Workshops and Conferences
Andre-Aisenstadt Chair : John Rinzel
CRM
September 15-25, 2007
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Workshop: Mathematical Neuroscience
CRM
September 16-19, 2007
Organizers :
André Longtin (University of Ottawa
)
Stephen Coombes (University of Nottingham
)
Jonathan Rubin (University of Pittsburgh
)
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Andre-Aisenstadt Chair : John Tyson
CRM
September 21-28, 2007
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Minicourse: Quantitative Biology
CRM
September 22-23, 2007
Organizers :
Peter Swain (McGill University
)
Michael C. Mackey (McGill University
)
Brian Ingalls (University of Waterloo
)
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Seminars
September 17, 2007 - 16:30
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 1360
Dynamics of Visual Bistable Perception: e.g., the Necker Cube
John Rinzel, Center for Neural Science and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University
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September 18, 2007 - 14:30
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920
Pregroups and Cognition
Claudia Casadio, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
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September 18, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Mathématiques appliquées
McGIll, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1B24
Re-projection: Mathematical and computational challenges for high order vortex methods
Louis F. Rossi, University of Delaware
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September 18, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Théorie géométrique des groupes/Geometric Group Theory
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920
The equation w(x,y)=u over free groups
N. Touikan, McGill University
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September 18, 2007 - 16:00
Seminar Biostatistique
McGill, Pavillon Purvis, 1020 av. Pine O., salle 24
Strike three: Umpire’s demand for discrimination
Christopher A. Parsons, Johan Sulaeman, Michael C. Yates, Daniel S. Hamermesh
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September 18, 2007 - 16:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Boutroux curves with prescribed potential: equilibrium measures without a variational problem
Marco Bertola, Concordia
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September 18, 2007 - 16:30
Seminar Topologie symplectique
CRM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, salle 5340
Virtual integration and Gromov-Witten invariants, I
Shengda Hu
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September 18, 2007 - 9:10
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
Timing computations in the auditory brain stem
John Rinzel, Center for Neural Science and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University
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September 19, 2007 - 12:30
Seminar Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Monréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, 2900, chemin de la Tour, salle Z-220
Polyèdres et fullerènes
Christiane Rousseau
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September 19, 2007 - 13:30
Seminar Moonshine
Concordia University, Library Building, 1400 Blvd. de Maisonneuve O, Salle / Room LB-921-04
Moonshine - what it is - and what we would like to know
John McKay, Concordia
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September 20, 2007 - 10:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill, Pav. Burnside , 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
Canonical subgroups of abelian varieties
Payman Kassaei, London
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September 20, 2007 - 11:30
Seminar Génie industriel
Ecole Polytechnique, Pav. Lassonde, salle L-4812
Qui fait quoi et quand?
Michel Gagnon, DGIGL
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September 20, 2007 - 14:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia, Library Building, 9th floor
The local Langlands conjecture for GSp(4)
Wee-Teck Gan, UCSD
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September 20, 2007 - 15:30
Colloquium DIRO
DIRO, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 5340
Complexité du jeu de patience
Pierre McKenzie, Université de Montréal
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September 20, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Centre de recherche en e-finance
HEC, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Salle Transat (1er étage - section jaune)
“Personal Influence": Social Context and Political Competition
Andrea Mattozzi
, California Institute of Technology (CALTECH)
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September 20, 2007 - 16:30
Seminar Integrable systems, random matrices and random processes
Concordia University, SGW, Library Building, 9th floor, room LB 912 (Math Help Centre)
Schwarz Function, Quadrature Domains and Asymptotics of Orthogonal Polynomials
Ferenc Balogh
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September 21, 2007 - 10:00
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Schensted-Fomin Correspondences, Hopf Algebras and Graph Duality
Janvier Nzeutchap, Université de Rouen
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September 21, 2007 - 10:30
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke W. salle 1214
Surprises in Experimental Mathematics
Michael Shamos, Carnegie Mellon University
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September 21, 2007 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy O., salle PK-5115
Open book decompositions of torus bundles
Jeremy Van Horn-Morris, UQAM
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September 21, 2007 - 11:00
Seminar
Université de Montréal, Faculté de pharmacie, Pavillon Jean-Coutu, Salle S1-131
Comment prendre en compte l'observance dans les nouveaux traitements oraux anticancéreux
Pascal Girard, Faculté de médecine, U. de Lyon Sud
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September 21, 2007 - 14:00
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
On the excitation spectrum of homogeneous Bose gas
Jan Derezinski, Warsaw
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September 21, 2007 - 14:30
Seminar Analyse Université Laval
Université Laval, Pavillon Alexandre Vachon, Salle 2804
The dual of a subnormal operator
John B. Conway, George Washington University
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September 21, 2007 - 14:35
Seminar Computational Science and Engineering
McGill University, McConnell Engineering Building, Room 103
Error Indicators and Adaptivity for hp-Discontinuous Galerkin FEM for Nonlinear Elliptic Problems
Thomas Wihler, McGill University
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September 21, 2007 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Computation and Inference for Stochastic Volatility Models Driven by Levy Processes
David Stephens, Université McGill
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September 21, 2007 - 15:30
Seminar Physical Society Colloquium
McGill, Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Keys Auditorium (room 112)
Bringing Hearing to the Deaf Cochlear Implants: a Technical and Personal Account
Ian Shipsey, Purdue University
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September 22, 2007 - 9:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
Sniffers, Buzzers, Toggles and Blinkers
John Tyson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
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