Workshops and Conferences
Conference on Topology, Geometry and Dynamics. In honour of François Lalonde
CRM
August 31 - September 4, 2015
Organizers :
Octav Cornea (Université de Montréal)
Iosif Polterovich (Université de Montréal)
Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv University)
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Lecture by Kai Behrend, 2015 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize Recipient
CRM
September 10, 2015
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Workshop: AdS/CFT and quantum gravity
CRM
September 14-16, 2015
Organizers :
Patrick Hayden (Stanford University)
Alexander Maloney (McGill University)
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Aisenstadt Chair: Nikita Nekrasov
CRM
September 14-18, 2015
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Aisenstadt Chair: Bertrand Eynard
CRM
September 28 - November 6, 2015
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Seminars
September 1, 2015 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
Concordia University, LB 921-04, 1455 de Maisonneuve St.W.
Reductions of Gauss-Codazzi equations to P6
Robert Conte, École normale supérieure de Cachan
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September 3, 2015 - 16:00 - 17:00
Working Seminar Mathematical Physics
Concordia University, Math Help Center, room 912.00 / Library Building, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montréal
Integrable systems, statistical models, random processes and combinatorics
John Harnad, CRM & Concordia
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September 4, 2015 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar Analyse Université Laval
Université Laval, Pavillon Alexandre Vachon, local 2810
Compter les valeurs propres, même quand il y en a trop
Jean Lagacé, Université de Montréal
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September 8, 2015 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Symmetry classes of alternating sign matrices in the nineteen-vertex model
Alexi Morin-Duchesne, Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve
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September 9, 2015 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Understanding character varieties of knot complements and 2-fold branched covers through the cord ring
Chris Cornwell, UQÀM
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September 9, 2015 - 13:30 - 14:30
Montreal Analysis Seminar / Geometric Analysis
McGill University, Burnside hall, 805 Sherbrooke Str West, Room 920
Gluing of solutions to nonlinear PDEs of mean curvature type
M. Moller, Princeton and Copenhagen
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September 9, 2015 - 15:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University
Strong hyperbolicity
Bogdan Nica, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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September 9, 2015 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill Burnside 1214
Numerical Schemes for the Hamilton-Jacobi Equation Continuum Limit of Non-dominated Sorting
Jeff Calder, University of California, Berkeley
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September 10, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Colloquium DIRO
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 ch. de la Tour, salle AA3195
Intelligence artificielle et apprentissage profond
Yoshua Bengio, Université de Montréal
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September 11, 2015 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie computationnelles
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Taut foliations on graph manifolds via Heegaard Floer homology
Liam Watson, Glasgow
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September 11, 2015 - 13:30 - 14:30
Lecture LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, LOCAL PK-4324, Montréal (Qc) H2X 3Y7
Relaxations of the matroid axioms
José Alejandro Samper, University of Washington Seattle
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September 11, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique
Room 1205, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke West
Bias correction in multivariate extremes
Anne-Laure Fougères, Inst. Camille-Jordan, Univ. Claude-Bernard, Lyon
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September 14, 2015 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar DMO seminar
McGill University, Burnside , 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 1205
Exponentially dense matroids
Peter Nelson, University of Waterloo.
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September 15, 2015 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Quantum optical models in noncommutative spaces
Sanjib Dey, Concordia et CRM
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September 16, 2015 - 12:30 - 13:30
Lecture Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, salle Z-260
Les cadrans solaires
Christiane Rousseau, Université de Montréal
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September 16, 2015 - 15:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University
The pentagon group
Jingyin Huang, McGill University
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September 17, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Colloquium DIRO
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 ch. de la Tour, salle AA3195
Minimization of automata by duality and approximate minimization
Prakash Panangaden, McGill University
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September 17, 2015 - 16:00 - 18:00
Working Seminar Mathematical Physics
Concordia University, Math Help Center, room 912.00 / Library Building, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montréal
Introduction to cluster algebras for networks on surfaces
Hugh Thomas, UQAM
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September 18, 2015 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Casson towers and slice knots
Mark Powell, UQAM
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September 18, 2015 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, LOCAL PK-4324, Montréal (Qc) H2X 3Y7
Un théorème de Perron pour les matrices à éléments négatifs appliqué aux groupes de Coxeter
Jean-Philippe Labbé, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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September 18, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique
Room 1205, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke West
A unified algorithm for fitting penalized models with high-dimensional data
Yi Yang, McGill University
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September 18, 2015 - 16:00
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6254
Aisenstadt Chair: "Gauge theories and integrable systems"
Nikita Nekrasov, (IHES / SCGP)
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September 21, 2015 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University
A Dynamic Variant of the Penalty-Projection Method for Incompressible Flows
Pascal Poullet, LAMIA, Université des Antilles, Guadeloupe
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September 21, 2015 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar DMO seminar
McGill University, Burnside , 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 1205
Random models of 21st century networks and their connectivitystructure
Bruce Reed, University of Waterloo
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September 22, 2015 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Logic, Category Theory, and Computation
BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
Invitation to the descriptive set-theoretical complexity theory II
Marcin Sabok, McGill University
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September 22, 2015 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Isotonic oscillator and the Painleve IV and V equations
Vicente Morales, Cinvestav-IPN
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September 23, 2015 - 12:30 - 13:30
Lecture Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, salle Z-255
Marche aléatoire et réseaux électriques
Alexander Fribergh, Université de Montréal
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September 23, 2015 - 15:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University
A geometric proof of the non-separability of a 3-manifold group
Daniel Woodhouse, McGill
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September 24, 2015 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill University, Burnside Hall salle BH920
Algebraic Cycles and Extensions of Mixed Hodge Structures Arising from the Fundamental Group of a Punctured Curve
Payman Eskandari, University of Toronto
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September 24, 2015 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University, Library Building, 9th floor
p-adic L-functions and Ichino's formula
Dan Collins, Cornell University
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September 24, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Colloquium DIRO
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 ch. de la Tour, salle AA3195
Cybersecurity in a quantum world: will we be ready?
Michele Mosca, University of Waterloo
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September 24, 2015 - 16:00 - 17:00
Working Seminar Mathematical Physics
Concordia University, Math Help Center, room 912.00 / Library Building, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montréal
Cluster algebras, Networks, Boundary measurement matrices, Lie Poisson structures
John Harnad, Concordia, CRM
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September 25, 2015 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
The curious properties of bi-disc quotients
Michael McQuillan, Rome
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September 25, 2015 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, LOCAL PK-4324, Montréal (Qc) H2X 3Y7
Coxeter-biCatalan Combinatorics
Emily Barnard, North Carolina State University
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September 25, 2015 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar Quantact
UQAM, 201, av. du Président-Kennedy, Montréal, salle PK-5115
Exit problems for spectrally negative levy processes with parisian delay and a lower ultimate bankrupt barrier implementation
Irmina Czarna, University of Wroclaw
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September 25, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique
Room 1205, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke West
Topics in statistical inference for the semiparametric elliptical copula model
Yue Zhao, McGill University
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September 25, 2015 - 16:00
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
UQAM - Pavillon Sherbrooke, ** Salle SH-2420 **
Analysis of first order systems of PDEs on manifolds without boundary
Dmitri Vassiliev, University College London
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September 28, 2015 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar DMO seminar
McGill University, Burnside , 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 1205
Approximation algorithms for topological graph properties
Anastasios Sidiropoulo, Ohio State University
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September 29, 2015 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Logic, Category Theory, and Computation
BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
Logical characterization of probabilistic bisimulation for labelled markov processes
Prakash Panangaden, McGill University
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September 29, 2015 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Introduction to topological recursion: Examples
Bertrand Eynard, CEA, Saclay
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September 30, 2015 - 12:30 - 13:30
Lecture Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, salle Z-255
Réarrangements de sommes infinies de nombres (et autres manipulations défendues)
Loïc Teyssier, Université Strasbourg
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September 30, 2015 - 15:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University
Turning 3-manifolds acyclic.
Matthias Nagel, UQAM
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