Workshops and Conferences
Aisenstadt Chair: Bertrand Eynard
CRM
September 28 - November 6, 2015
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CRM Networking Industrial Workshops - Photonics
CRM
October 5, 2015
Organizer :
Stéphane Rouillon (Université de Montréal)
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Workshop on Lévy Processes and their applications in ruin theory
CRM
October 9, 2015
Organizers :
Hélène Cossette (Université Laval)
David Landriault (University of Waterloo)
Étienne Marceau (Université Laval)
Jean-François Renaud (UQAM)
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2015 Montreal-Toronto Workshop in Number Theory
CRM
October 10-11, 2015
Organizers :
Eyal Z. Goren (McGill University)
Stephen S. Kudla (University of Toronto)
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59e Congrès de l'AMQ
Cégep Limoilou
October 16-17, 2015
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Workshop: Applications of AdS/CFT to QCD and condensed matter physics
CRM
October 19-23, 2015
Organizers :
Keshav Dasgupta (McGill University)
Charles Gale (McGill University)
Sangyong Jeon (McGill University)
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GRASTA 2015 - 7th Workshop on GRAph Searching, Theory and Applications & 5th workshop on Moving and Computing (MAC)
DIRO
October 19-23, 2015
Organizer :
Geňa Hahn (Université de Montréal)
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CRM-CANSSI Workshop on Statistical inference for complex surveys with missing observations
CRM
October 25-26, 2015
Organizers :
David Haziza (Université de Montréal)
Changbao Wu (University of Waterloo)
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«L’art et la science des systèmes à trop d’inconnues» Grande conférence d'Emmanuel Candès
CRM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Jean-Coutu, 2940, chemin de Polytechnique, Salle S1-151
October 29, 2015
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Seminars
October 1, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Colloquium DIRO
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 ch. de la Tour, salle AA3195
Fourier analysis of light transport
Cyril Soler, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique
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October 1, 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
Minicourse I - Introduction to topological recursion : General topological recursion
Bertrand Eynard, CPT, CEA Saclay
Web site :
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October 1, 2015 - 16:30 - 17:30
Seminar Probabilités / Probability
McGill University, Burnside Hall, 920
Random walk in a non-elliptic random environment
Tom Salisbury, York University
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October 2, 2015 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Distinguished metrics in conformal classes
Gideon Maschler, Clark University
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October 2, 2015 - 12:00
Seminar Departmental Research Seminar
Concordia University, Library Building, 1455 boul. de Maisonneuve O. /
LB 921-4, SGW
Determinants of obesity at different stages of the life
Dr. L. Kakinami
, Concordia University
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October 2, 2015 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, LOCAL PK-4324, Montréal (Qc) H2X 3Y7
Subalgebras of semisimple Lie algebras
Andrew Douglas, City University of New York
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October 2, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique
Room 1205, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke West
Estimating covariance matrices of intermediate size
Didier Chételat, HEC Montréal
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October 2, 2015 - 16:00
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6254
Aisenstadt Chair: "Topological Recursion"
Bertrand Eynard, CPT, CEA Saclay
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October 2, 2015 - 16:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6245
Topological Recursion
Bertrand Eynard, CPT, CEA Saclay
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October 5, 2015 - 13:30 - 14:30
Montreal Analysis Seminar
McGill University, Burnside hall, 805 Sherbrooke Str West, Room 920
An equality for the geodesic curvature of certain curves on a two-dimensional Riemann surface
B. Ou, University of Toledo
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October 6, 2015 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Logic, Category Theory, and Computation
BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
Amenability and Unique Ergodicity of Automorphism Groups of Homogeneous Directed Graphs
Michael Pawliuk, University of Toronto
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October 6, 2015 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Diagrammatic method in topological recursion and Givental's formalism
Bertrand Eynard, CEA, Saclay
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October 6, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique Sherbrooke
Local D4-2019, Département de mathématiques, Université de Sherbrooke
A Computationally Efficient Bayesian Learning
Vahid Partovi Nia, École Polytechnique de Montréal
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October 7, 2015 - 12:30 - 13:30
Lecture Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, salle Z-255
L'informatique théorique : la science des programmeurs ou le fondement des mathématiques ?
Charles-Alexandre Bédard, Université de Montréal
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October 7, 2015 - 13:30 - 14:30
Séminaire de la topologie computationnelle du SAG
Université de Sherbrooke, salle D3-2029, Sherbrooke
Persistent homology methods for shape similarity
Tomasz Kaczynski, Université de Sherbrooke
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October 7, 2015 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
Burnside Hall 1214
Average Distance Problem And Its Applications
Xin Yang Lu, McGill University
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October 7, 2015 - 15:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University
Algorithmic problems in nilpotent groups
Jeremy Macdonald, Concordia
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October 7, 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
Minicourse I - Introduction to topological recursion : Topological recursion: links to integrable systems
Bertrand Eynard, CPT, CEA Saclay
Web site :
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October 7, 2015 - 16:15
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University
On the K-theory of linear groups
Daniel Kasprowski, Max Planck Institute Bonn
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October 8, 2015 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill University, Burnside Hall salle BH920
TBA
Sumit Giri, Centre de recherches mathématiques
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October 8, 2015 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University, Library Building, 9th floor
Splitting and extensions of number fields.
Christian Maire, Bensançon
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October 8, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Colloquium DIRO
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 ch. de la Tour, salle AA3195
Applications of Software Tracing and Log Analysis to Industrial Systems
Wahab Hamou-Lhadj, Concordia University
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October 8, 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
Minicourse I - Introduction to topological recursion : Topological recursion: Moduli spaces and Gromov-Witten theory
Bertrand Eynard, CPT, CEA Saclay
Web site :
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October 9, 2015 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Regularizing infinite sums of zeta-determinants
Boris Vertman, Universität Bonn
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October 9, 2015 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, LOCAL PK-4324, Montréal (Qc) H2X 3Y7
Compter les idéaux de $F_q[x,y,x^{-1},y^{-1}]$ donne un q-analogue de la fonction "somme des diviseurs de n"
Christophe Reutenauer, UQAM
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October 9, 2015 - 14:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-2265, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Stable classification of 4-manifolds with 3-manifold fundamental groups
Daniel Kasprowski, Max Plank Institute for Mathematics
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October 9, 2015 - 14:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 5340
Introduction to CFT amplitudes and Hitchin systems
Bertrand Eynard, CPT, CEA Saclay
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October 9, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique
Room 1205, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke West
Parameter estimation of partial differential equations over irregular domains
Michelle Carey, McGill University
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October 9, 2015 - 16:00
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
UQAM - Pavillon Sherbrooke, ** Salle SH-2420 **
Coxeter Groups and Quiver Representations
Hugh THOMAS, UQAM
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October 13, 2015 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Logic, Category Theory, and Computation
BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
Isomorphism of countable structures and infinitary logic
Michael Makkai, McGill
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October 13, 2015 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Integrability and conformal data of the dimer model
Jorgen Rasmussen, University of Queensland, Department of Mathematics
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October 13, 2015 - 16:30 - 17:30
Seminar Probabilités / Probability
Concordia University, Mathematics Department, Library Building LB 921-04 (1450 de Maisonneuve W)
Extremal processes for spherical p-spin models
Ofer Zeitouni, Weizmann Institute of Science
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October 14, 2015 - 10:30
Seminar
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 5340
Geodesic Methods for Segmentation of biomedical images
Laurent D. Cohen, CEREMADE, UMR CNRS 7534, Université Paris Dauphine
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October 14, 2015 - 15:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University
Cubulations of Artin groups
Piotr Przytycki, McGill University
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October 15, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Colloquium DIRO
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 ch. de la Tour, salle AA3195
Software build systems --- enabling the rapid release cycle of modern software systems
Shane McIntosh, ECE, McGill
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October 15, 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
Minicourse I - Introduction to topological recursion : Topological recursion and asymptotics
Bertrand Eynard, CPT, CEA Saclay
Web site :
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October 16, 2015 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Constructions combinatoires de variétés hyperboliques en dimension quatre
Alexander Kolpakov, Toronto
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October 16, 2015 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, LOCAL PK-4323, Montréal (Qc) H2X 3Y7
Some new Symmetric Function Operators and Parking Functions
Adriano Garsia, University of California, San Diego
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October 16, 2015 - 14:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-2205, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Complex valued holomorphic torsion and Riemann-Roch isomorphisms
Gérard Freixas, Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu
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October 16, 2015 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar Quantact
Concordia University, Pavillon J.W. McConnell (Library) Building, LB 921-4
A continuous-time model for the mortality surface of multiple populations
́Petar Jevtic, McMaster University
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October 16, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique
Room 1205, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke West
Estimating high-dimensional multi-layered networks through penalized maximum likelihood
George Michailidis, University of Florida, Gainsville
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October 16, 2015 - 16:00
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6254
Holomorphic functions, convexity and transversality
Emmanuel Giroux, ENS-Lyon & UMI-CRM
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October 19, 2015 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University
Heart Wall Myofibers are Arranged in Minimal Surfaces
Kaleem Siddiqi, McGill University
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October 20, 2015 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar McGill Seminar on Logic, Category Theory, and Computation
BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
Presenting a Category Modulo a Rewriting System
Florence Clerc, McGill
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October 20, 2015 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
On symmetries of stochastic differential equations
Roman Kozlov, Department of Business and Management Science, Norwegian School of Economics
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October 20, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Biostatistique
Purvis Hall, 1020 Pine Ave. West, Room 24
How SMART is your trial? Obtain quality data about dynamic treatment regimes
Erica Moodie, PhD, McGill University
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October 21, 2015 - 13:30
Seminar Séminaire de la topologie computationnelle du SAG
Université de Sherbrooke, salle D4-2020, Sherbrooke
Index Theory for flows
Reza Ghamarshoushtari, Université de Sherbrooke
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October 21, 2015 - 15:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University
The Stable Boundaries of CAT(0) Groups
Dooheon Lee, New York University
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October 21, 2015 - 16:00 - 17:00
Working Seminar Mathematical Physics
Concordia University, room 921.04 / Library Building, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montréal
Minicourse II - Integrable systems, random matrices, Hitchin systems and CFT : Introduction to integrable systems and solutions
Bertrand Eynard, CPT, CEA Saclay
Web site :
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October 22, 2015 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill University, Burnside Hall salle BH920
The geometry of Hecke operators
Jan Vonk, McGill
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October 22, 2015 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University, Library Building, 9th floor
The higher rank Selberg sieve and applications
Akshaa Vatwani, Queen's
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October 22, 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
Minicourse II: Integrable systems, random matrices, Hitchin systems and CFT : Random matrices, orthogonal polynomials isospectral flows
Bertrand Eynard, CPT, CEA Saclay
Web site :
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October 23, 2015 - 13:30 - 14:30
Montreal Analysis Seminar
McGill University, Burnside hall, 805 Sherbrooke Str West, Room 920
A new approach to the L^p theory of -Delta + b \nabla, and its applications to Feller processes with general drifts
D. Kinzebulatov, CRM & McGill
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October 23, 2015 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, LOCAL PK-4323, Montréal (Qc) H2X 3Y7
Compter les palindromes dans les arbres
Nadia Lafrenière, Université du Québec à Montréal
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October 23, 2015 - 14:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 5340
CFT amplitudes and Hitchin systems
Bertrand Eynard, CPT, CEA Saclay
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October 23, 2015 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar MILA
Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle AA3195
Towards universal neural nets: Gibbs machines and ACE
Galin Georgiev
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October 23, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique
Room 1205, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke West
Robust mixture regression and outlier detection via penalized likelihood
Weixin Yao, University of California, Riverside
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October 23, 2015 - 16:00
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
UQAM, Pavillon Sherbrooke, Salle SH-2420
Weighted Hurwitz Numbers: Classical and Quantum
John Harnad, Concordia University et CRM
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October 26, 2015 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University
Stability of Active Muscle Tissue
Luis Dorfmann, Tufts University
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October 27, 2015 - 13:00 - 14:30
Working Seminar Mathematical Physics
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., Montréal, Burnside Hall, room 920
Statistics of quantum instruments
Vojkan Jaksic, McGill University
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October 27, 2015 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar McGill Seminar on Logic, Category Theory, and Computation
BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
Two 30 minute talks
M. Barr, McGill University
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October 27, 2015 - 15:00 - 16:00
Working Seminar Mathematical Physics
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., Montréal, Burnside Hall, room 1120
Adiabatic theorems in quantum statistical mechanics and Landauer's principle. Part I
Martin Fraas, San Francisco
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October 27, 2015 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Homological mirror symmetry: from symplectic geometry to algebraic geometry, and back.
Weiwei Wu, Université de Montréal
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October 27, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Biostatistique
Purvis Hall, 1020 Pine Ave. West, Room 24
New developments in model-based clustering and applications to biological data
Sanjeena Dang, PhD, University of Guelph
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October 27, 2015 - 16:00 - 17:00
Working Seminar Mathematical Physics
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., Montréal, Burnside Hall, room 1120
Adiabatic theorems in quantum statistical mechanics and Landauer's principle. Part II
Tristan Benoist, Toulouse
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October 27, 2015 - 17:00 - 18:00
Working Seminar Mathematical Physics
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., Montréal, Burnside Hall, room 1120
Fluctuation relations and energy conservation. Part I
Yan Pautrat, Paris
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October 27, 2015 - 18:00 - 19:00
Working Seminar Mathematical Physics
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., Montréal, Burnside Hall, room 1120
Fluctuation relations and energy conservation. Part II
Annalisa Panati, McGill University
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October 28, 2015 - 13:30
Seminar Topologie computationnelle du SAG
Université de Sherbrooke, salle D4-2020, Sherbrooke
Conley Index Theory for Flows II
Reza Ghamarshoushtari, Université de Sherbrooke
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October 28, 2015 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar
McGIll University, Burnside 920
Flow by powers of the Gauss curvature
Pengfei Guan, McGill University
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October 28, 2015 - 15:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University
Morse geodesics in lacunary hyperbolic groups.
Elisabeth Fink, University of Ottawa
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October 29, 2015 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill University, Burnside Hall salle BH920
Report on the work of Vincent Lafforgue, Part I.
Benoit Stroh, Paris 13
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October 29, 2015 - 13:00 - 14:30
Working Seminar Mathematical Physics
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., Montréal, Burnside Hall, room 1234
Fluctuation relations in statistical mechanics. Part I
Vojkan Jaksic, McGill University
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October 29, 2015 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University, Library Building, 9th floor
The work of Vincent Lafforgue (Part II)
Benoit Stroh, Paris 13
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October 29, 2015 - 14:30 - 16:00
Working Seminar Mathematical Physics
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., Montréal, Burnside Hall, room 1234
Fluctuation relations in statistical mechanics. Part II
Claude-Alain Pillet, Toulon
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October 29, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Colloquium DIRO
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 ch. de la Tour, salle AA3195
Sur la structure palindromique des mots
Srecko Brlek, UQAM
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October 29, 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
Minicourse II: Integrable systems, random matrices, Hitchin systems and CFT : Hitchin systems and CFT's
Bertrand Eynard, CPT, CEA Saclay
Web site :
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October 29, 2015 - 16:00 - 17:30
Working Seminar Mathematical Physics
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., Montréal, Burnside Hall, room 1234
Fluctuation relations in statistical mechanics. Part III
Vahagn Nersesyan, Versailles
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October 29, 2015 - 19:30
Lecture Grande conférence du CRM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Jean-Coutu, 2940, chemin de Polytechnique, Salle S1-151
L'art et la science des systèmes à trop d'inconnues
Emmanuel Candès, Stanford University
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October 30, 2015 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Comment gagner un log dans une Loi de Weyl
Yannick Bonthonneau, UQAM
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October 30, 2015 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, LOCAL PK-4323, Montréal (Qc) H2X 3Y7
Les sup-irréductibles de l'ordre faible pour les groupes de Coxeter
Hugh Thomas, Université du Québec à Montréal
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October 30, 2015 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar MILA
Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle AA3195
Correlational Neutral Networks
Sarath Chandar, MILA
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October 30, 2015 - 16:00
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, **salle 1360**
A knockoff filter for controlling the false discovery rate
Emmanuel Candès, Stanford University
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