Dalhousie University Faculty of Computer Science 6050 University Avenue Halifax Nova Scotia B3H 1W5 jborwein@cs.dal.ca http://users.cs.dal.ca/~jborwein/ Abstract: Current and expected advances in computation and storage, collaborative environments and visualization make it possible to interact at a distance in many varied and flexible ways. I'll illustrate some of the present and emerging opportunities to share research and data, seminars, classes, planning meetings and much else fully at a distance. Bio: Jonathan M. Borwein was Shrum Professor of Science (1993-2003) and a Canada Research Chair in Information Technology (2001-08) at Simon Fraser University, and was founding Director of the Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics. In 2004, he (re-)joined the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie as a Canada Research Chair in Distributed and Collaborative Research, cross-appointed in Mathematics, with an adjunct appointment at Simon Fraser. He was born in St Andrews in 1951, and received his DPhil from Oxford in 1974, as a Rhodes Scholar. Prior to joining SFU in 1993, he worked at Dalhousie (1974-91), Carnegie-Mellon (1980-82) and Waterloo (1991-93). His interests span pure (analysis), applied (optimization), computational (numerical and computational analysis) mathematics, and high performance computing. He has authored ten books---most recently two on Experimental Mathematics (www.expmath.info) and a monograph on Techniques of Variational Analysis---and over 300 refereed articles. |