PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

December 26, 2024

Past Activities in Commercial Industrial Math
July 1998 - June 1999

1998 - 1999 Financial Math Seminars

May 13, 1999

Cryptography
"Distributed Trust Mechanisms in Information Security and Cryptography"
Doug R. Stinson, Director, Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research (CACR), University of Waterloo
"The Mathematics of Public-Key Cryptography"
Gary Walsh, Research Mathematician, Communications Security Establishment, Ottawa

March 11, 1999

Artificial Intelligence
"Deep Blue: IBM's Massively Parallel Chess Machine"
Gabriel M. Silberman, IBM Centre for Advanced Studies, IBM Toronto Laboratory
"Some Lessons from Deep Blue"
Monty Newborn, McGill University

February 11, 1999

"Virtual Networks and Programmable Network Nodes"
Alberto Leon-Garcia, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
"Cell Loss Probabilities Using the Oldest-Cell-First Discipline"
David R. McDonald, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa

October 15, 1998

Inverse Problems
"Mathematical Successes and Challenges on the Network Edge"
André Van Schyndel, Northern Telecom
"Inverse Problems: Formulation and Solution"
Henning Rasmussen, University of Western Ontario