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November 2010
See Seminars

Workshops and Conferences

«Quand la Terre était trop jeune pour Darwin» Grande conférence CRM de Cédric Villani

CRM
November 5, 2010

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Villani/index.html

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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 )

Web site : http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/Sustainability/index.html

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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

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

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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

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

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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.

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

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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

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/jakobson/analysish/seminar.html

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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

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/jakobson/analysish/seminar.html

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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

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/jakobson/analysish/seminar.html

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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

Web site : http://www.cems.uvm.edu/~voight/qvnts.html

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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

Web site : http://www.cems.uvm.edu/~voight/qvnts.html

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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

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

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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

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/jakobson/analysish/seminar.html

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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

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Colloques/colloqueStats.html

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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

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Colloques/colloqueMaths.html

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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

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

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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

Web site : http://www.crm.math.ca/Villani

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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

Web site : http://www.dms.umontreal.ca/~rgolovko/index_files/seminar.html

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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

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

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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

Web site : http://www.cems.uvm.edu/~voight/qvnts.html

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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.

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

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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

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

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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

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/jakobson/analysish/seminar.html

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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

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Colloques/colloqueStats.html

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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

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

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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

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/rags/seminar/

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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

Web site : http://www.cems.uvm.edu/~voight/qvnts.html

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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

Web site : http://www.cems.uvm.edu/~voight/qvnts.html

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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

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

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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

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/jakobson/analysish/seminar.html

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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

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

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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

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Colloques/colloqueStats.html

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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

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Colloques/colloqueMaths.html

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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

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/jakobson/analysish/seminar.html

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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

Web site : http://dms.umontreal.ca/~rgolovko/index_files/seminar.html

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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

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

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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

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

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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

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/rags/seminar/

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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

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

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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

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/jakobson/analysish/seminar.html

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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

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

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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

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Colloques/colloqueStats.html

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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

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Colloques/colloqueMaths.html

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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

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

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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

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

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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

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/rags/seminar/

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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.

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

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