2005 Esso - CMS - PIMS Summer Math Camp at SFU


27 - 30 June 2005
SFU Burnaby

The ESSO - CMS - PIMS Camps, which are organized at various universities across Canada, are designed to provide students, who have demonstrated a talent for mathematics, with a variety of enrichment activities in a fun and rewarding environment. For more information, see CMS web site.

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2005 Schedule

 

Monday

June27

Tuesday

June 28

Wednesday

June 29

Thursday

June 30

9:00-9:30

Registration

AQ4150

Real, Virtual, and Virtually Real Mathematical Knots

Rob Scharein

IRMACS

ASB 10900

The Chaos Game: Drawing Fractals with Random Numbers

Randall Pyke

IRMACS

ASB 10900

The ABC's of
Tessellation

Petra Menz

AQ4130

9:30-10:30

Mathematics in Art & Nature:

Fibonacci Sequence and Golden Rectangles

Justin Gray

AQ4150

10:30-10:45

Nutrition Break

AQ4140

Nutrition Break

K9503

Nutrition Break

IRMACS

Nutrition Break

AQ4140

10:45-12:00

Problem Session

Tim Mott

AQ4150

Problem Session

Tim Mott

K9509

The Chaos Game: Drawing Fractals with Random Numbers

Randall Pyke

AQ3145.2

The ABC's of
Tessellation

Petra Menz

AQ4130

12:00-12:45

Lunch

AQ4140

Lunch

K9503

Lunch

AQ4120

Lunch

AQ4140

12:45-14:00

An Introduction to Coding Theory: How are you feeling today?

Jeffrey Farr

AQ4150

Mathematics

In sun dials

Len Berggren

K9509

Contest

AQ4130

Problem Session

Ben Ong

AQ3145.2

 

14:00-15:00

Problem Session

Enkeleida Lushi

Matthew Folz

AQ4150

Campus Tour

Wrap-up Session

AQ4130

15:00-15:30

 

 

 

 

15:30-17:00

 

 

Numbers in the Sky

Branko Curgus

IRMACS

ASB 10900

 

 



Interesting Links

Pi in the Sky (math magazine for high school students)

Mathematical Olympiads Correspondence Program

MathCamp 2004


2004 Schedule

 

Monday
21 June

Tuesday
22 June

Wednesday
23 June

Thursday
24 June

Friday
25 June

9:00

Registration, Opening Session

Some old and new problems in

Graph Theory


Luis Goddyn

Combinatorics at work:  Non-adaptive group testing algorithms

Petr Lisonek

Paths and cycles in graphs


Ladislav Stacho

Contest

9:30

Fundamentals of Graph Theory


Justin Gray

10:30

Refreshment Break
(AQ 4140)

Refreshment Break
(AQ 4140)

Refreshment Break
(AQ 4140)

Refreshment Break
(AQ 4140)

Refreshment Break
(AQ 4140)

10:45

Problem Session

Lisa Redekop

Problem Session

Laura Chavez-Lomeli

Problem Session


Alan Meichsner

Problem Session

Tim Mott

Calculus of Parabolas


Branko Curgus

12:00

Lunch
(AQ 4140)

Lunch
(AQ 4140)

Lunch
(AQ 4140)

Lunch
(AQ 4140)

Lunch
(AQ 4140)

12:45

Functions, Iteration and Chaos


Ralf Wittenberg

Problem Session

Keshav Mukunda

Mathematical Models and Puzzles


Malgorzata Dubiel and Justin Gray

CECM

Co-lab

Lessons from the History of Mathematics


Len Berggren

14:00 Exploring the campus
 

14:00

Tour of SFU Campus

13:30

Applying Mathematics in an Industrial Research Lab


Jonathan Jedwab

14:00 Problem Session


Colin MacDonald

CECM

Co-lab

14:30

Wrap-up Session

MathCamp 2003


2003 Schedule

Monday
23 June 		Tuesday
24 June 		Wednesday
25 June 		Thursday
26 June 		Friday
27 June
9:00 Registration, Opening Session
9:30 Puzzles and Games
Justin Gray 		The Pigeonhole Principle and Problems from the Putnam Competition
Petr Lisonek 		Problems, Problems, Problems
Mahdad Khatirinejad Fard 		The Spiral that Persists
Adriana Wise 		Contest
10:30 Refreshment Break
(AQ 4140)		 Refreshment Break
(AQ 4140)		 Refreshment Break
(AQ 4140)		 Refreshment Break
(AQ 4140)		 Refreshment Break
(AQ 4140)
10:45 Fuel Cells: Where Does all the Water Go?
Keith Promislow 		How Do You Function?
Lily Yen 		Lessons from the History of Mathematics
Len Berggren 		Exploring Pascal's Triangle
Justin Gray 		Calculus of Parabolas
Branko Curgus
12:00 Lunch
(AQ 4140)		 Lunch
(AQ 4140)		 Lunch
(AQ 4140)		 Lunch
(AQ 4140)		 Lunch
(AQ 4140)
12:45 Sex, Drugs and Automobiles
Carl Schwarz 		Build Your Own Virus and Other Mathematical Models
Malgorzata Dubiel and Justin Gray 		Puzzles, Games and Magic
Justin Gray 		Knots and Pretzels
Rob Scharein 		Exploring Burnaby Mountain
14:00 Tour of SFU Campus 13:30 Modeling Cell Movements and Communications Using a 3D Model
Eirikur Palsson 		14:00 Mathematics in the Movies
Rina Zazkis and Peter Liljedahl 		Knots and Pretzels
Rob Scharein 		14:30 Wrap-up Session


MathCamp 2002

2002 Schedule

Tuesday
2 July 		Wednesday
3 July 		Thursday
4 July 		Friday
5 July
9:00 Registration, Opening
Euclidean Geometry: proofs you have always wanted to know, but were too afraid to ask;
Generating Functions: a new way of expressing a solution to sequences of numbers
Lily Yen		 The Lonely Runner and Other Problems
Luis Goddyn		 Problems from the Canadian Mathematical Olympiad Training Program
Paul Cheng		 9:00 Contest
10:30 Calculus of Parabolas
Branko Curgus
(Western Washington University)
12:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
12:45 The Pigeonhole Principle
Problems from the Putnam Competition
Petr Lisonek 		Lessons from the History of Mathematics
Len Berggren		 What is Statistics
Michael Lo 		Tour of SFU Engineering Labs
15:00 Tour of SFU and Burnaby Mountain
 Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Ratio
Travis Gray		 14:30 Van Der Waerden's Theorem; A Story about BIG Numbers
Veselin Jungic 		Closing Session

MathCamp 2001

   

   


2001 Schedule

Monday
25 June 		Tuesday
26 June 		Wednesday
27 June 		Thursday
28 June 		Friday
29 June
9:00-10:15 Registration
Opening Session		 Dr. P. Lisonek
Mathematics with Maple		 Dr. L. Goddyn
The Lonely Runner
and Other Problems		 Dr. J. Borwein
Exploring Math
on the Internet		 Contest
10:15-10:45 Refreshment
Break		 Refreshment
Break		 Refreshment
Break		 Refreshment
Break		 Refreshment
Break
10:45-12:00 Dr. I. Chen
Cryptography		 Dr. P. Lisonek
Problems from the
Putnam Competition		 Dr. L. Goddyn
The Lonely Runner
and Other Problems		 Dr. J. Borwein
Exploring Math
on the Internet		 Dr. M.C. Kropinski
Swimming in Syrup
12:00-13:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
13:00-14:00 M. Khatirinejad Fard
Inequalities		 Dr. P.Borwein
Much Ado about Pi		 Dr. J.L. Berggren
Lessons from the
History of Mathematics		 Visit to the
SFU Engineering Labs		 R. Haynes
An Algorithm to Compute
the Roots of Polynomials?
14:00-15:00 Dr. C. Schwarz
One Fish, Two Fish
Red Fish, Blue Fish		 Tour of SFU Burnaby Campus Dr. J.L. Berggren
Lessons from the
History of Mathematics		 Visit to the
SFU Engineering Labs		 Closing Session