Workshops and Conferences
2015 CMS Winter Meeting
Montréal
Hôtel Hyatt Regency Montréal (1255 Jeanne-Mance, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H5B 1E5)
December 4-7, 2015
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Seminars
December 1, 2015 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
The Amplituhedron
Hugh Thomas, UQAM
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December 2, 2015 - 12:30 - 13:30
Lecture Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, salle Z-255
Les points fixes et leurs applications
François Larivière, Université de Montréal
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December 2, 2015 - 15:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University
L^p-metrics and autonomous flows
Michael Brandenbursky, Ben Gurion University
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December 3, 2015 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar MILA
Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle AA3195
A theory of cheap control in embodied systems
Guido F. Montufar, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Sciences
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December 3, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Colloquium DIRO
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 ch. de la Tour, salle 3195
Exploring the complementarity of computer graphics and computer vision
Jean-Charles Bazin, Disney Research, Zürich
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December 3, 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 amplituhedron above tree-level
Hugh Thomas, UQAM / CRM
Web site :
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December 3, 2015 - 16:30 - 17:30
Seminar Probabilités / Probability
McGill, Burnside Hall 920
On geometry of random sorting networks
Mustazee Rahman, University of Toronto
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December 4, 2015 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Satellite operators and piecewise-linear concordance
Adam Levine, Princeton University
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December 4, 2015 - 11:00 - 12:00
Colloquium DIRO
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 ch. de la Tour, salle 1409
Pavages et réseaux appliqués à la structure des protéines
Laurent Vuillon, Université de Savoie
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December 8, 2015 - 10:30 - 11:30
Colloquium DIRO
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 ch. de la Tour, salle 3195
Digital processing and authoring of visual data
Cengiz Öztireli, ETH, Zürich
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December 8, 2015 - 11:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 1214, McGill University (Note the unusual time and place)
Order-detected slopes and cable knots.
Adam Clay, University of Manitoba
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December 8, 2015 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Combinatorial aspects of the Painlevé-I recurrence for maps on surfaces, and Voronoï tessellations of Brownian maps.
Guillaume Chapuy, CNRS, CRM et Université Paris Diderot
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December 9, 2015 - 13:30 - 14:30
Montreal Analysis Seminar / Geometric Analysis
McGill University, Burnside hall, 805 Sherbrooke Str West, Room 920
An integral formula with geometric applications in Riemannian and Pseudo-Riemannian manifolds
Junfang Li, University of Alabama
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December 10, 2015 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill University, Burnside Hall salle BH920
Invariable generation of the symmetric group
Sean Eberhard, Oxford
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December 10, 2015 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University, Library Building, 9th floor
Nonvanishing of central L-values of Rankin-Selberg convolutions
Naomi Tanabe, Dartmouth
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December 10, 2015 - 15:30
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
UdeM, Pav. Roger-Gaudry, salle S-116 (http://goo.gl/pqXt2q)
Causal discovery with confidence using invariance principles
Nicolai Meinshausen, ETH Zürich
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December 10, 2015 - 15:30 - 16:30
Colloquium DIRO
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 ch. de la Tour, salle 3195
Physics-Based Simulation for Animation and Fabrication
David Levin, Disney Research, Cambridge, MA
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December 10, 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
ANNULÉ - CANCELLED
Fedor Solovev, CRM, Concordia
Web site :
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December 11, 2015 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, LOCAL PK-4323, Montréal (Qc) H2X 3Y7
Permutations affines évitant le motif 321
Phillippe Nadeau, CNRS, Institut Camille Jordan
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December 11, 2015 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar DMO seminar
McGill University, salle/room McConnell 103
Independent sets in triangle-free planar graphs
Zdeněk Dvořák, Charles University
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December 14, 2015 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar MILA
Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle AA1411
Natural gradient-based algorithms for the training of neural networks
Luigi Malago, Romanian Institute of Science and Technology
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December 15, 2015 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar MILA
Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle AA3195
Beyond support in two-stage variable selection
Yves Grandvalet, UTC
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December 15, 2015 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
KPZ universality, particle systems and polymer models
Janosch Ortmann, Concordia University
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December 18, 2015 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, LOCAL PK-4323, Montréal (Qc) H2X 3Y7
Arbres non-ambigus : nouveaux résultats et généralisation
Patxi Laborde-Zubieta, LaBRI
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December 18, 2015 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar MILA
Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle AA1207
Frank-Wolfe Optimization for Structured Machine Learning
Simon Lacoste Julien, MILA
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