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
)
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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
)
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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
)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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