## Monday, August 25, 2014

 08:30 - 08:50 Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)

 08:50 - 09:00 A word from the president of the Université de Montréal, Mr Guy Breton Room(s) 6214

 Chair : Yvan Saint-Aubin Meeting room(s) : 6214

 09:00 - 09:30 Erik Koelink (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) Recurrences and spectral decomposition
 09:35 - 10:05 Keti Tenenblat (Universidade de Brasilia) On differential equations which describe pseudo-spherical surfaces
 10:10 - 10:40 Paul M. Terwilliger (University of Wisconsin) Billiard arrays and finite-dimensional irreducible $\mathrm{U}q(s\ell \ 2)$-modules
 10:45 - 11:10 Coffee break Room(s) 6245
 11:10 - 11:45 Eric D'Hoker (UCLA) M-theory solutions, branes, and superalgebras
 11:45 - 12:15 Luc Lapointe (Universidad de Talca) Supersymmetry and multi-Jack polynomials

 12:20 - 14:00 Lunch break

 Chair : Willard Miller Jr. Meeting room(s) : 6214

 14:00 - 14:30 Alexi Morin-Duchesne (Université Catholique de Louvain) On the reality of spectra of ${U_q(sl_2)}$-invariant XXZ Hamiltonians
 14:35 - 15:05 Alexander R. Its (IUPUI) A conformal block approach to the connection problem of the third Painlevé equation
 15:10 - 15:30 Coffee break Room(s) 6245
 15:30 - 16:00 George Pogosyan (Universidad de Guadalajara) The anisotropic Coulomb-oscillator system in the two-dimensional Euclidean space
 16:05 - 16:35 Alexei Morozov (ITEP) TBA

 18:00 - 19:00 Musical offering Room(s) 6245

## Tuesday, August 26, 2014

 08:30 - 09:00 Coffee & Croissants Room(s) 6245

 Chair : Eric D’Hoker Meeting room(s) : 6214

 09:00 - 09:30 Charles F. Dunkl (University of Virginia) Vector-valued wave functions on the torus and Jack polynomials
 09:35 - 10:05 Hideaki Ujino (Gunma National College of Techno.) An ultradiscretizable hybrid of the slow-to-start and the optimal velocity models and its flow-density relation
 10:10 - 10:40 Willard Miller Jr. (University of Minnesota) Quadratic algebra contractions and 2nd order superintegrable systems
 10:45 - 11:10 Coffee break Room(s) 6245
 11:10 - 11:40 Roman W. Jackiw (MIT) Majorana multiplicities in topological insulators
 11:45 - 12:15 Dennis W. Stanton (University of Minnesota) Beyond the Askey tableau

 12:20 - 14:00 Lunch break

 Chair : Sarah Post Meeting room(s) : 6214

 14:00 - 14:30 Roberto Floreanini (University of Trieste) Sensing the tiniest
 14:35 - 15:05 Jan Felipe van Diejen (Universidad de Talca) Integrable boundary interactions for Ruijsenaars' difference Toda chain
 15:10 - 15:30 Coffee break Room(s) 6245
 15:30 - 16:00 Adrian Mauricio Escobar Ruiz (UNAM, Mexico) Two charges on a plane in magnetic field: particular integrability
 16:05 - 16:35 F. Alberto Grünbaum (University of California, Berkeley) Return time properties for discrete time quantum walks

## Wednesday, August 27, 2014

 08:30 - 09:00 Coffee & Croissants Room(s) 6245

 Chair : John Harnad Meeting room(s) : 6214

 09:00 - 09:30 Francisco Marcellán (Univ. Carlos III de Madrid) Spectral transformations, CMV matrices and integrable systems
 09:35 - 10:05 Alexei V. Penskoi (Moscow State University) Symmetry reduction and spectral geometry
 10:10 - 10:40 Sarah Post (University of Hawaii at Manoa) Superintegrability and orthogonal polynomials
 10:45 - 11:10 Coffee break Room(s) 6245
 11:10 - 11:40 Pierre Mathieu (Université Laval) The supersymmetric Ruijsenaars-Schneider model
 11:45 - 12:15 Oleksiy Zhedanov (Donetsk Inst. for Physics & Techno.) Classical orthogonal polynomials: new perspectives

## Thursday, August 28, 2014

 08:30 - 09:00 Coffee & Croissants Room(s) 6245

 Chair : Francisco Marcellán Meeting room(s) : 6214

 09:00 - 09:30 Tom H. Koornwinder (University of Amsterdam) Okounkov's BC-type interpolation Macdonald polynomials and their q=1 limit
 09:35 - 10:05 Yves Grandati (Université de Lorraine-Site de Metz) Confluent chains of DBT and exceptional orthogonal polynomials
 10:10 - 10:40 Wojciech Zakrzewski (Durham University) Quasi-integrability-recent progress in defining this concept
 10:45 - 11:10 Coffee break Room(s) 6245
 11:10 - 11:40 Duong H. Phong (Columbia University) The vacuum energy at two-loops for heterotic orbifold models
 11:45 - 12:15 Libor Šnobl (Czech Technical University in Prague) Classification and identification of Lie algebras

 12:20 - 14:00 Lunch break

 Chair : Matthias Christandl Meeting room(s) : 6214

 14:00 - 14:30 Erdal Emsiz (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile) The semi-infinite $q$-boson system with boundary interaction and hyperoctahedral Hall-Littlewood polynomials
 14:35 - 15:05 Aleksander Strasburger (Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGW) On a construction of the $\mathbb{C}P^N$ sigma models by means of $\mathbf{SU}(2)$ coherent states and Veronese surfaces
 15:10 - 15:30 Coffee break Room(s) 6245
 15:30 - 16:00 Gabriel Coutinho (University of Waterloo) Perfect state transfer on trees
 16:05 - 16:35 Edward Farhi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Physics based approaches to quantum computing

 19:00 Banquet - Restaurant Chez Queux (Tickets available before August 27, Room 5345)

## Friday, August 29, 2014

 08:30 - 09:00 Coffee & Croissants Room(s) 6245

 Chair : Decio Levi Meeting room(s) : 6214

 09:00 - 09:30 Philippe R. Di Francesco (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) The combinatorics of discrete non-commutative integrable systems
 09:35 - 10:05 Alexander Turbiner (UNAM) Integrability, solvability, discrete symmetry in planar quantum dynamics
 10:10 - 10:40 John Harnad (Concordia University) Integrable hierarchies, enumerative geometry and the combinatorics of Hurwitz numbers
 10:45 - 11:10 Coffee break Room(s) 6245
 11:10 - 11:40 Niky Kamran (McGill University) Inverse scattering at fixed energy for asymptotically hyperbolic Liouville surfaces
 11:45 - 12:15 Mourad E. H. Ismail (University of Central Florida) A new class of bivariate orthogonal polynomials

 12:20 - 14:00 Lunch break

 Chair : Pavel Winternitz Meeting room(s) : 6214

 14:00 - 14:30 Vincent Genest (Université de Montréal) Multivariate hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials, group representations and applications
 14:35 - 15:05 Decio Levi (Università degli Studi Roma Tre) Discretizing the Liouville equation
 15:10 - 15:30 Coffee break Room(s) 6245
 15:30 - 16:00 Patrick Desrosiers (Université Laval) Clustering properties of Jack's and Macdonald's polynomials with prescribed symmetry
 16:05 - 16:35 Matthias Christandl (University of Copenhagen) Entanglement, entropy and representation theory