| Friday 14 May |
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08:45-10:40
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Minto Bell Theatre |
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08:45-09:00
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refreshments and open remarks |
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09:00-09:25
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Angelo Mingarelli: Leonardo da Vinci |
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09:25-09:50
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Brett Stevens: Combinations
and Order in Beckett's early novel “Watt” |
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09:50-10:15
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Maureen Pytlik: Group Theory & Musical
Composition: The Structure of Xenakis' Nomos Alpha |
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10:15-10:40
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Lerna Pehlivan: Mathematics and Card
Shuffling |
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10:40-11:00
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move to Azrieli Theatre
101 |
| 11:00-13:00 |
Azrieli Theatre 101 |
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11:00-12:00
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Invited Lecture by Jason Brown:
A Hard Day's Math |
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12:00-13:00
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Lunch |
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13:00-13:30
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Transition to HP4351 |
| 13:30+ |
Herzberg Physics 4351 |
| 13:30-14:30 |
Invited Lecture by Joseph Cheriyan: Some
open questions on k-connected graphs |
| 14:30-15:00 |
Andrew Baker: Several Ways to Approach
the Maximum Number of Runs Conjecture |
| 15:00-15:30 |
Feng Xie: More Colourful Simplices |
| 15:30-16:00: |
Shonda Gosselin: Paley-like uniform
hypergraphs |
| 16:00-17:00 |
Invited Lecture by Penny Haxell: Edge
colouring multigraphs |
| 17:00+ |
Dinner |
| Saturday May 15 |
| 09:00-17:00 |
Herzberg Physics 4351 |
| 09:00-10:00 |
Invited Lecture by Cathy Baker: Skolem
sequences: from applications to existence and back |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Andrea Burgess: Cycle decompositions
of complete equipartite graphs with of size 3 |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Jason Lobb: Using Cover Starters to
Create Covering Arrays |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Sebatian Raaphorst: A Density-Based
Algorithm for Variable Strength Covering Arrays |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Robert Bailey: Generalized covering
designs and clique coverings |
| 12:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-15:00 |
Invited Lecture by Richard Wilson: Proportions
of graphs in graph-designs; also packings and coverings |
| 15:00-15:30 |
Timothy Walsh: Enumeration of Unrooted
Orientable Maps of Arbitrary Genus by Number of Edges and Vertices |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Masud Hasan: Equiprojective Polyhedra:
Recent Advances and Future Directions |
| 16:00-17:00 |
Invited Lecture by Gena Hahn: Cops and
robbers on infinite graphs |
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MATH, ART AND LIFE
Amorning of unusual mathematical connections, as part of the Ottawa-Carleton
Discrete Math Days
Featuring keynote speaker Prof. Jason Brown (Dalhousie University)
with live music accompaniment.
A HARD DAY'S MATH
Connections between Mathematics and Music
Abstract: Mathematics and music are a match made in heaven.
The ancient Greeks elevated both to the same level, and even the
most unschooled rock musician uses more mathematics than he or she
realizes. In this talk I'll survey some of the most interesting
connections between mathematics and music, including:
- trigonometric identities and tunings
- small fractions and musical intervals
- circular seating arrangements, scales and rhythm guitar
- derivation of the blues and graph colourings
- the musical art of being ambiguous (or not)
- musical and mathematical transformations
I'll end off the talk with a discussion of some application of mathematics
I carried out on some musical mysteries surrounding The Beatles.
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.
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Jason I. Brown is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and
Statistics at Dalhousie University, and has written over 60 research
articles. His work that used mathematics to uncover mysteries surrounding
the music of the Beatles has garnered worldwide attention, including
national and international newspapers, CBC, BBC and NPR radio, Guitar
Player magazine, and the web sites of Wired and the Wall Street
Journal. His new book, "Our Days Are Numbered", explains
how mathematics can make life not only more interesting and meaningful,
but all of us more creative.
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