Workshops and Conferences
Les journées Pierre Leroux-Colloque en l’honneur de Pierre Leroux
Université de Québec à Montréal
September 8-9, 2006
Organizers :
Srecko Brlek (Université du Québec à Montréal
)
Christophe Reutenauer (UQÀM
)
François Bergeron (Université du Québec à Montréal
)
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Andre-Aisenstadt Chair : Noga Alon
CRM
September 11-15, 2006
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Workshop on Hybrid Methods and Branching Rules in Combinatorial Optimization
CRM
September 18-22, 2006
Organizer :
Vašek Chvátal (Concordia University
)
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Gilles Fournier Memorial Conference on Classical and Computational Topological Methods
Sherbrooke
September 22-24, 2006
Organizers :
Madjid Allili (Bishop’s University
)
Tomasz Kaczynski (Université de Sherbrooke
)
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4th RECOMB Comparative Genomics Satellite Workshop
CRM
September 24-26, 2006
Organizers :
Nadia El-Mabrouk (Université de Montréal
)
Guillaume Bourque (Université de Montréal
)
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NBER/NSF Time Series Conference 2006
Montréal
September 29-30, 2006
Organizer :
Roch Roy (Université de Montréal
)
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Number theory and related topics
Université Laval
September 30 - October 1, 2006
Organizer :
Claude Levesque (Université Laval
)
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Seminars
September 7, 2006 - 11:30
Seminar Génie industriel
Ecole Polytechnique, Pavillon Lassonde, 2700 chemin de Polytechnique. salle L-4812
Approches de calcul rapides et efficaces pour applications en traitement des signaux
Pierre Langlois, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal
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September 7, 2006 - 15:30
Seminar Centre de recherche en e-finance
HEC, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Salle Trudeau (section verte - 1er étage)
Legal Institutions, Sectoral Heterogeneity, and Economic Development
Rui Castro, Université de Montréal
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September 8, 2006 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
UQAM, 200 Sherbrooke Ouest, Pavillon Sherbrooke, Salle/Room SH-3120
Rentes viagères stochastiques
Daniel Dufresne, University of Melbourne
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September 8, 2006 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
UniversiteĢ Concordia University, 1400 de Maisonneuve, Pavillon J.W. McConnell Building, Salle/Room LB 921.04
Fitting Combinations of Exponentials to Probability
Distributions Function
Daniel Dufresne, University of Melbourne
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September 8, 2006 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-AIsenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, salle 6214
Applications of an asymptotic expansion for the one-point function of random matrix theory: Loop equations, partition function, large deviation principles
Ken McLaughlin, University of North Carolina
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September 11, 2006 - 14:00
Seminar Génie industriel
Ecole Polytechnique, 2500, chemin de Polytechnique, salle B-530.2
Learning Controller for mobile Microrobots
Helge Hülsen, University of Oldenburg
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September 11, 2006 - 14:30
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
CRM, Université de Montréal, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, salle 1140
58 years as a game theorist: where have we been and where are we going?
Harold W. Kuhn, Princeton University
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September 11, 2006 - 14:35
Lecture McGill Applied Mathematics Seminar
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 1205
Toward Quantitive Analysis and Simulation of nanoelectronics
Hong Guo
, McGill
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September 11, 2006 - 16:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 1140
Approximation algorithms and Grothendieck type inequalities
Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University
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September 12, 2006 - 14:30
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920
The mathematics of categorical diagrams
M. Makkai
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September 12, 2006 - 16:00
Seminar Biostatistique
McGill, Pavillon Purvis, 1020 av, Pine O., salle 24
Estimating the Causal Effect of Breastfeeding on Infant Growth: Application of G-estimation of Structural Nested Mean Models
Robert Platt, McGill University
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September 13, 2006 - 16:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
Additive Approximation for Edge-Deletion Problems
Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University
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September 14, 2006 - 10:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill, Pav. Burnside , 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
Variations avec p du nombre de solutions mod p d'un système d'équations
Jean-Pierre Serre, Collège de France
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September 14, 2006 - 14:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia, Library Building
Introduction to the Sato-Tate conjecture
Ram Murty, Queens and McGill
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September 14, 2006 - 15:30
Seminar Statistique
U. de Sherbrooke, Dép. de mathématiques, 2500, boul. de l'Université, salle D6-0046
Abraham de Moivre : Génie en exil
Christian Genest, Université Laval
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September 15, 2006 - 11:00
Seminar CIRGET
UQAM, 200, av. Président-Kennedy O., salle PK-5115
Virtual homology slopes and the group determinant
Genevieve Walsh, UQAM & Tufts University
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September 15, 2006 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
UQAM, 141 avenue du Président-Kennedy, Salle/Room SB-R740
Modèle Hurdle à effets aléatoires corrélés pour données de panel appliqué à des données de comptage
Jean-Philippe Boucher, Université Catholique de Louvain
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September 15, 2006 - 15:30
Colloquium Physical Society Colloquium
McGill, Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Keys Auditorium, salle 112
The power of forgetting
Patrick Hayden, McGill University
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September 15, 2006 - 16:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
Graph Property Testing
Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University
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September 18, 2006 - 14:35
Lecture McGill Applied Mathematics Seminar
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 1205
High-order scattering solvers and surface representation algorithms
Oscar Bruno, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Caltech
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September 18, 2006 - 16:00
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
CRM, Université de Montréal, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, salle 5340
State-of-the-art numerical solution of large, hermitian eigenvalue problems
Andreas Stathopoulos, College of William and Mary
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September 19, 2006 - 10:00
Seminar GERAD-CREF
HEC Montréal, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Salle Hélène-Desmarais
Pricing financial derivatives in electricity markets
Martina Wilhelm, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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September 19, 2006 - 13:30
Seminar Analyse
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Dirichlet Spaces and Inner Functions on the Ball
Manfred Stoll, University of South Carolina
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September 19, 2006 - 14:30
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920
The mathematics of categorical diagrams II
M. Makkai
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September 19, 2006 - 16:00
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Poisson-Lie T-plurality as canonical transformation
Libor Snobl, CRM & Czech Technical University in Prague
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September 19, 2006 - 16:30
Seminar Topologie symplectique
CRM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, salle 5340
Extended manifolds and the extended equivariant cohomology
Shengda Hu
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September 20, 2006 - 15:30
Seminar Théorie géométrique des groupes/Geometric Group Theory
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920
Cubulating Arithmetic Groups
Dani Wise, McGill
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September 20, 2006 - 17:00
Seminar ISM des étudiants aux cycles supérieurs
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Pascal's Triangle, Powers of 11, and Group Cohomology
Liam Watson, UQAM
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September 21, 2006 - 10:30
Seminar Random Matrices, Isomonodromic Deformations and Riemann-Hilbert Problems
Concordia, Library Building, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West LB 901-12 (Ninth floor meeting room)
Feynman diagram technique for higher-order corrections to the free energy in two-matrix model
Leonid Chekhov
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September 21, 2006 - 11:30
Seminar Génie industriel
Ecole Polytechnique, Pav. Lassonde, salle L-4812
Compression de phrase basée sur une analyse syntaxique
Michel Gagnon, DGI
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September 21, 2006 - 15:00
Seminar CIRGET Junior
UQAM, Pav. President-Kennedy, 201, av. President-Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Géométrie énumérative, invariants de Gromov-Witten et théorie des cordes
Vincent Bouchard, U. Pennsylvania
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September 21, 2006 - 15:30
Seminar Statistique
U. de Sherbrooke, Dép. de mathématiques, 2500, boul. de l'Université, salle D6-0046
Polynômes de Bernstein et estimation non-paramétrique d'une fonction de densité
Alexandre Leblanc, Université du Manitoba
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September 22, 2006 - 10:30
Seminar Combinatoire et informatique mathématique (LaCIM)
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Approximation simultanée et représentations de SL_2
Damien Roy, Université d'Ottawa
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September 22, 2006 - 11:00
Seminar CIRGET
UQAM, 200, av. Président-Kennedy O., salle PK-5115
Gromov-Witten Invariants, Modular Forms and Topological String Theory
Vincent Bouchard, U. Pennsylvania
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September 22, 2006 - 14:30 - 15:20
Seminar Analyse - Université Laval
Université Laval, Pav. Vachon, salle VCH 1240
Pseudospectres
Thomas Ransford
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September 22, 2006 - 15:00
Seminar CIRGET Junior
UQAM, Pav. President-Kennedy, 201, av. President-Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Cohomologie isotypique
Gabriel Chenevert, McGill
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September 22, 2006 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
Concordia, Library Building, 1400 de Maisonneuve O., salle LB-921-04
Some remarks on age dependent branching and super processes
Siva Athreya, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore
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September 22, 2006 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UQAM, Pav. Sherbrooke, 200, rue Sherbrooke O., salle SH-3420
Quantum Mechanics, the Stability of Matter, and Quantum Electrodynamics
Elliott Lieb, Princeton University
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September 25, 2006 - 14:35
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées / McGill Applied Mathematics Seminar
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 1205
Discrete network approximation for highly packed particle-filled composites
Leonid Berlyand
, Penn State
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September 26, 2006 - 13:30
Seminar Analyse
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Integrable Teichmuller spaces
Hui Guo, Shenzhen University
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September 26, 2006 - 14:30
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920
Fibered Categories Respect To Cartesian Families And Quasitopoi
E. Dubuc
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September 26, 2006 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Spectra of observables for the q-oscillator at q > 1
Anatoliy Klimyk, Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics Kiev, Ukraine
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September 26, 2006 - 16:00
Seminar Biostatistique
McGill, Pavillon Purvis, 1020 av, Pine O., salle 24
Dangers of Multiple Imputation with Small Numbers of Copies
Russell Steele, McGill University
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September 26, 2006 - 16:30
Seminar Topologie symplectique
CRM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, salle 5340
Hamiltonian fibrations and Gromov-Witten invariants
Clément Hyvrier
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September 27, 2006 - 15:30
Seminar Théorie géométrique des groupes/Geometric Group Theory
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920
Groups acting on trees
Olga Kharlampovich, McGill University
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September 28, 2006 - 10:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill, Pav. Burnside , 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
The distribution of lattice points in thin elliptic annuli
Igor Wigman, Université de Montréal
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September 28, 2006 - 10:30
Seminar Random Matrices, Isomonodromic Deformations and Riemann-Hilbert Problems
Concordia, Library Building, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West LB 921.04 (Ninth floor meeting room)
Feynman diagram technique for higher-order corrections to the free energy in two-matrix model, Part II
Leonid Chekhov
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September 28, 2006 - 11:30
Seminar Génie industriel
Ecole Polytechnique, Pav. Lassonde, salle L-4812
L’utilisation des heuristiques pour résoudre les problèmes de satisfaction de contraintes (CSP)
Philippe Galinier, DGI
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September 28, 2006 - 14:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia, Library Building, 9th floor
Slope filtrations for relative Frobenius: prelude to a (Phi, Gamma)-module theory in families
Kiran Kedlaya, MIT
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September 29, 2006 - 10:30
Seminar Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
DMS, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
Energy Spot Price Models and Spread Options Pricing
Sebastian Jaimungal, University of Toronto
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September 29, 2006 - 10:30
Seminar Centre de recherche en e-finance
HEC, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Salle Hélène Desmarais (section verte - 1er bleue)
Corporate Risk Management in an Industry Setting : An Empirical Investigation
Amrita Nain, Faculty of Management, Université McGill
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September 29, 2006 - 11:00
Seminar CIRGET
UQAM, 200, av. Président-Kennedy O., salle PK-5115
Spectral Geometry and Asymptotically Conic Convergence
Julie Marie Rowlett, Université de Montréal
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September 29, 2006 - 11:35
Lecture McGill Applied Mathematics Seminar
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 1205
Vortices in rotating toroidal Bose-Einstein Condensates
Lia Bronsard, McMaster University
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September 29, 2006 - 13:00
Seminar CIRGET Junior
UQAM, Pav. President-Kennedy, 201, av. President-Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Gossages Spectraux: invariance forte et inégalités
Rémi Leclercq
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September 29, 2006 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside , 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
On inner radius of nodal domains
Dan Mangoubi, CRM-McGill
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September 29, 2006 - 14:30 - 15:20
Seminar Analyse - Université Laval
Université Laval, Pav. Vachon, salle VCH 1240
La modélisation des portes d'armoire & Calcul de limites avec MAPLE
Maggy Pouliot & Julie Langlois
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September 29, 2006 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Introduction to analysis on CR manifolds
Joseph Kohn, Princeton University
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