	"Model Reduction for Chemical Knetics: An Optimixation Approach"
Uri M. Ascher University of British Columbia	"Backtracking Ax=b"
Mohamed Farhloul University of Moncton	"A Mixed Finite Element Method for the p-Laplacian"

6. & 7. MINI TITLE: Mathematics in the Biomedical Sciences MINI ORGANIZER: John Clements
B. Mitchell Baker US Naval Academy	"A Dynamical Systems Approach to Membrane Phenomena Underlying Cardiac Arrhythmias"
Guy Kember Technical University of Nova Scotia	"KLT Based Quality Controlled Compression of Single Lead ECG"
David A. Steinman J.P. Robarts Research Institute and U. Western Ontario	"Computational Modelling of Blood Flow"
Dr. Doug Salhani Regional Cancer Center	"Mathematical Problems of Interest in Medical Physics"
Professor Robert D. Sidman University of Southwestern Louisiana	"Comparison of two Boundary Value Problems for the Electrical Properties of the Brain"
John Clements Dalhousie University	"A Direct Method for Computing Regularization Parameters for the Inverse Problem of Electrocardiography"

8. MINI TITLE: Enviromental Problems MINI ORGANIZER: Samuel Shanpu Shen
Bill Hogg Atmospheric Environment Service	"Mathematics Challenges in Climate Research"
Richard Karsten University of Alberta	"Stability Characteristics of Deep-Water Replacement in the Strait of Georgia"
Saroja Polavarapu Atmospheric Environment Service	"Four Dimensional Data Assimilation"
Samuel Shanpu Shen University of Alberta	"Two Mathematical Problems in the Research into Climate Change Detection"
P.C.Chatwin University of Sheffield	"Modelling Dosages of Dangerous Gases Dispersing in the Atmosphere"

9. MINI TITLE: Topics in Pulsatile Flow MINI ORGANIZER: Mair Zamir
Mair Zamir University of Western Ontario	"Wave Reflection Effects in Coronary Blood Flow"
C.H. Woolley University of Western Ontario	"Elastic Wall Movements in Pulsatile Flow"
M. Haslam University of Western Ontario	"Pulsatile Flow in Tubes of Eliptic Cross Sections"
T. Moschandreou University of Western Ontario	"Heat Transfer in Pulsatile Flow"

10. MINI TITLE: Neural Networks MINI ORGANIZER: Deborah Stacey
Mehdi Bazoon University of Toronto	"A combined Fuzzy Logic-Neural Network Approach for Analyzing Armacological Data"
Deborah Stacey University of Guelph	"A Filter and Pipe Architecture for Artificial Neural Network Systems"
Geoffrey Hinton University of Toronto	"Discovering Causal Structure in Images"
Zoubin Ghahramani University of Toronto	"Discovering Causal Structure in Time Series"
R.D. Dony Wilfrid Laurier University	"On the Use of Hebbian Learning for a Tree-structured Mixture Model"

11. MINI TITLE: Mesoscale Phenomena in Fluids and Materials MINI ORGANIZER: Turab Lookman
Sharon C. Glotzer National Institute of Standards and Technology	"Computer Simulations of Pattern Formation in Anisotropic Multiphase Materials"
Stephen Langer Information Technology Laboratory	"Simulations of Liquid Foams Under Shear"
Shiyi Chen IBM	"Passive Scalar Turbulence and Anamolous Scaling"
Turab Lookman University of Western Ontario	"Modelling Mesoscopic Behavior in Fluids and Materials"

12. MINI TITLE: Industrial Mathematics MINI ORGANIZER: P.N. Shivakumar
P. N. Shivakumar University of Manitoba	"Industrial Mathematics Projects at the Institute of Industrial Mathematical Sciences"
Yarlong Wang Computer Modeling Group	"to be announced??"
K. W. Dormuth, AECL, Whiteshell Laboratories	"Cooperation of University and Industry in Mathematical Problem Solving at the Whiteshell Laboratories"
J. Stastna University of Calgary	"Stress Growth and Stress Relaxation in Crack Sealing Materials"
G. Tyc Bristol Aerospace Limited	"Tethers in Space"

13. MINI TITLE: Parallel Computation MINI ORGANIZER: Eleanor Chu
Christina C. Christara University of Toronto	"Fast Solvers for Partial Defferential Equations and ther Parallel Computation"
Sanzheng Qiao McMaster University	"The ULLV Decompostion and its Systolic Array Implementation"
William Gropp Argonne National Laboratory	"Parallel Computing Prograss and Directions"
Dianqin Wang University of Guelph	"Parallelizing the Multishift QR Algoritm for Eigenvalue Computation on the Intel Paragon"

14. MINI TITLE: Communications Networks MINI ORGANIZER: Donald Dawson
Ioannis Lambadaris and Michael Devetsikiotis Carleton University	"Issues in Fast Network Simulation by Use of Effective and Decoupling Bandwidths"
David McDonald University of Ottawa	"Connection Admission Control for Constant Bit Rate Traffic at a Multi-Buffer Multiplexer using the Oldest-Cell-First Discipline" 2. David McDonald (R. FEE)
Prof. Rajesh K. Pankaj University of Toronto	"Topologies for All-Optical Networks"
Prof. George Kesidis University of Waterloo	"The CBR Channel and Statisical Multiplexing in Wired Broadband Networks"

15. MINI TITLE: Mathematical Problems in Risk Management MINI ORGANIZER: Claudio Albanese
Dr. Ron Dembo Algorithmics, Inc.	"Optimal Portfolio Replication"
Tom McCurdy University of Toronto	"Can ARCH Models Capture Volatility Dependence Observed in Asset Returns?"
Luis Seco University of Toronto	"An X-ray of Value at Risk"
Claudio Albanese University of Toronto	"Two Approaches to Dynamic Calibration Theory"

16. MINI TITLE: Research Partnerships of Academia, Industry and Government ORGANIZERS: CAMS/SCMA'97 CO-CHAIRS
John B. Chattoe Information Technology Research Centre	"Industry, University, Government Partnerships--The Expanding Role of Mathematical Advances in our Economy"
Dr. Claudine Simson Northern Telecom	"A New Cooperative Paradigm for University/Government/Industry Collaborations"
Bill St. Arnaud CANARI-Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research	"CA*netII and Networks for Advanced Research"
Dr. Kelly A. Lyons M Software Solutions Toronto Laboratory	"Centre for Advanced Studies: A Model for Cooperative Research 5. NSERC
A. Leo Derikx NSERC	"To be announced"

17. MINI TITLE: ``Mathematical Modeling of Polymers''. MINI ORGANIZER: Chris Soteros (R. FEE)
Neal Madras York University	"Lattice Models of Polymers: An Introduction"
E. Janse van Rensburg York University	"Monte Carlo Study of Models of Branched Polymers"
De Witt Sumners Florida State University	"DNA Models"
Chris Soteros University of Saskatchewan	"Polymers Confined to a Tube"

18 & 19 MINI TITLE: Cryptography MINI ORGANIZER: P.Eng Bruno Di Stefano
Stuart Lombard Isolation Systems, Ltd.	"To be Announced"
Speaker to by Confirmed
Speaker to by Confirmed
Pei Yu University of Western Ontario	"Exact Recovery From Masked Chaotic Signal"
Prof. Stafford Tavares Queen's University	"On the Design of Substitution Permutation Encryption Networks with the Involution Property"
Amr Mohamed Youssef Queen's University	"On a Class of Involution Linear Transformations Based on MDS Codes"
Dr. Jeroen van de Graaf Universite de Montreal	"A Quantum Protocol for Key Exchange"
Mike Just Carleton University	"Techniques for Digital Timestamping"

20 & 21. MINI TITLE: Fractal Image Compression MINI ORGANIZER: Edward R. Vrscay
Prof. Geoff Davis Dartmouth College	"A Wavelet-Based Interpretation of Fractal Image Compression"
Dr. Jacques Levy-Vehel INRIA Rocquencourt	"Segmentation as a Means of Improving Compression"
Dr. Franklin Mendivil University of Waterloo	"Correspondence Between Fractal-Wavelet Transforms and Iterated Function Systems"
Prof. Don Monro University of Bath	"Fractals for Free"
Prof. Edward R. Vrscay University of Waterloo	"A Generalized Class of Fractal-Wavelet Transforms for Image Represenation and Compression"

22. MINI TITLE: Bioinformatics MINI ORGANIZER: Anthony Bonner
Anthony Bonner University of Toronto	"Large-Scale Physical Genome Mapping"
David Sankoff Universite de Montreal	"Algorithmic and Statistical Approaches to the Inference of Genome History"
Tao Jiang McMaster University	"Approximation Algorithms for Multiple Sequence Alignment"
Janice Glasgow Queen's University	"Molecular Scene Analysis"