Workshops and Conferences
Workshop: Probabilistic Methods in Topology
CRM
November 14-18, 2016
Organizers :
Alexander Nabutovsky (University of Toronto)
Mikaël Pichot (McGill University)
Piotr Przytycki (McGill University)
Igor Rivin (University of St Andrews)
Lior Silberman (University of British Columbia)
Daniel T. Wise (McGill University)
Matthew Kahle (The Ohio State University)
Dmitry Jakobson (McGill University)
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«Les maths de l'intelligence... artificielle» Grande conférence d'Alain Tapp
CRM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Jean-Coutu, 2940, chemin de Polytechnique, salle S1-151
November 22, 2016
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Seminars
November 1, 2016 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Logic, Category Theory, and Computation
BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
A general theory of algebras and coalgebras
André Joyal, UQAM
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November 1, 2016 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
A quantum superintegrable model on the (n-1)-sphere and the multifold tensor product of the superalgebra osp(1|2)
Jean-Michel Lemay, Dépt. de physique et CRM
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November 1, 2016 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Biostatistique
Purvis Hall - 1020 Pine Ave West, Room 24
Performance Assessment of High-dimensional Variable Estimation
Yi Yang, McGill University
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November 2, 2016 - 12:30 - 13:30
Lecture Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, salle Z-345
La modélisation de l'information a priori en statistique
Michaël Lalancette, Université de Montréal
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November 2, 2016 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Montreal Analysis Seminar / Geometric Analysis
McGIll University, Burnside 920
TBA
Siyuan Lu, McGill University
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November 2, 2016 - 15:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 920, McGill
Sharp threshold for Property (T) in the hexagonal model for random groups.
Tomasz, Odrzygozdz
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November 2, 2016 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Statistique
Room 306, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke West
Bootstrap in practice
Tim Hesterberg, Google
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November 2, 2016 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar DIRO
Université de Montréal, 2920 chemin de la tour, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 6214
Fixing our opaque, fragmented and disparate big data
Augustin Chaintreau, Columbia University
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November 2, 2016 - 17:35 - 18:25
Seminar Statistique
Adams Auditorium
Statistics and Big Data at Google
Tim Hesterberg, Google
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November 3, 2016 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill University, Burnside Hall salle BH920
On the Gross--Stark Conjecture
Samit Dasgupta, UCSC
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November 3, 2016 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Statistique Université Laval
Université Laval, VCH-3830
A Quasi-Likelihood Method to Detect Differential Expression in RNA-Seq Data
Angelo J. Canty, McMaster University
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November 3, 2016 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia Bookstore, Library Building, 9th floor
Superconnections and special cycles
Luis Garcia, Toronto
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November 3, 2016 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar DIRO
Université de Montréal, 2920 chemin de la tour, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 3195
Large-scale code mining and analysis for software quality
Tien N. Nguyen, University of Texas at Dallas
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November 3, 2016 - 15:30 - 17:30
Seminar CAMBAM
Room 1101, McIntyre Medical Building, Promenade Sir William Osler
TBA
Mitchell Feigenbaum, Rockefeller University
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November 3, 2016 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia Bookstore, Library Building, 9th floor
\mu-ordinary foliations on Picard modular surfaces
E. De Shalit, Hebrew University
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November 3, 2016 - 17:30 - 19:00
Working Seminar Mathematical Physics
Burnside Hall 920 (10th floor lounge)
Synchronized dynamics of populations of rotators
Christophe Poquet, Institut Camille Jordan, Université Lyon 1
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November 4, 2016 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Contact non-squeezing - a low-tech proof in the language of persistence modules
Maia Fraser, Université d'Ottawa
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November 4, 2016 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Montreal Analysis Seminar
McGIll University, Burnside 920
Rough singular integrals: A1 theory
Carlos Perez, BCAM
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November 4, 2016 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, LOCAL PK-4323, Montréal (Qc) H2X 3Y7
Smooth Schubert varieties of affine type
William Slofstra, University of Waterloo
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November 4, 2016 - 15:30 - 16:00
Seminar Statistique
Room 1205, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke West
Time-Varying Mixtures of Markov Chains: An Application to Traffic Modeling
Sean Lawlor, McGill University
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November 4, 2016 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Logic, Category Theory, and Computation
Burnside Hall 1B23, McGill University
Bridging logic and constraint satisfaction with relational structures and filters
Danny Rorabaugh, Queen'S University
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November 4, 2016 - 16:00
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
CRM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 chemin de la tour, salle 6254
The nonlinear stability of Minkowski space for self-gravitating massive fields
Philippe G. LeFloch, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6
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November 4, 2016 - 16:00 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique
Room 1205, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke West
Bayesian nonparametric modeling of heterogeneous groups of censored data
Alexandre Piché, McGill University
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November 7, 2016 - 10:30 - 16:30
Seminar Chaire de recherche du Canada en simulation et optimisation stochastiques
Université de Montréal, 2920 chemin de la tour, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 5441
Flexible bed allocations for hospital wards
Ger Koole, VU Amsterdam
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November 7, 2016 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar Montreal Analysis Seminar / Geometric Analysis
McGIll University, Burnside 920
Quantum unique ergodicity for half-integral weight automorphic forms
Steve Lester, CRM and McGill
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November 7, 2016 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar DMO seminar
McGill Burnside Hall room 1205
On percolation and NP-hardness
Igor Shinkar, UC Berkeley
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November 8, 2016 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Logic, Category Theory, and Computation
BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
Symmetric monoidal quasicategories
Amit Sharma, McGill
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November 8, 2016 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Classification of five-point differential-difference equations
Decio Levi, Università Roma Tre
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November 8, 2016 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Biostatistique
Purvis Hall - 1020 Pine Ave West, Room 24
The first pillar of statistical wisdom
James A. Hanley, PhD, McGill - Epidemiology Biostatistics and Occupational Health
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November 9, 2016 - 12:30 - 13:30
Lecture Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, salle Z-345
Sous le capot du Bitcoin
Serge-Olivier Paquette, ancien étudiant au DMS
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November 10, 2016 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André Aisenstadt, salle 5448
Quantum Unique Ergodicity and the Ramanujan Conjecture
Peter Zenz, CRM
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November 10, 2016 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Montreal Analysis Seminar / Geometric Analysis
McGIll University, Burnside 920
Almost minimizers with free boundary
Tatiana Toro, U. Washington
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November 10, 2016 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar DIRO
Université de Montréal, 2920 chemin de la tour, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 3195
Énumération à délai constant
Luc Segoufin, INRIA et ENS Cachan
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November 10, 2016 - 15:30 - 17:30
Seminar CAMBAM
Room 1101, McIntyre Medical Building, Promenade Sir William Osler
Physics, Body Size and the Structure of Food Webs
Sébastien Portalier, McGill University
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November 10, 2016 - 16:15
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 1234, McGill University
The reflection trick for non-positively curved cube complexes.
Daniel Woodhouse, Technion
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November 10, 2016 - 16:30 - 17:30
Seminar Probabilités
McGill University, Burnside Hall, 1205
Population models with fluctuating environments
Arash Jamshidpey, Ottawa
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November 11, 2016 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, 201 ave. Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Moduli space of Fano Kähler-Einstein manifolds
Xiaowei Wang, Rutgers
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November 11, 2016 - 13:00 - 14:00
Seminar Montreal Analysis Seminar / Geometric Analysis
McGIll University, Burnside 920
Spectra for non-selfadjoint operators and integrable dynamics
Michael Hitrik, UCLA
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November 11, 2016 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Mathématiques actuarielles et financières
Université de Montréal, 2920, chemin de la tour, pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 5340
Hedging with uncertainty-averse preferences
Sebastian Herrmann, University of Michigan
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November 11, 2016 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, LOCAL PK-4323, Montréal (Qc) H2X 3Y7
The facial weak order in finite Coxeter groups
Aram Dermenjian, Université du Québec à Montréal
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November 11, 2016 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar Montreal Analysis Seminar / Geometric Analysis
McGIll University, Burnside 920
$L^p$ bounds on eigenfunctions for operators with double characteristics
Katya Krupchyk, UC Irvine
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November 11, 2016 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique Sherbrooke
2500, boul. de l'Université, Salle D4-2019, Sherbrooke
Singularities of the information matrix and longitudinal data with change points
Masoud Asgharian, McGill University
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November 11, 2016 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique
Room 1205, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke West
Tyler's M-estimator: subspace recovery and high-dimensional regime
Teng Zhang, University of Central Florida
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November 15, 2016 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Logic, Category Theory, and Computation
BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
On the notion of flat 2-functors
Eduardo Dubuc, UBA
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November 15, 2016 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Cyclic tridiagonal pairs, higher order Onsager algebras and othogonal polynomials
Pascal Baseilhac, Université de Tours
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November 15, 2016 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Biostatistique
Purvis Hall - 1020 Pine Ave West, Room 24
Life after McGill: A panel discussion with EBOH Biostatistics graduates
Panel of EBOH Epidemiology/Biostatistics Graduates, McGill - Epidemiology Biostatistics and Occupational Health
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November 16, 2016 - 12:30 - 13:30
Lecture Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, salle Z-345
La cape d'invisibilité d'Harry Potter, vous y croyez ?
Yvan Saint-Aubin, Université de Montréal
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November 17, 2016 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill University, Burnside Hall salle BH920
On the least square-free number in an arithmetic progression.
Ramon Moreira Nunes, EPFL
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November 17, 2016 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Statistique Université Laval
Université Laval, VCH-3830
Non-stationnarité et Longue mémoire: Comportement de l'ACF, Identification des intervalles d'homogénéité et Application aux séries financières
Souleymane Fofana, ANSD-ENSAE-Sénégal
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November 17, 2016 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia Bookstore, Library Building, 9th floor
Arithmetic Chern-Simons theory
Dohyeong Kim, Michigan
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November 17, 2016 - 14:00 - 16:00
Seminar Logic, Category Theory, and Computation
Université de Montréal, 2910 Édouard-Montpetit, local 422
In Defense of Bourbaki's Structuralism
Michael Makkai, Université McGill
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November 17, 2016 - 15:30 - 17:30
Seminar CAMBAM
Room 1101, McIntyre Medical Building, Promenade Sir William Osler
Renormalizaton bilological networks based on their functions
Paul François, McGill University
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November 17, 2016 - 16:30 - 17:30
Seminar Probabilités
McGill, Burnside Hall, 1205
Parabolic Anderson Model with space-time homogeneous Gaussian noise and rough initial condition
Raluca Balan, Ottawa
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November 18, 2016 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, 201 ave. Président-Kennedy, UQAM
ALF spaces and collapsing Ricci-flat metrics on the K3 surface
Lorenzo Foscolo, Stony Brook University
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November 18, 2016 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique
Room 1205, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke West
Progress in theoretical understanding of deep learning
Yoshua Bengio, Université de Montréal
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November 21, 2016 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Montreal Analysis Seminar
McGIll University, Burnside 920
Quantitative unique continuation and intensity of waves in the shadow of an obstacle
Matthieu Leautaud, Paris & Montréal
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November 21, 2016 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
McGill Burnside Hall room 920
A surprising application of the theory of exact relations for composite materials to Calculus of Variations
Yury Grabovsky, Temple University
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November 21, 2016 - 15:30
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 1234, McGill University
A locally non-Desarguesian A2-tilde building admitting a uniform lattice.
Nicolas Radu, Université catholique de Louvain
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November 21, 2016 - 16:30
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 1234, McGill University
Commensuration index growth.
Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace, Université catholique de Louvain
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November 22, 2016 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Towards an Understanding of Differentials on Degenerate Riemann Surfaces
Chaya Norton, Concordia University
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November 23, 2016 - 12:30 - 13:30
Lecture Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, salle Z-345
Le théorème de Bell : un petit dérangement à notre vision du monde
Charles Bédard, Université de Montréal
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November 23, 2016 - 15:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 1234, McGill University
Kazhdan's property (T) of random groups in the square model for d>5/12.
Damian Orlef, Univeristy of Warsaw
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November 23, 2016 - 16:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 920, McGill
From the random 3-uniform hypergraph to the random triangular group.
Sylwia Antoniuk, Adam Mickiewicz University
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November 24, 2016 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Statistique Université Laval
Université Laval, VCH-3830
Mendelian randomization in the presence of pleiotropy
Celia Greenwood, Lady Davis Institute
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November 24, 2016 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André Aisenstadt, salle 5448
High moments of the Estermann function
Sandro Bettin, University of Genova
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November 24, 2016 - 15:30 - 17:30
Seminar CAMBAM
Room 1101, McIntyre Medical Building, Promenade Sir William Osler
Patterns of activities in excitable media with channels
Lucas Campanari, McGill University
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November 24, 2016 - 16:15 - 17:15
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University
Mechanistic mathematical modelling of granulopoiesis: Elucidating the negative feedback interactions between G-CSF and neutrophils and the physiological determinants of G-CSF pharmacokinetics
Morgan Craig, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University
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November 25, 2016 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, 201 ave. Président-Kennedy, UQAM
The invariant spectrum of toric Kahler manifolds
Tommy Murphy, California State University, Fullerton
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November 25, 2016 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, LOCAL PK-4323, Montréal (Qc) H2X 3Y7
Green-to-red sequences for positroids
Khrystyna Serhiyenko, University of California, Berkeley
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November 25, 2016 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique
Room 1205, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke West
Spatio-temporal models for skewed processes
Alexandra Schmidt, McGill University
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November 25, 2016 - 16:00
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave du Président-Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Around the Möbius function
Maksym Radziwill, McGill University
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November 28, 2016 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University
Around the complex interplay of spatial organization, heterogeneity and collective dynamics of neuronal networks
Jonathan Touboul, Inria et College de France
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November 28, 2016 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar DMO seminar
McGill Burnside Hall room 1205
Bounded colorings of graphs and hypergraphs
Jan Volec, UC Berkeley
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November 29, 2016 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Logic, Category Theory, and Computation
BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
A higher-categorical look at the Stasheff associahedra
M. Makkai, McGill
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November 29, 2016 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Error correction and quantum speedup in quantum annealing
Shunji Matsuura, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
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November 30, 2016 - 12:30 - 13:30
Lecture Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, salle Z-345
La santé par les mathématiques: modélisation en physiologie et en épidémiologie
Jacques Bélair, Université de Montréal
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November 30, 2016 - 15:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 920, McGill
Virtual Limit Groups.
Daniel Wise, McGill University
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November 30, 2016 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar DIRO
Université de Montréal, 2920 chemin de la tour, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 3195
Auctions for online ad space among advertisers sensitive to both views and clicks
Patrick Maillé, Institut Mines-Telecom/Telecom Bretagne, Bruno Tuffin, Inria, Rennes
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