Computer Algebra Research Group @ WLU

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Recent News:

CARGO Lab Director Plenary/Invited Speaker at CASC 2025 held Nov. 24-28, 2025, Dubai UAE https://www.casc-conference.org/
The CARGO Lab is a proud sponosor of the 30th Applications of Computer Algebra - ACA 2025, to be held 14-18 July 2025 Heraklion, (Crete, Greece)
The 5th Pythagorean conference will be held June 1-6, 2025, https://cargo.wlu.ca/5thPythagorean
Feb/March 2025: The CARGO Lab is delighted to host Prof. Radel Ben-Av, for a sabbatical visit
Feb 2025: Laurier student Jason Van Humbeck solves classical AI benchmark N-Queens, at unprecedented scale!
Blackett Lecture 2024 - NetwORks and Policies: OR to the Rescue, Anna Nagurney, Ph.D. The Royal Society, London, UK, December 5, 2024, recording published by the OR Society
CARGO Lab Director Plenary/Invited Speaker at the Combinatorial Designs and Codes, July 8-12, 2024 (CODESCO'24), Sevilla, Spain https://gestioneventos.us.es/codesco24 Satellite event of the 9th European Congress of Mathematics
CARGO Lab Student Max Dann presents his crypto-currencies paper at the MARBLE 2024 conference (9-11 July 2024) in Malaga, Spain
CARGO Lab Director Plenary/Invited Speaker at IWCT 2024, International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing, Toronto, ON, Canada, 27 May 2024 https://conf.researchr.org/home/icst-2024/iwct-2024
CARGO Lab Director Plenary/Invited Speaker at the 55th Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, Boca Raton, Florida March 4-8, 2024, https://www.math.fau.edu/combinatorics/index.php
March 2023, CARGO Lab Students present 3 Research Posters at Faculty of Science Undergraduate Conference FURC 2023 sponsored by FOSSA. Co-supervision with Dr. Shohini Ghose.
March 9-10, 2023 PANOPTIC conference University of Florida
February 3, 2023, CARGO Lab hosts a seminar by Dr. Antonella Kis, SickKids Hospital, Toronto
January 2023 Handbook of Computational Neurodegeneration is published, featuring 34 chapters by top world experts in neurodegenerative diseases
Oct 7, 2022: CARGO Lab Director and Distributive CEO appear in YouTube video The Hunt for a Legendre Pair of Length 117
Sep 26, 2022 -- Oct 5, 2022: CARGO Lab is proud to host Dr. Shirani Perera, from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
August 2022: CARGO Lab is a proud sponsor of the The ACA Early Researcher Award (ACA-ERA 2022)
December 02, 2021
Press Relesase The United Nations General Assembly adopted on December 2 2021 the resolution proclaiming 2022 as the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development
(IYBSSD2022) https://www.iybssd2022.org/en/home/
Le 2 Décembre 2021
Communiqué de Presse L'Assemblée générale des Nations Unies a adopté le 2 décembre 2021 la résolution proclamant 2022 Année internationale des sciences fondamentales pour le développement durable
(IYBSSD2022) https://www.iybssd2022.org/fr/accueil/
October 20, 2021:
Hadamard Network website released
August 2021: CARGO Lab is a proud sponsor of the The ACA Early Researcher Award (ACA-ERA 2021)
August 6, 2021: Maple Conference 2020 Proceedings have been published in the series:
CCIS 1414 online
June 7-11, 2021: The Open Access on-line journal Maple Transactions is launched, at the CMS 75th+1 Anniversary Summer Meeting, Ottawa, Canada
April 23, 2021: Professor Anna Nagurney Appointed to the Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies Press Release at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
March 25, 2021: Our Algorithm Portfolios book has been published:
Dimitris Souravlias, Konstantinos E. Parsopoulos, Ilias S. Kotsireas, Panos M. Pardalos
Access via SpringerLink
19 January 2021: We have received the: 2020 AAECC Best Paper Award in Memory of Jacques Calmet
December 23, 2020: Our Algorithm Portfolios book cover has become available:
November 17, 2020: Professor Anna Nagurney's interview with the award-winning Forbes journalist Michael Goldstein has been published
November 2020: Professor Anna Nagurney's interview for NBC News TV in Dallas - Larry Collins was amazing - TV interview
November 2020:
Dynamics of Disasters. Impact, Risk, Resilience, and Solutions

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October 8-11, 2020: CARGO Lab is a proud co-organizer of the 4th World Congress on Genetics, Geriatrics and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research, GeNeDis 2020, in Herakleion, Greece, held on-line due to COVID-19, with a record number of 3660 registered participants!
August 2020:
Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy, MARBLE 2020, Vilamoura, Portugal

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July 2020:
Proceedings of LION 14 (2020), Springer LNCS

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March 2020: CARGO Lab Students prepare 2 Research Posters for the Faculty of Science Undergraduate Conference, (cancelled due to COVID-19).
1. REINFORCEMENT LEARNING IN MOUNTAINCART AND CARTPOLE
2. Implications of Information Theory on the Expansion of the Universe Using Planck Units and the Hubble Constant
February 2020:
Maple Conference 2019, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Maple in Mathematics Education and Research

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February 2020:
Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy, MARBLE 2019, Santorini, Greece

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CARGO Lab is a proud sponsor of ISSAC 2020, Kalamata, Greece
the 45th International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, July 20-23, 2020
CARGO Lab is a proud sponsor of ACA 2020, Athens, Greece
the 26th Conference on Applications of Computer Algebra, July 14-18, 2020
CARGO Lab is a proud sponsor of CADGME 2020
The 8th International Conference on COMPUTER ALGEBRA AND DYNAMIC GEOMETRY IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION, Jerusalem College of Technology, Jerusalem, Israel June 21-25, 2020
CARGO Lab supports MARBLE 2020, Vilamoura, Portugal
the 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy, 8-10 June 2020
CARGO Lab is a proud sponsor of LION 14, Athens, Greece
the 14th Learning And Intelligent Optimization conference, 24-28 May 2020
CARGO Lab is a proud sponsor of ICBC 2020, Toronto, ON, Canada
the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, 3-6 May 2020

October 15-17, 2019, Maple Conference 2019, Waterloo, ON, Canada
CARGO Lab is a proud sponsor of ACA 2019, Montréal, Canada
Ilias Kotsireas co-organizes a special session on: Computer Algebra and application to combinatorics, coding theory and cryptography
CARGO Lab is a proud sponsor of ISSAC 2019, Beijing, P. R. China
July 4, 2019, Prof. Anna Nagurney's blog on The Dynamics of Disasters Conference in Greece and Multidisciplinary Perspectives
June 1, 2019, Springer Nature launches the new journal:
SN Operations Research Forum, SN ORFO https://www.springer.com/journal/43069

Ilias Kotsireas serves as the SN ORFO Managing Editor
6-9 May 2019, MARBLE 2019, Santorini, Greece
1st International Conference on Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy
March 14, 2019 (Pi Day), Distinguished Professor Panos M. Pardalos receives HUMBOLDT RESEARCH AWARD
March 23, 2018, CARGO Lab Students present 8 Research Posters at Faculty of Science Undergraduate Conference sponsored by FOSSA
March 16, 2018, Astrophysics researcher Ioannis Haranas shares how mentorship can inspire excellence
March 13, 2018, Natalia Khoudgarian, Woman International Master, World Chess Federation, plays simultaneously 30 different opponents, see pic. Event hosted by Laurier's Centre for Women in Science
February 28, 2018, visit to Springer HQ, in New York City, Picasso I & Picasso II
February 09, 2018, working hard with Emils (NBA)
Saturday, February 3, 2018, CARGO Lab is co-sponsoring a free intensive Maple training event at WLU's Waterloo campus, organized by Maplesoft
January 3, 2018, LNCS 10693 is available online, including the online version
December 21, 2017, Dr. K. Karamanos received the G. Th. Fotinos prize for his paper titled "Entropy production of entirely diffusional Laplacian transfer and the possible role of fragmentation of the boundaries",(Fractals, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2015) from the Academy of Athens. See the newspaper artcicle.
November 15-17, 2017, The Seventh International Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Computer and Information Sciences (MACIS 2017) will be held in Vienna, Austria at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien. See the poster
SBA Research CALGO Lab poster presented at the MACIS 2017 conference in Vienna, Austria.
November 3, 2017, CARGO Lab Director delivers a Data Mining seminar at the Bank of Canada in Ottawa.
November 2-3, 2017, Maplesoft International Summit Series: Transforming Online Education Maple T.A. and Möbius User Summits Toronto, Canada. See the poster
October 30, 2017, Prof. P. Vlamos, director of BiHELab, is visiting the CARGO Lab, see his talk on protein misfolding.
October 24, 2017, Hands-on Maple Workshop at the Perimeter Institute
October 15, 2017, CARGO Lab Director is appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics (JACO), published by Springer, Springer Link site
September 9, 2017, Listen to Prof. Anna Nagurney's interview on CHAR - Calgary on Game Theory for Disaster Relief.
August 1, 2017, Visit to the tomb of Gauss in Göttingen
July 2, 2017, Visit with Prof. Thierry Dana-Picard to Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum
July 17-21, 2017, Israeli website reports on the successful conclusion of ACA 2017 in Jerusalem.
July 21, 2017, Visit to the tomb of Manuel Bronstein in Jerusalem
July 9, 2017, Prof. Anna Nagurney's blog on Highlights from Fascinating Dynamics of Disasters 2017 Conference in Greece
June 25-28, 2017, CAI 2017 participants at the Arcadian Gate
May 18, 2017, John Haranas and Jordan Galloway-Booth ballistics work at RCMP
April 1, 2017, SMW asks a pertinent question
March 31, 2017, Laurier Waterloo campus, CARGO Lab 15-year anniversary (photos)
March 31, 2017, ACA 2017 draft poster released
March 31 - April 2, 2017, CARGO Lab Student Mr. Emils Matiss won Best Virtual Realty/Augmented Reality Hack at the Princeton NJ HackPrinceton hackathon!
Saturday, March 25, 2017, CARGO Lab is co-sponsoring a free intensive Maple training event at The Fields Institute in Toronto. (training materials), (photos), (Certificate of Completion).
March 24, 2017, CARGO Lab Students present Research Posters at Faculty of Science Undergraduate Conference sponsored by FOSSA
March 23, 2017, Curtis Bright PhD thesis defense, University of Waterloo
March 2, 2017, Maplesoft blog Teaching Mathematics In China
February 24, 2017, Fields Institute Workshop on Computational Models for Neurodegeneration, (poster), (photos).
February 9, 2017, The Laurier Journal Club presents A Night in Computer Science, Laurier Waterloo campus.
December 2016, 20 Years of Lambert W Lecture Series, organized by Rob Corless
(1) Jussi Lehtonen (2) Nick Higham (3) Aude Maignan
November 17, 2016, Prof. P. Vlamos, director of BiHELab, is visiting the CARGO Lab, see his talk on computational biomarkers.
Saturday, November 12, 2016, CARGO Lab is co-sponsoring a free intensive Maple training event at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo. (training materials), (photos).
November 7, 2016, CARGO Lab is featured in Maplesoft User Case Study
October 27, 2016, the new Masters in Applied Computing (MAC) program has been approved.
October 20-23, 2016, CARGO Lab is a co-organizer of the 2nd World Congress on Genetics, Geriatrics and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research, GeNeDis 2016, in Sparta, Greece, see the Press Release and the Call For Papers
September 2016, SOSCIP impact story Designing an unbreakable code
August 2, 2016, CARGO Lab partakes in mourning the untimely death of Jonathan Borwein, Laureate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Newcastle in Australia and Director of the CARMA Priority Research Centre
- blog post by David H Bailey
- CMS obituary
- Jon Borwein Memorial Website
July 25-28, 2016 Celebrating 20 years of the Lambert W function, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
July 23-24, 2016 WWCA 2016 70th birthday of Sergei Abramov, Wilfrid Laurier University
July 19-22, 2016, CARGO Lab is hosting the ISSAC 2016 conference
July 20, 2016, CARGO Lab Director is among the 2016 Merit Award recipients at Wilfrid Laurier University
July 16-18, 2016, Milestones in Computer Algebra (MICA 2016) Celebrating the research of Erich Kaltofen, University of Waterloo
July 5, 2016, SBA-K1 COMET project has been granted continued funding for the period 2017-2025 from the Austrian Research Promotion Agency and Ministries. CARGO Lab of Wilfrid Laurier University participates in this project as an international associate partner.
June 13-15 2016, CARGO Lab Director Plenary Speaker at NORCOM2016 conference in Levi, Kittilä, Finland
June 3-5 2016, CARGO Lab Director Plenary Speaker at Sri-Lanka conference, photo with PM
May 12-14, 2016, Computationally Assisted Mathematical Discovery and Experimental Mathematics conference
April 5, 2016, Jonathan M. Borwein delivers the Nerenberg 2016 lecture
March 23, 2016, CARGO Lab Students present Research Posters at Faculty of Science Undergraduate Conference sponsored by FOSSA
March 15, 2016, Ioannis Haranas offers new course on Planetary and Space Science
March 10, 2016, CARGO Lab Director appointed as Maple Ambassador
March 9, 2016, Laurier: A Space Odyssey new Space and Planetary Science course by Ioannis Haranas
March 8, 2016, Do billionaires compute eigenvalues? 20 years of Google's PageRank saga. Department Seminar Series
February 28, 2016, Panos M. Pardalos recognized in 20 SYSTEMS ENGINEERING PROFESSORS TO KNOW
February 02, 2016, Canadian scientists raise alarm over inadequate computing resources The Globe and Mail
February 2016, SOSCIP Project on Non-equilibrium Green's functions awarded
January 24-26, 2016, Laurier computer science students victorious at Waterloo Hacks 2016
October 2015, Conestoga Robotics Innovation Group (RIG) RIGbot project
February-June 2013, Prof. K. E. Parsopoulos spends part of his sabbatical at the CARGO Lab. He is a highly-cited scientist, see his Google Scholar profile and a top world expert in meta-heuristics.
September 2009, Greg Chaitin in Ontario event
1. Campus Update
2. Poster
3. Program
CARGO 10-year anniversary poster May 11, 2012

The Computer Algebra Research Group (CARGO) was formed in May 2002 and it is part of the Department of Physics and Computer Science of Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Donations:

CARGO acknowledges generous donations by

Maplesoft Maple software
Xilinx Xilinx ISE Foundation (TM) software, under the Xilinx University Program (XUP)

Research:

Gröbner Bases, Implicitization and Parameterization of Algebraic Curves and Surfaces, Enumerating Regular Mixed-Cell Configurations, Symmetric Polynomials, Hadamard Matrices, Combinatorial Designs, Dynamical Systems, Distributed evaluation of rapidly convergent hypergeometric series, symbolic summation, chains of recurrences.