Workshops and Conferences
Andre-Aisenstadt Chair: John Preskill
CRM
October 24 - November 2, 2011
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Seminars
October 31, 2011 - 14:00
Seminar
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, SALLE 6516
Optimal Newton-type methods for nonconvex smooth optimization
Coralia Cartis, University of Edinburgh
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October 31, 2011 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill Burnside Hall 920
Existence of minimizers for a constrained mean curvature functional
Marco Veneroni, Pavia & McGill
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November 1, 2011 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle 4186
An additive combinatorics proof of Burgess's Theorem
Andrew Granville, Université de Montréal
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November 1, 2011 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Prym-Tyurin classes and tau-functions
Dima KOROTKIN, Concordia University
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November 1, 2011 - 15:30 - 17:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle 5183
More applications of additive combinatorics to multiplicative character sums
Ke Gong, Université de Montréal
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November 1, 2011 - 19:00 - 20:00
Seminar Applied Mathematics/Mathématiques appliquées
******** ANNULÉ_Séminaire grand public / CANCELED_General interest *********
Jared Tanner, University of Edinburgh
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November 2, 2011 - 10:45
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
Universite de Sherbrooke, Faculté des Sciences, Salle D1-2165
Battling decoherence: the fault-tolerant quantum computer
John Preskill, Caltech
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November 2, 2011 - 15:00 - 16:30
Seminar Géométrie algébrique
PK-5333, 201 ave. Président-Kennedy (UQAM)
Comparison of Dualizing Complexes
Changlong Zhong, University of Ottawa
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November 3, 2011 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle 5183
An introduction to random matrix theory and zeta functions
Mike Rubinstein, Waterloo University
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November 3, 2011 - 15:00 - 16:30
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, salle 5183
The probability of finding good elliptic curves
Ethan Smith, CRM
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November 3, 2011 - 15:45
Seminar Optimisation GERAD-MPRIME
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, SALLE 5340
Multidisciplinary Design Optimization: An Introduction for Applied Mathematicians
Joaquim R.M.M. Martins, University of Michigan
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November 3, 2011 - 16:30 - 17:30
Seminar Probabilités
UdeM salle 6214, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920 chemin de la tour
A simplified proof of the relation between scaling exponents in first-passage percolation
Michael Damron, Princeton University
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November 4, 2011 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Lagrangian immersions, polynomial convexity, and Whitney umbrellas
Rasul Shafikov, Univ. of Western Ontario
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November 4, 2011 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke O. / Burnside 920
Regular value theorem in the the fractal setting
Suresh Eswarathasan, CRM/McGill
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November 4, 2011 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
Université de Montréal, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, SALLE 6214
Teichmuller spaces of Riemann surfaces with holes and algebras of geodesic functions
Leonid Chekhov , Steklov Mathematical Institute and Concordia University
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