Workshops and Conferences
58e Congrès de l'AMQ
Cégep régional de Lanaudière à L'Assomption
October 3-4, 2014
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Connecting women in mathematics across Canada
BIRS
October 3-5, 2014
Organizers :
Galia Dafni (Concordia University)
Sara Faridi (Dalhousie University)
Megumi Harada (McMaster University)
Malabika Pramanik (University of British Columbia)
Shannon Fitzpatrick (University of Prince Edward Island)
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Workshop: New horizons in additive combinatorics
CRM
October 6-10, 2014
Organizers :
David Conlon (University of Oxford)
Ben Green (University of Cambridge)
Laurent Habsieger (CNRS / Université Lyon 1)
Andrew Granville (Université de Montréal)
Alain Plagne (École polytechnique)
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Lecture by Sabin Cautis, 2014 André-Aisenstadt Prize Recipient
CRM
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
October 17, 2014
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Numerical Methods for Optimal Transportation
McGill
October 20-24, 2014
Organizer :
Adam M. Oberman (McGill University)
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"Euler et les jets d'eau de Sans-Souci" Grande conférence de Yann Brenier
CRM
October 22, 2014
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Seminars
October 1, 2014 - 12:30 - 13:30
Lecture Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 Chemin de la Tour, salle 1360
Le projet de loi n°3 d'un point de vue actuariel
Claudia Gagné, Université de Montréal
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October 1, 2014 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Théorie géométrique des groupes/Geometric Group Theory
920 Burnside Hall, McGill, 805 Sherbrooke West, Montreal
Overview of the article "Random groups contain surface subgroups" of Calegari and Walker
Piotr Przytycki, McGill University
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October 2, 2014 - 11:30
Lecture Club mathématique Sherbrooke
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D3-2039
La construction de l'ensemble des nombres réels à partir des coupures de Dedekind
Marion Henry, Université de Sherbrooke
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October 2, 2014 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar Spectral Theory
Université de Montréal, pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, room 5448
Sharp resonances on hyperbolic manifolds
Frederic Naud, Avignon
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October 2, 2014 - 16:00
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
CRM, Université de Montréal, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Universality in random matrix theory
Paul Bourgade, New York University
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October 2, 2014 - 16:00 - 17:30
Seminar CAMBAM
Room 1101, McIntyre Medical Building
Device Model of Outer Hair Cells
Alejandro Rey, McGill University
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October 3, 2014 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-5115
The space of asymptotically locally euclidean Kähler potentials
Ali Aleyasin, UQAM
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October 3, 2014 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Analyse Université Laval
Département de mathématiques et de statistique Pavillon Alexandre-Vachon 1045, av. de la Médecine, Université Laval Québec, Salle 2810
Mesures de Henkin pour l'algèbre des multiplicateurs de l'espace de Drury-Arveson
Raphaël Clouatre, University of Waterloo
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October 3, 2014 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, local PK-4323, Montréal (Qc)
Le nombre d'idéaux à droite de codimension $n$ de l'algèbre du groupe libre $F_2$ est un q-analogue du
nombre de permutations indécomposables
dans $\mathcal{S}_{n+1}$
Christophe Reutenauer, LaCIM
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October 3, 2014 - 15:00 - 16:30
Working Seminar Mathematical Physics
Concordia University, Montreal, (LB 921-4), 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montréal
Hurwitz numbers and Hodge integrals
Nathan Grieve, McGill University
Web site :
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October 3, 2014 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar McGill Statistics Seminar Series
Burnside Hall 1205, McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke ouest, Montréal (QC) H3A 0B9
Statistical exploratory data analysis in the modern era
Susan R. Wilson, Australian National University
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October 6, 2014 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Montreal Analysis Seminar
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., Montréal, Burnside 306
TBA
Javad Mashreghi, Laval
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October 7, 2014 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
Limit closures of some classes of commutative rings II
R Raphael, Concordia
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October 7, 2014 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
An infinite family of higher order superintegrable systems on non euclidean spaces exhibiting shape invariance property
Danilo Riglioni, CRM
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October 7, 2014 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Occupational Health
McGill University, Purvis Hall, 1020 Pine Ave. West, Room 25
Modelling quantitative independent variables
Lynne Moore, PhD, Université Laval
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October 7, 2014 - 16:30 - 17:30
Seminar Probabilités
Universite de Montreal, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, room #5340
Biased random walk on supercritical percolation clusters
Alexander Fribergh, Universite de Montreal
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October 8, 2014 - 12:30 - 13:30
Lecture Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 Chemin de la Tour, salle 1360
L'Histoire de Pi
Christian Côté, Cégep de Terrebonne
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October 8, 2014 - 15:00
Seminar Théorie géométrique des groupes/Geometric Group Theory
920 Burnside Hall, McGill, 805 Sherbrooke West, Montreal
The Thin Fatgraph Theorem
Joseph Helfer, McGill University
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October 9, 2014 - 16:00
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
CRM, Université de Montréal, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 1140
Applications of additive combinatorics to homogeneous dynamics
Alex Kontorovich, Rutgers University
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October 9, 2014 - 16:00 - 17:30
Seminar CAMBAM
Room 1101, McIntyre Medical Building
Mechanosensitivity and mechanotrasnduction in bone cells
Svetlana Komarova, McGill University
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October 10, 2014 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Autonomous Hamiltonian flows and Hofer's metric
Egor Shelukhin, Université de Montréal
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October 10, 2014 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Montreal Analysis Seminar
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., Montréal, Burnside 920
Covering numbers of convex sets and their functional extension, part 1
Boaz Slomka, Concordia University
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October 10, 2014 - 15:00 - 16:30
Working Seminar Mathematical Physics
Concordia University, Montreal, (LB 921-4), 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montréal
The ELSV formula for Hodge integrals
Jacques Hurtubise, McGill University
Web site :
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October 10, 2014 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar McGill Statistics Seminar Series
Burnside Hall 1205, McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke ouest, Montréal (QC) H3A 0B9
A margin-free clustering algorithm appropriate for dependent maxima in the domain of attraction of an extreme-value copula
Eric Cormier, McGill University
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October 14, 2014 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Hurwitz numbers: from classical to quantum II
John HARNAD, Concordia et CRM
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October 14, 2014 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Occupational Health
McGill University - Purvis Hall - 1020 Pine Avenue West - Room 25
Bayesian hierarchical models for smoothing in two-phase studies, with application to small area estimation
Michelle Ross, PhD, University of Pennsylvannia
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October 14, 2014 - 16:30
Seminar Probabilités
McGill University, Burnside Hall, room 1214
Long time effects of small perturbations
Mark Freidlin, University of Maryland
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October 15, 2014 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill Burnside 1B24
Augmented Lagrangian methods for Monge's problem, congested transport and Mean-Field Games
Guillaume Carlier, Université Paris Dauphine
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October 15, 2014 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Théorie géométrique des groupes/Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 902, McGill
Annulus moves and pants moves
Adam Wilks, McGill
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October 16, 2014 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
CRM, Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, 2920 chemin de la Tour, salle 6214
Divisors of friable numbers
Sary Drappeau, Université de Montréal
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October 16, 2014 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
CRM, Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, 2920 chemin de la Tour, salle 6214
Lattices with many Borcherds products
Stephan Ehlen, McGill University
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October 16, 2014 - 15:30
Seminar Statistique Sherbrooke
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D4-2019
La médiane projective: une moyenne pondérée multivariée adaptative robuste
Alexandre Leblanc, Université du Manitoba
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October 16, 2014 - 16:00 - 17:30
Seminar CAMBAM
Room 1101, McIntyre Medical Building
Biogeochemical cycles across ecological networks
Frédéric Guichard, McGill University
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October 17, 2014 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Moduli spaces and the classification of geometric structures on manifolds
William Goldman, University of Maryland
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October 17, 2014 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill University, Burnside 920
Discretization of functionals involving the Monge-Ampère operator
Quentin Mérigot, Université de Grenoble
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October 17, 2014 - 15:00 - 16:30
Working Seminar Mathematical Physics
Concordia University, Montreal, (LB 921-4), 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montréal
Frobenius manifolds and integrable hierarchies I
Di Yang, SISSA, Italy
Web site :
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October 17, 2014 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar McGill Statistics Seminar Series
Burnside Hall 1205, McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke ouest, Montréal (QC) H3A 0B9
Patient privacy, big data, and specimen pooling: Using an old tool for new challenges
Paramita S. Chaudhuri, McGill University
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October 17, 2014 - 16:00
Lecture Prix André-Aisenstadt / Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
[N choose k] equals [N choose N-k]
Sabin Cautis, University of British Columbia
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October 20, 2014 - 10:30 - 11:30
Lecture
McGill University, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Burnside Hall, room 1214
Discretization of functionals involving the Monge-Amp`re operator.
Quentin Merigot, CNRS Cermade U. Dauphine
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October 20, 2014 - 9:30 - 10:30
Lecture
McGill University, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Burnside Hall, room 1214
Approximation of Steiner and length-minimization problems under connectedness constraints.
Filippo Santambrogio, U. Orsay
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October 21, 2014 - 10:30 - 11:30
Lecture
McGill University, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Burnside Hall, room 1214
Monotone and Consistent discretization of the Monge-Ampere operator
Jean-Marie Mirebeau, CNRS U. Paris Dauphine
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October 21, 2014 - 13:30
Seminar Structures algébriques et géométriques
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D4-2019
Vers un lien formel entre les champs vectoriels combinatoires et classiques
Tomasz Kaczynski, Université de Sherbrooke
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October 21, 2014 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
Limit closures of categories of domains
M. Barr, McGill University
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October 21, 2014 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
From Ablowitz-Segur to Hastings-McLeod and back again
Thomas Bothner, CRM
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October 21, 2014 - 15:30
Seminar Statistique Sherbrooke
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des ciences, local D4-2019
Modèles de données de panel pour variables aléatoires de comptage
Jean-Philippe Boucher, Université du Québec à Montréal
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October 21, 2014 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Occupational Health
McGill University, Purvis Hall, 1020 Pine Avenue West - Room 25
Case Studies in Bayesian Adaptive Clinical Trial Designs
Kristine Broglio, M.S., Statistical Scientist, Berry Consultants
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October 21, 2014 - 9:30 - 10:30
Lecture
McGill University, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Burnside Hall, room 1214
Two examples of numerical applications of the OT problem with quadratic cost
Yann Brenier, CNRS CMLS École polytechnique
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October 22, 2014 - 10:00 - 11:00
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, local PK-4323, Montréal (Qc)
Counting factors of automatic sequences up to abelian equivalence
Eric Rowland, Université de Liège
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October 22, 2014 - 10:30 - 11:30
Lecture
McGill University, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Burnside Hall, room 1214
Weak Solutions to a Fractional Fokker-Planck Equation via Splitting and Wasser- stein Gradient Flow
Martial Agueh, U.Victoria
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October 22, 2014 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Théorie géométrique des groupes/Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 902, McGill
Random One-Relator Groups Contain Surface Subgroups
Daniel Woodhouse, McGill
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October 22, 2014 - 9:30 - 10:30
Lecture
McGill University, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Burnside Hall, room 1214
TBD
Adrien Blanchet, U. Toulouse
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October 23, 2014 - 10:30 - 11:30
Lecture
McGill University, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Burnside Hall, room 1214
An iterative method for regularised optimal transport method
Luca Nenna, MOKAPLAN INRIA
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October 23, 2014 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
CRM, Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, 2920 chemin de la Tour, salle 6214
Cubic polynomials represented by norm forms
Alastair Irving, Université de Montréal
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October 23, 2014 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
CRM, Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, 2920 chemin de la Tour, salle 6214
Effective Chabauty for symmetric powers of curves.
Jennifer Park, McGill University
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October 23, 2014 - 16:00 - 17:30
Seminar CAMBAM
Room 1101, McIntyre Medical Building
A conductance-based model for burst firing in GnRH neurons
Spencer Moran, McGill University
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October 23, 2014 - 9:30 - 10:30
Lecture
McGill University, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Burnside Hall, room 1214
Multi-marginal optimal transport: theory and applications.
Brendan Pass, University of Alberta
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October 24, 2014 - 10:30 - 11:30
Lecture
McGill University, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Burnside Hall, room 1214
Augmented Lagrangian methods for transport optimization, Mean-Field Games and degenerate PDEs.
Guillaume Carlier, U. Paris Dauphine, Jean David Benamou, INRIA Roquefort
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October 24, 2014 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Sharp resonances on hyperbolic manifolds
Frédéric Naud
, Université d'Avignon
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October 24, 2014 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, local PK-4323, Montréal (Qc)
Sur la longueur des éléments pleinement commutatifs
Philippe Nadeau, Institut Camille Jordan
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October 24, 2014 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André Aisenstadt, salle 4336
Inverse sieve problems
Fernando Xuancheng Shao, Université de Montréal
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October 24, 2014 - 15:00 - 16:30
Working Seminar Mathematical Physics
Concordia University, Montreal, (LB 921-4), 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montréal
Finite dimensional tau-functions
Ferenc Balogh, SISSA, Trieste
Web site :
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October 24, 2014 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar McGill Statistics Seminar Series
Burnside Hall 1205, McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke ouest, Montréal (QC) H3A 0B9
PREMIER: Probabilistic error-correction using Markov inference in error reads
Karin S. Dorman, Iowa State University
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October 24, 2014 - 9:30 - 10:30
Lecture
McGill University, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Burnside Hall, room 1214
Efficient Linear Programming Approach to Optimal Transportation
Adam Oberman, McGill University
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October 27, 2014 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Montreal Analysis Seminar
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., Montréal, Burnside 306
Phase transitions and equilibrium measures in random matrix models
Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein , Almeira
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October 27, 2014 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill Burnside 920
Asymptotic derivation of the classical Magneto-Hydro-Dynamic system from Navier-Stokes-Maxwell
Slim Ibrahim, University of Victoria
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October 27, 2014 - 15:00 - 17:00
Colloquium DIRO
DB Clarke Theatre, 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Concordia
Free software and your freedom
Richard Stallman
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October 28, 2014 - 13:30
Seminar Structures algébriques et géométriques
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D4-2019
Quotients dalgèbres inclinées amassées
Hipolito Treffinger, Université de Sherbrooke
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October 28, 2014 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
Classifying bundles with fibre K(pi,1)
Myles Tierney, UQAM
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October 28, 2014 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Coulomb Branch Hilbert Series and the Moduli Space of Instantons
Amihay Hanany, Imperial College London
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October 28, 2014 - 15:30
Seminar Statistique Sherbrooke
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D4-2019
Couverture à court terme pour un revendeur d'électricité
Geneviève Gauthier, École des HEC
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October 28, 2014 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Occupational Health
McGill University - Education Building - 3700 McTavish - ROOM 129
Edmond Halley's Life Table
David Bellhouse, Dept. of Statistical & Actuarial Science, Western University
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October 28, 2014 - 16:30
Seminar Probabilités
McGill, Burnside Hall, room 1214
High degrees in increasing trees
Laura Eslava, McGill University
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October 29, 2014 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Théorie géométrique des groupes/Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 902, McGill
A survey on ordered groups
Dani Wise, McGill
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October 30, 2014 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
CRM, Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, 2920 chemin de la Tour, salle 6214
The Siegel-Weil formula and special cycles on unitary Shimura varieties
Siddarth Sankaran, Universität Bonn
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October 30, 2014 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
CRM, Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, 2920 chemin de la Tour, salle 6214
Sum-product estimates for many variables
Antal Balog, Rényi Institute
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October 30, 2014 - 16:00
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
A Pedestrian Approach to Group Representations
Georgia Benkart, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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October 30, 2014 - 16:00 - 17:30
Seminar CAMBAM
Room 1101, McIntyre Medical Building
A sensorimotor role for traveling waves in primate visual cortex
Theo Zanos, McGill University
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October 31, 2014 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Inverse scattering at fixed energy on asymptotically hyperbolic Liouville surfaces
Thierry Daude, Cergy-Pontoise
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October 31, 2014 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, local PK-4323, Montréal (Qc)
A d-dimensional extension of Christoffel words
Sébastien Labbé, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7
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October 31, 2014 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André Aisenstadt, salle 4336
TBA
Robert Lemke Oliver, Stanford-Université de Montréal
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October 31, 2014 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-4323
On open 3-manifolds
Gérard Besson
, Institut Fourier, Université de Grenoble
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October 31, 2014 - 15:00 - 16:30
Working Seminar Mathematical Physics
Concordia University, Montreal, (LB 921-4), 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montréal
Frobenius manifolds and integrable hierarchies II
Di Yang, SISSA, Italy
Web site :
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October 31, 2014 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar McGill Statistics Seminar Series
Burnside Hall 1205, McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke ouest, Montréal (QC) H3A 0B9
A copula-based model for risk aggregation
Marie-Pier Côté, McGill University
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October 31, 2014 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
UQAM, Salle/Room PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy Building
Risk Processes in Dimension 2
Landy Rabehasaina, Université de Franche-Comté
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