Workshops and Conferences
“Astonishing Cellular Automata”
Lecture by Alexander Holroyd, 2007 André-Aisenstadt Prize Winner
CRM
April 5, 2007
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“Toric Varieties and Quivers”
Lecture by Gregory G. Smith, 2007 André-Aisenstadt Prize Winner
CRM
April 5, 2007
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The 4th Montreal Science Computing Days
CRM
April 16-17, 2007
Organizers :
Emmanuel Lorin de la Grandmaison (Carleton University
)
Robert G. Owens (Université de Montréal
)
Thomas P. Wihler (Universitaet Bern
)
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“Groups and symmetries: From the Neolithic Scots to John McKay”
Conference honouring the contributions of John McKay
CRM
April 27-29, 2007
Organizers :
John Harnad (Université de Montréal & Concordia University
)
Pavel Winternitz (Université de Montréal
)
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School: Macdonald Polynomials and Hopf Algebras
CRM
April 30 - May 4, 2007
Organizers :
Marcelo Aguiar (Texas A&M University
)
François Bergeron (Université du Québec à Montréal
)
Nantel Bergeron (York University
)
Mark Haiman (University of California, Berkeley
)
Stephanie van Willigenburg (University of British Columbia
)
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Workshop: The geometry of holomorphic and algebraic curves in complex algebraic varieties
CRM
April 30 - May 4, 2007
Organizers :
Steven Shin-Yi Lu (UQAM
)
Peter Russell (Université de Montréal
)
James D. Lewis (University of Alberta
)
Xi Chen (University of Alberta
)
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Seminars
April 2, 2007 - 14:00
Seminar Analyse non linéaire/Systèmes dynamiques
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
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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April 2, 2007 - 14:35
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 1205
Mimetic Finite Differences
Andrea Cangiani, U. Pavia
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April 2, 2007 - 16:30
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1205
Turan-type results on intersection graphs
Janos Pach
, Courant Institute
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April 3, 2007 - 14:30
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920
Abstract Computability
Pieter Hofstra
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April 3, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Metrics and cluster parametrisation for the analysis of gene expression data. Case study: E.coli
Maia Angelova, University of Northumbria
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April 3, 2007 - 16:00
Seminar Biostatistique
McGill, Pavillon Purvis, 1020 av. Pine O., salle 24
Estimating the Time-Dependent Effect of a Time-Dependent Experimental Therapy using Observational Data
Douglas E. Schaubel, University of Michigan School of Public Health
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April 3, 2007 - 16:00
Seminar
McGill, McConnell Engineering Bldg., 3480 rue University, salle 103
Distributive Lattices of Small Width: A problem from Stanley's Enumerative Combinatorics
Jonathan Farley, University of West Indies
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April 3, 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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April 3, 2007 - 17:00
Seminar Student Seminar in Analysis and Probability
Université McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle BH-1234
Limits of eigenfunctions on arithmetic flat tori
Dmitry Jakobson, McGill
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April 4, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Théorie géométrique des groupes/Geometric Group Theory
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920
Rips construction and Kazdan property (T)
Denis Osin, CCNY
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April 5, 2007 - 11:30 - 12:20
Seminar Génie industriel
Ecole Polytechnique, Pav. Lassonde, salle L-4812
Modèles probabilistes de la connaissance pour les environnements d'apprentissage intelligents
Michel Desmarais
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April 5, 2007 - 14:30
Lecture Prix André-Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Astonishing Cellular Automata
Alexander E. Holroyd, University of British Columbia
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April 5, 2007 - 15:30
Colloquium DIRO
DIRO, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle *** 5340 ***
Raising the Stakes
Jonathan Schaeffer, University of Alberta
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April 5, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Centre de recherche en e-finance
HEC, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Salle Xerox Canada (1er étage - section jaune)
Do Leading Indicators Lead Peaks More Than Troughs?
Richard Paap, Erasmus School of Economics
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April 5, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Integrable systems, random matrices and random processes
Concordia University, Library Building, salle 921.4 LB (Seminar room)
Beta-ensembles, multivariate polynomials, and asymptotic eigenvalue density, II
Patrick Desrosiers
, CRM/Laval
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April 5, 2007 - 16:00
Lecture Prix André-Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Toric Varieties and Quivers
Gregory G. Smith, Queen's University
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April 5, 2007 - 17:00
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
Concordia, Library Building, 1400 de Maisonneuve Ouest, salle LB 921-4
Kolmogorov Entropy for Classes of Convex Functions
D. Dryanov
, Concordia
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April 10, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Polynômes de Macdonald et géometrie des variétés de représentation des surfaces de Riemann
Emmanuel Letellier, Concordia
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April 10, 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) III
Paolo Ghiggini
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April 10, 2007 - 17:00
Seminar Student Seminar in Analysis and Probability
Université McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle BH-1234
Hierarchical Anderson Model
Eugene Kritchevski, McGill University
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April 12, 2007 - 10:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill, Pav. Burnside , 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
FABulous pro-p-groups
John Labute, McGill
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April 12, 2007 - 14:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia, Library Building, 9th floor
Arithmetic special cycles for unitary groups
Stephen Kudla, Toronto
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April 12, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Statistique
U. de Sherbrooke, Dép. de mathématiques, 2500, boul. de l'Université, salle D6-0046
Analyse de la variance à effets aléatoires vue sous une perspective Bayésienne
Kevin Bosa, Université de Sherbrooke
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April 12, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Centre de recherche en e-finance
HEC, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Salle Xerox Canada (1er étage - section jaune)
Efficient Likelihood Analysis and Filtering for State-Space Representations
Dharmarajan Hariharan, University of Pittsburgh
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April 12, 2007 - 16:00
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
CRM, UdeM. Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Conservation Laws with Discontinous fluxes - Entropy theories
A. Adimurthi, TIFR Bangalore
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April 13, 2007 - 10:30
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
The Langlands dual group and representation theory
George Lusztig, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT
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April 13, 2007 - 14:00
Seminar Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
DMS, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
Convex Hedging in Incomplete Markets
Birgit Rudloff, Princeton University
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April 13, 2007 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
Asymptotic formulae for the spectral function
Yuri Safarov, King's College, London
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April 13, 2007 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Dimension reduction and tuning parameter selection in nonparametric regression
Kjell Doksum, University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of California-Berkeley
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April 13, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Physical Society Colloquium
McGill, Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)
Cosmology and the Shape of Large-Scale Structure
Neta Bahcall
, Princeton University
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April 13, 2007 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Representation densities and arithmetic geometry
Stephen Kudla, University of Toronto
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April 17, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Sur les paires de Lax de la sixième équation de Painlevé
Robert Conte, CEA-Saclay
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April 17, 2007 - 16:00
Seminar Biostatistique
McGill, Pavillon Purvis, 1020 av. Pine O., salle 24
Outbreak detection in surveillance
David Buckeridge, McGill University
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April 18, 2007 - 11:00
Colloquium
Concordia, 1665, rue Sainte-Catherine, local CL 239
Triangulations of surfaces ans gentle algebras
Thomas Brüstle, Université de Sherbrooke/ Bishop’s University
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April 18, 2007 - 12:00
Colloquium
Concordia, 1665, rue Sainte-Catherine, local CL 239
An introduction to frames
Farhat Abohlfaya, Université Concordia
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April 18, 2007 - 14:30
Colloquium
Concordia, 1665, rue Sainte-Catherine, local CL 239
The bound quiver of a split extension
Flavio Coelho, Université de São Paulo, Brésil
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April 18, 2007 - 14:30
Seminar Théorie analytique des nombres
DMS, Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 5448
The distribution of $\zeta(1+it)$ and $L(1,\chi)$
Youness Lamzouri
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April 18, 2007 - 15:50
Colloquium
Concordia, 1665, rue Sainte-Catherine, local CL 239
Composantes d’Auslander-Reiten avec raccourcis
Edson Ribeiro Alvares, Université Fédérale du Parana, Brésil
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April 18, 2007 - 16:50
Colloquium
Concordia, 1665, rue Sainte-Catherine, local CL 239
Algèbres de cordes de type laura
Julie Dionne, Université de Sherbrooke
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April 19, 2007 - 14:00
Seminar Théorie analytique des nombres
DMS, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 5448
Artin's primitive root conjecture
Nathan Jones
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April 19, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Centre de recherche en e-finance
HEC, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Salle Sony (1er étage - section jaune)
The Pitfalls of "Work-first" Welfare Reform Policies: Human Capital Accumulation in the Self-sufficiency Project
Chris Riddell, Queen's University
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April 20, 2007 - 10:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en e-finance
HEC, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Salle Sony (1er étage - section jaune)
Deal Behavior and the Trading of Newly Issued Corporate Bonds
Edith Hotchkiss, Boston College
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April 20, 2007 - 10:30
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
A q-Eulerian polynomial connected to the q,t-Catalan numbers
Jim Haglund, University of Pennsylvania
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April 20, 2007 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
Hypoellipticity of Boltzmann equation
C.J. Xu, Univ. de Rouen
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April 20, 2007 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
McGill University, Arts Building W-215, 853 Sherbrooke W.
Bayesian Areal Wombling for Geographical Boundary Analysis
Brad Carlin, University of Minnesota
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April 20, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Integrable systems, random matrices and random processes
Concordia University, Library Building, salle 935 LB (Seminar room)
Laplacian Growth, Equilibrium Measures and Random Normal Matrices
Ferenc Balogh, CRM
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April 20, 2007 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Equisingularity, Multiplicity, and Dependence
Steven Kleiman, MIT
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April 24, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Symmetries of the 6j symbols and Painleve VI
Philip Boalch, ENS, Paris
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April 25, 2007 - 12:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en e-finance
HEC, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Salle Louis-Laberge (1er étage - section rouge)
Environmental Risks, the Judgment-Proof Problem and Financial Responsibility
Bidénam Kambia-Chopin, Service de l’enseignement de la finance
HEC Montréal
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April 26, 2007 - 10:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill, Pav. Burnside , 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
Non-vanishing of L-series modulo p
Kartik Prasanna, Maryland and CICMA
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April 26, 2007 - 14:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia, Library Building, 9th floor
Simultaneous Prime Values of Polynomials in Positive Characteristic
Paul Pollack, Dartmouth
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April 26, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Extended Gravity and Dark Energy as A Non-Linear Curvature Effect (with Salvatore Capozziello)
Mauro Francaviglia, Università di Torino
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April 27, 2007 - 10:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en e-finance
HEC, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine,Salle Transat (1er étage - section jaune)
Subsampling Realised Kernels
Peter Reinhard Hansen, Stanford University
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April 27, 2007 - 10:30
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Non-symmetric Macdonald polynomials, key polynomials, and crystal graphs
Sarah Mason, LaCIM-UQAM
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April 27, 2007 - 14:00
Seminar Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
Concordia University, Library Building, Salle / Room 921.04
Modelling and Forecasting Mortality
Ana Debon, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
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April 27, 2007 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Counting rational points and rational curves: from Waring's problem to quantum cohomology
Yuri Manin, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Mathematik
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April 30, 2007 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
Nonlinear Schrodinger equation in Hyperbolic spaces
G. Staffilani
, MIT
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