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September 2008
See Seminars

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 )

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Tilings08/index_e.shtml

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Andre-Aisenstadt: Andrei Okounkov

CRM
September 1-17, 2008

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Okounkov/

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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 )

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Bose-Einstein08/index_e.shtml

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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

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Okounkov/

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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

Web site : http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~wkenne/dmo/

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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

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Okounkov/

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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

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

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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

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

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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

Web site : http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~wkenne/dmo/

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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

Web site : http://www.dms.umontreal.ca/~addario/carp/seminar.html

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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

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Okounkov/

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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

Web site : http://www.hec.ca/iea/seminaires.html

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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

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Okounkov/

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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

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

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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

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

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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

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Okounkov/

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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

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Okounkov/

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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

Web site : http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~wkenne/dmo/

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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

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/triples

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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

Web site : http://www.dms.umontreal.ca/~addario/carp/seminar.html

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

Web site : http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~wkenne/dmo/

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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

Web site : http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~labolrc/index_en.htm

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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

Web site : http://www.dms.umontreal.ca/~addario/carp/seminar.html

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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

Web site : http://www.math.uqam.ca/_charbonneau/personnel

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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

Web site : http://www.pages.usherbrooke.ca/grtc/seminars/seminars.html

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

Web site : http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~wkenne/dmo/

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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

Web site : http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/labs/theorique/

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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

Web site : http://www.dms.umontreal.ca/~addario/carp/seminar.html

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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

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

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