2012 CMS Winter Meeting

Fairmont Queen Elizabeth (Montreal), December 7 - 10, 2012

# 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.

 Thursday December 6 9:15 - 9:45 Daniel Fiorilli (Ann Arrbor), Number Theory Satellite Session, Elliptic curves of unbounded rank and Chebyshev's bias, Ramezay 9:55 - 10:15 Vorrapan Chandee (CRM), Number Theory Satellite Session, Simple zeros of primitive Dirichlet L-functions and the asymptotic large sieve, Ramezay 9:55 - 10:15 Rob Noble (Dalhousie), Number Theory Satellite Session, Minimal polynomials of algebraic numbers with rational parameters, Yamaska 10:20 - 10:40 Jim Parks (Concordia), Number Theory Satellite Session, An upper bound for the average number of amicable pairs, Ramezay 10:20 - 10:40 Simon Rubinstein-Salzedo (Dartmouth), Number Theory Satellite Session, The Cohen-Lenstra heuristics and roots of unity, Yamaska 11:15 - 11:35 Adela Gherga (McMaster), Number Theory Satellite Session, Brauer-Kuroda Relations for Higher Class Numbers, Yamaska 11:15 - 11:35 Jing-Jing Huang (Toronto), Number Theory Satellite Session, Metric Diophantine approximation on planar curves, Ramezay 11:40 - 12:00 Zebediah Engberg (Dartmouth), Number Theory Satellite Session, Sporadic balanced subgroups, Ramezay 11:40 - 12:00 Patrick Walls (Toronto), Number Theory Satellite Session, The Theta Correspondence and Periods of Automorphic Forms, Yamaska 12:05 - 12:25 Chih-Yun Chuang (McGill), Number Theory Satellite Session, Theta series of imaginary quadratic global function fields, Yamaska 12:05 - 12:25 Karyn McLellan (Dalhousie), Number Theory Satellite Session, Two Growth Rates of Random Fibonacci Sequences, Ramezay 13:45 - 14:15 Jennifer Park (MIT), Number Theory Satellite Session, A symmetric version of Chabauty's method on families of hyperelliptic curves, Ramezay 14:25 - 14:45 Ce Bian (Calgary), Number Theory Satellite Session, Introduction to the methods of computing GL(n) automorphic forms, Yamaska 14:25 - 14:45 Nathan McNew (Dartmouth), Number Theory Satellite Session, Radically weakening the Lehmer and Carmichael conditions, Ramezay 14:50 - 15:10 Andrew Fiori (McGill), Number Theory Satellite Session, Characterization of Special Points on Orthogonal Shimura Varieties, Yamaska 14:50 - 15:10 Brandon Hanson (Toronto), Number Theory Satellite Session, A Ramsey Theory Problem in Finite Fields, Ramezay 15:45 - 16:05 Mohammad Bardestani (Montréal), Number Theory Satellite Session, Product free sets in profinite groups, Ramezay 15:45 - 16:05 Sandro Bettin (Concordia), Number Theory Satellite Session, Moments of derivatives of L-Functions, Yamaska 16:10 - 16:30 Timothy Caley (Waterloo), Number Theory Satellite Session, A new algorithm for the Prouhet-Tarry-Escott problem, Yamaska 16:10 - 16:30 Nataliya Laptyeva (Toronto), Number Theory Satellite Session, A Variant of Lehmers Conjecture in the CM Case, Ramezay 18:00 - 22:00 CMS Executive Committee, St-Charles Friday December 7 8:00 - 20:00 Registration, Duluth 8:40 - 9:10 Adam Harper (CRM and Cambridge), Number Theory Satellite Session, Inverse questions for the large sieve, Ramezay 9:00 - 12:00 Student Lecture, Yvan Saint-Aubin (Montréal), St-François 9:00 - 11:00 Advancement of Math Committee, Mackenzie 9:20 - 9:40 Luca Candelori (McGill), Number Theory Satellite Session, Harmonic weak Maass forms: a geometric approach., Yamaska 9:20 - 9:40 Peter Cho (Toronto), Number Theory Satellite Session, Logarithmic Derivatives of Artin L-functions, Ramezay 9:45 - 10:05 Ngoc Ai Van Nguyen (Ottawa), Number Theory Satellite Session, A new small value estimate on $\mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{C}^*$, Yamaska 9:45 - 10:05 Asif Zaman (Toronto), Number Theory Satellite Session, Escape of Mass on Hilbert Modular Varieties, Ramezay 10:40 - 11:00 Nathan Grieve (Queen's), Number Theory Satellite Session, Groups and line bundles associated to abelian varieties, Yamaska 10:40 - 11:00 Maksym Radziwill (Stanford), Number Theory Satellite Session, The distribution of the zeros of $\zeta(s)$, of $\zeta'(s)$ and the non-existence of Siegel zeros, Ramezay 11:00 - 13:00 CMS Development Group Luncheon, Mackenzie 11:05 - 11:25 Carmen Bruni (UBC), Number Theory Satellite Session, Twisted extensions of Fermat's Last Theorem, Yamaska 11:05 - 11:25 Adam Felix (Lethbridge), Number Theory Satellite Session, Variations of Artin's conjecture, Ramezay 11:30 - 11:50 Brian Cook (UBC), Number Theory Satellite Session, Many Variable Forms in the Primes, Ramezay 11:30 - 11:50 Michael Lipnowski (Stanford), Number Theory Satellite Session, On the asymptotic growth of torsion in the cohomology of arithmetic groups, Yamaska 11:55 - 12:15 Aaron Christie (Calgary), Number Theory Satellite Session, An Example of Geometrization in the Context of the Langlands Program, Yamaska 11:55 - 12:15 Kevin Henriot (Montréal), Number Theory Satellite Session, Arithmetic progressions in sumsets, Ramezay 12:30 - 14:00 Launch of MPE2013 Table Ronde (In French) (Université de Montréal), University of Montreal 13:00 - 17:00 CMS Board of Directors Meeting, Mackenzie 13:30 - 14:00 Dong quan ngoc Nguyen (UBC), Number Theory Satellite Session, Generalized Mordell curves, generalized Fermat curves, and the Hasse principle, Ramezay 14:05 - 14:25 Seyed Lavasani (Calgary), Number Theory Satellite Session, The inside-out of cover attack, Yamaska 14:05 - 14:25 Majid Shahabi (Lethbridge), Number Theory Satellite Session, Limiting Distributions, Ramezay 14:30 - 14:50 Eric Naslund (UBC), Number Theory Satellite Session, Primitive Points in Polygons, Ramezay 14:30 - 14:50 Colin Weir (Calgary), Number Theory Satellite Session, Constructing and Tabulating Function Fields, Yamaska 15:25 - 15:45 Amir Ghadermarzi (UBC), Number Theory Satellite Session, Integral points on Mordell's curves, Yamaska 15:25 - 15:45 Tatchai Titichetrakun (UBC), Number Theory Satellite Session, Corners in dense subset of $\mathbb{P}^d$, Ramezay 15:50 - 16:10 Sebastien Lindner (Calgary), Number Theory Satellite Session, Divisor Arithmetic Over Low Genus Hyperelliptic Curves, Yamaska 15:50 - 16:10 Matt Rogers (Montréal), Number Theory Satellite Session, Spanning trees and Mahler measure, Ramezay 16:30 - 18:00 Mathematical Science Investigation (MSI): The Anatomy of Integers and Permutations, St-François 18:00 - 19:30 Welcome Reception, Duluth 19:30 - 20:30 Ivar Ekeland (UBC; Paris-Dauphine), Public Lecture, Une longue histoire: la planète Terre et les mathématiques, St-François Saturday December 8 8:00 - 16:00 Student Poster Session, Duluth 8:00 - 20:00 Registration, Duluth 8:30 - 9:00 Opening Address, St-François 8:45 - 16:00 CMS-CRM-ISM CEGEP Session, Ramezay 9:00 - 9:50 Graciela Chichilnisky (Columbia), Plenary Speakers, "The Foundations of Probability and Statistics with Black Swans", St-François 9:30 - 16:00 Exhibits, Duluth 10:00 - 10:30 Break, Duluth/Mackenzie 10:00 - 12:00 CMS Publication Meeting, Cap-Chat 10:00 - 14:00 CMS Student Committee, Terrabonne 10:30 - 10:55 Amir Akbary-Majdabadno (Lethbridge), Analytic Number Theory, Artin prime producing polynomials, St-François 10:30 - 10:55 Julien Arino (Manitoba), Epidemiology - Infectious Diseases, On the direction of bifurcations in metapopulations, Chambly 10:30 - 10:55 Lennard Bakker (Brigham Young), Celestial Mechanics, The Rhomboidal Symmetric-Mass Four-Body Problem., Hochelaga 5 10:30 - 10:55 Alfred Michel Grundland (CRM), Symmetries of Differential and Difference Equations, Soliton surfaces and zero-curvature representation of differential equations, Matapédia 10:30 - 10:55 Harold Hastings, Applied Mathematics, Can averaging stabilize complex systems?, St-Laurent 10:30 - 10:55 Niky Kamran (McGill), Partial Differential Equations and Spectral Theory, Local energy decay for Dirac fields in the 5-dimensional Myers-Perry black hole geometry, Chaudière 10:30 - 10:55 David Kerr (Texas A & M), Operator Theory and Operator Algebras, Combinatorial independence and sofic entropy, Hochelaga 6 10:30 - 10:55 Jeremy Quastel (Toronto), Probability Theory and Mathematical Physics, Regularity and variational problems for Airy processes, Richelieu 10:30 - 10:55 Yuri Tschinkel (Courant Inst.; NYU), Geometry of Algebraic Varieties, Del Pezzo surfaces over function fields of curves, St-Charles 10:30 - 11:00 Jason Behrstock (CUNY), Geometrical Group Theory, Divergence, thick groups, and morse geodesics, Saint-Maurice 10:30 - 11:00 Manfred Kolster (McMaster), Algebraic Number Theory, The Coates-Sinnott Conjecture, Hochelaga 4 10:30 - 11:00 Alfred Maquet (Pierre-Marie Curie), Quantum Imaging, Status of the time variable in quantum mechanics and the new generation of experiments with attosecond pulses of radiation, Peribonka 10:30 - 11:00 Christopher Sinclair (Oregon), Mathematical Physics - Random Matrices and Integrable Systems, Kernel Asymptotics for the Mahler Ensemble of Real Polynomials, Saguenay 10:30 - 11:00 Driss Yakoubi (Laval), Computational Fluid Dynamics, A Hierarchical Iterative Solver and Fractional Timestepping Schemes for the Navier-Stokes Equations, Bellachasse 10:30 - 11:20 Hugh Thomas (UNB-Fredericton), Algebraic Combinatorics, Lexicographically first subwords in Coxeter groups and quiver representations, Gatineau 11:00 - 11:25 Suresh Eswarathasan (CRM;McGill), Partial Differential Equations and Spectral Theory, Lower bounds for the Weyl Remainder, Chaudière 11:00 - 11:25 Veronique Hussin (Montréal), Symmetries of Differential and Difference Equations, Grassmannian sigma models and constant curvature solutions, Matapédia 11:00 - 11:25 Richard Rand, Applied Mathematics, Disappearance of Resonant Tongues, St-Laurent 11:00 - 11:25 Peter Russell (McGill), Geometry of Algebraic Varieties, Forms of actions of the multiplicative group on affine 3-space, St-Charles 11:00 - 11:25 Renate Scheidler (Calgary), Analytic Number Theory, Distribution of Class Numbers of Function Fields, St-François 11:00 - 11:25 Robert Smith? (Ottawa), Epidemiology - Infectious Diseases, Controlling Malaria with Indoor Residual Spraying in Spatially Heterogeneous Environments, Chambly 11:00 - 11:25 Cristina Stoica (Wilfrid Laurier), Celestial Mechanics, Relative equilibria in symmetric $(2N+1)$-body problems, Hochelaga 5 11:00 - 11:25 Dilian Yang (Windsor), Operator Theory and Operator Algebras, The structure of nonself-adjoint 2-graph algebras, Hochelaga 6 11:00 - 11:30 John Federici (New Jersey Inst. of Technology), Quantum Imaging, Image and beam correction algorithms for THz computed Tomography Imaging, Peribonka 11:00 - 11:30 Mark Hagen (Michigan), Geometrical Group Theory, Thick cubulated groups, Saint-Maurice 11:00 - 11:30 Dmitry Korotkin (Concordia), Mathematical Physics - Random Matrices and Integrable Systems, Baker-Akhiezer spinor and Bergman tau-function on moduli spaces of meromorphic differentials, Saguenay 11:00 - 11:30 Azzeddine Soulaimani (École de technologie supérieure), Computational Fluid Dynamics, The eXtended Finite Element Method for Moving interface problems, Bellachasse 11:00 - 11:30 John Voight (Vermont-Burlington), Algebraic Number Theory, Kronecker's Jugendtraum and power series expansions of modular forms, Hochelaga 4 11:30 - 12:20 Matthew Kennedy (Carleton), Doctoral Prize, Multivariable operator theory, St-François 12:30 - 14:00 Launch of the Long Range Plan for the Mathematical Sciences, St-François 14:00 - 14:25 Serban Belinschi (Queen's), Operator Theory and Operator Algebras, Using fully matricial functions to compute distributions of polynomials in unitarily invariant random matrices, Hochelaga 6 14:00 - 14:25 Lydia Bourouiba (MIT), Epidemiology - Infectious Diseases, Contact and transmission, Chambly 14:00 - 14:25 Bernard Brooks, Applied Mathematics, A two-population competition model for a finite natural resource, St-Laurent 14:00 - 14:25 Karl Dilcher (Dalhousie), Analytic Number Theory, A congruence of Emma Lehmer related to Euler numbers, St-François 14:00 - 14:25 Dima Khavinson (South Florida), Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, Analytic functions in Smirnov classes with real boundary values., youville 14:00 - 14:25 Daniel Offin (Queen's University), Celestial Mechanics, Dynamics, stability and symmetric minimization, Hochelaga 5 14:00 - 14:25 Ziv Ran (California-Riverside), Geometry of Algebraic Varieties, Differential Equations in Hilbert-Mumford Calculus, St-Charles 14:00 - 14:25 Matt Roberts (McGill), Probability Theory and Mathematical Physics, Intermittency in branching random walk in random environment, Richelieu 14:00 - 14:25 Robert Seiringer (McGill), Partial Differential Equations and Spectral Theory, A positive density analogue of the Lieb-Thirring inequality, Chaudière 14:00 - 14:25 Zhengzheng Yang (UBC), Symmetries of Differential and Difference Equations, Matapédia 14:00 - 14:30 Ian Cunningham (Western), Quantum Imaging, Advances required to improve image quality in medical radiography – a statistical problem, Peribonka 14:00 - 14:30 Antonio Lei (McGill), Algebraic Number Theory, Beilinson-Flach elements for the Rankin-Selberg convolution, Hochelaga 4 14:00 - 14:30 Michael Mackey (McGill), Nonlinear Functional Differential Equations, Modeling chemotherapy effects on hematopoiesis, Bersimis 14:00 - 14:30 Andrew McIntire (Bennington), Mathematical Physics - Random Matrices and Integrable Systems, Chern-simons invariant of infinite volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds, Saguenay 14:00 - 14:30 Kristjan Onu (McGill), Computational Fluid Dynamics, Objective detection of Lagrangian vortices in two-dimensional turbulence, Bellachasse 14:00 - 14:30 Tim Riley (Cornell), Geometrical Group Theory, Cannon-Thurston maps, hyperbolic hydra, and subgroup distortion, Saint-Maurice 14:00 - 14:35 Nantel Bergeron (York), Algebraic Combinatorics, Hopf monoid for supercharacter and NCSym, Gatineau 14:30 - 16:30 COMC Committee Meeting, Terrabone 14:30 - 14:55 Stephen Anco (Brock), Symmetries of Differential and Difference Equations, Symmetry analysis and exact solutions of semilinear Schrodinger equations, Matapédia 14:30 - 14:55 Cameron Browne (South Florida), Epidemiology - Infectious Diseases, Within-host virus model with age-structure in the infected cell compartment, Chambly 14:30 - 14:55 Douglas Farenick (Regina), Operator Theory and Operator Algebras, Operator systems from discrete groups, Hochelaga 6 14:30 - 14:55 John Friedlander (Toronto), Analytic Number Theory, Squares and Primes, St-François 14:30 - 14:55 Benjamin Landon (McGill), Partial Differential Equations and Spectral Theory, The scattering length at positive temperature, Chaudière 14:30 - 14:55 Anna Levit (British Columbia), Probability Theory and Mathematical Physics, Ground states for mean field models with a transverse component, Richelieu 14:30 - 14:55 Tamas Wiandt, Applied Mathematics, Bifurcation scenarios in a system of delay differential equations, St-Laurent 14:30 - 14:55 Tong Zhang (Alberta), Geometry of Algebraic Varieties, Relative Noether inequality on fibered surfaces, St-Charles 14:30 - 14:55 Nina Zorboska (Manitoba), Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, Hyperbolic derivative, distortion and composition operators on the Bloch-type spaces, youville 14:30 - 15:00 Owen Baker (McMaster), Geometrical Group Theory, Cannon--Thurston maps do not always exist, Saint-Maurice 14:30 - 15:00 Anton Dzhamay (Northern Colorado), Mathematical Physics - Random Matrices and Integrable Systems, Discrete Hamiltonian Structure of Schlesinger Transformations, Saguenay 14:30 - 15:00 Denis Hinz (McGill), Computational Fluid Dynamics, Statistics of the Navier--Stokes-alpha-beta regularization model for fluid turbulence, Bellachasse 14:30 - 15:00 Daniel Levesque (Sherbrooke), Quantum Imaging, Immersive Environment for Molecular Visualization, Peribonka 14:30 - 15:00 Jan Minac (Western), Algebraic Number Theory, Abel-Galois T.V. Channel D8 Interview of V.I.S.G.G., Hochelaga 4 14:30 - 15:00 Jianhong Wu (York), Nonlinear Functional Differential Equations, Global dynamics of the Nicholson's blowflies equation revisited: onset and termination of nonlinear oscillations, Bersimis 14:40 - 15:15 Stephanie van Willigenburg (UBC), Algebraic Combinatorics, Maximal supports and Schur-positivity among connected skew shapes, Gatineau 15:00 - 15:25 Omer Angel (British Columbia), Probability Theory and Mathematical Physics, Half planar maps, Richelieu 15:00 - 15:25 Richard Fournier (Montréal), Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, A reversed triangle inequality for polynomials, youville 15:00 - 15:25 Leo Goldmakher (Toronto), Analytic Number Theory, L-functions with n-th order twists, St-François 15:00 - 15:25 Jane Heffernan (York), Epidemiology - Infectious Diseases, Vaccination programs against sexually transmitted diseases, Chambly 15:00 - 15:25 Abdalla Mansur (Queen's University), Celestial Mechanics, The Maslov index and Stability of Periodic Solutions, Hochelaga 5 15:00 - 15:25 David McKinnon (Waterloo), Geometry of Algebraic Varieties, A Liouville Theorem for algebraic varieties, St-Charles 15:00 - 15:25 Roman Popovych (Brock), Symmetries of Differential and Difference Equations, Potential symmetries in dimension three, Matapédia 15:00 - 15:25 Chris Ramsey (Waterloo), Operator Theory and Operator Algebras, Triangular UHF algebras, Hochelaga 6 15:00 - 15:25 David Sher (CRM;McGill), Partial Differential Equations and Spectral Theory, The determinant on flat conic surfaces with excision of disks, Chaudière 15:00 - 15:25 Michael Yampolsky, Applied Mathematics, St-Laurent 15:00 - 15:30 Tucker Carrington (Queen's), Quantum Imaging, Using sparse grids to solve the vibrational Schroedinger equation, Peribonka 15:00 - 15:30 John Labute (McGill), Algebraic Number Theory, Linking Numbers, Mild Groups and the Fontaine-Mazur Conjecture, Hochelaga 4 15:00 - 15:30 Felicia Magpantay (York), Nonlinear Functional Differential Equations, An age-structured population model with state-dependent delay: derivation and numerical integration, Bersimis 15:00 - 15:30 Jacek Szmigielski (Saskatoon), Mathematical Physics - Random Matrices and Integrable Systems, Two applications of Cauchy biorthogonal polynomials, Saguenay 15:00 - 15:30 Svetla Vassileva (McGill), Geometrical Group Theory, The Magnus embedding is a quasi-isometry, Saint-Maurice 15:20 - 15:55 Chris Berg (UQAM), Algebraic Combinatorics, Strong Schur functions and down operators for the affine nilCoxeter algebra., Gatineau 15:30 - 15:55 Elena Braverman, Applied Mathematics, On the competition of spatially distributed populations choosing different diffusion strategies, St-Laurent 15:30 - 15:55 Shannon Collinson (York), Epidemiology - Infectious Diseases, Mass media effects on influenza infection, Chambly 15:30 - 15:55 George Elliott (Toronto), Operator Theory and Operator Algebras, What does classification mean?, Hochelaga 6 15:30 - 15:55 Paul Gauthier (Montréal), Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, Zero-free polynomial approximation on trees of Jordan domains, youville 15:30 - 15:55 Juan Luis Garcia Guirao (Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena), Celestial Mechanics, Periodic orbits and $\mathcal{C}^1$-integrability in the planar Stark-Zeeman problem, Hochelaga 5 15:30 - 15:55 Yu Ru Liu (Waterloo), Analytic Number Theory, Multidimensional Vinogradov-type estimates in function fields, St-François 15:30 - 15:55 Asaf Nachmias (British Columbia), Probability Theory and Mathematical Physics, Hypercube percolation, Richelieu 15:30 - 15:55 Frédéric Rochon (UQAM), Partial Differential Equations and Spectral Theory, Compactness of relatively isospectral sets of surfaces with cusps, Chaudière 15:30 - 15:55 Mike Roth (Queen's), Geometry of Algebraic Varieties, Seshadri constants, diophantine approximation, and Roth's theorem for arbitrary varieties, St-Charles 15:30 - 15:55 Francis Valiquette (Dalhousie), Symmetries of Differential and Difference Equations, Group foliation of differential equations using moving frames, Matapédia 15:30 - 16:00 Payman Kassaei (King's College), Algebraic Number Theory, Modularity Lifting via Analytic continuation of Hilbert modular forms, Hochelaga 4 15:30 - 16:00 Anthony Metcalfe (KTH, Sweden), Mathematical Physics - Random Matrices and Integrable Systems, Universality classes of lozenge tilings of a polyhedron, Saguenay 15:30 - 16:00 Tung Nguyen (Laval), Quantum Imaging, Quantum dynamics of correlated electrons for time-resolved imaging of laser-driven molecules: Formal and computational challenge, Peribonka 15:30 - 16:00 Marius Paraschivoiu (Concordia), Computational Fluid Dynamics, CFD based simulation of spontaneous ignition of pressurized hydrogen release, Bellachasse 15:30 - 16:00 Robert Young (Toronto), Geometrical Group Theory, Lipschitz spheres in the Heisenberg groups, Saint-Maurice 15:30 - 16:00 Xiaoqiang Zhao (Memorial), Nonlinear Functional Differential Equations, Global Dynamics of A Time-Delayed Reaction and Diffusion Malaria Model, Bersimis 16:00 - 16:15 Break, Duluth/Mackenzie 16:00 - 17:00 Student Poster Judging, Duluth 16:15 - 16:40 David Gamarnik (MIT), Probability Theory and Mathematical Physics, Convergent sequences of sparse graphs: A large deviations approach, Richelieu 16:15 - 16:40 Gordon Heier (Houston), Geometry of Algebraic Varieties, On curvature and the structure of projective Kaehler manifolds, St-Charles 16:15 - 16:40 Habiba Kadiri (Lethbridge), Analytic Number Theory, New explicit bounds for a prime counting function, St-François 16:15 - 16:40 Alexey Kokotov (Concordia), Partial Differential Equations and Spectral Theory, Krein formula and S-matrix for Euclidean Surfaces with Conical Singularities, Chaudière 16:15 - 16:40 Herb Kunze, Applied Mathematics, Inverse boundary value problems in reflexive Banach spaces, St-Laurent 16:15 - 16:40 Nathan McClure (Queen's), Epidemiology - Infectious Diseases, Slowing evolution is a more effective means of managing antimicrobial resistance than enhancing drug development, Chambly 16:15 - 16:40 Alexey Popov (Waterloo), Operator Theory and Operator Algebras, Every operator has an almost-invariant subspace, Hochelaga 6 16:15 - 16:40 Sarah Post (Univ. of Hawaii), Symmetries of Differential and Difference Equations, Contractions of superintegrable systems and limits of orthogonal polynomials, Matapédia 16:15 - 16:40 Manuele Santoprete (Wilfrid Laurier), Celestial Mechanics, Relative equilibria in the four-vortex problem with two pairs of equal vorticities, Hochelaga 5 16:15 - 16:40 Jie Xiao (Memorial), Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, Composite Mappings between Analytic Campanato Spaces, youville 16:15 - 16:45 Hadi Bigdely (McGill), Geometrical Group Theory, Quasiconvex Subgroups of Relatively Hyperbolic groups, Saint-Maurice 16:15 - 16:45 John Harnad (Concordia), Mathematical Physics - Random Matrices and Integrable Systems, Finite Dimensional Tau Functions, Saguenay 16:15 - 16:45 Jean-Marc Lina (École de Téchnologie Superieure), Quantum Imaging, Wavelet-based Localization of Oscillatory Brain Activities in Electro-Magnetic Imaging, Peribonka 16:15 - 16:45 Kumar Murty (Toronto), Algebraic Number Theory, Growth of the Selmer group of an Abelian variety with CM, Hochelaga 4 16:15 - 16:45 Dominique Pelletier (École Polytechnique de Montréa), Computational Fluid Dynamics, Implicit Runge-Kutta time integrators for flows on deforming domains, Bellachasse 16:15 - 16:45 Gail Wolkowicz (McMaster), Nonlinear Functional Differential Equations, Dynamics of the chemostat and classical predator-prey models with time delay, Bersimis 16:15 - 16:50 Mike Zabrocki (York), Algebraic Combinatorics, Another Schur-like basis in the algebra of Non-Commutative Symmetric Functions, Gatineau 16:45 - 17:10 Cathérine Bénéteau (South Florida), Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, Cyclicity in the Dirichlet Space: a Constructive Approach, youville 16:45 - 17:10 Elsa Hansen (Harvard), Epidemiology - Infectious Diseases, The mathematics of in vitro culture for Plasmodium, Chambly 16:45 - 17:10 Dimitris Koukoulopoulos (Montréal), Analytic Number Theory, Groups structures of elliptic curves over finite fields, St-François 16:45 - 17:10 Michael Kozdron (Regina), Probability Theory and Mathematical Physics, Bayes' rule for quantum random variables and positive operator valued measures, Richelieu 16:45 - 17:10 Jean-Philippe Lessard, Applied Mathematics, Rigorous Computations for Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems, St-Laurent 16:45 - 17:10 Steven Lu (UQAM), Geometry of Algebraic Varieties, Algebraic and analytic bubbles in algebraic varieties, St-Charles 16:45 - 17:10 Sarah Plosker (Guelph), Operator Theory and Operator Algebras, Private Quantum Codes, Hochelaga 6 16:45 - 17:10 Gareth Roberts (College of the Holy Cross), Celestial Mechanics, Stability of Relative Equilibria in the N-Vortex Problem, Hochelaga 5 16:45 - 17:10 Vitali Vougalter (Cape Town), Partial Differential Equations and Spectral Theory, Existence and nonlinear stability of stationary states for the semi-relativistic Schroedinger-Poisson system, Chaudière 16:45 - 17:10 Thomas Wolf (Brock), Symmetries of Differential and Difference Equations, Matapédia 16:45 - 17:15 Matthew Greenberg (Calgary), Algebraic Number Theory, $p$-arithmetic and completed cohomology of quaternionic Shimura varieties, Hochelaga 4 16:45 - 17:15 Emmanuel Lorin de la Grand Maison (Carleton), Quantum Imaging, Absorbing boundary conditions for quantum relativistic mechanics, Peribonka 16:45 - 17:15 Jeremy McDonald (Stevens Inst. of Technology New Jersey), Geometrical Group Theory, Algorithmic problems for groups discriminated by a locally quasi-convex hyperbolic group, Saint-Maurice 16:45 - 17:15 Balint Virag (Toronto), Mathematical Physics - Random Matrices and Integrable Systems, Random operators at the edge, Saguenay 16:45 - 17:15 Xingfu Zou (Western), Nonlinear Functional Differential Equations, On a DDE model describing malaria transmission dynamics in a patch environment, Bersimis 17:00 - 17:35 Ed Richmond (UBC), Algebraic Combinatorics, Coxeter groups, palindromic Poincar\'{e} polynomials and triangle group avoidance., Gatineau 17:15 - 17:40 Xi Chen (Alberta), Geometry of Algebraic Varieties, Rational self maps of Calabi-Yau manifolds, St-Charles 17:15 - 17:40 Alexei Cheviakov (Saskatchewan), Symmetries of Differential and Difference Equations, On Symmetry Properties of a Class of Constitutive Models in Two-dimensional Nonlinear Elastodynamics, Matapédia 17:15 - 17:40 Omar El-Fallah (Univ. of Mohammed V), Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, Some Examples of composition operators in Schatten classes, youville 17:15 - 17:40 Renjie Feng (CRM; McGill), Partial Differential Equations and Spectral Theory, Some recent results on Gaussian random fields over Kahler manifolds, Chaudière 17:15 - 17:40 Jeffrey Lawson (Western Carolina), Celestial Mechanics, Saari's Conjecture on simple mechanical systems with symmetry, Hochelaga 5 17:15 - 17:40 Jason Miller (MIT), Probability Theory and Mathematical Physics, Imaginary Geometry and the Gaussian Free Field, Richelieu 17:15 - 17:40 Michael Radin, Applied Mathematics, Eventually periodic and unbounded solutions of a non-autonomous max-type difference equation, St-Laurent 17:15 - 17:40 Mike Rubinstein (Waterloo), Analytic Number Theory, Applications of a summation formula to Dirichlet series, St-François 17:15 - 17:40 Roland Speicher (Universität des Saarlandes), Operator Theory and Operator Algebras, Sharp bounds for sums associated to graphs of matrices, Hochelaga 6 17:15 - 17:40 Huaiping Zhu (York), Epidemiology - Infectious Diseases, Bifurcations and Complex Dynamics of an SIR Model with the Impact of Hospital Resources, Chambly 17:15 - 17:45 Ian Biringer (Boston College), Geometrical Group Theory, Growth of Betti numbers and a probabilistic take on geometric convergence, Saint-Maurice 17:15 - 17:45 François Fillion-Gourdeau (CRM), Quantum Imaging, Recent advances in numerical solutions of the molecular relativistic time-dependent Dirac equation, Peribonka 17:15 - 17:45 Glenn Stevens (Boston), Algebraic Number Theory, The Hodge-Tate sequence and overconvergent $p$-adic modular sheaves, Hochelaga 4 17:45 - 18:10 Yanhong Yang (Columbia), Geometry of Algebraic Varieties, Rationality of Euler-Chow series and finite generation of Cox rings, St-Charles 19:00 - 20:00 Doyne Farmer (Oxford), Public Lecture, The complex challenge of sustainability, St-François 20:00 - 22:00 Student Social, TELUS Fire on Ice in Old Port Montreal / Les 3 Brasseurs in Old Montreal 20:30 - 22:00 Mathematical Science Investigation (MSI): The Anatomy of Integers and Permutations, St-François Sunday December 9 8:00 - 16:00 Registration, Duluth 8:00 - 16:00 Student Poster Session, Duluth 8:00 - 8:25 Alex Bloemendal (Harvard), Probability Theory and Mathematical Physics, Spiked random matrices, Richelieu 8:00 - 8:25 Elias Katsoulis (East Carolina Univ.;Univ. of Athens), Operator Theory and Operator Algebras, C*-algebras and equivalences for C*-correspondences, Hochelaga 6 8:00 - 8:25 James Lewis (Alberta), Geometry of Algebraic Varieties, Hodge Type Conjectures and the Bloch-Kato Theorem, St-Charles 8:00 - 8:25 Raphaël Rebelo (Montréal), Symmetries of Differential and Difference Equations, Symmetry preserving discretization of partial differential equations, Matapédia 8:00 - 8:25 Carley Rogers (Ottawa), Epidemiology - Infectious Diseases, Improving HPV vaccination programs across Canada, Chambly 8:00 - 8:25 Chunhua Shan (York), Contributed Papers, Finite cyclicity of hh-graphics with a triple nilpotent singularity of codimension 4, Bellechasse 8:00 - 8:30 Sue Ann Campbell (Waterloo), Nonlinear Functional Differential Equations, Plankton Models with Time Delay, Bersimis 8:00 - 8:30 Olga Kharlampovich (Hunter College), Geometrical Group Theory, Algorithmic problems for toral relatively hyperbolic groups, Saint-Maurice 8:00 - 8:30 Sujatha Ramdorai (UBC), Algebraic Number Theory, Congruences between p-adic L-values, Hochelaga 4 8:30 - 10:00 Mathematics for the Life Sciences, Panel and Discussion, Ramezay 8:30 - 8:55 Alexander Bihlo (CRM), Symmetries of Differential and Difference Equations, Invariant discretization schemes, Matapédia 8:30 - 8:55 Paul Bourgade (Harvard), Probability Theory and Mathematical Physics, Universality for beta ensembles, Richelieu 8:30 - 8:55 Fabrice Colin (Université Laurentienne), Contributed Papers, Generalized Fountain Theorem and Application to the Semilinear Schrödinger Equation, Bellechasse 8:30 - 8:55 Gregory Pearlstein (Michigan State), Geometry of Algebraic Varieties, The zero locus of the infinitesimal invariant, St-Charles 8:30 - 8:55 Heydar Radjavi (Waterloo), Operator Theory and Operator Algebras, Semigroups of Partial Isometries, Hochelaga 6 8:30 - 8:55 Robert Smith? (Ottawa), Epidemiology - Infectious Diseases, A mathematical model of Bieber Fever: the most infectious disease of our time?, Chambly 8:30 - 9:00 Jacques Bélair (Montréal), Nonlinear Functional Differential Equations, DISTRIBUTION OF DELAYS IN A PHARMACODYNAMIC MODEL, Bersimis 8:30 - 9:00 Stephen Kudla (Toronto), Algebraic Number Theory, An alternative description of Drinfeld space and applications, Hochelaga 4 8:30 - 9:00 Nicholas Touikan (Marseille), Geometrical Group Theory, On the isomorphism problem for relatively hyperbolic groups. (Joint with François Dahmani), Saint-Maurice 9:00 - 9:50 Duong H. Phong (Columbia), Plenary Speakers, Green's functions and complex Monge-Ampere equations, St-François 9:30 - 16:00 Exhibits, Duluth 10:00 - 10:30 Break, Duluth/Mackenzie 10:30 - 11:20 Ted Hsu (Physicist and Federal MP), Plenary Speakers, Reflections of a new scientist-parliamentarian, St-François 11:30 - 12:20 Melania Alvarez ((UBC; PIMS)), Adrien Pouliot Award, Mathematics Outreach: Getting Mathematicians Involved, St-François 14:00 - 15:30 Institute Directors Meeting, Terrabonne 14:00 - 14:20 Sylvia Nickerson (Toronto), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Mathematics and the book trade in English Canada, 1850-1925, Harricana 14:00 - 14:25 Line Baribeau (Laval), Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, A new necessary condition for the spectral Nevanlinna-Pick problem, youville 14:00 - 14:25 Ibrahima Dione (Laval), Contributed Papers, Penalty/finite element approximations of slip boundary conditions and Babuska's paradox, Bellechasse 14:00 - 14:25 Nassif Ghoussoub (UBC), Partial Differential Equations and Spectral Theory, Stability and Regularity in elliptic systems and 4th order equations, Chaudière 14:00 - 14:25 Qihua Huang (Alberta), Ecological Dynamics Under Temporal Variation, Mathematical Risk Assessment of Contaminants on Fish Population Dynamics, Péribonka 14:00 - 14:25 Jacques Hurtubise (McGill), Geometry of Algebraic Varieties, Pseudo-real bundles on Kahler varieties, St-Charles 14:00 - 14:25 Isabella Laba (UBC), Analytic Number Theory, Buffon's needle estimates and vanishing sums of roots of unity, St-François 14:00 - 14:25 Marcelo Laca (Victoria), Operator Theory and Operator Algebras, Phase transitions from dilation matrices and self similar actions, Hochelaga 6 14:00 - 14:25 Willard Miller Jr. (Minnesota), Symmetries of Differential and Difference Equations, Contractions of 2D 2nd order quantum superintegrable systems and the Askey scheme for hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials, Matapédia 14:00 - 14:25 Ed Perkins (UBC), Probability and Biology, Phase Transition for Measure-valued SIR Epidemic Processes, Richelieu 14:00 - 14:25 Alexandra Tcheng, Applied Mathematics, An explicit numerical method for evolving manifolds, St-Laurent 14:00 - 14:30 Pavel Bleher (Indiana), Mathematical Physics - Random Matrices and Integrable Systems, Exact solution of the six-vertex model with DWBC. Critical line between disordered and antiferroelectric phases, Saguenay 14:00 - 14:30 Hugo Chapdelaine (Laval), Algebraic Number Theory, Archimedean Stark conjectures and real analytic Eisenstein series, Hochelaga 4 14:00 - 14:30 Vadim Kaimanovich (Ottawa), Geometrical Group Theory, Boundary convergence and relative hyperbolicty, Saint-Maurice 14:00 - 14:30 Yuan Yuan (Memorial), Nonlinear Functional Differential Equations, Stability and Bifurcation in FDE with Distributed Delay, Bersimis 14:00 - 14:30 Daniel Zenklusen (Montréal), Epidemiology - Genomics, Imaging Single Transcripts Resolves Kinetics of Gene Expression Processes, Kamouraska 14:00 - 14:35 Christophe Reutenauer (UQAM), Algebraic Combinatorics, Constructing bases of finite index subgroups of free groups using Sturmian sequences, Gatineau 14:00 - 16:00 Planning Meeting, Mathematics Education: Planning for CMEF 2014, Ramezay 14:30 - 14:50 Tom Archibald (SFU), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Publishing Mathematics in German 1800-1825, Harricana 14:30 - 14:55 Almut Burchard (Toronto), Partial Differential Equations and Spectral Theory, Perimeter under multiple Steiner symmetrizations, Chaudière 14:30 - 14:55 Charles Doran (Alberta), Geometry of Algebraic Varieties, The 14th Case VHS and K3 Fibrations: Overview, St-Charles 14:30 - 14:55 Toshiaki Fujiwara (Kitasato), Celestial Mechanics, Saari's homographic conjecture for the planar equal-mass three-body problem under the Newton potential and a strong force potent, Hochelaga 5 14:30 - 14:55 Michael Hartz (Waterloo), Operator Theory and Operator Algebras, Universal operator algebras associated to homogeneous varieties, Hochelaga 6 14:30 - 14:55 Youness Lamzouri (Urbana), Analytic Number Theory, Discrepancy bounds for the distribution of the Riemann zeta function, St-François 14:30 - 14:55 Sophie Léger (Laval), Contributed Papers, An updated Lagrangian method for very large deformation problems, Bellechasse 14:30 - 14:55 Mark Lyon, Applied Mathematics, Spectral Fourier Continuation methods for PDE Solution, St-Laurent 14:30 - 14:55 Eric Schippers (Manitoba), Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, A functional-analytic proof of the conformal welding theorem, youville 14:30 - 14:55 Sasha Turbiner (UNAM), Symmetries of Differential and Difference Equations, $BC_2$ Lame polynomials, Matapédia 14:30 - 14:55 Xiaowen Zhou (Concordia), Probability and Biology, Support properties of a class of Lambda-Fleming-Viot processes with underlying Brownian motion, Richelieu 14:30 - 14:55 Huaiping Zhu (York), Ecological Dynamics Under Temporal Variation, Modeling of Mosquito Abundance and West Nile Virus Risk Using Weather and Environment Conditions, Péribonka 14:30 - 15:00 Uri Ascher (UBC), Nonlinear Functional Differential Equations, Stochastic algorithms for inverse problems involving PDEs and many measurements, Bersimis 14:30 - 15:00 Marco Bertola (Concordia), Mathematical Physics - Random Matrices and Integrable Systems, Universality in Unitary Random matrix models, Saguenay 14:30 - 15:00 Clifton Cunningham (Calgary), Algebraic Number Theory, A geometric and categorical description of complete Langlands parameters for quasi-split $p$-adic groups, Hochelaga 4 14:30 - 15:00 Michael Mackey (McGill), Epidemiology - Genomics, Molecular distributions in gene regulatory networks, Kamouraska 14:30 - 15:00 Dmytro Savchuk (South Florida), Geometrical Group Theory, Self-similar groups acting essentially freely on the boundary of a rooted tree, Saint-Maurice 14:40 - 15:15 Drew Armstrong (Miami), Algebraic Combinatorics, Rational Catalan Combinatorics, Gatineau 15:00 - 15:20 Craig Fraser (Toronto), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Zermelos navigation problem in the calculus of variations, Harricana 15:00 - 15:25 Iddo Ben-Ari (Connecticut), Probability and Biology, Diffusion with Redistribution, Richelieu 15:00 - 15:25 Kevin Hare (Waterloo), Analytic Number Theory, Garsia Numbers, St-François 15:00 - 15:25 Safouhi Hassan (Alberta), Contributed Papers, New Formulae for Differentiation and Techniques in Numerical Integration, Bellechasse 15:00 - 15:25 Ronald Haynes, Applied Mathematics, A Parallel Space-Time Approach for the Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations, St-Laurent 15:00 - 15:25 James Mingo (Queen's), Operator Theory and Operator Algebras, Second Order Freeness and Orthogonal Random Matrices, Hochelaga 6 15:00 - 15:25 Arian Novruzi (Ottawa), Partial Differential Equations and Spectral Theory, About the regularity of optimal convex domains, Chaudière 15:00 - 15:25 Danilo Riglioni (CRM), Symmetries of Differential and Difference Equations, Superintegrable systems on non Euclidean spaces, Matapédia 15:00 - 15:25 Alan Thompson (Alberta), Geometry of Algebraic Varieties, The 14th Case VHS and K3 Fibrations: Elliptic Surfaces, St-Charles 15:00 - 15:25 Malik Younsi (Laval), Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, Computation of Analytic Capacity and applications to the Subadditivity Problem, youville 15:00 - 15:25 Xiaoqiang Zhao (Memorial), Ecological Dynamics Under Temporal Variation, A Reaction-Diffusion Lyme Disease Model with Seasonality, Péribonka 15:00 - 15:30 Chung Pang Mok (McMaster), Algebraic Number Theory, Endoscopic classification of representations for quasi-split unitary groups, Hochelaga 4 15:00 - 15:30 Bogdan Nica (Göttingen), Geometrical Group Theory, Proper isometric actions of hyperbolic groups on $L^p$-spaces, Saint-Maurice 15:00 - 15:30 Theodore Perkins (Ottawa Health Research Institute), Epidemiology - Genomics, What Do Molecules Do When We're Not Looking? State Sequence Analysis for Stochastic Chemical Systems, Kamouraska 15:20 - 15:55 Vivien Ripoll (UQAM), Algebraic Combinatorics, Limit points of root systems of infinite Coxeter groups, Gatineau 15:30 - 15:50 Laura Turner (Toronto), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Analytic representation and the Mittag-Leffler circle: Contrasting notions of generality in the late 19th century, Harricana 15:30 - 15:55 Xiaowen Chang, Applied Mathematics, Why is the LLL reduction useful for solving an integer least squares problem, St-Laurent 15:30 - 15:55 Don Dawson (Carleton), Probability and Biology, Multitype mutation-selection-migration dynamics and a set-valued dual, Richelieu 15:30 - 15:55 Florin Diacu (Victoria), Celestial Mechanics, Rotopulsators of the curved N-body problem, Hochelaga 5 15:30 - 15:55 Wenying Feng (Trent), Partial Differential Equations and Spectral Theory, Nonlinear spectra and related maps: generalizations and applications, Chaudière 15:30 - 15:55 Karim Kellay (Bordeaux), Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, Sampling, interpolation and Riesz bases in small Fock spaces, youville 15:30 - 15:55 Patrick Lacasse (Laval), Contributed Papers, Résolution d'un problème d'élasticité avec contact sans frottement par stratégie de contraintes actives et algorithme itératif., Bellechasse 15:30 - 15:55 Frithjof Lutscher (Ottawa), Ecological Dynamics Under Temporal Variation, Modeling seasonal behavior change and disease transmission in wildlife, Péribonka 15:30 - 15:55 Andrey Novoseltsev (Alberta), Geometry of Algebraic Varieties, The 14th Case VHS and K3 Fibrations: Toric Approach, St-Charles 15:30 - 15:55 Paul Skoufranis (UCLA), Operator Theory and Operator Algebras, Normal Limits of Nilpotents in C*-Algebras, Hochelaga 6 15:30 - 15:55 Zora Thomova (SUNYIT), Symmetries of Differential and Difference Equations, Contact transformations for difference equations, Matapédia 15:30 - 15:55 Hugh Williams (Calgary), Analytic Number Theory, Monoapparitic Linear Divisibility Sequences of Order Four, St-François 15:30 - 16:00 Marc Roussel (Lethbridge), Epidemiology - Genomics, Stochastic effects in gene transcription, Kamouraska 15:30 - 16:00 Lior Silbermann (UBC), Geometrical Group Theory, Fixed points for Lipschitz actions of random groups, Saint-Maurice 15:30 - 16:00 Mak Trifkovic (Victoria), Algebraic Number Theory, The Bost-Connes Functor, Hochelaga 4 16:00 - 16:15 Break, Duluth/Mackenzie 16:00 - 18:00 CMS Education Committee, Ramezay 16:15 - 16:35 Mathieu Bélanger (Montréal), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Menger and pointless topology, Harricana 16:15 - 16:40 Matt Calder (Western), Ecological Dynamics Under Temporal Variation, Net Reproductive Number for a Matrix Population Model with Dispersion and an Application to Neogobius Melanostomus, Péribonka 16:15 - 16:40 Raphaël Clouâtre (Indiana), Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, Similarity results for operators of class $C_0$ and the algebra $H^{\infty}(T)$, youville 16:15 - 16:40 Layan El Hajj (McGill), Partial Differential Equations and Spectral Theory, Intersection bounds for planar Neumann eigenfunctions with interior analytic curves, Chaudière 16:15 - 16:40 Greg Martin (UBC), Analytic Number Theory, Inclusive prime number races, St-François 16:15 - 16:40 Lisa Powers, Applied Mathematics, Computing the Measure of Generalized Voronoi Regions, St-Laurent 16:15 - 16:40 Ahmed Sourour (Victoria), Operator Theory and Operator Algebras, Semigroups of matrices generated by a unitary orbit, Hochelaga 6 16:15 - 16:40 J. Guadalupe Reyes Victoria (UAM), Celestial Mechanics, Hochelaga 5 16:15 - 16:40 Balint Virag (Toronto), Probability Theory and Mathematical Physics, The sound of random graphs, Richelieu 16:15 - 16:40 Pavel Winternitz (CRM), Symmetries of Differential and Difference Equations, Symmetry preserving discretization of ordinary differential equations, Matapédia 16:15 - 16:40 Kirill Zaynullin (Ottawa), Geometry of Algebraic Varieties, The gamma-filtration on projective homogeneous spaces, St-Charles 16:15 - 16:45 Alejandro Adem (UBC), Geometrical Group Theory, Spaces of Representations for Abelian Groups, Saint-Maurice 16:15 - 16:45 Ernst Kani (Queen's), Algebraic Number Theory, Tensor Products of Galois Representations, Hochelaga 4 16:15 - 16:45 Chunhua Ou (Memorial), Nonlinear Functional Differential Equations, Delayed reaction diffusion models and traveling waves for spatial spread of rabies in Europe: a re-visit, Bersimis 16:15 - 16:45 Andrew Rutenberg (Dalhousie), Epidemiology - Genomics, Stochastic Models of Plastic Development in Cyanobacterial Filaments, Kamouraska 16:15 - 16:50 Carolina Benedetti (York), Algebraic Combinatorics, Schubert polynomials and $k$-Schur functions, Gatineau 16:45 - 17:10 Yaiza Canzani (McGill), Partial Differential Equations and Spectral Theory, Distribution of randomly propagated Schrödinger eigenfunctions, Chaudière 16:45 - 17:10 Louis-Philippe Saumier Demers, Applied Mathematics, Optimal Transport for Particle Image Velocimetry, St-Laurent 16:45 - 17:10 Frédéric Guichard (McGill), Ecological Dynamics Under Temporal Variation, Marine reserve networks for non-equilibrium metacommunities, Péribonka 16:45 - 17:10 Matthew Kennedy (Carleton), Operator Theory and Operator Algebras, A universal F. \& M. Riesz theorem, Hochelaga 6 16:45 - 17:10 Dana Mendelson (MIT), Probability Theory and Mathematical Physics, Rate of Convergence for Cardy's Formula, Richelieu 16:45 - 17:10 Nathan Ng (Lethbridge), Analytic Number Theory, Simple zeros of degree two L-functions, St-François 16:45 - 17:10 Samir Raouafi (Laval), Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, Pseudospectre et le comportement d'une matrice, youville 16:45 - 17:10 Franklin Vera Pacheco (Fields Institute; Toronto), Geometry of Algebraic Varieties, Resolving some singularities while preserving others., St-Charles 16:45 - 17:15 Tony Humphries (McGill), Nonlinear Functional Differential Equations, Stability and numerical stability of a model state-dependent DDE, Bersimis 16:45 - 17:15 Brian Ingalls (Waterloo), Epidemiology - Genomics, Sensitivity Trade-offs in Systems Biology, Kamouraska 16:45 - 17:15 Thomas Koberda (Yale), Geometrical Group Theory, The curve complex for a right-angled Artin group, Saint-Maurice 16:45 - 17:15 Soroosh Yazdani (Lethbridge), Algebraic Number Theory, Local Szpiro conjecture and rational points on $X_E(6k)$, Hochelaga 4 17:15 - 17:40 Abtellatif Bourhim (Syracuse), Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, Some Problems on Linear Preservers, youville 17:15 - 17:40 Lydia Bourouiba (MIT), Applied Mathematics, Nonlocal energy transfers in rotating homogeneous turbulence, St-Laurent 17:15 - 17:40 Zhiqiang Li (Toronto), Operator Theory and Operator Algebras, On simple inductive limits of splitting interval algebras with dimension drops, Hochelaga 6 17:15 - 17:40 Simon Rose (Queen's), Geometry of Algebraic Varieties, Counting hyperelliptic curves on abelian surfaces with quasi-modular forms, St-Charles 17:15 - 17:40 Damien Roy (Ottawa), Analytic Number Theory, Diophantine approximation with sign constraints, St-François 17:15 - 17:45 Michael Bennett (UBC), Algebraic Number Theory, Effective solution of norm form equations, Hochelaga 4 17:15 - 17:45 Johanna Mangahas (Brown), Geometrical Group Theory, Some Schottky subgroups of mapping class groups, Saint-Maurice 17:15 - 17:45 David McMillen (Toronto), Epidemiology - Genomics, Design methods and constraints for biological integral control, Kamouraska 17:45 - 18:15 Imin Chen (Simon Fraser), Algebraic Number Theory, Ramification of Drinfeld modules, Hochelaga 4 19:00 - 19:30 Banquet Reception, The Tea Lounge 19:30 - 22:00 Banquet, St-François Monday December 10 8:00 - 16:00 Registration, Duluth 8:00 - 8:25 Géraldine Gemieux (CIRRELT; Montréal), Operations Research, A Column Generation Approach for Demand-Driven Harvest Scheduling, Gatineau 8:00 - 8:25 Ruxandra Moraru (Waterloo), Enumerative Geometry and String Theory, Stable bundles on complex nilmanifolds, Harricana 8:00 - 8:25 Rebecca Tyson (UBC Okanagan), Ecological Dynamics Under Temporal Variation, How seasonality, behavior and climate affect predator-prey cycles, Péribonka 8:00 - 8:30 Frantisek Marko (Pennsylvania), Algebraic Number Theory, Congruences of Ankeny-Artin-Chowla type and p-adic class number formula revisited, Hochelaga 4 8:00 - 8:50 Marc Laforest, Applied Mathematics, Perturbations to non-classical shocks in non-convex systems of conservation laws, St-Laurent 8:15 - 8:55 Rick Durrett (Duke), Probability and Biology, A branching process model of ovarian cancer, Richelieu 8:30 - 8:55 Per Berglund (New Hampshire), Enumerative Geometry and String Theory, Global Embeddings for Branes at Toric Singularities and Moduli Stabilization, Harricana 8:30 - 8:55 Gregory Rix (CIRRELT; École Polytechnique de Montréal), Operations Research, A Tactical Transportation-Driven Harvest Planning Problem, Gatineau 8:30 - 8:55 Gunog Seo (Ryerson), Ecological Dynamics Under Temporal Variation, Effect of Temporal Variability on Persistence Conditions in Rivers, Péribonka 8:30 - 9:00 Francesc Castella (McGill), Algebraic Number Theory, On the $p$-adic variation of Heegner points, Hochelaga 4 9:00 - 9:50 Catherine Sulem (Toronto), Plenary Speakers, The Dynamics of Ocean Waves, St-François 10:00 - 10:30 Break, Duluth/Mackenzie 10:30 - 11:20 Martin Nowak (Harvard), Plenary Speakers, Evolution of Cooperation, St-François 11:30 - 12:20 Roland Speicher (Universität des Saarlandes), Jeffery-Williams Prize, On the effectiveness of operator-valued free probability theory, St-François 12:30 - 14:30 CMS Mathematics Competitions Committee, Terrabonne 14:00 - 14:20 Hardy Grant (York), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, "Epistemic Cultures" and the History of Mathematics, Chaudiere 14:00 - 14:25 Hermann Eberl (Guelph), Ecological Dynamics Under Temporal Variation, The role of spatial effects for temporally varying biofilm control strategies, Péribonka 14:00 - 14:25 Dmitry Kolomenskiy, Applied Mathematics, Similarity solutions for unsteady flows near front and rear stagnation points, St-Laurent 14:00 - 14:25 Scott McKinley (Florida-Gainesville), Probability and Biology, Sensing and Decision-Making in Random Search, Richelieu 14:00 - 14:25 Joel Neuheimer (Forest Products Association of Canada), Operations Research, Canadian Forest Products Industry’s Transportation Challenges Moving Forward, Gatineau 14:00 - 14:25 Iickho Song (Korea Advanced Inst. of Science and Technology), Contributed Papers, An Extension of the Vandermonde Convolution Formula, Bellechasse 14:00 - 14:25 Alisha Wissanji (Alberta), Enumerative Geometry and String Theory, IIA Perspective On Cascading Gauge Theory, Harricana 14:00 - 14:25 David Zywina (Queen's), Analytic Number Theory, Modular function fields of genus 0, St-François 14:00 - 14:30 Jochen Gartner ((McGill)), Algebraic Number Theory, Arithmetic curves of type K(pi,1) and higher Massey products, Hochelaga 4 14:00 - 14:30 Xin Liang (McGill University), Recent Research in Econometrics, Necessary and sufficient conditions for identification and estimability of linear parameters, Hochelaga 6 14:00 - 14:30 Jason Manning (Buffalo), Geometrical Group Theory, Recognizing 3-manifold groups, Saint-Maurice 14:00 - 14:30 Janet Raboud (Toronto; Dalla Lana School of Public Health), Epidemiology - Genomics, Left truncation in the context of competing risks, Kamouraska 14:30 - 14:50 Bruce Petrie (Toronto), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Mathematical Notations as Identifiers of Epistemic Cultures., Chaudiere 14:30 - 14:55 Alexander Bihlo, Applied Mathematics, Invariant subgrid-scale closure schemes for turbulence modeling, St-Laurent 14:30 - 14:55 Guillaume Laporte (McGill), Enumerative Geometry and String Theory, Monodromy of an Inhomogeneous Picard-Fuchs Equation, Harricana 14:30 - 14:55 Dave Lepage (FPInnovations), Operations Research, Challenges and opportunities in forest transportation, Gatineau 14:30 - 14:55 Anthony Shaheen (California State), Contributed Papers, A Brief Introduction to Expanders and Ramanujan Graphs, Bellechasse 14:30 - 14:55 Cameron Stewart (Waterloo), Analytic Number Theory, On divisors of binary recurrence sequences, St-François 14:30 - 14:55 Daniel Valesin (UBC), Probability and Biology, Extinction time of the contact process on finite trees, Richelieu 14:30 - 14:55 James Watmough (UNB), Ecological Dynamics Under Temporal Variation, Modelling the spread of aquatic invasives in tidal currents with both drift and maturation delay., Péribonka 14:30 - 15:00 Miljan Brakocevic (McGill), Algebraic Number Theory, Two variable anticyclotomic p-adic L-functions for p-adic families of modular forms, Hochelaga 4 14:30 - 15:00 Dale Rolfsen (UBC), Geometrical Group Theory, Topology and ordering groups, Saint-Maurice 14:30 - 15:00 Mirza Trokic (McGill University), Recent Research in Econometrics, Regulated Variance Ratio Unit Root Tests, Hochelaga 6 14:30 - 15:00 Yongling Xiao (INESSS), Epidemiology - Genomics, Flexible marginal structural models for estimating cumulative effect of time-varying treatment on the hazard, Kamouraska 15:00 - 15:20 Greg Lavers (Concordia), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Explication and Carnap's Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology', Chaudiere 15:00 - 15:25 Vincent Bouchard (Alberta), Enumerative Geometry and String Theory, Topological recursion and double Hurwitz numbers, Harricana 15:00 - 15:25 Jean-Marie de Koninck (Laval), Analytic Number Theory, Nouvelles méthodes permettant de construire des familles de nombres normaux, St-François 15:00 - 15:25 Trueman MacHenry (York), Contributed Papers, Permanents, Determinants, Integer Sequences and Isobaric Polynomials, Bellechasse 15:00 - 15:25 Raoul Normand (Toronto), Probability and Biology, A model of migration under constraint, Richelieu 15:00 - 15:25 Reino Pulkki (Lakehead), Operations Research, Modeling forest products supply chain by integrating enhanced forest inventories and merchandizing yard operations, Gatineau 15:00 - 15:25 Jozsef Vass, Applied Mathematics, An Exact Model of Fully Developed Turbulence, St-Laurent 15:00 - 15:30 Adam Clay (UQAM), Geometrical Group Theory, Graph manifolds, orderability, L-spaces and foliations, Saint-Maurice 15:00 - 15:30 Purevdorj Tuvaandorj (McGill University), Recent Research in Econometrics, Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Inference in Possibly Unidentified Models, Hochelaga 6 15:00 - 15:30 Jessica Young (Harvard School of Public Health), Epidemiology - Genomics, Simulation from a known Cox MSM using standard parametric models for the g-formula, Kamouraska 15:30 - 15:50 Jean-Pierre Marquis (Montréal), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Some remarks on the abstract method in 20th century mathematics, Chaudiere 15:30 - 15:55 Sanjay Dominik Jena (CIRRELT; Montréal), Operations Research, Modeling and Solving Location Problems for the Forestry Industry, Gatineau 15:30 - 15:55 Odile Marcotte (CRM), Contributed Papers, On the maximum orders of an induced forest, an induced tree, and a stable set, Bellechasse 15:30 - 15:55 Jonthan Mattingly (Duke), Probability and Biology, A Numerical Method for the SDEs from Chemical Equations, Richelieu 15:30 - 15:55 Jihye Seo (McGill), Enumerative Geometry and String Theory, Exactly stable non-BPS spinors in heterotic string theory on tori, Harricana 15:30 - 15:55 David Shirokoff, Applied Mathematics, A High Order Volume Penalty Method, St-Laurent 15:30 - 16:00 Steven Boyer (UQAM), Geometrical Group Theory, L-spaces, left-orderability and foliations, Saint-Maurice 15:30 - 16:00 Mark van der Laan (UC-Berkeley), Epidemiology - Genomics, Statistical Methods for Causal Inference In HIV Research, Kamouraska 16:00 - 16:15 Break, Duluth/Mackenzie 16:15 - 16:35 Oran Magal (McGill), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, What did we always mean?, Chaudiere 16:15 - 16:40 Arnaud Lepage-Jutier (McGill), Enumerative Geometry and String Theory, Smoothed Transitions in Higher Spin AdS Gravity, Harricana 16:15 - 16:40 Emmanuel Lorin, Applied Mathematics, Convergence issues of usual numerical schemes approximating 1-d nonconservative hyperbolic systems, St-Laurent 16:15 - 16:40 Stephanie Portet (Manitoba), Contributed Papers, Dynamics of length distributions of in vitro intermediate filaments, Bellechasse 16:15 - 16:40 Pega Sohrabi (Dalhousie), Operations Research, Using Campaigns to Control and Plan Sawmill Production, Gatineau 16:15 - 16:45 Raphael Fonteneau (Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France), Epidemiology - Genomics, Batch Mode Reinforcement Learning based on the Synthesis of Artificial Trajectories, Kamouraska 16:45 - 17:10 Shunji Matsuura (McGill), Enumerative Geometry and String Theory, Classification of gapless topological phases, Harricana 16:45 - 17:10 Sina Saadatyar (Dalhousie), Operations Research, Sawmill Campaign Generator as a Basis for Planning and Control, Gatineau 16:45 - 17:10 Ihsan Topaloglu, Applied Mathematics, An isoperimetric problem with long-range interactions related to diblock copolymers, St-Laurent 16:45 - 17:15 James Dai (Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention), Epidemiology - Genomics, Adherence, ARV drug concentration and estimation of PrEP efficacy for HIV prevention, Kamouraska 17:15 - 17:40 Amira Dems (CIRRELT; École Polytechnique de Montréal), Operations Research, SOLVING AN INTEGRATED MULTI-PERIOD WOOD PROCUREMENT PROBLEM., Gatineau 17:15 - 17:40 Adam Oberman, Applied Mathematics, Effective approximations for nonlinear elliptic PDEs, with emphasis on the Monge-Ampère equation, St-Laurent 17:15 - 17:45 Katia Charland (McGill), Epidemiology - Genomics, An application of gravity models to identify factors related to community pandemic influenza A/H1N1 vaccine coverage, Kamouraska