Workshops and Conferences
Lecture by Richard J. Cook, 2007 CRM-SSC Prize Recipient
CRM
February 1, 2008
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Seminars
February 1, 2008 - 10:00
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Combinatorial Hopf algebras and towers of algebras (with Nantel Bergeron)
Huilan Li
, LaCIM-UQAM
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February 1, 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: The Sato-Segal-Wilson Grassmannian
John Harnad, CRM and Concordia University
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February 1, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar CRM-SSC
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Methods fordealing with dependent observations schemes in health research
Richard Cook, University of Waterloo
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February 1, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UQAM, Pav. Sherbrooke, 200, rue Sherbrooke O., salle SH-3420
Quantization and chiralization
Victor Kac, MIT
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February 4, 2008 - 16:30
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill, Burnside Hall, salle 708
Thresholds for positional games
Tibor Szabò, ETH Zürich
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February 5, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Quaternionic Kahler manifolds and Seiberg-Witten curves
Keshav Dasgupta, McGill
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February 5, 2008 - 15:35
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1205
Multigrid methods for large-scale inverse problems
Andrei Draganescu, University of Maryland Baltimore County
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February 5, 2008 - 16:30
Seminar Topologie symplectique
CRM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, salle 5340
Floer trajectories with immersed nodes and scale-dependent gluing
Ke Zhu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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February 6, 2008 - 12:30
Seminar Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Monréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, 2900, chemin de la Tour, salle Z-200
Soyons solitaires !
Christian Côté, Collège de Lanaudière
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February 6, 2008 - 17:00
Seminar ISM des étudiants aux cycles supérieurs
UQÀM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Les orbites coadjointes du groupe de Poincaré en $2+1$ dimensions
Valérie Hudon, Concordia
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February 7, 2008 - 11:30
Seminar Génie industriel
Ecole Polytechnique, Pav. Lassonde, salle L-4812
Étude de l'intégration de la reconnaissance vocale au poste d'opération de l'instructeur en simulateur de vol
Joël Migneault
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February 7, 2008 - 14:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia, Library Building, 9th floor
Modular points on elliptic curves and cycles on Shimura varieties
Henri Darmon, McGill
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February 7, 2008 - 17:00
Seminar CIRGET Junior
UQAM, Pav. President-Kennedy, 201, av. President-Kennedy, salle PK-115
La courbure scalaire comme application moment
Mehdi Lejmi, UQAM
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February 8, 2008 - 10:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy O., salle PK-5115
Transformée de Nahm et Calorons
Benoit Charbonneau, Duke University
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February 8, 2008 - 10:00
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Convexité discrète et combinatoire des mots
Xavier Provençal, LaCIM-UQAM
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February 8, 2008 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy O., salle PK-5115
Type d'homotopie d'espaces de boules symplectiques
Martin Pinsonnault, Université de Montréal
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February 8, 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: Chapter 2: (Part A, cont'd) "The tau function on finite dimensional Grassmannians
John Harnad, CRM and Concordia University
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February 8, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
$L^\infty$ and gradient estimates of spectral clusters on compact manifolds with boundary
X. Xu, McGill
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February 8, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Computational Science and Engineering
McGill, McConnell Engineering Bldg, Room 103
Schwarz waveform moving Mesh methods
Ronald D. Haynes
, Acadia University
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February 8, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., BH-708
Mapping ancient forests: Bayesian inference for spatio-temporal trends in forest composition using the fossil pollen proxy record
Chris Paciorek, Havard School of Public Health
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February 8, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium Physical Society Colloquium
McGill, Ernest Rutheford Physics Bldg, Auditorium Keys (salle 112)
Ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray astronomy and astrophysics with the Pierre Auger observatory
Vasiliki Pavlidou, University of Chicago
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February 12, 2008 - 15:35
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1205
Computer aided design of micro-electro-mechanical systems: From energy losses to Dick Tracy watches
David Bindel, Courant Institute
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February 12, 2008 - 16:00
Seminar Biostatistique
McGill, Pavillon Purvis, 1020 av. Pine O., salle 24
Profile specific cumulative incidence (risk) estimates from Cox and logistic regression
James Hanley, McGill University
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February 12, 2008 - 16:30
Seminar Topologie symplectique
CRM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, salle 5340
Rigidity of monotone Lagrangians
Octav Cornea, Université de Montréal
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February 13, 2008 - 12:30
Seminar Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Monréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, 2900, chemin de la Tour, salle Z-200
Fonctions zeta, produits eulériens, séries de Dirichlet et leurs liens avec deux des sept problèmes du millénaire
Daniel Fiorilli, Université de Montréal
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February 14, 2008 - 10:30
Seminar Théorie analytique des nombres
DMS, Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 5448
Vanishing and non-vanishing $f$ $L$-Series of elliptic curves twisted by Dirichlet characters
Jack Fearnley, Université de Montréal
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February 14, 2008 - 11:30
Seminar Génie industriel
Ecole Polytechnique, Pav. Lassonde, salle L-4812
Modéliser la variabilité anatomique de la colonne vertébrale
Jonathan Boisvert, U. Queen's
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February 14, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke Street West , Room 708
A combinatorial perspective on Dyson-Schwinger equations
Karen Yeats, Boston University
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February 14, 2008 - 17:00
Seminar CIRGET Junior
UQAM, Pav. President-Kennedy, 201, av. President-Kennedy, salle PK-115
Une introduction aux invariants de Gromov et Witten
Clément Hyvrier, Universitè de Montréal
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February 14, 2008 - 18:30
Colloquium Physical Society Colloquium
Frank Dawson Adams Building, Auditorium
Relics of the big bang : 2007-2008 Anna I. McPherson lectures: Public lecture
George Smoot, University of California, Berkeley &
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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February 15, 2008 - 10:15
Colloquium
UQAM, Pavillon Sherbrooke, 200 Sherbrooke Ouest, Local SH-2540,
Le colloque sur la théorie des modules et sujets connexes
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February 15, 2008 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy O., salle PK-5115
Moving frames, variational problems, and geometric flows
Peter Olver, University of Minnesota
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February 15, 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: Chapter 2: (Part B) The Sato-Segal-Wilson Grassmannian
John Harnad, CRM and Concordia University
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February 15, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Théorie des nombres
Université Laval, Pavillon Vachon, salle VCH-2820
Trace formulas in number theory
Andrew Knightly, U. of Maine at Orono
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February 15, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
Extremal problems for low eigenvalues on planar domains
A. Girouard, UdeM
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February 15, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Analyse Université Laval
Université Laval, Pavillon Alexandre Vachon, Salle 1240
Proximal point method and augmented Lagrangian method for equilibrium problems
Mostafa Nasri, IMPA
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February 15, 2008 - 15:00
Colloquium Physical Society Colloquium
Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Building, Room M1
Cosmology today : 2007-2008 Anna I. McPherson lectures: Scientific lecture
George Smoot, University of California, Berkeley &
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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February 15, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Adaptive functional models for the analysis of recurrent event panel data
Jason D. Nielsen, Carleton University
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February 15, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UQAM, Pav. Sherbrooke, 200, rue Sherbrooke O., salle SH-3420
Differential groups and differential relations
Michael F. Singer, North Carolina State University
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February 18, 2008 - 16:30
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke Street West , Room 708
Lattice paths below a cyclically shifting boundary
Amarpreet Rattan
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February 19, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Teichmuller spaces of bordered surfaces and Dubrovin's systems
Leonid Chekhov, Steklov Mathematical Inst., ITEP, and Laboratoire Poncelet, Moscou
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February 19, 2008 - 15:35
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1205
Modelling the swimming behaviour of the nematode using the Immersed boundary method
Rebecca Tyson, UBC Okanagan
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February 20, 2008 - 11:00
Lecture
UdeM, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, 2900, chemin de la Tour, salle Z-310
Noisy sorting without resampling
Mark Braverman, University of Toronto
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February 21, 2008 - 10:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill, Pav. Burnside , 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
Mixed Hodge polynomials of character varieties
Fernando Rodriguez-Villegas, University of Texas at Austin
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February 21, 2008 - 11:30
Seminar Génie industriel
Ecole Polytechnique, Pav. Lassonde, salle L-4812
Infographie et logiciels interactifs avec capture de mouvement
Ionut Alexandrescu, Catalin Alexandru Duru
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February 21, 2008 - 14:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia, Library Building, 9th floor
Arithmetic questions about iterates of quadratic polynomials
Patrick Ingram, University of Toronto
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February 22, 2008 - 10:00
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Tableaux alternatifs
Xavier Viennot, LABRI - Université de Bordeaux I
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February 22, 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: Chapter 3 (Part A): Examples of tau functions I : KP tau functions of rational, trigonometric and algebro-geometric type
John Harnad, CRM and Concordia University
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February 22, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Analyse Université Laval
Université Laval, Pavillon Alexandre Vachon, Salle 1240
Maps on matrix and operator algebras
Peter Semrl, Université de Ljubljana
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February 22, 2008 - 14:35
Seminar Computational Science and Engineering
McGill, McConnell Engineering Bldg, Room 103
Large-scale fixed-outline floorplanning design using convex optimization
Miguel F. Anjos, University of Waterloo
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February 22, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle BH-708
Equivalence class aearches across directed acyclic graphs with and without latent variables
Ayesha Ali, University of Guelph
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February 22, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Combinatorics as geometry
Fernando Rodriguez Villegas, University of Texas at Austin
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February 22, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Combinatorics as geometry
Fernando Rodriguez Villegas, University of Texas at Austin
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February 26, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Eigenvalue colonizers in random matrix theory
Seung-Yeop Lee, Concordia
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February 26, 2008 - 15:35
Seminar CRM-McGill Applied Math
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1205
Bistable waves in discrete inhomogeneous media
Brian E. Moore, The University of Central Florida
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February 28, 2008 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy O., salle PK-5115
Metabelian $SL(n,C)$ representations of knot groups
Hans U. Boden, University of McMaster
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February 28, 2008 - 11:30
Seminar Génie industriel
Ecole Polytechnique, Pav. Lassonde, salle L-4812
V&V des systèmes hybrides de soft computing
Mokhtar Beldjehem, EPM
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February 28, 2008 - 12:00
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, salle 920
Two iterative methods for equilibrium problem
M. Nasri, IMPA
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February 28, 2008 - 13:00
Seminar Théorie analytique des nombres
DMS, Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 4384
Factoring RSA moduli with extra information
Jorge Jiménez Urroz, Université de Montréal
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February 28, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium DIRO
Université de Montréal. Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Bébé IA: de l'humain à la machine
Yoshua Bengio, DIRO
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February 28, 2008 - 17:00
Seminar CIRGET Junior
UQAM, Pav. President-Kennedy, 201, av. President-Kennedy, salle PK-115
Introductory surgery calculus
Liam Watson, UQAM
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February 29, 2008 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy O., salle PK-5115
$G_2$ manifolds with isolated conical singularities
Spiro Karigiannis, Oxford University
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February 29, 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: Chapter 3: (Part B) Examples of tau functions I. Integrable systems
John Harnad, CRM and Concordia University
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February 29, 2008 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
UQÀM, Pavillon des sciences biologiques, 141, av. du Président-Kennedy, Salle/Room SB-R440
Modèle structurel d'èvaluation du risque de crédit avec intensité lognormale aléatoire
Mathieu Boudreault , HEC Montréal
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February 29, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Analyse Université Laval
Université Laval, Pavillon Alexandre Vachon, Salle 1240
Cluster sets for analytic functions on infinite dimensional spaces
Richard Aron, Kent State
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February 29, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-5115
Bayesian imputation-based association mapping
Matthew Stephens, University of Chicago
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February 29, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
What is a tau function?
John Harnad, Concordia, CRM
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