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February 2011
See Seminars

Workshops and Conferences

SUMM 2011 - Seminars in Undergraduate Mathematics in Montreal

Concordia
February 5-6, 2011
Organizers :
Vincent Létourneau (Université de Montréal )
David Thibodeau (McGill University )
Cyndie Cottrell (McGill University )
Yariv Barsheshat (McGill University )
Cathryn Supko (McGill University )
Edith Viau (Université du Québec à Montréal )
Sami Dellah (Université du Québec à Montréal )
Bruno Joyal (Concordia University )
Sofi Link (Concordia University )
Frédéric Paquin-Lefebvre (Université de Montréal )

Web site : http://summ2011.math.uqam.ca/index.php

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Lecture by Joel Kamnitzer, 2011 André-Aisenstadt Prize Recipient

CRM
February 18, 2011

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/prix/prixAA11_fr.shtml

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Seminars

February 1, 2011 - 11:00 - 12:30

Seminar Les fondements catégoriques des mathématiques / Categorical Foundations of Mathematics
Burnside Hall BH1234

Anafunctors

M Makkai, McGill University

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/makkai/Foundations%20seminar/FoundationsSeminar.html

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February 1, 2011 - 14:30 - 16:00

Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY

A countable meet of spatial sublocales of a coherent space is spatial II

M. Barr, McGill University

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

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February 1, 2011 - 15:30

Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour / salle 4336

Convolution symmetries, matrix models and integrable hierarchies

John HARNAD, Concordia et CRM

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February 1, 2011 - 16:00 - 17:00

Seminar Biostatistique
McGill University, Purvis Hall, 1020, av. des Pins Ouest, Montréal / room 24

Causal inference for the duration of red blood cell storage and survival of transfused patients.

Cecilia Cotton, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo.

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

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February 2, 2011 - 12:30 - 13:20

Seminar Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, 2900, Chemin de la Tour, salle Z-330

Spectral theory, geometry and dynamical systems

Dmitry Jakobson, McGill University

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February 2, 2011 - 13:30

Seminar Structures algébriques et géométries
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D4-2020

Automorphismes amasés

Ibrahim Assem, Université de Sherbrooke

Web site : http://prospero.dmi.usherb.ca/sag/

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February 3, 2011 - 10:30 - 12:00

Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke Street West, Burnside Hall - 9th Floor

ANNULÉE - Canceled

Robert Harron, Boston University

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

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February 3, 2011 - 11:30

Lecture Club mathématique Sherbrooke
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D6-0046

Enjeux mathématiques de l'IRM de diffusion

Maxime Descoteaux, Université de Sherbrooke

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February 3, 2011 - 14:00 - 15:30

Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University, SGW, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Library Building - 9th Floor

On higher order Stickelberger-type theorems

Daniel Macias Castillo, King's College London

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

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February 4, 2011 - 10:00

Seminar Combinatoire et informatique mathématique (LaCIM)
UQAM, 201, rue Président-Kennedy, Montréal / PK-4323

Bounds on the number of integer points in a polytope via concentration estimates

Austin Shapiro, University of Michigan

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

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February 4, 2011 - 15:30 - 16:30

Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-1620

Composite Joint Estimating Functions and Applications in Spatio-Temporal Models

Peter X.K. Song, U. Michigan

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

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February 4, 2011 - 16:00

Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214

Mahler measure as special values of $L$-functions

Matilde Lalín, Université de Montréal

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

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February 7, 2011 - 16:00

Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill University, 805 rue Sherbrooke O. / Burnside 1205

The semidefinite method in extremal graph theory

Sergey Norin, Princeton

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

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February 8, 2011 - 11:30

Seminar DIRO
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 Chemin de la tour, salle 3195

The World at Your Geometricks: Detailed Space-time Capture of Deforming Objects

Tiberiu Popa, ETH Zurich

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February 8, 2011 - 14:30 - 16:00

Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
Burnside Hall BH920

Convolution over homology

A Hoffnung, Ottawa

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

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February 8, 2011 - 15:30

Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336

The Jordan Structure of Two Dimensional Loop Models

Alexi MORIN-DUCHESNE, CRM et Dépt. de Physique, UdeM

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February 8, 2011 - 16:00 - 17:00

Seminar Biostatistique
McGill University, Purvis Hall, room 24, 1020 ave. des Pins Ouest, Montréal

Biomedical Applications of Runs and Patterns and Related Statistical Considerations.

Wendy Lou, Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.

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

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February 9, 2011 - 12:30 - 13:20

Seminar Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, 2900, Chemin de la Tour, salle Z-330

Liens entre combinatoire et algèbre

François Bergeron, UQAM

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February 9, 2011 - 13:30

Seminar Groupe de travail
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D4-2020

Foncteurs de Serre et triangles d'Auslander-Reiten

Charles Paquette, Université de Sherbrooke

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February 10, 2011 - 11:30

Lecture Club mathématique Sherbrooke
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D6-0046

Abat le monopole du cercle!

Anik Trahan, Cégep de Sherbrooke

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February 10, 2011 - 15:30

Seminar Statistique
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D4-2019

Fluctuations d'un processus de Lévy spectralement négatifs et applications en actuariat

Jean-François Renaud, Département de mathématiques, Université du Québec à Montréal

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February 10, 2011 - 16:00

Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill University, 805 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest / Burnside 920

Stability Method in Extremal Combinatorics

Oleg Pikhurko, Carnegie Mellon University

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

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February 11, 2011 - 10:00

Seminar Combinatoire et informatique mathématique (LaCIM)
UQAM, PK-4323, 201, rue Président-Kennedy, Montréal

Quasisymmetric expansions of symmetric functions

Greg Warrington, Burlington

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

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February 11, 2011 - 11:00 - 12:00

Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, 201, ave. Président-Kennedy / PK-5115

Outer billiards, polyhedron exchange maps, and renormalization

Rich Schwartz, Brown University

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

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February 11, 2011 - 14:00 - 15:00

Seminar MITACS de Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
Concordia University , SGW Campus, Pavillon J.W. McConnell (Library) Building / Salle/Room LB 921.04

A TWO-DIMENSIONAL RISK MODEL WITH PROPORTIONAL REINSURANCE

Eric C.K. Cheung , University of Hong Kong

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

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February 11, 2011 - 14:30

Seminar
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336

Model existence theorem simplified

Isidore Fleischer

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February 11, 2011 - 14:30 - 15:30

Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke ouest / Burnside 920

Geodesics at singular points of singular subspaces: a few striking examples

Vincent Grandjean, Fields Institute

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

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February 11, 2011 - 15:00 - 16:00

Working Seminar Physique Mathématique
Concordia University, 1400 de Maisonneuve O., / salle LB-921.04

Time relaxation of a phase-field model with entropy balance

Ms. Manuela Girotti, Concordia University

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February 11, 2011 - 15:30 - 16:30

Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
Concordia University, Concordia University, Library Building, 1400 de Maisonneuve O., salle LB 921-4

A unified competing risks cure rate model with application to cancer survival data

Sanjib Basu, Northern Illinois University

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

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February 11, 2011 - 16:00

Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UQAM, Pav. Sherbrooke, 200, rue Sherbrooke O., salle SH-3420

The 5-electron case of Thompson's problem

Richard Schwartz, Brown University

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

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February 15, 2011 - 11:00 - 12:30

Seminar Les fondements catégoriques des mathématiques
Burnside Hall BH1234

Anafunctors: their use and their expression in FOLDS.

Michael Makkai, McGill University

Web site : http://www.math.mcgill.ca/makkai/Foundations%20seminar/FoundationsSeminar.html

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February 15, 2011 - 14:30 - 16:00

Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
Burnside Hall BH 920

Completeness in algebraic logic revisited

Michael Makkai, McGill

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

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February 15, 2011 - 15:30

Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336

Symmetry tests for discrete equations on the square lattice

Decio LEVI, Univ. Roma Tre

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February 16, 2011 - 14:30

Seminar Structures algébriques et géométries
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D4-2020

A dilogarithm identity on the moduli space of curves

Tan Ser Peow, National University of Singapore

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February 17, 2011 - 10:30 - 12:00

Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill University - Burnside Hall - 9th Floor

Connecting homomorphisms associated to Tate sequences

Paul Buckingham, University of Alberta

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

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February 17, 2011 - 11:30

Lecture Club mathématique Sherbrooke
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D6-0046

Développement d'une méthode inconditionnellement stable et explicite pour résoudre numériquement l'équation de convection-diffusion

Martin Guay, Université de Sherbrooke

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February 17, 2011 - 13:30 - 15:30

Seminar Catégories triangulées-CIRGET
Local PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM

Localisation de catégories triangulées et calcul des fractions

Mathieu Anel, CIRGET

Web site : http://www.cirget.uqam.ca/pages/activ/seminaires_fr.shtml

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February 17, 2011 - 14:00 - 15:30

Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University - Library Building - 9th Floor

Sato-Tate distributions and Galois endomorphism modules

Victor Rotger, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

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

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February 17, 2011 - 15:30

Seminar Statistique
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D4-2019

Poids non-paramétriques pour la vraisemblance pondérée et les mélanges de fonctions empiriques.

Jean-François Plante, HEC, Montréal

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February 17, 2011 - 15:45

Seminar Optimisation GERAD-MITACS
UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, salle 5340

A Fast Heuristic for Optimal Transmission Switching

Dave Fuller, University of Waterloo

Web site : http://www.gerad.ca/fr/activites/activites.php?catid=17

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February 17, 2011 - 16:00 - 17:00

Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University - Library Building - 9th Floor

Galois theory of rational maps with non-trivial automorphisms

Rafe Jones, College of the Holy Cross

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

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February 17, 2011 - 16:00 - 17:00

Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
McGill University, 1B36, Burnside Hall, Montréal

An Overview of Adaptive Mesh Generation and Variational Methods

Robert Russell, Simon Fraser

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

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February 18, 2011 - 10:00

Seminar Combinatoire et informatique mathématique (LaCIM)
UQAM, PK-4323, 201, rue Président-Kennedy, Montréal

QSym over Sym has a stable basis

Sarah Mason, Wake Forest University

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

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February 18, 2011 - 11:00 - 12:00

Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM

The Geometry of Margulis Spacetimes

Bill Goldman, University of Meryland

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

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February 18, 2011 - 12:00 - 13:00

Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM

A new identity for closed hyperbolic surfaces

Ser Peow Tan, National University of Singapore

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

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February 18, 2011 - 14:30

Seminar
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336

Model existence theorem simplified - 2

Isidore Fleischer

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February 18, 2011 - 15:30 - 16:30

Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
Concordia University, Library Building, 1400 de Maisonneuve O., salle LB 921-4

Some remarks on random matrix theory and its applications to multivariate statistics

Noureddine El Karoui , UC, Berkeley

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

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February 18, 2011 - 16:00

Lecture Prix André-Aisenstadt / CRM-ISM de mathématiques
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214

Representation theory of semisimple groups: classical, quantum, geometric, categorical

Joel Kamnitzer, University of Toronto

Web site : http://www.crm.math.ca/prix/prixAA11_fr.shtml

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February 21, 2011 - 14:30

Seminar Structures algébriques et géométries
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D4-2019

Un théorème de non-existence de suites d'Auslander-Reiten

Charles Paquette, Université de Sherbrooke

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February 21, 2011 - 14:30 - 15:30

Seminar Topologie symplectique
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 4336

Holomorphic Pairs of Pants in Mapping Tori

Andrew Cotton-Clay, Harvard University

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

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February 21, 2011 - 16:00 - 17:00

Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
McGill University, 1B36, Burnside Hall, Montréal

3D Synthetic Aperture Imaging for Fluid Flows

Tadd Truscott, Brigham Young University

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

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February 22, 2011 - 15:30

Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336

Three types of symmetrized multivariate exponential and trigonometric functions

Jirí HRIVNÁK, Department of physics, Université Technique Tchèque, Prague

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February 23, 2011 - 15:30 - 16:30

Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5333, 201 ave. Président-Kennedy (UQAM)

Real vector bundles on a real curve

Jacques Hurtubise, McGill University

Web site : http://www.cirget.uqam.ca/pages/activ/seminaires_en.shtml

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February 24, 2011 - 11:30

Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D6-0046

Existence globale de solutions du système homogène Einstein-Maxwell avec constante cosmologique sur un espace temps de Bianchi 1

Cyril Joël Batkam, Université de Sherbrooke

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February 24, 2011 - 15:30

Colloque Mathématiques Sherbrooke
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D4-2019

Continuous cluster categories

Kiyoshi Igusa, Brandeis and Northeastern Univversity

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February 24, 2011 - 15:45

Seminar Optimisation GERAD-MITACS
UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, salle 5340

Symmetric tensor approximation hierarchies for the completely positive cone

Hongbo Dong, University of Iowa

Web site : http://www.gerad.ca/fr/activites/activites.php?catid=17

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February 25, 2011 -

Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques

Semaine de relâche / No talk due to Spring Break

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

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February 25, 2011 - 10:00

Seminar Combinatoire et informatique mathématique (LaCIM)
UQAM, PK-4323, 201, rue Président-Kennedy, Montréal

Nombres de Fuß-Catalan et combinatoire

François Bergeron, UQAM-LaCIM

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

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February 25, 2011 - 11:00 - 12:00

Seminar Géométrie algébrique
UQAM, 201, ave. Président-Kennedy / PK-5445

Newton diagrams and some of their applications and generalizations

Dmitry Kerner, University of Toronto

Web site : http://www.cirget.uqam.ca/pages/activ/seminaires_en.shtml

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February 25, 2011 - 14:30

Seminar
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336

Model existence theorem simplified - 3

Isidore Fleischer

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February 28, 2011 - 15:00 - 16:00

Working Seminar Physique Mathématique
Concordia University, 1400 de Maisonneuve O., / salle LB-921.04

Algebraic Analysis of Solvable Lattice Models -- Michio Jimbo and Tetsuji Miwa

Dr. Tiago Dinis Da Fonseca, CRM

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February 28, 2011 - 16:00 - 17:00

Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
McGill University, 708 Burnside Hall, Montréal

The Implied Volatility Surface: Theory, Applications and Extensions

Nick Costanzino, Wilfrid Laurier University

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

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