Workshops and Conferences
Andre-Aisenstadt Chair: John Preskill
CRM
October 24 - November 2, 2011
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Lecture by Robert Brandenberger, 2011 CRM-CAP Prize Recipient
CRM
November 25, 2011
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Seminars
November 1, 2011 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle 4186
An additive combinatorics proof of Burgess's Theorem
Andrew Granville, Université de Montréal
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November 1, 2011 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Prym-Tyurin classes and tau-functions
Dima KOROTKIN, Concordia University
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November 1, 2011 - 15:30 - 17:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle 5183
More applications of additive combinatorics to multiplicative character sums
Ke Gong, Université de Montréal
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November 1, 2011 - 19:00 - 20:00
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
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Jared Tanner, University of Edinburgh
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November 2, 2011 - 10:45
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
Universite de Sherbrooke, Faculté des Sciences, Salle D1-2165
Battling decoherence: the fault-tolerant quantum computer
John Preskill, Caltech
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November 2, 2011 - 15:00 - 16:30
Seminar Géométrie algébrique
PK-5333, 201 ave. Président-Kennedy (UQAM)
Comparison of Dualizing Complexes
Changlong Zhong, University of Ottawa
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November 3, 2011 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle 5183
An introduction to random matrix theory and zeta functions
Mike Rubinstein, Waterloo University
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November 3, 2011 - 15:00 - 16:30
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle 5183
The probability of finding good elliptic curves
Ethan Smith, CRM
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November 3, 2011 - 15:45
Seminar Optimisation GERAD-MPRIME
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, SALLE 5340
Multidisciplinary Design Optimization: An Introduction for Applied Mathematicians
Joaquim R.M.M. Martins, University of Michigan
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November 3, 2011 - 16:30 - 17:30
Seminar Probabilités
UdeM salle 6214, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920 chemin de la tour
A simplified proof of the relation between scaling exponents in first-passage percolation
Michael Damron, Princeton University
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November 4, 2011 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Lagrangian immersions, polynomial convexity, and Whitney umbrellas
Rasul Shafikov, Univ. of Western Ontario
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November 4, 2011 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O. / Burnside 920
Regular value theorem in the the fractal setting
Suresh Eswarathasan, CRM/McGill
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November 4, 2011 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
Université de Montréal, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, SALLE 6214
Teichmuller spaces of Riemann surfaces with holes and algebras of geodesic functions
Leonid Chekhov , Steklov Mathematical Institute and Concordia University
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November 7, 2011 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Topologie symplectique
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
On Hofer geometry of S^2
Yasha Savelyev, CRM/Montreal
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November 7, 2011 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill Burnside Hall 920
A Projectionless method for solving the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations
David Shirokoff, McGill University
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November 8, 2011 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle 4186
Random matrices II
Mike Rubinstein, Waterloo University
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November 8, 2011 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
A Tannakian context for Galois
E Dubuc, UBA
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November 8, 2011 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Superposition Principles and Differential Equations
Mark FELS, Utah State University
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November 8, 2011 - 15:30 - 17:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle 5183
Lucier's bounds
Mariah Hamel, University of Georgia
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November 10, 2011 - 12:00 - 13:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle 5183
Introduction to Mahler measure
Matt Rogers, Université de Montréal
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November 10, 2011 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle 5183
Monogenic fields
Mohammad Bardestani, Université de Montréal
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November 10, 2011 - 15:45
Seminar
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, SALLE 5340
Orbitwise polyhedral representation conversion
David Bremner, Université du New Brunswick
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November 11, 2011 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Curvature and rational connectivity on projective manifold
Bun Wong, Univ. California, Riverside
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November 11, 2011 - 13:30 - 15:00
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, local PK-4323, Montréal (Qc)
New interpretations and formulas for k-Schur functions
Mark HAIMAN, UC Berkeley
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November 11, 2011 - 14:00 - 15:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 ch. de la Tour, SALLE 6214
An ergodic variant of the telegraph process for a toy model of bacterial chemotaxis
Hélène Guérin, Université Rennes 1
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November 11, 2011 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar MITACS de Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
UQAM, 201, avenue Président-Kennedy, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, SALLE PK-5115
CORRELATION AND CORRELATION CRISES IN RISK THEORY
Stéphane Loisel, ISFA, Université Lyon 1
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November 11, 2011 - 15:30 - 16:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 ch. de la Tour, SALLE 6214
Skewed functional processes and their applications
Ana-Maria Staicu, North Carolina State University
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November 11, 2011 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique Sherbrooke
Local D4-2020 (Université de Sherbrooke)
Snglorious count copulas
Johanna Neslehova, McGill University
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November 11, 2011 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UQAM, Pav. Sherbrooke, 200, rue Sherbrooke O., salle SH-3420
Domains with non-compact automorphism groups
Bun Wong, University of California, Riverside
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November 14, 2011 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill University, Burnside Hall, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., salle 920
Statistical Foundations of Liquid-Crystal Theory
Brian Seguin, McGill University
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November 15, 2011 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle 4186
Random matrices and analytic number theory
Mike Rubinstein, Waterloo University
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November 15, 2011 - 13:00 - 14:00
Seminar Mathematical Physics
McGill University, Bell Room, Ernest Rutherford Physics Bldg., 3600, rue University, ROOM 103
TBA
Sheldon Katz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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November 15, 2011 - 13:00 - 14:00
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O. / Burnside 1214
On the number of ground states of the Edwards-Anderson spin glass model
Louis-Pierre Arguin, Université de Montréal
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November 15, 2011 - 15:15 - 16:45
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
A lattice naturally associated with a topological space
R Raphael, Concordia
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November 15, 2011 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Superintegrability, Exact Solvability, and Orthogonal Polynomials: A case study with little -1 Jacobi Polynomials
Sarah POST, CRM
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November 15, 2011 - 15:30 - 17:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle 5183
When the sieve works
Dimitris Koukoulopoulos, Université de Montréal
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November 16, 2011 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, local PK-4323, Montréal (Qc)
Many non-equivalent realizations of the associahedron
César CEBALLOS, Freie Universität Berlin
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November 16, 2011 - 14:00 - 15:15
Seminar Géométrie et topologie computationnelles
Université de Sherbrooke, D4-2019
Persistent Homology and Partial Similarity of Shapes
Claudia Landi, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
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November 16, 2011 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Géométrie algébrique
UQAM, 201 ave. Président-Kennedy, PK-5333
On the Demailly-Semple jet bundles of hypersurfaces in CP^3
Jingzhou Sun, Johns Hopkins University
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November 17, 2011 - 10:30 - 11:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill University - Burnside Hall - 920
Values of Euler's function not divisible by a given prime, and the distribution of Euler-Kronecker constants for cyclotomic fields.
Kevin Ford, UIUC
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November 17, 2011 - 13:00 - 14:00
Seminar Spectral Theory
Université de Montréal, pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 ch. de la Tour, local 4186
Commutator trave identities for operators and pencils
Michael Levitin, University of Reading
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November 17, 2011 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University, Library Building, 9e étage
A uniform boundedness theorem for polynomial maps
Michael Zieve, Michigan
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November 17, 2011 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University, Library Building, 9e étage
Secondary Terms in Counting Functions for Cubic Fields
Franke Thorne, South Carolina
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November 17, 2011 - 15:45
Seminar Optimisation GERAD-MPRIME
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, SALLE 5340
A Y-graft design for the Fontan procedure using computational fluid dynamics and derivative-free optimization
Weiguang Yang, University of California, San Diego
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November 17, 2011 - 16:30 - 17:30
Seminar Probabilités
Université de Montréal, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
The Aldous conjecture on a killed branching random walk
Olivier Zindy, Paris VI
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November 18, 2011 - 11:00
Seminar
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, SALLE 6516
Differential Games with Random Time Horizon
Ekaterina SHEVKOPLYAS, St.Petersburg State University, Russia
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November 18, 2011 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Rational self maps of quintic 3-folds and Clemens' conjecture
Xi Chen, University of Alberta
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November 18, 2011 - 11:30
Lecture Département de physique
UdeM, Pavillon Roger-Gaudry (Principal), salle G-415
Quantum Money from Knots
Edward Farhi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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November 18, 2011 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, ave. du Président-Kennedy, local PK-4323, Montréal (Qc)
Enumerating maximal chains in the Tamari lattice
Susanna FISHEL, Arizona State
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November 18, 2011 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
Université de Montréal, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, SALLE 6214
Tricks in Spectral Theory
Michael Levitin, University of Reading
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November 21, 2011 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Topologie symplectique
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
The symplectic groupoids of b-symplectic Poisson manifolds
Songhao Travis Li, University of Toronto
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November 21, 2011 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill Burnside Hall 920
Curse of dimensionality free validating methods for PDE's
Jean-Philippe, Université Laval
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November 22, 2011 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle 4186
Random matrices and analytic number theory
Mike Rubinstein, Waterloo University
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November 22, 2011 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
McGill University, BURNSIDE HALL 920
Stack, Cauchy, and other Tight Completions
Marta Bunge, McGill
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November 22, 2011 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Counting Fully Packed Loops configurations, some combinatorial identities
Tiago DINIS DE FONSECA, CRM
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November 22, 2011 - 15:30 - 17:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle 5183
Chang's spectral lemma
Kevin Henriot, Université de Montréal
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November 22, 2011 - 15:30 - 17:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle 5183
2011-AnalyticNumberTheory
Maksym Radsiwill, Stanford University
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November 23, 2011 - 11:00
Seminar
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, SALLE 6516
Technological vs ecological switch and the environmental Kuznets curve
Fabien Prieur, INRA et Université Montpellier I
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November 23, 2011 - 15:00 - 16:15
Seminar Géométrie algébrique
UQAM, PK-5333, 201, ave. Président-Kennedy
Refined BPS Partition Function and Crystal Melting Model
Haitao Liu, University of New Brunswick
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November 23, 2011 - 15:30
Seminar Statistique Sherbrooke
2500, boulevard de l'Université, Université de Sherbrooke, Local D4-2029, Sherbrooke
Sur l'estimation d'une densité prédictive sous contraintes
Eric Marchand, Université de Sherbrooke
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November 24, 2011 - 12:00 - 13:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle 5183
Introduction to Mahler measure
Matt Rogers, Université de Montréal
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November 24, 2011 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O. / Burnside 708
Some historical and general remarks about partial differential equations
Louis Nirenberg, Courant
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November 24, 2011 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle 5183
Refining Chen's Theorem
Laurent Habsieger, CNRS
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November 24, 2011 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O. / Burnside 1B36
Best constant in the Moser-Onofri-Aubin inequality on the 2-dimensional sphere and its ramifications
Nassif Ghoussoub, UBC
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November 24, 2011 - 15:45
Seminar Optimisation GERAD-MPRIME
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, SALLE 5340
Robust Algorithms for Linear and Semidefinite Programming
Henry Wolkowicz, University of Waterloo
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November 24, 2011 - 16:30 - 17:30
Seminar Probabilités
Concordia University, Library Building, LB 921-04, 1450, boul. de Maisonneuve O.
Strong law of large numbers of a class of super-diffusions
Yan-xia Ren, Peking University
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November 25, 2011 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Graph manifolds with boundary are virtually special
Piotr Przytycki, Polish Academy of Sciences
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November 25, 2011 - 12:00
Seminar Departmental Research Seminar
Concordia University, Library Building, 1400 de Maisonneuve O. /
LB 921-4, SGW
Polyakov-Alvarez formula and Weil reciprocity law for polyhedra
Dr. A. Kokotov, Concordia University
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November 25, 2011 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O. / Burnside 920
On the existence of stationary solutions for some non-Fredholm integro-differential equations
V. Vougalter, Cape Town
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November 25, 2011 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, local PK-4323, Montréal (Qc)
Words generated by cellular automata
Eric Rowland, (Waterloo)
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November 25, 2011 - 16:00
Lecture Prix CRM-CAP
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 1360
Testing String Theory with Cosmological Observations?
Robert Brandenberger, McGill University
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November 25, 2011 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UQAM, Pav. Sherbrooke, 200, rue Sherbrooke O., SALLE SH-3420
Groups with good pedigrees, or superrigidity revisited
Alex Furman, University of Illinois at Chicago
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November 28, 2011 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill University, Burnside Hall, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
Self-propulsion in viscous fluids through shape variations
Marco Morandotti, Carnegie Mellon University
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November 29, 2011 - 10:30 - 11:30
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle 5183
2011-AnalyticNumberTheory
Michael Rubinstein, University of Waterloo
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November 29, 2011 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle 4186
2011-AnalyticNumberTheory
Mike Rubinstein, Waterloo University
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November 29, 2011 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
McGill University, BURNSIDE HALL 920,
A six-vector classification of fundamental particles
Joachim Lambek, McGill
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November 29, 2011 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
A systematic construction of orthogonal polynomials with jumps in degree from the classical orthogonal polynomials
Satoshi TSUJIMOTO, Kyoto University
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November 29, 2011 - 15:30 - 17:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle 5183
Chang's spectral lemma
Kevin Henriot, CRM
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