Workshops and Conferences
Workshop on Quantum Computer Science
CRM
October 4-7, 2011
Organizers :
Peter Høyer (University of Calgary)
Alain Tapp (Université de Montréal)
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Andre-Aisenstadt Chair: Renato Renner
CRM
October 4-21, 2011
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55e Congrès de l'AMQ "Des mathématiques à construire"
École Polytechnique de Montréal
October 14-15, 2011
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Workshop on Quantum Information in Quantum Many-body Physics
CRM
October 18-21, 2011
Organizer :
David Poulin (Université de Sherbrooke)
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Workshop on Quantum Information: Codes, Geometry and Random Structures
CRM
October 24-26, 2011
Organizers :
Patrick Hayden (McGill University)
Aram Harrow (University of Washington)
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Andre-Aisenstadt Chair: John Preskill
CRM
October 24 - November 2, 2011
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Seminars
October 3, 2011 - 10:30
Seminar
Concordia University, Dept. of Computer Science and Software Eng., 1515 rue Ste-Catherine Ouest, salle EV003.309
Algorithms, combinatorics, information, and beyond
Wojciech Szpankowski, Purdue University
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October 3, 2011 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill Burnside Hall 920
Data Mining Remotely Sensed Image: Sequences and Transport Analysis of Spatiotemporal Dynamical Systems
Erik Bollt, Clarkson University
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October 4, 2011 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
BH 1120, McGill University
Symmetries in foundations: from Mathematics to Natural Sciences
G. Longo, CNRS, CREA, Ecole Polytechnique et ENS, Paris
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October 4, 2011 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
BH 1120, McGill University
Asymptotic (algorithmic/ergodic) Randomness vs. Randomness in Natural Sciences
G. Longo, CNRS, CREA, Ecole Polytechnique et ENS, Paris
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October 4, 2011 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 5340
Tailoring gauge theory correlation functions and integrability - I
Pedro Vieira, Perimeter Institute
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October 5, 2011 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 5340
Tailoring gauge theory correlation functions and integrability - II
Pedro Vieira, Perimeter Institute
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October 5, 2011 - 16:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
Free Randomness Amplification
Renato Renner, ETH Zürich
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October 6, 2011 - 10:30 - 11:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill University - Burnside Hall - 920
Rankin triple product L-functions and function field analogue of Gross-Kudla formula.
Fu-Tsun Wei, McGill University
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October 6, 2011 - 13:00
Seminar Physique Mathématique
McGill University, Rutherford Building, 3600, rue University, salle Bell (1er étage)
Scattering Amplitudes and Wilson Loops, Flux tubes and Integrability
Pedro Vieira, Perimeter Institute
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October 6, 2011 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University, Library Building, 9e étage
On the height of the fixed points of Atkin-Lehner involutions
Gerard Freixas, CNRS, Jussieu
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October 6, 2011 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University, Library Building, 9e étage
"Special values of anticyclotomic Rankin--Selberg L-functions".
Miljan Brakocevic, McGill University
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October 7, 2011 - 11:30
Lecture Département de physique
UdeM, Pavillon Roger-Gaudry (Principal), salle E-310
Plus vite que la lumière?
Stéphane Durand, CRM, Université de Montréal
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October 10, 2011 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Topologie symplectique
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Monopole Floer homology and Legendrian knots
Steven Sivek, Harvard University
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October 11, 2011 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
CMV Matrices and -1 Jacobi Polynomials
Alexei ZHEDANOV, Donetsk Institute for Physics and Technology
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October 12, 2011 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-5115
On the isomorphism between Heegaard Floer homology and embedded contact homology
Paolo Ghiginni, Université de Nantes, CNRS
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October 12, 2011 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-5115
On the isomorphism between Heegaard Floer homology and embedded contact homology
Paolo Ghiggini, Nante/CNRS
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October 12, 2011 - 14:45 - 15:45
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O. / Burnside 920
Generalization of a theorem by Clunie and Hayman
Matthew Barrett, Purdue
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October 12, 2011 - 16:30
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 1360
What Does Quantum Cryptography Tell Us About Quantum Physics?
Renato Renner, ETH Zürich
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October 13, 2011 - 16:30 - 17:30
Seminar Probabilités
McGill University, Burnside Hall, Room 920, 805 Sherbrooke West, Montreal
A simple path to asymptotics for the frontier of a branching Brownian motion
Matthew Roberts, McGill University
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October 14, 2011 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Algebraic Montgomery-Yang problem: algebraic surfaces and circle actions on 5-spheres
JongHae Keum, KIAS, Korea
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October 14, 2011 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
ANNULÉE - CANCELLED
Dmitri Burago, Penn State
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October 14, 2011 - 14:00 - 15:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
Université McGill, Trottier Building, 3630 rue University, salle TROTTIER 1080
Modeling non-stationary extremes: The case of heat waves
Debbie Dupuis, HEC Montréal
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October 14, 2011 - 15:30 - 16:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
Université McGill, Trottier Building, 3630 rue University, salle TROTTIER 1080
Estimating Extremal Dependence in Time Series via the Extremogram
Richard A. Davis, Columbia University
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October 14, 2011 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
******* COLLOQUE ANNULÉ / CANCELLED *******
Dmitri Burago, Penn State
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October 17, 2011 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill Burnside Hall 920
Periodic orbits and invariant manifolds in the Jupiter-Europa-Ganymede-spacecraft system
Daniel Blazevski, University of Texas at Austin
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October 18, 2011 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Grassmannian Polytopes and the S-Matrix, part I
Freddy CACHAZO, Perimeter Institute
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October 19, 2011 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Algebraic Montgomery-Yang problem: algebraic surfaces and circle actions on 5-spheres
JongHae Keum , KIAS, Korea
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October 19, 2011 - 14:45 - 15:45
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O. / Burnside 308
Kahler-Einstein metrics singular along a divisor
Yanir Rubinstein, Stanford
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October 19, 2011 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Grassmannian Polytopes and the S-Matrix, part II
Freddy CACHAZO, Perimeter Institute
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October 20, 2011 - 10:30 - 11:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill University - Burnside Hall - 920
Disparity in the arithmetic statistics of elliptic curves
Barry Mazur, Harvard University
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October 20, 2011 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University, Library Building, 9e étage
Local semisimplicity over totally real fields
Eknath Ghate, Tata Institute
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October 20, 2011 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University, Library Building, 9e étage
On poly-Euler numbers and related L-function
Yoshitaka Sasaki, Kinki University
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October 20, 2011 - 16:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
An Information-Theoretic View on Thermalization
Renato Renner, ETH Zürich
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October 20, 2011 - 16:30 - 17:30
Seminar Probabilités
Université de Montréal, 2920 ch. de la Tour, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, local 5340
Bistability in Intracellular Chemical Reaction Dynamics with Cell Division
John McSweeney, Concordia University
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October 21, 2011 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Moment maps and quasimorphisms
Egor Shelukhin, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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October 21, 2011 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O. / Burnside 920
The Fundamental Solution to the Wright-Fisher Equation
Linan Chen, McGill University
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October 21, 2011 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar MITACS de Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
UQAM, 201 avenue Président-Kennedy, Pavillon Président-Kennedy Building, Salle PK-1630, 1er étage
COMPOSITE LIKELIHOOD APPROACH IN COUNT DATA TIME SERIES MODELS
Dimitris Karlis, Athens Univ. of Economics and Business
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October 21, 2011 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UQAM, 200, rue Sherbrooke O. / salle SH-3420
Divisors on graphs
Sergey Norin, McGill University
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October 24, 2011 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Topologie symplectique
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Periodic Reeb orbits in the complement of a Hopf link
Al Momin, Purdue University
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October 24, 2011 - 16:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
Protected gates for superconducting qubits
John Preskill, Caltech
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October 24, 2011 - 16:00
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
Concordia University, 1515, St. Catherine O., Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Bldg., 11th floor, ROOM : EV11.119
Frozen vertices in colourings of a random graph
Mike Molloy, University of Toronto
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October 25, 2011 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle 5183
Explicit Upper bounds
Vorrapan (Fai) Chandee, Stanford Unviersity
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October 25, 2011 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
La théorie des polynômes de Bannai-Ito
Luc VINET, CRM et Dépt. de physique, UdeM
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October 25, 2011 - 15:30 - 17:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle 5183
Spectral analysis in Bourgain's bound on progression-free sets
Kevin Henriot, Université de Montréal
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October 26, 2011 - 16:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 1360
Putting weirdness to work: quantum information science
John Preskill, Caltech
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October 27, 2011 - 10:30 - 11:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill University - Burnside Hall - 920
2011-CICMA/
Steve Gonek, Rochester
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October 27, 2011 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University, Library Building, 9e étage
Variation of Gross-Heegner points in Hida families
Matteo Longo, Padova
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October 27, 2011 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University, Library Building, 9e étage
Representation of integers by binary forms
Shabnam Akhtari, U. de Montréal, McGill
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October 27, 2011 - 15:45
Seminar Optimisation GERAD-MPRIME
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, SALLE 5340
Optimal Ambulance Location with Tiered Response Time Standards: a Case Study for the Region of Waterloo
Elizabeth M. Jewkes, University of Waterloo, Canada
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October 27, 2011 - 16:30 - 17:30
Seminar Probabilités
McGill University, Burnisde Hall, 805, Sherbrooke Ouest, ROOM: 920
Nadaraya-Watson estimator for stochastic processes driven by stable Levy motions
Hongwei Long, Florida Atlantic University
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October 28, 2011 - 10:30 - 11:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
Concordia University, salle LB 921-4
Composition operators on model subspaces
Javad Mashreghi, Université Laval
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October 28, 2011 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar MITACS de Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., / Burnside 1205
SIMULATED METHOD OF MOMENTS ESTIMATION FOR COPULA-BASED MULTIVARIATE MODELS
Andrew Patton, Duke University
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October 28, 2011 - 15:30
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
Université McGill, Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Auditorium Keys (Salle 112)
Battling decoherence: the fault-tolerant quantum computer
John Preskill, Caltech
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October 31, 2011 - 14:00
Seminar
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, SALLE 6516
Optimal Newton-type methods for nonconvex smooth optimization
Coralia Cartis, University of Edinburgh
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October 31, 2011 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill Burnside Hall 920
Existence of minimizers for a constrained mean curvature functional
Marco Veneroni, Pavia & McGill
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