Introduction to Coastal Processes and Geomorphology
2nd edn

(Cambridge University Press, 2019)
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Written for anyone interested in coastal geomorphology, this is the complete guide to the processes at work on our coastlines and the resulting features seen in coastal systems across the world. Accessible to students from a range of disciplines, the quantitative approach of this book helps to build a solid understanding of waves and current processes that shape coastlines. From sandy beaches to coral reefs, the major coastal features are related to contemporary processes and to sea-level changes over the past 25,000 years. Key equations describing these processes and standard methods and instrumentation used to collect measurements are all presented in this wide-ranging overview. Designed to support a one- or two-semester course and grounded in current research, this second edition has been substantially updated and rewritten – featuring cutting-edge new topics, insights from new models and technologies, additional global examples and an enhanced package of online teaching materials.

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Authors

Bernard Bauer is a professor of Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan). He is a process geomorphologist interested in understanding how contemporary processes on Earth’s surface create landforms and landscapes. He’s generally intrigued by how the natural world works, ideally absent the influence of people, animals, and vegetation, which tend to complicate things immensely.

Dr. Bauer has conducted research and taught undergraduate and graduate courses on a broad range of Earth surface processes including geomorphology, hydrology, water resources, boundary layer dynamics, sediment transport mechanics, waves and currents in nearshore systems, and environmental monitoring. His field research has taken him to coastal beaches along the shores of British Columbia, Ontario (Great Lakes), California, Florida, New York, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand as well as to rivers in British Columbia, Arizona, and Wyoming.  He has also held many administrative positions including Associate Provost at UBC Okanagan, inaugural Dean of the Irving K. Barber School of Arts & Sciences at UBC Okanagan, Dean of the Faculty of Science at Okanagan University College, Department Chair at the University of Southern California, and Program Director at the US National Science Foundation. Despite having lived in major metropolitan areas (Toronto, Baltimore, Los Angeles) for much of his adult life, he now enjoys the rural lifestyle on acreage near Lumby, BC.

Chris Houser is a coastal geomorphologist at the University of Windsor, (Ontario).

Robin Davidson-Arnott has been a professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Guelph (Ontario) since 1976.

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Economic Transformations
General Purpose Technologies and Long-Term Economic Growth

(Oxford University Press, 2005)
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This book examines the long-term economic growth that has raised the West’s material living standards to levels undreamed of by counterparts in any previous time or place. The authors argue that this growth has been driven by technological revolutions that have periodically transformed the West’s economic, social and political landscape over the last 10,000 years and allowed the West to become, until recently, a dominant, technologically driven economic force.

Unique in the diversity of the analytical techniques used, the book begins with a discussion of the causes and consequences of economic growth and technological change. The authors argue that long-term economic growth is largely driven by technological evolution, sustained by the periodic arrival of pervasive technologies now known as General Purpose (GPTs) and study how these technologies have transformed the West since the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution. Early modern science is given more importance than in most other treatments and the 19th-century demographic revolution is studied with a combination of formal models of population dynamics and historical analysis.

The authors argue that once sustained growth was established in the West, formal models can shed much light on its subsequent behaviour. They introduce a non-conventional, dynamic, non-stationary equilibrium model of GPT-driven growth as an alternative to standard economic growth models that use a single aggregate production function. Their model incorporates a range of phenomena that their historical studies show to be important, but which are excluded from other GPT models. The book concludes with a study of the policy implications that follow from their unique approach.

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Author

Dr. Kenneth I. Carlaw is currently a professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He received his Ph.D. (2000) from Simon Fraser University, Canada and has held lecturer and senior lecturer positions at the University of Canterbury.

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Splitting Algorithms, Modern Operator Theory and Applications

(Springer, 2019)
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This book brings together research articles and state-of-the-art surveys in broad areas of optimization and numerical analysis with particular emphasis on algorithms. The discussion also focuses on advances in monotone operator theory and other topics from variational analysis and nonsmooth optimization, especially as they pertain to algorithms and concrete, implementable methods. The theory of monotone operators is a central framework for understanding and analyzing splitting algorithms. Topics discussed in the volume were presented at the interdisciplinary workshop titled Splitting Algorithms, Modern Operator Theory, and Applications held in Oaxaca, Mexico in September, 2017. Dedicated to Jonathan M. Borwein, one of the most versatile mathematicians in contemporary history, this compilation brings theory together with applications in novel and insightful ways.

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Heinz H. Bauschke is a professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan), and an associate head of the department. He earned his PhD at Simon Fraser University, and was the Researcher of the Year in 2009 at UBCO. He researches convex analysis and optimization, monotone operator theory, projection methods, and applications. He has authored or co-authored more than 125 refereed publications, including 1 book, and co-edited several conference proceedings with Springer.

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Fixed-Point Algorithms for Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering

(Springer, 2011)
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Fixed-Point Algorithms for Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering presents some of the most recent work from leading researchers in variational and numerical analysis. The contributions in this collection provide state-of-the-art theory and practice in first-order fixed-point algorithms, identify emerging problems driven by applications, and discuss new approaches for solving these problems.

This book is a compendium of topics explored at the Banff International Research Station “Interdisciplinary Workshop on Fixed-Point Algorithms for Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering” in November of 2009. The workshop included a broad range of research including variational analysis, numerical linear algebra, biotechnology, materials science, computational solid-state physics, and chemistry.

Key topics and features of this book include:
– Theory of Fixed-point algorithms: variational analysis, convex analysis, convex and non-convex optimization, subdifferential calculus, nonsmooth analysis, proximal point methods, projection methods, resolvent and related fixed-point theoretic methods, and monotone operator theory
– Numerical analysis of fixed-point algorithms: choice of step lengths, of weights, of blocks for block-iterative and parallel methods, and of relaxation parameters; regularization of ill-posed problems; numerical comparison of various methods
– Applications: Image and signal processing, antenna optimization, location problems

The wide scope of applications presented in this volume easily serve as a basis for new and innovative research and collaboration.

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Author

Heinz H. Bauschke is a professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan), and an associate head of the department. He earned his PhD at Simon Fraser University, and was the Researcher of the Year in 2009 at UBCO. He researches convex analysis and optimization, monotone operator theory, projection methods, and applications. He has authored or co-authored more than 125 refereed publications, including 1 book, and co-edited several conference proceedings with Springer.

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Computational and Analytical Mathematics
In Honor of Jonathan Borwein’s 60th Birthday

(Springer, 2013)
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The research of Jonathan Borwein has had a profound impact on optimization, functional analysis, operations research, mathematical programming, number theory, and experimental mathematics. 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, and continues to have an enormous impact: MathSciNet lists more than 2500 citations by more than 1250 authors, and Borwein 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.

The workshops that were held over the years in Dr. Borwein’s honor attracted high-calibre scientists from a wide range of mathematical fields. This present volume is an outgrowth of the workshop on ‘Computational and Analytical Mathematics’ held in May 2011 in celebration of Dr. Borwein’s 60th Birthday. The collection contains various state-of-the-art research manuscripts and surveys presenting contributions that have risen from the conference, and is an excellent opportunity to survey state-of-the-art research and discuss promising research directions and approaches.

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Author

Heinz H. Bauschke is a professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan), and an associate head of the department. He earned his PhD at Simon Fraser University, and was the Researcher of the Year in 2009 at UBCO. He researches convex analysis and optimization, monotone operator theory, projection methods, and applications. He has authored or co-authored more than 125 refereed publications, including 1 book, and co-edited several conference proceedings with Springer.

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Convex Analysis and Monotone Operator Theory in Hilbert Spaces
2nd edn

(Springer, 2011)
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This reference text, now in its second edition, offers a modern unifying presentation of three basic areas of nonlinear analysis: convex analysis, monotone operator theory, and the fixed point theory of nonexpansive operators. Taking a unique comprehensive approach, the theory is developed from the ground up, with the rich connections and interactions between the areas as the central focus, and it is illustrated by a large number of examples. The Hilbert space setting of the material offers a wide range of applications while avoiding the technical difficulties of general Banach spaces. The authors have also drawn upon recent advances and modern tools to simplify the proofs of key results making the book more accessible to a broader range of scholars and users. Combining a strong emphasis on applications with exceptionally lucid writing and an abundance of exercises, this text is of great value to a large audience including pure and applied mathematicians as well as researchers in engineering, data science, machine learning, physics, decision sciences, economics, and inverse problems. The second edition of Convex Analysis and Monotone Operator Theory in Hilbert Spaces greatly expands on the first edition, containing over 140 pages of new material, over 270 new results, and more than 100 new exercises. It features a new chapter on proximity operators including two sections on proximity operators of matrix functions, in addition to several new sections distributed throughout the original chapters. Many existing results have been improved, and the list of references has been updated.

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Heinz H. Bauschke is a professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan), and an associate head of the department. He earned his PhD at Simon Fraser University, and was the Researcher of the Year in 2009 at UBCO. He researches convex analysis and optimization, monotone operator theory, projection methods, and applications. He has authored or co-authored more than 125 refereed publications, including 1 book, and co-edited several conference proceedings with Springer.

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“Observations of Fast Radio Bursts at Frequencies Down to 400 Megahertz” and “A Second Source of Repeating Fast Radio Bursts”

Nature, vol. 566, no. 7743, 14 February 2019, 230-234 and Nature, vol. 566, no. 7743, 14 February 2019, 235-238, respectively.

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The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), located at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory near Penticton, BC, is the newest and largest radio telescope in Canada and one of the largest in the world. UBCO scientists and their collaborators across Canada and around the world are using CHIME to unlock the mysteries of dark energy in the universe, magnetic fields in our Milky Way Galaxy, and fast radio bursts. As of 2020, CHIME has now discovered most of the known fast radio bursts and is providing many clues to help us understand the origin of these enigmatic events.

Description Source: Nature (for both “Observations…” and “A second…”). Published 2019 (7743).

Authors

Dr Alex S. Hill is an astronomer who joined the faculty at UBC Okanagan in 2019. After completing his PhD in Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2011, he held research positions at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation’s Australia Telescope National Facility in Sydney, at Haverford College near Philadelphia, and at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory near Penticton, BC. His research focuses on gas and magnetic fields between the stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

Dr Tom Landecker holds Adjunct appointments at the University of Calgary (Physics and Astronomy), the University of British Columbia Okanagan (Physics and Engineering), and the University of Sydney (Physics). He was Principal Research Officer in the Radio Astronomy Program of NRC-Herzberg until his retirement in January 2014. Since his retirement, he has continued his research in astronomy and the engineering of radio telescopes.

Together with the other members of the CHIME/FRB Collaboration: M. Amiri, K. Bandura, M. Bhardwaj, P. Boubel, M. M. Boyce, P. J. Boyle, C. Brar, M. Burhanpurkar, P. Chawla, J. F. Cliche, D. Cubranic, M. Deng, N. Denman, M. Dobbs, M. Fandino, E. Fonseca, B. M. Gaensler, A. J. Gilbert, U. Giri, D. C. Good, M. Halpern, D. Hanna, G. Hinshaw, C. Höfer, A. Josephy, V. M. Kaspi, D. A. Lang, K. W. Masui, R. Mckinven, J. Mena-Parra, M. Merryfield, N. Milutinovic, C. Moatti, A. Naidu, L. B. Newburgh, C. Ng, C. Patel, U. Pen, T. Pinsonneault-Marotte, Z. Pleunis, M. Rafiei-Ravandi, S. M. Ransom, A. Renard, P. Scholz, J. R. Shaw, S. R. Siegel, K. M. Smith, I. H. Stairs, S. P. Tendulkar, I. Tretyakov, K. Vanderlinde & P. Yadav

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