Workshops and Conferences
Graph Theory and Algebra. A conference in honor of Gert Sabidussi
CRM
September 7, 2007
Organizers :
Benoît Larose (Concordia University
)
Gena Hahn (Université de Montréal
)
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Andre-Aisenstadt Chair : John Rinzel
CRM
September 15-25, 2007
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Workshop: Mathematical Neuroscience
CRM
September 16-19, 2007
Organizers :
André Longtin (University of Ottawa
)
Stephen Coombes (University of Nottingham
)
Jonathan Rubin (University of Pittsburgh
)
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Andre-Aisenstadt Chair : John Tyson
CRM
September 21-28, 2007
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Minicourse: Quantitative Biology
CRM
September 22-23, 2007
Organizers :
Peter Swain (McGill University
)
Michael C. Mackey (McGill University
)
Brian Ingalls (University of Waterloo
)
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Workshop: Deconstructing Biochemical Networks
CRM
September 24-28, 2007
Organizers :
Peter Swain (McGill University
)
Brian Ingalls (University of Waterloo
)
Michael C. Mackey (McGill University
)
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Seminars
September 4, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Mathématiques appliquées
McGIll, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1B24
The Mathematics Behind Google's PageRank
Ilse Ipsen, North Carolina State University
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September 6, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Centre de recherche en e-finance
HEC, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Salle Hélène-Desmarais (1er étage - section bleue)
Some Economics of Treatment Disparities in Healthcare
Amitabh Chandra
, Harvard University and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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September 6, 2007 - 16:15
Seminar Integrable systems, random matrices and random processes
Concordia University, SGW, Library Building, 9th floor, room LB 912 (Math Help Centre)
Asymptotic eigenvalue distribution of large Toeplitz matrices
Seung-Yeop Lee
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September 7, 2007 - 14:00
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
Concentration phenomena for singularly perturbed elliptic PDEs
Andrea Malchiodi, ISAS, Trieste
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September 7, 2007 - 14:00
Seminar Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
Concordia, 1455 de Maisonneuve W., Library Building, Salle / Room 921.04
Hermite series for Average (Asian) options
Daniel Dufresne, University of Melbourne
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September 11, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Pre-Hamiltonian structures for integrable nonlinear systems of PDE
Arthemy Kiselev
, DMS, Université de Montréal
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September 11, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Mathématiques appliquées
McGIll, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1B24
Numerical simulation of clogging and back flushing operation in a filter element in liquid filtration
Abderrazak Ramadane
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September 11, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Statistique
U. de Sherbrooke, Dép. de mathématiques, 2500, boul. de l'Université, salle D6-0046
Les statistiques de $A$-dépendance pour l'indépendance mutuelle et sérielle entre variables catégorielles
Martin Bilodeau, Université de Montréal
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September 11, 2007 - 16:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920
Isbell duality, Part I
Michael Barr
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September 11, 2007 - 16:00
Seminar Biostatistique
McGill, Pavillon Purvis, 1020 av. Pine O., salle 24
Variable selection in inverse probability of treatment weighting
Robert Platt
, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University.
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September 12, 2007 - 16:00
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill, McConnell Engineering Bldg., 3480 rue University, salle 320
Scheduling for wireless systems
Lisa Zhang, Bell Laboratories
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September 13, 2007 - 10:30
Seminar Théorie analytique des nombres
DMS, Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 5183
The Large Sieve
Jason Lucier, Université de Montréal
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September 13, 2007 - 11:30
Seminar Génie industriel
Ecole Polytechnique, Pav. Lassonde, salle L-4812
Plateforme de validation et de vérification à multi niveaux d’abstraction pour les systèmes numériques complexes
Jean-François Boland, École de technologie supérieure)
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September 14, 2007 - 10:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en e-finance
HEC, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Salle Transcontinental
Understanding Index Option Returns
Mikhail Chernov
, London Business School
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September 14, 2007 - 10:00
Colloquium DIRO
DIRO, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
WiMAX Network Reference Model and Point-to-Point Link Operation
Behcet Sarikaya, Huawei, USA
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September 14, 2007 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy O., salle PK-4323
Dirichlet-Neumann operators, Poincare-Einstein manifolds and some generalisations
Rod Gover, University of Aukland
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September 14, 2007 - 14:00
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
On nodal sets of eigenfunctions
Dmitry Jakobson, McGIll
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September 14, 2007 - 14:30
Seminar Analyse Université Laval
Université Laval, Pavillon Alexandre Vachon, Salle 2804
On the converse of Anderson's theorem
Ariel Blanco, Queen’s University
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September 14, 2007 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Geometry and Dynamics of Surface Group Representations
William Goldman, University of Maryland
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September 17, 2007 - 16:30
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 1360
Dynamics of Visual Bistable Perception: e.g., the Necker Cube
John Rinzel, Center for Neural Science and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University
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September 18, 2007 - 14:30
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920
Pregroups and Cognition
Claudia Casadio, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
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September 18, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Mathématiques appliquées
McGIll, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1B24
Re-projection: Mathematical and computational challenges for high order vortex methods
Louis F. Rossi, University of Delaware
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September 18, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Théorie géométrique des groupes/Geometric Group Theory
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920
The equation w(x,y)=u over free groups
N. Touikan, McGill University
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September 18, 2007 - 16:00
Seminar Biostatistique
McGill, Pavillon Purvis, 1020 av. Pine O., salle 24
Strike three: Umpire’s demand for discrimination
Christopher A. Parsons, Johan Sulaeman, Michael C. Yates, Daniel S. Hamermesh
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September 18, 2007 - 16:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Boutroux curves with prescribed potential: equilibrium measures without a variational problem
Marco Bertola, Concordia
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September 18, 2007 - 16:30
Seminar Topologie symplectique
CRM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, salle 5340
Virtual integration and Gromov-Witten invariants, I
Shengda Hu
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September 18, 2007 - 9:10
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
Timing computations in the auditory brain stem
John Rinzel, Center for Neural Science and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University
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September 19, 2007 - 12:30
Seminar Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Monréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, 2900, chemin de la Tour, salle Z-220
Polyèdres et fullerènes
Christiane Rousseau
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September 19, 2007 - 13:30
Seminar Moonshine
Concordia University, Library Building, 1400 Blvd. de Maisonneuve O, Salle / Room LB-921-04
Moonshine - what it is - and what we would like to know
John McKay, Concordia
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September 20, 2007 - 10:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill, Pav. Burnside , 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
Canonical subgroups of abelian varieties
Payman Kassaei, London
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September 20, 2007 - 11:30
Seminar Génie industriel
Ecole Polytechnique, Pav. Lassonde, salle L-4812
Qui fait quoi et quand?
Michel Gagnon, DGIGL
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September 20, 2007 - 14:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia, Library Building, 9th floor
The local Langlands conjecture for GSp(4)
Wee-Teck Gan, UCSD
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September 20, 2007 - 15:30
Colloquium DIRO
DIRO, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 5340
Complexité du jeu de patience
Pierre McKenzie, Université de Montréal
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September 20, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Centre de recherche en e-finance
HEC, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Salle Transat (1er étage - section jaune)
“Personal Influence": Social Context and Political Competition
Andrea Mattozzi
, California Institute of Technology (CALTECH)
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September 20, 2007 - 16:30
Seminar Integrable systems, random matrices and random processes
Concordia University, SGW, Library Building, 9th floor, room LB 912 (Math Help Centre)
Schwarz Function, Quadrature Domains and Asymptotics of Orthogonal Polynomials
Ferenc Balogh
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September 21, 2007 - 10:00
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Schensted-Fomin Correspondences, Hopf Algebras and Graph Duality
Janvier Nzeutchap, Université de Rouen
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September 21, 2007 - 10:30
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke W. salle 1214
Surprises in Experimental Mathematics
Michael Shamos, Carnegie Mellon University
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September 21, 2007 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy O., salle PK-5115
Open book decompositions of torus bundles
Jeremy Van Horn-Morris, UQAM
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September 21, 2007 - 11:00
Seminar
Université de Montréal, Faculté de pharmacie, Pavillon Jean-Coutu, Salle S1-131
Comment prendre en compte l'observance dans les nouveaux traitements oraux anticancéreux
Pascal Girard, Faculté de médecine, U. de Lyon Sud
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September 21, 2007 - 14:00
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
On the excitation spectrum of homogeneous Bose gas
Jan Derezinski, Warsaw
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September 21, 2007 - 14:30
Seminar Analyse Université Laval
Université Laval, Pavillon Alexandre Vachon, Salle 2804
The dual of a subnormal operator
John B. Conway, George Washington University
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September 21, 2007 - 14:35
Seminar Computational Science and Engineering
McGill University, McConnell Engineering Building, Room 103
Error Indicators and Adaptivity for hp-Discontinuous Galerkin FEM for Nonlinear Elliptic Problems
Thomas Wihler, McGill University
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September 21, 2007 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Computation and Inference for Stochastic Volatility Models Driven by Levy Processes
David Stephens, Université McGill
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September 21, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Physical Society Colloquium
McGill, Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Keys Auditorium (room 112)
Bringing Hearing to the Deaf Cochlear Implants: a Technical and Personal Account
Ian Shipsey, Purdue University
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September 22, 2007 - 9:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
Sniffers, Buzzers, Toggles and Blinkers
John Tyson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
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September 24, 2007 - 16:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 1360
How Do Cells Compute?
John Tyson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
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September 24, 2007 - 17:00
Seminar CIRGET Junior
UQAM, Pav. President-Kennedy, 201, av. President-Kennedy, salle PK-115
Décomposition de l'algèbre des champs holomorphes sur une variété kähler extémale
Mehdi Lejmi, UQAM
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September 25, 2007 - 11:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
Modeling the rhythmic dynamics of developing spinal cord
John Rinzel, Center for Neural Science and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University
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September 25, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Mathématiques appliquées
McGIll, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1B24
On coupled flow and two-phase flow problems
Béatrice Rivière, University of Pittsburgh
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September 25, 2007 - 16:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920
Isbell duality, II
Michael Barr
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September 25, 2007 - 16:00
Seminar Biostatistique
McGill, Pavillon Purvis, 1020 av. Pine O., salle 24
Optimal Adaptive Treatment Strategies: Using structural nested models to estimate the optimal duration of breastfeeding
Erica E. M. Moodie, McGill University
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September 25, 2007 - 16:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
New families of cryptographic systems
Maryna Nesterenko
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September 25, 2007 - 16:30
Seminar Topologie symplectique
CRM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, salle 5340
An introduction to Feynmann diagrams
Ozgur Ceyhan, UdeM
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September 26, 2007 - 10:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en e-finance
HEC, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Salle Hélène-Desmarais (1er étage - section jaune)
Theory and Inference for a Markov Switching GARCH Model
Luc Bauwens
, Université Catholique de Louvain
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September 26, 2007 - 11:30
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
Cell Cycle Regulation in Eukaryotes
John Tyson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
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September 26, 2007 - 12:30
Seminar Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Monréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, 2900, chemin de la Tour, salle Z-220
Méthodes de Runge-Kutta et méthodes d'Adams pour résoudre une équation différentielle de façon numérique
Sylvain Pannetier-Lebeuf
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September 26, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Théorie géométrique des groupes/Geometric Group Theory
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920
Word problem for compressed words in a free group
Jeremy McDonald, McGill University
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September 26, 2007 - 16:00
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill, McConnell 320
A simple P-matrix linear complementarity problem for discounted games
Rahul Savani, University of Warwick
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September 27, 2007 - 10:30
Seminar Théorie analytique des nombres
DMS, Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 5183
The Large Sieve, II
Jason Lucier, Université de Montréal
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September 27, 2007 - 11:30
Seminar Génie industriel
Ecole Polytechnique, Pav. Lassonde, salle L-4812
Vers un système interactif pour la résolution d'un problème de
satisfaction de contraintes (CSP)
Philippe Galinier, DGI
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September 27, 2007 - 16:00
Seminar Statistique
U. de Sherbrooke, Dép. de mathématiques, 2500, boul. de l'Université, salle D6-0046
Modelling Birthweight in the Presence of Gestational Age Measurement Error - A Semi-parametric Approach
Russell Steele, Université MGill
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September 27, 2007 - 16:30
Seminar Integrable systems, random matrices and random processes
Concordia University, SGW, Library Building, 9th floor, room LB 912 (Math Help Centre)
Moments of the Harish-Chandra measure (Integrals over the classical groups) I: Introduction and overview
Aleix Prats Ferrer, CRM
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September 28, 2007 - 10:00
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Reachability in Petri Nets with Inhibitor arcs
Klaus Rheinhardt, Universität Tübingen
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September 28, 2007 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy O., salle PK-5115
Knots with Identical Khovanov Homology
Liam Watson, UQAM
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September 28, 2007 - 11:00
Seminar Analyse
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Sur une inégalité différentielle
Richard Fournier, Collège Dawson et CRM
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September 28, 2007 - 14:00
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
Asymptotic Geometric Analysis; Geometrization of Probability
Vitali Milman, Tel Aviv
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September 28, 2007 - 14:30
Seminar Analyse Université Laval
Université Laval, Pavillon Alexandre Vachon, Salle 2804
Applications linéaires preservant le rayon spectral local
Abdellatif Bourhim, Univ. Laval
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September 28, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Physical Society Colloquium
McGill, Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Keys Auditorium (room 112)
Unravelling the accelerating universe
Rachel Bean, Cornell University
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