Workshops and Conferences
2e Conférence francophone sur les architectures logicielles - 14e Colloque international sur les langages et modèles à objets
CRM
March 3-7, 2008
Organizer :
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc (Université de Montréal
)
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«Dimension 2 1/2
Science à partir d'une feuille de papier»
Grande conférence CRM de Tadashi Tokieda
CRM
March 18, 2008
Organizer :
Christiane Rousseau (Université de Montréal
)
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Lecture by Allan Borodin, 2008 CRM-Fields-Pims Prize Recipient
CRM
March 28, 2008
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Seminars
March 3, 2008 - 12:30
Seminar Théorie géométrique des groupes/Geometric Group Theory
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1120
Elementary theory of a free two nilpotent group
Mahmood Sohrabi, Carleton
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March 3, 2008 - 14:00
Seminar Génie industriel
Ecole Polytechnique, Pav. Lassonde, salle L-1010
Deformable registration: Setting the state of the art using primal dual strategies
Nikos Paragios, École Centrale de Paris
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March 4, 2008 - 14:00
Seminar CAP Lecture
McGill, Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Keys Auditorium (room 103)
Quantum computing, cryptography and teleportation
Daniel James, University of Toronto
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March 4, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Harish-Chandra integrals as nilpotent integrals
Aleix Prats Ferrer, Concordia et CRM
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March 4, 2008 - 15:35
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1205
Modelling the Czochralski growth of type III-V binary semiconductors
Sean Bohun, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
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March 4, 2008 - 16:00
Seminar Biostatistique
McGill, Pavillon Purvis, 1020 av. Pine O., salle 24
Statistical challenges in studying screening for a cancer
Olli S. Miettinen, McGill University
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March 5, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Géométrie algébrique
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1B23
Closed embeddings of $C^*$ in $C^2$
Peter Russell, McGill University
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March 6, 2008 - 13:00
Seminar Théorie analytique des nombres
DMS, Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 4384
On gaps between squarefree numbers
Arnaud Chadozeau, Université de Montréal
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March 6, 2008 - 17:00
Seminar CIRGET Junior
UQAM, Pav. President-Kennedy, 201, av. President-Kennedy, salle PK-115
Théorèmes de comparaison en cohomologie
Gabriel Chênevert, McGill
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March 7, 2008 - 10:00
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
An introduction to Sage: Open source mathematics software
Franco Saliola, LaCIM-UQAM
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March 7, 2008 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy O., salle PK-5115
Géométrie des petites valeurs propres du Laplacien
Alexandre Girouard, UdeM
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March 7, 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: Chapter 4: Examples of tau functions II : Matrix integrals" (Part A)
John Harnad, CRM and Concordia University
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March 7, 2008 - 14:00
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 934
Upper bounds on the spectrum of the Laplacian
B. Colbois, Univ. Neuchatel
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March 7, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Computational Science and Engineering
McGill, McConnell Engineering Bldg, Room 103
The bidiagonalization algorithms of Gene Golub and William Kahan
Chris Paige, Professor Emeritus, McGill University
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March 7, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle BH-708
Learn from the neighbour: Parallel-chain adaptive MCMC
Radu Craiu, University of Toronto
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March 7, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Tsunami asymptotics
Michael Berry, Bristol University
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March 11, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, 1205
Eigenmodes and quantum chaos: Lost on the frequency axis? Check your Dirichlet-to-Neumann map!
Alex Barnett, Dartmouth
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March 11, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Twisted vertex operators, Schur $Q$-functions and BKP
Iana Anguelova, Concordia et CRM
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March 11, 2008 - 15:35
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1205
Eigenmodes and quantum chaos: Lost on the frequency axis? Check your Dirichlet-to-Neumann map!
Alex Barnett, Dartmouth
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March 12, 2008 - 12:00
Seminar Economie, Finance et Ingénierie financière
HEC, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Salle Sony (1er étage - section jaune)
Correlation of the recovery rate and the arrival rate of default in the valuation of collateralized debt obligations
Jean-Roch Sibille, Université de Liège et HEC Montréal
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March 12, 2008 - 12:30
Seminar Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Monréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, 2900, chemin de la Tour, salle Z-200
Pourquoi utilisez-vous Google ?
Yvan Saint-Aubin, Université de Montréal
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March 12, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Géométrie algébrique
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1B23
Varieties whose dimension is equal to the number of linearly independent 1-forms and the albanese map
Steven Lu, UQAM
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March 13, 2008 - 10:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill, Pav. Burnside , 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
Mahler measures and regulators
Matilde Lalin , University of Alberta
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March 13, 2008 - 11:30
Seminar Génie industriel
Ecole Polytechnique, Pav. Lassonde, salle L-4812
Classification de données d'images par apprentissage. Applications en microscopie cellulaire et mesure de la qualité des images
Christophe Charrier, U. Caen
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March 13, 2008 - 14:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia, Library Building, 9th floor
Jacquet-Langlands correspondence for $p$-adic families of modular forms
Adrian Iovita
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March 13, 2008 - 17:00
Seminar CIRGET Junior
UQAM, Pav. President-Kennedy, 201, av. President-Kennedy, salle PK-115
Virtual properties of 3-manifold groups
Stefan Friedl, UQAM
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March 14, 2008 - 10:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy O., salle PK-5115
A nonlinear Hodge theory for 3 dimensional CR structures
John Bland, University of Toronto
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March 14, 2008 - 10:00
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Classes d'isométrie des associaèdres généralisés
Christophe Hohlweg, LaCIM-UQAM
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March 14, 2008 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy O., salle PK-5115
The dynamics theorem for constant mean curvature surfaces
William Meeks, University of Massachusetts
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March 14, 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: Chapter 4: Examples of tau functions II : Matrix integrals" (Part B)
John Harnad, CRM and Concordia University
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March 14, 2008 - 14:00
Seminar Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
UdeM, DMS, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Actuarial applications of a hierarchical insurance claims model
Emiliano Valdez, University of Connecticut
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March 14, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
Solutions with vortices of a semi-stiff boundary value problem for the Ginzburg-Landau equation
L. Berlyand, Penn. State
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March 14, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
Concordia, Library Building, 1400 de Maisonneuve O., salle LB-921.04
Object oriented data analysis
J. Steve Marron, University of North Carolina
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March 14, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium SOCS Colloquium
McGill University, McConnell Engineering Building, salle MC13
Numerically accurate solutions in linear and integer programming
Bill Cook, Georgia Institute of Technology
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March 14, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UQAM, Pav. Sherbrooke, 200, rue Sherbrooke O., salle SH-3420
Greedy algorithms and complexity for nonnegative matrix factorization
Stephen Vavasis, University of Waterloo
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March 17, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
A non-commutative Levy-Cramer theorem
Y. Pautrat, Paris-Sud, visiting McGill
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March 17, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Géométrie algébrique
UQAM, Pav.. Président-Kennedy, 201 ave. du Président-Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Isomonodromy and Hamiltonian flows
Jacques Hurtubise, McGill
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March 17, 2008 - 16:30
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke Street West , Room 1205
Extremal subgraphs of random graphs
Panagiotou Konstantinos, ETH Zurich
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March 18, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920
Rearranging colimits: a lemma due to, and used for model categories
by, Jacob Lurie
M. Makkai
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March 18, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
The scaling limit of two-dimensional critical percolation
Charles Newman, Courant Institute
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March 18, 2008 - 15:35
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1205
Approximation and recovery of damped wave operators
Mark Embree, Rice University
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March 18, 2008 - 19:30
Lecture Grande conférence du CRM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Jean-Coutu, 2940, chemin de Polytechnique, Salle S1-151
Dimension $2 1/2$
Science à partir d'une feuille de papier
Tadashi Tokieda, Université de Cambridge
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March 19, 2008 - 12:00
Seminar Economie, Finance et Ingénierie financière
HEC, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Salle Hélène-Desmarais (1er étage - section bleue)
Why are trade credits so damn expensive?
Martin Boyer, HEC Montréal
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March 19, 2008 - 12:40
Seminar Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Monréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, 2900, chemin de la Tour, salle Z-200
Limites d'équations aux dérivées partielles
Marc Laforest, École Polytechnique
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March 19, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium Topologie computationnelle
U. de Sherbrooke, Dép. de mathématiques, 2500, boul. de l'Université, salle D7-2016
Homology of random fields
Konstantin Mischaikow, Rutgers University
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March 20, 2008 - 10:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill, Pav. Burnside , 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
Biregular expanders and the Ramanujan conjecture
Cristina Ballantine, Holy Cross
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March 20, 2008 - 11:30
Seminar Génie industriel
Ecole Polytechnique, Pav. Lassonde, salle L-4812
Adaptation de maillages hybrides
François Guibault, ÉPM
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March 20, 2008 - 14:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia, Library Building, 9th floor
Averages of central $L$-values of Hilbert modular forms
Brooke Feigon, Toronto
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March 20, 2008 - 17:00
Seminar CIRGET Junior
UQAM, Pav. President-Kennedy, 201, av. President-Kennedy, salle PK-115
Lignes et domaines nodaux des fonctions propres du Laplacien
Alexandre Girouard, Université de Montréal
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March 21, 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:Chapter 4: (Part B) Examples of tau functions II : Matrix integrals
John Harnad, CRM and Concordia University
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March 25, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920
The basics of operads, with special emphasis of cyclic operads
M. Makkai
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March 25, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Quasi-exactly solvable $N$-body models with spin and spin chains of Haldane-Shastry type
Alberto Enciso, Complutense, Madrid
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March 25, 2008 - 15:35
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1205
Bubble stabilized discontinuous Galerkin method for elliptic, parabolic and Stokes' problems
Benjamin Stamm, Institute of analysis and scientific computing, Ècole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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March 25, 2008 - 16:00
Seminar Biostatistique
McGill, Pavillon Purvis, 1020 av. Pine O., salle 24
Space-time modeling of multiple sclerosis incidence in northern Sardinia, Italy
Katia Charland, Postdoctoral fellow, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston. Research Assistant, The Surveillance Lab, McGill Clinical and Health Informatics, McGill University
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March 26, 2008 - 12:30
Seminar Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Monréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, 2900, chemin de la Tour, salle Z-200
Le miracle de Lwow
Norbert Schlomiuk, UdeM
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March 26, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Géométrie algébrique
McGill, 805 Sherbrooke O., Burnside Hall, salle 1B23
On the semistability of the Albanese map
Qi Zhang, Univ. of Missouri at Columbia
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March 27, 2008 - 13:00
Seminar Théorie analytique des nombres
DMS, Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 4384
On gaps between squarefree numbers - II
Arnaud Chadozeau, Université de Montréal
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March 28, 2008 - 10:00
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Palindromisation dans le groupe libre
Christophe Reutenauer, LaCIM-UQAM
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March 28, 2008 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy O., salle PK-5115
Holomorphic one forms and Kodaira dimension
Qi Zhang, University of Columbia at Missouri
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March 28, 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: Chapter 4: (Part B) Examples of tau functions III : Fermionic construction of 2-matrix partition functions
John Harnad, CRM and Concordia University
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March 28, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle / Room 920
Span of translates on the real line, and zeros of Fourier transform
Nir Lev, Tel Aviv
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March 28, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Computational Science and Engineering
McGill, McConnell Engineering Bldg, Room 103
Coding and decoding algorithms in asynchronous networks
Mohamed Oussama Damen, Univ. of Waterloo
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March 28, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
HEC, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, salle Cogeco (1er étage, section bleue)
Modéliser la forme d'une distribution
Stephan Morgenthaler, Chaire de statistique appliquée,
Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
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March 28, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar
McGill, Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Keys Auditorium (room 112)
QCD, strings and black holes: A duality between gravity and field theory
Juan Maldacena, Institute for Advanced Study
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March 28, 2008 - 16:00
Lecture Prix CRM-FIELDS-PIMS
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Why simple algorithms can be complex
Allan Borodin, University of Toronto
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March 31, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Economie, Finance et Ingénierie financière
HEC, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Salle Serge-Saucier (1er étage - section bleue)
Vertical integration and production: Some plant-level evidence
Chad Syverson, Univ. of Chicago and NBER
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March 31, 2008 - 16:30
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke Street West , Room 1205
Cutting squares and cubes asymptotically fairly
Amram Meir, York University
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