2014 CMS Winter Meeting

McMaster University, December 5 - 8, 2014

Schedules        

Schedule - Plenary, Prize and Public Lectures

 
Friday December 5
17:00 - 18:00 Jeffrey Rosenthal (Toronto), Public Lecture, From Coins to Polls to Monte Carlo, Ballroom Centre/East
 
Saturday December 6
9:00 - 10:00 Isaac Goldbring (UIC), Plenary Speaker, Monad measure spaces and combinatorial number theory, Ballroom Centre/East

10:30 - 11:30 Frédéric Gourdeau (Laval), Adrien Pouliot Award and Lecture, Mathematics, education and society: a fascinating journey, Ballroom Centre/East

11:30 - 12:30 Kenneth R. Davidson (Waterloo), David Borwein Distinguished Career Award and Lecture, Noncommutative dilation theory, Ballroom Centre/East
 
Sunday December 7
8:00 - 9:00 Robert Beiko (Dalhousie), Plenary Speaker, When Phylogenetic Trees Can’t Agree: Building a coherent network of microbial gene sharing, Ballroom Centre/East

10:30 - 11:30 Miroslav Lovric (McMaster), Plenary Speaker, What Everyone is Talking About: Math for the 21st Century, Ballroom Centre/East

11:30 - 12:30 Askold Khovanskii (Toronto), Jeffery-Williams Prize and Lecture, Algebraic geometry, Newton polyhedra and Newton--Okounkov bodies, Ballroom Centre/East
 
Monday December 8
8:00 - 9:00 Laure Saint-Raymond (École normale supérieure), Plenary Speaker, From molecular dynamics to kinetic theory and hydrodynamics, Ballroom Centre/East

10:30 - 11:30 Jacques Vanneste (University of Edinburgh), Plenary Speaker, The atmosphere and ocean as two-time-scale systems, Ballroom Centre/East

11:30 - 12:30 Xiangwen Zhang (McGill), Doctoral Prize and Lecture, Alexandrov's Uniqueness theorems, Ballroom Centre/East

Sponsors

McMaster University Centre de recherches mathématiques AARMS: Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences Fields Institute Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Tourism Hamilton

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