The Computer Algebra Group at Simon Fraser

CAG Schedule for 2001
January

16 Greg Fee : Cryptography with Chebyshev Polynomials. [.mws]
30 Imin Chen : Hilbert Irreducibility


February

06 Kevin Hare : Quadratic Pisot numbers and their Spectra
13 Edgardo Cheb-Terrab : PDEtools[dspolyform] - given an equation or system of equations
     compute an equivalent `differential polynomial' system. [.mws]
20 Andrew Solomon : The Travelling Salesman Problem and Permutation Groups:
     An Operations Research perspective.
27 George Labahn : A new modular GCD algorithm which is lucky everywhere.



March

02 Bernard Deconinck : The computation of quasi-periodic
    solutions of integrable partial differential equations.
09 Manfred Minimair : Efficiently Computing Resultants of Composed Polynomials, 

13 Allan Wittkopf : The constrained GCD problem: an experimental approach.  [.mws]
20 Nils Bruin : The joys and pains of elliptic curves over number fields
28 Petr Lisonek : Classification of Binary Linear Codes with Small Codimension



May


01 Alexa van der Waall : Constructing Lam\'{e} equations with algebraic solution spaces.
07 Andrew Solomon : A web service for drawing Hasse diagrams from a 
    computer algebra system using JavaMath.
07 Edgardo Cheb-Terrab : Tackling the difficult Kamke Ordinary Differential Equations
16 Michael Monagan : Groebner bases, Buchberger's algorithm, and applications.
21 Victoria day
28 Greg Fee : Linear Two-point Boundary-value Problem with Polynomial Coefficients



June

04 CMS meeting
11 No meeting
18 Petr Lisonek : An Introduction to Magma
25 Lemmus Chan : An algorithm for solving some hypergeometric ODE classes



July

02 Canada day
09 Richard Crandall : The Power of Polynomials
16 Kevin Hare :
23 ISSAC meeting, London, Ontario, July 22-25th 2001.
30 NSERC summer presentations by John Wedgewood and Roman Pearce



September

11 (PIMS)  Keehong Song: A Flash connection to CAS. 
18  No meeting
26 (PIMS)  Edgardo Cheb-Terrab: The Maple implementation of mathematical functions reviewed


October

03 (K9509) Imin Chen: Calculating the j-invariants of elliptic curves using Magma.
10 (PIMS)  George Zhang: Algorithms for determining if an ideals in k[x1,..,,xn] is maximal.
17 (K9509) Allan Wittkopf: Efficient partial fraction decomposition techniques in Maple.
24  No meeting
31 (K9509) Michael Monagan: How to factor a polynomial over a number field.


November

07 (K9509) Austin Roche: A practial solution method for 2-parameter Abel ODE classes.
14 (K9509) Jennifer de Kleine: A modular design and implementation of Buchberger's algorithm.
21 (K9509) Roman Pearce: How to compute the prime(ary) decomposition of zero-dimensional ideals.
28 (K9509) Edgardo Cheb-Terrab: A new "function wizard" Maple facility:
                             (Towards a computer handbook of mathematical functions)



December

05 (PIMS)  Stephen Tse:  Optimizing Maple programs generated by automatic differentiation

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