Workshops and Conferences
Lecture by Daniel Wise, 2016 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize Recipient
CRM
February 2, 2017
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Seminars
February 1, 2017 - 12:30 - 13:30
Lecture Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, salle Z-337
Marches aléatoires en environnement aléatoire
Alexander Fribergh, DMS, Université de Montréal
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February 1, 2017 - 15:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University
The Burau representation and twisted Alexander polynomials.
Anthony Conway, University of Geneva
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February 2, 2017 - 12:00 - 13:00
Seminar Physique Mathématique
McGill University, Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, room 326
What else can you do with solvable approximations?
Dror Bar-Natan, University of Toronto
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February 2, 2017 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar DIRO
Université de Montréal, 2920 chemin de la tour, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 3195
Species and gene aware Bayesian analysis of domain evolution
Jens Lagergren, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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February 2, 2017 - 16:30 - 17:30
Seminar Probabilités
McGill University, Burnside Hall, 1205
Inequalities, limit theorems and convergence of random variables under sublinear expectations
Ze-Chun Hu, Sichuan University
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February 3, 2017 - 11:30
Lecture
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Roger-Gaudry, salle P-310
New forms of matter with ultracold atoms: synthetic magnetic fields and supersolidity
Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT (Prix Nobel de physique)
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February 3, 2017 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, LOCAL PK-4323, Montréal (QC) H2X 3Y7
Unistructuralité des algèbres amassées de type A-tilde
Véronique Bazier-Matte, Université du Québec à Montréal
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February 3, 2017 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique
Room 1205, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke West
MM Algorithms For Variance Components Models
Hua Zhou, UCLA
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February 6, 2017 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar DIRO
Université de Montréal, 2920 chemin de la tour, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 6214
Learning underlying structure with neuroimaging data and training generative models with iterative refinement
Devon Hjelm, Université de Montréal
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February 7, 2017 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Logic, Category Theory, and Computation
BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
Logical Characterization of Simulation
Prakash Panangaden, McGill University
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February 7, 2017 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Conformal field theories and quantum phase transitions: an entanglement perspective
William Witczak-Krempa, Dépt. de physique, Université de Montréal
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February 7, 2017 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Occupational Health
Purvis Hall - 1020 Pine Avenue West - Room 24
Scalable Joint Models for Reliable Event Prediction: Application to Monitoring Adverse Events using Electronic Health Record Data
Suchi Saria - PhD, Johns Hopkins University
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February 8, 2017 - 12:30 - 13:30
Lecture Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, salle Z-337
Méthodes MCMC et algorithme de type Metropolis-Hastings
Mylène Bédard, DMS, Université de Montréal
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February 8, 2017 - 15:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University
Graph coloring problem and fibering right angled Coxeter groups.
Kasia Jankiewicz, McGill University
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February 9, 2017 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill University, Burnside Hall salle BH920
Counting Number Fields by Discriminant
Evan Dummit, Rochester
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February 9, 2017 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Statistique Université Laval
Université Laval, VCH-3840
Penetrance study from Lynch Syndrome families: methodological issues in modeling multivariate time-to-event data
Yun-Hee Choi, University of Western Ontario
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February 9, 2017 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University, Library Building, 9th floor, room LB 921-4
Towers of modular curves
Jan Vonk, CICMA
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February 9, 2017 - 15:30 - 16:30
Colloquium DIRO
Université de Montréal, 2920 chemin de la tour, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 6214
Robots in the Real World: Accounting for Resource Constraints To Achieve Tasks
Liam Paull, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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February 9, 2017 - 16:30 - 17:30
Seminar Probabilités
McGill University, Burnside Hall, 1205
Exponential Functionals of Levy processes with Light/Heavy Tails
Wei XU, Beijing Normal University
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February 10, 2017 - 12:00
Seminar Departmental Research Seminar
Concordia University, Library Building, 1455 boul. de Maisonneuve O. /
LB 921-4, SGW
Kernel density estimation: Bernstein polynomials and circular data
Dr. Y.P. Chaubey, Concordia University
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February 10, 2017 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, LOCAL PK-4323, Montréal (QC) H2X 3Y7
Total positivity for the Lagrangian Grassmannian
Rachel Karpman, Ohio State University
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February 10, 2017 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Mathématiques actuarielles et financières
Université de Montréal, 2920, chemin de la tour, pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 5340
Discounted sums and renewal times
Daniel Dufresne, University of Melbourne
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February 10, 2017 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique
Room 1205, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke West
Sparse Envelope Model: Efficient Estimation and Response Variable Selection in Multivariate Linear Regression
Zhihua Su, University of Florida
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February 10, 2017 - 16:00 - 17:00
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave du Président-Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Knot concordance
Mark Powell, UQAM
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February 13, 2017 - 15:30 - 16:30
Colloquium DIRO
Université de Montréal, 2920 chemin de la tour, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 6214
Learning representations of large-scale networks
Jian Tang, University of Michigan
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February 14, 2017 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Logic, Category Theory, and Computation
BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
Logical Characterization of Simulation II
Prakash Panangaden, McGill
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February 14, 2017 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
q-deformed superintegrable systems and multivariate orthogonal polynomials
Vincent Genest, MIT
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February 15, 2017 - 15:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University
Tame automorphism group.
Piotr Przytycki, McGill University
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February 16, 2017 - 15:30 - 16:30
Colloquium DIRO
Université de Montréal, 2920 chemin de la tour, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 6214
Modeling science with machine learning: From inference in simulation-based models to understanding cancer
Ted Meeds, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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February 17, 2017 - 13:30 - 14:00
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
Concordia, Library Building, Room LB 921-04
On the classification of ancient solutions to curvature flows on the sphere
Mohammad Najafi, T.U. Wien and Concordia
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February 17, 2017 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, LOCAL PK-4323, Montréal (QC) H2X 3Y7
Médianes de permutations sous la distance de Kendall-tau
Sylvie Hamel, Université de Montréal
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February 17, 2017 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Mathématiques actuarielles et financières
Université de Montréal, 2920, chemin de la tour, pavillon Claire-McNicoll, salle Z-240
Where less is more: Reducing variable annuity fees to benefit policyholder and insurer
Thorsten Moenig, Temple University in Philadelphia
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February 17, 2017 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique
Room 1205, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke West
Building end-to-end dialogue systems using deep neural architects
Joelle Pineau, McGill University
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February 17, 2017 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Mathématiques actuarielles et financières
Université de Montréal, 2920, chemin de la tour, pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle AA-5340
Geometric approximations to integration domains and numerical algorithms for distribution functions
Klaus Herrmann, Concordia Université
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February 20, 2017 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill University, Burnside Hall, room 920
L^p estimates for eigenfunctions on manifolds with boundary
Melissa Tacy, ANU
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February 20, 2017 - 15:30 - 16:30
Colloquium DIRO
Université de Montréal, 2920 chemin de la tour, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 6214
Deep learning for meaning in natural language
Xiaodan Zhu, University of Ottawa
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February 20, 2017 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar DMO seminar
Burnside Hall 1205, McGill University
Convex Duality Theory
James Burke, University of Washington
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February 21, 2017 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Flucton calculus: a new semiclassical expansion in quantum mechanics
Alexander Turbiner, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM
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February 21, 2017 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Occupational Health
Purvis Hall - 1020 Pine Avenue West - Room 24
Current trends and open questions in dealing with treatment non-adherence and missing data in the clinical trials regulatory environment
Bohdana Ratitch - PhD, QuintilesIMS
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February 22, 2017 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Montreal Analysis Seminar / Geometric Analysis
McGIll University, Burnside 920
Rigidity of closed self-similar solution to the Gauss curvature flow
Guohuan Qiu, McGill University
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February 22, 2017 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill University, Burnside Hall, room 1234
Spectral asymptotics for fractional Laplacian
Victor Ivrii, Toronto
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February 22, 2017 - 15:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University
Arcs on punctured disks pairwise intersecting twice
Assaf Bar-Natan, McGill University
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February 23, 2017 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill University, Burnside Hall salle BH920
Galois theory, non-abelian class field theory, and harmonic families of automorphic forms
Brian Hwang, Cornell
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February 23, 2017 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Statistique Université Laval
Université Laval, VCH-3840
Learnin human history from the distribution of allele frequencies
Simon Gravel, McGill University
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February 23, 2017 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University, Library Building, 9th floor, room LB 921-4
The Wittfinitesimal Torelli Problem
Taylor Dupuy, U. Vermont, Burlington
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February 23, 2017 - 15:30 - 16:30
Colloquium DIRO
Université de Montréal, 2920 chemin de la tour, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 6214
Principled tuning for large-scale ML systems
Ioannis Mitliagkas, Stanford University
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February 24, 2017 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, LOCAL PK-4323, Montréal (QC) H2X 3Y7
On invariant ideals of representation rings of semisimple groups
Rostislav Devyatov, Ottawa
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February 24, 2017 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique
Room 1205, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke West
The first pillar of statistical wisdom
James A. Hanley, McGill University
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February 24, 2017 - 16:00 - 17:00
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
CRM, Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 Chemin de la Tour, salle 6254
Spreading phenomena in integrodifference equations with overcompensatory growth function
Frithjof Lutscher, Université d'Ottawa
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