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CAIMS/SCMAI Doctoral Dissertation Award
Winners and Abstracts

[as available]

2007

Alysson M. Costa (Jean-François Cordeau and Gilbert Laporte)
HEC Montr´eal and Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Models and Algorithms for Two Network Design Problems

2006

Richard Pancer (Ken Jackson, with input from Paul Muir)
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
:
The Parallel Solution of ABD Systems Arising in Numerical Methods for BVPs for ODEs

2005

Isabelle Déchène (Henri Darmon and Claude Crépeau), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University:
Generalized Jacobians in Cryptography

Miguel Angel Moyers González (Ian Frigaard), Institute of Applied Mathematics and Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia:
Transient Effects in Oilfield Cementing Flows

2004

Ovidiu Voitcu (Yau Shu Wong), Department of Mathematics, University of Alberta:
Neural Network Approach for Nonlinear Dynamics Prediction and Feature Extraction

Lindsay Anderson (Matt Davison), Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario:
A Hybrid Model for Electricity Spot Prices

2003

Ramadan Akila (William Langford), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph:
Hopf Bifurcation of Coupled Oscillator Systems

2002

C. Connell McCluskey (James Muldowney), Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Alberta:
Global Stability in Epidemiological Models

Petter Wiberg (Ken Jackson), Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto:
Computation of value-at-risk: The fast convolution method, dimension reduction and perturbation theory

2001

David Iron (Michael Ward), Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of British Columbia:
The Stability and Dynamics of Spike-Type Solutions to the Gierer-Meinhardt Model

2000

No Award

1999

Stephen J. Gustafson, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto:
Some Mathematical Problems in The Ginzburg-Landau Theory of Superconductivity

1998

Troy Day, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University:
Dynamic Evolutionary Games Between Relatives.

Jon-Paul Voroney (A. Lawniczak), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph:
Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Chemical Systems: Theoretical and Computational Approaches.


1997

John M. Stockie, Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of British Columbia:
Analysis and Computation of Immersed Boundaries, with Application to Pulp Fibres


1996

Steven J. Ruuth, Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of British Columbia:
Efficient algorithms for diffusion-generated motion by mean curvature


1995

Honglin Ye (P. Sullivan), Department of Appplied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario:
A New Statistic for the Contaminant Dilution Process in Turbulent Flows


1994

Qiang Lan, Applied and Computational Mathematics Program, Simon Fraser University:
Some Elastic Multi-Crack and Multi-Punch Problems


1993

Kenzu Abdella (H. Rasmussen), Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario:
Hydrodynamic and Electrohydrodynamic Instability of Shear Flows and the Numerical Simulation of Viscous Droplets

Yuanping He (B. Moodie), Applied Mathematics Institute, University of Alberta:
Geometrical Optics for Nonlinear Conservation Laws and Shock Wave Dynamics


1992

Y. Qin, Department of Mathematics, University of Windsor:
Flow and Stability Studies in Porous Media Based on Some Non-Darcian Models.


1990

Rodolfo Bermejo, Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of British Columbia:
Analysis of a Galerkin-Characteristic Algorithm for the Potential Vorticity - Stream Function Equations

1989

Peter J. S. Young (S. C. R. Dennis), Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario:
Steady Asymmetric Flow of a Viscous Fluid Past a Cylinder.


1988

Deming Zhuang (J. M. Borwein), Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing Science, Dalhousie University:
Regularity and Maximality Properties of Set Valued Structures in Optimization.

1986

Zi-Cai Li (G.F.D. Duff), Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Toronto:
Numerical Methods for Elliptic Boundary Value Problems with Singularities.

1985

Wendy Seward (Wayne Enright), Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto:
Defect and Local Error Control in Codes for Solving Stiff Initial-Value Problems.

1984

Michael Foreman (J.M. Varah), Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of British Columbia:
Dispersion analyses of finite element solutions of the shallow water equations.

Paul Muir (Wayne Enright), Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto:
Implicit Runge-Kutta Methods for Two-Point Boundary Value Problems.