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
)
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Lecture by Joel Kamnitzer, 2011 André-Aisenstadt Prize Recipient
CRM
February 18, 2011
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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February 25, 2011 -
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
Semaine de relâche / No talk due to Spring Break
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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
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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
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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
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