Workshops and Conferences
Aisenstadt Chair: Bertrand Eynard
CRM
September 28 - November 6, 2015
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The emergence of quantum information. A conference in honour of Gilles Brassard
Bromont et Montréal
Château Bromont et HEC Montréal (restaurant Le Cercle)
November 2-3, 2015
Organizers :
Louis Salvail (Université de Montréal)
Claude Crépeau (McGill University)
David Poulin (Université de Sherbrooke)
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Grande conférence - Documentary: «Counting from Infinity, Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture»
CRM
November 19, 2015
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5th Graduate Student Workshop on Actuarial and Financial Mathematics
Université Laval
Pavillon Comtois, salle 1110
November 20, 2015
Organizers :
Manuel Morales (Université de Montréal)
José Garrido (Concordia University)
Alexandre Roch (ESG UQAM)
Geneviève Gauthier (HEC Montréal)
Ghislain Léveillé (Université Laval)
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Seminars
November 2, 2015 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University
The multiplier method to construct conservative finite difference schemes for ordinary and partial differential equations
Andy Wan, McGill University
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November 3, 2015 - 14:00
Séminaire de la topologie computationnelle du SAG
Université de Sherbrooke, salle D4-2020, Sherbrooke
Taut foliations on graph manifolds
Liam Watson, University of Glasgow
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November 3, 2015 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar McGill Seminar on Logic, Category Theory, and Computation
BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
Decorated cospans, corelations, and electrical circuits
Brendan Fong, Oxford
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November 3, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Biostatistique
Purvis Hall, 1020 Pine Ave. West, Room 24
Personalizing Medicine: New Ideas for Dynamic Treatment Regimes
Michael Wallace, PhD, McGill University
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November 4, 2015 - 12:30 - 13:30
Lecture Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, salle Z-255
Les nombres congruents
François Amalega Bitondo, Université de Montréal
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November 4, 2015 - 15:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University
Morse boundaries of geodesic spaces.
Matthew Cordes, Brandeis University
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November 5, 2015 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill University, Burnside Hall salle BH920
On the structure of modules of vector valued modular forms
Cameron Franc, Michigan and Santa Cruz
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November 5, 2015 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University, Library Building, 9th floor
Weyl’s law in the theory of automorphic forms
Nicolas Templier, Cornell
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November 5, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Colloquium DIRO
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 ch. de la Tour, **salle 5340**
Position-based cryptography
Harry Buhrman, Université d'Amsterdam et Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica
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November 5, 2015 - 16:00 - 17:30
Working Seminar Mathematical Physics
Concordia University, Math Help Center, room 912.00 / Library Building, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montréal
Enumerative geometry tau-functions and Virasoro group operators
Alexander Alexandrov, CRM, Concordia
Web site :
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November 5, 2015 - 16:30 - 17:30
Seminar Probabilités / Probability
McGill, Burnside Hall 920
Busemann functions and geodesics for the corner growth model
Firas Rassoul-Agha, University of Utah
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November 6, 2015 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
A construction of slice knots via annulus modification
Jung Hwan Park, Rice University
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November 6, 2015 - 12:00
Seminar Departmental Research Seminar
Concordia University, Library Building, 1455 boul. de Maisonneuve O. /
LB 921-4, SGW
On the arithmetic of modular forms
Dr. A. Iovita
, Concordia University
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November 6, 2015 - 13:30 - 14:30
Montreal Analysis Seminar
McGill University, Burnside hall, 805 Sherbrooke Str West, Room 920
Non-uniqueness results for the anisotropic Calderon problem with data measured on disjoint sets
Thierry Daude, Cergy-Pontoise
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November 6, 2015 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar McGill Seminar on Logic, Category Theory, and Computation
BURNSIDE HALL 1214 , McGILL UNIVERSITY
Reducts of tree-like structures
David Bradley-Williams, University of Central Lancashire
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November 6, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique
Room 1205, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke West
Bayesian analysis of non-identifiable models, with an example from epidemiology and biostatistics
Lawrence McCandless, Simon Fraser University
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November 6, 2015 - 16:00
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
UQAM, Pavillon Sherbrooke, Salle SH-2420
Walls in random groups
Piotr Przytycki, McGill University
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November 9, 2015 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar DMO seminar
McGill University, Burnside , 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 1205
Circuit-based pivoting and diameter
Tamon Stephen , Simon Fraser University
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November 10, 2015 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Logic, Category Theory, and Computation
BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
"By an easy induction..."
Robert Raphael, Concordia
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November 10, 2015 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
The three-body elliptic calogero model
Alexander Turbiner, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM
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November 10, 2015 - 15:30
Seminar Statistique Sherbrooke
Département de mathématiques, 2500, boul. de l'Université, Sherbrooke (Québec) CANADA J1K 2R1. Salle D4-2019
Estimation des quantiles basée sur les copules : application sur des données hydrologiques
Bouchra Nasri, INRS
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November 11, 2015 - 12:30 - 13:30
Lecture Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, salle Z-255
Les mathématiques de la vie privée
Alain Tapp, Université de Montréal
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November 11, 2015 - 13:30
Séminaire de la topologie computationnelle du SAG
Université de Sherbrooke, salle D4-2020, Sherbrooke
Modélisation statistique et topologique pour la segmentation d'images TEP
Madjid Allili, Bishop's University
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November 11, 2015 - 15:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University
Log-space conjugacy problem in Grigorchuk groups
Svetla Vassileva, Concordia
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November 11, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Colloquium DIRO
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 ch. de la Tour, salle 3195
Analyse du transport radiatif : modéliser, comprendre et optimiser le transport de la lumière en infographie
Laurent Belcour, Université de Montréal
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November 11, 2015 - 16:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
The Laplacian flow in G_2 geometry
Jason Lotay, University College London
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November 12, 2015 - 12:00
Seminar
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Jean-Coutu, salle S1-111
The human factor issue in optimisation: Examples from food science
Evelyne Lutton, UMR GMPA, INRA-AgroParis Tech
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November 12, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Colloquium DIRO
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 ch. de la Tour, salle 3195
Ordonnancement optimal des pages proposées par un moteur de recherche pour maximiser le revenu
Pierre L'Écuyer, Université de Montréal
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November 12, 2015 - 16:00 - 17:30
Working Seminar Mathematical Physics
Concordia University, Math Help Center, room 912.00 / Library Building, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montréal
Cluster algebras and Grassmannians I
Marco Bertola, Concordia, CRM
Web site :
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November 12, 2015 - 16:30 - 17:30
Seminar Probabilités / Probability
McGill, Burnside Hall 920
The chemical distance in critical percolation
Phil Sosoe, Harvard
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November 13, 2015 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Positivity and duality on compact complex manifolds
Dan Popovici, Institut de mathématiques de Toulouse
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November 13, 2015 - 13:00 - 14:00
Seminar
1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West., salle/room LB-921-4, 9th floor of Library Building
Invariant measures of stochastic perturbation of random maps using Fourier approximations
Shafiqul Islam, University of Prince Edward Island
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November 13, 2015 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, LOCAL PK-4323, Montréal (Qc) H2X 3Y7
Études des périodes minimales des conjugués des mots de Christoffel
Mélodie Lapointe, Université du Québec à Montréal
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November 13, 2015 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar MILA
Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle AA3195
Bidirectional Helmholtz Machines
Jorg Bornschein, MILA
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November 13, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique
Room 1205, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke West
Prevalent cohort studies: Length-biased sampling with right censoring
Masoud Asgharian, McGill University
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November 13, 2015 - 16:00
Colloquium Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Random walks in random environments
Alexander Fribergh, Université de Montréal
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November 13, 2015 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar DMO seminar
McGill University, 805 rue Sherbrooke O, salle/room McConnell 103
Kempe equivalence of colourings
Marthe Bonamy, University of Waterloo
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November 16, 2015 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar DMO seminar
McGill University, 805 rue Sherbrooke O, salle/room Burnside 1205
Roots of the chromatic polynomial, spanning trees and minors
Thomas Perrett, Technical University of Denmark
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November 17, 2015 - 14:00
Séminaire de la topologie computationnelle du SAG
Université de Sherbrooke, salle D4-2020, Sherbrooke
Fonction de taille et distance dÂ’appariement
Chaima Hamdi, Université de Sherbrooke
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November 17, 2015 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar McGill Seminar on Logic, Category Theory, and Computation
BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
The simplex of invariant measures of a minimal homeomorphism
Julien Melleray, Lyon
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November 17, 2015 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Mirror-symmetric Jacobi matrices and their applications
Alexei Zhedanov, Donetsk Institut for Physics & Technology
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November 17, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique Sherbrooke
Salle D4-2019. Université de Sherbrooke 2500, boul. de l'Université, Sherbrooke (Québec)
Les polynômes de Bernstein: indomptables lisseurs
Félix Camirand-Lemyre, Université de Sherbrooke
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November 18, 2015 - 11:30 - 12:30
Colloquium DIRO
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 ch. de la Tour, salle 3195
Meaning banking and beyond
Valerio Basile, Inria, Sophia Antipolis
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November 18, 2015 - 12:30 - 13:30
Lecture Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, salle Z-255
Le fabuleux rôle des variables latentes dans la modélisation statistique
Maciej Augustyniak, Université de Montréal
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November 18, 2015 - 15:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University
Left-orderability and cyclic branched covers over two-bridge knots.
Ying Hu, UQAM
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November 19, 2015 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill University, Burnside Hall salle BH920
Medium prime gaps.
Tristan Freiberg, Waterloo
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November 19, 2015 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University, Library Building, 9th floor
Variance of divisor functions in arithmetic progressions.
Kannan Soundararajan, Stanford
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November 19, 2015 - 16:00 - 17:30
Working Seminar Mathematical Physics
Concordia University, Math Help Center, room 912.00 / Library Building, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montréal
Cluster algebras and Grassmannians II
Marco Bertola, Concordia, CRM
Web site :
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November 19, 2015 - 16:30 - 17:30
Seminar Probabilités / Probability
McGill, Burnside Hall 920
Using Stein's method to show Poisson and normal limit laws for fringe trees
Cecilia Holmgren, Uppsala University
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November 19, 2015 - 19:30
Grande conférence du CRM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Jean-Coutu, 2940, chemin de Polytechnique, Salle S1-151
Documentary: «Counting from Infinity, Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture»
Andrew Granville, Université de Montréal, Kannan Soundararajan, Stanford University
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November 20, 2015 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Hypercomplex manifolds of dimension 8
Mehdi Lejmi, UQAM
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November 20, 2015 - 13:30 - 14:30
Montreal Analysis Seminar
McGill University, Burnside hall, 805 Sherbrooke Str West, Room 920
Discrete uniformization via hyper-ideal circle patterns
Nikolay Dimitrov, Berlin
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November 20, 2015 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, LOCAL PK-4323, Montréal (Qc) H2X 3Y7
Coincidental Types and their Minuscule Doppelgängers
Nathan Williams, Université du Québec à Montréal
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November 20, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique
Room 1205, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke West
Aggregation methods for portfolios of dependent risks with archimedean copulas
Etienne Marceau, Université Laval
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November 20, 2015 - 16:00
Colloquium Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
UQAM, Pavillon Sherbrooke, Salle SH-2420
Sur l'étude des singularités dans des modèles mathématiques de cristaux liquides
Lia Bronsard, McMaster University
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November 23, 2015 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University
Overcoming Order-loss in High-order Time-stepping
Dong Zhou, Temple University
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November 24, 2015 - 14:00
Seminar Séminaire de la topologie computationnelle du SAG
Université de Sherbrooke, salle D4-2020, Sherbrooke
Fonction de taille et distance dÂ’appariement II
Chaima Hamdi, Université de Sherbrooke
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November 24, 2015 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Poincaré polynomials for Abelian Symplectic Quotients of Multi-particle Quantum States
Saeid Molladavoudi, University of Ottawa
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November 24, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique Sherbrooke
Salle D4-2019, Université de Sherbrooke 2500, boul. de l'Université, Sherbrooke (Québec)
Tests statistiques pour la détection de changements graduels dans les séries chronologiques
Jean-François Quessy, UQTR
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November 24, 2015 - 16:00 - 19:00
Working Seminar Mathematical Physics
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O., Montréal, Burnside Hall, room 1120
Statistical properties of some fast-slow dynamical systems
Jacopo de Simoi, Toronto
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November 25, 2015 - 12:30 - 13:30
Lecture Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, salle Z-255
Voyage au monde du dilogarithme
Matilde Lalín, Université de Montréal
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November 25, 2015 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar
McGIll University, Burnside 920
Some new solutions to the Strominger system
Teng Fei, MIT
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November 25, 2015 - 15:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University
Metrics on the knot concordance space.
Mark Powell, UQAM
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November 26, 2015 - 15:30
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
McGill University, Burnside Hall, salle 306
Inference regarding within-family association in disease onset times under biased sampling schemes
Richard Cook, University of Waterloo
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November 26, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Colloquium DIRO
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 ch. de la Tour, salle 3195
Big Data and Integer Programming
Andrea Lodi, École Polytechnique
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November 26, 2015 - 16:00 - 17:30
Working Seminar Mathematical Physics
Concordia University, Math Help Center, room 912.00 / Library Building, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montréal
The physics of the Seiberg-Witten curve
Patrick Labelle, Bishop’s, Sherbrooke
Web site :
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November 26, 2015 - 16:30 - 17:30
Seminar Probabilités / Probability
McGill, Burnside Hall 920
Moments, rough initial data and intermittency for SPDEs
Le Chen, Kansas University
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November 27, 2015 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Octonionic-algebraic structure and curvature of the moduli space of $G_2$ manifolds
Spiro Karigiannis, University of Waterloo
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November 27, 2015 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, LOCAL PK-4323, Montréal (Qc) H2X 3Y7
Graphes de serpent et fractions continues
Ralf Schiffler, University of Connecticut
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November 27, 2015 - 14:30 - 15:30
Montreal Analysis Seminar
Université de Montréal, CRM, 2920 chemin de la tour, salle/room 5448
$L^q$ norms and nodal sets of Laplace eigenfunctions
Guillaume Roy-Fortin, Northwestern
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November 27, 2015 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar MILA
Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle AA3195
Equilibrated adaptive learning rates for non-convex optimization
Harm de Vries, MILA
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November 27, 2015 - 15:15 - 16:45
Seminar Quantact
Université de Montréal, 2920 chemin de la tour, pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle/room 5340
Sparse change-point time series model
Arnaud Dufays, Université Laval
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November 27, 2015 - 16:00
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Measuring irregularities in data : Can fractals help to classify Van Gogh paintings?
Stéphane Jaffard , Université de Paris Est
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November 27, 2015 - 16:45
Seminar Quantact
Université de Montréal, 2920 chemin de la tour, pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle/room 5340
Market consistent and sub-consistent valuations in incomplete markets
Hirbod Assa, University of Liverpool
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November 30, 2015 - 14:00
Seminar Topologie computationnelle du SAG
Université de Sherbrooke, salle D4-2020, Sherbrooke
Quelques éléments et quantités géométriques préservés par les transformations de Möbius
Pierre Claver Nsanzamahoro, Université de Sherbrooke
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November 30, 2015 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University
On the study of singularities of mathematical models for liquid crystals
Lia Bronsard, McMaster University
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