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January 2008
See Seminars

Workshops and Conferences

Young Mathematicians' Conference

CRM
January 18-19, 2008
Organizers :
Walter Craig (McMaster University )
Adrian Nachman (University of Toronto )
Dmitri Pelinovsky (McMaster University )
Mary Pugh (University of Toronto )
Catherine Sulem (University of Toronto )
Nilima Nigam (Simon Fraser University )

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/YMC08/index_e.shtml

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Workshop on Initial Conditions

CRM
January 24-25, 2008
Organizers :
Walter Craig (McMaster University )
Pengfei Guan (McGill University )
Christiane Rousseau (Université de Montréal )

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Initial08/index_e.shtml

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Seminars

January 4, 2008 - 16:00

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

Attractors and invariant measures in low-dimensional dynamical systems

Michael Jakobson, University of Maryland

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

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January 9, 2008 - 17:00

Seminar ISM des étudiants aux cycles supérieurs
UQAM, Pavillon President-Kennedy, PK-5333

The magic of spinors

Dennis The, McGill

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January 10, 2008 - 10:30

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

Good reductions of Abelian varieties over number fields

Adrian Vasiu, Binghampton

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

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January 10, 2008 - 11:30

Seminar GIGL
Ecole Polytechnique, Pav. Lassonde, salle L-4812

Détection d’attaque d’inondation de paquets SYN

Martine Bellaïche, DGIGL, EPM

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January 10, 2008 - 14:00

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

$p$-adic deformations of Shintani cycles

Shahab Shahabi, McGill

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

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January 11, 2008 - 11:00

Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy O., salle PK-5115

Comparison geometry for the smooth metric measure spaces

Guaofang Wei, UCSB

Web site : http://www.cirget.uqam.ca/pages/activ/seminaires_en.shtml

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January 11, 2008 - 14:30

Seminar Computational Science and Engineering
McGill University, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke W., salle BH 1205

Mathematical problems associated with atmospheric data assimilation and weather prediction

Pierre Gauthier, Université du Québec à Montréal

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January 11, 2008 - 15:30

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

Physics at the edge - Soft matter and its interfaces

Steve Granick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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

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January 11, 2008 - 16:00

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

L'invariance de Thomae de 3F2 par le groupe symétrique S5 et les produits de matrices (2,2) aléatoires

Gérard Letac, Université Paul Sabetier

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

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January 14, 2008 - 14:30

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

On a Birkhoff mormal form theorem for $1-d$ Gross-Pitaevskii equations

Z. Yan, McGill

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

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January 15, 2008 - 15:30

Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1205

Colored extrinsic noise and stochastic gene expression

Vahid Shahrezaei, McGill, Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics

Web site : http://www.dms.umontreal.ca/~mathapp

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January 15, 2008 - 16:00

Seminar Biostatistique
McGill, Pavillon Purvis, 1020 av. Pine O., salle 24

Supremum weighted log-rank test and sample size for comparing two-stage adaptive treatment strategies

Abdus S. Wahed, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh

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

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January 16, 2008 - 12:30

Seminar Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Monréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, 2900, chemin de la Tour, salle Z-220

Les mathématiques à la rescousse d'Escher

Jenny Pineault, Michèle Tessier-Baillargeon

Web site : http://www.dms.umontreal.ca/~clubmath/

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January 16, 2008 - 16:00

Colloquium Physical Society Colloquium
McGill, The Redpath Museum Auditorium, 859 Sherbrooke Street West

Confessions of a converted lecturer

Eric Mazur, Harvard Universirty

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January 16, 2008 - 17:30

Seminar ISM des étudiants aux cycles supérieurs
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 5340

Ces logiques qui ont un squelette dans le placard

Sylvain Hallé, UQAM

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January 17, 2008 - 10:30

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

Fontaine's crystalline conjecture revisited

Fabrizzio Andreatta, Milano

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

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January 17, 2008 - 10:30

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

Fontaine's crystalline conjecture revisited

Fabrizio Andreatta, Milano

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

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January 17, 2008 - 10:30

Seminar Théorie analytique des nombres
DMS, Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 5448

Bombieri's mean value theorem

Ismaila Ndiaye, Université de Montréal

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/%7Elucier/seminaire/HoraireAutomne.html

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January 17, 2008 - 16:00

Seminar Integrable systems, random matrices and random processes
Concordia University, SGW, Library Building, 9th floor, room LB 912 (Math Help Centre)

Lecture series / preparatory course on tau functions and their applications: The Sato-Segal-Wilson KP tau function

John Harnad, CRM and Concordia University

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/~physmath/LabPhysMathEn/working_seminar.html

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January 17, 2008 - 16:00

Colloquium Physical Society Colloquium
McGill, Ernest Rutheford Physics Bldg, Auditorium Keys (salle 112)

Wrapping light around a har

Eric Mazur, Harvard Universirty

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January 17, 2008 - 17:30

Seminar
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 201, av. du Président-Kennedy, salle PK-5333

Initiation à l'analyse non standard

Rachid Bebbouchi, Université de Sciences et Techniques Houari Boumediène, Alger

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January 18, 2008 - 11:00

Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy O., salle PK-5115

Polar actions on Kaehler manifolds

Samuel Tebege, UQAM

Web site : http://www.cirget.uqam.ca/pages/activ/seminaires_en.shtml

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January 18, 2008 - 11:00

Lecture Hebb Lecture
McGill University, Stewart Biology Bldg., 1205 Dr. Penfield Ave., Room W7/21

What are latent variables made of ?

Brian W. Junker, Carnegie Mellon University

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January 18, 2008 - 15:30

Lecture Hebb Lecture
McGill University, Stewart Biology Bldg., 1205 Dr. Penfield Ave., Room S1/3

Some issues and applications in cognitive diagnosis and educational data mining

Brian W. Junker, Carnegie Mellon University

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January 18, 2008 - 16:00

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

From Elie Cartan to Gerard Debreu: Some applications of exterior differential calculus to economic theory

Ivar Ekeland, PIMS, UBC

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

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January 21, 2008 - 14:00

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

$p$-adic Galois representations and geometric constructions of Banach space representations

Matthias Strauch, Cambridge

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

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January 21, 2008 - 16:30

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

Mixing in oriented graphs

Omid Amini, Max Planck Institut für Informatik

Web site : http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~aking6/dmo/

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January 22, 2008 - 15:30

Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1205

A posteriori error estimation and anisotropic mesh adaptation in 3-D compressible flow simulations

Yves Bourgault, University of Ottawa

Web site : http://www.dms.umontreal.ca/~mathapp

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January 22, 2008 - 15:30

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

Lecture series / preparatory course on tau functions and their applications: The KP hierarchy: Examples of KP tau functions"

John Harnad, CRM and Concordia University

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/~physmath/LabPhysMathEn/working_seminar.html

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January 23, 2008 - 12:30

Seminar Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Monréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, 2900, chemin de la Tour, salle Z-220

L'évolution de la coopération et le dilemme du prisonnier

Sabin Lessard, UdeM

Web site : http://www.dms.umontreal.ca/~clubmath/

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January 23, 2008 - 15:30

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

Survival analysis and Length-Biased sampling: An application to survival with dementia

Masoud Asgharian, Université McGill

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January 23, 2008 - 17:00

Seminar ISM des étudiants aux cycles supérieurs
Université Concordia, Library Building, LB-655

The statistical interpretation of DNA evidence

Geva Maimon, McGill

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January 24, 2008 - 10:30

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

Investigations in the arithmetic of cyclotomic fields and modular curves

Romyar Sharifi, McMaster

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

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January 24, 2008 - 11:30

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

Using constraint programming for queue design and optimization

J. Christopher Beck, U. Toronto

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January 24, 2008 - 14:00

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

Iwasawa theory of elliptic curves for supersingular primes

Byoung-Du Kim

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

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January 24, 2008 - 15:30

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

Conjugacy problem for the Grigorchuk group

A. Miasnikov, McGill University

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January 24, 2008 - 16:00

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

On the group of units of an order in a non-split quaternion algebra

Capi Corrales, Madrid

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

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January 24, 2008 - 17:00

Seminar CIRGET Junior
UQAM, Pav. President-Kennedy, 201, av. President-Kennedy, salle PK-115

On slice knots

Stefan Friedl, UQAM, Warwick

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January 25, 2008 - 10:00

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

Algebraic structures on Grothendieck groups of a tower of algebras (with Nantel Bergeron)

Huilan Li , LaCIM-UQAM

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

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January 25, 2008 - 11:00

Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy O., salle PK-5115

On character varieties, sets of discrete characters, and non-zero degree maps

Steven Boyer, UQAM

Web site : http://www.cirget.uqam.ca/pages/activ/seminaires_en.shtml

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January 25, 2008 - 13:30

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

Lecture series / preparatory course on tau functions and their applications: Geometric definition of KP tau functions : the Sato-Segal-Wilson Grassmanian

John Harnad, CRM and Concordia University

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/~physmath/LabPhysMathEn/working_seminar.html

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January 25, 2008 - 14:30

Seminar Computational Science and Engineering
McGill, McConnell Engineering Bldg, Room 103

Multilayer gelatin impedance pump: A nature inspired valveless pump with bio-medical applications

Laurence Loumes, McGill University

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

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January 25, 2008 - 15:30

Colloquium Physical Society Colloquium
McGill, Ernest Rutheford Physics Bldg, Auditorium Keys (salle 112)

Diversity in young neutron stars: The high-magnetic-field puzzle

Victoria Kaspi, McGill University

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

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January 25, 2008 - 16:00

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

The conformal equivalence problem and bisection problem for germs of curvilinear angles

Christiane Rousseau, Université de Montréal

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

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January 25, 2008 - 16:00

Seminar Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
Concordia University, Library Building, Salle / Room 921.04

A unifying stochastic approach in Ruin theory with applications in credit risk modelling

Runhuan Feng, University of Waterloo

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

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January 28, 2008 - 16:30

Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill, Burnside Hall, salle 1205

Graph minors and products

David Wood, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Web site : http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~aking6/dmo/

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January 29, 2008 - 15:30

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

Integrable evolutionary equations and related algebraic structures

Victor Kac, MIT

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/~physmath/LabPhysMathEn/seminaire_en.html

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January 29, 2008 - 15:35

Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1205

Efficient linear and nonlinear solvers for multiphase flow in porous media

Felix Kwok, Geneva University

Web site : http://www.dms.umontreal.ca/~mathapp

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January 29, 2008 - 16:00

Seminar Biostatistique
McGill, Pavillon Purvis, 1020 av. Pine O., salle 24

Hidden data: statistical issues in the study of fetal growth and perinatal mortality

Robert Platt, McGill University

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

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January 30, 2008 - 12:30

Seminar Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Monréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, 2900, chemin de la Tour, salle Z-200

Les nombres 10-adiques

Abraham Broer, UdeM

Web site : http://www.dms.umontreal.ca/~clubmath/

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January 30, 2008 - 15:30

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

La statistique comme domaine d’application. Un exemple démographique avec le modèle de microsimulation LifePaths de Statistique Canad

Yann Décarie

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January 30, 2008 - 17:00

Seminar ISM des étudiants aux cycles supérieurs
Université McGill, Burnside Hall 1024 (Lounge)

Frobenius leading you where lambda's legs meet

Ahmad Lavasani, Concordia

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January 31, 2008 - 10:30

Seminar Théorie analytique des nombres
DMS, Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 5448

Factoring integers

Igor Wigman, Université de Montréal

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/%7Elucier/seminaire/HoraireAutomne.html

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January 31, 2008 - 11:30

Seminar GIGL
Ecole Polytechnique, Pav. Lassonde, salle L-4812

Understanding network traffic through lightweight hierarchical clustering

Anil Somayaji, U. Carleton

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January 31, 2008 - 17:00

Seminar CIRGET Junior
UQAM, Pav. President-Kennedy, 201, av. President-Kennedy, salle PK-115

The push-forward of the Kähler structure under certain circumstances

Radu Cebanu, UQAM

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