Workshops and Conferences
Numerical Methods for Optimal Transportation
McGill
October 20-24, 2014
Organizer :
Adam M. Oberman (McGill University)
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"Euler et les jets d'eau de Sans-Souci" Grande conférence de Yann Brenier
CRM
October 22, 2014
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Seminars
October 20, 2014 - 10:30 - 11:30
Lecture
McGill University, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Burnside Hall, room 1214
Discretization of functionals involving the Monge-Amp`re operator.
Quentin Merigot, CNRS Cermade U. Dauphine
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October 20, 2014 - 9:30 - 10:30
Lecture
McGill University, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Burnside Hall, room 1214
Approximation of Steiner and length-minimization problems under connectedness constraints.
Filippo Santambrogio, U. Orsay
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October 21, 2014 - 10:30 - 11:30
Lecture
McGill University, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Burnside Hall, room 1214
Monotone and Consistent discretization of the Monge-Ampere operator
Jean-Marie Mirebeau, CNRS U. Paris Dauphine
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October 21, 2014 - 13:30
Seminar Structures algébriques et géométriques
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D4-2019
Vers un lien formel entre les champs vectoriels combinatoires et classiques
Tomasz Kaczynski, Université de Sherbrooke
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October 21, 2014 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
BURNSIDE HALL 920, McGILL UNIVERSITY
Limit closures of categories of domains
M. Barr, McGill University
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October 21, 2014 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
From Ablowitz-Segur to Hastings-McLeod and back again
Thomas Bothner, CRM
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October 21, 2014 - 15:30
Seminar Statistique Sherbrooke
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des ciences, local D4-2019
Modèles de données de panel pour variables aléatoires de comptage
Jean-Philippe Boucher, Université du Québec à Montréal
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October 21, 2014 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Occupational Health
McGill University, Purvis Hall, 1020 Pine Avenue West - Room 25
Case Studies in Bayesian Adaptive Clinical Trial Designs
Kristine Broglio, M.S., Statistical Scientist, Berry Consultants
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October 21, 2014 - 9:30 - 10:30
Lecture
McGill University, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Burnside Hall, room 1214
Two examples of numerical applications of the OT problem with quadratic cost
Yann Brenier, CNRS CMLS École polytechnique
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October 22, 2014 - 10:00 - 11:00
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, local PK-4323, Montréal (Qc)
Counting factors of automatic sequences up to abelian equivalence
Eric Rowland, Université de Liège
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October 22, 2014 - 10:30 - 11:30
Lecture
McGill University, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Burnside Hall, room 1214
Weak Solutions to a Fractional Fokker-Planck Equation via Splitting and Wasser- stein Gradient Flow
Martial Agueh, U.Victoria
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October 22, 2014 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar Théorie géométrique des groupes/Geometric Group Theory
Burnside Hall 902, McGill
Random One-Relator Groups Contain Surface Subgroups
Daniel Woodhouse, McGill
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October 22, 2014 - 9:30 - 10:30
Lecture
McGill University, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Burnside Hall, room 1214
TBD
Adrien Blanchet, U. Toulouse
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October 23, 2014 - 10:30 - 11:30
Lecture
McGill University, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Burnside Hall, room 1214
An iterative method for regularised optimal transport method
Luca Nenna, MOKAPLAN INRIA
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October 23, 2014 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
CRM, Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, 2920 chemin de la Tour, salle 6214
Cubic polynomials represented by norm forms
Alastair Irving, Université de Montréal
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October 23, 2014 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
CRM, Université de Montréal, Pav. André Aisenstadt, 2920 chemin de la Tour, salle 6214
Effective Chabauty for symmetric powers of curves.
Jennifer Park, McGill University
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October 23, 2014 - 16:00 - 17:30
Seminar CAMBAM
Room 1101, McIntyre Medical Building
A conductance-based model for burst firing in GnRH neurons
Spencer Moran, McGill University
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October 23, 2014 - 9:30 - 10:30
Lecture
McGill University, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Burnside Hall, room 1214
Multi-marginal optimal transport: theory and applications.
Brendan Pass, University of Alberta
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October 24, 2014 - 10:30 - 11:30
Lecture
McGill University, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Burnside Hall, room 1214
Augmented Lagrangian methods for transport optimization, Mean-Field Games and degenerate PDEs.
Guillaume Carlier, U. Paris Dauphine, Jean David Benamou, INRIA Roquefort
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October 24, 2014 - 11:00 - 12:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave. du Président Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Sharp resonances on hyperbolic manifolds
Frédéric Naud
, Université d'Avignon
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October 24, 2014 - 13:30 - 14:30
Seminar LACIM
201, av. du Président-Kennedy, local PK-4323, Montréal (Qc)
Sur la longueur des éléments pleinement commutatifs
Philippe Nadeau, Institut Camille Jordan
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October 24, 2014 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Analytic Number Theory
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André Aisenstadt, salle 4336
Inverse sieve problems
Fernando Xuancheng Shao, Université de Montréal
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October 24, 2014 - 15:00 - 16:30
Working Seminar Mathematical Physics
Concordia University, Montreal, (LB 921-4), 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montréal
Finite dimensional tau-functions
Ferenc Balogh, SISSA, Trieste
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October 24, 2014 - 15:30 - 16:30
Seminar McGill Statistics Seminar Series
Burnside Hall 1205, McGill University, 805, rue Sherbrooke ouest, Montréal (QC) H3A 0B9
PREMIER: Probabilistic error-correction using Markov inference in error reads
Karin S. Dorman, Iowa State University
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October 24, 2014 - 9:30 - 10:30
Lecture
McGill University, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Burnside Hall, room 1214
Efficient Linear Programming Approach to Optimal Transportation
Adam Oberman, McGill University
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