Workshops and Conferences
Workshop: Counting arithmetic objects (Ranks of elliptic curves)
CRM
November 10-14, 2014
Organizers :
Henri Darmon (McGill University)
Jordan S. Ellenberg (University of Wisconsin)
Andrew Granville (Université de Montréal)
Benedict Gross (Harvard University)
Frank Thorne (University of South Carolina)
Melanie Matchett Wood (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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"Measuring Emotional States in Real-Time" Grande conférence de Chris Danforth
CRM
November 20, 2014
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Seminars
November 3, 2014 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
Upwind methods for second order equations
Thomas Hagstrom, Southern Methodist University
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November 4, 2014 - 15:30
Seminar Statistique Sherbrooke
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D4-2019
Une nouvelle approche statistique globale pour la détection des défauts de fonctionnement
François Léonard, Hydro-Québec
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November 4, 2014 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Integrable cluster dynamics of directed networks and pentagram maps
Fedor Soloviev, Fields Institute, Toronto
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November 4, 2014 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Occupational Health
McGill University - Purvis Hall, 1020 Pine Ave West, Rm 25
Differential Privacy and Application to Model Selection
Anne-Sophie Charest, PhD, Université Laval
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November 5, 2014 - 12:30 - 13:30
Lecture Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 Chemin de la Tour, salle 1360
Le problème des crochets
Daniel Audet, Cégep de Bois-de-Boulogne
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November 5, 2014 - 15:00
Seminar Théorie géométrique des groupes/Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 902, McGill
Ordering Trees
Dani Wise, McGill University
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November 6, 2014 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
CRM, Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, 2920 chemin de la Tour, salle 6214
Local reductions of Galois representations via the mod p LLC
Eknath Ghathe, Tata Institute
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November 6, 2014 - 11:30
Lecture Club mathématique Sherbrooke
Universitéd e Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D3-2039
La règle, le compas et les points constructibles du plan
Hipolito Jose Treffinger Cienfuegos, Université de Sherbrooke
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November 6, 2014 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar Spectral Theory
McGill University, Burnside 1120
Spectral and scattering theory for abstract QFT Hamiltonians (joint work with Christian Gerard)
Annalisa Panati, CRM/McGill
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November 6, 2014 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
CRM, Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, 2920 chemin de la Tour, salle 6214
Multiplicative functions in short intervals and applications
Maksym Radziwill, Rutgers/CRM
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November 6, 2014 - 16:00
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
The Cubical Route to Understanding Groups
Dani Wise, McGill University
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November 7, 2014 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Noncommutative geometry and conformal geometry: local index formula and conformal invariants
Raphaël Ponge, Seoul National University
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November 7, 2014 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, local PK-4323, Montréal (Qc)
Diamants aztèques, Partitions pyramides, Pavages pentus, et Gares de triage
Guillaume Chapuy, LIAFA
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November 7, 2014 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André Aisenstadt, salle 4336
Halász theorem in short intervals
Adam Harper, Université de Montréal
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November 7, 2014 - 15:00 - 16:30
Working Seminar Mathematical Physics
Concordia University, Montreal, (LB 921-4), 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montréal
Bergmann tau functions and moduli spaces
Dmitri Korotkin
Web site :
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November 7, 2014 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar McGill Statistics Seminar Series
Burnside Hall 1205, McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke ouest, Montréal (QC) H3A 0B9
Bayesian regression with B-splines under combinations of shape constraints and smoothness properties
Khader Khadraoui, Université Laval
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November 10, 2014 - 12:30
Seminar DIRO
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 4336
Using local optimization to align protein interaction networks
Leonid Chindelevitch, Harvard School of Public Health
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November 10, 2014 - 12:30
Colloquium DIRO
Université de Montréal, 2920 ch. de la Tour, salle 1177 Pavillon André-Aisenstadt
Using local optimization to align protein interaction networks
Leonid Chindelevitch
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November 10, 2014 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Montreal Analysis Seminar
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., Montréal, Burnside 306
Noncommutative geometry and Vafa-Witten inequality
Raphaël Ponge, Seoul National University and Berkeley
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November 11, 2014 - 13:30
Seminar Structures algébriques et géométriques
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D4-2019
CartanEilenberg Gorenstein projective complexes
Gang Yang, Université de Sherbrooke
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November 11, 2014 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920,
Pitts monads and a lax descent theorem ii
M Bunge, McGill University
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November 11, 2014 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Solutions en termes d'invariants de Riemann pour les systèmes elliptiques quasilinéaires du premier ordre
Vincent Lamothe, CRM
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November 11, 2014 - 15:30
Seminar Statistique Sherbrooke
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D4-2019
Log-transform kernel density estimation of income distribution
Emmanuel Flachaire, Université Aix-Maarseille, France
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November 11, 2014 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Occupational Health / 50th Anniversary Guest Speaker
McGill University - Education Building - 3700 McTavish - Room129
Metrics for comparing risk prediction models
Nancy R. Cook, ScD, Harvard Medical School
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November 11, 2014 - 16:30
Seminar Probabilités
McGill University, Burnside Hall, Room 1214
On rigidity, orientability and cores of random graphs with sliders
Dieter Mitsche, Université de Nice
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November 12, 2014 - 12:30 - 13:30
Lecture Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 Chemin de la Tour, salle 1360
50 pence, l'accident de Challenger et moteur de Mazda
Iosif Polterovich, Université de Montréal
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November 12, 2014 - 15:00
Seminar Théorie géométrique des groupes/Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 902, McGill
Braid Groups are Left-Orderable
Nima Hoda, McGill
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November 13, 2014 - 11:30
Lecture Club mathématique Sherbrooke
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D3-2039
Défis mathématiques de la caractérisation de lénergie dun simple photon pour tout le spectre électromagnétique
Vincent Morissette-Thomas, Université de Sherbrooke
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November 13, 2014 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar Spectral Theory
Université de Montréal, pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, room 5448
TBA
Frederic Rochon, UQAM
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November 13, 2014 - 16:00
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 1360
Recent advances in the arithmetic of elliptic curves
Kartik Prasanna, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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November 13, 2014 - 16:00 - 17:30
Seminar CAMBAM
Room 1101, McIntyre Medical Building
Evolution and Robustness in Gene Networks
Leon Glass, McGill University
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November 14, 2014 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Steenrod squares and symplectic fixed points
Paul Seidel, MIT
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November 14, 2014 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, local PK-4323, Montréal (Qc)
Stability properties for plethysm and Kronecker coefficients
Laura Colmenarejo, IMUS
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November 14, 2014 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
Concordia University, John Molson School of Business, 1450 Guy Street, Salle MB 2.430 Room
Some two-dimensional extensions of Bougerol's identity
Daniel Dufresne, Université de Melbourne
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November 14, 2014 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Montreal Analysis Seminar
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., Montréal, Burnside 920
On the geometric classification of functions
Monica Ludwig, TU Wien
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November 14, 2014 - 15:00 - 16:30
Working Seminar Mathematical Physics
Concordia University, room (LB 921-4), 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montréal
Frobenius manifolds and integrable hierarchies III
Di Yang, SISSA, Trieste
Web site :
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November 14, 2014 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar McGill Statistics Seminar Series
Burnside Hall 1205, McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke ouest, Montréal (QC) H3A 0B9
Bridging the gap: A likelihood function approach for the analysis of ranking data
Mayer Alvo, University of Ottawa
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November 18, 2014 - 12:00
Seminar Departmental Research Seminar
Concordia University, Library Building, 1455 boul. de Maisonneuve O. /
LB 921-4, SGW
On the origins of mathematical thinking
Dr. A. Shnirelman, Concordia University
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November 18, 2014 - 13:30
Seminar Structures algébriques et géométriques
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D4-2019
Calcul de mesure invariante de certains algo de fractions continues multidimensionnelles
Sébastien Labbé, Université Paris-Diderot, France
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November 18, 2014 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Lozenge tilings and Hurwitz numbers
Jonathan Novak, Department of Mathematics, MIT
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November 18, 2014 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Occupational Health
McGill University - Purvis Hall - 1020 Pine Ave. West - Rm 25
Multicenter trials, guidelines, and uncertainties: Do we know as much as we think we do?
James Brophy, MEng, MD, FRCP(c), FACC, PhD, McGill University
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November 18, 2014 - 16:30 - 17:30
Seminar Probabilités
McGill University, Burnside Hall, room 1214
Diameter and Stationary Distribution of random k-out digraphs
Guillem Perarneu, McGill University
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November 19, 2014 - 12:30 - 13:30
Lecture Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 Chemin de la Tour, salle 1360
On continue avec les fractions continues
Matilde Lalin, Université de Montréal
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November 19, 2014 - 15:00
Seminar Théorie géométrique des groupes/Geometric Group Theory
McGill University, Burnside Hall, room 902
Concordance group and stable commutator length in braid groups
Micheal Brandenbursky, CRM
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November 20, 2014 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar Spectral Theory
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 5448
Spectral geometry of the Steklov problem
Iosif Polterovich, Université de Montréal
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November 20, 2014 - 16:00
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 1360
High-dimensional phenomena in mathematical statistics and convex analysis
Martin Wainwright, University of California, Berkeley
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November 20, 2014 - 16:00 - 17:30
Seminar CAMBAM
Room 1101, McIntyre Medical Building
The wireless brain - an oscillator network model of neural field effects
Greg Stacey, McGill University
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November 21, 2014 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Licornes fines
Piotr Przytycki, Université McGill
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November 21, 2014 - 11:45 - 12:45
Seminar Dynamical System
Concordia University, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montréal, Library Building LB 921-04
Bi-partitions of the 2-d torus, 1-dimensional tilings, hyperbolic automorphisms and their Markov partitions
Maciej P. Wojtkowski, University of Warmia i Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland
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November 21, 2014 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, local PK-4323, Montréal (Qc)
Small roots, low elements and automaton in Coxeter groups
Christophe Hohlweg, LaCIM
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November 21, 2014 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar Analyse Université Laval
Département de mathématiques et de statistique Pavillon Alexandre-Vachon 1045, av. de la Médecine, Université Laval Québec, Salle 2810
Optimal transport: old and new
Robert McCann, Unversity of Toronto
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November 21, 2014 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André Aisenstadt, salle 4336
Zeros of modular forms in thin sets
Kaisa Matomäki, Université de Montréal
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November 21, 2014 - 15:00 - 16:30
Working Seminar Mathematical Physics
Concordia University, room LB 921-4, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montréal
Recurrence formulas to count maps on surfaces
Guillaume Chapuy
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November 21, 2014 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar McGill Statistics Seminar Series
Burnside Hall 1205, McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke ouest, Montréal (QC) H3A 0B9
Estimating by solving nonconvex programs: Statistical and computational guarantees
Martin J. Wainwright, University of California at Berkeley
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November 24, 2014 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Montreal Analysis Seminar
Concordia University, LB 921-04
Functional covering numbers
Boaz Slomka, Concordia, CRM
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November 25, 2014 - 13:30
Seminar Structures algébriques et géométriques
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D4-2019
Algèbres amassées de types B et C
Guillaume Douville, Université de Sherbrooke
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November 25, 2014 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
POVM quantization(s)
Jean-Pierre Gazeau, Université Paris Diderot et Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas
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November 25, 2014 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Occupational Health
McGill University - Purvis Hall - 1020 Pine Avenue West, Room 25
Statistical Challenges in Administrative-Data Pharmacoepidemiology
Robert Platt, PhD, McGill University
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November 27, 2014 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
CRM, Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, 2920 chemin de la Tour, salle 6214
Character sums and congruence equations
Marc Munsch, CRM
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November 27, 2014 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar Spectral Theory
McGill University, Burnside 1120
TBA
Mikhail Karpukhin, McGill University
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November 27, 2014 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
CRM, Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, 2920 chemin de la Tour, salle 6214
On moments of Dirichlet L-functions.
Sandro Bettin, CRM
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November 27, 2014 - 15:30
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
Université Laval, Pavillon Alexandre Vachon, salle 2830
On the well-posedness of the 2D stochastic Allen-Cahn equation
Nilima Nigam, Simon Fraser University
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November 27, 2014 - 15:30
Seminar Statistique Sherbrooke
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D4-2019
Bivariate extension of Skellams distribution
Mhamed Mesfioui, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
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November 27, 2014 - 16:00 - 17:30
Seminar CAMBAM
Room 1101, McIntyre Medical Building
Modelling myelopoiesis with differential equations
Tony Humphries, McGill University
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November 28, 2014 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Four dimensional Ricci solitons
Ovidiu Munteanu, University of Connecticut
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November 28, 2014 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Analyse Université Laval
Université Laval, Pavillon Alexandre-Vachon, 1045, av. de la Médecine, salle 2810
Sharp resonances on hyperbolic manifolds
Frédéric Naud, Université d'Avignon
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November 28, 2014 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, local PK-4323, Montréal (Qc)
Arbres Cambriens
Vincent Pilaud, CNRS et École Polytechnique
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November 28, 2014 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Montreal Analysis Seminar
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., Montréal, Burnside 920
Dynamical compact bodies in General Relativity
Todd Oliynik, Monash University
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November 28, 2014 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André Aisenstadt, salle 4336
A new proof of the Selberg Central limit theorem
Maksym Radziwill
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November 28, 2014 - 15:00 - 16:30
Working Seminar Mathematical Physics
Concordia University, room LB 921-4, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montréal
Bergmann tau functions and moduli spaces : Part 2
Dmitri Korotkin
Web site :
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November 28, 2014 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar McGill Statistics Seminar Series
Burnside Hall 1205, McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke ouest, Montréal (QC) H3A 0B9
Model-based methods of classification with applications
Irene Vrbik, McGill University
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