2014 CMS Summer Meeting

University of Manitoba, June 6 - 9, 2014

Scientific Sessions

By invitation of the Meeting Committee, there will be sessions in the following areas. The list of speakers is preliminary, and participants interested in delivering a talk in one of the sessions should contact one of the organizers of that session. All scientific sessions will take place at the Delta Winnipeg. Click Here for a Map

 Algebraic Tools and Design Theory Org: Robert Craigen (Manitoba) Saturday June 7  (Meeting Room 8, Convention Centre) 10:00 - 10:55 Skype Round Table with Dane Flannery (NUI, Galway) 11:00 - 11:25 Ferenc Szollosi (Tohoku University), Modular Combinatorial Designs 14:00 - 14:25 Peter Loly (Manitoba), "Multimagic" Latin Squares 14:30 - 14:55 John Van Rees (Manitoba), The Relationship between (16,6,3)-BIBDs and (25,12) Binary Self-Orthogonal Codes 16:15 - 16:40 Hadi Kharaghani (Lethbridge) 16:45 - 17:10 Robert Craigen (Manitoba), Supercharging the 'Unreal' construction for Hadamard and Generalized Hadamard matrices Analytic methods in Diophantine equations Org: Michael Coons (University of Newcastle, Austrailia) and Patrick Ingram (Colorado State University) Saturday June 7  (Westminster) 10:00 - 10:25 Karl Dilcher (Dalhousie), Pairs of reciprocal quadratic congruences involving primes 10:30 - 10:55 Wentang Kuo (Waterloo), On Erdos-Pomerance conjecture 11:00 - 11:25 James Parks (Lethbridge), Low-lying zeros of elliptic curve $L$-functions: Beyond the ratios conjecture 16:15 - 16:40 Adam Felix (Lethbridge), On invariants of elliptic curves on average 16:45 - 17:10 Carmen Bruni (UBC), Twisted extensions of Fermat's Last Theorem 17:15 - 17:40 Stephen Choi (SFU), On a Problem of Bourgain Concerning the Lp Norms of Exponential Sums Sunday June 8  (Westminster) 8:30 - 8:55 Kevin Hare (Waterloo), Simultaneous beta-expansions 9:00 - 9:25 Jonas Jankauskas (Waterloo), On Littlewood Polynomials with Prescribed Number of Zeros Inside the Unit Disk 9:30 - 9:55 Amir Akbary (Lethbridge), On the greatest prime factor of some divisibility sequences Complex Analysis and Function Spaces Org: Eric Schippers and Nina Zorboska (Manitoba) Saturday June 7  (Campaign A) 10:00 - 10:25 Oliver Roth (Universität Würzburg), The Schramm-Loewner equation for multiple slits 10:30 - 10:55 Richard Fournier (Dawson College), An interpolation formula for the derivative of a polynomial 11:00 - 11:25 Bryan Penfound (Winnipeg), Matrix vector products of the coefficients of the conformal welding maps 14:00 - 14:25 Nadya Askaripour (University of Cincinnati), Poincar\'e series operator on spaces of automorphic forms 14:30 - 14:55 Zeljko Cuckovic (University of Toledo), From the $\overline{\partial}$-Neumann operator to Axler-Zheng Theorem 16:15 - 16:40 Flavia Colonna (George Mason University), Norm and essential norms of weighted composition operators acting on reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces of analytic functions. 16:45 - 17:10 Rachel Weir (Allegheny College), Normal Weighted Composition Operators on Weighted Dirichlet Spaces 17:15 - 17:40 Tom Ransford (Université Laval), One-box conditions for Carleson measures for the Dirichlet space Sunday June 8  (Campaign A) 9:00 - 9:25 Tatyana Barron (Western University), Toeplitz operators on K\"ahler and hyperk\"ahler manifolds. 9:30 - 9:55 David Radnell (American University of Sharjah), Determinant Line Bundles in Conformal Field Theory 14:00 - 14:25 Stamatis Pouliasis (Université Laval), Condenser capacity, exponential Blaschke products and universal covering maps 14:30 - 14:55 Oleg Ivrii (Harvard University), Lavaurs-Epstein boundary 16:15 - 16:40 David Minda (University of Cincinnati), Rescaling non-uniformly Lipschitz sequences 16:45 - 17:10 Brock Williams (Texas Tech University), Biological Applications of Conformal Invariants 17:15 - 17:40 Myrto Manolaki (Western), Holomorphic functions with universal Taylor series and their boundary behaviour Contributed Papers Org: A. Bass Bagayogo (Université de Saint-Boniface) Sunday June 8  (Albert) 8:30 - 8:55 Abdus Sattar Mia (Saskatchewan), Conservation laws of the nonlinear two-fluid model 9:00 - 9:25 Marco Antonio Pérez (Québec), Relative extensions and natural transformations from disk and sphere chain complexes 9:30 - 9:55 M. Carol Williams (Texas Tech University), Strengthening the Mathematical Content Knowledge of In-Service Teachers Graphs and Hypergraphs Org: David Gunderson (Manitoba), Bill Kocay (Manitoba) and Ortrud Oellermann (Winnipeg) Saturday June 7  (Meeting Room 12, Convention Centre) 10:00 - 10:25 Anthony Bonato (Ryerson), Independence densities of hypergraphs 10:30 - 10:55 Richard Brewster (Thompson Rivers University), The complexity of signed graph homomorphisms 11:00 - 11:25 Stephen Finbow (St. Francis Xavier), Vertex Colouring of Plane Graphs with Restrictions Given by Faces 14:00 - 14:25 David Pike (Memorial), Brushing without capacity restrictions 14:30 - 14:55 Donald L. Kreher (Michigan Tech.), Vertex-Transitive Graphs Of Prime-Squared Order Are Hamilton-Decomposable 16:15 - 16:40 Andrei Gagarin (Royal Holloway College), The bondage number of graphs on topological surfaces and Teschner's conjecture 16:45 - 17:10 Matthew Skala (Manitoba), Cycle-maximal graphs of fixed girth 17:15 - 17:40 Pawel Pralat (Ryerson), Power of $k$ choices in the process of generating rainbow spanning trees in random graphs Sunday June 8  (Meeting Room 12, Convention Centre) 8:00 - 8:25 Henry Wolkowicz (Waterloo), Coordinate Shadows of Semi-definite and Euclidean Distance Matrix Completions 8:30 - 8:55 Shonda Gosselin (Winnipeg), Metric Dimension of circulant graphs and Cayley hypergraphs 9:00 - 9:25 Joy Morris (Lethbridge), The isomorphism problem for Cayley graphs 9:30 - 9:55 Karen Meagher (Regina), Graph Theory and the Erd\H{o}s-Ko-Rado Theorem 14:00 - 14:25 Kieka Mynhardt (University of Victoria), Edgeless Graphs are the Only Universal Fixers 14:30 - 14:55 Magaret-Ellen Messinger (Mt. Allison), Elimination Schemes and Lattices 16:15 - 16:40 Karen Gunderson (Heibronn Institute, University of Bristol), Time for graph bootstrap percolation 16:45 - 17:10 Jason Brown (Dalhousie), G-Convexity of Graphs 17:15 - 17:40 Jeannette Janssen (Dalhousie), Uniform linear embeddings of random graphs Gröbner Bases and Computer Algebra Org: Murray Bremner (Saskatchewan), Jaydeep Chipalkatti (Manitoba), Sara Madariaga (Saskatchewan), R. Padmanabhan (Manitoba) and Yang Zhang (Manitoba) Saturday June 7  (Campaign B) 10:00 - 10:35 Greg Reid (Western), Approximate symmetry analysis 10:40 - 11:15 Anatoly Koryukin (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics), Gröbner-Shirshov bases of the Lie algebras $A_n^+$, $B_n^+$, $C_n^+$, $D_n^+$ 13:45 - 14:20 Marc Moreno Maza (Western), On Fulton's Algorithm for Computing Intersection Multiplicities in Higher Dimension 14:25 - 15:00 Xiangui Zhao (Manitoba), Gelfand-Kirillov dimension of modules over differential difference algebras 16:15 - 16:50 William Sit (The City College of The City University of New York), On Rota's Problem, Differential Type and Rota-Baxter Type Algebras 17:00 - 17:35 Sara Madariaga (University of Saskatchewan), Jordan quadruple systems Sunday June 8  (Campaign B) 8:45 - 9:20 Xuan Liu (Western), Algorithms for finding Lie superalgebra structure of regular super differential equations 9:25 - 10:00 Michael Monagan (SFU) 13:45 - 14:20 Hossein Iraghi Moghaddam (Manitoba), On Semigroups admitting Commutators or Conjugates 14:25 - 15:00 R. Padmanabhan (Manitoba), Algebra and Geometry with Computers 16:15 - 16:50 J.D. Phillips (Northern Michigan University), On Bruck Loops 17:00 - 17:35 Michael Kinyon (University of Denver), Loop Theory and Automated Deduction Monday June 9  (Campaign B) 8:30 - 9:30 Yuqun Chen (School of Mathematical Sciences, South China Normal University), Gr\"{o}bner-Shirshov bases for semirings Innovation and outreach in mathematics education Org: Darja Kalajdzievska (University of Manitoba) and Anna Stokke (University of Winnipeg) Saturday June 7  (Strathcona) 10:00 - 10:25 Sherry Mantyka (Memorial), Developing Automatic Recall of Basic Skills in Mathematics 10:30 - 10:55 Mile Krajcevski (University of South Florida), Challenges with using visual representations in undergraduate mathematics 11:00 - 11:25 Darja Kalajdzievska (Manitoba), Taking Math Students from 'Blah' to 'Aha': What Can We Do? 14:00 - 14:25 Bryan Penfound (Winnipeg), The Flipped Classroom Model in Post-Secondary Education 14:30 - 14:55 David Leeming (Victoria), The Math Mania Outreach Program 16:15 - 16:40 Stephen Wilson (Johns Hopkins), Textbooks and real world problems 16:45 - 17:10 Rossitza Marinova (Concordia), Increasing the Appreciation of Mathematics in Canada through the Canadian Math Kangaroo Contest 17:15 - 17:40 Miroslav Lovric (McMaster), Advanced Math Problem-Solving Course at McMaster Sunday June 8  (Strathcona) 8:00 - 8:25 Anna Stokke (Winnipeg), Math outreach in Manitoba 9:00 - 9:25 Malgorzata Dubiel (SFU), Remedial Flipped 9:30 - 9:55 R. Padmanabhan (Manitoba), Mathematical Hobbies for the iGeneration 14:00 - 14:25 Gerda de Vries (Alberta), Hands-On-Heads-On Activities for the Discovery of Mathematics in Elementary Schools 14:30 - 14:55 Tara Taylor (St Francis Xavier), Mathematical Variations on Woven Figure Eights 16:15 - 16:40 Roberta LaHaye (Mount Royal), Integrating Mathematics and Art for Pre-Service Elementary Teachers 16:45 - 17:10 Pamini Thangarajah (Mount Royal), Mathematics Minor for Elementary Education at MRU: An Innovative Collaboration with Education Low dimensional topology and geometric group theory Org: Adam Clay (Manitoba), Eduardo Martínez-Pedroza (Memorial) and Dale Rolfsen (UBC) Saturday June 7  (Meeting Room 11, Convention Centre) 10:00 - 10:25 Maxime Bergeron (British Columbia), The Topology of Representation Spaces 10:30 - 10:55 Khalid Bou-Rabee (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities), Full residual finiteness growths of nilpotent groups 11:00 - 11:25 Inna Bumagin (Carleton), Free Lyndon length functions and CAT(0) spaces 14:00 - 14:25 Adam Clay (Manitoba), Bi-orderability of fundamental groups of $3$-manifolds 14:30 - 14:55 Spencer Dowdall (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Fibrations and polynomial invariants for free-by-cyclic groups 16:15 - 16:40 Jonathan Lemaire-Beaucage (Université du Québec à Montréal), Left-orderability of the fundamental group of the double branched cover of links 16:45 - 17:10 Daniel Woodhouse (McGill), Virtually Special Tubular Groups Sunday June 8  (Meeting Room 11, Convention Centre) 8:30 - 8:55 Tali Pinsky (British Columbia), Geodesics on Surfaces, as Knots. 9:00 - 9:25 Christopher Cappadocia (McMaster), Weak hyperbolic dimension of metric spaces 9:30 - 9:55 Jenny Wilson (University of Chicago), Stability phenomena for sequences of representations of the classical Weyl groups and topological applications Mathematical Biology Org: Abba Gumel (Manitoba) Saturday June 7  (Meeting Room 13) 10:00 - 10:25 Junling Ma (Victoria), Modeling SIS disease dynamics on random contact networks 10:30 - 10:55 Dessalegn Melesse (Manitoba), Understanding heterogeneity in HIV transmission dynamics among high risk populations: a mathematical modeling approach 11:00 - 11:25 Cameron Browne (Vaderbilt University), A Nosocomial Epidemic Model with Room Contamination 14:00 - 14:55 Thomas Hillen (Alberta), Mathematical Modelling with Fully Anisotropic Diffusion 16:15 - 16:40 Ahmed Abdelrazec (York), Spread and control of dengue with limited public health resources 16:45 - 17:10 Fereshteh Nazari (Manitoba) 17:15 - 17:40 Sanling Yuan (University of Shanghai), Dynamics of a stochastic model for algal bloom with and without distributed delay Sunday June 8  (Meeting Room 13) 8:00 - 8:25 Gerda de Vries (Alberta), Formation of Animal Groups: The Importance of Communication 8:30 - 8:55 Michael Yodzis (Guelph), Dynamics of Pollution-induced Illnesses in Fishing Communities, with Social Feedbacks 9:00 - 9:25 Ali Javame (Manitoba), Role of Pap Screening on HPV Transmission Dynamics 9:30 - 9:55 Zhipeng Qiu (Nanjing University / York), Complex dynamics of a nutrient-plankton system with nonlinear phytoplankton morality and allelopathy 14:00 - 14:55 Huaiping Zhu (York), Modeling and forecasting of West Nile virus Mathematics: Tools of investigation in cellular and molecular biology Org: Eric Cytrynbaum (UBC) and Stephanie Portet (Manitoba) Saturday June 7  (Kildonan) 10:00 - 10:25 Adriana Dawes (Ohio State University), EGF and Notch signalling in Caenorhabditis vulval development 10:30 - 10:55 Aidan Brown (Dalhousie), Ubiquitin and adaptor protein dynamics on mammalian peroxisome membranes 11:00 - 11:25 Stephanie Portet (Manitoba), Modelling intermediate filaments 14:00 - 14:25 Eric Cytrynbaum (UBC), Estimating the bending modulus of a FtsZ bacterial-division protein filament 14:30 - 14:55 Blerta Shtylla (Pomona College, CA), Mathematical models of force generation at the cellular nanoscale: interplay of protein flexibility and diffusion. 16:15 - 16:40 Alexandra Jikine (University of Notre Dame, IN), An interlocked feed-forward loop circuit can explain the phenotypic heterogeneity of fat-cell differentiation. 16:45 - 17:10 Francis Lin (Manitoba), Studying Directed Cell Migration Using Microfluidic Devices and Quantitative Modelling Numerical Analysis and Engineering Mathematics Org: A. Bass Bagayogo (Université de Saint-Boniface) Saturday June 7  (Meeting Room 9, Convention Centre) 10:30 - 10:55 Sherif S. Sherif (Manitoba), Super-resolution in Optical Imaging Sunday June 8  (Meeting Room 9, Convention Centre) 14:00 - 14:25 Zahra Moussavi (Manitoba) Monday June 9  (Meeting Room 9, Convention Centre) 9:00 - 9:25 Vladimir Okhmatovski (Manitoba), A Well-Conditioned Non-Iterative Approach to Solution of the Inverse Problem Preserver problems Org: Chi-Kwong Li (College of William and Mary), Shaun Lui (Manitoba) and Yiu-Tung Poon (Iowa State University) Saturday June 7  (Victoria) 10:00 - 10:25 Peter Semrl (University of Ljubljana), Invertibility preservers 10:30 - 10:55 Lajos Molnar (University of Debrecen), Transformations on density operators preserving quantum relative entropy or related quantities 11:00 - 11:25 Edward Poon (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University), Preserving entangled states 14:00 - 14:25 Nathaniel Johnston (Waterloo), Preservers of Unextendible Product Bases and the Local Distinguishability of Quantum States 14:30 - 14:55 Antonia Duffner (University of Lisbon), Preservers and converters of immanant functions 16:15 - 16:40 Mohamed Bendaoud (Moulay Ismail University), Local spectra-preserving nonlinear transformations on operators 16:45 - 17:10 Marko Orel (University of Primorska), Preserver Problems and Graph Theory 17:15 - 17:40 Yiu-Tung Poon (Iowa State University), Pseudospectra of special operators and Pseudosectrum preservers Sunday June 8  (Victoria) 8:00 - 8:25 Chi-Kwong Li (College of William and Mary), Preservers on tensor product of matrices and vectors 8:30 - 8:55 Ming Cheng Tsai (University of Sun Yat-Sen), Preserver problems on convex combinations of positive elements Symplectic geometry and equivariant topology Org: Thomas Baird (Memorial) and Derek Krepski (Manitoba) Saturday June 7  (Meeting Room 10, Convention Centre) 10:00 - 10:25 Jonathan Fisher (Toronto), Quivers and Higgs bundles 10:30 - 10:55 Peter Crooks (Toronto), The Torus-Equivariant Cohomology of Nilpotent Orbits in Semisimple Lie Algebras 11:00 - 11:25 Lisa Jeffrey (Toronto), Intersection cohomology of universal imploded cross-section 14:00 - 14:25 Matthias Franz (Western), Big polygon spaces produce maximal syzygies in equivariant cohomology 14:30 - 14:55 Soumen Sarkar (Regina), Complex cobordism of quasitoric orbifolds 16:15 - 16:40 Dan Ramras (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis), Moduli spaces of representations 16:45 - 17:10 Maxime Bergeron (University of British Columbia), Kempf-Ness Theory and Character Varieties 17:15 - 17:40 Eric Harper (McMaster), SU(N) Casson-Lin invariants for links in $S^3$ Sunday June 8  (Meeting Room 10, Convention Centre) 9:00 - 9:25 Sean Fitzpatrick (Western University), Higher rank Boothby-Wang fibrations 9:30 - 9:55 Jordan Watts (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Coarse Moduli Spaces of Stacks over Manifolds 14:00 - 14:25 Marco Gualtieri (Toronto), Log affine manifolds and symplectic geometry 14:30 - 14:55 Brent Pym (Oxford University), Categorified isomonodromic deformations via Lie groupoids 16:15 - 16:40 Ruxandra Moraru (Waterloo), Generalized holomorphic bundles, Part I 16:45 - 17:10 Shengda Hu (Laurier), Generalized holomorphic bundles, Part II 17:15 - 17:40 Yanli Song (Toronto), The Cubic Dirac Operator and Geometric Quantization Topics in Approximation Theory Org: Kirill Kopotun and Andriy Prymak (Manitoba) Saturday June 7  (Albert) 10:00 - 10:25 Zeev Ditzian (Alberta), Measure of smoothness on the unit ball 10:30 - 10:55 Alexei Shadrin (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom), Stable reconstruction from Fourier samples 11:00 - 11:25 Andriy Bondarenko (National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine), On Borsuk's conjecture 14:00 - 14:25 Oleksandr Maizlish (Manitoba), Adaptive Triangulations 14:30 - 14:55 Oleksiy Klurman (Montreal), Weighted Bernstein and Markov-Nikolskii type inequalities for monotone polynomials of order k 16:15 - 16:40 German Dzyubenko (Institute of Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine), Nearly comonotone approximation of periodic functions 16:45 - 17:10 Igor Shevchuk (National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine), On the approximation with Jacobi weights 17:15 - 17:40 Oxana Motorna (National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine), On the approximation with Jacobi weights