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Sean Bohun
PhD

Professor

Mathematics

Prominent mathematics expert dedicates career to solving highly complex problems, enabling industry innovation.

Sean is available for:
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sean.bohun@ontariotechu.ca
905.721.8668 ext. 3635





  • PhD - Mathematics, Specialization: Applied Mathematics University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia 1998
  • MSc - Theoretical Physics University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia 1992
  • BSc - Physics University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia 1989

Generating Heat Maps for Turbulence: Inputting turbulence readings through spatio-temporal weighting

WestJet Campus, Calgary January 1, 2023

2023 IATA Turbulence Aware User Forum (with Lindstrom M.R.). Invited talk

The Impact of ‘Air Impact on Green Sand’ A cornucopia of unsolved problems

Oxford University June 28, 2022

2022 Industrial Mathematics in the 21st Century. Invited talk.

Single Image Super-Resolution via Non-Local Normalized Graph Laplacian Regularization

Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain July 15, 2019

9th International Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics. (with *Falconer C., & Ebrahimi M.)

Power of States: Electoral College

Queen’s University July 24, 2019

2019 Canadian Undergraduate Mathematics Conference. (with *Sun M.)

Self-Assessment Readiness Test for Numeracy at UOIT

Oshawa, ºÚÁÏÍø May 3, 2018

2018 Open Forum on Student Success

Effective Assessment at Numeracy

Oshawa, ºÚÁÏÍø May 9, 2018

2018 Effective Teaching and Learning in the Sciences, UOIT. Second Symposium in Effective Teaching and Learning in the Sciences.

Coulomb Explosions as a Molecular Imaging Technique

June 7, 2015

Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society Annual Meeting (CAIMS)

The Mathematics of Fear and its Role in Social Change, CAIMS Prize Winners Lecture

Waterloo, ºÚÁÏÍø June 10, 2015

CAIMS Annual Meeting

The Mathematics Underlying the Carbonate System

York University, Toronto, ºÚÁÏÍø September 16, 2014

Applied and Industrial Maths Seminar

A Math/Chemistry Mashup: The Mathematics Underlying the Carbonate System

Columbus, Ohio May 15, 2014

International Council for Applied and Industrial Mathematics

Scale-Up Issues for the Acheson Process

University of Oxford, Oxford United Kingdom April 7, 2014

European Study Group with Industry

Modelling Mass Transfer in a Rotating Disk Reaction Vessel

Waterloo, ºÚÁÏÍø August 30, 2013

The International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Modelling and Computational Science

Coulomb Explosion

University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom July 26, 2013

Maths in Chemistry Study Group, Mathematical Institute

Modelling Mass Transfer in a Rotating Disk Reaction Vessel

Québec City, Québec June 20, 2013

CAIMS Annual Meeting

An Introduction to Modern Industrial Mathematics: Modelos Reales para Problemas Reales

Barcelona, Spain September 19, 2012

Applied Mathematics Seminar, Facultat de Matem`atiques i Estad´ıstica, Universitat Polit`ecnica de Catalunya

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  • Bohun C.S., Greenbank E., Keating L., Lee W., Moroney K., Planella F.P. (2023). Manufacture of Contact Lenses. (Team Leads: Moroney K. & Greenbank E.) Technical Report from the 173rd European Study Group with Industry (ESGI173), University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, June 26–30, 2023, (51 pages). (Industrial Partner: Johnson & Johnson.)
  • *Almonacid J., Bohun C.S., *Bowen D., *Gkelsinis T., Ibrahim S., Lindstrom M.R., *Liu J., *Onghai K. (2022). Turbulence in the Air: creating a heat map and building a seasonal diagram. (Team Leads: Bohun C.S. & Lindstrom M.R. for IATA.) Technical Report from the 12th Montreal Industrial Problem Solving Workshop. Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada, August 22–26, 2022, (Industrial Partner: International Air Transport Association (IATA).)
  • McGuinness M., Bohun C.S., Cregan V., LeeW.T., Dewynne J., *O’Keee G., Vo T. (2022). Measuring moisture in bauxite with microwaves. In: McKibbin R., Wake G., Saeki O. (eds) Proceedings of the Forum “Mathematics-for-Industry” 2019. FMfI 2019. Mathematics for Industry, vol 36, Springer, Singapore 13–64. (Industrial Partner: Rusal Aughinish Alumina) doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1154-5_2.
  • *Metherall B., Bohun C.S. (2021). Predicting instabilities of a tunable ring laser with an iterative map model. Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 38(6), 2479–2487. (Industrial Partner: Genia Photonics Inc.) doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.424346.
  • Ebrahimi M., Bohun C.S. (2021). Single image super-resolution via non-local normalized graph Laplacian regularization: A self-similarity tribute. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, vol 93, 105508, (13 pages). doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2020.105508.
  • *Calla L., Bohun C.S., LeBlanc H.N. (2021). Advancing the forensic estimation of time since death. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 178, 705–715. doi.org/10.1007/s00024-020-02649-z.
  • *Babalola D., Bohun C.S. (2021). Coulomb explosion imaging: super-resolution by optical properties of electrostatics lenses. In: Kilgour D.M., Kunze H., Makarov R., Melnik R.,Wang X. (eds)AMMCS 2019: Recent Developments in Mathematical, Statistical and Computational Sciences. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, 343. Springer, Cham, 361–371. (Industrial Partner: University of Oxford Department of Chemistry.) doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63591-6_33.
  • *Metherall B., Bohun C.S. (2021). A new method of modelling tunable lasers with functional composition. In: Kilgour D.M., Kunze H., Makarov R., Melnik R., Wang X. (eds) AMMCS 2019: Recent Developments in Mathematical, Statistical and Computational Sciences. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, 343. Springer, Cham, 401–410. (Industrial Partner: Genia Photonics Inc.) doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63591-6_37.
  • *Calla L., Bohun C.S. (2021). Modelling thermal aspects of decomposition. In: Kilgour D.M., Kunze H., Makarov R., Melnik R., Wang X. (eds) AMMCS 2019: Recent Developments in Mathematical, Statistical and Computational Sciences. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, 343. Springer, Cham, 501–510. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63591-6_46.
  • *Aminian M., Barra V., Bohun C.S., *Brosa Planella F., *Chen Z., *Christopher T., Chungunova M., Duffy D., *Huneycutt K., Li Q., *Liu S., *Luke R., *Lunz D., *Mazzoleni N., *Pei R., *Sanaei P., *Sulzer V., *Troy J. (2019). Analyzing viscoelastic materials. (Team Lead: Bohun C.S. for industrial partner Under Armour Inc.) Technical Report from the 35th Annual Workshop on Mathematical Problems in Industry. New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA, June 17–21, 2019, (31 pages). (Industrial Partner: Under Armour Inc.) doi.org/10.33774/miir-2022-zvqtx.
  • Bohun C.S. (ed), *Bruce N., Budd C. (ed), *Campbell R., *Coles R., DelRizzo D., Harrison S., Siegel S. (2019). Towards the unsupervised detection of novel RFI sources. In: Marcotte O. (ed) Proceedings of the Ninth Montreal Industrial Problem Solving Workshop. Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Montreal, Canada, August 19–23, 2019, 97–112. (Industrial Partner: Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (DRAO).) www.gerad.ca/en/papers/G-2020-57.
  • *Falconer C., Bohun C.S., Ebrahimi M. (2017). A note on boosting algorithms for image denoising. In: Karray F., Campilho A., Cheriet F. (eds) Image Analysis and Recognition. Montreal, Canada. ICAR 2017 Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10317. Springer, Cham, 134–142. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59876-5_16.
  • Bohun C.S., Chuah K.H., Doki M., Gharaibeh B., Huang H., Ito K., Ito T., Kozo S., Nakagawa, J., Nishiyama T., Salaimeh A., Takeuchi T., Yamamoto, M. (2008). US20110249700A1: Method for detecting defect in material and system for the method Assignee: Nippon Steel Corp. Original filing: 17-09- 2008. First worldwide family litigation filed: 03-06-2011.
  • Illner R., Bohun C.S., McCollum S.J., van Roode T. (2005). Mathematical Modelling: A Case Studies Approach. Student Mathematical Library, volume 27, (196 pages). AMS: Providence, RI. ISBN: 978-0-8218-3650-7. .

2015 CAIMS-Fields Industrial Mathematics Prize

March 30, 2015

Dr. Bohun received this award for his invaluable contributions to the Canadian industrial mathematics community beyond any normal measures, in particular as an organizer and participant of nearly every Industrial Modelling Workshop held in Canada, since their inception in 1998, and for his role as founding editor of ICIAM’s newsletter Dionia.

Adjunct Professor

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University January 1, 2006

In this role, Dr. Bohun supervises the research of graduate students.

Martha A. Fisher Award for Excellence in Teaching

January 1, 2003

As an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Penn State, Dr. Bohun received this honour for excellence in teaching.

Canadian Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society

Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics

American Mathematical Society

  • MATH 1010U
  • MATH 1020U
  • MATH 2070U
  • MATH 2810U
  • MATH 3040U
  • MATH 3050U
  • MATH 4030U
  • MATH 4041U
  • MATH 4050U
  • MATH 4060U
  • MATH 4430U
  • MCSC 6010G
  • MCSC 6210G/7210G
  • MCSC 6280G/7280G