A Celebration of Geometry, Analysis and Physics. Conference honouring Niky Kamran on his 60th birthday

June 10-14, 2019

Program

 

Monday, June 10, 2019

09:15 - 10:00
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants


10:00 - 10:50
Enrique Reyes García
(Universidad de Santiago de Chile)
The Cauchy problem of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili hierarchy via (smooth) Lie groups factorizations
Abstract
10:50 - 11:20
Coffee break
11:20 - 12:10
Jacek Szmigielski
(University of Saskatchewan)
Distributional Lax integrability
Abstract
12:10 - 14:20
Lunch break
14:20 - 15:10
Dennis The
(UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)
Exceptionally simple PDE
Abstract
15:10 - 15:40
Coffee break
15:40 - 16:30
Luc Vinet
(Université de Montréal)
The Racah problem for su(2) and centralizers
Abstract

16:30
Reception
Room(s) Salon Maurice-l’Abbé

 

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants


09:00 - 09:50
Alberto Enciso
(Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas)
Approximation theorems for the Schrödinger equation and the reconnection of quantum vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates
Abstract
10:00 - 10:50
Felix Finster
(Universität Regensburg)
Causal fermion systems from the perspective of geometry and the calculus of variations
Abstract
10:50 - 11:20
Coffee break
11:20 - 12:10
Artemio González-López
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
A duality principle for the multi-block entanglement entropy of free fermion systems
Abstract
12:10 - 14:20
Lunch break
14:20 - 15:10
Willard Miller, Jr.
(University of Minnesota)
The geometry of $n$-body systems for states that depend on interparticle distances only
Abstract
15:10 - 15:40
Coffee break
15:40 - 16:30
Mark Fels
(Utah State University)
Symplectic and variational operators for scalar evolution equations.
Abstract
16:40 - 17:30
Federico Finkel
(Universidad Complutense Madrid)
Short-range Calogero-Sutherland models and Jastrow-like wavefunctions
Abstract

 

Wednesday, June 12, 2019

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants


09:00 - 09:50
Indranil Biswas
(Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
Isomonodromic deformations and very stable vector bundles of rank two
Abstract
10:00 - 10:50
David Gómez-Ullate
(Universidad de Cádiz)
Exceptional polynomials for an exceptional occasion
Abstract
10:50 - 11:20
Coffee break
11:20 - 12:10
Robert Milson
(Dalhousie University)
An invariant characterization of the Painlevé-I equation
Abstract
12:10 - 14:20
Lunch break
14:20 - 15:10
Ian M. Anderson
(Utah State University)
Spacetimes with symmetry
Abstract
15:10 - 15:40
Coffee break
15:40 - 16:30
Pavel Winternitz
(Université de Montréal)
Superintegrable systems in $E_2$ separable in polar coordinates
Abstract

 

Thursday, June 13, 2019

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants


09:00 - 09:50
Thierry Daudé
(Université de Cergy-Pontoise)
Some stability results in the inverse Steklov problem on warped-product manifolds
Abstract
10:00 - 10:50
Dmitry Jakobson
(McGill University)
Zero and negative eigenvalues of conformally covariant operators, and nodal sets in conformal geometry
Abstract
10:50 - 11:20
Coffee break
11:20 - 12:10
François Nicoleau
(Université de Nantes)
On non-uniqueness for the anisotropic Calderón's problem
Abstract
12:10 - 14:20
Lunch break
14:20 - 15:10
Catherine Sulem
(University of Toronto)
Bloch theory and spectral gaps for linearized surface water waves
Abstract
15:10 - 15:40
Coffee break
15:40 - 16:30
Raymond G. McLenaghan
(University of Waterloo)
Huygens' principle and Hadamard's problem of diffusion of waves
Abstract

18:30
Banquet at "Le Cercle" (HEC Montréal)

 

Friday, June 14, 2019

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants


09:00 - 09:50
Vestislav Apostolov
(UQÀM)
The CR geometry of weighted extremal Kähler and Sasaki metrics
Abstract
10:00 - 10:50
Nabil Kahouadji
(Northeastern Illinois University)
Isometric immersions of pseudo-spherical surfaces via PDEs
Abstract
10:50 - 11:20
Coffee break
11:20 - 12:10
Keti Tenenblat
(Universidade de Brasilia)
The mean curvature flow by parallel hypersurfaces
Abstract
12:10 - 14:20
Lunch break
14:20 - 15:10
Spiro Karigiannis
(University of Waterloo)
A gradient flow of isometric $G_2$ structures
Abstract
15:10 - 15:40
Coffee break
15:40 - 16:30
David H. Sattinger
(University of Arizona)
Einstein Meets Huygens: An optical approach to general relativity
Abstract