Workshops and Conferences
Workshop on Technology Integration in Teaching Undergraduate Mathematics Students
CRM
October 1, 2010
Organizers :
Chantal Buteau (Brock University
)
Daniel Jarvis (Nipissing University
)
Zsolt Lavicza (University of Cambridge
)
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Quebec-Maine Conference on Number Theory, 2010
CRM
October 2-3, 2010
Organizers :
Hugo Chapdelaine (Université Laval
)
Jean-Marie De Koninck (Université Laval
)
Claude Levesque (Université Laval
)
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Workshop “Group Actions and Dynamics”
CRM
October 4-8, 2010
Organizers :
Olga Kharlampovich (McGill University
)
Alexei G. Miasnikov (Stevens Institute of Technology
)
Denis E. Serbin (Stevens Institute of Technology
)
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Colloque “Méthodologie statistique contemporaine”
Université de Sherbrooke
October 6-7, 2010
Organizers :
Éric Marchand (Université de Sherbrooke
)
Ernest Monga (Université de Sherbrooke
)
Gilles Ducharme (Université Montpellier 2
)
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Colloquium on Surfaces and Representations
Université de Sherbrooke
October 6-9, 2010
Organizers :
Ibrahim Assem (Université de Sherbrooke
)
Thomas Brüstle (Université de Sherbrooke
)
Virginie Charette (Université de Sherbrooke
)
Tomasz Kaczynski (Université de Sherbrooke
)
Vasilisa Shramchenko (Université de Sherbrooke
)
Christian Mercat (Université Montpellier 2
)
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Workshop “Equations and First-order Properties in Groups”
CRM
October 11-15, 2010
Organizers :
Olga Kharlampovich (McGill University
)
Alexei G. Miasnikov (Stevens Institute of Technology
)
Ilya Kazachkov (McGill University
)
Vladimir N. Remeslennikov (Omsk State University
)
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Andre-Aisenstadt Chair: Alexander Razborov
CRM
October 11-15, 2010
Organizer :
Olga Kharlampovich (McGill University
)
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Andre-Aisenstadt Chair: Angus MacIntyre
CRM
October 18-22, 2010
Organizers :
Olga Kharlampovich (McGill University
)
Alexei G. Miasnikov (Stevens Institute of Technology
)
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Lecture by Gordon Slade, 2010 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize Recipient
CRM
October 20, 2010
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Lecture by Grace Yi, 2010 CRM-SSC Prize Recipient
UQAM
October 22, 2010
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CRM Workshop on Missing Data Approaches in the Health and Social Services
UQAM
October 22, 2010
Organizers :
Russell Steele (McGill University
)
Geneviève Lefebvre (Université du Québec à Montréal
)
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54e Congrès de l'AMQ "Mathématiques et environnement, c’est tout naturel"
Cégep de Rimouski
October 22-24, 2010
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Seminars
October 1, 2010 - 10:00
Seminar Combinatoire et informatique mathématique (LaCIM)
UQAM, PK-4323, 201, rue Président-Kennedey, Montréal
À venir
Florian Block, University of Michigan
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October 1, 2010 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Hyperbolic knots in S^3 with lens space and Seifert fibered surgeries
Sungmo Kang, UQAM
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October 1, 2010 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1B24
A Stopping Rule for MCMC Clustering
Vahid Partovi Nia, McGill University
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October 1, 2010 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UQAM, Pav. Sherbrooke, 200, rue Sherbrooke O., salle SH-3420
Some features and challenges of the Navier-Stokes-alpha-beta equation
Eliot Fried, McGill University
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October 4, 2010 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Topologie symplectique
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 4336
Sutures and contact homology
Roman Golovko, Université de Montréal et UQAM
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October 4, 2010 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
A variational theory of hyperbolic Lagrangian coherent structures
George Haller, McGill University
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October 5, 2010 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
Visions of six dimensions
J. Lambek, McGill
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October 5, 2010 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
The Excitation Spectrum for Weakly Interacting Bosons
Robert Seiringer, Dept. of mathematics, McGill
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October 5, 2010 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Biostatistique
Purvis Hall, rm 25, 1020 ave. des Pins Ouest (corner Peel), Montreal
Measuring Vulnerability via Spatially Hierarchical Factor Models.
Alexandra M. Schmidt, Associate Professor - Statistics, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Matemática.
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October 6, 2010 - 12:30 - 13:20
Seminar Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, 2900, Chemin de la Tour, salle Z-337
Archéologie et mathématiques
Yvan Saint-Aubin, Université de Montréal
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October 7, 2010 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill University, Burnside Hall, 9th floor
Orbits of group representations, and arithmetic applications (I) Orbits of group representations, and arithmetic applications (II)
Manjul Bhargava, Princeton University
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October 7, 2010 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University, Library Building, 9th floor
Orbits of group representations, and arithmetic applications (I) Orbits of group representations, and arithmetic applications (II)
Manjul Bhargava, Princeton University
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October 8, 2010 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Relative contact homologies
Roman Golovko, Université de Montréal
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October 8, 2010 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill University, Burnside 920, 805, rue Sherbrooke O
Local smoothing with a prescribed loss for the Schrodinger equation
Hans Christianson , North Carolina
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October 8, 2010 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar MITACS de Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
UQAM, Salle/Room PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, Montréal
ON THE TIME TO RUIN IN SPARRE-ANDERSEN RISK MODELS
Prof. David Landriault, University of Waterloo
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October 8, 2010 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
UdeM, pavillon AA, salle 6214
Nonparametric Estimation and Inference for the Copula Parameter in Conditional Copulas
Elif F. Acar, McGill University, Dept. Math. & Stat.
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October 8, 2010 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UQAM, Pav. Sherbrooke, 200, rue Sherbrooke O., salle SH-3420
The average rank of elliptic curves
Manjul Bhargava, Princeton University
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October 12, 2010 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Families of Superintegrable Systems
Sarah POST, CRM
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October 12, 2010 - 16:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
Topics in Extremal Combinatorics
Alexander Razborov, University of Chicago
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October 13, 2010 - 16:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
Complexity of Propositional Proofs
Alexander Razborov, University of Chicago
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October 14, 2010 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Théorie analytique des nombres
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 5448
Upper bounds for moments of the Riemann zeta function
Maksym Radziwill, Stanford University
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October 14, 2010 - 11:30
Lecture Club mathématique Sherbrooke
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D3-2040
Une interprétation géométrique des frises de carquois
Philippe Dompierre, Université de Sherbrooke
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October 14, 2010 - 16:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
Flag Algebras
Alexander Razborov, University of Chicago
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October 15, 2010 - 10:00
Seminar Combinatoire et informatique mathématique (LaCIM)
UQAM, PK-4323, 201, rue Président-Kennedey, Montréal
Maximal fillings of Ferrers shapes and pipe dreams
Luis Serrano, LaCIM-UQAM
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October 15, 2010 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Representation varieties of non-orientable surface groups
Tom Baird, Memorial
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October 15, 2010 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill University, Burnside 920, 805, rue Sherbrooke O
N-body systems, quantum fields, many-body systems: a proof of the Mourre estimate
Vladimir Georgescu, Cergy-Pontois
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October 15, 2010 - 13:45
Seminar Topologie computationnelle et imagerie
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D4-2024
Calcul de l’anneau de cohomologie cubique
Tomasz Kaczynski, Université de Sherbrooke
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October 15, 2010 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
UQAM, Pavillon PK, 201, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-1320 **
A new approach to computing sampling probabilities in population genetics models with recombination
Paul Jenkins, University of California, Berkeley
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October 15, 2010 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques / Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 1360
Aisenstadt Chair Lecture: "Grand Challenges in Complexity Theory"
Alexander Razborov, University of Chicago
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October 18, 2010 - 16:00
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., / Burnside 1205
Constructive Algorithms for Discrepancy Minimization
Nikhil Bansal, IBM TJ Watson
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October 18, 2010 - 16:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
Exponential Fields, from the point of view of logic, algebra and analysis
Angus MacIntyre, Queen Mary University of London
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October 18, 2010 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
Two numerical analysis issues in the simulation of the climate system
Bill Layton, University of Pittsburgh
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October 19, 2010 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Two-variable Wilson polynomials and the generic superintegrable system on the 3-sphere
Willard MILLER, University of Minnesota
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October 19, 2010 - 16:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
Schanuel’s Conjecture, and exponential algebraicity
Angus MacIntyre, Queen Mary University of London
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October 19, 2010 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Biostatistique
Purvis Hall, 1020 ave des Pins West, room 25, Montreal
Paleodemographic Modeling: Mortality During the Medieval Black Death.
Sharon DeWitte, Assistant Professor, University at Albany.
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October 19, 2010 - 9:30 - 10:30
Seminar Analyse et sujets connexes
Université de Montréal, CRM, salle 4336
Problèmes extrémaux de potentiel et approximation rationnelle
Laurent Baratchart, INRIA, France
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October 19, 2010 - 9:30 - 10:30
Seminar Analyse et sujets connexes
CRM
Problèmes extrémaux de potentiel et approximation rationnelle
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October 19, 2010 - 9:30 - 10:30
Seminar Analyse et sujets connexes
CRM
Problèmes extrémaux de potentiel et approximation rationnelle
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October 19, 2010 - 9:30 - 10:30
Seminar Analyse et sujets connexes
CRM, UdeM, 2920, chemin de la Tour, salle 4336
Problèmes extrémaux de potentiel et approximation rationnelle
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October 20, 2010 - 12:30
Working Seminar Groupe de travail (Sherbrooke)
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D3-2030
Nombres de Markoff et algèbres amassées
Thomas Brüstle, Universités de Sherbrooke et Bishop's
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October 20, 2010 - 13:30 - 15:00
Seminar GRTC
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des Sciences, salle D4-2024, Sherbrooke
Computing The Cubical Cohomology Ring, II
Tomasz Kaczynski, Université de Sherbrooke
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October 20, 2010 - 16:00
Lecture Prix CRM-FIELDS-PIMS
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
The Self-Avoiding Walk
Gordon Slade, University of British Columbia
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October 21, 2010 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
University of Vermont, Mann Hall, Room 211
L-series of building blocks
(joint work with Jordi Quer)
Xavier Guitart, McGill, Barcelona
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October 21, 2010 - 16:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
Zilber’s exponential fields as exponential analogues of the complex field
Angus MacIntyre, Queen Mary University of London
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October 22, 2010 - 10:00
Seminar Combinatoire et informatique mathématique (LaCIM)
UQAM, PK-4323, 201, rue Président-Kennedey, Montréal
Noncrossing partition lattice and discriminant of a reflection group:
Vivien Rippoll, LaCIM-UQAM
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October 22, 2010 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Casson-Lin type invariants for links
Eric Harper, UQAM
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October 22, 2010 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar MITACS de Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
UQAM, Salle/Room PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, Montréal
STRICT LOCAL MARTINGALE AND THE MODELING OF FINANCIAL BUBBLES
Prof. Alexandre Roch , ESG UQAM
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October 22, 2010 - 14:30
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
Ritt’s Factorization Theorem, Schanuel Nullstellensatz, and Shapiro’s Conjecture
Angus MacIntyre, Queen Mary University of London
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October 22, 2010 - 15:30
Lecture Prix CRM-SSC
UQAM, Pavillion Sherbrooke, 200 rue Sherbrooke O, Montréal, salle SH-3260
2010 CRM-SSC PRIZE LECTURE: Statistical Learning With Trees
Grace Yi, University of Waterloo
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October 22, 2010 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Stochastic homogenization and related problems
Claude LeBris, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
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October 22, 2010 - 16:00
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill, McConnell Engineering Bldg, 3480 University Street , Room MC320
Perfect matchings in cubic graphs: A proof of the Lovasz-Plummer conjecture
Serguei Norine, Princeton University
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October 25, 2010 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Topologie symplectique
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 4336
Embedded Lagrangian cobordism
Octav Cornea, Université de Montréal
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October 25, 2010 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
Capillary interactions between anisotropic particles
Kathleen Stebe, University of Pennsylvania
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October 26, 2010 - 14:00
Seminar Structures algébriques et géométries
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D3-2036
Solutions algébro-géométriques des équations de Davey-Stewartson et de NLS multidimensionnelle
Caoline Kalla, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon
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October 26, 2010 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
A Missing System of Classical Orthogonal Polynomials
Alexei ZHEDANOV, Donetsk Institute for Physics and Technology
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October 26, 2010 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Biostatistique
Purvis Hall, 1020 ave. des Pins ouest, Mtl
Predictive Biomarker Discovery in Cancer Clinical Trials.
Mary Redman, Assistant Member, Southwest Oncology Group Statistical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle.
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October 27, 2010 - 12:30
Working Seminar Groupe de travail (Sherbrooke)
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D3-2030
Mathématiques tropicales
Grégoire Dupont, Université de Sherbrooke
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October 27, 2010 - 12:30 - 15:00
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill University, Burnside Hall, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 1234
Geometric methods for nonlinear many-body quantum systems
Mathieu Lewin, CNRS, Paris
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October 27, 2010 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Géométrie algébrique
PK-5333, 201 ave. Président-Kennedy (UQAM)
On factoring out the birational part of a morphism
Daniel Daigle, University of Ottawa
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October 28, 2010 - 11:30
Lecture Club mathématique Sherbrooke
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D3-2040
Introduction à la géométrie hyperbolique
Félix Baril Boudreau, Université de Sherbrooke
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October 29, 2010 - 10:00
Seminar Combinatoire et informatique mathématique (LaCIM)
UQAM, PK-4323, 201, rue Président-Kennedey, Montréal
Avancées récentes sur des questions issues des pavages du plan par translation d'une tuile
Sébastien Labbé, LaCIM-UQAM
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October 29, 2010 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
TBA
Ely Kerman, Urbana-Champaign
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October 29, 2010 - 13:45 - 15:15
Seminar GRTC
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des Sciences, salle D4-2024, Sherbrooke
Shape comparison through size functions and persistent homology
Niccolò Cavazza, Università di Bologna
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October 29, 2010 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, SALLE 5340
Skew-elliptical distributions and their relationship with order statistics
Ahad Jamalizadeh, Shahid Bahonar University
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October 29, 2010 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
The Thermodynamic Limit of Coulomb Quantum Systems
Mathieu Lewin, Université de Cergy-Pontoise
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October 30, 2010 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
University of Vermont, Mann Hall, Room 102C
From quaternion orders to generalized reduced binary quadratic forms, through Shimura curves and CM points
Montserrat Alsina, UPC
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