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February 2007
See Seminars

Workshops and Conferences

School: Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics

Val Morin (Québec)
February 12-16, 2007
Organizers :
Pierre Leroux (Décédé le 9 mars 2008 )
Anthony John Guttmann (University of Melbourne )
Alan Sokal (New York University )
Mireille Bousquet-Mélou (Université Bordeaux 1 )

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/ecoles/Mecanique07/index_e.shtml

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Workshop: Combinatorial Problems Raised by Statistical Mechanics

CRM
February 19-23, 2007
Organizers :
Pierre Leroux (Décédé le 9 mars 2008 )
Anthony John Guttmann (University of Melbourne )
Alan Sokal (New York University )
Mireille Bousquet-Mélou (Université Bordeaux 1 )

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Mechanics07/index.shtml

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X International Workshop on Differential Equations, Number Theory, Data Analysis Methods and Geometry

Havana, Cuba
February 19-23, 2007
Organizer :
Syed Twareque Ali (Concordia University )

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/~physmath/havana2007/index.html

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Seminars

February 1, 2007 - 10:30

Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill, Pav. Burnside , 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920

p-Adic class invariants

Reinier Broker, Calgary

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/darmon/qvnts/qvnts.html

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February 1, 2007 - 11:30 - 12:20

Seminar Génie industriel
Ecole Polytechnique, Pav. Lassonde, salle L-4812

Engaging the Adversary as a Viable Response to Network Intrusion

Scott Knight, Engineering Royal Military College (Kingston)

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February 1, 2007 - 14:00

Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia, Library Building, 9th floor

Higher dimensional p-adic CM construction

Robert Carls, Sydney

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/darmon/qvnts/qvnts.html

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February 1, 2007 - 15:30

Seminar Statistique
U. de Sherbrooke, Dép. de mathématiques, 2500, boul. de l'Université, salle D6-0046

Estimation of a bounded location parameter under absolute-value loss

Amir T. Payandeh, Université du Nouveau-Brunswick (Fredericton) et Université de Sherbrooke

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February 1, 2007 - 15:30

Seminar Integrable systems, random matrices and random processes
Concordia University, Hall Building, H773

Vertex algebras, (deformed) Virasoro algebra and symmetric polynomials

Iana Anguelova , CRM/Concordia

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/~physmath/LabPhysMath/seminaire_fr.html

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February 2, 2007 - 10:30

Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323

Polynômes harmoniques pour les opérateurs de Steenrod

François Bergeron, LaCIM-UQAM

Web site : http://www.lacim.uqam.ca

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February 2, 2007 - 14:00

Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920

Conformal geometry and function theory on quaternionic contact manifolds

Dimiter Vassiliev , UC Riverside

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/jakobson/analysish/seminar.html

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February 2, 2007 - 15:30

Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, 1B39

Bayesian Wavelet-Based Mixed Models for Functional Data

Jeffrey Morris, Anderson Cancer Research Center

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/cgi/Stats.csh

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February 2, 2007 - 15:30

Seminar Physical Society Colloquium
McGill, Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Keys Auditorium (room 112)

Making sense of Cell Mechanics

John Crocker, University of Pennsylvania

Web site : http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/seminars/PSC.html

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February 2, 2007 - 16:00

Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214

Une courte histoire du modèle d'Ising

Yvan Saint-Aubin, Université de Montréal

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/cgi/Colloque.csh

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February 5, 2007 - 14:35

Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 1205

Nash Certainty Equivalence in Large Population Stochastic Dynamic Games: Connections with the Physics of Interacting Particle Systems

Peter Caines, CIM, McGill University

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/~applsem/LabTalks/LabTalks.php

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February 5, 2007 - 15:30

Colloquium Géométrie et topologie computationnelles
U. de Sherbrooke, Dép. de mathématiques, 2500, boul. de l'Université, salle D6-0046

Discrete dynamical system framework for construction of connections between critical regions in lattice height data

Sara Derivière, Université de Sherbrooke

Web site : http://www.dmi.usherb.ca/~kaczyn/en/seminars.html

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February 6, 2007 - 10:45

Seminar GERAD
GERAD, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6516

Scenario Generation for Multi-objective stochastic Portfolio Selection

Fouad Ben Abdelaziz, Laboratoire Larodec, Institut Supérieur de Gestion, Tunis

Web site : http://www.gerad.ca/fr/activites/seminaire.php?id=271

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February 6, 2007 - 14:30

Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920

TBA

M. Makkai

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/triples

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February 6, 2007 - 15:30

Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336

Bicharacter presentation of fermionic (Clifford) constructions

Iana Anguelova, CRM

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/~physmath/LabPhysMath/seminaire_fr.html

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February 6, 2007 - 16:00

Seminar Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Occupational Health
McGill, Pavillon Purvis, 1020 av. Pine O., salle 24

Modeling conditional dependence between diagnostic tests due to multiple latent variables: A hierarchical latent class model

Nandini Dendukuri, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University

Web site : http://www.mcgill.ca/epi-biostat-occh/seminars/

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February 6, 2007 - 16:30

Seminar Topologie symplectique
CRM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, salle 5340

Seiberg-Witten equations on symplectic 4-manifolds (following Taubes) I

Paolo Ghiggini

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February 6, 2007 - 17:00 - 18:00

Seminar Student Seminar in Analysis and Probability
Université McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle BH-1234

Branching Processes: the fundamentals

Claude Gravel, UdeM

Web site : www.math.mcgill.ca/student_seminars

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February 7, 2007 - 15:30

Seminar Théorie géométrique des groupes/Geometric Group Theory
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920

Linear programming in right-angled Artin groups

Ben Steinberg, Carleton

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/wise/ggt/seminar.html/

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February 8, 2007 - 10:30

Seminar Centre de recherche en e-finance
HEC, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Jobboom (3e étage - section bleue)

The Overvaluation of Renminbi Undervaluation

Menzie David Chinn, University of Wisconsin at Madison

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February 8, 2007 - 10:45

Seminar GERAD
GERAD, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6516

Approximations in Nonzero-sum games

Alain Haurie, GERAD-HEC

Web site : http://www.gerad.ca/fr/activites/seminaire.php?id=272

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February 8, 2007 - 11:30 - 12:20

Seminar Génie industriel
Ecole Polytechnique, Pav. Lassonde, salle L-4812

Design for Resilience of Networked-Embedded Digital Ecosystems

Mihaela Ulieru, Professor, Canada Research Chair in Adaptive Information Infrastructures for the e-Society, Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick.

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February 8, 2007 - 15:30

Colloquium DIRO
DIRO, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214

Recherche Topologique pour l'Exploration du Logiciel (Topology-Based Searches for Software Investigation)

Martin Robillard, Université McGill

Web site : http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~ahafid/SEMINAIRES/H2007.html

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February 8, 2007 - 15:30

Seminar Integrable systems, random matrices and random processes
Concordia University, Library Building, 921.4 LB

Bicharacter presentation of Vertex algebras

Iana Anguelova , CRM/Concordia

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/~physmath/LabPhysMath/seminaire_fr.html

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February 8, 2007 - 17:00

Seminar CIRGET Junior
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 5448

Spectre, dégénérescence conforme et concentration sur les surfaces

Alexandre Girouard, Université de Montréal

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February 9, 2007 - 10:30

Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323

Groups of infinite words

Denis Serbin, Université McGill

Web site : http://www.lacim.uqam.ca

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February 9, 2007 - 13:30

Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle à venir

Boundary Integral Equations: Analysis and Applications

Olaf Steinbach , Graz

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/jakobson/analysish/seminar.html

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February 9, 2007 - 14:00 - 15:00

Seminar Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
DMS, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214

Value of Life Insurance Contracts under Stochastic Interest Rates and Default Risk

Carole Bernard, U. of Waterloo

Web site : http://www.dms.umontreal.ca/~morales/seminar_main.htm

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February 9, 2007 - 14:30

Seminar Computational Science and Engineering
McGill, Macdonald-Harrington Building, salle / Room G1

On the flow of human blood in a tube

Robert G. Owens, Université de Montréal

Web site : http://www.cse.mcgill.ca/seminar.html

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February 9, 2007 - 15:30

Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214

Brain-Machine Interfacing: Direct Mental Control of a Robotic Arm

Anthony Brockwell, Carnegie Mellon University

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/cgi/Stats.csh

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February 9, 2007 - 16:00

Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UQAM, Pav. Sherbrooke, 200, rue Sherbrooke O., salle SH-3420

Second Hamiltonian Paths and Nash Equilibria

Jack Edmonds

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/cgi/Colloque.csh

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February 12, 2007 - 14:00

Seminar Analyse non linéaire/Systèmes dynamiques
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336

Solutions chaotiques tressées pour l'équation de Swift-Hohenberg

Jean-Philippe Lessard, Georgia Tech

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February 12, 2007 - 14:30

Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside , 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920

Majorization, Matrices and the Geometry of Polynomials

Rajesh Pereira , Univ. of Saskatchewan

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/jakobson/analysish/seminar.html

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February 12, 2007 - 14:35

Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 1205

Mathematical modeling of bone turnover

Svetlana Komarova , McGill University

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/~applsem/LabTalks/LabTalks.php

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February 13, 2007 - 15:30

Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336

Systems of two second order ODEs invariant with respect to the low-dimensional Lie algebras

Maryna Nesterenko, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/~physmath/LabPhysMath/seminaire_fr.html

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February 13, 2007 - 16:30

Seminar Topologie symplectique
CRM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, salle 5340

Seiberg-Witten equations on symplectic 4-manifolds (following Taubes) II

Paolo Ghiggini

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February 13, 2007 - 17:00 - 18:00

Seminar Student Seminar in Analysis and Probability
Université McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle BH-1234

The Magic of Cauchy Distributions

Eugene Kritchevski, McGill University

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February 14, 2007 - 10:45

Seminar GERAD
GERAD, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6516

Recuit rapide pour l'estimation par maximum de vraisemblance

Sylvain Rubenthaler, Laboratoire J.A. Dieudonné, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis

Web site : http://www.gerad.ca/fr/activites/seminaire.php?id=278

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February 14, 2007 - 14:30

Colloquium Géométrie et topologie computationnelles
U. de Sherbrooke, Dép. de mathématiques, 2500, boul. de l'Université, salle D7-2021

Solutions chaotiques tressées pour l'équation de Swift-Hohenberg

Jean-Philippe Lessard, Rutgers University et Georgia Tech

Web site : http://www.dmi.usherb.ca/~kaczyn/en/seminars.html

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February 15, 2007 - 11:30 - 12:20

Seminar Génie industriel
Ecole Polytechnique, Pav. Lassonde, salle L-4812

Le nouveau système NVIDIA CUDA, ou comment harnacher la puissance du GPU pour vos applications scientifiques

Caroline Landry

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February 15, 2007 - 14:00

Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia, Library Building, 9th floor

Arboreal Galois representations

Nigel Boston, Wisconsin

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/darmon/qvnts/qvnts.html

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February 15, 2007 - 15:30

Seminar Integrable systems, random matrices and random processes
Concordia University, Library Building, 935 LB

Bicharacter presentation of Vertex algebras (Continued)

Iana Anguelova , CRM/Concordia

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/~physmath/LabPhysMath/seminaire_fr.html

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February 16, 2007 - 15:30

Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., salle 1B39

A flexible and powerful Bayesian hierarchical model for ChIP-chip data

Raphaël Gottardo, University of British Columbia

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/cgi/Stats.csh

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February 16, 2007 - 15:30

Seminar RROM
HEC Montréal, 3000, Chemin de la Côte-Ste-Catherine , salle St-Hubert, 1er étage, section verte

La recherche opérationnelle chez GIRO

Charles Fleurent, Optimization algorithms, GIRO

Web site : http://www.rrom.ca/seminaires/seminaire.php?id=24

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February 19, 2007 - 15:30

Colloquium Géométrie et topologie computationnelles
U. de Sherbrooke, Dép. de mathématiques, 2500, boul. de l'Université, salle D6-0046

Formule d'Euler–Maxwell-Morse pour une région d’un espace euclidien, sa démonstration simple par le degré de Brouwer, et son utilité en vision par ordinateur

Tomasz Kaczynski, Université de Sherbrooke

Web site : http://www.dmi.usherb.ca/~kaczyn/en/seminars.html

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February 21, 2007 - 15:30

Seminar Théorie géométrique des groupes/Geometric Group Theory
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920

Groups Elementary Equivalent to a Free 2-nilpotent Group of Finite Rank

Mahmood Sohrabi, Carleton

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/wise/ggt/seminar.html/

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February 22, 2007 - 11:30 - 12:20

Seminar Génie industriel
Ecole Polytechnique, Pav. Lassonde, salle L-4812

ESys.Net - Un nouvel outil, une nouvelle approche de modélisation/simulation/vérification pour l'EDA (Electronic Design Automation)

Luc Charest

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February 22, 2007 - 14:00

Seminar Théorie analytique des nombres
DMS, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 5448

Non-vanishing of L-functions and an application to Fermat equations

Nathan Ng

Web site : http://www.dms.umontreal.ca/~kadiri/sem.html

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February 22, 2007 - 15:30

Colloquium DIRO
DIRO, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 5340

From Workflow and Use Case Scenarios to Protocols for Distributed Applications

Gregor von Bochmann, Université d'Ottawa

Web site : http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~ahafid/SEMINAIRES/H2007.html

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February 23, 2007 - 13:00

Seminar CRM-SSC
UQAM, Pavillon Président Kennedy, 201 rue du Président Kennedy (métro Place des Arts), salle PK-5115

Bias and the semiparametric additive model

Tim Ramsey, University of Ottawa/OHRI

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February 23, 2007 - 15:30

Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 5340

Monitoring functional data: mixed effects and high-dimensional clustering

Hugh A. Chipman, Acadia University

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/cgi/Stats.csh

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February 23, 2007 - 16:00

Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UQAM, Pav. Sherbrooke, 200, rue Sherbrooke O., salle SH-3420

Integrable Combinatorics

Philippe Di Francesco, Service de Physique Théorique, CEA Saclay (France)

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/cgi/Colloque.csh

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February 26, 2007 - 14:00

Lecture Biostatistique
Hôpital Ste-Justine, 3175, Chemin de la Côte-Ste-Catherine, Niveau/Floor A, salle Justine-Lacose

The Case-Control Study: Origins and Modern Extensions

Norman Breslow, University of Washington

Web site : http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/oncology/visitingspeakers.htm

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February 26, 2007 - 16:00

Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
CRM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 5340

Road Traffic Modelling: Nonlinear Dynamics, Data, and Future Multiscale Directions

E.R. Wilson, U. Bristol

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/~applsem/LabTalks/LabTalks.php

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February 26, 2007 - 16:30

Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1205

Domination in graphs of minimum degree at least two and large girth

Dieter Rautenbach, University of Bonn

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/~vetta/Seminar.dir/seminar.html

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February 27, 2007 - 14:30

Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920

Some remarks on the categorical foundations of mathematics

J. Lambek

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/triples

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February 27, 2007 - 16:00

Lecture Biostatistique
McGill, McIntyre Medical Building, Charles F. Martin Theatre, 3655, Promenade Sir William Osler, salle 504

The Value of Long Term Follow-Up: Lessons from the National Wilms Study

Norman Breslow, University of Washington

Web site : http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/oncology/visitingspeakers.htm

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February 27, 2007 - 16:30

Seminar Physique Mathématique
Concordia University, Library Building, 1400 Blvd. de Maisonneuve O, Room LB-921-04 (Salle de conférences)

A holomorphic representation of the Jacobi/Schroedinger algebra via coherent states

Stefan Berceanu, Bucharest

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/~physmath/LabPhysMath/seminaire_fr.html

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February 27, 2007 - 17:00 - 18:00

Seminar Student Seminar in Analysis and Probability
Université McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle BH-1234

The Magic of Cauchy Distributions: Part 2

Eugene Kritchevski, McGill University

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February 28, 2007 - 13:00

Seminar neuroscience computationnelle et neuroinformatique
UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214

Generalization in Motor Learning

David Ostry, McGill University

Web site : http://www-etud.iro.umontreal.ca/~rivestfr/CompNeurosci.htm

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February 28, 2007 - 15:30

Seminar Théorie géométrique des groupes/Geometric Group Theory
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920

Algorithmic aspects of free group automorphisms

Peter Brinkmann, CCNY

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/wise/ggt/seminar.html/

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February 28, 2007 - 16:00

Lecture Biostatistique
McGill, 805 Sherbrooke West , Burnside Hall, salle 1B36

Weighted Likelihood for Semiparametric Models and Two Phase Stratified Samples, with Application to Case-Cohort Studies

Norman Breslow, University of Washington

Web site : http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/oncology/visitingspeakers.htm

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