Simon Fraser University and AGR
16-20 May 2011

The conference explored the current status and the connections among Convex and Variational Analysis, Optimization and High Performance Computing, Number Theory and Experimental Mathematics - mathematical areas in which Prof. Jonathan Borwein has been active during the last 30 years. The workshop honour Jon’s work and his contribution to mathematics as a science and as a community. Jon’s vision and initiative have been crucial in initiating and developing several institutions that provide support for members of the global mathematical community. The IRMACS Centre is one of those institutions.

Having authored more than a dozen books and more than 300 publications, Jonathan Borwein is one of the most productive Canadian mathematicians ever. His research spans pure, applied, and computational mathematics as well as high performance computing. His research continues to have enormous impact: MathSciNet lists more than 2500 citations by more than 1250 authors, and he is one of the 250 most cited mathematicians of the period 1980-1999. He has served the Canadian Mathematics Community through his presidency (2000–02) as well as his 15 years of editing the CMS book series.

Jonathan Borwein’s vision and initiative have been crucial in initiating and developing several institutions that provide support for researchers with a wide range of scientific interests. A few notable examples include the Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics and the IRMACS Centre at Simon Fraser University, the Dalhousie Distributed Research Institute at Dalhousie University, the Western Canada Research Grid, and the Centre for Computer Assisted Research Mathematics and its Applications, University of Newcastle.

Conference keynote presentations were scheduled in consideration of the time difference between Canada and Australia, allowing the remote participation over the Access Grid Network of a number of Australian sites.

A book of conference proceedings was published after the conference - Computational and Analytical Mathematics, part of the Springer series Springer Proceedings in Mathematics.

Videos of talks