Simon Fraser University

Venue: Executive Plaza Hotel & Conference Centre, Coquitlam, BC

The West Coast Optimization Meeting has a long tradition as a regional meeting bringing together mathematicians working in optimization and related areas. It traditionally meets twice a year, once at the University of Washington, and once at UBC or...

We discuss various transcendence results regrading generating functions of sequences which satisfy two very different types of functional equations. We apply these results to improve some results of W. Schwarz.

We explore the location of the zeros and poles of the Pade approximations to the Riemann Zeta function. The patterns are striking and the computations difficult. Little is proved but much is suggested. This, of course, is intimate to the Riemann...

Primitive Feynman graphs in Phi^4 theory give rise to transcendental numbers which, from the work of people like David Broadhurst, are multiple zeta values in known examples. Very little is known in general. Even how to predict the weight of the zeta...

The study of certain error terms arising in number theory can lead to very interesting results. For example, it was a great surprise when Littlewood discovered in 1914 that pi(x)-Li(x) changes sign infinitely often. Since then, finer questions have...

A famous congruence equation question is the solvability of x y = c (mod q) with x, y in intervals of length q^{1/2 + epsilon}. In this talk, we will discuss its history and recent developments. We will show that it is solvable for almost all pairs...

In [Mazur, Visualizing elements of order three in the Shafarevich-Tate group, Asian J. Math. 3 (1999), no. 1, 221-232], Mazur proves that any element in Sha[3](E/K) can be made visible in an abelian surface. Mazur did not comment on whether this...

A class of novel deferred correction methods, integral deferred correction (IDC) methods [2], is studied. This class of methods is an extension of ideas introduced by Dutt, Greengard and Rokhlin [1] on spectral deferred correction (SDC) methods for...

Superlattice patterns and quasipatterns, while well-studied in waves on the surface of vertically vibrated viscous fluids (Faraday waves), have found little attention in forced oscillatory systems. We study such patterns, comprised of 4 or more...