Workshops and Conferences
Workshop on Mathematical Challenges for Sustainability
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
November 15-17, 2010
Organizers :
Alejandro Adem (University of British Columbia
)
Russel E. Caflisch (Institute for Pure and Applied Math. (IPAM)
)
Simon A. Levin (Princeton University
)
Fred S. Roberts (Rutgers University
)
Christiane Rousseau (Université de Montréal
)
Richard L. Smith (University of North Carolina
)
Iain Johnstone (Stanford University
)
Louis J. Gross (University of Tennessee
)
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Seminars
November 15, 2010 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
A second-order elasticity problem for an embedded inclusion
Patrick Selvadurai, McGill University
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November 16, 2010 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920, 805 Sherbrooke Street West
Span refinements of the Cech Nerve
E. Dubuc, Universidad de Buenos Aires
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November 16, 2010 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
The potential impact of the AdS/CFT correspondence, or WARNING: you may already be a string theorist
Cliff BURGESS, Perimeter Institute
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November 17, 2010 - 14:45 - 15:45
Seminar
Concordia University, 1400 de Maisonneuve West, LB 921-4, SGW
On algebraic connectivity of graphs with at most two cut-points
Dr. Arbind Kumar Lal, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
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November 17, 2010 - 15:30
Seminar Statistique
Unviersité de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D4-2020
A Goodness-of-fit Test for Copulas
Wanling Huang, Department of Economics, Université McGill
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November 18, 2010 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill University - Burnside Hall - 9th Floor
The circle and divisor problems, Bessel series, and twisted divisor sums
Bruce Berndt, UIUC
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November 18, 2010 - 11:30
Lecture Club mathématique Sherbrooke
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D3-2040
Le théorème de Laplace-Young
Gaël David, Université de Sherbrooke
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November 18, 2010 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University - Library Building - 9th Floor
Sieving in groups
Alex Kontorovich, Stony Brook
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November 19, 2010 - 10:00
Seminar Combinatoire et informatique mathématique (LaCIM)
UQAM, PK-4323, 201, rue Président-Kennedey, Montréal
Symplectic Schur Function Identities
Angèle Hamel, Wilfrid Laurier University
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November 19, 2010 - 13:30 - 13:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill University, Burnside Hall, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
Geodesic distance on the manifold of Riemannian metrics
Brian Clarke, Stanford
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November 19, 2010 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar MITACS de Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
UQAM, Salle/Room PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, Montréal
GUARANTEED MINIMUM WITHDRAWAL BENEFITS (GMWB)
Christian-Marc Panneton , Industrial Alliance
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November 19, 2010 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
McGill University, Burnside Hall, room 1B24
Local Bilinear Multiple-Output Quantile Regression: from $L_1$ Optimization to Regression Depth
Marc Hallin, ECARES, Université libre de Bruxelles and ORFE, Princeton University
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November 19, 2010 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UQAM, Pav. Sherbrooke, 200, rue Sherbrooke O., salle SH-3420
Ramanujan reaches his hand from his grave and snatches your theorems from you
Bruce Berndt, UIUC
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