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October 2011
See Seminars

Workshops and Conferences

Workshop on Quantum Computer Science

CRM
October 4-7, 2011
Organizers :
Peter Høyer (University of Calgary)
Alain Tapp (Université de Montréal)

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/quantumcomputerscience2011/index.html

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Andre-Aisenstadt Chair: Renato Renner

CRM
October 4-21, 2011

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Renner/

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55e Congrès de l'AMQ "Des mathématiques à construire"

École Polytechnique de Montréal
October 14-15, 2011

Web site : http://amq.mgi.polymtl.ca/index.php

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Workshop on Quantum Information in Quantum Many-body Physics

CRM
October 18-21, 2011
Organizer :
David Poulin (Université de Sherbrooke)

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Manybody11/index_e.php

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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)

Web site : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Codes11/index_e.php

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Andre-Aisenstadt Chair: John Preskill

CRM
October 24 - November 2, 2011

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

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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

Web site : http://www.cse.concordia.ca/newsandevents/lectureseries/

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

Web site : http://www.dms.umontreal.ca/~qvnts/index.html

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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

Web site : http://www.dms.umontreal.ca/~qvnts/index.html

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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

Web site : http://www.dms.umontreal.ca/~qvnts/index.html

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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October 14, 2011 - 13:30 - 14:30

Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)

ANNULÉE - CANCELLED

Dmitri Burago, Penn State

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

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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

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

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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

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

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October 14, 2011 - 16:00

Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques

******* COLLOQUE ANNULÉ / CANCELLED *******

Dmitri Burago, Penn State

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

Web site : http://www.dms.umontreal.ca/~qvnts/index.html

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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

Web site : http://www.dms.umontreal.ca/~qvnts/index.html

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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

Web site : http://www.dms.umontreal.ca/~qvnts/index.html

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

Web site : http://www.dms.umontreal.ca/~qvnts/index.html

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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

Web site : http://www.dms.umontreal.ca/~qvnts/index.html

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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

Web site : http://www.dms.umontreal.ca/~qvnts/index.html

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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

Web site : http://www.gerad.ca/fr/activites/seminaire.php?id=725

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

Web site : http://www.gerad.ca/fr/activites/seminaire.php?id=739

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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

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

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