2014 CMS Winter Meeting

McMaster University, December 5 - 8, 2014

# Schedule - by day

Detailed session schedules will be posted on the web site beginning in late October. Once the schedules are made available to us by the organizers, we will post them as quickly as possible. Please note that schedules are subject to change without notice. All scientific sessions will be held at the Sheraton Hamilton.

 Thursday December 4 18:00 - 22:00 CMS Executive Committee, Hunter Room Friday December 5 11:00 - 13:00 CMS Development Group Luncheon, Ballroom South/West 13:00 - 17:30 CMS Board of Directors Meeting, Ballroom South/West 16:00 - 19:30 Registration, Ballroom Foyer 17:00 - 18:00 Jeffrey Rosenthal (Toronto), Public Lecture, Ballroom East 18:00 - 19:30 Welcome Reception, Ballroom Foyer Saturday December 6 8:00 - 16:00 Registration, Ballroom Foyer 8:00 - 16:00 Student Poster Session, Ballroom Foyer 8:45 - 9:00 Opening Address, Ballroom East 9:00 - 11:30 CMS Publications Committee, Hunter Room 9:00 - 10:00 Isaac Goldbring (UIC), Plenary Speaker, Monad measure spaces and combinatorial number theory, Ballroom East 9:30 - 16:00 Exhibits, Ballroom Foyer 10:00 - 10:30 Break, Ballroom Foyer 10:30 - 11:30 Frédéric Gourdeau (Laval), Adrien Pouliot Award and Lecture, Ballroom East 11:30 - 12:30 Kenneth R. Davidson (Waterloo), David Borwein Distinguished Career Award and Lecture, Noncommutative dilation theory, Ballroom East 12:00 - 16:00 CMS Student Committee, Duke Room 12:30 - 14:00 CMS Town Hall Meeting, Ballroom East 14:00 - 14:30 Askold Khovanskii (Toronto), Toric and Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry 14:00 - 14:30 Dmitry Korotkin (Concordia), Integrable Systems: Recent Developments 14:00 - 14:30 Marcelo Laca (Victoria), Operator Algebras and Operator Theory 14:00 - 14:30 Chun-Kit Lai (San Francisco State University), Frames, Fractals, Tiling, and Wavelets, in Connection with the Fuglede's Conjecture, Fuglede's and generalized Fuglede's conjecture on ${\mathbb R}^1$ 14:00 - 14:30 Robert McCann (Toronto), Non-Linear PDE of Mathematical Physics, The spectrum for a family of fourth order diffusions near the self-similar attractor 14:00 - 14:30 Juan Migliore (Notre Dame), Commutative Algebra: Interactions with Algebraic Combinatorics, Algebraic Geometry, and Representation Theory, Secant varieties to the varieties of reducible hypersurfaces 14:00 - 15:00 Rahim Moosa (Waterloo), Model Theory 14:30 - 15:00 Raphael Clouatre (Waterloo), Operator Algebras and Operator Theory 14:30 - 15:00 Dorin Dutkay (University of Central Florida), Frames, Fractals, Tiling, and Wavelets, in Connection with the Fuglede's Conjecture, Tiling and scaling properties of spectra of fractals 14:30 - 15:00 Kiumars Kaveh (University of Pittsburgh), Toric and Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry 14:30 - 15:00 Yong Su Shin (Sungshin Women's University), Commutative Algebra: Interactions with Algebraic Combinatorics, Algebraic Geometry, and Representation Theory, The Minimal Free Graded Resolution of A Star-Configuration in $\mathbb P^n$ 14:30 - 15:00 Vasilisa Shramchenko (Sherbrooke), Integrable Systems: Recent Developments, Poncelet theorem and Painlevé VI 14:30 - 15:00 Vitali Vougalter (University of Cape Town), Non-Linear PDE of Mathematical Physics, Existence of stationary solutions for some nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations 15:00 - 15:30 Break, Ballroom Foyer 15:30 - 16:00 George Elliott (Toronto), Operator Algebras and Operator Theory 15:30 - 16:00 Tai Ha (Tulane), Commutative Algebra: Interactions with Algebraic Combinatorics, Algebraic Geometry, and Representation Theory, Algebraic invariants of fiber products 15:30 - 16:00 Kathryn Hare (Waterloo), Frames, Fractals, Tiling, and Wavelets, in Connection with the Fuglede's Conjecture, Hausdorff and packing measures of balanced Cantor sets 15:30 - 16:00 Robert L Jerrard (Toronto), Non-Linear PDE of Mathematical Physics 15:30 - 16:00 Kalle Karu (UBC), Toric and Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry, Non-finitely generated Cox rings 15:30 - 16:00 Ronnie Nagloo (City University of New York), Model Theory 15:30 - 16:00 Thomas Wolf (Brock), Integrable Systems: Recent Developments 16:00 - 16:30 Dave Anderson (IMPA), Toric and Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry 16:00 - 16:30 Jennifer Biermann (Mt. Holyoke), Commutative Algebra: Interactions with Algebraic Combinatorics, Algebraic Geometry, and Representation Theory 16:00 - 16:30 Marina Chugnova (Claremont Graduate University), Non-Linear PDE of Mathematical Physics 16:00 - 16:30 James Freitag (California, Berkeley), Model Theory 16:00 - 16:30 Adam Fuller (Nebraska), Operator Algebras and Operator Theory 16:00 - 16:30 Franklin Mendivil (Acadia), Frames, Fractals, Tiling, and Wavelets, in Connection with the Fuglede's Conjecture 16:00 - 16:30 Alexander Odesski (Brock), Integrable Systems: Recent Developments, Non-homogeneous systems of hydrodynamic type possessing Lax representations 16:30 - 17:00 Enrico Carlini (Monash), Commutative Algebra: Interactions with Algebraic Combinatorics, Algebraic Geometry, and Representation Theory 16:30 - 17:00 Eva Curry (Acadia), Frames, Fractals, Tiling, and Wavelets, in Connection with the Fuglede's Conjecture 16:30 - 17:00 Charles Doran (Alberta), Toric and Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry 16:30 - 17:00 Bernardo Galvao-Sousa (Toronto), Non-Linear PDE of Mathematical Physics, Accelerating Fronts in Semilinear Wave Equations 16:30 - 17:00 Jana Marikova (Western Illinois), Model Theory 16:30 - 17:00 Danilo Riglioni (Montréal), Integrable Systems: Recent Developments 16:30 - 17:00 Yanli Song (Toronto), Operator Algebras and Operator Theory 17:00 - 17:30 Martin Argerami (Regina), Operator Algebras and Operator Theory 17:00 - 17:30 Mats Boij (KTH), Commutative Algebra: Interactions with Algebraic Combinatorics, Algebraic Geometry, and Representation Theory, Cones of Hilbert Functions 17:00 - 17:30 Andres Contreras (Fields), Non-Linear PDE of Mathematical Physics 17:00 - 17:30 Palle Jorgensen (University of Iowa), Frames, Fractals, Tiling, and Wavelets, in Connection with the Fuglede's Conjecture, Representation theoretic questions connected to the spectral/tile question. 17:00 - 17:30 Masoumeh Sajedi (Montréal), Integrable Systems: Recent Developments 17:00 - 17:30 Hugh Thomas (UNB), Toric and Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry 17:00 - 18:00 Maryanthe Malliaris (Chicago), Model Theory 17:30 - 18:00 Xiangke Chang (Saskatchewan), Integrable Systems: Recent Developments 17:30 - 18:00 Kael Dixon (McGill), Toric and Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry 17:30 - 18:00 Qi Gao (National Taiwan University), Non-Linear PDE of Mathematical Physics, Symmetric vortices of two-component Ginzburg-Landau system 17:30 - 18:00 Sarah Mayes (Quest), Commutative Algebra: Interactions with Algebraic Combinatorics, Algebraic Geometry, and Representation Theory 17:30 - 18:00 Steen Pedersen (Wright State University), Frames, Fractals, Tiling, and Wavelets, in Connection with the Fuglede's Conjecture 20:30 - 23:00 Student Social, TBD Sunday December 7 8:00 - 16:00 Registration, Ballroom Foyer 8:00 - 16:00 Student Poster Session, Ballroom Foyer 8:00 - 9:00 Robert Beiko (Dalhousie), Plenary Speaker, When Phylogenetic Trees Can’t Agree: Building a coherent network of microbial gene sharing, Ballroom East 9:00 - 9:30 Dustin Cartwright (Yale), Toric and Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry 9:00 - 9:30 Brian Harbourne (Nebraska), Commutative Algebra: Interactions with Algebraic Combinatorics, Algebraic Geometry, and Representation Theory 9:00 - 9:30 Mihalis Kolountzakis (University of Crete), Frames, Fractals, Tiling, and Wavelets, in Connection with the Fuglede's Conjecture 9:00 - 9:30 Laurent Marcoux (Waterloo), Operator Algebras and Operator Theory 9:00 - 9:30 Bruno Remillard (HEC Montreal), Financial Mathematics 9:00 - 9:30 Athipat Thamrongthanyalak (Ohio State), Model Theory 9:00 - 10:00 Sujatha Ramdorai (UBC), Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry 9:00 - 10:00 Yuri Wolf (National Center for Biotechnology Information, Maryland), Origin and Evolution of Bacterial Genomes, Turbulent genomes: quantification of gene acquisition, loss and displacement in prokaryotes 9:30 - 16:00 Exhibits, Ballroom Foyer 9:30 - 10:00 Alex Badescu (University du Quebec a Montreal), Financial Mathematics 9:30 - 10:00 Elena Guardo (Catania), Commutative Algebra: Interactions with Algebraic Combinatorics, Algebraic Geometry, and Representation Theory 9:30 - 10:00 Alex Iosevich (Rochester University), Frames, Fractals, Tiling, and Wavelets, in Connection with the Fuglede's Conjecture 9:30 - 10:00 Sanjay Patel (McMaster), Model Theory 9:30 - 10:00 Farbod Shokrieh (Cornell), Toric and Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry, Faithful Tropicalization of Abelian Varieties 9:30 - 10:00 Qingyun Wang (Toronto), Operator Algebras and Operator Theory 10:00 - 10:30 Break, Ballroom Foyer 10:30 - 11:30 Miroslav Lovric (McMaster), Plenary Speaker, What Everyone is Talking About: Math for the 21st Century, Ballroom East 11:30 - 12:30 Askold Khovanskii (Toronto), Jeffery-Williams Prize and Lecture, Ballroom East 14:00 - 14:30 Susan Cooper (North Dakota), Commutative Algebra: Interactions with Algebraic Combinatorics, Algebraic Geometry, and Representation Theory 14:00 - 14:30 Graham Denham (Western), Toric and Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry 14:00 - 14:30 Kyle Hambrook (UBC), Frames, Fractals, Tiling, and Wavelets, in Connection with the Fuglede's Conjecture 14:00 - 14:30 Cody Hyndman (Concordia), Financial Mathematics 14:00 - 14:30 Israel Sigal (Toronto), Non-Linear PDE of Mathematical Physics 14:00 - 14:30 Matt Wiersma (Waterloo), Operator Algebras and Operator Theory, C*-norms for tensor products of discrete group C*-algebras 14:00 - 15:00 Tal Dagan (University of Kiel), Origin and Evolution of Bacterial Genomes 14:00 - 15:00 Philipp Hieronymi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Model Theory, Expansions of the ordered additive group of real numbers by two discrete subgroups 14:00 - 15:00 Al Weiss (Alberta), Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry 14:30 - 15:00 Alexei Cheviakov (Saskatchewan), Non-Linear PDE of Mathematical Physics 14:30 - 15:00 Christopher Manon (George Mason University), Toric and Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry 14:30 - 15:00 Paolo Mantero (UC Riverside), Commutative Algebra: Interactions with Algebraic Combinatorics, Algebraic Geometry, and Representation Theory 14:30 - 15:00 Chris Ramsey (Virginia), Operator Algebras and Operator Theory 14:30 - 15:00 Anatoliy Swishchuk (Calgary), Financial Mathematics, Volatility Derivatives: History, Ideas and Developments 14:30 - 15:00 Baris Ugurcan (Western), Frames, Fractals, Tiling, and Wavelets, in Connection with the Fuglede's Conjecture 15:00 - 15:30 Break, Ballroom Foyer 15:30 - 16:00 Daniel Brown (Waterloo), Origin and Evolution of Bacterial Genomes, Fast algorithms for phylogenetic reconstruction of aligned sequeneces 15:30 - 16:00 Luca Chiantini (Siena), Commutative Algebra: Interactions with Algebraic Combinatorics, Algebraic Geometry, and Representation Theory, On the representation of general forms 15:30 - 16:00 Trubee Davison (University of Colorado), Frames, Fractals, Tiling, and Wavelets, in Connection with the Fuglede's Conjecture 15:30 - 16:00 Doug Farenick (Regina), Operator Algebras and Operator Theory 15:30 - 16:00 Lisa Jeffrey (Toronto), Toric and Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry 15:30 - 16:00 Alexey Kuznetsov (York), Financial Mathematics, Examples of maturity randomization in Levy-driven models 15:30 - 16:00 Men Fai Lim (Toronto), Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry 15:30 - 16:00 Dmitry Pelinovsky (McMaster), Non-Linear PDE of Mathematical Physics, Orbital stability of periodic waves and black solitons in the cubic defocusing NLS equation 15:30 - 16:00 Alex Rennet (Toronto), Model Theory 16:00 - 16:30 Gino Biondini (University of Buffalo), Non-Linear PDE of Mathematical Physics 16:00 - 16:30 Weilong Hao (Wayne State University), Origin and Evolution of Bacterial Genomes, Estimating evolutionary rates of discrete characters, and its application on genome evolution 16:00 - 16:30 Yael Karshon (Toronto), Toric and Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry 16:00 - 16:30 Matthew Luther (McMaster), Model Theory 16:00 - 16:30 Adam Metzler (Wilfired Laurier), Financial Mathematics 16:00 - 16:30 Alessandro Oneto (Stockholm), Commutative Algebra: Interactions with Algebraic Combinatorics, Algebraic Geometry, and Representation Theory 16:00 - 16:30 Paul Skoufranis (Texas A&M University), Operator Algebras and Operator Theory, Free Probability for Pairs of Faces 16:00 - 16:30 Eric Weber (Iowa State University), Frames, Fractals, Tiling, and Wavelets, in Connection with the Fuglede's Conjecture, Fourier Frames for the Cantor-4 Set 16:00 - 17:00 Antonio Lei (Laval), Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry 16:30 - 17:00 Yuri Cher (Toronto), Non-Linear PDE of Mathematical Physics 16:30 - 17:00 Chris Eagle (Toronto), Model Theory 16:30 - 17:00 Matthias Franz (Western), Toric and Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry 16:30 - 17:00 Radhey Gupta (McMaster), Origin and Evolution of Bacterial Genomes 16:30 - 17:00 David Saunders (Waterloo), Financial Mathematics 16:30 - 17:00 Keith Taylor (Dalhousie), Frames, Fractals, Tiling, and Wavelets, in Connection with the Fuglede's Conjecture 16:30 - 17:00 Zach Teitler (Boise State), Commutative Algebra: Interactions with Algebraic Combinatorics, Algebraic Geometry, and Representation Theory, Lower bound for ranks of invariant forms 16:30 - 17:00 Dilian Yang (Windsor), Operator Algebras and Operator Theory 17:00 - 17:30 Hiro Abo (Idaho), Commutative Algebra: Interactions with Algebraic Combinatorics, Algebraic Geometry, and Representation Theory 17:00 - 17:30 Stefanella Boatto (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Non-Linear PDE of Mathematical Physics 17:00 - 17:30 Joe Campolieti (Wilfired Laurier), Financial Mathematics 17:00 - 17:30 Eric Collins (University of Alaska), Origin and Evolution of Bacterial Genomes 17:00 - 17:30 Adam Dor-On (Waterloo), Operator Algebras and Operator Theory, C*-envelopes of tensor algebras arising from Markov chains 17:00 - 17:30 Deguang Han (University of Central Florida), Frames, Fractals, Tiling, and Wavelets, in Connection with the Fuglede's Conjecture, Frames, dilations and related problems 17:00 - 17:30 Caroline Junkins (Western), Toric and Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry 17:00 - 17:30 Ernst Kani (Queen's), Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry 17:00 - 18:00 Bradd Hart (McMaster), Model Theory 17:30 - 18:00 Walter Craig (McMaster), Non-Linear PDE of Mathematical Physics 17:30 - 18:00 Paul Higgs (McMaster), Origin and Evolution of Bacterial Genomes, Phylogenetic models of bacterial genome evolution incorporating gene insertion and deletion and horizontal gene transfer 17:30 - 18:00 Joel Lemay (Ottawa), Toric and Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry 17:30 - 18:00 Jamie Mingo (Queen's), Operator Algebras and Operator Theory 17:30 - 18:00 Jonathan Sands (University of Vermont), Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry 17:30 - 18:00 Tomas Szemberg (Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny), Commutative Algebra: Interactions with Algebraic Combinatorics, Algebraic Geometry, and Representation Theory 17:30 - 18:00 József Vass (Waterloo), Frames, Fractals, Tiling, and Wavelets, in Connection with the Fuglede's Conjecture, On the Exact Convex Hull of IFS Fractals 19:00 - 19:30 Banquet Reception, Art Gallery of Hamilton 19:30 - 22:00 Banquet, Art Gallery of Hamilton Monday December 8 8:00 - 15:30 Registration, Ballroom Foyer 8:00 - 9:00 Laure St. Raymond (École normale supérieure), Plenary Speaker, Ballroom East 9:00 - 9:30 Moshe Adrian (Toronto), Automorphic Forms and Representation Theory, The Local Converse Problem for GL(n,F) 9:00 - 9:30 Ilijas Farah (York), Operator Algebras and Operator Theory 9:00 - 9:30 Sara Faridi (Dalhousie), Commutative Algebra: Interactions with Algebraic Combinatorics, Algebraic Geometry, and Representation Theory 9:00 - 9:30 Patrice Gaillardetz (Concordia), Financial Mathematics 9:00 - 10:00 Romyar Sharifi (Arizona), Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry 9:30 - 10:00 Matt Davison (Western), Financial Mathematics, Modeling Energy Spreads with a Novel Mean-reverting Stochastic Process 9:30 - 10:00 Nursel Erey (Dalhousie), Commutative Algebra: Interactions with Algebraic Combinatorics, Algebraic Geometry, and Representation Theory 9:30 - 10:00 Monica Nevins (Ottawa), Automorphic Forms and Representation Theory, Branching to the derived group of length-one toral supercuspidal representations 9:30 - 10:00 Zhuang Niu (Wyoming), Operator Algebras and Operator Theory 10:00 - 10:30 Break, Ballroom Foyer 10:30 - 11:30 Jacques Vanneste (University of Edinburgh), Plenary Speaker, The atmosphere and ocean as two-time-scale systems, Ballroom East 11:30 - 12:30 Xiangwen Zhang (McGill), Doctoral Prize and Lecture, Alexandrov's Uniqueness theorems, Ballroom East 14:00 - 14:30 Almut Burchard (Toronto), Non-Linear PDE of Mathematical Physics 14:00 - 14:30 Matthew Kennedy (Carleton), Operator Algebras and Operator Theory 14:00 - 14:30 Hyejin Ku (York), Financial Mathematics 14:00 - 14:30 Greg Smith (Queen's), Commutative Algebra: Interactions with Algebraic Combinatorics, Algebraic Geometry, and Representation Theory 14:00 - 15:00 Clifton Cunningham (Calgary), Automorphic Forms and Representation Theory 14:00 - 15:00 Kumar Murty (Toronto), Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry 14:30 - 15:00 Kristina Sendova (Western), Financial Mathematics 14:30 - 15:00 Ihsan Topaloglu (McMaster), Non-Linear PDE of Mathematical Physics, Nonlocal attractive-repulsive interaction energies of binary densities 14:30 - 15:00 Maria-Grazia Viola (Lakehead), Operator Algebras and Operator Theory 14:30 - 15:00 David Wehlau (RMC and Queen's), Commutative Algebra: Interactions with Algebraic Combinatorics, Algebraic Geometry, and Representation Theory 15:00 - 15:30 Break, Ballroom Foyer 15:30 - 16:00 Dmitry Golovaty (University of Akron), Non-Linear PDE of Mathematical Physics 15:30 - 16:00 Martino Lupini (York), Operator Algebras and Operator Theory 15:30 - 16:00 Roman Makarov (Wilfired Laurier), Financial Mathematics 15:30 - 16:00 Paul Mezo (Carleton), Automorphic Forms and Representation Theory 15:30 - 16:00 Soroosh Yazdani (Google), Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry 16:00 - 16:30 Dylan Attwell-Duval (McGill), Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry, Counting cusps for orthogonal Shimura varieties 16:00 - 16:30 Tiziana Giorgi (New Mexico State University), Non-Linear PDE of Mathematical Physics, Field-induced smectic phases in liquid crystals 16:00 - 16:30 Michael Hartz (Waterloo), Operator Algebras and Operator Theory 16:00 - 16:30 Rogemar S Mamon (Western), Financial Mathematics 16:00 - 16:30 Geo Kam-Fai Tam (McMaster), Automorphic Forms and Representation Theory 16:30 - 17:00 Mary Pugh (Toronto), Non-Linear PDE of Mathematical Physics, Special Solutions in Smectic Electroconvection 16:30 - 17:00 Mark Ressor (Western), Financial Mathematics 16:30 - 17:00 Vladimir Troitsky (Alberta), Operator Algebras and Operator Theory 16:30 - 17:30 Hugo Chapdelaine (Laval), Automorphic Forms and Representation Theory 16:30 - 17:30 John Voigt (Dartmouth), Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry 17:00 - 17:30 Sebastian Jaimungal (Toronto), Financial Mathematics, A Mean-Field Gama Approach To Optimal Execution 17:00 - 17:30 Xavier Lamy (McMaster and University of Lyon), Non-Linear PDE of Mathematical Physics, Uniaxial symmetry and `biaxial escape' in nematic liquid crystals