Workshops and Conferences
Workshop on Arithmetic and Hyperbolic Geometry
UQAM
November 8-9, 2008
Organizers :
Andrew Granville (Université de Montréal
)
Steven Shin-Yi Lu (UQAM
)
Peter Russell (Université de Montréal
)
Noriko Yui (Queen's University
)
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Lecture by Paul Gustafson, 2008 CRM-SSC Prize Recipient
CRM
November 14, 2008
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«Désordre et beauté»
Grande conférence CRM d’Yvan Saint-Aubin
Université Laval
November 28, 2008
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Seminars
November 2, 2008 - 13:00 - 14:00
Lecture
McGill University, Burnside Hall, Room 920
Introduction to fully residually free (limit) groups
A. Miasnikov
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November 2, 2008 - 14:15 - 15:45
Lecture
McGill University, Burnside Hall, Room 920
Graph techniques for fully residually free groups I
D. Serbin
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November 3, 2008 - 15:30 - 17:00
Lecture
McGill University, Burnside Hall, Room 920
Mini-course: Decision problems and finiteness problems for residually free groups I
Jim Howie, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
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November 3, 2008 - 16:30
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill University, MC 320
Covering Games: Approximation through non-cooperation
Martin Gairing, ICSI Berkeley
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November 3, 2008 - 17:30 - 18:30
Lecture
McGill University, 853 Sherbrooke Street West, ARTS 150 or Burnside Hall, Room 1028
Algorithms for fully residually free groups I
I. Bumagin
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November 4, 2008 - 11:00
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
The ground state of the quartic oscillator: from the anharmonic oscillator to the double well
Alexander Turbiner, UNAM, Mexico
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November 4, 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 - Part 2
John Harnad, Concordia, CRM
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November 4, 2008 - 16:00
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
McGill, Pav. Burnside Hall 920, 805 Sherbrooke O.
Generalized Brown representability
Jiri Rosicky
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November 4, 2008 - 16:00
Seminar
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4186
Cleaning regular graphs with brushes
Pawel Pralat, Dalhousie University
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November 4, 2008 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Biostatistique
McGill, Pavillon Purvis, 1020 av. Pine Ouest, salle 24
General theory for sufficient cause interactions for dichotomous exposures
Tyler VanderWeele, University of Chicago
Web site :
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November 4, 2008 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Biostatistique
Purvis Hall, 1020 Pine Ave. West, Room 24
General theory for sufficient cause interactions for dichotomous exposures
Tyler VanderWeele, University of Chicago
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November 4, 2008 - 16:00 - 17:30
Lecture
McGill University, Burnside Hall, Room 708
Mini-course: Decision problems and finiteness problems for residually free groups II
Jim Howie, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
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November 4, 2008 - 18:00 - 19:00
Lecture
McGill University, Burnside Hall, Room 708
Graph techniques for fully residually free groups II
D. Serbin
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November 5, 2008 - 15:30 - 18:00
Lecture
McGill University, Burnside Hall, Room 920
Mini-course: Decision problems and finiteness problems for residually free groups III
Jim Howie, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
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November 5, 2008 - 16:00
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill University, MC 320
On the minimum degree of Ramsey minimal graphs
Philipp Zumstein, ETH Zürich
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November 6, 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)
Advances in visual communication technologies for $e$-healthcare systems
Françoise PRETEUX, ARTEMIS Department, Institut TELECOM
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November 6, 2008 - 14:00 - 15:20
Colloquium GRTC
Université de Sherbrooke, 2500, boul. de l'Université, local D6-0046
Calcul de l'homologie par groupement de réductions (suite)
Madjid Allili, Bishop's
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November 6, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium DIRO
Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 6214, 2920, ch. de la Tour,
Université de Montréal
Biological knowledge management using semantic WEB technolgies
Michel Dumontier, Carleton University
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November 6, 2008 - 16:00 - 17:00
Lecture
McGill University, The Leacock Bldg., Room 116 or Burnside Hall, Room 1028
Coordinate groups of irreducible two-variable equations over a free group
N. Touikan
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November 6, 2008 - 17:30 - 18:30
Lecture
McGill University, The Leacock Bldg., Room 116 or Burnside Hall, Room 1028
Algorithms for fully residually free groups II
O. Kharlampovich
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November 7, 2008 - 10:00 - 11:00
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Transformées de Fourier et poids de Mayer de graphes
Gilbert Labelle, UQAM
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November 7, 2008 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Geometry of holomorphic curves and distribution of rational points
Junjiro Noguchi, University of Tokyo
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November 7, 2008 - 14:30 - 16:00
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. 805 O., rue Sherbrooke, Burnside 920
Actions of product groups on manifolds
A. Furman, University of Illinois at Chicago
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November 7, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., 1B39
Sampling bias in logistic models
Peter McCullagh, University of Chicago
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November 7, 2008 - 15:30 - 16:30
Colloquium SOCS Colloquium
McGill University, McConnell Engineering Building, salle MC13
Natural Algorithms
Bernard Chazelle, Princeton University
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November 7, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UQAM, Pav. Sherbrooke, 200, rue Sherbrooke O., salle SH-3420
Combinatorial Hopf algebras
Jean-Louis Loday, CNRS, Strasbourg
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November 7, 2008 - 9:30
Seminar
Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, UdeM,
salle 6214-6254
Variations autour de la théorie analytique des nombres
Guillaume Ricotta, Université de Bordeaux
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November 10, 2008 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill, Burnside Hall 920
The Rudnick-Sarnak Conjectures
Roman Hollowinsky, Toronto
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November 10, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest,
salle 920
Weighted estimates singular integral operators and Sobolev inequalities
C. Perez, University of Seville
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November 11, 2008 - 11:00
Seminar Physique Mathématique
Concordia University, Library Building, 1400, boul. de Maisonneuve Ouest, salle 921.04
Susy, intertwining operators and related vector coherent states
Fabio Bagarello, Universita di Palermo
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November 11, 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 - Part 3
John Harnad, Concordia, CRM
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November 11, 2008 - 14:00
Seminar
Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, chemin de la Tour, UdeM,
salle 6214-6254
The Rudnick-Sarnak conjectures
Roman Holowinsky, University of Toronto
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November 11, 2008 - 16:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
The University of Vermont, Kalkin Building 002
Class field theory from Gauss to the present
John T. Tate, UVM James Marsh Professor-at-large and
U. Texas at Austin Sid W. Richardson Chair in Mathematics
Harvard University Professor Emeritus
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November 11, 2008 - 16:00
Seminar
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4186
Signaling in A Random Boolean Network
Lea Popovic, Concordia University
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November 11, 2008 - 16:00 - 17:00
Seminar Biostatistique
McGill, Pavillon Purvis, 1020 av. Pine Ouest, salle 24
Statistical methods for cross-over in the spine patients outcomes research trial
Tor Devin Tosteson, Sc.D., Dartmouth Medical School
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November 11, 2008 - 16:00 - 18:00
Seminar
UdeM, Pav. Paul G. Desmarais, salle 1120
The MathWorks for a complimentary Simulink seminar: Modeling Dynamic Systems with Simulink
Carlos Osorio
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November 11, 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 - II
Michael Barr
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November 12, 2008 - 12:30 - 13:30
Seminar Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Monréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, 2900, chemin de la Tour, salle Z-205
La cryptographie quantique
Gilles Brassard, DIRO
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November 13, 2008 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill, Burnside Hall 920
Galois representations and Runge's method
Yuri Bilu, Bordeaux et ALGANT
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November 13, 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)
Traitement paramétrique des signaux audio: application aux prothèses auditives
Abdelaziz Trabelsi, Doctorant, École Polytechnique de Montréal
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November 13, 2008 - 14:00 - 15:20
Colloquium GRTC
Université de Sherbrooke, 2500, boul. de l'Université, local D6-0046
Espaces de Hurwitz (suite)
Vasilisa Shramchenko, Université de Sherbrooke
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November 13, 2008 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia, Library Building, 9th floor, salle LB-921-4
1-motives with torsion and Cartier duality
Donghoon Park, Brown
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November 13, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium DIRO
Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, salle 6214, 2920, ch. de la Tour,
Université de Montréal
Méthodes de Monte Carlo pour l'inférence Bayésienne en évolution moléculaire
Nicolas Lartillot, Carleton University
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November 13, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Statistique
Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté des sciences, local D6-0046
Sur la distribution du nombre de succès consécutifs pour des suites de Bernoullis
Djilali Ait Aoudia, stagiaire postdoctoral au Département de mathématiques, Université de Sherbrooke
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November 14, 2008 - 10:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Enrichissement du complexe de Floer et morphisme de Seidel
Jean-Francois Barraud, Université Toulouse 3
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November 14, 2008 - 10:00 - 11:00
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Espèces hyperoctahédrales
Philippe Choquette, Université York
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November 14, 2008 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Bihermitian structures on Inoue surfaces via twistor theory
Akira Fujiki, University of Osaka
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November 14, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar CRM Applied Math and McGill CSE
Burnside Hall, McGill, 805 Sherbrooke O., salle 1205
40 Years of linear algebra and optimization at Stanford
Michael Saunders, Stanford University
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November 14, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium Prix CRM-SSC
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 1360
Average Predictive Comparisons
Paul Gustafson, University of British Columbia
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November 14, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium SOCS Colloquium
McGill University, McConnell Engineering Building, salle MC13
Why copyright? The fight for Canada's digital future"
Michael Geist , University of Ottawa
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November 14, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UQAM, Pav. Sherbrooke, 200, rue Sherbrooke O., salle SH-3420
Overcrowding and undercrowding of random zeros on complex manifolds
Bernard Shiffman, Johns Hopkins University
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November 17, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar CRM Applied Math and McGill CSE
McGill University, McConnell Engineering Building, Room 103
Computing approximate pagerank vectors by basis pursuit denoising
Michael Saunders, Stanford University
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November 18, 2008 - 11:00
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Counting colored 3D Young diagrams with vertex operators
Benjamin Young, CRM
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November 18, 2008 - 12:30
Working Seminar Matrices aléatoires, processus aléatoires, systèmes intégrables
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
PNG droplet and airy process
Dong Wang, CRM, Université de Montréal
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November 18, 2008 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke O.
Geometry of interaction I
P. Scott
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November 18, 2008 - 16:00
Seminar Biostatistique
McGill, Pavillon Purvis, 1020 av. Pine Ouest, salle 25
Application of inverse probability of treatment weighting to improve the treatment of antiretroviral-resistant HIV infection
Maya Petersen, UC Berkeley
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November 18, 2008 - 16:00 - 17:30
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke O.
Clean rings
W. Burgess & R. Raphael
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November 19, 2008 - 12:30 - 13:30
Seminar Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Monréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, 2900, chemin de la Tour, salle Z-205
Du théorème de Rolle à la théorie de Khovanskii
Christiane Rousseau, Université de Montréal
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November 19, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium DIRO
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Controlled Markov chains, graphs and Hamiltonicity
Jerzy Filar, University of South Australia
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November 20, 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)
Un flot de conception pour applications de traitement du signal systématique implémentées sur FPGA à base d'Ingénierie Dirigée par les Modèles
Sébastien Le Beux, École Polytechnique de Montréal
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November 20, 2008 - 14:00 - 15:20
Colloquium GRTC
Université de Sherbrooke, 2500, boul. de l'Université, local D6-0046
The Siegel upper half space
Ryan Hoban, Maryland
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November 20, 2008 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia University, Library building
1-motives with torsion and Cartier duality
Donghoon Park , Brown
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November 20, 2008 - 15:30
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Integrability of partial difference equations by the generalized symmetrymethod
Decio Levi, Universita` Roma Tre
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November 21, 2008 - 10:00
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Filtrations de la séquence $(q,t)$-Catalan
Mike Zabrocki, Université York
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November 21, 2008 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar MITACS de Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
Salle LB 921.04, J.W. McConnell (Library) Building, SGW campus, Confordia U.
Generalized penalty function analysis with a class of Coxian interclaim time distributions
Gordon Willmot, University of Waterloo
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November 21, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar Analysis (McGill & Concordia)
McGill, Pav. Burnside, 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, salle 920
Global attraction to solitary waves in nonlinear models based on the Klein-Gordon equation
A. Komech, Texas A&M
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November 21, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar CRM Applied Math and McGill CSE
McGill University, Burnside Hall 1205
Lessons learned from nearly two decades(!) imaging and modeling blood flow
David A. Steinman, Biomedical Simulation Lab, Univ. of Toronto
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November 21, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium CRM-ISM-GERAD de Statistique
McGill, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke O., 1B39
Two Recursive Simulation Schemes
Duncan Murdoch, University of Western Ontario
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November 21, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium SOCS Colloquium
McGill University, McConnell Engineering Building, salle MC13
TBA
Bianca Schroeder , University of Toronto
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November 21, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UQAM, Pav. Sherbrooke, 200, rue Sherbrooke O., salle SH-3420
Turbulence from statistical theory to Wigner Measure
Claude Bardos, Université Paris-Diderot (Paris 7)
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November 24, 2008 - 16:30
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
McGill University, Burnside 1205
Recent developments in spectral graph theory
Sebastian Cioaba, University of Toronto
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November 25, 2008 - 11:00
Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, U de M, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4336
Universality classes in random matrices
Marco Bertola, CRM
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November 25, 2008 - 12:00
Seminar
Université de Montréal, S1-151 (seminar room) of the Jean-Coutu building
Importance of Dynamic Fluctuations in the Activation of the Tyrosine Kinase Hck
Benoit Roux, University of Chicago
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November 25, 2008 - 12:30
Working Seminar Physique Mathématique
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour,
salle 4336
PNG droplet and airy process: part 2
Dong Wang, CRM
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November 25, 2008 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke O.
Geometry of interaction II
P. Scott
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November 25, 2008 - 16:00
Seminar Biostatistique
McGill, Pavillon Purvis, 1020 av. Pine Ouest, salle 24
TBA
Antonio Ciampi, McGill University
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November 25, 2008 - 16:00
Seminar
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 4186
A Recycling Paradigm for Extracting many Random Bits
Ariel Gabizon, Simon Fraser University
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November 25, 2008 - 16:00 - 17:15
Seminar Centre de recherche en théorie des catégories (CRTC)
Burnside Hall 920, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke O.
Coherence for Lax and pseudo-algebras revisited: Universality
Claudio Hermida
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November 26, 2008 - 10:30 - 11:20
Seminar Théorie des nombres
Université Laval, Salle 2544 du pavillon Pouliot
Espaces de Lubin-Tate et immeubles de Bruhat-Tits du grouoe linéaire
Laurent Fargues, INRS et U. Paris Sud
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November 26, 2008 - 12:30 - 13:30
Seminar Club mathématique UdeM
Université de Monréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, 2900, chemin de la Tour, salle Z-205
Une courte promenade dans l'histoire de l'analyse: de Newton et Leibniz à Volterra et Banach
Norbert Schlomiuk, Université de Montréal
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November 26, 2008 - 16:00
Seminar Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
MC 320 - McGill University
A new algorithm for the maximum weighted stable set problem on claw-free graphs
Gianpaolo Oriolo, Universita' di Tor Vergata
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November 27, 2008 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill, Burnside Hall 920
Reduction Theory for p-Adic Moduli Spaces of Abelian Varieties and p-Divisible Groups
Laurent Farges, IAS & Paris-Sud
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November 27, 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)
Components and Tools for Implementing Multiprocessor Systems in Programmable Logic
Naraig Manjikian, Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Queen's University
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November 27, 2008 - 14:00 - 15:20
Colloquium GRTC
Université de Sherbrooke, 2500, boul. de l'Université, local D6-0046
Topologie digitale dans un espace localement fini
Jeremy Godin, Sherbrooke/Bishop's
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November 27, 2008 - 14:00 - 15:30
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
Concordia, Library Building, 9th floor, salle LB-921-4
Theta functions after Waldspurger and Mumford
Vinajak Vatsal, UBC
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November 27, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium DIRO
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Modeling Structural Ensembles of Transmembrane Proteins
Jerome Waldispuhl
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November 27, 2008 - 9:00 - 10:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill, Burnside Hall 708
Multiple Dirichlet Series
Alina Bucur, MIT
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November 28, 2008 - 10:00 - 11:00
Seminar LACIM
UQAM, Pav. Président-Kennedy, 200, av. Président-Kennedy, salle PK-4323
Fonctions de parking, Chemins de Dyck et Treillis de Tamari
François Bergeron, UQAM
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November 28, 2008 - 10:30 - 12:00
Seminar Québec-Vermont Number Theory
McGill, Burnside Hall 920
p-adic differential equations
Kiran Kedlaya, MIT
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November 28, 2008 - 11:00
Seminar Géométrie et topologie/Geometry-Topology
PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Galois coverings of Riemann surfaces
Cristina Martinez, UQAM and MPI-Bonn
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November 28, 2008 - 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar MITACS de Mathématiques actuarielles et financières de Montréal
Salle 6214, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt
Discounted aggregate claims with a general force of interest
Ghislain Léveillé, Université Laval
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November 28, 2008 - 14:30
Seminar CRM Applied Math and McGill CSE
McGill University, Burnside Hall 1205
Modelling anguilliform swimming using the immersed boundary method
Rebecca Tyson, University of British Columbia Okanagan
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November 28, 2008 - 15:30
Colloquium SOCS Colloquium
McGill University, McConnell Engineering Building, salle MC13
TBA
Jackie Vogel , Department of Biology, McGill University
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November 28, 2008 - 16:00
Colloquium CRM-ISM de mathématiques
UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214
Shape optimization for low eigenvalues of the Laplace operator
Alexandre Girouard, Cardiff University
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November 28, 2008 - 20:00 - 21:30
Lecture Grande conférence du CRM
Université Laval, Pavillon Desjardins, Salle Hydro-Québec
Désordre et beauté
Yvan Saint-Aubin, Université de Montréal
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