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Postdoctoral Fellow: Dr. Mariana Carrasco-Teja, Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering Lead faculty member: Dr. Ian Frigaard, Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering

Cementing operations are carried out on oil and gas wells at various stages. Primary cementing encases the well in a layer of cement. The purpose is to both seal the outside of the well and provide structural integrity. The impact of poor primary cementing is felt both economically (reduced production rates) and environmentally (leakage to surface). In extreme cases poor cement can be a contributing cause of a blowout, (e.g. BP’s Deepwater Horizon incident).

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Postdoctoral fellow: Dr. Mathieu Sinn, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Lead faculty member: Dr. Pascal Poupart, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Non-academic participants: 

We will develop algorithms to automatically generate descriptive labels for large collections of web documents. Such labels can be used by companies in order to decide on which web sites they want to place advertisements, or by electronic publishers to categorize media offers. Currently, there doesn't exist any approach that can robustly and automatically label clusters of documents with a level of quality that approaches human labellers.

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Postdoctoral fellow: Dr. Olivier Barrière, Faculty of Pharmacy, Université de Montréal

Lead faculty member: Dr. Fahima Nekka, Faculty of Pharmacy, Université de Montréal

Pharmacometrics (PM) is an emerging research area defined as “the science that interprets and describes pharmacology in a quantitative fashion to aid efficient drug development and/or regulatory decision”. Over the years, Dr. Nekka’s team has encompassed deep thinking on how to join and enhance emerging worldwide efforts to make mathematical modeling and simulation a complementary language to the usual empirical and clinical methods used in drug discovery and development. This work is part of these sustained efforts to deal with the complex relationship of dose-exposure-effect of drugs.

Project Leader(s): 

Dr. Irène Abi-Zeid , Université Laval

Project team: 
Dr. Belaïd Aouni, Laurentian University
Dr. Luc Lamontagne, Université Laval
Dr. Pascal Lang, Université Laval
Dr. Patrick Maupin, Defence R&D Canada
Dr. Bruno Urli, Université du Québec à Rimouski
Non-academic participants: 
Funding period: 
October 1, 2021 - March 31, 2021
Project Leader(s): 

Dr. Steven Easterbrook, (University of Toronto)

Project team: 
Dr. Marsha Chechik, (University of Toronto)
Dr. Mehrdad Sabetzabeh, (University of Toronto)
Dr. Shiva Nejati, (University of Toronto)
Non-academic participants: 

Bell Canada University Labs, 
IBM Canada for Advanced Studies

Funding period: 
April 1, 2021 - March 31, 2021
Project Leader(s): 

Dr. François Soumis, Unversité de Montréal

Funding period: 
April 1, 2021 - March 31, 2021
Project Leader(s): 

Dr. Binay Bhattacharya , Simon Fraser University

Funding period: 
February 25, 2022 - March 31, 2021

Efficiency in modern industrial operations requires that available resources are deployed in an optimal manner. The study of facility location is concerned with the placement of one of more facilities in a way that meets a particular objective, such as minimizing transportation costs, providing a high level of service to customer or capturing market share. This project, by exploiting the mathematics of computational geometry and algorithmic graph theory, develops new tools to aid in the location of facilities to optimally serve the demands of customers.

Project Leader(s): 

Dr. Dinesh Pai University of British Columbia

Project team: 
Dr. Uri M. Ascher, University of British Columbia
Dr. Robert Bridson, University of British Columbia
Funding period: 
April 1, 2021 - March 31, 2021
Project Leader(s): 

Dr. John McHugh, Dalhousie University

Project team: 
Dr. William A. Aiello, University of British Columbia
Dr. José Fernandez, Simon Fraser University
Dr. Sudhakar Ganti, University of Victoria
Dr. Michael McAllister, Dalhousie Unversity
Dr. Michael L. McGuire, University of Victoria
Dr. Stephen Neville, University of Victoria
Dr. Alejandro Quintero, École Polytechnique de Montréal
Dr. Jean-Marc Robert, École de technologie superieure
Dr. Nur Zincir-Heywood, Dalhousie University
Non-academic participants: 
Funding period: 
April 1, 2021 - August 30, 2021