Workshops and Conferences
«Quand la Terre était trop jeune pour Darwin» Grande conférence CRM de Cédric Villani
CRM
November 5, 2010
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Workshop on Mathematical Challenges for Sustainability
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
November 15-17, 2010
Organizers :
Alejandro Adem (University of British Columbia
)
Russel E. Caflisch (Institute for Pure and Applied Math. (IPAM)
)
Simon A. Levin (Princeton University
)
Fred S. Roberts (Rutgers University
)
Christiane Rousseau (Université de Montréal
)
Richard L. Smith (University of North Carolina
)
Iain Johnstone (Stanford University
)
Louis J. Gross (University of Tennessee
)
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Seminars
November 1, 2010 - 16:00
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., / Burnside 1205
Tree-width and surface duality
Frederic Mazoit, LaBRI
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November 1, 2010 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
Differential geometric methods for the control of mechanical systems
Andrew Lewis, Queens University
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November 2, 2010 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
The groundstate of the XXZ model and the quantum Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equation
Tiago FONSECA, LPTHE, Paris 6, et CRM
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November 2, 2010 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Biostatistique
Purvis Hall, 1020 ave. des Pins ouest, RM 25 , Mtl
Optimizing Randomized Trial Designs to Distinguish which Subpopulations Benefit from Treatment.
Michael Rosenblum, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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November 3, 2010 - 12:30
Working Seminar Groupe de travail (Sherbrooke)
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D3-2030
Mathématiques Tropicales II : Courbes et Surfaces
Grégoire Dupont, Université de Sherbrooke
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November 3, 2010 - 12:30 - 13:20
Seminar Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, 2900, Chemin de la Tour, salle Z-337
La théorie de la relativité ne peut pas être fausse! ou (E=mc2 et le théorème de Pythagore)
Stéphane Durand, CRM
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November 3, 2010 - 12:30 - 15:00
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill University, Burnside Hall, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 1234
Classical integrability and geometry: billiards and tops -
Part 2
Vladimir Dragovic, Mathematical Institute SANU, Belgrade/Mathematical Physics Group, University of Lisbon
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November 3, 2010 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
Concordia univ, Library building, 1400 De Maisonneuve West, LB 921-4
Problems of Minkowski type
Andrea Colesanti , University of Florence
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November 3, 2010 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
Concordia Univ., Library building, 1400 De Maisonneuve West, LB 921-4
A painless introduction to nonsmooth analysis and its applications
Francis Clarke , Univ. Lyon
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November 4, 2010 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill University, Burnside Hall, 9th floor.
Generalized multiplication tables of ntegers
Dimitris Koukoulopoulos, CRM
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November 4, 2010 - 11:30
Lecture Club mathématique Sherbrooke
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D3-2040
Modélisation physique pour la synthèse d'animations
Martin Guay, Département d'informatique, Université de Sherbrooke
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November 4, 2010 - 14:00
Seminar Analyse non linéaire/Systèmes dynamiques
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon A-A, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Lie algebras and invariant integrals for multi-dimensional polynomial differential systems
Oxana Diaconescu
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November 4, 2010 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University - Library Building - 9th Floor
On the sup-norm of automorphic forms
Nicolas Templier, Princeton University
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November 5, 2010 - 10:00
Seminar Combinatoire et informatique mathématique (LaCIM)
UQAM, PK-4323, 201, rue Président-Kennedey, Montréal
Adic representations of one-sided substitution systems
Reem Yassawi, Trent University - McGill University
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November 5, 2010 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Immersed surfaces in modular orbifolds
Joel Louwsma, Caltech
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November 5, 2010 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill University, Burnside 920, 805, rue Sherbrooke O
Geometric analysis on the 3-D sphere
Der-Chen Chang, Georgetown
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November 5, 2010 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
On the Grenander estimator at zero
Hanna Jankowski, York University
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November 5, 2010 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 1360
ANNULATION --- CANCELLATION --- ANNULATION --- CANCELLATION ---
Nassif Ghoussoub, UBC
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November 5, 2010 - 16:00
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill, McConnell Engineering Bldg, 3480 University Street , Room MC320
The chromatic gap and its extremes
András Sebo, CNRS, Laboratoire G-SCOP
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November 5, 2010 - 19:30
Lecture Grande conférence du CRM
Université de Montréal, Faculté de l'aménagement, 2940, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Salle 1120
Quand la Terre était trop jeune pour Darwin
Cédric Villani, Université de Lyon & Institut Henri Poincaré
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November 8, 2010 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Topologie symplectique
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 4336
Hamiltonian fibrations and the Weinstein conjecture for separating closed contact hypersurfaces
Clément Hyvrier, Université de Montréal
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November 8, 2010 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
Coating flows on slowly rotating cylinders
Mary Pugh, University of Toronto
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November 9, 2010 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University - Library Building - 9th Floor, room 921-4, SGW
Analytic theory of genus 2 curves
Dr. David R. Grant, University of Colorado
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November 9, 2010 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Fate of the False Monopoles: Induced Vacuum Decay
Manu PARANJAPE, Dépt. de physique, Université de Montréal
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November 9, 2010 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Biostatistique
Purvis Hall, 1020 ave. des Pins Ouest, rm 25
Evaluating the predictive accuracy of multiple biomarkers and clinical variables for censored survival outcomes.
Benjamin French, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania.
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November 10, 2010 - 12:30
Working Seminar Groupe de travail (Sherbrooke)
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D3-2030
Géométrie hyperbolique et lambda longueurs
Frédéric Palesi, Université de Sherbrooke
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November 10, 2010 - 12:30 - 13:20
Seminar Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, 2900, Chemin de la Tour, salle Z-337
Informatique quantique
Alain Tapp, Université de Montréal
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November 10, 2010 - 15:30
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, 201 ave. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-5333
Relative trace formulae and generalized Hitchin morphisms
Jayce Getz, McGill University
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November 11, 2010 - 11:30
Lecture Club mathématique Sherbrooke
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D3-2040
Introduction à l'informatique quantique
Dominik Francoeur, Université de Sherbrooke
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November 12, 2010 - 10:00
Seminar Combinatoire et informatique mathématique (LaCIM)
UQAM, PK-4323, 201, rue Président-Kennedey, Montréal
TBA
Alistair Savage, Université d'Ottawa
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November 12, 2010 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill University, Burnside 920, 805, rue Sherbrooke O
Homeomorphic measures on a Cantor set
S. Bezuglyi, Inst. for Low Temperature Physics, Academy of Sciences, Ukraine
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November 12, 2010 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1B24
Extracting communities from networks
Professor Ji Zhu, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan
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November 15, 2010 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
A second-order elasticity problem for an embedded inclusion
Patrick Selvadurai, McGill University
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November 16, 2010 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920, 805 Sherbrooke Street West
Span refinements of the Cech Nerve
E. Dubuc, Universidad de Buenos Aires
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November 16, 2010 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
The potential impact of the AdS/CFT correspondence, or WARNING: you may already be a string theorist
Cliff BURGESS, Perimeter Institute
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November 17, 2010 - 14:45 - 15:45
Seminar
Concordia University, 1400 de Maisonneuve West, LB 921-4, SGW
On algebraic connectivity of graphs with at most two cut-points
Dr. Arbind Kumar Lal, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
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November 17, 2010 - 15:30
Seminar Statistique
Unviersité de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D4-2020
A Goodness-of-fit Test for Copulas
Wanling Huang, Department of Economics, Université McGill
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November 18, 2010 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill University - Burnside Hall - 9th Floor
The circle and divisor problems, Bessel series, and twisted divisor sums
Bruce Berndt, UIUC
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November 18, 2010 - 11:30
Lecture Club mathématique Sherbrooke
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D3-2040
Le théorème de Laplace-Young
Gaël David, Université de Sherbrooke
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November 18, 2010 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University - Library Building - 9th Floor
Sieving in groups
Alex Kontorovich, Stony Brook
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November 19, 2010 - 10:00
Seminar Combinatoire et informatique mathématique (LaCIM)
UQAM, PK-4323, 201, rue Président-Kennedey, Montréal
Symplectic Schur Function Identities
Angèle Hamel, Wilfrid Laurier University
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November 19, 2010 - 13:30 - 13:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill University, Burnside Hall, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
Geodesic distance on the manifold of Riemannian metrics
Brian Clarke, Stanford
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November 19, 2010 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar MITACS de Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
UQAM, Salle/Room PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, Montréal
GUARANTEED MINIMUM WITHDRAWAL BENEFITS (GMWB)
Christian-Marc Panneton , Industrial Alliance
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November 19, 2010 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
McGill University, Burnside Hall, room 1B24
Local Bilinear Multiple-Output Quantile Regression: from $L_1$ Optimization to Regression Depth
Marc Hallin, ECARES, Université libre de Bruxelles and ORFE, Princeton University
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November 19, 2010 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UQAM, Pav. Sherbrooke, 200, rue Sherbrooke O., salle SH-3420
Ramanujan reaches his hand from his grave and snatches your theorems from you
Bruce Berndt, UIUC
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November 22, 2010 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill University, Burnside 920, 805, rue Sherbrooke O
Title TBA
Frederic Naud, Avignon
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November 22, 2010 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Topologie symplectique
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 4336
On the conjecture of Barraud and Cornea
François Charette, Université de Montréal
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November 22, 2010 - 16:00
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., / Burnside 1205
Approximating the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem
Michel Goemans, MIT
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November 22, 2010 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
Krylov subspace approximations of large linear time-invariant dynamical systems
Vladimir Druskin, Schlumberger-Doll Research Center
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November 23, 2010 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920, 805 Sherbrooke Street West
Bounded arithmetic and bounded reverse mathematics - Part I
Phuong The Nguyen, McGill University
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November 23, 2010 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
The Riemann-Hilbert approach to the transition from the Pearcey to the Airy process
Mattia Cafasso, CRM
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November 24, 2010 - 12:30
Working Seminar Groupe de travail (Sherbrooke)
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sicences, local D3-2030
Géométrie hyperbolique et lambda longueurs II
Frédéric Palesi, Université de Sherbrooke
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November 24, 2010 - 12:30 - 13:20
Seminar Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, 2900, Chemin de la Tour, salle Z-337
Le nombre Pi
Christian Côté, Cégep de Terrebonne
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November 24, 2010 - 15:30
Seminar Statistique
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D4-2020
Covariate-Adjusted Conditional Copulas
Elif Fidan Acar, McGill University
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November 24, 2010 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Géométrie algébrique
UQAM, PK-5333, 201 ave. Président-Kennedy
Q-homology planes as cyclic multiple planes
Alok Maharana, McGill University
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November 25, 2010 - 11:30
Lecture Club mathématique Sherbrooke
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D3-2040
Introduction à la vision 3D
Julien Prémont, Université de Sherbrooke
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November 26, 2010 - 10:00
Seminar Combinatoire et informatique mathématique (LaCIM)
UQAM, PK-4323, 201, rue Président-Kennedey, Montréal
Frises, cordes et variables amassées
Grégoire Dupont, Université de Sherbrooke
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November 26, 2010 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill University, Burnside 920, 805, rue Sherbrooke O
The spectral gap of convex co-compact subgroups of arithmetic groups
Frederic Naud , Avignon
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November 26, 2010 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar MITACS de Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., / Burnside 1205
Distorting Probabilities in Risk Management
Arthur Charpentier, Université Rennes 1
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November 26, 2010 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
UQAM, 201, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-1320
Modèles de capture-recapture avec applications en épidémiologie
Louis-Paul Rivest, Université Laval
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November 26, 2010 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Semi-algebraic optimization theory
Adrian Lewis, ORIE Cornell
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November 29, 2010 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
Multiscale finite element method for perforated domains
Alexei Lozinski, University Paul Sabatier
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November 29, 2010 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
Multiscale finite element method for perforated domains
Alexei Lozinski, University Paul Sabatier
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November 30, 2010 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
McGILL University, Burnside Hall 920, 805 Sherbrooke Street West
Bounded arithmetic and bounded reverse mathematics - Part II
Phuong The Nguyen, McGill University
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November 30, 2010 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
On symplectic forms in the soliton theory
Fedor SOLOVIEV, University of Toronto
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November 30, 2010 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Biostatistique
Purvis Hall, 1020 Pine Avenue West, Room 25
The rise and fall of the Montreal Sanitary Association.
Christian Genest, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics McGill University.
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