Description

The meeting brings together mathematicians and computer scientists, mainly from Scotland, to discuss recent developments in computational mathematics and spark new collaborations. We are specifically aiming at researchers in computer algebra and computational mathematics, as well as scientists from other relevant areas and application domains. In computational mathematics, computer algebra has become a lively independent discipline and significantly influenced the research in many scientific fields. As computer algebra systems are playing greater roles in more and more application domains, the landscape and sphere of computer algebra is also evolving. For example, by combining techniques from computer algebra with tools from numerical computation, symbolic-numeric algorithms have been developed for problems until recently were yet solvable by either numerical or symbolic methods alone. Such developments have connected computer algebra researchers to other research communities and led to many interesting applications in science and engineering. This workshop aim to present some of the latest developments in computer algebra, computational mathematics and optimisation. We focus on the connections between these subjects and their impacts on other domains, in the hope of identifying promising future research directions.

Speakers

Desmond J. Higham (University of Edinburgh)

Title: "A Nonlinear Spectral Method for Network Core-Periphery Detection"

Colva M. Roney-Dougal (University of St. Andrews)

Title: “An introduction to computational group theory”

Keshav Dahal (University of the West of Scotland)

Title: "Diversifying Multi-objective search with evolving fitness functions for solving scheduling problems"

Jozsef Z. Farkas (University of Stirling)

Title: "Quantifying the dynamics of CT scans of ground glass opacities in the lung"

Wen-shin Lee (University of Stirling)

Title: "From computer algebra to signal processing: sparse interpolation, rational approximation, tensor decomposition and exponential analysis"

Patrick Maier (University of Stirling)

Title: "Scaling Parallel Combinatorial Search"

Schedule

10:00-10:30 Arrival & Coffee

10:30-11:30 Desmond J. Higham

11:30-12:00 Wen-shin Lee

12:00-12:30 Jozsef Farkas

12:30-14:00 Lunch and discussion

14:00-15:00 Colva M. Roney-Dougal

15:00-15:30 Patrick Maier

15:30-16:00 Keshav Dahal

16:00- Tea and discussion

Abstracts

Venue

Rooms 2A9/2A11, Cottrell building, University of Stirling getting here