Réunion d'hiver SMC 2012

Fairmont Le Reine Elizabeth (Montréal), 7 - 10 décembre 2012

# Sessions scientifiques

À l'invitation du comité de coordination, des sessions sont prévues dans les domaines ci-dessous. La liste de conférenciers est préliminaire, et l'on demande à toute personne intéressée à présenter une communication dans l'une des sessions de contacter l'un des organisateurs de la session en question.

 Mécanique céleste Org: Florin Diacu (Victoria), Manuele Santoprete (Wilfrid Laurier) et Cristina Stoica (Wilfrid Laurier) samedi 8 décembre  (Hochelaga 5) 10:30 - 10:55 Lennard Bakker (Brigham Young), The Rhomboidal Symmetric-Mass Four-Body Problem. 11:00 - 11:25 Cristina Stoica (Wilfrid Laurier), Relative equilibria in symmetric $(2N+1)$-body problems 14:00 - 14:25 Daniel Offin (Queen's University), Dynamics, stability and symmetric minimization 15:00 - 15:25 Abdalla Mansur (Queen's University), The Maslov index and Stability of Periodic Solutions 15:30 - 15:55 Juan Luis Garcia Guirao (Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena), Periodic orbits and $\mathcal{C}^1$-integrability in the planar Stark-Zeeman problem 16:15 - 16:40 Manuele Santoprete (Wilfrid Laurier), Relative equilibria in the four-vortex problem with two pairs of equal vorticities 16:45 - 17:10 Gareth Roberts (College of the Holy Cross), Stability of Relative Equilibria in the N-Vortex Problem 17:15 - 17:40 Jeffrey Lawson (Western Carolina), Saari's Conjecture on simple mechanical systems with symmetry dimanche 9 décembre  (Hochelaga 5) 14:30 - 14:55 Toshiaki Fujiwara (Kitasato), Saari's homographic conjecture for the planar equal-mass three-body problem under the Newton potential and a strong force potent 15:30 - 15:55 Florin Diacu (Victoria), Rotopulsators of the curved N-body problem 16:15 - 16:40 J. Guadalupe Reyes Victoria (UAM) Dynamique écologique soumise à des variations temporelles Org: Frithjof Lutscher (Ottawa) et Rebecca C. Tyson (British Columbia) dimanche 9 décembre  (Péribonka) 14:00 - 14:25 Qihua Huang (Alberta), Mathematical Risk Assessment of Contaminants on Fish Population Dynamics 14:30 - 14:55 Huaiping Zhu (York), Modeling of Mosquito Abundance and West Nile Virus Risk Using Weather and Environment Conditions 15:00 - 15:25 Xiaoqiang Zhao (Memorial), A Reaction-Diffusion Lyme Disease Model with Seasonality 15:30 - 15:55 Frithjof Lutscher (Ottawa), Modeling seasonal behavior change and disease transmission in wildlife 16:15 - 16:40 Matt Calder (Western), Net Reproductive Number for a Matrix Population Model with Dispersion and an Application to Neogobius Melanostomus 16:45 - 17:10 Frédéric Guichard (McGill), Marine reserve networks for non-equilibrium metacommunities lundi 10 décembre  (Péribonka) 8:00 - 8:25 Rebecca Tyson (UBC Okanagan), How seasonality, behavior and climate affect predator-prey cycles 8:30 - 8:55 Gunog Seo (Ryerson), Effect of Temporal Variability on Persistence Conditions in Rivers 14:00 - 14:25 Hermann Eberl (Guelph), The role of spatial effects for temporally varying biofilm control strategies 14:30 - 14:55 James Watmough (UNB), Modelling the spread of aquatic invasives in tidal currents with both drift and maturation delay. Épidémiologie - Génomique Org: Erica Moodie et David Stephens (McGill) dimanche 9 décembre  (Kamouraska) 14:00 - 14:30 Daniel Zenklusen (Montréal), Imaging Single Transcripts Resolves Kinetics of Gene Expression Processes 14:30 - 15:00 Michael Mackey (McGill), Molecular distributions in gene regulatory networks 15:00 - 15:30 Theodore Perkins (Ottawa Health Research Institute), What Do Molecules Do When We're Not Looking? State Sequence Analysis for Stochastic Chemical Systems 15:30 - 16:00 Marc Roussel (Lethbridge), Stochastic effects in gene transcription 16:15 - 16:45 Andrew Rutenberg (Dalhousie), Stochastic Models of Plastic Development in Cyanobacterial Filaments 16:45 - 17:15 Brian Ingalls (Waterloo), Sensitivity Trade-offs in Systems Biology 17:15 - 17:45 David McMillen (Toronto), Design methods and constraints for biological integral control lundi 10 décembre  (Kamouraska) 14:00 - 14:30 Janet Raboud (Toronto; Dalla Lana School of Public Health), Left truncation in the context of competing risks 14:30 - 15:00 Yongling Xiao (INESSS), Flexible marginal structural models for estimating cumulative effect of time-varying treatment on the hazard 15:00 - 15:30 Jessica Young (Harvard School of Public Health), Simulation from a known Cox MSM using standard parametric models for the g-formula 15:30 - 16:00 Mark van der Laan (UC-Berkeley), Statistical Methods for Causal Inference In HIV Research 16:15 - 16:45 Raphael Fonteneau (Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France), Batch Mode Reinforcement Learning based on the Synthesis of Artificial Trajectories 16:45 - 17:15 James Dai (Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention), Adherence, ARV drug concentration and estimation of PrEP efficacy for HIV prevention 17:15 - 17:45 Katia Charland (McGill), An application of gravity models to identify factors related to community pandemic influenza A/H1N1 vaccine coverage Épidémiologie - Maladies infectueuses Org: Julien Arino (Manitoba) et Robert Smith? (Ottawa) parrainé par la Société canadienne de mathématiques appliquées et industrielles (SCMAI) samedi 8 décembre  (Chambly) 10:30 - 10:55 Julien Arino (Manitoba), On the direction of bifurcations in metapopulations 11:00 - 11:25 Robert Smith? (Ottawa), Controlling Malaria with Indoor Residual Spraying in Spatially Heterogeneous Environments 14:00 - 14:25 Lydia Bourouiba (MIT), Contact and transmission 14:30 - 14:55 Cameron Browne (South Florida), Within-host virus model with age-structure in the infected cell compartment 15:00 - 15:25 Jane Heffernan (York), Vaccination programs against sexually transmitted diseases 15:30 - 15:55 Shannon Collinson (York), Mass media effects on influenza infection 16:15 - 16:40 Nathan McClure (Queen's), Slowing evolution is a more effective means of managing antimicrobial resistance than enhancing drug development 16:45 - 17:10 Elsa Hansen (Harvard), The mathematics of in vitro culture for Plasmodium 17:15 - 17:40 Huaiping Zhu (York), Bifurcations and Complex Dynamics of an SIR Model with the Impact of Hospital Resources dimanche 9 décembre  (Chambly) 8:00 - 8:25 Carley Rogers (Ottawa), Improving HPV vaccination programs across Canada 8:30 - 8:55 Robert Smith? (Ottawa), A mathematical model of Bieber Fever: the most infectious disease of our time? Recherche opérationnelle Org: Bernard Gendron (Montréal) lundi 10 décembre  (Gatineau) 8:00 - 8:25 Géraldine Gemieux (CIRRELT; Montréal), A Column Generation Approach for Demand-Driven Harvest Scheduling 8:30 - 8:55 Gregory Rix (CIRRELT; École Polytechnique de Montréal), A Tactical Transportation-Driven Harvest Planning Problem 14:00 - 14:25 Joel Neuheimer (Forest Products Association of Canada), Canadian Forest Products Industry’s Transportation Challenges Moving Forward 14:30 - 14:55 Dave Lepage (FPInnovations), Challenges and opportunities in forest transportation 15:00 - 15:25 Reino Pulkki (Lakehead), Modeling forest products supply chain by integrating enhanced forest inventories and merchandizing yard operations 15:30 - 15:55 Sanjay Dominik Jena (CIRRELT; Montréal), Modeling and Solving Location Problems for the Forestry Industry 16:15 - 16:40 Pega Sohrabi (Dalhousie), Using Campaigns to Control and Plan Sawmill Production 16:45 - 17:10 Sina Saadatyar (Dalhousie), Sawmill Campaign Generator as a Basis for Planning and Control 17:15 - 17:40 Amira Dems (CIRRELT; École Polytechnique de Montréal), SOLVING AN INTEGRATED MULTI-PERIOD WOOD PROCUREMENT PROBLEM. Probabilités et Biologie Org: Lea Popovic (Concordia) dimanche 9 décembre  (Richelieu) 14:00 - 14:25 Ed Perkins (UBC), Phase Transition for Measure-valued SIR Epidemic Processes 14:30 - 14:55 Xiaowen Zhou (Concordia), Support properties of a class of Lambda-Fleming-Viot processes with underlying Brownian motion 15:00 - 15:25 Iddo Ben-Ari (Connecticut), Diffusion with Redistribution 15:30 - 15:55 Don Dawson (Carleton), Multitype mutation-selection-migration dynamics and a set-valued dual lundi 10 décembre  (Richelieu) 8:15 - 8:55 Rick Durrett (Duke), A branching process model of ovarian cancer 14:00 - 14:25 Scott McKinley (Florida-Gainesville), Sensing and Decision-Making in Random Search 14:30 - 14:55 Daniel Valesin (UBC), Extinction time of the contact process on finite trees 15:00 - 15:25 Raoul Normand (Toronto), A model of migration under constraint 15:30 - 15:55 Jonthan Mattingly (Duke), A Numerical Method for the SDEs from Chemical Equations
 Combinatoire algébrique Org: Christophe Hohlweg et Franco Saliola (UQAM) samedi 8 décembre  (Gatineau) 10:30 - 11:20 Hugh Thomas (UNB-Fredericton), Lexicographically first subwords in Coxeter groups and quiver representations 14:00 - 14:35 Nantel Bergeron (York), Hopf monoid for supercharacter and NCSym 14:40 - 15:15 Stephanie van Willigenburg (UBC), Maximal supports and Schur-positivity among connected skew shapes 15:20 - 15:55 Chris Berg (UQAM), Strong Schur functions and down operators for the affine nilCoxeter algebra. 16:15 - 16:50 Mike Zabrocki (York), Another Schur-like basis in the algebra of Non-Commutative Symmetric Functions 17:00 - 17:35 Ed Richmond (UBC), Coxeter groups, palindromic Poincar\'{e} polynomials and triangle group avoidance. dimanche 9 décembre  (Gatineau) 14:00 - 14:35 Christophe Reutenauer (UQAM), Constructing bases of finite index subgroups of free groups using Sturmian sequences 14:40 - 15:15 Drew Armstrong (Miami), Rational Catalan Combinatorics 15:20 - 15:55 Vivien Ripoll (UQAM), Limit points of root systems of infinite Coxeter groups 16:15 - 16:50 Carolina Benedetti (York), Schubert polynomials and $k$-Schur functions Théorie algébrique des nombres Org: Henri Darmon (McGill), Eyal Goren (McGill) et Adrian Iovita (Concordia) samedi 8 décembre  (Hochelaga 4) 10:30 - 11:00 Manfred Kolster (McMaster), The Coates-Sinnott Conjecture 11:00 - 11:30 John Voight (Vermont-Burlington), Kronecker's Jugendtraum and power series expansions of modular forms 14:00 - 14:30 Antonio Lei (McGill), Beilinson-Flach elements for the Rankin-Selberg convolution 14:30 - 15:00 Jan Minac (Western), Abel-Galois T.V. Channel D8 Interview of V.I.S.G.G. 15:00 - 15:30 John Labute (McGill), Linking Numbers, Mild Groups and the Fontaine-Mazur Conjecture 15:30 - 16:00 Payman Kassaei (King's College), Modularity Lifting via Analytic continuation of Hilbert modular forms 16:15 - 16:45 Kumar Murty (Toronto), Growth of the Selmer group of an Abelian variety with CM 16:45 - 17:15 Matthew Greenberg (Calgary), $p$-arithmetic and completed cohomology of quaternionic Shimura varieties 17:15 - 17:45 Glenn Stevens (Boston), The Hodge-Tate sequence and overconvergent $p$-adic modular sheaves dimanche 9 décembre  (Hochelaga 4) 8:00 - 8:30 Sujatha Ramdorai (UBC), Congruences between p-adic L-values 8:30 - 9:00 Stephen Kudla (Toronto), An alternative description of Drinfeld space and applications 14:00 - 14:30 Hugo Chapdelaine (Laval), Archimedean Stark conjectures and real analytic Eisenstein series 14:30 - 15:00 Clifton Cunningham (Calgary), A geometric and categorical description of complete Langlands parameters for quasi-split $p$-adic groups 15:00 - 15:30 Chung Pang Mok (McMaster), Endoscopic classification of representations for quasi-split unitary groups 15:30 - 16:00 Mak Trifkovic (Victoria), The Bost-Connes Functor 16:15 - 16:45 Ernst Kani (Queen's), Tensor Products of Galois Representations 16:45 - 17:15 Soroosh Yazdani (Lethbridge), Local Szpiro conjecture and rational points on $X_E(6k)$ 17:15 - 17:45 Michael Bennett (UBC), Effective solution of norm form equations 17:45 - 18:15 Imin Chen (Simon Fraser), Ramification of Drinfeld modules lundi 10 décembre  (Hochelaga 4) 8:00 - 8:30 Frantisek Marko (Pennsylvania), Congruences of Ankeny-Artin-Chowla type and p-adic class number formula revisited 8:30 - 9:00 Francesc Castella (McGill), On the $p$-adic variation of Heegner points 14:00 - 14:30 Jochen Gartner ((McGill)), Arithmetic curves of type K(pi,1) and higher Massey products 14:30 - 15:00 Miljan Brakocevic (McGill), Two variable anticyclotomic p-adic L-functions for p-adic families of modular forms Théorie analytique des nombres Org: Chantal David (Concordia), Andrew Granville (Montréal) et Matilde Lalin (Montréal) samedi 8 décembre  (St-François) 10:30 - 10:55 Amir Akbary-Majdabadno (Lethbridge), Artin prime producing polynomials 11:00 - 11:25 Renate Scheidler (Calgary), Distribution of Class Numbers of Function Fields 14:00 - 14:25 Karl Dilcher (Dalhousie), A congruence of Emma Lehmer related to Euler numbers 14:30 - 14:55 John Friedlander (Toronto), Squares and Primes 15:00 - 15:25 Leo Goldmakher (Toronto), L-functions with n-th order twists 15:30 - 15:55 Yu Ru Liu (Waterloo), Multidimensional Vinogradov-type estimates in function fields 16:15 - 16:40 Habiba Kadiri (Lethbridge), New explicit bounds for a prime counting function 16:45 - 17:10 Dimitris Koukoulopoulos (Montréal), Groups structures of elliptic curves over finite fields 17:15 - 17:40 Mike Rubinstein (Waterloo), Applications of a summation formula to Dirichlet series dimanche 9 décembre  (St-François) 14:00 - 14:25 Isabella Laba (UBC), Buffon's needle estimates and vanishing sums of roots of unity 14:30 - 14:55 Youness Lamzouri (Urbana), Discrepancy bounds for the distribution of the Riemann zeta function 15:00 - 15:25 Kevin Hare (Waterloo), Garsia Numbers 15:30 - 15:55 Hugh Williams (Calgary), Monoapparitic Linear Divisibility Sequences of Order Four 16:15 - 16:40 Greg Martin (UBC), Inclusive prime number races 16:45 - 17:10 Nathan Ng (Lethbridge), Simple zeros of degree two L-functions 17:15 - 17:40 Damien Roy (Ottawa), Diophantine approximation with sign constraints lundi 10 décembre  (St-François) 14:00 - 14:25 David Zywina (Queen's), Modular function fields of genus 0 14:30 - 14:55 Cameron Stewart (Waterloo), On divisors of binary recurrence sequences 15:00 - 15:25 Jean-Marie de Koninck (Laval), Nouvelles méthodes permettant de construire des familles de nombres normaux Mathématiques appliquées Org: Jean-Christophe Nave et Gantumar Tsogtgerel (McGill) samedi 8 décembre  (St-Laurent) 10:30 - 10:55 Harold Hastings, Can averaging stabilize complex systems? 11:00 - 11:25 Richard Rand, Disappearance of Resonant Tongues 14:00 - 14:25 Bernard Brooks, A two-population competition model for a finite natural resource 14:30 - 14:55 Tamas Wiandt, Bifurcation scenarios in a system of delay differential equations 15:00 - 15:25 Michael Yampolsky 15:30 - 15:55 Elena Braverman, On the competition of spatially distributed populations choosing different diffusion strategies 16:15 - 16:40 Herb Kunze, Inverse boundary value problems in reflexive Banach spaces 16:45 - 17:10 Jean-Philippe Lessard, Rigorous Computations for Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems 17:15 - 17:40 Michael Radin, Eventually periodic and unbounded solutions of a non-autonomous max-type difference equation dimanche 9 décembre  (St-Laurent) 14:00 - 14:25 Alexandra Tcheng, An explicit numerical method for evolving manifolds 14:30 - 14:55 Mark Lyon, Spectral Fourier Continuation methods for PDE Solution 15:00 - 15:25 Ronald Haynes, A Parallel Space-Time Approach for the Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations 15:30 - 15:55 Xiaowen Chang, Why is the LLL reduction useful for solving an integer least squares problem 16:15 - 16:40 Lisa Powers, Computing the Measure of Generalized Voronoi Regions 16:45 - 17:10 Louis-Philippe Saumier Demers, Optimal Transport for Particle Image Velocimetry 17:15 - 17:40 Lydia Bourouiba (MIT), Nonlocal energy transfers in rotating homogeneous turbulence lundi 10 décembre  (St-Laurent) 8:00 - 8:50 Marc Laforest, Perturbations to non-classical shocks in non-convex systems of conservation laws 14:00 - 14:25 Dmitry Kolomenskiy, Similarity solutions for unsteady flows near front and rear stagnation points 14:30 - 14:55 Alexander Bihlo, Invariant subgrid-scale closure schemes for turbulence modeling 15:00 - 15:25 Jozsef Vass, An Exact Model of Fully Developed Turbulence 15:30 - 15:55 David Shirokoff, A High Order Volume Penalty Method 16:15 - 16:40 Emmanuel Lorin, Convergence issues of usual numerical schemes approximating 1-d nonconservative hyperbolic systems 16:45 - 17:10 Ihsan Topaloglu, An isoperimetric problem with long-range interactions related to diblock copolymers 17:15 - 17:40 Adam Oberman, Effective approximations for nonlinear elliptic PDEs, with emphasis on the Monge-Ampère equation Analyse complexe et théorie des opérateurs Org: Javad Mashreghi et Thomas T. Ransford (Laval) samedi 8 décembre  (youville) 14:00 - 14:25 Dima Khavinson (South Florida), Analytic functions in Smirnov classes with real boundary values. 14:30 - 14:55 Nina Zorboska (Manitoba), Hyperbolic derivative, distortion and composition operators on the Bloch-type spaces 15:00 - 15:25 Richard Fournier (Montréal), A reversed triangle inequality for polynomials 15:30 - 15:55 Paul Gauthier (Montréal), Zero-free polynomial approximation on trees of Jordan domains 16:15 - 16:40 Jie Xiao (Memorial), Composite Mappings between Analytic Campanato Spaces 16:45 - 17:10 Cathérine Bénéteau (South Florida), Cyclicity in the Dirichlet Space: a Constructive Approach 17:15 - 17:40 Omar El-Fallah (Univ. of Mohammed V), Some Examples of composition operators in Schatten classes dimanche 9 décembre  (youville) 14:00 - 14:25 Line Baribeau (Laval), A new necessary condition for the spectral Nevanlinna-Pick problem 14:30 - 14:55 Eric Schippers (Manitoba), A functional-analytic proof of the conformal welding theorem 15:00 - 15:25 Malik Younsi (Laval), Computation of Analytic Capacity and applications to the Subadditivity Problem 15:30 - 15:55 Karim Kellay (Bordeaux), Sampling, interpolation and Riesz bases in small Fock spaces 16:15 - 16:40 Raphaël Clouâtre (Indiana), Similarity results for operators of class $C_0$ and the algebra $H^{\infty}(T)$ 16:45 - 17:10 Samir Raouafi (Laval), Pseudospectre et le comportement d'une matrice 17:15 - 17:40 Abtellatif Bourhim (Syracuse), Some Problems on Linear Preservers Dynamique computationelle des fluides Org: Wagdi G. Habashi (McGill) samedi 8 décembre  (Bellachasse) 10:30 - 11:00 Driss Yakoubi (Laval), A Hierarchical Iterative Solver and Fractional Timestepping Schemes for the Navier-Stokes Equations 11:00 - 11:30 Azzeddine Soulaimani (École de technologie supérieure), The eXtended Finite Element Method for Moving interface problems 14:00 - 14:30 Kristjan Onu (McGill), Objective detection of Lagrangian vortices in two-dimensional turbulence 14:30 - 15:00 Denis Hinz (McGill), Statistics of the Navier--Stokes-alpha-beta regularization model for fluid turbulence 15:30 - 16:00 Marius Paraschivoiu (Concordia), CFD based simulation of spontaneous ignition of pressurized hydrogen release 16:15 - 16:45 Dominique Pelletier (École Polytechnique de Montréa), Implicit Runge-Kutta time integrators for flows on deforming domains Communications libres Org: Odile Marcotte (CRM) Nous lançons un appel de communications libres de 20 minutes chacune. Les résumés devront nous parvenir au plus tard le 15 octobre 2012 (Veuillez utiliser le formulaire électronique). Nous demandons à chacun de joindre au résumé le formulaire d'inscription et le règlement des frais pertinents. Pour faciliter la tâche des organisateurs, veuillez préciser la classification de sujets AMS 2010 (http://www.ams.org/msc/). dimanche 9 décembre  (Bellechasse) 8:00 - 8:25 Chunhua Shan (York), Finite cyclicity of hh-graphics with a triple nilpotent singularity of codimension 4 8:30 - 8:55 Fabrice Colin (Université Laurentienne), Generalized Fountain Theorem and Application to the Semilinear Schrödinger Equation 14:00 - 14:25 Ibrahima Dione (Laval), Penalty/finite element approximations of slip boundary conditions and Babuska's paradox 14:30 - 14:55 Sophie Léger (Laval), An updated Lagrangian method for very large deformation problems 15:00 - 15:25 Safouhi Hassan (Alberta), New Formulae for Differentiation and Techniques in Numerical Integration 15:30 - 15:55 Patrick Lacasse (Laval), Résolution d'un problème d'élasticité avec contact sans frottement par stratégie de contraintes actives et algorithme itératif. lundi 10 décembre  (Bellechasse) 14:00 - 14:25 Iickho Song (Korea Advanced Inst. of Science and Technology), An Extension of the Vandermonde Convolution Formula 14:30 - 14:55 Anthony Shaheen (California State), A Brief Introduction to Expanders and Ramanujan Graphs 15:00 - 15:25 Trueman MacHenry (York), Permanents, Determinants, Integer Sequences and Isobaric Polynomials 15:30 - 15:55 Odile Marcotte (CRM), On the maximum orders of an induced forest, an induced tree, and a stable set 16:15 - 16:40 Stephanie Portet (Manitoba), Dynamics of length distributions of in vitro intermediate filaments Géométrie énumérative et théorie des cordes Org: Keshav Dasgupta et Johannes Walcher (McGill) lundi 10 décembre  (Harricana) 8:00 - 8:25 Ruxandra Moraru (Waterloo), Stable bundles on complex nilmanifolds 8:30 - 8:55 Per Berglund (New Hampshire), Global Embeddings for Branes at Toric Singularities and Moduli Stabilization 14:00 - 14:25 Alisha Wissanji (Alberta), IIA Perspective On Cascading Gauge Theory 14:30 - 14:55 Guillaume Laporte (McGill), Monodromy of an Inhomogeneous Picard-Fuchs Equation 15:00 - 15:25 Vincent Bouchard (Alberta), Topological recursion and double Hurwitz numbers 15:30 - 15:55 Jihye Seo (McGill), Exactly stable non-BPS spinors in heterotic string theory on tori 16:15 - 16:40 Arnaud Lepage-Jutier (McGill), Smoothed Transitions in Higher Spin AdS Gravity 16:45 - 17:10 Shunji Matsuura (McGill), Classification of gapless topological phases Théorie géométrique des groupes Org: Mikael Pichot et Daniel T. Wise (McGill) samedi 8 décembre  (Saint-Maurice) 10:30 - 11:00 Jason Behrstock (CUNY), Divergence, thick groups, and morse geodesics 11:00 - 11:30 Mark Hagen (Michigan), Thick cubulated groups 14:00 - 14:30 Tim Riley (Cornell), Cannon-Thurston maps, hyperbolic hydra, and subgroup distortion 14:30 - 15:00 Owen Baker (McMaster), Cannon--Thurston maps do not always exist 15:00 - 15:30 Svetla Vassileva (McGill), The Magnus embedding is a quasi-isometry 15:30 - 16:00 Robert Young (Toronto), Lipschitz spheres in the Heisenberg groups 16:15 - 16:45 Hadi Bigdely (McGill), Quasiconvex Subgroups of Relatively Hyperbolic groups 16:45 - 17:15 Jeremy McDonald (Stevens Inst. of Technology New Jersey), Algorithmic problems for groups discriminated by a locally quasi-convex hyperbolic group 17:15 - 17:45 Ian Biringer (Boston College), Growth of Betti numbers and a probabilistic take on geometric convergence dimanche 9 décembre  (Saint-Maurice) 8:00 - 8:30 Olga Kharlampovich (Hunter College), Algorithmic problems for toral relatively hyperbolic groups 8:30 - 9:00 Nicholas Touikan (Marseille), On the isomorphism problem for relatively hyperbolic groups. (Joint with François Dahmani) 14:00 - 14:30 Vadim Kaimanovich (Ottawa), Boundary convergence and relative hyperbolicty 14:30 - 15:00 Dmytro Savchuk (South Florida), Self-similar groups acting essentially freely on the boundary of a rooted tree 15:00 - 15:30 Bogdan Nica (Göttingen), Proper isometric actions of hyperbolic groups on $L^p$-spaces 15:30 - 16:00 Lior Silbermann (UBC), Fixed points for Lipschitz actions of random groups 16:15 - 16:45 Alejandro Adem (UBC), Spaces of Representations for Abelian Groups 16:45 - 17:15 Thomas Koberda (Yale), The curve complex for a right-angled Artin group 17:15 - 17:45 Johanna Mangahas (Brown), Some Schottky subgroups of mapping class groups lundi 10 décembre  (Saint-Maurice) 14:00 - 14:30 Jason Manning (Buffalo), Recognizing 3-manifold groups 14:30 - 15:00 Dale Rolfsen (UBC), Topology and ordering groups 15:00 - 15:30 Adam Clay (UQAM), Graph manifolds, orderability, L-spaces and foliations 15:30 - 16:00 Steven Boyer (UQAM), L-spaces, left-orderability and foliations Géométrie des variétés algébriques Org: Xi Chen (Alberta), Steven Lu (UQAM) et Peter Russell (McGill) samedi 8 décembre  (St-Charles) 10:30 - 10:55 Yuri Tschinkel (Courant Inst.; NYU), Del Pezzo surfaces over function fields of curves 11:00 - 11:25 Peter Russell (McGill), Forms of actions of the multiplicative group on affine 3-space 14:00 - 14:25 Ziv Ran (California-Riverside), Differential Equations in Hilbert-Mumford Calculus 14:30 - 14:55 Tong Zhang (Alberta), Relative Noether inequality on fibered surfaces 15:00 - 15:25 David McKinnon (Waterloo), A Liouville Theorem for algebraic varieties 15:30 - 15:55 Mike Roth (Queen's), Seshadri constants, diophantine approximation, and Roth's theorem for arbitrary varieties 16:15 - 16:40 Gordon Heier (Houston), On curvature and the structure of projective Kaehler manifolds 16:45 - 17:10 Steven Lu (UQAM), Algebraic and analytic bubbles in algebraic varieties 17:15 - 17:40 Xi Chen (Alberta), Rational self maps of Calabi-Yau manifolds 17:45 - 18:10 Yanhong Yang (Columbia), Rationality of Euler-Chow series and finite generation of Cox rings dimanche 9 décembre  (St-Charles) 8:00 - 8:25 James Lewis (Alberta), Hodge Type Conjectures and the Bloch-Kato Theorem 8:30 - 8:55 Gregory Pearlstein (Michigan State), The zero locus of the infinitesimal invariant 14:00 - 14:25 Jacques Hurtubise (McGill), Pseudo-real bundles on Kahler varieties 14:30 - 14:55 Charles Doran (Alberta), The 14th Case VHS and K3 Fibrations: Overview 15:00 - 15:25 Alan Thompson (Alberta), The 14th Case VHS and K3 Fibrations: Elliptic Surfaces 15:30 - 15:55 Andrey Novoseltsev (Alberta), The 14th Case VHS and K3 Fibrations: Toric Approach 16:15 - 16:40 Kirill Zaynullin (Ottawa), The gamma-filtration on projective homogeneous spaces 16:45 - 17:10 Franklin Vera Pacheco (Fields Institute; Toronto), Resolving some singularities while preserving others. 17:15 - 17:40 Simon Rose (Queen's), Counting hyperelliptic curves on abelian surfaces with quasi-modular forms Histoire et philosophie des mathématiques Org: Tom Archibald (SFU) et Greg Lavers (Concordia) Cette session est organisée par la Société Canadienne d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathématiques. dimanche 9 décembre 14:00 - 14:20 Sylvia Nickerson (Toronto), Mathematics and the book trade in English Canada, 1850-1925, Harricana 14:30 - 14:50 Tom Archibald (SFU), Publishing Mathematics in German 1800-1825, Harricana 15:00 - 15:20 Craig Fraser (Toronto), Zermelos navigation problem in the calculus of variations, Harricana 15:30 - 15:50 Laura Turner (Toronto), Analytic representation and the Mittag-Leffler circle: Contrasting notions of generality in the late 19th century, Harricana 16:15 - 16:35 Mathieu Bélanger (Montréal), Menger and pointless topology, Harricana lundi 10 décembre 14:00 - 14:20 Hardy Grant (York), "Epistemic Cultures" and the History of Mathematics, Chaudiere 14:30 - 14:50 Bruce Petrie (Toronto), Mathematical Notations as Identifiers of Epistemic Cultures., Chaudiere 15:00 - 15:20 Greg Lavers (Concordia), Explication and Carnap's Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology', Chaudiere 15:30 - 15:50 Jean-Pierre Marquis (Montréal), Some remarks on the abstract method in 20th century mathematics, Chaudiere 16:15 - 16:35 Oran Magal (McGill), What did we always mean?, Chaudiere Physique mathématique - matrices aléatoires et systèmes intégrables Org: Marco Bertola et Dmitry Korotkin (Concordia) samedi 8 décembre  (Saguenay) 10:30 - 11:00 Christopher Sinclair (Oregon), Kernel Asymptotics for the Mahler Ensemble of Real Polynomials 11:00 - 11:30 Dmitry Korotkin (Concordia), Baker-Akhiezer spinor and Bergman tau-function on moduli spaces of meromorphic differentials 14:00 - 14:30 Andrew McIntire (Bennington), Chern-simons invariant of infinite volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds 14:30 - 15:00 Anton Dzhamay (Northern Colorado), Discrete Hamiltonian Structure of Schlesinger Transformations 15:00 - 15:30 Jacek Szmigielski (Saskatoon), Two applications of Cauchy biorthogonal polynomials 15:30 - 16:00 Anthony Metcalfe (KTH, Sweden), Universality classes of lozenge tilings of a polyhedron 16:15 - 16:45 John Harnad (Concordia), Finite Dimensional Tau Functions 16:45 - 17:15 Balint Virag (Toronto), Random operators at the edge dimanche 9 décembre  (Saguenay) 14:00 - 14:30 Pavel Bleher (Indiana), Exact solution of the six-vertex model with DWBC. Critical line between disordered and antiferroelectric phases 14:30 - 15:00 Marco Bertola (Concordia), Universality in Unitary Random matrix models Éducation mathématique : Planification du FCEM 2014 Org: Peter Taylor (Queen's) L'avenir du Forum canadien sur l’enseignement des mathématiques; détails dimanche 9 décembre  (Ramezay) 14:00 - 16:00 Planning Meeting Équations différentielles fonctionnelles non linéaires Org: Hermann Brunner (Memorial) samedi 8 décembre  (Bersimis) 14:00 - 14:30 Michael Mackey (McGill), Modeling chemotherapy effects on hematopoiesis 14:30 - 15:00 Jianhong Wu (York), Global dynamics of the Nicholson's blowflies equation revisited: onset and termination of nonlinear oscillations 15:00 - 15:30 Felicia Magpantay (York), An age-structured population model with state-dependent delay: derivation and numerical integration 15:30 - 16:00 Xiaoqiang Zhao (Memorial), Global Dynamics of A Time-Delayed Reaction and Diffusion Malaria Model 16:15 - 16:45 Gail Wolkowicz (McMaster), Dynamics of the chemostat and classical predator-prey models with time delay 16:45 - 17:15 Xingfu Zou (Western), On a DDE model describing malaria transmission dynamics in a patch environment dimanche 9 décembre  (Bersimis) 8:00 - 8:30 Sue Ann Campbell (Waterloo), Plankton Models with Time Delay 8:30 - 9:00 Jacques Bélair (Montréal), DISTRIBUTION OF DELAYS IN A PHARMACODYNAMIC MODEL 14:00 - 14:30 Yuan Yuan (Memorial), Stability and Bifurcation in FDE with Distributed Delay 14:30 - 15:00 Uri Ascher (UBC), Stochastic algorithms for inverse problems involving PDEs and many measurements 16:15 - 16:45 Chunhua Ou (Memorial), Delayed reaction diffusion models and traveling waves for spatial spread of rabies in Europe: a re-visit 16:45 - 17:15 Tony Humphries (McGill), Stability and numerical stability of a model state-dependent DDE Session satellite en théorie des nombres Org: Chantal David (Concordia), Eyal Goren (McGill) et Andrew Granville (Montréal) Cette session est organizée en partenariat avec la Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing (TIMC), et se tiendra le jeudi 6 décembre et le vendredi 7 décembre 2012. Des présentations sur tous les volets de la théorie des nombres seront les bienvenues. La TIMC s’intéresse tout particulièrement à la participation d’étudiants de deuxième cycle et de mathématiciens canadiens postdoctoraux. Certaines présentations au cours de la séance spéciale pourraient ouvrir la voie à des occasions de recherche en stage à la TIMC. jeudi 6 décembre 9:15 - 9:45 Daniel Fiorilli (Ann Arrbor), Elliptic curves of unbounded rank and Chebyshev's bias, Ramezay 9:55 - 10:15 Vorrapan Chandee (CRM), Simple zeros of primitive Dirichlet L-functions and the asymptotic large sieve, Ramezay 9:55 - 10:15 Rob Noble (Dalhousie), Minimal polynomials of algebraic numbers with rational parameters, Yamaska 10:20 - 10:40 Jim Parks (Concordia), An upper bound for the average number of amicable pairs, Ramezay 10:20 - 10:40 Simon Rubinstein-Salzedo (Dartmouth), The Cohen-Lenstra heuristics and roots of unity, Yamaska 11:15 - 11:35 Adela Gherga (McMaster), Brauer-Kuroda Relations for Higher Class Numbers, Yamaska 11:15 - 11:35 Jing-Jing Huang (Toronto), Metric Diophantine approximation on planar curves, Ramezay 11:40 - 12:00 Zebediah Engberg (Dartmouth), Sporadic balanced subgroups, Ramezay 11:40 - 12:00 Patrick Walls (Toronto), The Theta Correspondence and Periods of Automorphic Forms, Yamaska 12:05 - 12:25 Chih-Yun Chuang (McGill), Theta series of imaginary quadratic global function fields, Yamaska 12:05 - 12:25 Karyn McLellan (Dalhousie), Two Growth Rates of Random Fibonacci Sequences, Ramezay 13:45 - 14:15 Jennifer Park (MIT), A symmetric version of Chabauty's method on families of hyperelliptic curves, Ramezay 14:25 - 14:45 Ce Bian (Calgary), Introduction to the methods of computing GL(n) automorphic forms, Yamaska 14:25 - 14:45 Nathan McNew (Dartmouth), Radically weakening the Lehmer and Carmichael conditions, Ramezay 14:50 - 15:10 Andrew Fiori (McGill), Characterization of Special Points on Orthogonal Shimura Varieties, Yamaska 14:50 - 15:10 Brandon Hanson (Toronto), A Ramsey Theory Problem in Finite Fields, Ramezay 15:45 - 16:05 Mohammad Bardestani (Montréal), Product free sets in profinite groups, Ramezay 15:45 - 16:05 Sandro Bettin (Concordia), Moments of derivatives of L-Functions, Yamaska 16:10 - 16:30 Timothy Caley (Waterloo), A new algorithm for the Prouhet-Tarry-Escott problem, Yamaska 16:10 - 16:30 Nataliya Laptyeva (Toronto), A Variant of Lehmers Conjecture in the CM Case, Ramezay vendredi 7 décembre 8:40 - 9:10 Adam Harper (CRM and Cambridge), Inverse questions for the large sieve, Ramezay 9:20 - 9:40 Luca Candelori (McGill), Harmonic weak Maass forms: a geometric approach., Yamaska 9:20 - 9:40 Peter Cho (Toronto), Logarithmic Derivatives of Artin L-functions, Ramezay 9:45 - 10:05 Ngoc Ai Van Nguyen (Ottawa), A new small value estimate on $\mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{C}^*$, Yamaska 9:45 - 10:05 Asif Zaman (Toronto), Escape of Mass on Hilbert Modular Varieties, Ramezay 10:40 - 11:00 Nathan Grieve (Queen's), Groups and line bundles associated to abelian varieties, Yamaska 10:40 - 11:00 Maksym Radziwill (Stanford), The distribution of the zeros of $\zeta(s)$, of $\zeta'(s)$ and the non-existence of Siegel zeros, Ramezay 11:05 - 11:25 Carmen Bruni (UBC), Twisted extensions of Fermat's Last Theorem, Yamaska 11:05 - 11:25 Adam Felix (Lethbridge), Variations of Artin's conjecture, Ramezay 11:30 - 11:50 Brian Cook (UBC), Many Variable Forms in the Primes, Ramezay 11:30 - 11:50 Michael Lipnowski (Stanford), On the asymptotic growth of torsion in the cohomology of arithmetic groups, Yamaska 11:55 - 12:15 Aaron Christie (Calgary), An Example of Geometrization in the Context of the Langlands Program, Yamaska 11:55 - 12:15 Kevin Henriot (Montréal), Arithmetic progressions in sumsets, Ramezay 13:30 - 14:00 Dong quan ngoc Nguyen (UBC), Generalized Mordell curves, generalized Fermat curves, and the Hasse principle, Ramezay 14:05 - 14:25 Seyed Lavasani (Calgary), The inside-out of cover attack, Yamaska 14:05 - 14:25 Majid Shahabi (Lethbridge), Limiting Distributions, Ramezay 14:30 - 14:50 Eric Naslund (UBC), Primitive Points in Polygons, Ramezay 14:30 - 14:50 Colin Weir (Calgary), Constructing and Tabulating Function Fields, Yamaska 15:25 - 15:45 Amir Ghadermarzi (UBC), Integral points on Mordell's curves, Yamaska 15:25 - 15:45 Tatchai Titichetrakun (UBC), Corners in dense subset of $\mathbb{P}^d$, Ramezay 15:50 - 16:10 Sebastien Lindner (Calgary), Divisor Arithmetic Over Low Genus Hyperelliptic Curves, Yamaska 15:50 - 16:10 Matt Rogers (Montréal), Spanning trees and Mahler measure, Ramezay Théorie des opérateurs et algèbres d'opérateurs Org: Ken Davidson, Evgenios Kakariadis et Laurent Marcoux (Waterloo) samedi 8 décembre  (Hochelaga 6) 10:30 - 10:55 David Kerr (Texas A & M), Combinatorial independence and sofic entropy 11:00 - 11:25 Dilian Yang (Windsor), The structure of nonself-adjoint 2-graph algebras 14:00 - 14:25 Serban Belinschi (Queen's), Using fully matricial functions to compute distributions of polynomials in unitarily invariant random matrices 14:30 - 14:55 Douglas Farenick (Regina), Operator systems from discrete groups 15:00 - 15:25 Chris Ramsey (Waterloo), Triangular UHF algebras 15:30 - 15:55 George Elliott (Toronto), What does classification mean? 16:15 - 16:40 Alexey Popov (Waterloo), Every operator has an almost-invariant subspace 16:45 - 17:10 Sarah Plosker (Guelph), Private Quantum Codes 17:15 - 17:40 Roland Speicher (Universität des Saarlandes), Sharp bounds for sums associated to graphs of matrices dimanche 9 décembre  (Hochelaga 6) 8:00 - 8:25 Elias Katsoulis (East Carolina Univ.;Univ. of Athens), C*-algebras and equivalences for C*-correspondences 8:30 - 8:55 Heydar Radjavi (Waterloo), Semigroups of Partial Isometries 14:00 - 14:25 Marcelo Laca (Victoria), Phase transitions from dilation matrices and self similar actions 14:30 - 14:55 Michael Hartz (Waterloo), Universal operator algebras associated to homogeneous varieties 15:00 - 15:25 James Mingo (Queen's), Second Order Freeness and Orthogonal Random Matrices 15:30 - 15:55 Paul Skoufranis (UCLA), Normal Limits of Nilpotents in C*-Algebras 16:15 - 16:40 Ahmed Sourour (Victoria), Semigroups of matrices generated by a unitary orbit 16:45 - 17:10 Matthew Kennedy (Carleton), A universal F. \& M. Riesz theorem 17:15 - 17:40 Zhiqiang Li (Toronto), On simple inductive limits of splitting interval algebras with dimension drops Équations aux dérivées partielles et théorie spectrale Org: Dmitry Jakobson (McGill) et Iosif Polterovich (Montréal) samedi 8 décembre  (Chaudière) 10:30 - 10:55 Niky Kamran (McGill), Local energy decay for Dirac fields in the 5-dimensional Myers-Perry black hole geometry 11:00 - 11:25 Suresh Eswarathasan (CRM;McGill), Lower bounds for the Weyl Remainder 14:00 - 14:25 Robert Seiringer (McGill), A positive density analogue of the Lieb-Thirring inequality 14:30 - 14:55 Benjamin Landon (McGill), The scattering length at positive temperature 15:00 - 15:25 David Sher (CRM;McGill), The determinant on flat conic surfaces with excision of disks 15:30 - 15:55 Frédéric Rochon (UQAM), Compactness of relatively isospectral sets of surfaces with cusps 16:15 - 16:40 Alexey Kokotov (Concordia), Krein formula and S-matrix for Euclidean Surfaces with Conical Singularities 16:45 - 17:10 Vitali Vougalter (Cape Town), Existence and nonlinear stability of stationary states for the semi-relativistic Schroedinger-Poisson system 17:15 - 17:40 Renjie Feng (CRM; McGill), Some recent results on Gaussian random fields over Kahler manifolds dimanche 9 décembre  (Chaudière) 14:00 - 14:25 Nassif Ghoussoub (UBC), Stability and Regularity in elliptic systems and 4th order equations 14:30 - 14:55 Almut Burchard (Toronto), Perimeter under multiple Steiner symmetrizations 15:00 - 15:25 Arian Novruzi (Ottawa), About the regularity of optimal convex domains 15:30 - 15:55 Wenying Feng (Trent), Nonlinear spectra and related maps: generalizations and applications 16:15 - 16:40 Layan El Hajj (McGill), Intersection bounds for planar Neumann eigenfunctions with interior analytic curves 16:45 - 17:10 Yaiza Canzani (McGill), Distribution of randomly propagated Schrödinger eigenfunctions Méthodes probabilistiques et physique mathématique Org: Louigi Addario-Berry (McGill) et Louis-Pierre Arguin (Montréal) samedi 8 décembre  (Richelieu) 10:30 - 10:55 Jeremy Quastel (Toronto), Regularity and variational problems for Airy processes 14:00 - 14:25 Matt Roberts (McGill), Intermittency in branching random walk in random environment 14:30 - 14:55 Anna Levit (British Columbia), Ground states for mean field models with a transverse component 15:00 - 15:25 Omer Angel (British Columbia), Half planar maps 15:30 - 15:55 Asaf Nachmias (British Columbia), Hypercube percolation 16:15 - 16:40 David Gamarnik (MIT), Convergent sequences of sparse graphs: A large deviations approach 16:45 - 17:10 Michael Kozdron (Regina), Bayes' rule for quantum random variables and positive operator valued measures 17:15 - 17:40 Jason Miller (MIT), Imaginary Geometry and the Gaussian Free Field dimanche 9 décembre  (Richelieu) 8:00 - 8:25 Alex Bloemendal (Harvard), Spiked random matrices 8:30 - 8:55 Paul Bourgade (Harvard), Universality for beta ensembles 16:15 - 16:40 Balint Virag (Toronto), The sound of random graphs 16:45 - 17:10 Dana Mendelson (MIT), Rate of Convergence for Cardy's Formula Imagerie quantique Org: André D. Bandrauk et Djemel Ziou (Sherbrooke) samedi 8 décembre  (Peribonka) 10:30 - 11:00 Alfred Maquet (Pierre-Marie Curie), Status of the time variable in quantum mechanics and the new generation of experiments with attosecond pulses of radiation 11:00 - 11:30 John Federici (New Jersey Inst. of Technology), Image and beam correction algorithms for THz computed Tomography Imaging 14:00 - 14:30 Ian Cunningham (Western), Advances required to improve image quality in medical radiography – a statistical problem 14:30 - 15:00 Daniel Levesque (Sherbrooke), Immersive Environment for Molecular Visualization 15:00 - 15:30 Tucker Carrington (Queen's), Using sparse grids to solve the vibrational Schroedinger equation 15:30 - 16:00 Tung Nguyen (Laval), Quantum dynamics of correlated electrons for time-resolved imaging of laser-driven molecules: Formal and computational challenge 16:15 - 16:45 Jean-Marc Lina (École de Téchnologie Superieure), Wavelet-based Localization of Oscillatory Brain Activities in Electro-Magnetic Imaging 16:45 - 17:15 Emmanuel Lorin de la Grand Maison (Carleton), Absorbing boundary conditions for quantum relativistic mechanics 17:15 - 17:45 François Fillion-Gourdeau (CRM), Recent advances in numerical solutions of the molecular relativistic time-dependent Dirac equation Recherches récentes en économétrie Org: Jean-Marie Dufour et Christian Genest (McGill) lundi 10 décembre  (Hochelaga 6) 14:00 - 14:30 Xin Liang (McGill University), Necessary and sufficient conditions for identification and estimability of linear parameters 14:30 - 15:00 Mirza Trokic (McGill University), Regulated Variance Ratio Unit Root Tests 15:00 - 15:30 Purevdorj Tuvaandorj (McGill University), Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Inference in Possibly Unidentified Models Symmétries des équations différentielles et aux différences Org: Alexei Cheviakov (Saskatchewan) et Pavel Winternitz (Montréal) samedi 8 décembre  (Matapédia) 10:30 - 10:55 Alfred Michel Grundland (CRM), Soliton surfaces and zero-curvature representation of differential equations 11:00 - 11:25 Veronique Hussin (Montréal), Grassmannian sigma models and constant curvature solutions 14:00 - 14:25 Zhengzheng Yang (UBC) 14:30 - 14:55 Stephen Anco (Brock), Symmetry analysis and exact solutions of semilinear Schrodinger equations 15:00 - 15:25 Roman Popovych (Brock), Potential symmetries in dimension three 15:30 - 15:55 Francis Valiquette (Dalhousie), Group foliation of differential equations using moving frames 16:15 - 16:40 Sarah Post (Univ. of Hawaii), Contractions of superintegrable systems and limits of orthogonal polynomials 16:45 - 17:10 Thomas Wolf (Brock) 17:15 - 17:40 Alexei Cheviakov (Saskatchewan), On Symmetry Properties of a Class of Constitutive Models in Two-dimensional Nonlinear Elastodynamics dimanche 9 décembre  (Matapédia) 8:00 - 8:25 Raphaël Rebelo (Montréal), Symmetry preserving discretization of partial differential equations 8:30 - 8:55 Alexander Bihlo (CRM), Invariant discretization schemes 14:00 - 14:25 Willard Miller Jr. (Minnesota), Contractions of 2D 2nd order quantum superintegrable systems and the Askey scheme for hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials 14:30 - 14:55 Sasha Turbiner (UNAM), $BC_2$ Lame polynomials 15:00 - 15:25 Danilo Riglioni (CRM), Superintegrable systems on non Euclidean spaces 15:30 - 15:55 Zora Thomova (SUNYIT), Contact transformations for difference equations 16:15 - 16:40 Pavel Winternitz (CRM), Symmetry preserving discretization of ordinary differential equations