Workshops and Conferences
Young Mathematicians' Conference
CRM
January 18-19, 2008
Organizers :
Walter Craig (McMaster University
)
Adrian Nachman (University of Toronto
)
Dmitri Pelinovsky (McMaster University
)
Mary Pugh (University of Toronto
)
Catherine Sulem (University of Toronto
)
Nilima Nigam (Simon Fraser University
)
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Workshop on Initial Conditions
CRM
January 24-25, 2008
Organizers :
Walter Craig (McMaster University
)
Pengfei Guan (McGill University
)
Christiane Rousseau (Université de Montréal
)
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Seminars
January 4, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Attractors and invariant measures in low-dimensional dynamical systems
Michael Jakobson, University of Maryland
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January 9, 2008 - 17:00
Seminar ISM des étudiants aux cycles supérieurs
UQAM, Pavillon President-Kennedy, PK-5333
The magic of spinors
Dennis The, McGill
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January 10, 2008 - 10:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill, Pav. Burnside , 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
Good reductions of Abelian varieties over number fields
Adrian Vasiu, Binghampton
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January 10, 2008 - 11:30
Seminar GIGL
Ecole Polytechnique, Pav. Lassonde, salle L-4812
Détection d’attaque d’inondation de paquets SYN
Martine Bellaïche, DGIGL, EPM
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January 10, 2008 - 14:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia, Library Building, 9th floor
$p$-adic deformations of Shintani cycles
Shahab Shahabi, McGill
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January 11, 2008 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy O., salle PK-5115
Comparison geometry for the smooth metric measure spaces
Guaofang Wei, UCSB
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January 11, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Computational Science and Engineering
McGill University, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke W., salle BH 1205
Mathematical problems associated with atmospheric data assimilation and weather prediction
Pierre Gauthier, Université du Québec à Montréal
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January 11, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Physical Society Colloquium
McGill, Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Keys Auditorium (room 112)
Physics at the edge - Soft matter and its interfaces
Steve Granick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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January 11, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
L'invariance de Thomae de 3F2 par le groupe symétrique S5 et les produits de matrices (2,2) aléatoires
Gérard Letac, Université Paul Sabetier
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January 14, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
On a Birkhoff mormal form theorem for $1-d$ Gross-Pitaevskii equations
Z. Yan, McGill
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January 15, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1205
Colored extrinsic noise and stochastic gene expression
Vahid Shahrezaei, McGill, Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics
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January 15, 2008 - 16:00
Seminar Biostatistique
McGill, Pavillon Purvis, 1020 av. Pine O., salle 24
Supremum weighted log-rank test and sample size for comparing two-stage adaptive treatment strategies
Abdus S. Wahed, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh
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January 16, 2008 - 12:30
Seminar Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Monréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, 2900, chemin de la Tour, salle Z-220
Les mathématiques à la rescousse d'Escher
Jenny Pineault, Michèle Tessier-Baillargeon
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January 16, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium Physical Society Colloquium
McGill, The Redpath Museum Auditorium, 859 Sherbrooke Street West
Confessions of a converted lecturer
Eric Mazur, Harvard Universirty
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January 16, 2008 - 17:30
Seminar ISM des étudiants aux cycles supérieurs
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 5340
Ces logiques qui ont un squelette dans le placard
Sylvain Hallé, UQAM
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January 17, 2008 - 10:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill, Pav. Burnside , 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
Fontaine's crystalline conjecture revisited
Fabrizzio Andreatta, Milano
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January 17, 2008 - 10:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill, Pav. Burnside , 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
Fontaine's crystalline conjecture revisited
Fabrizio Andreatta, Milano
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January 17, 2008 - 10:30
Seminar Théorie analytique des nombres
DMS, Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 5448
Bombieri's mean value theorem
Ismaila Ndiaye, Université de Montréal
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January 17, 2008 - 16:00
Seminar Integrable systems, random matrices and random processes
Concordia University, SGW, Library Building, 9th floor, room LB 912 (Math Help Centre)
Lecture series / preparatory course on tau functions and their applications: The Sato-Segal-Wilson KP tau function
John Harnad, CRM and Concordia University
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January 17, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium Physical Society Colloquium
McGill, Ernest Rutheford Physics Bldg, Auditorium Keys (salle 112)
Wrapping light around a har
Eric Mazur, Harvard Universirty
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January 17, 2008 - 17:30
Seminar
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 201, av. du Président-Kennedy, salle PK-5333
Initiation à l'analyse non standard
Rachid Bebbouchi, Université de Sciences et Techniques Houari Boumediène, Alger
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January 18, 2008 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy O., salle PK-5115
Polar actions on Kaehler manifolds
Samuel Tebege, UQAM
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January 18, 2008 - 11:00
Lecture Hebb Lecture
McGill University, Stewart Biology Bldg., 1205 Dr. Penfield Ave., Room W7/21
What are latent variables made of ?
Brian W. Junker, Carnegie Mellon University
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January 18, 2008 - 15:30
Lecture Hebb Lecture
McGill University, Stewart Biology Bldg., 1205 Dr. Penfield Ave., Room S1/3
Some issues and applications in cognitive diagnosis and educational data mining
Brian W. Junker, Carnegie Mellon University
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January 18, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
From Elie Cartan to Gerard Debreu: Some applications of exterior differential calculus to economic theory
Ivar Ekeland, PIMS, UBC
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January 21, 2008 - 14:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill, Pav. Burnside , 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
$p$-adic Galois representations and geometric constructions of Banach space representations
Matthias Strauch, Cambridge
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January 21, 2008 - 16:30
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1205
Mixing in oriented graphs
Omid Amini, Max Planck Institut für Informatik
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January 22, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1205
A posteriori error estimation and anisotropic mesh adaptation in 3-D compressible flow simulations
Yves Bourgault, University of Ottawa
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January 22, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Lecture series / preparatory course on tau functions and their applications: The KP hierarchy: Examples of KP tau functions"
John Harnad, CRM and Concordia University
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January 23, 2008 - 12:30
Seminar Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Monréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, 2900, chemin de la Tour, salle Z-220
L'évolution de la coopération et le dilemme du prisonnier
Sabin Lessard, UdeM
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January 23, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Statistique
U. de Sherbrooke, Dép. de mathématiques, 2500, boul. de l'Université, salle D6-0046
Survival analysis and Length-Biased sampling: An application to survival with dementia
Masoud Asgharian, Université McGill
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January 23, 2008 - 17:00
Seminar ISM des étudiants aux cycles supérieurs
Université Concordia, Library Building, LB-655
The statistical interpretation of DNA evidence
Geva Maimon, McGill
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January 24, 2008 - 10:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill, Pav. Burnside , 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
Investigations in the arithmetic of cyclotomic fields and modular curves
Romyar Sharifi, McMaster
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January 24, 2008 - 11:30
Seminar Génie industriel
Ecole Polytechnique, Pav. Lassonde, salle L-4812
Using constraint programming for queue design and optimization
J. Christopher Beck, U. Toronto
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January 24, 2008 - 14:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia, Library Building, 9th floor
Iwasawa theory of elliptic curves for supersingular primes
Byoung-Du Kim
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January 24, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Théorie géométrique des groupes/Geometric Group Theory
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920
Conjugacy problem for the Grigorchuk group
A. Miasnikov, McGill University
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January 24, 2008 - 16:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia, Library Building, 9th floor
On the group of units of an order in a non-split quaternion algebra
Capi Corrales, Madrid
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January 24, 2008 - 17:00
Seminar CIRGET Junior
UQAM, Pav. President-Kennedy, 201, av. President-Kennedy, salle PK-115
On slice knots
Stefan Friedl, UQAM, Warwick
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January 25, 2008 - 10:00
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Algebraic structures on Grothendieck groups of a tower of algebras (with Nantel Bergeron)
Huilan Li
, LaCIM-UQAM
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January 25, 2008 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy O., salle PK-5115
On character varieties, sets of discrete characters, and non-zero degree maps
Steven Boyer, UQAM
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January 25, 2008 - 13:30
Seminar
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Lecture series / preparatory course on tau functions and their applications: Geometric definition of KP tau functions : the Sato-Segal-Wilson Grassmanian
John Harnad, CRM and Concordia University
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January 25, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Computational Science and Engineering
McGill, McConnell Engineering Bldg, Room 103
Multilayer gelatin impedance pump: A nature inspired valveless pump with bio-medical applications
Laurence Loumes, McGill University
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January 25, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium Physical Society Colloquium
McGill, Ernest Rutheford Physics Bldg, Auditorium Keys (salle 112)
Diversity in young neutron stars: The high-magnetic-field puzzle
Victoria Kaspi, McGill University
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January 25, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
The conformal equivalence problem and bisection problem for germs of curvilinear angles
Christiane Rousseau, Université de Montréal
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January 25, 2008 - 16:00
Seminar Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
Concordia University, Library Building, Salle / Room 921.04
A unifying stochastic approach in Ruin theory with applications in credit risk modelling
Runhuan Feng, University of Waterloo
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January 28, 2008 - 16:30
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill, Burnside Hall, salle 1205
Graph minors and products
David Wood, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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January 29, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Integrable evolutionary equations and related algebraic structures
Victor Kac, MIT
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January 29, 2008 - 15:35
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1205
Efficient linear and nonlinear solvers for multiphase flow in porous media
Felix Kwok, Geneva University
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January 29, 2008 - 16:00
Seminar Biostatistique
McGill, Pavillon Purvis, 1020 av. Pine O., salle 24
Hidden data: statistical issues in the study of fetal growth and perinatal mortality
Robert Platt, McGill University
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January 30, 2008 - 12:30
Seminar Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Monréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, 2900, chemin de la Tour, salle Z-200
Les nombres 10-adiques
Abraham Broer, UdeM
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January 30, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Statistique
U. de Sherbrooke, Dép. de mathématiques, 2500, boul. de l'Université, salle D6-0046
La statistique comme domaine d’application. Un exemple démographique avec le modèle de microsimulation LifePaths de Statistique Canad
Yann Décarie
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January 30, 2008 - 17:00
Seminar ISM des étudiants aux cycles supérieurs
Université McGill, Burnside Hall 1024 (Lounge)
Frobenius leading you where lambda's legs meet
Ahmad Lavasani, Concordia
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January 31, 2008 - 10:30
Seminar Théorie analytique des nombres
DMS, Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 5448
Factoring integers
Igor Wigman, Université de Montréal
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January 31, 2008 - 11:30
Seminar GIGL
Ecole Polytechnique, Pav. Lassonde, salle L-4812
Understanding network traffic through lightweight hierarchical clustering
Anil Somayaji, U. Carleton
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January 31, 2008 - 17:00
Seminar CIRGET Junior
UQAM, Pav. President-Kennedy, 201, av. President-Kennedy, salle PK-115
The push-forward of the Kähler structure under certain circumstances
Radu Cebanu, UQAM
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