Workshops and Conferences
Workshop on Spectrum and Dynamics
CRM
April 7-11, 2008
Organizers :
Dmitry Jakobson (McGill University
)
Iosif Polterovich (Université de Montréal
)
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Workshop on Geometric Evolution Equations
CRM
April 16-27, 2008
Organizers :
Vestislav Apostolov (Université du Québec à Montréal
)
Pengfei Guan (McGill University
)
Alina Stancu (Concordia University
)
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Andre-Aisenstadt Chair: Gerhard Huisken
CRM
April 17-25, 2008
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The 5th Montreal Scientific Computing Days
CRM
April 30 - May 2, 2008
Organizers :
Michel C. Delfour (Université de Montréal
)
André Fortin (Université Laval
)
Thomas P. Wihler (Universitaet Bern
)
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Seminars
April 1, 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 II
M. Makkai
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April 1, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Poisson statistics of eigenvalues for random discrete Schrödinger operators
Eugene Kritchevski, McGill University
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April 1, 2008 - 15:35
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1205
Interactions of spiral waves with media imperfections : A dynamical systems approach
Victor G. LeBlanc, University of Ottawa
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April 1, 2008 - 16:00
Seminar Biostatistique
McGill, Pavillon Purvis, 1020 av. Pine O., salle 24
An introduction to Bayesian adjustments for measurement error
Lawrence Joseph, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University
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April 2, 2008 - 12:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en e-finance
HEC, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Salle CGA ( 1er étage - section verte)
Revisiting the risk mitigating effect of convertible debt
Pascal François, Service de l'enseignement de la finance - HEC Montréal
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April 2, 2008 - 12:30
Seminar Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Monréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, 2900, chemin de la Tour, salle Z-200
Constructions à la règle et au compas
Christian Côté, Cégep de Lanaudière et Université de Montréal
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April 2, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Physical Society Colloquium
McGill, Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)
How string theory resolves the black hole information paradox
Samir Mathur, Ohio State University
Web site : h
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April 3, 2008 - 11:30
Seminar Génie industriel
Ecole Polytechnique, Pav. Lassonde, salle L-4812
Tradeoffs in retrofitting security: An experience report
Mark S. Miller, Google Inc.
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April 3, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Bioinformatique
McGill, Duff Medical Building, 3775 University Street, Main Amphitheatre 1
High throughput microarray platform: Validation and use in characterizing kinase inhibitors
Paul S. Kayne, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
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April 3, 2008 - 17:00
Seminar CIRGET Junior
UQAM, Pav. President-Kennedy, 201, av. President-Kennedy, salle PK-115
Sur la non-symétrie des concordances Lagrangiennes
Baptiste Chatraine, Université Libre de Bruxelles
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April 4, 2008 - 10:00
Seminar Economie, Finance et Ingénierie financière
HEC, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Salle Ordre des CGA du Québecr (1er étage - section verte)
The macroeconomic effect of sentiment
Huntley Schaller , Carleton University
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April 4, 2008 - 10:00
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Ensembles discrets d'inertie minimale
Annie Lacasse, LaCIM-UQAM
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April 4, 2008 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy O., salle PK-5115
Maximally symmetric generic hyperbolic equations
Dennis The, McGill University
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April 4, 2008 - 11:00
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Calcul de distances génomiques
Cédric Chauve, Simon Fraser University
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April 4, 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 5: (Part A) Fermi systems in equilibrium and random processes
John Harnad, CRM and Concordia University
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April 4, 2008 - 14:00
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle BH-934
Multipliers in spaces of differentiable functions with applications to PDEs
T. Shaposhnikova, Ohio State and Linkoeping University
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April 4, 2008 - 14:00
Seminar Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
Concordia, 1515 Ste-Catherine O., Engineering Computer Science & Visual Arts Complex (EV), Salle EV-1.605
Acceptability indices and their applications
Dilip Madan, University of Maryland, College Park
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April 4, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle BH-708
Statistical methods for high-throughput reverse genetic studies
Jenny Bryan, University of British Columbia
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April 4, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UQAM, Pav. Sherbrooke, 200, rue Sherbrooke O., salle SH-3420
Unsolved mysteries of solutions to PDEs near the boundary
Vladimir Maz’ya, Ohio State University, University of Liverpool, and Linköping University
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April 7, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisensstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Processus de Boltzmann
Gaston Giroux
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April 7, 2008 - 16:30
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke Street West , Room 1205
The structure of sparse graphs
Jaroslav Nesetril, Charles University
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April 8, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Rank-$k$ solutions of hydrodynamic-type systems
Michel Grundland
, UQTR
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April 8, 2008 - 15:35
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1205
Fast high-order integral equation methods (with application to optical gratings and antenna design)
Michael Haslam, York University
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April 8, 2008 - 16:00
Seminar Biostatistique
McGill, Pavillon Purvis, 1020 av. Pine O., salle 24
Clustering complex systems
Antonio Ciampi, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University
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April 8, 2008 - 16:30
Seminar Topologie symplectique
CRM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, salle 5340
Open books, Stein fillings and the symplectic mapping class group
Paul Biran, Tel Aviv University
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April 9, 2008 - 12:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en e-finance
HEC, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Salle Sony ( 1er étage - section jaune)
The real estate risk premium: A developed / emerging country panel data analysis
John-John D’Argensio
, CADIM
Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
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April 9, 2008 - 12:30
Seminar Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Monréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, 2900, chemin de la Tour, salle Z-200
Le dilemme du prisonnier : des mathématiques à la philosophie
François Lepage, département de philosophie, UdeM
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April 9, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Géométrie algébrique
McGill, 805 Sherbrooke O., Burnside Hall, salle 1B23
The Frobenius map and Zariski locally trivia $G$-bundles (joint work with S. Subramanian)
Vikram Mehta, Tata Instute of Fundamental Research
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April 9, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Statistique
U. de Sherbrooke, Dép. de mathématiques, 2500, boul. de l'Université, salle D6-0046
Estimateurs de Bayes minimax de la moyenne dans le cas non Gaussien
Othmane Kortbi, Université de Sherbrooke
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April 9, 2008 - 17:00
Seminar CIRGET Junior
UQAM, Pav. President-Kennedy, 201, av. President-Kennedy, salle PK-115
Poisson structures on generalized Hitchin systems via hypercohomology
Mike Wong, McGill
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April 10, 2008 - 11:30
Seminar Génie industriel
Ecole Polytechnique, Pav. Lassonde, salle B-529
Covertly tracking malfeasance on the net: challenges, pitfalls, and new threats
Fabian Monrose, Johns Hopkins U.
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April 10, 2008 - 13:00
Seminar Théorie analytique des nombres
DMS, Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 4384
Bohr's theorem and the Riemann hypothesis
Mohammad Bardestani, Université de Montréal
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April 10, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium
Faubourg Building FG-C080, 1608 St. Catherine St. West
Life andlegacy of a legendary mathematician: Leonard Euler
Robert Bradley
, Adelphi University
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April 11, 2008 - 10:00
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Plactic relations for $r$-domino tableaux
Muge Taskin, York University
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April 11, 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 5: (Part A & B (cont'd)) Fermi systems in equilibrium and random processes
John Harnad, CRM and Concordia University
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April 11, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Computational Science and Engineering
McGill, McConnell Engineering Bldg, Room 103
Numerics for inverse problems in biomedical imaging
Wolfgang Bangerth, Texas A&M University
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April 11, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 5340
Bayesian computation for statistical models with intractable normalizing constants
Yves Atchade, University of Michigan
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April 11, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar
McGill, Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Keys Auditorium (room 112)
The birth of neutrino astronomy, and its newest telescope, antares
Larry Sulak, Boston University
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April 11, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Nodal lines of eigenfunctions, geodesics and complex analysis
Steve Zelditch, John Hopkins
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April 11, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Nodal lines of eigenfunctions, geodesics and complex analysis
Steve Zelditch, John Hopkins
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April 14, 2008 - 14:00
Seminar Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
Concordia University, Library Building, Salle / Room 921.04
Pricing volatility derivatives with general risk functions
Raquel Balbas, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
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April 14, 2008 - 16:30
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke Street West , Room 1205
Partitioning graphs of supply and demand
Takehiro Ito, Tohoku University
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April 15, 2008 - 13:00
Lecture
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisnestadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 5340
Mixing and waves: On the long time behaviour of wave propagation on manifolds of negative curvature
Roman Schubert, University of Bristol
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April 15, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920
The radical approach to infinitesimals in historical perspective
J. Lambek
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April 15, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Processus de Penrose et super-radiance dans la métrique de Kerr
Niky Kamran, McGill
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April 15, 2008 - 16:30
Seminar Topologie symplectique
CRM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, salle 5340
Spectral numbers in Floer theories
Michael Usher , Princeton
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April 16, 2008 - 12:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en e-finance
HEC, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Salle St-Hubert (1er étage - section verte)
Strategic forecasting in rank-order tournaments : Evidence from Horse-Racing tipsters
Olivier Gergaud, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
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April 16, 2008 - 13:30
Seminar Centre de recherche en e-finance
HEC, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Salle Xerox (1er étage - section jaune)
Can a representative agent model represent a heterogeneous agent economy?
Yongsung Chang, University of Rochester and Yonsei University
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April 16, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Géométrie algébrique
UQAM, Pav.. Président-Kennedy, 201 ave. du Président-Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Geometry of curves with exceptional secant planes
Ethan Cotterill, Queen's
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April 17, 2008 - 10:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill, Pav. Burnside , 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
Arithmetic intersection and a generalization of Chowla-Selberg formula
Tonghai Yang , Wisconsin
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April 17, 2008 - 14:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia, Library Building, 9th floor
On the Coates-Sinnott conjectures
Cristian Popescu, UCSD
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April 17, 2008 - 16:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia, Library Building, 9th floor
TBA
Karl Mahlburg, MIT
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April 17, 2008 - 17:00
Seminar CIRGET Junior
UQAM, Pav. President-Kennedy, 201, av. President-Kennedy, salle PK-115
Khovanov homology and lens space surgeries
Liam Watson, UQAM
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April 18, 2008 - 10:00
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Jeu de taquin pour tableaux croissants
Hugh Thomas, Université du Nouveau-Brunswick
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April 18, 2008 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy O., salle PK-5115
Finite generation of the canonical ring
James McKernan, UCSB/MIT
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April 18, 2008 - 13:30
Lecture
Université de Montréal, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, salle 1207
Entropy of chaotic eigenmodes
Stéphane Nonnenmacher, CEA-Saclay
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April 18, 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: Dispersionless 2-Toda hierarchy, normal matrix models, tau function of an analytic curve
Ferenc Balogh, Concordia
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April 18, 2008 - 14:00
Seminar Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 5340
Convex hedging in incomplete markets and the Neyman-Pearson lemma
Birgit Rudloff, Princeton University
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April 18, 2008 - 14:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Flexibility of singular Einstein metrics
R. Mazzeo, Stanford
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April 18, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Genetic association studies with known and unknown population structure
Mary Sara McPeek, University of Chicago
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April 18, 2008 - 16:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
Geometric variational problems in general relativity
Gerhard Huisken, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik
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April 21, 2008 - 10:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
Mean curvature flow and isoperimetric inequalities
Gerhard Huisken, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik
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April 22, 2008 - 10:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
Inverse mean curvature flow
Gerhard Huisken, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik
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April 22, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Reheating in inflationary cosmology, random matrix theory and a new proof of Anderson localization
Robert Brandenberger, McGill
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April 23, 2008 - 11:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
An isoperimetric concept for the mass in general relativity
Gerhard Huisken, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik
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April 23, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Géométrie algébrique
McGill, 805 Sherbrooke O., Burnside Hall, salle 1234
On hyperbolicity and the resolution of singularity theorems for foliated threefolds
Michael McQuillan, IHES, Glasgow
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April 24, 2008 - 13:00
Seminar Théorie analytique des nombres
DMS, Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 4384
Factoring integers - II
Igor Wigman, Université de Montréal
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April 24, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium DIRO
Université de Montréal. Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 3195
Linear logic and the complexity of control flow analysis
Harry Mairson, Brandeis University
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April 25, 2008 - 10:00
Seminar Economie, Finance et Ingénierie financière
HEC, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Salle Marie-Husny (1er étage - section verte)
Continuous-time models, realized volatilities, and testable distributional implications for daily stock returns
Morten Ørregaard Nielsen, Cornell University
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April 25, 2008 - 10:00
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Unicode, un modèle de codage du texte électronique
Arthur Reutenauer, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Brest
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April 25, 2008 - 10:30
Seminar Analyse et dynamique non linéaire
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Récents progrès sur l'unicité des solutions périodiques à oscillations lentes de l'équation différentielle avec retard de Wright
Jean-Philippe Lessard, Rutgers University
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April 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: Chapter 7: (Part A ) Isomonodromic tau functions and various relations to matrix models I.
Marco Bertola, CRM and Concordia University
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April 25, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
New Ricci flow invariant curvature conditions and applications
Burkhard Wilking, Mathematisches Institut der Uni Münster
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April 29, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
The boundary $GL(1|1)$ WZNW-model
Thomas Creutzig, DESY, Hambourg
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April 30, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Statistique
U. de Sherbrooke, Dép. de mathématiques, 2500, boul. de l'Université, salle D6-0046
Estimation bayésienne nonparamétrique de copules
Simon Guillotte, Université de Montréal et UPEI
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April 30, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Théorie géométrique des groupes/Geometric Group Theory
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920
Implicit function theorem for free groups
Olga Kharlampovich, McGill University
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