Seminars

Graduate Seminars of Colleagues Imparting Academic Lessons (Grad SOCIAL)

The Grad SOCIAL is a biweekly seminar and social event for SFU’s graduate math community.

Join us to connect with peers and faculty, and to get useful career advice from professionals. Each session consists of two 20-minute talks and a break to connect with each other and indulge in the snacks provided.

Current organizers: Haggai Liu, Garrett Paluck

Spring 2023 Social Lineup

DATE     

SPEAKER     

TOPIC    

January 24 (Cancelled)                      

Speraker #1: TBA

Speaker # 2: TBA     

title: TBA

title: TBA

February 7

 

Speaker #1: Mahsa Ansari

Speaker #2: Maksym Neyra-Nesterenko

title: Computing GCDs of Multivariate Polynomials over Algebraic Number Fields Presented with Multiple Extensions

Title: Unrolled NESTA: Constructing Stable, Accurate and Efficient Neural Networks for Gradient-sparse Imaging Problems                                                                                                  

March 14

Speaker #1:
Kshitji Patil

Speaker #2:
Matt Spragge

Title: Steklov eigenvalues in 1d

Title: An Introduction to Kinetic Theory and the Boltzmann Equation

March 28

Speaker #1:
Piyush Agarwal

Speaker #2:
Dr. Jake Levinson

Title: TBA

Title: TBA

April 4

Speaker #1: TBA

Speaker #2: TBA

Title: TBA

Title: TBA

Fall 2022 SOCIAL Lineup

DATE     

SPEAKER     

TOPIC    

September 22                         

Speraker #1: ANTON Iatcenko & Javier Almonacid Paredes

Speaker # 2: Dr. Nathan Ilten         

title: Turbulence in the air: from data points to a heat map (an IPSW problem)

title: Five Tips for Research Success in Grad School

October 6

 

Speaker #1: Dr. michael monagan

Speaker #2: Xue Yang (INS Graduate Student in Operations Research)        

title: maple, a canadian software package for doing mathematics

Title: Fast enumeration constructive algorithm for operating room planning and scheduling considering patient satisfaction

October 20

Speaker #1: Danielle Rogers

Title: exploring the spectrum of the network laplacian

November 3

Speaker #1: reza Dastbasteh

Speaker #2: Dr. Mary catherine Kropinski

Title: Quantum Entanglement and its Applications

Title: Power, Oppression and Mathematics: A Personal Story

NOVEMBER 17

SPEAKER #1: HAGGAI LIU

SPEAKER #2: LYN GE

TITLE: A BEGINNER FRIENDLYINTRODUCTION TO REAL MODULI SPACE

TITLE: HAMILONICITY OF COVERING GRAPHS OF TREES

 

Spring 2020 SOCIAL Lineup

DATE     

SPEAKER     

TOPIC    

February 12                           

Haggai Liu 

An Irredundant Method to Count the Rationals

February 26

Daniel Tarnu                    

Introduction to Ergodic Theory and a (Partial) Proof of Roth's Theorem

 

Peter Bradshaw

 

Transversals in bipartite graph families

March 11

Vince Tao

TSSU RA Update

 

Fall 2019 SOCIAL Lineup

DATE     

SPEAKER     

TOPIC    

September 26                           

Haggai Liu 

A Penalty Method for Stress Minimization with Box Constraints

 

Alisa Stanton                       

Health Services Presentation

October 10

Alexandra Wesolek

Infecting graphs: Boostrap percolation

October 24

Tian Chen 

Black boxes and sparse polynomial interpolation

 

Nilima Nigam

How and where to find a job

November 7

Ivan Lau

Yang-Baxter equation and Jacobson radicals

November 21

Benny Wai

Data Science at Translink

 

Summer 2019 SOCIAL Lineup

DATE     

SPEAKER     

TOPIC    

May 16                  

Sasha Zotine                  

Global Generation of Vector Bundles over Elliptic Curves

June 6

Yifan Jing (UIUC)

On the structure of non-expanders

 

Brenda Badgero

Exploring Careers in Math and Beyond

July 11

Qinghong (Jackie) Xu

Compressive Imaging with Total Variation Regularization

 

Daniel Lewis

Rational points on curves

August 8

Garrett Paluck

A new bivariate Hensel lifting algorithm for n factor

Spring 2019 SOCIAL Lineup

DATE

SPEAKER

TOPIC

January 24

Garrett Paluck (SFU)

Solving Multi-Diophantine Polynomial Equations

February 7

Michael Monagan (SFU)

The P = RP Conjecture

March 7

Reza Dastbasteh(SFU)

Construction of Quantum Codes from Additive Codes

 

Paul Tupper (SFU)

How to Change Fields

March 21

Masood Masjoody (SFU)

Cops and Robbers on Graphs with a Set of Forbidden Induced Subgraphs

 

Amarpreet Rattan (SFU)

Parking functions:  a light introduction

April 4

Anton Iatcenko (SFU)

A Model of Drag Force and Gas-Disk Interaction

 

Nathan Ilten (SFU) & Steven Ruuth (SFU)

Graduate Program: Questions and Concerns

 

Fall 2018 SOCIAL Lineup

DATE

SPEAKER

TOPIC

October 4

Nicola Mulberry (SFU)

HIV control strategies in sex worker-client contact networks

 

Doris Li (Technical Safety BC)

Technical Safety in BC with AI and IoT

October 18

Avi Kulkarni (SFU) 

Aspects of the arithmetic of uniquely trigonal genus 4 curves

 

Sophie Burrill (SFU)

Teaching: there's something to learn

November 1

John Stockie (SFU)

Careers in industry for mathematicians

November 15    

Brandon Elford (SFU)

Orthonormal Representations of Chordal Rings Graphs

 

Ludvig af Klinteberg (SFU)

Numerical integration of (nearly) singular integrals --- why and how

November 29

Sepehr Yadegarzadeh (SFU)

On density of the forms that produce primitive solutions for the Diophantine equation Ax^2+By^3+Cz^3=0 locally at a prime

 

Manfred Trummer (SFU)

Mathematics of Medical Imaging & 42 and other answers to life, the universe and everything

 

Summer 2018 SOCIAL Lineup

DATE

SPEAKER

TOPIC

May 31

Jane Jian

Game Theoretic Models of Clear versus Plain Speech

 

Stefan Hannie

Strong embeddings of graphs on surfaces

June 21

Ian May

Domain decomposition solvers and preconditioners for the
implicit closest point method

 

Tom Archibald

User’s Guide to Conferences and Meetings

July 12

Daniel Messenger

Modelling Self Organization in Domains with Boundaries 

 

Tony Botelho &
Brenda Badgero

SFU Career Services Presentation

August 9

Charles Turo

A combinatorial description of the cup product on
smooth complete totic varieties

 

Ray Walsh

An Accessible Introduction to Finite Difference
Computing and Non-Differentiable Functions