The Computer Algebra Group at Simon Fraser

CAG Schedule for 2002
January

09 Organizational Meeting
21 Michael Monagan: A Modular GCD Algorithm for Number Fields with Multiple Field Extensions
28 Greg Fee: Computing Zeros of Truncated Zeta Functions.


February

04 5-10 minute presentations
   Kevin Hare: The Reverse Engineering Calculator
   John Ogilvie: Group Theory for Chemical Applications with Maple
   Austin Roche: Solving Non-constant Invariant Abel ODEs.
   Michael Monagan: GCDs and Resultants over Number Fields.
11 Jennifer de Kleine: Faster Grobner Basis Computation.
   Stephen Tse: Computing Polynomial Resultants over Number Fields.
18 Alexa van der Waall: Algorithms for algebraic Lam{\'e} equations.
25 No meeting.


March

04 No meeting.
11 Nils Bruin : Rational Points on Curves.
18 Edgardo Cheb-Terrab : ODE trends in computer algebra: Four ODE challenges.
25 10 minute presentations
   Allan Wittkopf: Investgations in a modular approach to multi-resultants
   Ron Ferguson: Matrix operations mod 2.
   Imin Chen: Modular Curves
   Nils Bruin: Combining congruences from reductions at distinct primes.


May   MITACS AGM, May 23-25.

06 Edgardo Cheb-Terrab : Some cooking recipes for DE systems.
17 Allan Wittkopf: LinearAlgebra:-Modular, a new Maple package.
24 No meeting
29 Yury Brychkov: Differentiation of special functions with respect to parameters.
   Note: Wednesday May 29th at 3:30pm in K9509.
31 No Meeting 


June  Excursions in Computational Number Theory, June 17-28.

07 Peter Borwein: Some Questions on Long Low Autocorrelation Sequences.
   Mike Monagan: A Problem of Mixed Numerical Derivatives.
14 Manfred Minimair: Resultants of Composed Polynomials: Mixed-mixed Case.
   Mike Monagan: A Solution to the Problem of Mixed Numerical Derivatives.
21 No meeting
26 Robert Israel: The Hundred-dollar Hundred-digit Challenge.
   Robert Solutions.
   Note: Wednesday June 26th at 3:30pm in K9509.
28 No meeting


July  ISSAC '02, July 7-10.  MSW '02, July 28-30. 

05 No meeting.
12 No meeting.
19 Mike Monagan: An RSA problem and a new Groebner basis algorithm.
24 Mark van Hoeij: Factoring polynomials by computing 0-1-vectors with lattice reduction.
26 No meeting.


August Teaching and Doing Mathematics with Maple, August 12-16.

02 TBA
08 Summer NSERC presentations
    Aaron Bradford
    Isabelle Major
    Timothy Mott
    Jennifer Katarenchuk
09 CECM '02



September   

09 Organizational meeting
16 Greg Fee : Linear Least Squares using Orthogonal Polynomials
23 No meeting: CECM/CoLab Opening Day
30 Progress reports / discussion of MITACS projects
   Jennifer de Kleine: Faster Groebner Basis Computation with FGLM
   Alexa van der Waall: Patterns of Zeros of Zeta-functions
   Roman Pearce: A New Maple Package for Polynomial Ideals
   Edgardo Cheb-Terrab: The Function Wizard



October  

07 Demo of Parallel Maple on the Beowulf cluster (in the CoLaB).
14 No meeting: Thanksgiving
21 No meeting
28 Progress reports
   Austin Roche: Finding the zero set of analytic functions in Maple.
   Allan Wittkopf: Connections between Numerical ODE methods and Homotopy 
     root-finding methods, an exploration.


November

04 Progress reports
   Ron Ferguson: Polyphase sequences with low autocorrelation
   Michael Monagan: GCDs in F[x1,x2,...,xn]: the algebraic function field case. 
11 No meeting: Remembrance Day.
18 Meeting postponed (IRMACS talk)
22 Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science.
25 Meeting postponed (MITACS talk)


December

02 Roman Pearce: Ideal Extension and Contraction.

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