2015 CMS Winter Meeting

McGill University, December 4 - 7, 2015

# Schedule - by day

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

 Thursday December 3 18:00 - 22:00 CMS Executive Committee, Creation Friday December 4 8:00 - 9:00 CMS Development Group Breakfast, Creation 9:00 - 13:00 CMS Board of Directors Meeting, Creation 12:30 - 19:00 Registration, Soprano C & Foyer 13:00 - 16:00 STUDC CV Writing Workshop, Symphonie 3A 13:00 - 13:30 Chantal David (Concordia), Analytic Number Theory, One-level density in one-parameter families of elliptic curves with non-zero average root number, Symphonie 1 13:00 - 13:30 Daniel Disegni (McGill), Algebraic Number Theory, On the p-adic Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for elliptic curves over number fields, Symphonie 2A 13:00 - 13:30 Laura Eslava (McGill), Probability and Statistical Mechanics, Depth of high-degree vertices in Random Recursive Trees, Symphonie 7 13:00 - 13:30 Jamie Mingo (Queens), Operator Algebras, Freeness and the Partial Transpose, Zen Room 13:00 - 13:30 Brigitte Pientka (McGill), Logic, Category Theory and Computation, Mechanizing Meta-Theory in Beluga, Symphonie 3B 13:00 - 13:30 Luke Postle (Waterloo), Graph Theory, Improved Bounds on the Chromatic Number, Symphonie 2B 13:00 - 13:40 Yuri Bakhtin (Courant-NYU), Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, Ergodic theory of Burgers equation with random forcing, Symphonie 4A 13:30 - 15:30 CMS Fundraising Committee, Symphonie 6 13:30 - 14:00 Sandro Bettin (CRM), Analytic Number Theory, On the average root number of 1-parameter families of elliptic curves, Symphonie 1 13:30 - 14:00 Andrew Cave (McGill), Logic, Category Theory and Computation, Linear temporal logic proofs as reactive programs, Symphonie 3B 13:30 - 14:00 Xinyi Li (ETH), Probability and Statistical Mechanics, A lower bound for disconnection by simple random walk, Symphonie 7 13:30 - 14:00 Bernard Lidicky (Iowa State), Graph Theory, Inducibility of Short Cycles, Symphonie 2B 13:30 - 14:00 Guillermo Mantilla-Soler (Universidad de los Andes, Bogota), Algebraic Number Theory, Weak Arithmetic equivalence, Symphonie 2A 13:30 - 14:00 Emily Redelmeier, Operator Algebras, Zen Room 13:40 - 14:20 Sandra Cerrai (Maryland), Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, On the small noise limit for the 2D stochastic Navier-Stokes equation, Symphonie 4A 14:00 - 14:30 Kevser Aktas (Queen's), Analytic Number Theory, On Special Numbers, Symphonie 1 14:00 - 14:30 Endre Csóka (Warwick), Graph Theory, Vizing’s Theorem for Graphings, Symphonie 2B 14:00 - 14:30 Adam Sierakowski (Victoria), Operator Algebras, The general linear group as a complete invariant for C*-algebras, Zen Room 14:00 - 14:30 David Thibodeau (McGill), Logic, Category Theory and Computation, Programming Infinite Structures Using Copatterns, Symphonie 3B 14:00 - 14:30 Jan Vonk (McGill), Algebraic Number Theory, Non-abelian Chabauty on higher genus curves, Symphonie 2A 14:00 - 14:30 Gokhan Yildirim (York University), Probability and Statistical Mechanics, Directed polymers in a random environment with a defect line, Symphonie 7 14:20 - 15:00 David Nualart (Kansas), Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, Parabolic Anderson model driven by colored noise, Symphonie 4A 14:30 - 15:00 Amir Akbary-Majdabadno (Lethbridge), Analytic Number Theory, On invariants of elliptic curves on average, Symphonie 1 14:30 - 15:00 Marc Bagnol (Ottawa), Logic, Category Theory and Computation, Proofnets and the Complexity of Proof Equivalence, Symphonie 3B 14:30 - 15:00 Andrew Dean (Lakehead), Operator Algebras, Classification of locally representable actions of finite dimensional quantum groups on AF C*-algebras, Zen Room 14:30 - 15:00 Alexandr Kostochka (UIUC), Graph Theory, Colorings and list colorings of sparse graphs, Symphonie 2B 14:30 - 15:00 Daniel Kriz (Princeton), Algebraic Number Theory, Congruences of p-adic L-functions and applications to algebraic cycles, Symphonie 2A 14:30 - 15:00 Hao Wu (MIT), Probability and Statistical Mechanics, Level lines of Gaussian Free Field, Symphonie 7 15:00 - 15:30 Break, Soprano C & Foyer 15:30 - 16:00 Antonio Auffinger (Northwestern), Probability and Statistical Mechanics, Symphonie 7 15:30 - 16:00 Martin Lysy (Waterloo), Mathematics: Source of New Solutions to Old Problems in Pharmaceutical Research and Therapy, Bayesian Inference for Stochastic PK/PD Models, Symphonie 4B 15:30 - 16:00 Chris Schafhauser (Waterloo), Operator Algebras, MF Traces and Crossed Products, Zen Room 15:30 - 16:00 Naomi Tanabe (Dartmouth), Algebraic Number Theory, The First Moment of the Rankin-Selberg L-functions, Symphonie 2A 15:30 - 16:00 Akshaa Vatwani (Queen's), Analytic Number Theory, A higher rank Selberg sieve and applications, Symphonie 1 15:30 - 16:00 Liana Yepremyan (McGill), Graph Theory, The Local Stability Method and the Tur\'an numbers of extensions, Symphonie 2B 15:40 - 16:20 Luc Rey-Bellet (Mass-Amherst), Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, Information theoretic tools for the numerical analysis of stochastic systems, Symphonie 4A 16:00 - 16:30 Wei-Kuo Chen (Minnesota), Probability and Statistical Mechanics, Fluctuations of the free energy in the mixed $p$-spin models with external field, Symphonie 7 16:00 - 16:30 Claude Levesque (Laval), Algebraic Number Theory, Families of Thue-Mahler equations with only trivial solutions, Symphonie 2A 16:00 - 16:30 Ram Murty (Queen's), Analytic Number Theory, A disjunction theorem in sieve theory, Symphonie 1 16:00 - 16:30 Colin Phipps (Waterloo), Mathematics: Source of New Solutions to Old Problems in Pharmaceutical Research and Therapy, Parameter identifiability and sensitivity in large molecule PBPK models, Symphonie 4B 16:00 - 16:30 Mustazee Rahman (Toronto), Graph Theory, Local algorithms for independent sets in random graphs, Symphonie 2B 16:00 - 16:30 Nico Spronk (Waterloo), Operator Algebras, On similarity for completley bounded representations of Fourier algebras, Zen Room 16:20 - 17:00 Boris Rozovsky (Brown), Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, Symphonie 4A 16:30 - 17:00 Toni Bourama (Virginia State University), Mathematics: Source of New Solutions to Old Problems in Pharmaceutical Research and Therapy, Symphonie 4B 16:30 - 17:00 Tony Huynh (Bruxelles), Graph Theory, The forbidden minors for isometric realizability in the plane, Symphonie 2B 16:30 - 17:00 Dimitry Panchenko (Toronto), Probability and Statistical Mechanics, On structure of Gibbs measures in dilute spin glass models, Symphonie 7 16:30 - 17:00 Siddarth Sankaran (McGill), Algebraic Number Theory, On two arithmetic theta lifts, Symphonie 2A 16:30 - 17:00 Jesse Thorner (Emory University), Analytic Number Theory, Effective log-free zero density estimates for automorphic L-functions and the Sato-Tate conjecture, Symphonie 1 16:30 - 17:00 Matthew Wiersma (Waterloo), Operator Algebras, Weak* tensor products for von Neumann algebras, Zen Room 17:00 - 17:15 Opening Address, Soprano C & Foyer 17:00 - 18:00 Welcome Reception, Soprano C & Foyer 18:00 - 19:00 Isabelle Gallagher (Université Paris-Diderot), Public Lecture, Est-ce que les mathématiques peuvent permettre de prévoir le temps ?, Soprano A & B 19:00 - 20:30 Institutes Innovation Platform Career Fair, Soprano C & Foyer Saturday December 5 8:00 - 18:00 Registration, Soprano C & Foyer 8:00 - 8:30 Kael Dixon (McGill), Differential Geometry, Local-to-global classification of ambitoric 4-manifolds via uniformization., Symphonie 3A 8:00 - 8:30 Masoud Khalkhali (Western), Operator Algebras, Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities in Noncommutative Spaces, Imagination 8:30 - 16:30 AARMS-CMS Student Poster Session, Soprano C & Foyer 8:30 - 9:00 Ian Hambleton (McMaster), Low Dimensional Topology and Geometric Group Theory, Topological 4-manifolds with right-angled Artin fundamental groups, PK-R310 (UQAM) 8:30 - 9:00 Ovidiu Munteanu (Connecticut), Differential Geometry, Four dimensional Ricci solitons, Symphonie 3A 8:30 - 9:00 Jordan Watts (Colorado), Symplectic Geometry, Moment Maps and Morse Theory, Tame Circle Actions, Symphonie 3B 8:30 - 9:00 Phillip Wesolek (Louvain), Descriptive Set Theory, Chief factors in Polish groups, PK-R610 (UQAM) 8:30 - 9:00 Mitsuru Wilson (Western), Operator Algebras, Isospectral deformation: 3-spheres $S^3_\theta$ and its geometric invariance, Imagination 8:30 - 9:00 Amy Wooding (McGill), Algebraic Number Theory, Stratifications of Unitary Shimura Varieties, Symphonie 2A 8:30 - 9:30 Robert Vaughan (Penn State), Diophantine Equations and Harmonic Analysis, Zeros of Dirichlet series, Soprano A & B 9:00 - 10:30 Women in Mathematics Breakfast and Panel Discussion, PK - R650 (UQAM) 9:00 - 9:30 Yannick Bonthonneau (ENS), Geometric Spectral Theory, Resonances in strips: cusp manifolds, PK-3205 (UQAM) 9:00 - 9:30 Boris Bukh (Carnegie Mellon), Graph Theory, Extremal problem for graph eigenvalue multiplicity, Symphonie 2B 9:00 - 9:30 Michael Damron (G-tech), Probability and Statistical Mechanics, Bigeodesics in first-passage percolation, Symphonie 7 9:00 - 9:30 Paul Gauthier (Montréal), Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, Approximation by: Riemann zeta-function; polynomials (rational functions) with prescribed zeros (poles), Maestro 9:00 - 9:30 Thierry Giordano (Ottawa), Operator Algebras, $\Bbb Z^d$-odometers and Cohomology, Imagination 9:00 - 9:30 Eyal Goren (McGill), Algebraic Number Theory, Unitary Shimura varieties in positive characteristic, Symphonie 2A 9:00 - 9:30 Andrew Heunis (Waterloo), Mathematical Finance, Utility maximization in a regime switching model with convex portfolio constraints and margin requirements, Creation 9:00 - 9:30 Habiba Kadiri (Lethbridge), Analytic Number Theory, New bounds for $\psi(x;q,a)$, Symphonie 1 9:00 - 9:30 Atsushi Kanazawa (Harvard), Fibrations, Mirror Symmetry and Calabi-Yau Geometry, Holomorphic symplectic geometry of the space of Bridgeland stability conditions, PK2205 (UQAM) 9:00 - 9:30 Jeremy Lane (Toronto), Symplectic Geometry, Moment Maps and Morse Theory, Convexity For Momentum Maps Constructed by Thimm's Trick, Symphonie 3B 9:00 - 9:30 Konstantin Mischaikow (Rutgers), Computational and Topological Methods in Dynamical Systems, A combinatorial/algebraic topological approach to dynamics of regulatory networks., PK-2605 (UQAM) 9:00 - 9:30 Justin Moore (Cornell), Descriptive Set Theory, A finitely presented group of piecewise projective homeomorphisms, PK-R610 (UQAM) 9:00 - 9:30 Matthias Nagel (UQAM), Low Dimensional Topology and Geometric Group Theory, Unlinking information from 4-manifolds, PK-R310 (UQAM) 9:00 - 9:45 Greg Warrington (Vermont), Algebraic Combinatorics, Sweep map combinatorics, Ovation 9:00 - 10:00 André Joyal (UQAM), Logic, Category Theory and Computation, Simplicial tribes for homotopy type theory, PK-3605 (UQAM) 9:00 - 10:00 Camelia Karimianpour (Ottawa), Representation Theory, On the Representations of the n-fold Metaplectic Groups, PK-R220 (UQAM) 9:00 - 10:00 Gerardo Mendoza (Temple), Analysis on Singular Manifolds, Spectral instability of selfadjoint extensions of symmetric elliptic cone operators, Symphonie 4B 9:30 - 10:00 Raluca Balan (Ottawa), Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, SPDEs with affine multiplicative fractional noise with index H<1/2, Symphonie 4A 9:30 - 10:00 Broderick Causley (McGill), Geometric Spectral Theory, Generalized Lawson tau-surfaces and nonmaximality, PK-3205 (UQAM) 9:30 - 10:00 Hugo Chapdelaine (Laval), Algebraic Number Theory, Kronecker limit formulas for a class of $GL_2$-real analytic Eisenstein series, Symphonie 2A 9:30 - 10:00 Benoit Charbonneau (Waterloo), Differential Geometry, Deformation theory of nearly Kähler instantons, Symphonie 3A 9:30 - 10:00 Clinton Conley (Carnegie Mellon), Descriptive Set Theory, Projective separability and incomparable actions of free groups, PK-R610 (UQAM) 9:30 - 10:00 Elisabeth Fink (Ottawa), Low Dimensional Topology and Geometric Group Theory, Morse geodesics in lacunary hyperbolic groups, PK-R310 (UQAM) 9:30 - 10:00 Krystal Guo (Waterloo), Graph Theory, Quantum walks and graph isomorphism, Symphonie 2B 9:30 - 10:00 Jing-Jing Huang (Nevada, Reno), Diophantine Equations and Harmonic Analysis, Rational points near hypersurfaces, Soprano A & B 9:30 - 10:00 Niky Kamran (McGill), Differential Geometry, Lorentzian Einstein metrics with prescribed conformal infinity, Symphonie 3A 9:30 - 10:00 David Kribs (Guelph), Operator Algebras, Private algebras in quantum information, Imagination 9:30 - 10:00 Yi Lin (Georgia Southern), Symplectic Geometry, Moment Maps and Morse Theory, Hard Lefschetz property for contact manifolds, Symphonie 3B 9:30 - 10:00 Allysa Lumley (Lethbridge), Analytic Number Theory, A Zero Density Result for the Riemann Zeta Function, Symphonie 1 9:30 - 10:00 Adam Metzler (Laurier), Mathematical Finance, Regulatory Discretion and the Valuation of CoCo Bonds, Creation 9:30 - 10:00 Jonathon Peterson (Purdue), Probability and Statistical Mechanics, Excited random walks in cookie environments with Markovian cookie stacks, Symphonie 7 9:30 - 10:00 Fatemeh Sharifi (Western), Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, zero-free approximation, Maestro 9:30 - 10:00 Thomas Wanner (George Mason), Computational and Topological Methods in Dynamical Systems, Rigorous Validation of Isolating Blocks for Flows, PK-2605 (UQAM) 9:30 - 10:00 Ursula Whitcher (Wisconsin), Fibrations, Mirror Symmetry and Calabi-Yau Geometry, Arithmetic Mirror Symmetry and Isogenies, PK2205 (UQAM) 9:30 - 10:30 Aaron Christie (Carleton), Representation Theory, PK-R220 (UQAM) 9:45 - 10:30 Salvatore Stella (Sapienza University of Rome), Algebraic Combinatorics, Kac-Moody groups, double Bruhat cells, and cluster algebras, Ovation 10:00 - 16:30 Exhibits, Soprano C & Foyer 10:00 - 10:30 John Baez (U. C. Riverside, California), Logic, Category Theory and Computation, Categories in Control, PK-3605 (UQAM) 10:00 - 10:30 Maxim Burke (PEI), Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, Approximation and interpolation by entire functions with restriction of the values of the derivatives, Maestro 10:00 - 10:30 Moon Duchin (Tufts), Low Dimensional Topology and Geometric Group Theory, PK-R310 (UQAM) 10:00 - 10:30 Ahmad El Soufi (Université de Tours), Geometric Spectral Theory, Eigenvalues of the Laplace operator with weights, PK-3205 (UQAM) 10:00 - 10:30 Mboyo Esole (Harvard), Fibrations, Mirror Symmetry and Calabi-Yau Geometry, Geometric Engineering of SU(3) SU(2) through Elliptic Fibrations: Resolutions and Flops., PK2205 (UQAM) 10:00 - 10:30 Yuval Filmus (Technion), Graph Theory, Triangle-intersecting families of graphs, Symphonie 2B 10:00 - 10:30 Luis Garcia (Toronto), Algebraic Number Theory, Theta lifts and currents on Shimura varieties, Symphonie 2A 10:00 - 10:30 Tomasz Kaczynski (Sherbrooke), Computational and Topological Methods in Dynamical Systems, Combinatorial and classical vector field dynamics, PK-2605 (UQAM) 10:00 - 10:30 Spiro Karigiannis (Waterloo), Differential Geometry, Octonionic-algebraic structure and curvature of the moduli space of $G_2$ manifolds, Symphonie 3A 10:00 - 10:30 Mike Knapp (Loyola), Diophantine Equations and Harmonic Analysis, Sextic forms over extensions of $\mathbb{Q}_2$, Soprano A & B 10:00 - 10:30 Reg Kulperger (Western), Mathematical Finance, Nonlinear Time Series Models in Mathematical Finance, Creation 10:00 - 10:30 Kevin Luk (Toronto), Symplectic Geometry, Moment Maps and Morse Theory, Meromorphic line bundles, Symphonie 3B 10:00 - 10:30 Paul Mezo (Carleton), Representation Theory, A method for computing A-packets for real groups, PK-R220 (UQAM) 10:00 - 10:30 Jonathan Novak (UCSD), Probability and Statistical Mechanics, Symphonie 7 10:00 - 10:30 Jeremy Quastel (Toronto), Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, Symphonie 4A 10:00 - 10:30 Konstantin Slutsky (UIC), Descriptive Set Theory, Lebesgue orbit equivalence of Borel flows, PK-R610 (UQAM) 10:00 - 10:30 Dilian Yang (Windsor), Operator Algebras, The Yang-Baxter Equation and Affine Actions, Imagination 10:00 - 10:30 Asif Zaman (Toronto), Analytic Number Theory, Distribution of zeros of Hecke L-functions and the least prime ideal, Symphonie 1 10:00 - 11:00 Thomas Krainer (Penn State Altoona), Analysis on Singular Manifolds, Boundary Value Problems for Elliptic Wedge Operators of First Order, Symphonie 4B 10:30 - 11:00 Break, Soprano C & Foyer 10:30 - 11:00 Judging - AARMS-CMS Student Poster Session, Soprano C & Foyer 11:00 - 12:00 Anna Gilbert (Michigan), Plenary Lecture, Recent developments in the Sparse Fourier Transform, Soprano A & B 12:00 - 13:00 Mark Mac Lean (UBC), Adrien Pouliot Award, Small Number and Beyond: Entering Spaces for Aboriginal Learning, Soprano A & B 13:00 - 14:30 CMS Town Hall with NSERC, Grand Salon Opera C 14:30 - 18:00 CMS Publications Committee, Symphonie 5 14:30 - 15:30 Martin Hairer (Warwick, U.K.), Plenary Lecture, On random rubber bands, Soprano A & B 15:30 - 16:00 Break, Soprano C & Foyer 15:30 - 16:00 Judging - AARMS-CMS Student Poster Session, Soprano C & Foyer 16:00 - 16:30 Daniel Barrera (McGill), Algebraic Number Theory, Overconvergent Eichler-Shimura isomorphisms for Shimura curves, Symphonie 2A 16:00 - 16:30 Florence Clerc (McGill), Logic, Category Theory and Computation, Presenting a Category Modulo a Rewriting System, PK-3605 (UQAM) 16:00 - 16:30 George Elliott (Toronto), Operator Algebras, The classification of unital simple C*-algebras of finite nuclear dimension, Imagination 16:00 - 16:30 Marie-Josée Fortin (Toronto), Bridging the Gap between Mathematical Approaches and Biological Problems, Spatial, directional, and spatio-temporal network algorithms in ecological studies, Symphonie 4A 16:00 - 16:30 Evans Harrell (Georgia Institute of Technology), Geometric Spectral Theory, Agmon metrics, exponential location, and the shape of quantum graphs, PK-3205 (UQAM) 16:00 - 16:30 Jakub Jasinski, Descriptive Set Theory, Canonical partitions of countable k-regular random hypergraphs, PK-R610 (UQAM) 16:00 - 16:30 Karim Kellay (Bordeaux), Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, Echantillonnage et interpolation multiple dans l'espace de Fock, Maestro 16:00 - 16:30 Liat Kessler (Haifa), Symplectic Geometry, Moment Maps and Morse Theory, Homologically trivial symplectic cyclic actions need not extend to Hamiltonian circle actions, Symphonie 3B 16:00 - 16:30 Michael Kozdron (Regina), Probability and Statistical Mechanics, Investigating the Hitting Distribution of the Unit Circle by Chordal SLE in the Upper Half Plane, Symphonie 7 16:00 - 16:30 Chun-Hung Liu (Princeton), Graph Theory, Minimum degree and lengths of cycles, Symphonie 2B 16:00 - 16:30 Maksym Radziwill (Rutgers), Analytic Number Theory, Multiplicative functions in short intervals and applications, Symphonie 1 16:00 - 16:30 Arunima Ray (Brandeis), Low Dimensional Topology and Geometric Group Theory, A new family of links topologically, but not smoothly, concordant to the Hopf link, PK-R310 (UQAM) 16:00 - 16:30 Evelyn Sander (George Mason), Computational and Topological Methods in Dynamical Systems, Chaos and quasiperiodicity, PK-2605 (UQAM) 16:00 - 16:30 Anatoliy Swishchuk (Calgary), Mathematical Finance, A Semi-Markovian Modeling of Limit Order Markets, Creation 16:00 - 16:30 Wilderich Tuschmann (KIT), Differential Geometry, Moduli spaces of nonnegatively curved Riemannian metrics, Symphonie 3A 16:00 - 16:40 Oliver Pechenik (UIUC), Algebraic Combinatorics, Puzzles and equivariant $K$-theory of Grassmannians, Ovation 16:00 - 17:00 Antonella Grassi (U Pennsylvania), Fibrations, Mirror Symmetry and Calabi-Yau Geometry, Birational Geometry of Higher dimensional elliptic fibrations, PK2205 (UQAM) 16:00 - 17:00 Victor Kalvin (Concordia), Analysis on Singular Manifolds, Moduli spaces of meromorphic functions and determinant of Laplacian, Symphonie 4B 16:00 - 17:00 Neil Lyall (Georgia), Diophantine Equations and Harmonic Analysis, On some problems in Geometric Ramsey Theory, Soprano A & B 16:00 - 17:00 Ahmed Moussaoui (Calgary), Representation Theory, Bernstein centre for enhanced Langlands parameters, PK-R220 (UQAM) 16:30 - 17:30 CMS Education Committee, Symphonie 6 16:30 - 17:00 Etienne Chevalier (Évry), Mathematical Finance, Indifference fee rate for variable annuities, Creation 16:30 - 17:00 David Duncan (MSU), Low Dimensional Topology and Geometric Group Theory, Gauge theoretic invariants of surface products, PK-R310 (UQAM) 16:30 - 17:00 Richard Fournier (CRM & Collège Dawson), Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, An extension of Jack's lemma, Maestro 16:30 - 17:00 Tristan Freiberg (Waterloo), Analytic Number Theory, Prime gaps: small, medium and large, Symphonie 1 16:30 - 17:00 Tarik Gouhier (Northeastern), Bridging the Gap between Mathematical Approaches and Biological Problems, Ecosystem-based management in a complex and interconnected world, Symphonie 4A 16:30 - 17:00 Tyler Holden (Toronto), Symplectic Geometry, Moment Maps and Morse Theory, Non-abelian convexity of based loop groups, Symphonie 3B 16:30 - 17:00 Patrick Ingram (Colorado State), Algebraic Number Theory, Ramification in iterated extensions of number fields, Symphonie 2A 16:30 - 17:00 Peter Nelson (Waterloo), Graph Theory, Cycles in random subgraphs, Symphonie 2B 16:30 - 17:00 Zhuang Niu (Wyoming), Operator Algebras, The classification of finite simple unital nuclear C*-algebras, Imagination 16:30 - 17:00 Diana Ojeda-Aristizabal (Toronto), Descriptive Set Theory, Topological partition relations for countable ordinals, PK-R610 (UQAM) 16:30 - 17:00 Iosif Polterovich (Montréal), Geometric Spectral Theory, Nodal geometry of Steklov eigenfunctions, PK-3205 (UQAM) 16:30 - 17:00 Catherine Searle (Wichita), Differential Geometry, Non-negative curvature and torus actions, Symphonie 3A 16:30 - 17:00 Henning Sulzbach (McGill), Probability and Statistical Mechanics, Triangulations, dual trees and fractal dimensions, Symphonie 7 16:30 - 17:00 Frank van Breugel (York), Logic, Category Theory and Computation, Behavioural Distances and Simple Stochastic Games, PK-3605 (UQAM) 16:30 - 17:00 Michael Yampolsky (Toronto), Computational and Topological Methods in Dynamical Systems, Geometrization of branched coverings of the sphere and decidability of Thurston equivalence, PK-2605 (UQAM) 16:40 - 17:20 Thomas McConville (MIT), Algebraic Combinatorics, Lattice structure of Grassmann-Tamari orders, Ovation 17:00 - 17:30 Tatyana Barron (Western), Symplectic Geometry, Moment Maps and Morse Theory, Multisymplectic manifolds and quantization., Symphonie 3B 17:00 - 17:30 Hans Boden (McMaster), Low Dimensional Topology and Geometric Group Theory, The SU(N) Casson-Lin invariants for links, PK-R310 (UQAM) 17:00 - 17:30 Linan Chen (McGill), Probability and Statistical Mechanics, Thick Points of Higher-Dimensional Gaussian Free Fields, Symphonie 7 17:00 - 17:30 Dimitri Dias (Montréal), Analytic Number Theory, Apollonian packings, Symphonie 1 17:00 - 17:30 Zdenek Dvorak (Charles), Graph Theory, List-coloring embedded graphs without cycles of lengths 4 to 8, Symphonie 2B 17:00 - 17:30 Norm Ferns (York), Logic, Category Theory and Computation, Bisimulation Through Markov Decision Process Coupling, PK-3605 (UQAM) 17:00 - 17:30 Marcio Gameiro (USP at Sao Carlos (USP, Sao Carlos), Computational and Topological Methods in Dynamical Systems, Continuation of Point Clouds via Persistence Diagrams, PK-2605 (UQAM) 17:00 - 17:30 Huan Georgia Gao (Bank of Montreal), Mathematical Finance, Risk Measurement of a Guaranteed Annuity Option under a Stochastic Environment, Creation 17:00 - 17:30 Brandon Hanson (Penn State), Diophantine Equations and Harmonic Analysis, Character Sums with Convolutions, Soprano A & B 17:00 - 17:30 Adrian Iovita (Concordia), Algebraic Number Theory, p-Adic Families of de Rham cohomology classes, Symphonie 2A 17:00 - 17:30 Justin Marleau (McGill/Champlain), Bridging the Gap between Mathematical Approaches and Biological Problems, From Mechanism To Model: Functional Forms in Nutrient Colimitation, Symphonie 4A 17:00 - 17:30 Kasra Rafi (Toronto), Differential Geometry, Infinitesimal Geometry of Thurston's Lipschitz metric on the Teichmüller space., Symphonie 3A 17:00 - 17:30 Javad Rastegari (Western), Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, Fourier inequalities in weighted Lebesgue and Lorentz spaces, Maestro 17:00 - 17:30 Egor Shelukhin (IAS), Fibrations, Mirror Symmetry and Calabi-Yau Geometry, Non-trivial Hamiltonian fibrations via K-theory quantization, PK2205 (UQAM) 17:00 - 17:30 Juris Steprans (York), Descriptive Set Theory, Complexity of weakly almost periodic functions, PK-R610 (UQAM) 17:00 - 17:30 Craig Sutton (Darthmouth College), Geometric Spectral Theory, On hearing the length spectrum of a compact Lie group, PK-3205 (UQAM) 17:00 - 17:30 Maria-Grazia Viola (Lakehead), Operator Algebras, C*-algebras non-isomorphic to their opposite algebras and the UCT, Imagination 17:00 - 18:00 Andrew Fiori (Calgary), Representation Theory, Understanding the Category of Algebraic Groups over a Field, PK-R220 (UQAM) 17:00 - 18:00 Spiro Karigiannis (Waterloo), Analysis on Singular Manifolds, Existence of $G_2$ conifolds: a progress report, Symphonie 4B 17:20 - 18:00 Nathan Williams (UQAM), Algebraic Combinatorics, Coincidental Types and their Minuscule Doppelgängers, Ovation 17:30 - 18:00 Sungmun Cho (Toronto), Algebraic Number Theory, Rationality of the local density function, Symphonie 2A 17:30 - 18:00 Christopher Davis (University of Wisconsin), Low Dimensional Topology and Geometric Group Theory, A genus one algebraically slice knot is 1-solvable., PK-R310 (UQAM) 17:30 - 18:00 Josee Desharnais (Laval), Logic, Category Theory and Computation, Almost Sure Bisimulation in Labelled Markov Processes, PK-3605 (UQAM) 17:30 - 18:00 Vitali Kapovitch (Toronto), Differential Geometry, On dimensions of tangent cones in limit spaces with lower Ricci curvature bounds, Symphonie 3A 17:30 - 18:00 Yu Ru Liu (Waterloo), Analytic Number Theory, Vinogradov's mean value theorem in function fields, Symphonie 1 17:30 - 18:00 Yiannis Loizides (Toronto), Symplectic Geometry, Moment Maps and Morse Theory, Norm-square localization for Hamiltonian LG-spaces, Symphonie 3B 17:30 - 18:00 Alexander Melnikov (Alberta), Mathematical Finance, Partial hedging for defaultable securities and its connection with equity-linked life insurance, Creation 17:30 - 18:00 Vidit Nanda (Penn), Computational and Topological Methods in Dynamical Systems, Homotopy-inference for functions, PK-2605 (UQAM) 17:30 - 18:00 Pedro Peres-Neto (UQAM), Bridging the Gap between Mathematical Approaches and Biological Problems, Spatial pattern detection in genetic data, Symphonie 4A 17:30 - 18:00 Simon Rose (Max Planck), Fibrations, Mirror Symmetry and Calabi-Yau Geometry, Quasi-modularity of generalized sum-of-divisors functions, PK2205 (UQAM) 17:30 - 18:00 Mykhaylo Shkolnikov (Princeton), Probability and Statistical Mechanics, On multilevel Dyson Brownian motions, Symphonie 7 17:30 - 18:00 Anush Stepanyan (Laval), Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, Nonlinear maps preserving the minimum and surjectivity moduli, Maestro 17:30 - 18:00 Qingyun Wang (Toronto), Operator Algebras, Classification of certain inductive limit actions of compact groups on AF algebras, Imagination 17:30 - 18:00 Steve Zelditch (Northwestern), Geometric Spectral Theory, Logarithmic lower bound for the number of nodal domains, PK-3205 (UQAM) 18:00 - 19:00 John Baez (U. C. Riverside, California), Public Lecture, The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, Soprano A & B 20:00 - 22:00 Student Social, Les 3 Brasseurs Microbrewery Restaurant Sunday December 6 8:00 - 18:00 Registration, Soprano C & Foyer 8:00 - 8:30 Raphael Clouatre (Manitoba), Operator Algebras, Absolute continuity for commuting row contractions, Grand Salon Opera C 8:00 - 8:30 Robert Haslhofer (Toronto), Differential Geometry, Weak solutions for the Ricci flow, Symphonie 3A 8:30 - 16:30 AARMS-CMS Student Poster Session, Soprano C & Foyer 8:30 - 9:00 Yaiza Canzani (Harvard), Geometric Spectral Theory, Geometry and topology of zero sets of random waves on a manifold, PK-3205 (UQAM) 8:30 - 9:00 Gerald Cliff (Alberta), Representation Theory, PBW and canonical bases of modules for Lie algebras and quantum groups, PK-R220 (UQAM) 8:30 - 9:00 Peter Crooks (Toronto), Symplectic Geometry, Moment Maps and Morse Theory, Minimal nilpotent Hessenberg varieties, Symphonie 3B 8:30 - 9:00 Kenneth R. Davidson (Waterloo), Operator Algebras, Ideals in a multiplier algebra on the ball, Grand Salon Opera C 8:30 - 9:00 Andrew Marks (UCLA), Descriptive Set Theory, Jump operations for Borel graphs, PK-R610 (UQAM) 8:30 - 9:00 Guofang Wei (Santa Barbara), Differential Geometry, Local Sobolev Constant Estimate for Integral Ricci Curvature Bounds, Symphonie 3A 8:30 - 9:30 Trevor Wooley (Bristol), Diophantine Equations and Harmonic Analysis, Efficient congruencing, Fourier restriction theory, and Waring's problem, Soprano A & B 9:00 - 9:30 Dana Bartosova (Sao Paulo), Descriptive Set Theory, Problems about Boolean algebras in topological dynamics, PK-R610 (UQAM) 9:00 - 9:30 Jacques Bélair (Montréal), Mathematics: Source of New Solutions to Old Problems in Pharmaceutical Research and Therapy, Circadian variability in a two-compartment pharmacokinetic model, Grand Salon Opera B 9:00 - 9:30 Merc Chasman (U. of Minnesota Morris), Geometric Spectral Theory, The Clamped Plate in Gauss Space, PK-3205 (UQAM) 9:00 - 9:30 Donald Dawson (Carleton), Measure-Valued Diffusions, Interacting diffusions and their measure-valued limits in an ultrametric setting, Imagination 9:00 - 9:30 Alexander Duncan (South Carolina), Cohomological Methods in Quadratic Forms and Algebraic Groups, Automorphisms of del Pezzo surfaces in positive characteristic, Symphonie 2B 9:00 - 9:30 Doug Farenick (Regina), Operator Algebras, Fidelity preservation in operator algebras, Grand Salon Opera C 9:00 - 9:30 Youness Lamzouri (York), Analytic Number Theory, Large values of $L(1,\chi)$ and applications to character sums and class numbers of real quadratic fields, Symphonie 1 9:00 - 9:30 Eduardo Martinez-Pedroza (MUN), Low Dimensional Topology and Geometric Group Theory, Homological isoperimetric inequalities of 2 dimensional complexes., PK-R310 (UQAM) 9:00 - 9:30 Robert McCann (Toronto), Differential Geometry, Multi- to one-dimensional transportation, Symphonie 3A 9:00 - 9:30 Sergio Pulido (ENSIIE), Mathematical Finance, The Jacobi stochastic volatility model, Creation 9:00 - 9:30 Morgan Roosenmaallen (UBC), Student Research Presentations, Nucleic Acid Conformation Space as an Optimization Problem on Simultaneous Group Equations, PK-R650 (UQAM) 9:00 - 9:30 Emanuel Scheidegger (Freiburg), Fibrations, Mirror Symmetry and Calabi-Yau Geometry, PK2205 (UQAM) 9:00 - 9:30 Robert Seely (McGill & John Abbott College), Logic, Category Theory and Computation, Two categorical approaches to differentiation, PK-3605 (UQAM) 9:00 - 9:30 Reyer Sjamaar (Cornell), Symplectic Geometry, Moment Maps and Morse Theory, Induction of representations and Poincare duality, Symphonie 3B 9:00 - 9:30 Loren Spice (TCU), Representation Theory, Asymptotic expansions of characters, PK-R220 (UQAM) 9:00 - 9:30 Jan Bouwe van den Berg (VU Amsterdam), Computational and Topological Methods in Dynamical Systems, Rigorous numerics for some pattern formation problems, PK-2605 (UQAM) 9:00 - 9:30 Geoff Wild (Waterloo), Bridging the Gap between Mathematical Approaches and Biological Problems, A simple method of modelling animal behaviour and an application, Symphonie 4A 9:00 - 9:30 Malik Younsi (Stony Brook), Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, Removable sets and Koebe's Conjecture, Maestro 9:00 - 9:45 Mike Zabrocki (York), Algebraic Combinatorics, Symmetric group characters as symmetric functions, Ovation 9:00 - 10:00 Dmitry Jakobson (McGill), Analysis on Singular Manifolds, Gaussian measures on manifolds of metrics, Symphonie 4B 9:00 - 10:30 Mathematics Education Session, Active Learning in Post-Secondary Mathematics Classroom, Grand Salon Opera A 9:30 - 10:00 Lara Anderson (Virginia Tech), Fibrations, Mirror Symmetry and Calabi-Yau Geometry, Heterotic and F-theory Compactifications and Geometry, PK2205 (UQAM) 9:30 - 10:00 Arunabha Biswas (Queen's), Analytic Number Theory, Asymptotic nature of higher Mahler Measure., Symphonie 1 9:30 - 10:00 Richard Blute (Ottawa), Logic, Category Theory and Computation, Towards a Theory of Integral Linear Logic via Rota-Baxter algebras, PK-3605 (UQAM) 9:30 - 10:00 Maxime Fortier Bourque (Toronto), Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, The holomorphic couch theorem, Maestro 9:30 - 10:00 Gregory Chambers (Chicago), Differential Geometry, Existence of homotopies with prescribed Lipschitz constants, Symphonie 3A 9:30 - 10:00 Hermann Eberl (Guelph), Mathematics: Source of New Solutions to Old Problems in Pharmaceutical Research and Therapy, compuGUT, Grand Salon Opera B 9:30 - 10:00 Shui Feng (McMaster), Measure-Valued Diffusions, An Infinite Dimensional Diffusion Associated With Dirichlet Process, Imagination 9:30 - 10:00 Melanie Foerster (Calgary), Student Research Presentations, The Contact Number Problem in the Plane, PK-R650 (UQAM) 9:30 - 10:00 Joseph Helfer (Stanford), Low Dimensional Topology and Geometric Group Theory, Counting cycles in labeled graphs, PK-R310 (UQAM) 9:30 - 10:00 Gary Huang (McGill), Bridging the Gap between Mathematical Approaches and Biological Problems, Fractional differentiation in pyramidal neurons enable power-law adaptation to natural sensory stimuli, Symphonie 4A 9:30 - 10:00 Mikhail Karpukhin (McGill), Geometric Spectral Theory, Upper bounds for the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian on non-orientable surfaces, PK-3205 (UQAM) 9:30 - 10:00 Yael Karshon (Toronto), Symplectic Geometry, Moment Maps and Morse Theory, The Morse-Bott-Kirwan condition is local, Symphonie 3B 9:30 - 10:00 Wentang Kuo (Waterloo), Diophantine Equations and Harmonic Analysis, Multi-dimensional Waring's problem in function fields, Soprano A & B 9:30 - 10:00 Daniel Le (Toronto), Algebraic Number Theory, The weight part of Serre's conjecture for U(3), Symphonie 2A 9:30 - 10:00 Vathana Ly Vath (ENSIIE), Mathematical Finance, Liquidity risk and optimal dividend/investment strategies, Creation 9:30 - 10:00 Brice Mbombo (Sao Paulo), Descriptive Set Theory, On topological groups with an approximate fixed point property, PK-R610 (UQAM) 9:30 - 10:00 Monica Nevins (Ottawa), Representation Theory, On nilpotent orbits of p-adic special orthogonal groups, PK-R220 (UQAM) 9:30 - 10:00 Alessandro Vignati (York), Operator Algebras, On Ulam stability, Grand Salon Opera C 9:30 - 10:00 JF Williams (SFU), Computational and Topological Methods in Dynamical Systems, Rigorous numerics for BVPs on infinite domains, PK-2605 (UQAM) 9:30 - 10:00 Changlong Zhong (Albany), Cohomological Methods in Quadratic Forms and Algebraic Groups, Hyperbolic Demazure algebra, Symphonie 2B 9:45 - 10:30 Stephanie van Willigenburg (UBC), Algebraic Combinatorics, Littlewood-Richardson rules for symmetric skew quasisymmetric Schur functions, Ovation 10:00 - 16:30 Exhibits, Soprano C & Foyer 10:00 - 10:30 Florent Balacheff (Lille), Differential Geometry, Length product of homologically independent loops, Symphonie 3A 10:00 - 10:30 Loïs Boullu (Montréal), Bridging the Gap between Mathematical Approaches and Biological Problems, Building a model of delay-differential equations with state-dependent delay for megakaryopoiesis, Symphonie 4A 10:00 - 10:30 Robin Cockett (Calgary), Logic, Category Theory and Computation, The Basics of Integral Categories, PK-3605 (UQAM) 10:00 - 10:30 Xi Huo (Ryerson), Mathematics: Source of New Solutions to Old Problems in Pharmaceutical Research and Therapy, The evolutionary ecology of antimicrobial de-escalation, Grand Salon Opera B 10:00 - 10:30 Derek Krepski (Manitoba), Symplectic Geometry, Moment Maps and Morse Theory, Prequantization of moment map theories, Symphonie 3B 10:00 - 10:30 Angel Kumchev (Towson), Diophantine Equations and Harmonic Analysis, Recent progress in the Waring-Goldbach problem, Soprano A & B 10:00 - 10:30 Nicole Lemire (Western), Cohomological Methods in Quadratic Forms and Algebraic Groups, Pushforwards of Tilting Sheaves, Symphonie 2B 10:00 - 10:30 Adam Levine (Princeton), Low Dimensional Topology and Geometric Group Theory, Non-orientable surfaces in 4-manifolds, PK-R310 (UQAM) 10:00 - 10:30 Martino Lupini (Caltech), Operator Algebras, The noncommutative Poulsen simplex, Grand Salon Opera C 10:00 - 10:30 Alex Molnar (Queen's), Fibrations, Mirror Symmetry and Calabi-Yau Geometry, On Calabi-Yau threefolds of CM-type, PK2205 (UQAM) 10:00 - 10:30 Raphaël Ponge (Seoul National University), Geometric Spectral Theory, Spectral Theory and Conformal Geometry, PK-3205 (UQAM) 10:00 - 10:30 Hadi Salmasian (Ottawa), Representation Theory, Local and global rank for the discrete spectrum, PK-R220 (UQAM) 10:00 - 10:30 Eric Schippers (Manitoba), Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, The Faber isomorphism, Grunsky operator, and Schiffer operator on quasidisks, Maestro 10:00 - 10:30 Haotian Song (Calgary), Student Research Presentations, The 2 Disjoint Shortest Paths Problem with Distance Constraints, PK-R650 (UQAM) 10:00 - 10:30 Florian Sprung (Princeton), Algebraic Number Theory, The main conjecture for elliptic curves at supersingular primes, Symphonie 2A 10:00 - 10:30 Stephan Sturm (WPI), Mathematical Finance, Cost effciency in incomplete markets, Creation 10:00 - 10:30 Lennaert van Veen (UOIT), Computational and Topological Methods in Dynamical Systems, Equilibria and periodic orbits in 3D Navier-Stokes flow on a periodic domain, PK-2605 (UQAM) 10:00 - 10:30 Chester Weatherby (Laurier), Analytic Number Theory, Explicit evaluation of sums using derivative polynomials, Symphonie 1 10:00 - 10:30 Jindrich Zapletal (UF), Descriptive Set Theory, Borel reducibility of ideal equivalence relations, PK-R610 (UQAM) 10:00 - 10:30 Youzhou Zhou (Zhongnan University), Measure-Valued Diffusions, Asymptotic Behaviour of an Infinitely-Many-Alleles Model with Symmetric Overdominance, Imagination 10:00 - 11:00 Yannick Bonthonneau (UQAM), Analysis on Singular Manifolds, Continuous and discrete Weyl laws for negatively curved cusp manifolds, Symphonie 4B 10:30 - 11:00 Break, Soprano C & Foyer 11:00 - 15:30 CMS Student Committee, Symphonie 6 11:00 - 12:00 Caroline Series (Warwick, U.K.), Plenary Lecture, Boundaries of discreteness and hyperbolic 3-manifolds, Soprano A & B 12:00 - 13:00 Alejandro Adem (UBC), Jeffery-Williams Prize, Finite Groups from a Topology Perspective, Soprano A & B 13:00 - 14:30 Darja Kalajdzievska (Manitoba) : Reimagining Math Placement with ALEKS, Grand Salon Opera AB 13:00 - 15:00 CMS Research Committee, Symphonie 5 14:30 - 15:30 Jamie Tappenden (Michigan), Plenary Lecture, Styles of Mathematical Explanation. Why do Elliptic Functions have Two Periods?, Soprano A & B 15:30 - 16:00 Break, Soprano C & Foyer 15:30 - 17:30 CMS Mathematics Competitions Committee, Symphonie 5 16:00 - 16:30 Man-Duen Choi (Toronto), Operator Algebras, The Principle of Locality made simpler but harder, Grand Salon Opera C 16:00 - 16:30 Christoph Frei (Alberta), Mathematical Finance, Systemic Influences on Optimal Equity-Credit Investment, Creation 16:00 - 16:30 Michael Hallett (McGill), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Maestro 16:00 - 16:30 Andrew Harder (Alberta), Fibrations, Mirror Symmetry and Calabi-Yau Geometry, Tyurin degenerations, K3 fibrations and the Batyrev-Borisov construction, PK2205 (UQAM) 16:00 - 16:30 Florian Herzig (Toronto), Algebraic Number Theory, On de Rham lifts of local mod $p$ Galois representations, Symphonie 2A 16:00 - 16:30 Pieter Hofstra (Ottawa), Logic, Category Theory and Computation, Monads and Isotropy, PK-3605 (UQAM) 16:00 - 16:30 Jason Mireles James (Florida Atlantic U), Computational and Topological Methods in Dynamical Systems, Validated computation of connecting orbits in infinite dimensions, PK-2605 (UQAM) 16:00 - 16:30 Ning Ju (Oklahoma State), Nonlinear Evolutionary Equations, Long time behavior of solutions of Primitive Equations, Symphonie 7 16:00 - 16:30 Anmar Khadra (McGill), Bridging the Gap between Mathematical Approaches and Biological Problems, Parabolic and irregular bursting in GnRH neurons: A modeling investigation, Symphonie 4A 16:00 - 16:30 Dimitri Korotkin (Concordia), Geometric Spectral Theory, Symplectic geometry of the moduli space of projective structures, PK-3205 (UQAM) 16:00 - 16:30 Eyal Neuman (Rochester), Measure-Valued Diffusions, Discrete SIR Epidemic Processes and their Relation to Extreme Values of Branching Random Walk, Imagination 16:00 - 16:30 Zinovy Reichstein (UBC), Cohomological Methods in Quadratic Forms and Algebraic Groups, The Hermite-Joubert Problem over p-fields, Symphonie 2B 16:00 - 16:30 Mike Rubinstein (Waterloo), Analytic Number Theory, Fun with integrals, Symphonie 1 16:00 - 16:30 Stephane Sabourau (Paris-Est Creteil), Differential Geometry, Sweepouts in Riemannian geometry, Symphonie 3A 16:00 - 16:30 Simon Thomas (Rutgers), Descriptive Set Theory, The isomorphism and bi-embeddability relations for finitely generated groups, PK-R610 (UQAM) 16:00 - 16:30 Jonathan Weitsman (Northeastern), Symplectic Geometry, Moment Maps and Morse Theory, On b-symplectic manifolds, Symphonie 3B 16:00 - 16:30 Daniel Woodhouse (McGill), Low Dimensional Topology and Geometric Group Theory, Bounded Packing in Cubulated Groups, PK-R310 (UQAM) 16:00 - 16:30 Jianhong Wu (York), Mathematics: Source of New Solutions to Old Problems in Pharmaceutical Research and Therapy, Modelling insights for new thearpy issues in emerging infection outbreaks, Grand Salon Opera B 16:00 - 17:00 François Bergeron (UQAM), Algebraic Combinatorics, Positivity for rectangular Catalan combinatorics, Ovation 16:00 - 17:00 Akos Magyar (Georgia), Diophantine Equations and Harmonic Analysis, On the distribution of integer and prime solutions to diophantine equations, Soprano A & B 16:00 - 17:00 Eric Woolgar (Alberta), Analysis on Singular Manifolds, APEs, Symphonie 4B 16:00 - 17:00 Bin Xu (Calgary), Representation Theory, On Arthur packets of p-adic split odd orthogonal groups, PK-R220 (UQAM) 16:30 - 17:00 Morgan Craig (Montréal), Mathematics: Source of New Solutions to Old Problems in Pharmaceutical Research and Therapy, Physiological modelling of neutrophil development guides regimen optimisation during chemotherapy, Grand Salon Opera B 16:30 - 17:00 Jérôme Fortier (Ottawa), Logic, Category Theory and Computation, Circular Proofs, PK-3605 (UQAM) 16:30 - 17:00 Adina Gamse (Northeastern), Symplectic Geometry, Moment Maps and Morse Theory, Vanishing theorems in the cohomology ring of the moduli space of parabolic bundles, Symphonie 3B 16:30 - 17:00 Sumit Giri (CRM), Analytic Number Theory, On correlation of certain multiplicative functions, Symphonie 1 16:30 - 17:00 Jingyin Huang (McGill), Low Dimensional Topology and Geometric Group Theory, Cubulating groups quasi-isometric to right-angled Artin groups, PK-R310 (UQAM) 16:30 - 17:00 Burak Kaya (Rutgers), Descriptive Set Theory, The complexity of topological conjugacy of pointed Cantor minimal systems, PK-R610 (UQAM) 16:30 - 17:00 Robert Knobloch (Saarlandes), Measure-Valued Diffusions, Applications of random characteristics in the context of fragmentation processes, Imagination 16:30 - 17:00 Jean Lagacé (Montéal), Geometric Spectral Theory, Optimal bounds on a generalised Gauss circle problem, PK-3205 (UQAM) 16:30 - 17:00 Jean-Philippe Lessard (Laval), Computational and Topological Methods in Dynamical Systems, Rigorous numerics for ill-posed PDEs: periodic orbits in the Boussinesq equation, PK-2605 (UQAM) 16:30 - 17:00 Laurent Mackay (McGill), Bridging the Gap between Mathematical Approaches and Biological Problems, Deciphering the allosteric modulation of the purinergic P2X receptors using Markov models, Symphonie 4A 16:30 - 17:00 Christian Maire (Besançon), Algebraic Number Theory, On the linear growth of the $p$-rank of the Class Group: the pro-$p$ groups point of view., Symphonie 2A 16:30 - 17:00 Alexander Nabutovsky (Toronto), Differential Geometry, Balanced finite presentations of the trivial group and geometry of four-dimensional manifolds, Symphonie 3A 16:30 - 17:00 Erhard Neher (Ottawa), Cohomological Methods in Quadratic Forms and Algebraic Groups, Octonions I, Symphonie 2B 16:30 - 17:00 Anamaria Savu (Alberta), Operator Algebras, Spectral gap of a class of unbounded, positive-definite operators, Grand Salon Opera C 16:30 - 17:00 Dirk Schlimm (McGill), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Towards a cognitive and pragmatic account of notations for propositional logic, Maestro 16:30 - 17:00 Gantumur Tsogtgerel (McGill), Nonlinear Evolutionary Equations, Well posedness theory for some regularized models of turbulence, Symphonie 7 16:30 - 17:00 Renjie Wang (Concordia), Mathematical Finance, Optimal measure transformation problems, Creation 16:30 - 17:30 Washington Taylor (MIT), Fibrations, Mirror Symmetry and Calabi-Yau Geometry, Classification and enumeration of elliptic Calabi-Yau threefolds and fourfolds, PK2205 (UQAM) 17:00 - 17:30 Farzad Aryan (Lethbridge), Analytic Number Theory, On the Quadratic Divisor Problem, Symphonie 1 17:00 - 17:30 Maxime Breden (Laval-ENS), Computational and Topological Methods in Dynamical Systems, Rigorous computation of maximal local (un)stable manifold patches by the parameterization method, PK-2605 (UQAM) 17:00 - 17:30 Brian Cook (Wisconsin), Diophantine Equations and Harmonic Analysis, Diophantine equations in the primes, Soprano A & B 17:00 - 17:30 Erik Cook (McGill), Bridging the Gap between Mathematical Approaches and Biological Problems, Temporal tuning of the nonlinear input/output properties of biological neurons, Symphonie 4A 17:00 - 17:30 Philippe Gille (Université Claude Bernard, France), Cohomological Methods in Quadratic Forms and Algebraic Groups, Octonions II, Symphonie 2B 17:00 - 17:30 Emmanuel Giroux (CNRS-CRM), Symplectic Geometry, Moment Maps and Morse Theory, Existence of Lefschetz fibrations on Stein and Weinstein domains, Symphonie 3B 17:00 - 17:30 Julia Gordon (UBC), Representation Theory, Transfer of transfer, PK-R220 (UQAM) 17:00 - 17:30 Katarzyna Jankiewicz (McGill), Low Dimensional Topology and Geometric Group Theory, Cubulations of Artin groups, PK-R310 (UQAM) 17:00 - 17:30 Jeffrey Langford (Bucknell University), Geometric Spectral Theory, Neumann Comparison Results in Cylindrical Domains, PK-3205 (UQAM) 17:00 - 17:30 Jun Li (Montréal), Mathematics: Source of New Solutions to Old Problems in Pharmaceutical Research and Therapy, Influence of mathematical model structure on the estimation of phamacokinetic parameters : the example of Vdss, Grand Salon Opera B 17:00 - 17:30 Oran Magal (McGill), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, The Universe is not a Supercomputer, Maestro 17:00 - 17:30 Matthias Neufang (Carleton), Operator Algebras, Measures of Arens regularity and irregularity, Grand Salon Opera C 17:00 - 17:30 Tom Salisbury (York), Measure-Valued Diffusions, X-harmonic functions for super-Brownian motion, Imagination 17:00 - 17:30 Simone Scotti (Paris 7), Mathematical Finance, Optimal Investment in Markets with Over and Under-Reaction to Information, Creation 17:00 - 17:30 Peter Selinger (Dalhousie), Logic, Category Theory and Computation, Number-theoretic methods in quantum computing, PK-3605 (UQAM) 17:00 - 17:30 Iian Smythe (Cornell), Descriptive Set Theory, Turbulence and Essential Equivalence of Subspaces, PK-R610 (UQAM) 17:00 - 17:30 Jacob Tsimerman (Toronto), Algebraic Number Theory, Bounding 2-torsion in Class group, Symphonie 2A 17:00 - 17:30 Burkhard Wilking (Muenster), Differential Geometry, Manifolds with almost nonnegative curvature operator, Symphonie 3A 17:00 - 17:30 Kazuo Yamazaki (Washington), Nonlinear Evolutionary Equations, On stochastic partial differential equations in fluid mechanics, Symphonie 7 17:00 - 18:00 Nantel Bergeron (York), Algebraic Combinatorics, Why find cancelation free formula for antipode?, Ovation 17:00 - 18:00 Chris Kottke (Northeastern), Analysis on Singular Manifolds, Partial compactification and metric asymptotics of monopoles, Symphonie 4B 17:30 - 18:00 Gwennaël Bricteux (Montréal), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Le processus de substitution dans la constitution des formalismes, Maestro 17:30 - 18:00 Vladimir Chernousov (Alberta), Cohomological Methods in Quadratic Forms and Algebraic Groups, On genus of spinor groups, Symphonie 2B 17:30 - 18:00 Paul Francois (McGill), Bridging the Gap between Mathematical Approaches and Biological Problems, Phenotypic spandrel: absolute discrimination and ligand antagonism, Symphonie 4A 17:30 - 18:00 Maia Fraser (Ottawa), Symplectic Geometry, Moment Maps and Morse Theory, Contact non-squeezing via contact homology, Symphonie 3B 17:30 - 18:00 Mark Hagen (Cambridge), Low Dimensional Topology and Geometric Group Theory, Quantifying residual properties of virtually special groups, PK-R310 (UQAM) 17:30 - 18:00 Jane Heffernan (York), Mathematics: Source of New Solutions to Old Problems in Pharmaceutical Research and Therapy, HPV: vaccination, screening and treatment, Grand Salon Opera B 17:30 - 18:00 Cristian Ivanescu (Grant MacEwan University Edmonton), Operator Algebras, The Cuntz semigroup of the tensor product of C*-algebras, Grand Salon Opera C 17:30 - 18:00 Martino Lupini (Caltech), Descriptive Set Theory, Polish groupoids and the classification of operator algebraic varieties, PK-R610 (UQAM) 17:30 - 18:00 Ming Mei (McGill), Nonlinear Evolutionary Equations, Stationary Solutions to Hybrid Quantum Hydrodynamical Model of Semiconductors in Bounded Domain, Symphonie 7 17:30 - 18:00 Patrick Meisner (Concordia), Analytic Number Theory, Distribution of Points on Curves over Finite Fields, Symphonie 1 17:30 - 18:00 Maxime Murray (Laval), Computational and Topological Methods in Dynamical Systems, Travelling waves for the suspended bridge equation, PK-2605 (UQAM) 17:30 - 18:00 Gautier Posinet (Laval), Algebraic Number Theory, Functional equation for multi-signed Selmer groups, Symphonie 2A 17:30 - 18:00 Phil Scott (Ottawa), Logic, Category Theory and Computation, AF Inverse Monoids and the Coordinatization of MV-algebras, PK-3605 (UQAM) 17:30 - 18:00 Mihai Sirbu (UT Austin), Mathematical Finance, On modeling and analysis of continuous-time stochastic games, Creation 17:30 - 18:00 Bartek Siudeja (Oregon), Geometric Spectral Theory, On mixed Dirichlet-Neumann eigenvalues of triangles., PK-3205 (UQAM) 18:00 - 19:00 Bernard Hodgson (Laval), Plenary Lecture, History of mathematics as a component of university math education: reflections inspired by Archimedes’ mathematical rhetoric, Soprano A & B 19:00 - 23:00 Awards Banquet, Inspiration Monday December 7 8:00 - 18:00 Registration, Soprano C & Foyer 8:00 - 8:30 Annalisa Panati (McGill), Operator Algebras, Energy conservation, return to equilibrium and modular theory, SH-2120 (UQAM) 8:00 - 8:30 Haomin Wen (Notre Dame), Differential Geometry, Lens rigidity and scattering rigidity in two dimensions, Symphonie 3A 8:00 - 9:00 Andy Pollington (NSF), Diophantine Equations and Harmonic Analysis, Diophantine approximation, a conjecture of Wolfgang Schmidt, Schmidt games and irregularities of distribution, Soprano A & B 8:30 - 9:00 Almut Burchard (Toronto), Differential Geometry, Ergodic properties of folding maps on spheres, Symphonie 3A 8:30 - 9:00 Matthew Kennedy (Waterloo), Operator Algebras, An intrinsic algebraic characterization of C*-simplicity for discrete groups, SH-2120 (UQAM) 8:30 - 9:00 Duncan Melville (St. Lawrence), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, The case for and against computational devices in early Mesopotamia, Maestro 8:30 - 9:00 Steven Rayan (Toronto), Symplectic Geometry, Moment Maps and Morse Theory, The bottom of the nilpotent cone of twisted Higgs bundles on $\mathbb{CP}^1$, Symphonie 3B 8:30 - 9:00 Stephen Scully (Alberta), Cohomological Methods in Quadratic Forms and Algebraic Groups, Symphonie 2B 9:00 - 9:30 Tom Baird (Memorial), Symplectic Geometry, Moment Maps and Morse Theory, Moduli spaces of real vector bundles over a real curve, Symphonie 3B 9:00 - 9:30 Albert Chau (UBC), Differential Geometry, An existence time estimate for Kahler Ricci flow and applications, Symphonie 3A 9:00 - 9:30 Tullia Dymarz (University of Wisconsin), Low Dimensional Topology and Geometric Group Theory, Nonrectifiable Delone sets in amenable groups, SH-3260 (UQAM) 9:00 - 9:30 Eldon Emberly (UBC), Bridging the Gap between Mathematical Approaches and Biological Problems, Operational principles of a molecular lawnmower, Symphonie 4A 9:00 - 9:30 Ricardo Fukasawa (Waterloo), Discrete and Continuous Optimization, A two slope theorem for the master equality polyhedron, Imagination 9:00 - 9:30 Kevin Hare (Waterloo), Analytic Number Theory, Some properties of even moments of uniform random walks, Symphonie 1 9:00 - 9:30 Caroline Junkins (Western), Cohomological Methods in Quadratic Forms and Algebraic Groups, On the topological filtration for generalized Severi-Brauer varieties, Symphonie 2B 9:00 - 9:30 Sylvia Nickerson (York), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, The John Tyndall Correspondence Project, Maestro 9:00 - 9:30 Aristotelis Panagiotopoulos (UIUC), Descriptive Set Theory, Menger compacta and projective Fraisse limits, PK-R610 (UQAM) 9:00 - 9:30 Charles Starling (Ottawa), Operator Algebras, C*-algebras generated by partial isometries and amenability, SH-2120 (UQAM) 9:00 - 9:30 Don Yu (York), Student Research Presentations, Temperature-driven model for the abundance of Culex mosquitoes, Symphonie 2A 9:00 - 9:30 Kun Zhao (Tulane), Nonlinear Evolutionary Equations, Uniform Distribution in Negative Chemotaxis, Symphonie 7 9:00 - 9:45 Frédéric Chapoton (Lyon 1), Algebraic Combinatorics, From Associahedra to Stokes Polytopes, Ovation 9:00 - 10:00 Alex Iosevich (Rochester), Diophantine Equations and Harmonic Analysis, Exponential bases and frames: the return of the Fuglede Conjecture, Soprano A & B 9:30 - 10:00 Tom Archibald (SFU), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Counterexamples in the work of Weierstrass, Maestro 9:30 - 10:00 Eric Cytrynbaum (UBC), Bridging the Gap between Mathematical Approaches and Biological Problems, Modelling the biochemistry of spatiotemporal pattern formation in bacteria, Symphonie 4A 9:30 - 10:00 Santanu Dey (GeorgiaTech), Discrete and Continuous Optimization, Analysis of Sparse Cutting-plane for Sparse IPs with applications to Stochastic IPs, Imagination 9:30 - 10:00 Remus Floricel (Regina), Operator Algebras, CCR subproduct systems, SH-2120 (UQAM) 9:30 - 10:00 Ying Hu (UQAM), Low Dimensional Topology and Geometric Group Theory, Left-orderability and cyclic branched covers, SH-3260 (UQAM) 9:30 - 10:00 Steve Lester (CRM), Analytic Number Theory, Small scale equidistribution of eigenfunctions on the torus, Symphonie 1 9:30 - 10:00 Roman Makarov (Laurier), Mathematical Finance, Modelling Liquidation Risk with Occupation Times, Creation 9:30 - 10:00 Eckhard Meinrenken (Toronto), Symplectic Geometry, Moment Maps and Morse Theory, Convexity for twisted conjugation, Symphonie 3B 9:30 - 10:00 Jan Minac (Western), Cohomological Methods in Quadratic Forms and Algebraic Groups, A Magical Spell of Massey Products on Galois p-extensions, Symphonie 2B 9:30 - 10:00 Yuliya Nesterova (Queens), Student Research Presentations, Exploring the Beta Invariant over Toric Varieties, Symphonie 2A 9:30 - 10:00 Vitali Vougalter (Toronto), Nonlinear Evolutionary Equations, Existence of stationary solutions for some integro-differential equations with anomalous diffusion, Symphonie 7 9:30 - 10:00 Joseph Zielinski (UIC), Descriptive Set Theory, Compact metrizable structures and classification problems, PK-R610 (UQAM) 9:45 - 10:30 Vincent Pilaud (École Polytechnique), Algebraic Combinatorics, Brick polytopes, lattice quotients, and Hopf algebras, Ovation 10:00 - 10:30 Mariya Boyko (Toronto), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Mathematical School Reforms in Post-War America and the Soviet Union: A Comparative Study, Maestro 10:00 - 10:30 Karl Dilcher (Dalhousie), Analytic Number Theory, Generalized Fermat numbers and congruences for Gauss factorials, Symphonie 1 10:00 - 10:30 Michel Goemans (MIT), Discrete and Continuous Optimization, Polynomial-Time Solvability for Optimization Problems over Integer Cones in Fixed Dimension, Imagination 10:00 - 10:30 Michael Hartz (Waterloo), Operator Algebras, Completely contractive representations of multiplier algebras of Nevanlinna-Pick spaces, SH-2120 (UQAM) 10:00 - 10:30 Jane Heffernan (York), Bridging the Gap between Mathematical Approaches and Biological Problems, Waning immunity and epidemiological outcomes, Symphonie 4A 10:00 - 10:30 Jacques Hurtubise (McGill), Symplectic Geometry, Moment Maps and Morse Theory, Isomonodromic deformations and Stability, Symphonie 3B 10:00 - 10:30 Chantal Labbé (HEC Montréal), Mathematical Finance, Aumann-Shapley allocation of incremental CVA, Creation 10:00 - 10:30 Kaveh Mousavand (UQAM), Student Research Presentations, Exceptional Modules over Hereditary Algebras, Symphonie 2A 10:00 - 10:30 Alexander Neshitov (Ottawa and Steklov Institute St. Petersburg, Russia), Cohomological Methods in Quadratic Forms and Algebraic Groups, Motives of twisted flag varieties and representations of Hecke-type algebras., Symphonie 2B 10:00 - 10:30 Alex Rice (Rochester), Diophantine Equations and Harmonic Analysis, Difference Sets and Polynomials, Soprano A & B 10:00 - 10:30 Dale Rolfsen (UBC), Low Dimensional Topology and Geometric Group Theory, Braids, free group automorphisms and orderings., SH-3260 (UQAM) 10:00 - 10:30 Hong Zhang (Brown), Nonlinear Evolutionary Equations, Schauder estimate for concave nonlocal parabolic equation, Symphonie 7 10:30 - 11:00 Break, Soprano C & Foyer 11:00 - 12:00 Yuval Filmus (Toronto), Doctoral Prize, Analysis of Boolean functions on exotic domains, Soprano A & B 12:00 - 13:00 Gilles Brassard (Montréal), Plenary Lecture, Cryptography in a Quantum World, Soprano A & B 14:30 - 15:30 Hector Pasten (Queen’s), Doctoral Prize, The abc conjecture: a review and update, Soprano A & B 15:30 - 16:00 Break, Soprano C & Foyer 16:00 - 16:30 Wenying Feng (Trent), Nonlinear Evolutionary Equations, Topological methods for nonlinear boundary value problems, Symphonie 7 16:00 - 16:30 Dan Kucerovsky (New Brunswick), Operator Algebras, Can C*-algebraic quantum groups be classified by K-theory?, SH-2120 (UQAM) 16:00 - 16:30 Jean-Pierre Marquis (Montréal), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, An intrinsic epistemological dualism, Maestro 16:00 - 16:30 Sarah Mathieu-Soucy (Concordia), Student Research Presentations, What do calculus’ students think about mathematical theory?, Symphonie 2A 16:00 - 16:30 Ruxandra Moraru (Waterloo), Symplectic Geometry, Moment Maps and Morse Theory, Moduli spaces of stable generalized holomorphic bundles on generalized K\"ahler manifolds, Symphonie 3B 16:00 - 16:30 Misty Ostergaard (Kansas State), Diophantine Equations and Harmonic Analysis, Solutions of Diagonal Congruences with Variables Restricted to Small Intervals, Soprano A & B 16:00 - 16:30 Chris Pack (McGill), Bridging the Gap between Mathematical Approaches and Biological Problems, Patterns of oscillations in the visual cortex, Symphonie 4A 16:00 - 16:30 Sebastian Pokutta (GeorgiaTech), Discrete and Continuous Optimization, An introduction to Extended Formulations - capturing the expressive power of LPs and SDPs, Imagination 16:00 - 16:30 Alexey Rubtsov (Ryerson), Mathematical Finance, Robust portfolio choice with derivative trading under stochastic volatility, Creation 16:00 - 16:30 Kirill Zaynullin (Ottawa), Cohomological Methods in Quadratic Forms and Algebraic Groups, Motives of torsor quotients via representations, Symphonie 2B 16:00 - 17:00 Matthew Dyer (Notre Dame), Algebraic Combinatorics, Twisted highest weight modules and shellability, Ovation 16:30 - 17:00 Miguel Anjos (Polytechnique Montréal), Discrete and Continuous Optimization, Improving Mixed Integer Linear Optimization Formulations for the Unit Commitment Problem, Imagination 16:30 - 17:00 Adèle Bourgeois (Ottawa), Bridging the Gap between Mathematical Approaches and Biological Problems, Overcompensatory dynamics in integrodifference equations, Symphonie 4A 16:30 - 17:00 Virginie Charette (Sherbrooke), Symplectic Geometry, Moment Maps and Morse Theory, Some symplectic geometry in the 3-d Einstein Universe, Symphonie 3B 16:30 - 17:00 Nicolas Fillion (Simon Fraser), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, The surprisingly old origins of modern decision and game theory, Maestro 16:30 - 17:00 Marc-Antoine Leclerc (Ottawa), Cohomological Methods in Quadratic Forms and Algebraic Groups, The hyperbolic formal affine Demazure algebra, Symphonie 2B 16:30 - 17:00 Xinyang Lu (McGill), Nonlinear Evolutionary Equations, Evolution equations in epitaxial growth, Symphonie 7 16:30 - 17:00 Robert Martin (Cape Town), Operator Algebras, Aleksandrov-Clark theory for the Drury-Arveson multiplier algebra, SH-2120 (UQAM) 16:30 - 17:00 Mobolaji Ogunsolu (Calgary), Mathematical Finance, Credit risk pricing via Epstein-Zin pricing kernel, Creation 16:30 - 17:00 Ying Jie Qian (McGill), Student Research Presentations, The Extremal Function of Unions of Triangles, Symphonie 2A 16:30 - 17:00 Shuntaro Yamagishi (Queen's), Diophantine Equations and Harmonic Analysis, Zeroes of polynomials in many variables with prime inputs, Soprano A & B 17:00 - 17:30 Dan Bienstock (Columbia), Discrete and Continuous Optimization, Exploiting structured sparsity in mixed-integer polynomial optimization, Imagination 17:00 - 17:30 Laura Broley (Concordia), Student Research Presentations, Computer programming in “doing mathematics”: Mathematical research vs. undergraduate mathematics education, Symphonie 2A 17:00 - 17:30 Paul Cisek (Montréal), Bridging the Gap between Mathematical Approaches and Biological Problems, Inferring the dynamics of decision-making, Symphonie 4A 17:00 - 17:30 Craig Fraser (Toronto), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Hamilton-Jacobi Theory and Celestial Mechanics 1860-1900, Maestro 17:00 - 17:30 Roberto Pirisi (Ottawa), Cohomological Methods in Quadratic Forms and Algebraic Groups, Cohomological invariants of algebraic stacks, Symphonie 2B 17:00 - 17:30 Paul Potgieter (Unisa), Diophantine Equations and Harmonic Analysis, Salem sets, equidistribution and arithmetic progressions, Soprano A & B 17:00 - 17:30 Frédéric Rochon (UQAM), Symplectic Geometry, Moment Maps and Morse Theory, Renormalized volume on the Teichmüller space of punctured Riemann surfaces, Symphonie 3B 17:00 - 17:30 Sutanu Roy (Ottawa), Operator Algebras, Duality for convex monoids, SH-2120 (UQAM) 17:00 - 17:30 Tom Salisbury (York), Mathematical Finance, Optimal tontines, Creation 17:00 - 17:30 Alireza Sayyidmousavi (McGill), Nonlinear Evolutionary Equations, Finite-element solution for compressible Navier-Stokes flow with density-dependent viscosity and Navier-slip at the wall, Symphonie 7 17:00 - 18:00 Nathan Reading (North Carolina State), Algebraic Combinatorics, Lattice congruences on the weak order, Ovation 17:30 - 18:00 Dominique Orban (Polytechnique Montréal), Discrete and Continuous Optimization, A Matrix-Free Regularized Sequential Quadratic Optimization Method, Imagination 17:30 - 18:00 Timothy Rainone (Waterloo), Operator Algebras, Noncommutative Topological Dynamics and Finiteness in C*-Crossed Products, SH-2120 (UQAM)