Workshops and Conferences
Andre-Aisenstadt Chair: Richard Schoen
CRM
February 27 - March 2, 2012
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Lecture by Stevo Todorcevic, 2012 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize Recipient
CRM
March 16, 2012
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Andre-Aisenstadt Chair: László Erdős
CRM
March 19-23, 2012
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Seminars
March 1, 2012 - 10:30 - 11:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill University, 920 Burnside Hall
2012-CICMA/
Antonio Lei, McGill University
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March 1, 2012 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University, 9th floor of the Library Building
Algebraic cycles and Tate classes on Hilbert modular varieties
Heekyoung Hahn, McGill University
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March 1, 2012 - 15:45
Seminar Optimisation GERAD-MPRIME
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, SALLE 5340
Simulation and optimization in an industrial research environment
Andrew R. Conn, T.J. Watson Research Center
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March 1, 2012 - 16:30 - 17:30
Seminar Probability
McGill University, Burnside Hall, Room 1214, 805 Sherbrooke West, Montreal
Connectivity of Bluetooth graphs
Nicolas Fraiman, McGill University
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March 2, 2012 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Inequalities for Laplace eigenvalues and Topology 101
Iosif Polterovich , Université de Montréal
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March 2, 2012 - 13:30 - 14:30
Working Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., Montréal, Burnside Hall, Room 920
(Non)-convergent sequences of symmetrizations
Almut Burchard, Toronto
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March 2, 2012 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
UQAM-Pavillon du Président-Kennedy, 201, av. du Président-Kennedy, Montréal Qc, Salle PK-4323
Éviter les cubes additifs
Julien Cassaigne, Institut de mathématiques de Luminy, Marseille
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March 2, 2012 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-5115
On the geometry of closed symmetric differentials
Bruno de Oliveira, University of Miami
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March 2, 2012 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar MPRIME de Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
Concordia University, Room LB-921.04, J.W. McConnell (Library) Building, SGW Campus
On a class of monotone comparative statics problems under heterogeneous uncertainty, with an application to insurance
Mario Ghossoub, Université de Montréal
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March 5, 2012 - 13:30 - 14:00
Working Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., Montréal, Burnside Hall, Room 920
Blowup for time-dependent generalized Hartree-Fock equations
Christian Hainzl, Tuebingen
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March 5, 2012 - 13:30 - 14:30
Working Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., Montréal, Burnside Hall, Room 920
Blowup for time-dependent generalized Hartree-Fock equations
Christian Hainzl, Tuebingen
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March 5, 2012 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
Using ParticleClaw to solve traffic-flow on highway network
Yossi Farjoun, UC3M & MIT
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March 6, 2012 - 16:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Explicit irreducible representations of the Hecke algebras and Temperley-Lieb algebras at roots of unity
Trevor WELSH, Université Laval et University of Toronto
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March 7, 2012 - 10:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Using double poles to prove Slodkowski's extension theorem for holomorphic motions
Frederick Gardiner, Graduate School of CUNY
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March 8, 2012 - 13:00 - 14:00
Seminar McGill Mathematical Physics
Bell room, 1st floor, Rutherford Physics building, McGill University, 3600 Rue University, Montreal
Geometry and Connectedness of Heterotic String Compactifications with Fluxes
Xenia de la Ossa, Oxford
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March 9, 2012 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-5115
ABP-type estimate on Riemannian manifolds and applications
Xiangwen Zhang, McGill University
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March 9, 2012 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
UQAM-Pavillon du Président-Kennedy, 201, av. du Président-Kennedy, Montréal Qc, Salle PK-4323
Les trajectoires des exposants oubliés de Rufus Oldenburger
Srecko Brlek, LaCIM
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March 9, 2012 - 14:00 - 15:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
UQAM, 201 ave. du Président-Kennedy, salle 5115
Using Tests of Homoscedasticity to Test Missing Completely at Random
Mori Jamshidian, California State University, Fullerton
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March 9, 2012 - 15:30 - 16:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
UQAM, 201 ave. du Président-Kennedy, salle 5115
Sequential Optimization of a Computer Model and other "Active Learning" problems
Hugh Chipman, Acadia University
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March 9, 2012 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UQAM, Pav. Sherbrooke, 200, rue Sherbrooke O., SALLE SH-3420
Periods of Calabi Yau Manifolds in Physics and Number Theory
Philip Candelas, University of Oxford
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March 12, 2012 - 15:45
Seminar Optimisation GERAD-MPRIME
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, SALLE 5340
Multiobjective and Robust Optimization in Finance and Risk Management
Oleksandr Romanko, University of Edinburgh
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March 12, 2012 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill University, Burnside Hall, Room920
Statistical Foundations of Liquid-Crystal Theory
Brian Seguin, McGill University
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March 13, 2012 - 16:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CONFÉRENCE ANNULÉE
Alexander ITS, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
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March 13, 2012 - 16:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
$H_2^+$ molecular ion: a solution
Alexander Turbiner, UNAM, Mexico
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March 14, 2012 - 14:00
Seminar GRTCI-SAG
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D4-2019
Towards the understanding of the homological persistence of maps
Marian Mrozek, Université Jagellonne de Cracovie, Pologne
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March 14, 2012 - 15:00
Seminar Géométrie algébrique
UQAM, 201 ave. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-5333,
On the Coolidge-Nagata conjecture (part II)
Karol Palka, UQAM
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March 15, 2012 - 10:30 - 11:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill University, 920 Burnside Hall
2012-CICMA/
Aaron Silberstein, Harvard University
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March 15, 2012 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University, 9th floor of the Library Building
2012-CICMA/
Jayce Getz, McGill University
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March 15, 2012 - 15:45
Seminar Optimisation GERAD-MPRIME
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, SALLE 5340
Optimization of the Accumulating Priority Queue with an Application to Emergency Department Service Targets
Richard Caron, Windsor University
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March 15, 2012 - 15:45
Seminar Optimisation GERAD-MPRIME
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, SALLE 5340
Optimization of the Accumulating Priority Queue with an Application to Emergency Department Service Targets
Richard Caron, Windsor University
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March 15, 2012 - 16:00
Working Seminar Matrices aléatoires, processus aléatoires, systèmes intégrables
Concordia University, LB building, 6th floor, 655
Periodic loop models and their connections with XXZ Hamiltonians
Alexi Morin-Duchesne, Université de Montréal
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March 15, 2012 - 16:30 - 17:30
Seminar Probabilités
McGill University, Burnside Hall, Room 1214, 805 Sherbrooke West, Montréal
The scaling limit of a partial match process
Nicolas Broutin, INRIA Rocquencourt
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March 16, 2012 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Décroissance locale de l'énergie pour les spineurs de Dirac dans la métrique de Myers-Perry en dimension 5
Niky Kamran, McGill University
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March 16, 2012 - 13:30
Seminar Structures algébriques et géométries
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D4-2020
Comportement asymptotique des racines des groupes de Coxeter infinis
Vivien Ripoll, LaCIM - Université du Québec à Montréal
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March 16, 2012 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
UQAM-Pavillon du Président-Kennedy, 201, av. du Président-Kennedy, Montréal Qc, Salle PK-4323
Counting equivalence classes of words in the free group on 2 generators
Eric Rowland, LaCIM
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March 16, 2012 - 14:00
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Recurrence for quantum walks
Alberto GRUNBAUM, UC at Berkeley
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March 16, 2012 - 14:15
Lecture
Université de Montréal, pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, salle 5340
UTILISATION DE LA MESURE VaR POUR LA GESTION DE RISQUE DE PORTEFEUILLES INTERNES D’UNE BANQUE D’AFFAIRES
MARLYN BILODEAU,
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March 16, 2012 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., McConnell 103
(Semi)Definitely Going Global !
Miguel Anjos, École Polytechnique and GERAD
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March 19, 2012 - 13:30
Seminar Structures algébriques et géométries
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D4-2020
Representation Theory of Left Regular Bands
Franco Saliola, Université du Québec à Montréal
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March 19, 2012 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
Rayleigh–Bénard convection: new bounds on the Nusselt number
Christian Seis, University of Toronto
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March 19, 2012 - 18:00
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill University, 1455 De Maisonneuve W., Henry F. Hall Building, Room H-763
In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman: Mathematics at the Limits of Computation
William J. Cook, Georgia Tech
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March 20, 2012 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle 4186
Apollonian Circle Packings, I
Dimitri Dias, CRM
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March 20, 2012 - 16:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Résolution numérique du problème de Navier-Stokes dans le plan stationnaire a la surface libre des fluides
Corneille Eyallo, Université d'état de Tver, Russie
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March 21, 2012 - 12:30 - 13:30
Lecture Club mathématique UdeM
Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, Université de Montréal, salle Z-310, Montréal
Peut-on partager un sandwich jambon-fromage équitablement?
Marlène Frigon, Département de mathématiques et de statistique, Université de Montréal
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March 21, 2012 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill Burnside Hall 1214
Interplay of dynamical instability, stochasticity, and nonlinear energy transfer in fluid and mechanical systems
Themis Sapsis, Courant Institute, New York University
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March 22, 2012 - 15:45
Seminar Optimisation GERAD-MPRIME
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, SALLE 5340
Lattice Reduction and Integer Least Squares Problems
Xiao-Wen Chang, McGill University
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March 23, 2012 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., Montréal, Burnside Hall, Room 920
Variational aspects of Laplace eigenvalues on Riemannian surfaces
Gerasim Kokarev, Munich
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March 23, 2012 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
Université du Québec à Montréal, 201 av. du Président-Kennedy, local PK-4323, Montréal QC H2X 3Y7
Decomposition formulas and orthogonal tableaux
Angele Hamel, Wilfrid Laurier University
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March 23, 2012 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar MITACS de Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
UQAM, 201, avenue Président-Kennedy, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, SALLE PK-5115
An adaptative premium policy with bayesian motivation in the classical risk model
Christiane Lemieux, University of Waterloo
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March 23, 2012 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UQAM, Pav. Sherbrooke, 200, rue Sherbrooke O., salle SH-3420
On the Limits of Invisibility
Steven Johnson, MIT
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March 26, 2012 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
When PML isn't P: Limitations of Absorbing Layers for Modeling Wave Equations
Steven Johnson, MIT
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March 27, 2012 - 16:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
An integrable semi-discrete equation related to the Blaszak-Marciniak (BM) lattice and Combinatorial numbers
Guofu Yu, CRM
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March 28, 2012 - 12:30 - 13:30
Lecture Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, 2920 chemin de la tour, local Z-310
Le groupe fondamental et comment suspendre efficacement un tableau sur n clous
Octav Cornea, Université de Montréal, Département de mathématiques et statistique
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March 28, 2012 - 12:30 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis Seminar / Mathematical Physics
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., Montréal, Burnside Hall, Room 1214
On Blowup in Nonlinear Heat Equations
Daniel Egli , Toronto
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March 29, 2012 - 10:30 - 11:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill University, 920 Burnside Hall
2012-CICMA/
Bryden Cais, University of Arizona
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March 29, 2012 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle 5183
Highly biased prime number races
Daniel Fiorilli, CRM
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March 29, 2012 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University, 9th floor of the Library Building
2012-CICMA/
Neil Lyall, UGA
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March 29, 2012 - 15:45
Seminar Optimisation GERAD-MPRIME
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, SALLE 5340
A column generation-based algorithm for Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) treatment plan optimization
Marina Epelman, University of Michigan
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March 29, 2012 - 16:00
Working Seminar Matrices aléatoires, processus aléatoires, systèmes intégrables
Concordia University, LB building, 6th floor, 655
Convolution Symmetries and Tau Functions
John Harnad, Concordia University
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March 29, 2012 - 16:30 - 17:30
Seminar Probabilités
Université de Montréal, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, salle 6214
Variational problems for the Airy2 process and related problems
Daniel Remenik, University of Toronto
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March 30, 2012 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-5115
The tt*-Toda equations
Martin Guest, Tokyo Metropolitan University
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March 30, 2012 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., Montréal, Burnside Hall, Room 920
On surfaces in normed spaces
Dmitri Burago, Penn State
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March 30, 2012 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
UQAM-Pavillon du Président-Kennedy, 201, av. du Président-Kennedy, Montréal Qc, Salle PK-4323
O-Hecke algebra actions on polynomials
Jia Huang, U. Minnesota
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March 30, 2012 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UQAM, Pav. Sherbrooke, 200, rue Sherbrooke O., SALLE SH-3420
Boundary rigidity and minimal surfaces: a survey
Dmitri Burago , Penn State
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