Workshops and Conferences
Frontiers in Mathematical Physics. In honour of Barry Simon's 70th birthday
CRM
August 28 - September 1, 2016
Organizers :
Vojkan Jakšić (McGill University)
Dmitry Jakobson (McGill University)
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Aisenstadt Chair: Scott Sheffield
CRM
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisesntatd, salle 6214
September 2-5, 2016
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Workshop: Random Growth Problems and Random Matrices
CRM
September 2-6, 2016
Organizers :
Ilia Binder (University of Toronto)
Louigi Addario-Berry (McGill University)
Bálint Virág (University of Toronto)
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Aisenstadt Chair: Yuval Peres
CRM
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisesntatd, salle 6214
September 2-6, 2016
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Lecture by Anne Broadbent, 2016 André-Aisenstadt Prize Recipient
CRM
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
September 23, 2016
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STAHY 2016 Workshop
INRS, Québec
Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), 490 de la Couronne, Québec, Qc.
September 26-27, 2016
Organizer :
Fateh Chebana (INRS)
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Seminars
September 2, 2016 - 16:00 - 17:00
Lecture
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisesntatd, salle 6214
Universal randomness in 2D
Scott Sheffield, MIT
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September 2, 2016 - 17:00 - 18:00
Lecture
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisesntatd, salle 6214
From Laplacian growth to competitive erosion
Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research
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September 3, 2016 - 15:30 - 16:30
Lecture
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisesntatd, salle 6214
Competitive erosion is conformally invariant
Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research
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September 4, 2016 - 10:30 - 11:30
Lecture
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisesntatd, salle 6214
More universal randomness in 2D and its relationship to gauge theory - I
Scott Sheffield, MIT
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September 5, 2016 - 10:00 - 11:00
Lecture
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisesntatd, salle 6214
Random walks on dynamical percolation
Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research
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September 5, 2016 - 15:30 - 16:30
Lecture
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisesntatd, salle 6214
More universal randomness in 2D and its relationship to gauge theory - II
Scott Sheffield, MIT
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September 6, 2016 - 14:00 - 16:00
Seminar Mathematical Physics (Working Seminar)
McGill University, Burnside Hall, room 1234
Landauer's Principle in repeated interaction systems
Alain Joye, Grenoble
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September 7, 2016 - 14:00 - 16:00
Seminar Mathematical Physics (Working Seminar)
McGill University, Burnside Hall, room 1234
Landauer's Principle in quantum statistical mechanics
Claude Alain Pillet, Toulon
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September 7, 2016 - 16:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 920, McGill
Embedding some infinite graphs into finitely generated groups
Damian Osajda, Wroclaw University
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September 8, 2016 - 14:00 - 16:00
Seminar Mathematical Physics (Working Seminar)
McGill University, Burnside Hall, room 1234
Freidlin-Wentzell theory and entropy production. Part I
Armen Shirikyan, McGill and Cergy-Pontoise
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September 8, 2016 - 15:30 - 16:30
Colloquium DIRO
Université de Montréal, 2940 Chemin de la polytechnique, Pavillon Jean-Coutu, Salle S1-151,
La cryptographie dans un monde quantique
Gilles Brassard, Université de Montréal
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September 9, 2016 - 14:00 - 16:00
Seminar Mathematical Physics (Working Seminar)
McGill University, Burnside Hall, room 1234
Freidlin-Wentzell theory and entropy production. Part II
Armen Shirikyan, McGill and Cergy-Pontoise
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September 9, 2016 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique
Room 1205, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke West
Two-set canonical variate model in multiple populations with invariant loadings
Fei Gu, McGill University
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September 12, 2016 - 14:00 - 16:00
Seminar Mathematical Physics (Working Seminar)
McGill University, Burnside Hall, room 1234
Quantum trajectories and MAM
Renaud Raquepas, McGill University
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September 12, 2016 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar DMO seminar
McGill University, 805 rue Sherbrooke O, salle/room Burnside 1205
The multicolour ramsey number of a long odd cycle
Jozef Skokan, London School of Economics
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September 13, 2016 - 14:00 - 16:00
Seminar Mathematical Physics (Working Seminar)
McGill University, Burnside Hall, room 1234
On the nature of tails of full statistics
Renaud Raquepas, McGill University
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September 13, 2016 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Applied Math. Working Seminar
805 Sherbrooke West, Bunside Hall, room 1214
Monotone scheme for the affine curvature flow
Tiago Salvador, McGill University
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September 13, 2016 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique Sherbrooke
2500 boul. de l'Université, Salle D4-2019, Sherbrooke
L'estimation non paramétrique des quantiles conditionnels dans un cadre de données fonctionnelles: une approche de la théorie d'apprentissage en action.
Yousri Henchiri, UQÀM
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September 14, 2016 - 12:30 - 13:30
Lecture Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, salle Z-345
Les mathématiques de l'intelligence... artificielle
Alain Tapp, DIRO
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September 14, 2016 - 14:00 - 16:00
Seminar Mathematical Physics (Working Seminar)
McGill University, Burnside Hall, room 1234
On the nature of invariant measure for coupled oscillators and rotators
Noe Cuneo, McGill University
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September 14, 2016 - 15:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 920, McGill
Embedding some infinite graphs into finitely generated groups. Part II
Damian Osajda, Wroclaw University
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September 14, 2016 - 15:30
Seminar Statistique Concordia
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Room # LB-921.04, Library Building, Concordia University, 1400 de Maisonneuve West, Montreal H3G 1M8
Associated sequences and demimartingales
Dr. B. L. S. Prakasa Rao, CR Rao Advanced Institute, Hyderabad, India
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September 15, 2016 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar Mathematical Physics (Working Seminar)
McGill University, Burnside Hall, room 1234
On Landau-Zener transitions for dephasing Lindbladians
Lisa Haenggli, Zurich
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September 15, 2016 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André Aisenstadt, salle 5448
Certain developments behind mean value integrals of the Riemann zeta-function
Nicolas Robles, UIUC
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September 15, 2016 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Mathematical Physics (Working Seminar)
McGill University, Burnside Hall, room 1234
Repeated quantum measurments and Bubble chambers
Martin Fraas, San Francisco
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September 15, 2016 - 16:30 - 17:30
Seminar DMO seminar
McGill University, 3480 rue University, McConnell room 103
On the Coppersmith-Winograd approach to matrix multiplication
Yuval Filmus, Technion University in Haifa
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September 16, 2016 - 10:00 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, 201 ave. Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Cobordism hypothesis I
Amit Sharma , McGill University
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September 16, 2016 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, 201 ave. Président-Kennedy, UQAM
The moduli space of 2-convex embedded spheres
Robert Haslhofer, Université de Toronto
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September 16, 2016 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar MILA
Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle AA6214
RandomOut: Using a convolutional gradient norm to rescue convolutional filters
Joseph Paul Cohen, University of Massachusetts, Boston
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September 16, 2016 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Montreal Analysis Seminar
McGill University, Burnside Hall, room 920
A quantitative vainberg method for black box scattering
Jeff Galkowski , CRM/McGill University
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September 16, 2016 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, LOCAL PK-4323, Montréal (Qc) H2X 3Y7
Oriented exchange graphs
Alexander Garver, Université du Québec à Montréal
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September 16, 2016 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar Mathématiques actuarielles et financières
UQAM, pavillon Président-Kennedy, salle PK5115
Metamodeling and its applications in variable annuity
Guojun Gan, University of Connecticut
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September 16, 2016 - 14:00 - 16:00
Seminar Mathematical Physics (Working Seminar)
McGill University, Burnside Hall, room 1234
Temperature estimation in repeated quantum measurements
Oscar Sprumont, McGill
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September 16, 2016 - 16:00
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
Université Concordia, Library Building, 1400 de Maisonneuve O.,
salle LB-921.04
Statistical Inference for fractional diffusion processes
B.L.S. Prakasa Rao, CR Rao Advanced Institute,
Hyderabad, India
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September 16, 2016 - 16:00
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave du Président-Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Cubature, approximation, and isotropy in the hypercube
Nick Trefethen, University of Oxford
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September 19, 2016 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University
Conservative discretizations and long-term stability
Andy Wan, McGill University
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September 20, 2016 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Logic, Category Theory, and Computation
BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
Higher dimensional categories from a logician's point view
M. Makkai, McGill
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September 20, 2016 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Applied Math. Working Seminar
805 Sherbrooke West, Bunside Hall, room 1214
Conservative Discretization for the point vortex problem
Cem Gromezano, McGill University
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September 20, 2016 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Solvability of the F4 quantum integrable system: rational and trigonometric
Juan Carlos López Vieyra, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
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September 20, 2016 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Biostatistique
Purvis Hall - 1020 Pine Ave West, Room 24
The perils of Quasi-likelihood Information Criteria
Yishu Wang, McGill - Epidemiology Biostatistics and Occupational Health
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September 21, 2016 - 12:30 - 13:30
Lecture Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, salle Z-345
Jongler avec des balles ...et pi
Christian Côté,
, Enseignant au CÉGEP de Terrebonne et chargé de cours à l'UdeM
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September 21, 2016 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Montreal Analysis Seminar / Geometric Analysis
McGIll University, Burnside 920
A volume preserving flow and the isoperimetric problem in warped product spaces with general base
Pengfei Guan, McGill University
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September 21, 2016 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar Spectral Geometry
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 4186
A generalised Gauss circle problem and density of states (J. Lagacé, L. Parnovski, arXiv:1506.07115)
Jean Lagacé, Université de Montréal
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September 21, 2016 - 15:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 920, McGill
Orderings and rigidity of one dimensional group actions.
Cristobal Rivas, Universidad de Santiago de Chile
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September 21, 2016 - 16:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 920, McGill
Constructions of k-regular maps using algebraic geometry.
Jaroslaw Buczynski, University of Warsaw and Polish Academy of Sciences
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September 22, 2016 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill University, Burnside Hall salle BH920
Weight elimination in Serre-type conjectures
Brandon Levin, Chicago
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September 22, 2016 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia Bookstore, Library Building, 9th floor
Quantum Chaos and Arithmetic
Steve Lester, CICMA
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September 22, 2016 - 15:30 - 17:30
Seminar CAMBAM
Room 1101, McIntyre Medical Building, Promenade Sir William Osler
Pattern formation and cell polarization models
Leah Keshet, UBC
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September 22, 2016 - 16:30 - 17:30
Seminar Probabilités
McGill University, Burnside Hall, room 1205
The stochastic evolution of pathogen virulence
Todd Parsons, CNRS & Paris VI
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September 23, 2016 - 10:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Cobordism Hypothesis II
Amit Sharma, Université McGill
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September 23, 2016 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
LA CONFÉRENCE EST ANNULÉE
Maia Fraser, Université d'Ottawa
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September 23, 2016 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar MILA
Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle AA6214
Leveraging Data Science to Directly Learn Tractable Models for Probabilistic Inference and Decision Making
Pascal Poupart, University of Waterloo
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September 23, 2016 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique
Room 1205, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke West
Stein estimation of the intensity parameter of a stationary spatial Poisson point process
Jean-François Coeurjolly, UPMFA
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September 23, 2016 - 16:00 - 17:00
Lecture Prix André-Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
How to Verify a Quantum Computation
Anne Broadbent, Université d’Ottawa
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September 26, 2016 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University
Predicting the Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death
Leon Glass, McGill University
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September 27, 2016 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Logic, Category Theory, and Computation
BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
Is the category of finite distributive sup semilattices compact *-autonomous?
M. Barr, McGill University
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September 27, 2016 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Applied Math. Working Seminar
805 Sherbrooke West, Bunside Hall, room 1214
TBS
Bilal Abbasi, McGill University
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September 27, 2016 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Higher order squeezing of noncommutative q-photon-added coherent states
Sanjib Dey, CRM
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September 27, 2016 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Biostatistique
Purvis Hall - 1020 Pine Ave West, Room 24
A Quasi-Likelihood Method to Detect Differential Expression in RNA-Seq Data
Angelo J. Canty, McMaster University
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September 28, 2016 - 12:30 - 13:30
Lecture Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, salle Z-345
Des ellipses, des courbes elliptiques, des secrets et un million de dollars
Matilde Lalín, Université de Montréal, DMS
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September 28, 2016 - 15:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 920, McGill
Rapid Decay, Rapidly
Bogdan Nica, McGill University
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September 29, 2016 - 15:30 - 16:30
Colloquium DIRO
Université de Montréal, 2920 chemin de la tour, pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 3195
Retracer l'évolution des gènes - Relations entre arbres de gènes et graphes d'orthologie
Nadia El Mabrouk, Université de Montréal
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September 29, 2016 - 15:30 - 17:30
Seminar CAMBAM
Room 1101, McIntyre Medical Building, Promenade Sir William Osler
Systematic Analysis of Transient intracellular Calcium Signs in Live Cells
Laurent Mackay, McGill University
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September 30, 2016 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Schottky Groups and Maximal Representations
Jean-Philippe Burelle, University of Maryland
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September 30, 2016 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar MILA
Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle AA6214
TBA
Puneet Mehta, MSG.ai
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September 30, 2016 - 12:00
Seminar Departmental Research Seminar
Concordia University, Library Building, 1455 boul. de Maisonneuve O. /
LB 921-4, SGW
Multivariate risk measures
Dr. M. Mailhot, Concordia University
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September 30, 2016 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, LOCAL PK-4323, Montréal (Qc) H2X 3Y7
Une structure de données pour les chemins discrets dans un réseau régulier
Alexandre Blondin Massé, Université du Québec à Montréal
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September 30, 2016 - 13:40 - 14:40
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-2605, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
The Maurer-Cartan equation and open Gromov-Witten invariants
Sara Tukachinsky, Université de Montréal
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September 30, 2016 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Mathématiques actuarielles et financières
Concordia University, Pavillon J.W. McConnell (Library) Building LB 921-4
Trading with small nonlinear price impact
Johannes Muhle-Karbe, University of Michigan
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September 30, 2016 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique
Room 1205, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke West
CoCoLasso for High-dimensional Error-in-variables Regression
Hui Zou, University of Minnesota
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September 30, 2016 - 16:00
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave du Président-Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Notions of simplicity in low-dimensions
Liam Watson, Université de Sherbrooke
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