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Grandes Conférences du CRM
The CRM's "Grandes conférences" series invites scientists with a gift for communicating the most exciting recent developments in mathematics to a curious general public. From cryptography and quantum computing to chaos in meteorological or financial systems, and brain imaging or revolutions in biotechnology, all of the conferences reveal the power and beauty of cutting-edge mathematical research in a language accessible to all.
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 Friday May 10, 2013 • 24 heures de science
Les ponts de Königsberg, les digues de Hollande et la chute de Wall Street
Paul Embrechts, ETH Zürich
Our planet, Earth, faces several challenges, on environmental issues, but it is also threatened by the complex social infrastructures pcretaed by man. | Read more | Register |
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 Wednesday April 10, 2013 • Le coeur des sciences à l'UQAM
Les mathématiques pour faire parler la Terre
Ingrid Daubechies, Présidente de l'Union Mathématique International
What do image analysis, earthquakes and volcanic plumes have in common? This isn't a joke! This is the story of a mathematican led to collaborate with geophysicists following research leading up to JPEG2000 Image Compression Standards! | Read more |
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Monday, March 18, 2013 • 4:00 p.m. at McGill University
 The Mathematics of «Fracking»
by Anthony Peirce, University of British Columbia
"Fracking" is used by the oil and gas industry to enhance the production of hydrocarbons. Recently there has been considerable controversy surrounding the fracking process due to environmental concerns. Fracking makes use of a process called hydraulic fracturing (HF) by which tensile fractures are induced to propagate in brittle materials by the injection of a pressurized viscous fluid. | Read more
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Friday, February 15, 2013 • 7:30 p.m.
 The Mathematics of Light and Sound by Nilima Nigan (Simon Fraser University)
Our perception of sound and light informs much of how we experience the world. We see glorious rainbows and hear the summertime chirp of crickets; we wonder about invisibility cloaks and the twinkling of distant stars.Our fascination with light and sound has informed much intellectual and scientific thought. The ancient Greeks noticed the interplay between overtones and musical notes; Euler and Newton thought about the very nature of light
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Thursday, October 25, 2012 • 7:30 p.m.
 D'Einstein à Wheeler : la dualité onde-corpuscule mise en lumière
par Alain Aspect, Institut d'Optique, Palaiseau
Photo: Jean-François Dars
Depuis le tout début de la Mécanique Quantique, le phénomène d'interférence entre chemins séparés relatifs à une seule particule n'a cessé de fasciner les physiciens, comme en témoigne les réflexions d'Einstein il y a un siècle, puis le cours de physique de Feynman dans les années 1950. Ce qui n'a longtemps été qu'une expérience de pensée, destinée à montrer le caractère révolutionnaire du concept de dualité onde-corpuscule, a finalement pu être réalisé, grâce au développement de la première véritable source de photons uniques. Nous avons même réussi à mettre en oeuvre le schéma appelé «Choix retardé de Wheeler», qui met encore plus en relief l'étrangeté de la dualité onde-corpuscule, lorsque ce concept concerne une seule particule.
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Friday, May 11, 2012
Les grandes tendances dans les
pêcheries du monde et
leurs effets sur les écosystèmes
Daniel Pauly (Fisheries Center and Zoology, UBC)
Since the end of the second World War, the spread of industrial fisheries led both to increases in catches and successive crashes, which began to affect global catches in the 1970s, and intensified in the 1980s and 1990s. In response, the industrialized countries of the Northern Hemisphere redeployed their fishing effort in the waters of developing countries, and beyond into the Southern Hemisphere, all the way to Antarctica. This geographic expansion is now completed and global catches, which peaked in the late 1980s, are now declining, while the damage to marine ecosystems and biodiversity continues to increase, and effects of global warming begin to be felt in numerous fisheries. This lecture will illustrate these trends, discuss their implications and propose some remedies. | Read More |
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 Thursday, February 16, 2012
From Aristotle to the Pentium
Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice University)
Logic started as a branch of philosophy, going back to Greeks, who loved debates, in the classical period. Computers are relatively young, dating back to World War II, in the middle of the 20th century. This talk tells the story of how logic begat computing, tracing the surprising path from Aristotle to the Pentium. This is a story full of both intellectual drama, as well as real-life drama, with most of the characters dying young, miserable, or both. | Read More | |
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Thursday, December 1, 2011 • 7:30 pm
The language of life: When mathematics speaks to biology
Gerda de Vries (University of Alberta)
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 Friday, May 6, 2011 • 7:30 P.M.
Mathematics that swings: the math behind golf
Doug Arnold (University of Minnesota) | Read More | Slideshow |
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 Tuesday, March 29, 2011 • 7:30
MSI: Anatomie (des entiers et des permutations)
Andrew Granville (Université de Montréal) | Read More | Conference Slideshow |
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 Friday, November 5, 2010 • 7:30
Quand la Terre était trop jeune pour Darwin
Cédric Villani (Université de Lyon et Institut Poincaré)
Fields Medal 2010 | Read More | Slideshow |
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| Tuesday, September 28, 2010 • 7:30 PM
 Le développement durable et le rôle des scientifiques - Table ronde organisée par le RCM2
Les panélistes: Jean-Pierre Aubin (Paris-Dauphine), Graciela Chichilnisky (Columbia), Jean-Pierre Blanchet (UQÀM) | Read more | Slideshow |
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 Friday, May 7, 2010
19:00
PUBLIC CONFERENCE
Désordre et beauté
Yvan Saint-Aubin (Université de Montréal)
20:30
DOCUMENTARY
achever l'inachevable
Director: Jean Bergeron
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 Thursday, February 4, 2010 • 7:30 p.m.
Geometreks by Ivars Peterson | Web Page |
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 Thursday, November 12, 2009
Pile ou face, et autres grandes questions de probabilité
by Jeffrey S. Rosenthal (Toronto) | Page Web |
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 Thursday, October 8, 2009 • 7:30 p.m.
Un caméléon mathématique: le théorème du point fixe de Brouwer by Jean Mawhin, Université catholique de Louvain | Web Page | Photo Gallery
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 Thursday, April 16, 2009
7:30 pm
Les codes secrets à travers les âges by Gilles Brassard | Web Page |
(the conference is given in French)
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.jpg) Friday November 28, 2008
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Désordre et beauté by Yvan Saint-Aubin (Montréal) | Web Page
At Université Laval, Québec City
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 Thursday October 9, 2008
8:00 pm
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 Tuesday, March 18, 2008
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 Wednesday, November 7, 2007 • 8 p.m.
L'effet papillon (The Butterfly Effect)
by Étienne Ghys (Research Director at CNRS, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France | Web Page | Conference photo gallery |
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 May 3, 2007 • 7 p.m. - Euler : la vie, l’univers et l’optimisation by Francis Clarke (Université Claude Bernard in Lyon, France) | Web page.
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 March 22, 2007 8 p.m. - Les limites logiques et mathématiques by Jean-Paul Delahaye (Laboratoire d'informatique fondamentale de l'Université des sciences et technologies de Lille) | Web page.
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 Novembre 15, 2006 - The mathematics of Escher's Print Gallery by Bart de Smit (Universiteit Leiden) | Web page.
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| May 4, 2006 - Le meilleur des mondes possibles par Ivar Ekeland (PIMS, UBC) | Web page. |
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| March 29, 2006 - Quand la réalité déjoue l'intuition par Jean-Marie De Koninck (Laval) | Web page. |
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