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Nonlinear Time Series Analysis for Prediction and Characterization of Brain Epileptic Activities

This research involves mathematical analysis of the recorded brain electrical signals in epilepsy patients with the aim of developing a seizure prediction and classification system. The seizure is an abnormal activity of the brain cells that requires immediate medical attention. The process of recording brain signals is performed for clinical and diagnosis purposes by the medical staff while the intern will be responsible for analysis of the recorded signals to design a predication algorithm and he will not be involved in data recording.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Reza Fazel-Rezai

Student:

Amir Hossein Meghdadi

Partner:

Health Sciences Centre

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of Mooring Lines in Deep and Shallow Water

The objective of this research project is to develop a computer program to predict the responses of mooring lines in waves and current. The nonlinear line tensions and anchor loads will be computed. By integrating the computer program into a vessel motion analysis tool, the development allows for the coupled mooring line and vessel dynamics computation. Validation studies will be carried out for mooring lines in deep water and in shallow water. The research project will provide the offshore industry with a numerical tool to assess if a mooring system is designed for survival under operational and extreme conditions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Wei Qiu

Student:

Hui Yin

Partner:

Oceanic Consulting Corporation

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Aerospace and defense

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Investigation of the Benefits of Resource Diversification with an Energy Portfolio Dominated by Storage Hydro

This project will investigate the relative financial benefit of adding different types of power generating resources to the BC Hydro energy portfolio over time. The analysis will consider various drivers of financial risk that influence this evaluation such as commodity prices, energy demand, and water inflows. Appropriate measures of risk will be considered to aid in evaluating the comparison of alternate resource additions. A spreadsheet model will be constructed to complete the analysis. This tool will be used in the future for communicating portfolio strategies to BC Hydro management and interest groups with little knowledge of portfolio theory and energy planning. A recommendation of the most appropriate risk measure(s) for a regulated utility such as BC Hydro will be provided. If time permits, an analysis of the utility function will be considered. This analysis would provide a methodology, based on current research in this area, for choosing the preferred portfolio from the set of portfolios that have different costs and risk characteristics.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Ulrich Horst

Student:

Felix Kan

Partner:

BC Hydro

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Energy

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Increasing the Efficiency of Light Emission in Signage Applications

Carmanah Technologies Corporation (CTC) manufactures and sells advertising and roadway sign products to various industries throughout North America. These products are fluorescence-based and light emitting diode-based devices. CTC wishes to further improve its current product offering by using optimization techniques and numerical simulations of the lighting systems. The optimization is to be done within industrial constraints to improve overall beam-steering and uniformity of back-lit sign illumination

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Reuven Gordon

Student:

L. Kiran Swaroop Kumar

Partner:

Carmanah Technologies Corporation

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Alternative energy

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Embedding Undirected Graphs onto Extended Grids

D-Wave Systems is currently involved in the research and development of quantum computing technology. Quantum computers allow for not just a fast computer, but potentially, a change in the computational complexity of problems. Graph theory plays a crucial role in the development and understanding of the capabilities and behaviour of the quantum computing hardware being developed, both from an operational and an applications perspective. The device being developed by D-Wave Systems is, graph theoretically, an extended grid and any undirected graph can be embedded onto the infinite extended graph. Without knowing how to efficiently embed an input graph onto the extended grid, D-Wave would be unable to solve real-world problems. The research will look into all aspects of the embedding problem, specifically as it relates to the hardware being developed. Gaining a deeper understanding of the problem through analysis and experimentation will provide a greater ability to successfully develop these and future optimization methods for the current algorithm, and possibly, the development of new algorithms.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Pavol Hell

Student:

Michael Coury

Partner:

D-Wave Systems Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Co-registration of Nuclear Medicine Images with Anatomical Images for Attenuation Correction and Localization of Activity

Medical image registration is the task of bringing two images into spatial alignment. Automatic and accurate 3D co-registration of nuclear medicine 3D image data with 3D anatomical data is crucial for improving the functional image reconstruction through anatomy-based attenuation correction. Co-registration is also important for the fusion of anatomical data with functional information. Most registration methods involve optimizing an intensity-based similarity metric that is defined by the transformation parameters. Since its adoption, mutual information has become the typical similarity metric for multi-modal image registrations. In our research, we will develop techniques to co-register single photo emission computed tomography (SPECT) images with x-ray computer tomography (CT) in order to provide structural information for enhancing the reconstruction of SPECT images and also to localize functional activities in the body in relation to anatomy (eg blood perfusion in tumours, heart ventricles, kidneys) etc. Special radiopharmaceuticals may be used to highlight regions of activity.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Ghassan Hamarneh

Student:

Lisa Tang

Partner:

Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Analysis of Resistance to Mountain Pine Beetle in Clonal Lodgepole Pines: An Opportunity to Guide the Choice of Cultivars for Planting a More Beetle-resistant Forest

The current major outbreak of mountain pine beetle (MPB) in the central interior of BC has prompted research into planning of a future forest that is more resistant to this insect. In the summer of 2005, a lodgepole pine seed orchard was infested by MPB. The orchard contains many clones and the clones are packed in regular rows in a randomized fashion. A great deal of data on the various attacked and unattacked trees has been recorded and this fortuitous situation will allow analysis of clonal characteristics to determine what factors influence the likelihood of specific trees being mass attacked by MPB. The results may serve to guide planning by tree breeders and silviculturalists.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Dezene Huber

Student:

Claude Hurtubise

Partner:

BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development

Discipline:

Forestry

Sector:

Forestry

University:

University of Northern British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

A Tessellated Approach to 3-D Parabolic Equation Acoustic Modeling

The propagation of sound underwater is influenced by variations of the environment in range, depth and azimuth. Many sound propagation models ignore the azimuthal dependence and solve two-dimensional (2D) problem in range and depth. In this project, various mathematical techniques for applying azimuthal dependence into a full 3-D sound propagation model will be investigated. The techniques will be evaluated for computational efficiency when modelling large areas. This investigation will form the starting point for a Master’s thesis that will be carried out by the student subsequent to the completion of the internship and that will involve developing the full implementation of an efficient 3-D code. The resulting code will be a valuable tool for environmental impact assessments relating to industrial noise in the marine environment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Ross Chapman

Student:

Melanie Austin

Partner:

JASCO Research Ltd.

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

A Defense System Against DDoS Attacks

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are widely regarded as a major threat to the Internet because of their ability to make a service unavailable and create a huge volume of unwanted traffic. Unwanted traffic control is one of the most important challenges of Bell Canada. Current countermeasures cannot assure higher quality of service under a tremendous increase in unwanted traffic. In the Queen’s Reliability Software Technology (QRST) laboratory, a DDoS defense system is under development that applies a number of mathematical and statistical techniques to detect attacks early, find attack sources with high accuracy, and block attack traffic with high efficiency. This research can help Bell Canada sustain a higher quality of service during DDoS attacks.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Mohammad Zulkernine

Student:

Yonghua You

Partner:

Bell Canada

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

Semantic Forwarding Engine for Content-based Routing

This project is about content-based networks. In content-based networks, the decisions regarding the forwarding of data are done by inspecting the actual information contents. The forwarding process is guided by properties of the payload data. This is in contrast with traditional networks where forwarding is guided only by the destination addresses contained in packets. Content-based networking finds applications in the areas of network management, financial services, environmental and military landscape monitoring, traffic monitoring and control, supply chain parcel and product tracking, customized consumer contentpush and computer gaming. An important challenge is the ability to do content-based networking at high speeds. The research is performed specifically on highspeed forwarding of contents represented in XML, a universally accepted application data representation language. Wire-speed matching to XML payload to semantic policies will be investigated. Prototypes of XML forwarding algorithms will be developed and their performance will be evaluated.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Michel Barbeau

Student:

Paul Boone

Partner:

Alcatel Canada Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Boreal Forest Mortality Modelling

The intern will collect data on tree mortality in the company's woodlands and develop equations to predict mortality rates from tree growth or forest age and composition. Mortality rates for white spruce have been particularly difficult to obtain due to overall low levels and sporadic occurrence of tree death. This project provides an interesting alternative broad survey approach to mortality compared to the present permanent sample plot (tag and re-measure) program. It will also aid the company with modelling the yield of mixed-wood forests.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Drs. Mark Lewis and Ken Stadt

Student:

Andria Dawson

Partner:

Millar Western Forest Products Inc.

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Forestry

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Modelling and Computation of Credit Risk and Credit Derivatives

For the past 10 years, the credit derivative markets have experienced unprecedented growth. Combined with this expansion, credit risk modelling has become quite a challenging task for many financial institutions. The Royal Bank of Canada has substantial trading exposure in credit derivatives and is looking to further its modelling research and management process.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Huaxiong Huang

Student:

Shuqing Liang

Partner:

RBC Financial Group

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

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