Workshops and Conferences
Workshop “Quantum many-body systems; Bose-Einstein condensation”
CRM
September 29 - October 4, 2008
Organizers :
Israel Michael Sigal (University of Toronto
)
Jan Philip Solovej (University of Copenhagen
)
Jakob Yngvason (Universität Wien
)
Valentin Zagrebnov (Université de Marseille
)
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Quebec-Maine Conference on Number Theory
Université Laval
October 4-5, 2008
Organizers :
Claude Levesque (Université Laval
)
Hugo Chapdelaine (Université Laval
)
Jean-Marie De Koninck (Université Laval
)
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«Le mouvement chaotique du Système solaire»
Grande conférence CRM de Jacques Laskar
CRM
October 9, 2008
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Andre-Aisenstadt Chair: Svante Janson
CRM
October 15-27, 2008
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MCMC: Theory and Applications. Scientific Meeting of the CRM Statistics Laboratory
Université Sherbrooke
October 17, 2008
Organizers :
David A. Stephens (McGill University
)
Éric Marchand (Université de Sherbrooke
)
Louis-Paul Rivest (Université Laval
)
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52e Congrès de l'AMQ "Les Mathématiques autrement"
Cégep de Thetford
October 17-18, 2008
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Seminars
October 1, 2008 - 13:30
Colloquium GRTC
U. de Sherbrooke, Dép. de mathématiques, 2500, boul. de l'Université, pavillon D6-0046
Harmoniques sphériques et deconvolution sur la sphère: application au traitement du signal en imagerie par résonance magnétique (IRM) de diffusion
Maxime Descoteaux, NeuroSpin - CEA / Saclay, France
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October 2, 2008 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill, Burnside Hall 920
Selmer groups over engenvarieties
Jonathan Pottharst, Boston
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October 2, 2008 - 11:30 - 12:20
Seminar Génie informatique et génie logiciel
École Polytechnique, pavillon Lassonde de l'École Polytechnique, salle L-4812
Analyse à l'aide d'occulomètres, de techniques de visualisation UML de patrons de conception pour la compréhension de programmes
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, École Polytechnique de Montréal
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October 2, 2008 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia, Library Building, 9th floor, salle LB-921-4
L-functions and their statistics over function fields
Zeev Rudnick, Tel Aviv
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October 2, 2008 - 16:00 - 17:30
Seminar
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisensstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Torsion in general relativity - II
Luca Fabbri, University of Bologna et Université de Montréal
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October 3, 2008 - 10:00
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy (Métro Place-des-Arts), 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Jeu de Taquin and Wronskians of polynomials
Kevin Purbhoo, University of Waterloo
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October 3, 2008 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy O., salle PK-5115
Invariants for detecting the trivial knot
Liam Watson, UQAM
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October 3, 2008 - 14:00
Seminar MITACS de Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
Concordia University, Library Building, Salle / Room 921.04
Weighted risk capital allocations
Edward Furman, York University
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October 3, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar CRM Applied Math and McGill CSE / Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1205
Spectrum of an advection-diffusion operator with sign-varying diffision coefficient
Dmitry Pelinovsky, McMaster University
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October 3, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
Concordia University, LB-921.04, Library Bldg., 1400 de Maisonneuve West
Assessing significance in finite mixture models
Ranjan Maitra, Iowa State University
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October 3, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Some calculus of variations problems in quantum mechanics
Elliott Lieb, Princeton University
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October 6, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, salle 920
Bose-condensation in external potentials
V. Zagrebnov, CPT-Luminy, Marseille
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October 6, 2008 - 16:30
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, salle 1205
Think locally, act globally: How to search with iterated maps
Simon Gravel, Cornell University
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October 7, 2008 - 11:00
Seminar Physique Mathématique / Analyse non linéaire/Systèmes dynamiques
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Résoudre des problémes difficiles à l'aide de systèmes dynamiques
Simon Gravel, Université de Cologne, Allemagne
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October 7, 2008 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920
Revisiting bicategories: a prelude to revisiting tricategories
Michael Makkai
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October 7, 2008 - 16:00
Seminar Biostatistique
McGill, Pavillon Purvis, 1020 av. Pine Ouest, salle 24
Bayesian adjustments for unmeasured confounders in epidemiologic studies
Lawrence McCandless, Simon Fraser University
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October 7, 2008 - 19:30
Lecture
UdeM, Pavillon Jean-Coutu, salle S1-151
Bébé IA: de l'humain à la machine
Yoshua Bengio, Université de Montréal
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October 8, 2008 - 12:30 - 13:30
Seminar Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Monréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, 2900, chemin de la Tour, salle Z-205
Cours de dessin pour les mathématiciens
Jérôme Morin-Drouin, Université de Montréal
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October 9, 2008 - 11:30 - 12:20
Seminar Génie informatique et génie logiciel
École Polytechnique, pavillon Lassonde de l'École Polytechnique,
salle L-4812
Reuse or rewrite (ReORe): Combining textual, static, and dynamic analyses to assess the cost of keeping a system up-to-date
Giulio Antoniol, Professeur titulaire, École Polytechnique de Montréal
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October 9, 2008 - 14:00
Colloquium GRTC
U. de Sherbrooke, Dép. de mathématiques, 2500, boul. de l'Université, pavillon D6-0046
Efficient computation of homology by grouping reductions
Madjid Allili, Bishop's University
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October 9, 2008 - 16:00 - 17:30
Seminar
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisensstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Torsion in general relativity - III
Luca Fabbri, University of Bologna et Université de Montréal
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October 9, 2008 - 20:00
Lecture Grande conférence du CRM
Université de Montréal, Pavillon Jean-Coutu, 2940, chemin de Polytechnique, Salle S1-151
Le mouvement chaotique du système solaire
Jacques Laskar, IMCCE, Observatoire de Paris
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October 10, 2008 - 10:00
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Le consensus de systèmes de fermeture
Bruno Leclerc, EHESS
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October 10, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar CRM Applied Math and McGill CSE
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1205
Highly entangled wormlike micellar solutions - Model and predictions in LAOS and extensional flows
Pam Cook, University of Delaware
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October 10, 2008 - 15:00 - 16:00
Seminar MITACS de Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour,
salle 5340
Threshold strategies under the compound Poisson model
Kristina Sendova, University of Western Ontario
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October 10, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
UQAM, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, 201, ave Président Kennedy,
Salle PK-5115
Studying the natural history of diseases through prevalent cases: can one exploit untapped features of length-biased data?
Pierre-Jérôme Bergeron, Universite d'Ottawa
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October 10, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UQAM, Pav. Sherbrooke, 200, rue Sherbrooke O., salle SH-3420
Visual chaos: dispersing, defocusing, absolute focusing and astigmatism
Leonid Bunimovich, Georgia Institute of Technology
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October 10, 2008 - 16:30
Seminar MITACS de Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour,
salle 5340
Applications of the method of maximum entropy in mean to finance
Silvia Mayoral, Carlos III University of Madrid
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October 10, 2008 - 17:00
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
Thomson house this Friday
Next Monday is a holiday and so we will have a short break from the formal lecture series. Andrew King - Who will soon be leaving on an airplane though promising to return again - Has instead offered to give an informal speech entitled "Musings of a Ph.D. student: is there life after McGill?"
I'm pretty sure they serve beer there, so this could be one of the best lectures of the semester
Andrew King
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October 14, 2008 - 11:00
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Asymptotic analysis of the semiclassical sine-Gordon equation
Robert Buckingham, CRM
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October 14, 2008 - 16:00
Seminar Biostatistique
McGill, Pavillon Purvis, 1020 av. Pine Ouest, salle 24
Disaggregated spatial modeling for areal Unit categorical data
Alan Gelfand, Duke University
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October 14, 2008 - 16:00
Seminar
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour,
salle 4186
Randomized sequential prediction: Performance bounds and algorithms
Gabor Lugosi, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
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October 15, 2008 - 13:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
Remarks on fully nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations
L. Nirenberg, Courant
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October 15, 2008 - 14:00
Seminar
DMS, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour,
salle 6214-6254
Number theory and random matrix theory
Michael Rubinstein, University of Waterloo
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October 16, 2008 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill, Burnside Hall 920
Lower terms in the moments of L-functions
Mike Rubinstein, Waterloo
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October 16, 2008 - 14:00
Colloquium GRTC
U. de Sherbrooke, Dép. de mathématiques, 2500, boul. de l'Université, pavillon D6-0046
Hurwitz spaces
Vasilisa Shramchenko, Université de Sherbrooke
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October 16, 2008 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia, Library Building, 9th floor, salle LB-921-4
Random matrices, random permutations, conjectures of arithmetic distribution over function fields, topology of Hurwitz spaces
Jordan Ellenberg, Wisconsin
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October 16, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Statistique
Local : D6-0046, Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences
Un algorithme de type Metropolis-Hastings avec ajustement directionnel
Mylène Bédard , Département de mathématiques et de statistique, Université de Montréal
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October 16, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium DIRO
Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 6214, 2920, ch. de la Tour,
Université de Montréal
Visualizing high-dimensional data using $t$-SNE
Geoffrey Hinton , Université de Toronto
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October 16, 2008 - 16:00 - 17:30
Seminar
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisensstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Torsion in general relativity - IV
Luca Fabbri, University of Bologna et Université de Montréal
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October 17, 2008 - 10:00
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
A combinatorial model for $q$-generalized stirling and Bell numbers
Aldolfo Rodriguez, LaCIM-UQAM
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October 17, 2008 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy O.,
salle PK-5115
Symplectic quasi-states and applications
Frol Zapolsky, Tel Aviv
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October 17, 2008 - 11:30 - 12:20
Seminar Génie informatique et génie logiciel
L-4812, pavillon Lassonde de l'École Polytechnique
(campus de l'Université de Montréal)
Maillage des surfaces paramétrées
Dr. Patrick Laug, Directeur de recherche, INRIA-Rocquencourt
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October 17, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar CRM Applied Math and McGill CSE
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O.,
salle 1205
The next generation of neural networks
Geoffrey E. Hinton, Department of Computer Science, U.Toronto
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
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October 17, 2008 - 16:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 1360
Random graphs: New models and the internet
Svante Janson, Uppsala University
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October 20, 2008 - 16:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
Random graphs - I
Svante Janson, Uppsala University
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October 20, 2008 - 16:30
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
Burnside 1205, McGill University
Branched polymers
Peter Winkler, Dartmouth
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October 21, 2008 - 11:00
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour,
salle 4336
Stability of the spiked model in the small perturbation regime
Dong Wang, CRM
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October 21, 2008 - 12:30
Working Seminar Matrices aléatoires, processus aléatoires, systèmes intégrables
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Vertex operators for combinatorics
Benjamin Young, McGill, CRM
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October 21, 2008 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920
Order-adjoint monads
Gavin Seal
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October 22, 2008 - 16:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
Random graphs - II
Svante Janson, Uppsala University
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October 23, 2008 - 11:30 - 12:20
Seminar Génie informatique et génie logiciel
L-4812, pavillon Lassonde de l'École Polytechnique (campus de l'Université de Montréal)
Gestion de mobilité sans coupure dans les réseaux sans fil de prochaine génération
Li Jun ZHANG, Ph.D, Géninov Group Inc.
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October 23, 2008 - 16:00
Lecture Chaire André Aisenstadt
CRM, UdeM, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la tour, salle 6214
Random graphs - III
Svante Janson, Uppsala University
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October 23, 2008 - 16:00
Seminar Biostatistique
McGill, Pavillon Purvis, 1020 av. Pine Ouest, salle 25
Theuse of Bayes factors and $p$-values in genome wide association studies
Jonathan C. Wakefield, University of Washington
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October 24, 2008 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Monoids and contact structures
Jeremy Van Horn-Morris, UQAM
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October 24, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar CRM Applied Math and McGill CSE
Burnside Hall, McGill, 805 Sherbrooke O.,
salle 1205
An inner-outer iteration for computing PageRank
Chen Greif, Department of Computer Science, UBC
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October 24, 2008 - 14:30 - 15:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside , 805 O., rue Sherbrooke,
salle 920
Schatten norm identities for Hankel operators
Svante Janson, Uppsala University
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October 24, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
McGill University, Burnside Hall 1B39
Model-based clustering of longitudinal data
Paul McNicholas, University of Guelph
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October 24, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UQAM, Pav. Sherbrooke, 200, rue Sherbrooke O., salle SH-3420
Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and smooth dynamical systems
David Ruelle, IHES
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October 24, 2008 - 9:30
Seminar Biostatistique
McGill, Pavillon Purvis, 1020 av. Pine Ouest, salle 24
Evaluation of immune response data in HIV vaccine trials
F. Zoe Moodie, Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention
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October 24, 2008 - 9:30
Seminar
Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, UdeM,
salle 6214-6254
Mahler measure and special values of $L$-functions
Matilde Lalin, University of Alberta
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October 27, 2008 - 16:30
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill University, Burnside 1205
A fractional model of the border gateway protocol (BGP)
Gordon Wilfong, Bell Labs
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October 28, 2008 - 10:00 - 11:00
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Polynômes harmoniques diagonaux à plusieurs jeux de variables
François Bergeron, LaCIM-UQAM
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October 28, 2008 - 10:00 - 11:00
Seminar Génie informatique et génie logiciel
J-1035, pavillon J.-A. Bombardier, École Polytechnique de Montréal (campus de l'Université de Montréal)
Présentation de la suite logicielle libre SCENARI
Erik Gebers, Docteur en Informatique, de l'Université de Technologie de Compiègne
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October 28, 2008 - 12:30
Working Seminar Matrices aléatoires, processus aléatoires, systèmes intégrables
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Schur process and 3 dimensional Young diagram
John Harnad, Concordia, CRM
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October 28, 2008 - 16:00
Seminar
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour,
salle 4186
The $t$-dependence and $t$-improper chromatic numbers of random graphs
Ross Kang, McGill University
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October 28, 2008 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Biostatistique
Purvis Hall, 1020 Pine Ave. West, Room 24
Model-Based Clustering: An Overview
Paul McNicholas, University of Guelph
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October 28, 2008 - 16:10 - 17:10
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 920
Duality of $Z$-groups - I
Michael Barr
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October 29, 2008 - 13:30 - 16:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, Pav. Burnside, Room 920
Vortices and spontaneous symmetry breaking in rotating Bose gases
Robert Seiringer, Princeton University
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October 29, 2008 - 14:00
Seminar
Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, UdeM,
salle 6214-6254
Elliptic curves, dynamical systems, and number theory
Patrick INGRAM, University of Waterloo
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October 29, 2008 - 16:30
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill University, Room 320
Multigraphs with high chromatic index: Vizing's bound
Jessica McDonald, University of Waterloo
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October 29, 2008 - 16:30
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill University, MC 320
Multigraphs with high chromatic index: Vizing's bound
Jessica McDonald, Waterloo
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October 30, 2008 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill, Burnside Hall 920
Elliptic curves and the distribution of primes
Kevin James, Clemson
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October 30, 2008 - 11:30 - 12:20
Seminar Génie informatique et génie logiciel
L-4812, pavillon Lassonde de l'École Polytechnique de Montréal (campus de l'Université de Montréal)
Interprétation du flux de connaissances au sein de projets de développement logiciel
Olivier Gendreau, Doctorant, École Polytechnique de Montréal
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October 30, 2008 - 14:00 - 15:20
Colloquium GRTC
U. de Sherbrooke, Dép. de mathématiques, 2500, boul. de l'Université, pavillon D6-0046
Blocs isolants de points critiques
Geremie Gasse, Université de Sherbrooke
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October 30, 2008 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia, Library Building, 9th floor, salle LB-921-4
Local Szpiro's Conjecture
Soroosh Yazhdani, McMaster
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October 30, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Statistique
Université de Sherbrooke, local D6-0046
Moyennes tronquées multivariées robustes et efficaces
Jean-Claude Massé, Département de mathématiques et de statistique, Université Laval
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October 30, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium DIRO
Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, SALLE 6214 (Université de Montréal)
Rule-based search in text databases with nonstandard orthography
Wolfram Luther, Université de Duisburg-Essen
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October 31, 2008 - 10:00
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Algèbres de Hopf généralisées
Jean-Louis Loday, CNRS-Strasbourg
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October 31, 2008 - 14:00
Seminar MITACS de Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
Concordia University, Library Building, Salle / Room 921.04
On risk minimizing portfolios under a Markovian regime-switching Black-Scholes economy
Robert Elliott, University of Calgary
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October 31, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar CRM Applied Math and McGill CSE
Burnside Hall, McGill, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1205
Boundary integral scattering
Francisco Javier Sayas, University of Minnesota (USA) &
Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain)
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October 31, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 5340
Clustering and classification of functional data
Surajit Ray, Boston University
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October 31, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Dilute quantum gases
Robert Seiringer, Princeton University
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