Workshops and Conferences
Workshop “Random tilings, random partitions and stochastic growth processes”
CRM
September 1-5, 2008
Organizers :
Jinho Baik (University of Michigan
)
Alexei Borodin (Caltech
)
Bernard Nienhuis (University of Amsterdam
)
Nicolai Reshetikhin (University of California, Berkeley
)
Herbert Spohn (Technische Universität München
)
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Andre-Aisenstadt: Andrei Okounkov
CRM
September 1-17, 2008
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Workshop “Quantum many-body systems; Bose-Einstein condensation”
CRM
September 29 - October 4, 2008
Organizers :
Israel Michael Sigal (University of Toronto
)
Jan Philip Solovej (University of Copenhagen
)
Jakob Yngvason (Universität Wien
)
Valentin Zagrebnov (Université de Marseille
)
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Seminars
September 2, 2008 - 16:30
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
Noncommutative geometry of planar dimers - I
Andrei Okounkov, Princeton University
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September 3, 2008 - 16:30
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill, McConnell Engineering Bldg, 3480 University Street , Room MC320
On the stable set polytope of claw-free graphs
Anna Gallucio, CNR, Rome
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September 4, 2008 - 11:30
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
Noncommutative geometry of planar dimers - II
Andrei Okounkov, Princeton University
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September 4, 2008 - 13:00
Seminar
McGill, Pavillon Rutherford, salle 326
The isospectral fruits of representation theory: Quantum graphs and drums
G. Ben-Shach, McGill Univeristy
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September 5, 2008 - 10:00 - 11:00
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Quelques invariants de graphes issus de la mécanique statistique
Amel Kaouche, UQAM
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September 5, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar CRM Applied Math and McGill CSE
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1205
Validated continuation for infinite dimensional problems
Jean-Philippe Lessard, VU University Amsterdam and Rutgers University
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September 5, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, salle 920
Green function, elliptic functions and mead field equations on torus
C.S. Lin, National Taiwan University
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September 5, 2008 - 15:00
Seminar MITACS de Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
Concordia University, Library Building, Salle / Room 921.04
Discounted claims and complex-parameter beta distributions
Daniel Dufresne, University of Melbourne
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September 5, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Stability and compactification of the moduli of Abelian varieties
Iku Nakamura, Hokkaido University
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September 8, 2008 - 16:30
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, salle 1205
Competitive auctions with collusion
Kazuo Iwama, Kyoto University
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September 9, 2008 - 10:30 - 11:45
Lecture Cours préparatoire - Année thématique 2008-2009
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 5340
Random matrices and exactly solvable models of statistical mechanics 3: Introduction to the six-vertex model of statistical physics
Pavel Bleher, Indiana University / Purdue University Indianapolis
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September 9, 2008 - 15:00
Seminar
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4186
Random graphs from a minor-closed class
Colin McDiarmid, University of Oxford
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September 9, 2008 - 16:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
The algebra and geometry of random surfaces - I
Andrei Okounkov, Princeton University
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September 10, 2008 - 10:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en e-finance et CIRPÉE
HEC, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Salle Marie-Husny (1er étage - section verte)
Climate change, mortality, and adaptation: Evidence from annual fluctuations in weather in the US
Olivier Deschênes, University of California at Santa Barbara
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September 11, 2008 - 10:30 - 11:45
Lecture Cours préparatoire - Année thématique 2008-2009
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 5340
Random matrices and exactly solvable models of statistical mechanics 4: Exact solution of the Six-vertex model with domain wall boundary conditions (DWBC) in the disordered phase. The Riemann-Hilbert approach
Pavel Bleher, Indiana University / Purdue University Indianapolis
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September 11, 2008 - 11:30
Seminar Génie informatique et génie logiciel
École Polytechnique, Pav. Lassonde, salle L-4812
Planification des réseaux d’accès et évolution vers FTTP
Steven Chamberland, École Polytechnique de Montréal
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September 11, 2008 - 16:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
The algebra and geometry of random surfaces - II
Andrei Okounkov, Princeton University
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September 12, 2008 - 10:00 - 11:00
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Palindromic richness
Amy Glen, LaCIM-UQAM
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September 12, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar CRM Applied Math and McGill CSE
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1205
Orthonormal Completion of an array of Unit Length Vectors
Chris Paige, McGill University
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September 12, 2008 - 16:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 1360
The algebra and geometry of random surfaces - III
Andrei Okounkov, Princeton University
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September 15, 2008 - 10:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
The algebra and geometry of random surfaces - IV
Andrei Okounkov, Princeton University
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September 15, 2008 - 16:30
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, salle 1205
Optimal colouring of the edges of the join of two regular graphs
Caterina De Simone, CNR, Rome
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September 16, 2008 - 10:30 - 11:45
Lecture Cours préparatoire - Année thématique 2008-2009
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 5340
Random matrices and exactly solvable models of statistical mechanics 5: Exact solution of the six-vertex model with DWBC in the ferroelectric phase
Pavel Bleher, Indiana University / Purdue University Indianapolis
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September 16, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920
Hakim Duality for $mv$-algebras
Eduardo Dubuc
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September 16, 2008 - 15:00
Seminar
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4186
Behaviour near the extinction time in stable fragmentation processes
Christina Goldschmidt, University of Oxford
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September 16, 2008 - 15:30
Working Seminar Matrices aléatoires, processus aléatoires, systèmes intégrables
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Dimer configurations and Donaldson -Thomas invariants - I
Benjamin Young, McGill-CRM
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September 16, 2008 - 16:00
Seminar Biostatistique
McGill, Pavillon Purvis, 1020 av. Pine Ouest, salle 24
Up from `false positives’ in genetic – and other - epidemiology
Olli S. Miettinen, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Occupational Health, McGill University
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September 17, 2008 - 12:30
Seminar Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Monréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, salle 6214
Les mathématiques de l’origami
Christiane Rousseau, Université de Montréal
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September 18, 2008 - 10:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill, Burnside Hall 920
Integral canonical models of Shimura varieties of Hodge type
Adrian Vasiu, Binghamton
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September 18, 2008 - 10:30 - 11:45
Lecture Cours préparatoire - Année thématique 2008-2009
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 5340
Random matrices and exactly solvable models of statistical mechanics 6: Exact Solution of the Six-vertex model with DWBC on the critical line between the disordered and ferroelectric phases
Pavel Bleher, Indiana University / Purdue University Indianapolis
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September 18, 2008 - 11:30
Seminar Génie informatique et génie logiciel
École Polytechnique, Pav. Lassonde, salle L-4812
RFID data management for pervasive computing applications / Techniques de gestion des données RFID
Magdalena Balazinska, University of Washington
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September 18, 2008 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia, Library Building, 9th floor, salle LB-921-4
The Arithmetic of Orbits for Quadratic Dynamical Systems
Xander Faber, CICMA
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September 19, 2008 - 10:00 - 11:00
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Construction des nombres et des triplets de Markoff a l'aide des mots de Christoffel
Christophe Reutenauer, LaCIM-UQAM
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September 19, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar CRM Applied Math and McGill CSE
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1205
The computation of 2D unstable manifolds in models of turbulent shear flow
Lennaert van Veen, Concordia University
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September 19, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, salle 920
Spectral approximation for fat graphs
D. Grieser, Oldenburg
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September 19, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Some classes of random Hermitian matrices: $F(Tr(V(M))$ Instead of $Tr(V(M))$
Kenneth McLaughlin, The University of Arizona
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September 22, 2008 - 16:30
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, salle 1205
Special cases of the vehicle routing problem
Yoshiaki Oda, Keio University, Japan
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September 23, 2008 - 10:30 - 11:45
Lecture Cours préparatoire - Année thématique 2008-2009
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 5340
Random matrices and exactly solvable models of statistical mechanics 7: The Pfaffian solution of the Dimer model
Pavel Bleher, Indiana University / Purdue University Indianapolis
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September 23, 2008 - 11:00
Seminar Laboratoire des Réseaux
3195 du Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, Université de Montréal
Multi-hop delay performance in wireless mesh networks
Yang Yang, UCL, UK
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September 23, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920
Revisiting bicategories: A prelude to revisiting tricategories
Michael Makkai
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September 23, 2008 - 15:00
Seminar
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4186
Branching random walks, killed at their critical slope
Louigi Addario-Berry, Université de Montréal
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September 23, 2008 - 15:30
Lecture Spéciale
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 201, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Que signifie aujourd'hui, après tant de déstructuration de l'histoire des sciences, « faire l'histoire d'un théorème » ? L'exemple du théorème fondamental de l'algèbre
Jean Dhombres, CNRS, Paris
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September 23, 2008 - 15:30
Working Seminar Matrices aléatoires, processus aléatoires, systèmes intégrables
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Dimer models and Donaldson Thomas invariants - II
Benjamin Young, McGill-CRM
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September 24, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Analyse Université Laval
Université Laval, Pavillon Vachon 2804
Alexander Grothendieck - An outsider and an outcast
Wienfried Scharlau, Münster University
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September 25, 2008 - 10:30 - 11:45
Lecture Cours préparatoire - Année thématique 2008-2009
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 5340
Random matrices and exactly solvable models of statistical mechanics 8: The Pfaffian solution of the six-vertex model with periodic boundary conditions on the free Fermion line
Pavel Bleher, Indiana University / Purdue University Indianapolis
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September 25, 2008 - 11:30 - 12:20
Seminar Génie informatique et génie logiciel
École Polytechnique, Pav. Lassonde, salle L-4812
RFID et gestion de mobilité de bout en bout dans les réseaux 4G
Abdellatif Ezzouhairi, École Polytechnique de Montréal-étudiant au PH.D
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September 25, 2008 - 14:00
Colloquium GRTC
U. de Sherbrooke, Dép. de mathématiques, 2500, boul. de l'Université, pavillon D6-0046
Structures Lorentziennes affines sur la sphère à trois trous
Virginie Charette, Université de Sherbrooke
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September 25, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Statistique
U. de Sherbrooke, Dép. de mathématiques, 2500, boul. de l'Université, salle D6-0046
Problèmes de probabilités et statistique avec applications en hydrologie et en fiabilité
Mario Lefebvre, École Polytechnique
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September 25, 2008 - 16:45 - 18:15
Seminar
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisensstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Torsion in general relativity - I
Luca Fabbri, University of Bologna et Université de Montréal
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September 26, 2008 - 10:00 - 11:00
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
A multivariate interlace polynomial, its definition in Monadic second order logic and application to its computation in polytime on graphs of bounded cliquewidth
Bruno Courcelle, LaBRI
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September 26, 2008 - 14:00
Seminar MITACS de Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Understanding multiscale dynamical complexity in economics and finance
Olga Y. Uritskaya, St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
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September 26, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar CRM Applied Math and McGill CSE
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1205
Stopping criteria for the iterative solution of large sparse linear least squares problems
David Titley-Peloquin, McGill University
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September 26, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1B39
Testing for sparse normal means: Is there a signal?
Jon A. Wellner, University of Washington
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September 26, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UQAM, Pav. Sherbrooke, 200, rue Sherbrooke O., salle SH-3420
PDE aspects of the Navier-Stokes equations
Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota
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September 29, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar CRM Applied Math and McGill CSE
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1205
Modeling and simulation of multiphase incompressible flows using an energetic variational phase field model
Jie Shen, Purdue University
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September 29, 2008 - 16:30
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, salle 1205
$f$-vectors of Minkowski sums of polytopes
Christophe Weibel, McGill University
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September 30, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Laboratoire d’Informatique Théorique et Quantique
Université de Montréal. Pavillon Claire McNicoll, salle Z-315
Lower bounds in algebraic complexity by algebraic geometry
Kenneth W. Regan, SUNY-Buffalo
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September 30, 2008 - 15:00
Seminar
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4186
The height of unlabelled binary trees
Nicolas Broutin, INRIA Rocquencourt
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September 30, 2008 - 16:00
Seminar Biostatistique
McGill, Pavillon Purvis, 1020 av. Pine Ouest, salle 24
Current controversies in propensity-score matching
Peter Austin, University of Toronto
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