Workshops and Conferences
Aisenstadt Chair: Michael Aizenman
CRM
September 17 - November 16, 2018
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Workshop: Entropic Fluctuation Relations in Mathematics and Physics
CRM
October 29 - November 2, 2018
Organizers :
Vojkan Jakšić (McGill University)
Claude-Alain Pillet (Université du Sud Toulon-Var)
Christian Maes (KU Leuven)
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Lecture by Benjamin Rossman, 2018 André-Aisenstadt Prize Recipient
CRM
November 2, 2018
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Fall Meeting of Statlab 2018
CRM
November 7, 2018
Organizer :
Éric Marchand (Université de Sherbrooke)
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Aisenstadt Chair: Svetlana Jitomirskaya
CRM
November 12-16, 2018
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Workshop: Spectral Theory of Quasi-Periodic and Random Operators
CRM
November 12-16, 2018
Organizers :
Jonathan Breuer (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Milivoje Lukic (Rice University)
Simone Warzel (Technische Universität München)
David Damanik (Rice University)
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Seminars
November 2, 2018 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, PK-5115, 201, av. Président-Kennedy, Montréal
Non-degeneracy in CR Geometry
Curtis Porter, North Carolina State
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November 2, 2018 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Occupational Health
Purvis Hall - 1020 Pine Ave West - Room 25
Computational Techniques for Bayesian Adaptive Randomized Trials
Shirin Golchi - Snr Research Statistician, MTEK Sciences, Vancouver BC.) - ( SPECIAL SEMINAR
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November 2, 2018 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique
McGill University, Burnside Hall, room 1104
Terrorists never congregate in even numbers (and other strange results in fragmentation-coalescence)
Andreas Kyprianou, University of Bath
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November 2, 2018 - 16:00
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
CRM, Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 1355
The complexity of detecting cliques and cycles in random graphs
Benjamin Rossman, University of Toronto - Lauréat 2018
du Prix André-Aisenstadt
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November 5, 2018 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar Probabilités / Probability
Room 1205, Burnside Hall, McGill University
Rigorous results for a population model with selection
Jason Schweinsberg, UCSD
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November 6, 2018 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
On the hydrodynamic behaviour of interacting lattice gases far from equilibrium
Alexandre Lazarescu, Université du Luxembourg
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November 6, 2018 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Occupational Health
Purvis Hall - 1020 Pine Ave West - Room 24
LEST WE FORGET: Some History of Statistics and Some Statistics in History
James Hanley, Professor, Dept. of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health - McGill University
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November 7, 2018 - 12:30 - 13:30
Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 1140
Montre-moi tout $\mathbb{Q}$
Dimitri Zuchowsk, Professeur au Département de mathématiques du Cégep de Saint-Laurent
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November 7, 2018 - 15:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
1104 Burnside Hall, 805, rue Sherbrooke O, Montréal, QC H3A 0B9
On geodesic ray bundles in buildings
Timothée Marquis, Université Catholique de Louvain
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November 8, 2018 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill University, Burnside Hall salle BH920
A structure theorem for zero-cycles on products of elliptic curves over p-adic fields.
Valia Gazaki, Michigan Unversity
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November 8, 2018 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University, Library Building, 9th floor, room LB 921-4
Heights of motives and heights of modular forms
Akshay Venkatesh, IAS
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November 8, 2018 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Analyse Université Laval
Université Laval, Salle VCH-2810
How amenable are amenable operator algebras?
George A. Elliott, University of Toronto
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November 9, 2018 - 10:30
Seminar LISA (Laboratoire d’informatique des systèmes adaptatifs)
UdeM, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, salle Z-330
Few-Shot Learning with Meta-Learning: Progress Made and Challenges Ahead
Hugo Larochelle , Mila and Brain
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November 9, 2018 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, PK-5115, 201, av. Président-Kennedy, Montréal
The multi-parametric Reidemeister theorem and higher homotopy groups of the space of Legendrian knots in the standard contact 3-space
Daniel Alvarez-Gavela, IAS Princeton
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November 9, 2018 - 13:40 - 14:40
Seminar Topologie symplectique
UQAM, salle PK-5115
TBA
Caitlin Leverson, Georgia Institute of Technology
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November 9, 2018 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique
McGill University, Burnside Hall, room 1104
Density estimation of mixtures of Gaussians and lsing models
Abbas Mehrabian, McGill University
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November 9, 2018 - 16:00
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
McGill University, Burnside Hall , 805 O., rue Sherbrooke
ATTENTION - SALLE 1B45 - ATTENTION
Period mappings and Diophantine equations
Akshay Venkatesh, IAS
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November 12, 2018 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar Probabilités / Probability
Room 1205, Burnside Hall, McGill University
A Central Limit Theorem for Deep Neural Networks and Products of Random Matrices
Mihai Nica, University of Toronto
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November 12, 2018 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Occupational Health
Purvis Hall - 1020 Pine Ave West - Room 25
The Stratified Micro-Randomized Trial Design: Sample Size Considerations for Testing Nested Causal Effects of Time-Varying Treatment
Walter Dempsey, Harvard University) - ( SPECIAL SEMINAR
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November 12, 2018 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique Sherbrooke
2500, boul. de l'Université, Salle D4-2019, Sherbrooke
Dépendance : modèles de risque contextuel et inférence basée sur les rangs de résidus
Marie-Pier Côté, Université Laval
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November 12, 2018 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
Burnside Hall 1104, McGill University
Coalescence of eigenvalues for symmetric and Hermitian matrix functions
Alessandro Pugliese, University of Bari
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November 13, 2018 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Logic, Category Theory, and Computation
BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
The Decidability of Continuous Quantitative Equational Logic
Shael Brown, McGill
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November 13, 2018 - 15:45
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6254
Quasi planar Ising models through the Kac-Ward matrix and a graph zeta function
Michael Aizenman, Princeton University
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November 14, 2018 - 12:30 - 13:30
Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 1140
Modélisation de la disposition des antirétroviraux dans le corps pour améliorer le traitement du VIH et la prophylaxie pré-exposition (PrEP)
Morgan Craig, Université de Montréal
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November 14, 2018 - 15:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
1104 Burnside Hall, 805 Rue Sherbrooke O., Montréal, QC H3A 0B9
Cubical geometry in the polygonalization complex
Valentina Disarlo, Heidelberg University
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November 14, 2018 - 16:00
Lecture Chaire Aisenstadt
CRM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, Université de Montréal, salle 6254
Anti-concentration bounds for determinants and Anderson localization
Svetlana Jitomirskaya, UC Irvine
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November 15, 2018 - 15:30
Seminar Séminaire STAQAM - Statistique UQAM
UQAM, Pavillon Kennedy, PK-5115
Partial Benders Decomposition Strategies for Two-Stage Stochastic Integer Programs
Walter Rei, ESG, UQAM
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November 15, 2018 - 16:00
Lecture Chaire Aisenstadt
CRM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, Université de Montréal, salle 6254
Localization and delocalization for multidimensional quasiperiodic operators
Svetlana Jitomirskaya, UC Irvine
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November 16, 2018 - 10:30
Seminar LISA (Laboratoire d’informatique des systèmes adaptatifs)
UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle AA-3195
Momentum and Stochastic Momentum for Stochastic Gradient, Newton, Proximal Point and Subspace Descent Methods
Nicolas Loizou, FAIR
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November 16, 2018 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Combinatoire et informatique mathématique (LaCIM)
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, LOCAL PK-4323, Montréal (Qc) H2X 3Y7
Thing 1 and Thing 2
Barry Monson, UNB
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November 16, 2018 - 13:40 - 14:40
Seminar Symplectique
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, salle 5115
Functoriality of the Open-Closed map
Amiel Peiffer-Smadja, Nantes
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November 16, 2018 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar Analyse Université Laval
Université Laval, VCH-2810
Nonstandard Calderon-Zygmund type estimates for elliptic and parabolic equations
Hongjie Dong, Brown University
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November 16, 2018 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Quantact
Concordia University, Pavillon J.W. McConnell-Library Building, Salle / Room: LB 646-00
Computational Bayesian Credibility for GLMs
José Garrido, Concordia University
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November 16, 2018 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique
McGill University, Burnside Hall, room 1104
Estimation of the Median Residual Lifetime Function for Length-Biased Failure Time Data
James Hugh McVittie, McGill University
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November 16, 2018 - 16:00
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
CRM, Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 1140
Sharp arithmetic transitions for 1D quasiperiodic operators
Svetlana Jitomirskaya, UC Irvine / Chaire Aisenstadt 2018
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November 19, 2018 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
Burnside Hall 1104, McGill University
Fast algorithms for solving local and nonlocal differential equations with periodicity
Hadrien Montanelli, Columbia University
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November 20, 2018 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Logic, Category Theory, and Computation
BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
(Un)Decidability of logical theories of the natural join and inner union. (Generalized ultrametric spaces for databases)
Luigi Santocanale, Aix-Marseille
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November 20, 2018 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
A unified geometric framework for Yang-Mills charges and dressings in finite regions
Aldo Riello, Perimeter Institute
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November 20, 2018 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Occupational Health
Purvis Hall - 1020 Pine Avenue West - Room 24
Developing a New Rank-Based Quantile Regression Methodology for Monitoring the Prevalence of Osteoporosis
Mohammad Jafari Jozani, Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Manitoba) - (SPECIAL SEMINAR
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November 20, 2018 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique Sherbrooke
D4-2019, Département de mathématiques, Université de Sherbrooke
New Techniques for Modeling Non-life Insurance Claims
Yi Yang, Université McGill
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November 21, 2018 - 12:30 - 13:30
Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 1140
Introduction à la géométrie intégrale
Guillaume Roy-Fortin, professeur adjoint à Northwestern University et gradué du DMS
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November 21, 2018 - 15:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
1104 Burnside Hall, 805 Rue Sherbrooke O, Montréal, QC H3A 0B9
Classifying space for proper actions for groups admitting a strict fundamental domain.
Tomasz Prytula, Max Planck Institute
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November 22, 2018 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill University, Burnside Hall salle BH920
Algorithms for the cohomology of compact arithmetic manifolds and Hecke
operators
Aurel Page, Warwick Unversity
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November 22, 2018 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University, Library Building, 9th floor, room LB 921-4
On gaps between values of diagonal forms
Luca Ghidelli, University of Ottawa
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November 22, 2018 - 15:30
Seminar Séminaire STAQAM - Statistique UQAM
ANNULÉE ** ANNULÉE Robust Multivariate Denoising ANNULÉE ** ANNULÉE
Mina Aminghafari, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran
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November 22, 2018 - 15:30
Seminar Colloque du DIRO
UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, Salle 3195
The Garden-Hose Model
Supartha Podde, Université d'Ottawa
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November 23, 2018 - 10:30
Seminar LISA (Laboratoire d’informatique des systèmes adaptatifs)
UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle AA-3195
RNNs, Long-term Dependencies, and Lifelong Learning
Sarath Chander, MILA & BRAIN
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November 23, 2018 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Montreal Analysis Seminar
McGill University, Burnside Hall, Room 1104
Spectral Correspondence and Learning of Surface Data - Example on Brain Surfaces
Herve Lombaert, ETS Montreal/Inria Sophia-Antipolis
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November 23, 2018 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, local PK-4323, Montréal QC H2X 3Y7
Valeurs propres des opérateurs de mélanges symétrisés
Nadia Lafrenière, UQAM, Sthéphanie Schank, UQAM, Franco Saliola, UQAM
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November 23, 2018 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar Analyse Université Laval
Université Laval, local VCH-2810
Reverse Agmon estimates for Schr\"{o}dinger eigenfunctions
John Toth, McGill University
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November 23, 2018 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar Statistique
McGill University, Burnside Hall, room 1104
p-values vs Bayes factors: Is there a compromise?
David Wolfson, McGill University
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November 26, 2018 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Colloque du DIRO
UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, Salle 3195
Informatique quantique: théorie de l'information et cryptographie
Frédéric Dupuis, CNRS, LORIA, Nancy, France
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November 26, 2018 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar Probabilités / Probability
Room 1205, Burnside Hall, McGill University
From 1 to 6 in branching Brownian motion
Lisa Hartung, New York University
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November 26, 2018 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
Burnside Hall 1104, McGill University
Spatiotemporal chaos and coarsening in pattern formation with Galilean invariance
Ralf Wittenberg, Simon Fraser
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November 27, 2018 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
Burnside Hall 1214, McGill University
Solving infinite dimensional optimization problems with convergence guarantees
Mathew Jacobs, UCLA
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November 27, 2018 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Logic, Category Theory, and Computation
BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
Embeddability on functions: order and chaos
Yann Pequignot, McGill
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November 27, 2018 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Isomonodromic Conformal Field Theory on the Torus
Fabrizio Del Monte, SISSA, Italie
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November 28, 2018 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Colloque du DIRO
UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, Salle 3195
Quantum Machine Learning: from nearest neighbor classifiers to quantum neural networks
Nathan Wiebe, Microsoft in Redmond
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November 28, 2018 - 12:30 - 13:30
Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 1140
Huit dames pour un échiquier: Introduction échiquéenne à la pensée mathématique, de Gauss à Pólya
Alexis Langlois-Rémillard, Université de Montréal, étudiant à la maîtrise avec Yvan Saint-Aubin
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November 28, 2018 - 15:00
Seminar Geometric Group Theory
1104 Burnside Hall, 805 Rue Sherbrooke O, Montréal, QC H3A 0B9
Non-hyperbolic groups with Menger curve boundary
Matthew Haulmark, Vanderbilt University
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November 29, 2018 - 15:00 - 17:00
Lecture
CRM, UdeM, 2920, chemin de la Tour, salle 5340
Recent advances on SPDEs using the random field approach - Part I
Raluca Balan, University of Ottawa
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November 29, 2018 - 15:30
Seminar Séminaire STAQAM - Statistique UQAM
UQAM, Pavillon Kennedy, PK-5115
Using transformations of variables to improve inference
Arthur Charpentier, UQAM
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November 29, 2018 - 16:00
Seminar
Concordia University, 1400 de Maisonneuve St. W., LB 921-4
Solutions of modified sinh-Gordon equation as eigenstates of Bukhvostov-Lipatov hamiltonian
Boris Runov, Concordia University
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November 30, 2018 - 10:00
Seminar Colloque du DIRO
UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, Salle 3195
Efficient algorithms for quantum constraint satisfaction problems
Sevag Gharibian, Universität Paderborn, Germany, and Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
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November 30, 2018 - 10:30
Seminar LISA (Laboratoire d’informatique des systèmes adaptatifs)
UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle AA-5340
Happy NeurIPS :)
NeurIPS accepted papers, MILA
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November 30, 2018 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, PK-5115, 201, av. Président-Kennedy, Montréal
Classification and Applications of K3 Surface Fibered Calabi-Yau Threefolds
Charles Doran, University of Alberta
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November 30, 2018 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, rue Président-Kennedy, Montréal QC H2X 3Y7, salle PK-4323, Pavillon Président-Kennedy
Closed subroot systems of finite and affine root systems
Krishanu Roy, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India
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November 30, 2018 - 13:40 - 14:40
Seminar Topologie symplectique
UQAM, salle PK-5115
Viterbo conjecture for Zoll symmetric spaces
Egor Shelukhin, Université de Montréal
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November 30, 2018 - 15:00 - 17:00
Lecture
CRM, UdeM, 2920, chemin de la Tour, salle 5340
Recent advances on SPDEs using the random field approach - Part II
Raluca Balan, University of Ottawa
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November 30, 2018 - 16:00
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
McGill University, Burnside Hall , 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 1104
Completeness of the isomorphism problem for separable C*-algebras
Marcin Sabok, McGill University
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