2018 CMS Winter Meeting

Vancouver, December 7 - 10, 2018

# Schedule - by Session

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

 Advances and Applications in Geometric and Structure-Preserving Discretizations Org: Uri Ascher (University of British Columbia), Alexander Bihlo (Memorial University), Jean-Christophe Nave (McGill University) and Andy Wan (University of Northern British Columbia) Saturday December 8  (Junior Ballroom A) 8:30 - 9:00 Tagir Farkhutdinov (University of Alberta), Variational Methods in the Dynamics of Porous Media 9:00 - 9:30 Rudiger Brecht (Memorial University of Newfoundland), a geometric variational discretization of compressible fluids: the rotating shallow water equations on the sphere 9:30 - 10:00 Andrea Natale (Imperial College London), An optimal transport Lagrangian approach for the Camassa-Holm variational model 10:00 - 10:30 Philip Morrison (University of Texas at Austin), Simulated Annealing for the Calculation of Steady States 16:00 - 16:30 Francois Gay-Balmaz (Ecole normale supérieure), Towards a geometric variational discretization of compressible fluid dynamics 16:30 - 17:00 Yousaf Habib (COMSATS Institute of Information Technology - Lahore), Effective order methods for separable differential equations 17:00 - 17:30 Onno Bokhove (University of Leeds), Variational time integrators for water-wave, wave-structure and internal-wave dynamics 17:30 - 18:00 John Bowman (University of Alberta), A New Technique for Constructing Exponential Integrators Sunday December 9  (Junior Ballroom A) 8:30 - 9:00 Elsa Cardoso-Bihlo (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Invariant high-order parameterization schemes 9:00 - 9:30 Joern Behrens (Universität Hamburg), Multiple Scales and Structure Preservation for Conservation Laws in Geophysical Applications 9:30 - 10:00 Katharina Schratz (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Low-regularity exponential-type integrators for the KdV equation 10:00 - 10:30 Artur Palha (Eindhoven University of Technology), Algebraic dual polynomials for mimetic spectral element methods 16:00 - 16:30 Andrew Gillette (Unversity of Arizona), Structure Preservation in (Trimmed) Serendipity Finite Element Methods 16:30 - 17:00 Alexander Ostermann (University of Innsbruck), Low regularity Fourier integrators 17:00 - 17:30 Andrea Dziubek (State University of New York Polytechnic Institute), Literature Review of Structure Preserving Discretizations for Shell Models Algebraic and Symplectic Geometry of Moduli Spaces Org: Derek Krepski (University of Manitoba) and Steven Rayan (University of Saskatchewan) Sunday December 9  (Port McNeill) 8:00 - 8:30 Charles Doran (University of Alberta), Moduli of K3 Surface Fibered Calabi-Yau Threefolds 8:30 - 9:00 Jim Bryan (University of British Columbia), Curve counting on (K3xE)/G and Siegel modular forms 9:00 - 9:30 Ajneet Dhillon (University of Western Ontario), Essential Dimension of the moduli stack of vector bundles. 9:30 - 10:00 Michael Groechenig (University of Toronto), Mirror symmetry for Higgs bundles and the fundamental lemma 10:00 - 10:30 Seth Wolbert (University of Manitoba), Diffeological coarse moduli spaces for stacks over manifolds 16:00 - 16:30 Ruxandra Moraru (University of Waterloo), Moduli spaces of generalized holomorphic bundles 16:30 - 17:00 Alessandro Malusà (University of Saskatchewan / PIMS), Some aspects on the AJ conjecture 17:00 - 17:30 Sabin Cautis (University of British Columbia), The coherent Satake category 17:30 - 18:00 Oliver Leigh (University of British Columbia), Stables Maps with Divisible Ramification Algebraic Geometry Org: Nathan Ilten-Gee (Simon Fraser University) and Kalle Karu (University of British Columbia) Sunday December 9 8:30 - 9:00 Johannes Hofscheier (McMaster University), Generalized flatness constants, spanning lattice polytopes, and the Gromov width, Burrard 9:00 - 9:30 David Favero (University of Alberta), The Batyrev-Nill Conjecture, Burrard 9:30 - 10:00 Jim Carrell (University of British Columbia), Lifting Group Actions From Torus Fixed Points to Cohomology, Burrard 10:00 - 10:30 Jenna Rajchgot (University of Saskatchewan), Double Grassmannians, certain symmetric varieties, and type D quiver representation varieties, Burrard 16:00 - 16:30 Sabin Cautis (University of British Columbia), The derived structure of the Springer resolution, Burrard 16:30 - 17:00 Charles Doran (University of Alberta), Mirror Symmetry for Lattice Polarized del Pezzo Surfaces, Burrard 17:00 - 17:30 Kai Behrend (University of British Columbia), The motivic weight of the stack of bundles, Burrard 17:30 - 18:00 Ajneet Dhillon (University of Western Ontario), The motive of BG., Burrard Monday December 10 8:30 - 9:00 Javier González-Anaya (University of British Columbia), Constructing Mori dream spaces and non-Mori dream spaces via prime characteristic methods, Orca 9:00 - 9:30 Kiumars Kaveh (University of Pittsburgh), Spherical amoebae and K-orbits in spherical varieties, Orca 14:45 - 15:15 Frank Sottile (Texas A&M), Galois Groups for Systems of Equations, Orca 15:15 - 15:45 Matt Satriano (University of Waterloo), A counter-example to the finiteness conjecture of Kawaguchi and Silverman, Orca 16:00 - 16:30 Sergio Da Silva (University of Manitoba), On the Gorensteinization of Schubert varieties via boundary divisors, Orca 16:30 - 17:00 Jim Bryan (University of British Columbia), Rigid Calabi-Yau Banana Manifolds, Orca 17:00 - 17:30 Chris Manon (University of Kentucky), Classification of toric bundles on toric varieties, Orca Asymptotic Analysis and Applications Org: Dr. Chunhua Ou (Memorial University of Newfoundland) and Dr. Xiang-Sheng Wang (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) Sunday December 9  (Junior Ballroom D) 16:00 - 16:30 Roderick Wong (City University of Hong Kong), Asymptotics of the associated Pollaczek polynomials (Joint with Min-Jie Luo) 16:30 - 17:00 Michael Ward (University of British Columbia), The Stability of Hotspot Patterns for a Continuum Model of Urban Crime and the Effect of Police Intervention 17:00 - 17:30 Dan Dai (City University of Hong Kong), Gap probability at the hard edge for random matrix ensembles with pole singularities in the potential 17:30 - 18:00 Shuai-Xia Xu (Sun Yat-sen University), Gap probability in critical unitary random matrix ensembles and the coupled Painlev\'{e} II system Monday December 10  (Junior Ballroom D) 8:00 - 8:30 Mourad Ismail (University of Central Florida), The q-Normal Distribution 8:30 - 9:00 Howard Cohl (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Asymptotics of Fundamental Solutions for Helmholtz operators on Spaces of Constant Curvature 9:00 - 9:30 Ruiming Zhang (Northwest A&F University), Asymptotics of Theta Functions 14:45 - 15:15 Junho Choi (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), On Boundary Layers for the Burgers Equations in a Bounded Domain 15:15 - 15:45 Xiang-Sheng Wang (University of Louisiana at Lafayette), Asymptotic analysis of difference equations Authentic Teaching and Learning in University Mathematics Org: Fok-Shuen Leung (University of British Columbia) and Vanessa Radzimski (University of the Fraser Valley) Monday December 10  (Parksville) 8:30 - 9:00 Fok-Shuen Leung and Vanessa Radzimski (University of British Columbia and University of the Fraser Valley), A New Blended Model for Small-Scale Learning in Large-Scale Classes 9:00 - 9:30 Costanza Piccolo (University of British Columbia), An intervention for students at risk of failing their first University Calculus course 14:45 - 15:15 Veselin Jungic (Simon Fraser University), Sweet and Sour: Teaching Mathematics to Engineering Students 15:15 - 15:45 Patrick Walls (University of British Columbia), Open Source Mathematical Computing in the Cloud with Python, Jupyter and Git 16:00 - 16:30 Lauren DeDieu (University of Calgary), Emphasizing Mathematical Communication in the Classroom 16:30 - 17:00 Gary MacGillivray (University of Victoria), Mentoring undergraduates in research 17:00 - 17:30 Carmen Bruni (University of Waterloo), Lessons Learned From a Graduate Student Seminar 17:30 - 18:00 Matthew Coles (University of British Columbia), Professional development of novice math instructors: Encouraging the adoption of authentic teaching Complex Analysis and Operator Theory Org: Javad Mashreghi (Laval University) and Nina Zorboska (University of Manitoba) Saturday December 8  (Gulf Island C) 8:00 - 8:30 Thomas Ransford (Laval University), Linear maps preserving inner functions 8:30 - 9:00 Douglas Farenick (University of Regina), Choquet boundaries in an operator-theoretic framework 9:00 - 9:30 Ilia Binder (University of Toronto), Caratheodory convergence and weak convergence of Harmonic Measure. 9:30 - 10:00 Line Baribeau (Laval University), Hyperbolic divided differences and higher-order hyperbolic derivatives 10:00 - 10:30 Kelly Bickel (Bucknell University), Portraits of Rational Inner Functions 16:00 - 16:30 Carl Cowen (Indiana University - Purdue), Essential Spectrum of Some Composition Operators on $H^2(D)$ 16:30 - 17:00 Flavia Colonna (George Masson University), Weighted composition operators on iterated weighted-type Banach spaces of analytic functions 17:00 - 17:30 Maria Tjani (University of Arkansas), Closed range composition operators on $BMOA$ 17:30 - 18:00 Ievgen Bilokopytov (University of Manitoba), Which multiplication operators are surjective isometries? 18:00 - 18:30 Malik Younsi (University of Hawaii), Analytic Capacity and Holomorphic Motions 18:30 - 19:00 Javad Mashreghi (Laval University), One-box Conditions for the Carleson measures for the Dirichlet space Contributed Papers Saturday December 8 16:00 - 16:30 Sebastian Dominguez (Simon Fraser University), Steklov eigenvalues for the Lame operator, Burrard 16:30 - 17:00 Alamgir Hossain (Simon Fraser University), Ice Sheet Modelling using the Level Set Method, Burrard 17:00 - 17:30 TAEHAN BAE (University of Regina), Backward Simulation of Correlated L{\'e}vy-Negative Binomial Processes for Quantitative Risk modelling, Burrard 17:30 - 18:00 Jio Jeong (Independent Scholar), In Re, Ante Rem, and Naturalist Varieties of Structuralism, Burrard Sunday December 9 16:00 - 16:30 Anthony Shaheen (CSU Los Angeles), Isoperimetric constants of generalized Paley graphs, Blue Whale 16:30 - 17:00 Daryl Funk (Douglas College), On representing matroids by matrices and graphs: two sides of the same coin, Blue Whale 17:00 - 17:30 Dennis Contois (Native Education College), Colonialism, First Peoples and Adult Basic Education in Canada, Blue Whale 17:30 - 18:00 Chi-Kwong Fok (The University of Adelaide), Twisted K-theory and extended Verlinde algebra, Blue Whale Discrete and Combinatorial Geometry Org: Barry Monson (University of New Brunswick) and Asia Ivic Weiss (York University) Sunday December 9  (Junior Ballroom B) 16:00 - 16:30 Gordon Williams (University of Alaska), On maniplexes with co-skeleton $K_4$ 16:30 - 17:00 Peter Brooksbank (Bucknell University), Existence of high rank regular polytopes for PSp(4,q) 17:00 - 17:30 Gabe Cunningham (University of Massachusetts), Vertex-faithful regular polyhedra 17:30 - 18:00 Daniel Pellicer (National Autonomous University of Mexico), Higher rank chiral polytopes with toroidal facets Monday December 10  (Junior Ballroom B) 8:30 - 9:00 Egon Schulte (Northeastern University), Local Theory in Tilings and Delone Sets 9:00 - 9:30 Robert Dawson (Saint Mary's University), A Circle Tiling Problem 14:45 - 15:15 Gabriela Araujo-Pardo (National Autonomous University of Mexico), The achromatic number of Kneser Graphs and their relationship with Steiner Triple Systems 15:15 - 15:45 Amanda Montejano (National Autonomous University of Mexico), A rainbow version of Mantel's Theorem 16:00 - 16:30 Wendy Finbow-Singh (Saint Mary's University), Constructing Generically Rigid Frameworks 16:30 - 17:00 Karoly Bezdek (University of Calgary)), On Gromov's conjecture for uniform contractions 17:00 - 17:30 Deborah Oliveros (National Autonomous University of Mexico), Tverberg Theorems with Altered Nerves. 17:30 - 18:00 Tamon Stephen (Simon Fraser University), Colourful Simplicial Depth, Grids and Algorithms Discrete Mathematics in Communications and Computation Org: Megan Dewar (The Tutte Institute for Mathematics in Computing), Daniel Panario (Carleton University) and David Thomson (Carleton University) Saturday December 8  (Port McNeill) 8:00 - 8:30 Megan Dewar (Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing), Connectivity in hypergraphs 8:30 - 9:00 Tim Alderson (University of New Brunswick), Maximum and Full Weight Spectrum Codes 9:00 - 9:30 Thais Idalino (University of Ottawa), Efficient Unbounded Fault-Tolerant Aggregate Signatures Using Nested Cover-Free Families 9:30 - 10:00 Aidan Roy (D-Wave Systems), Mixed-integer linear programs and graph minors for quantum annealing 10:00 - 10:30 Jonathan Jedwab (Simon Fraser University), A recursive construction of linking systems of difference sets 16:00 - 16:30 Lucia Moura (University of Ottawa), Covering Arrays and Combinatorial Testing 16:30 - 17:00 Petr Lisonek (Simon Fraser University), Maximally non-associative quasigroups 17:00 - 17:30 David Thomson (Carleton University), Low complexity normal bases over $\mathbb{F}_2$ 17:30 - 18:00 Upcoming Opportunities, Upcoming Opportunities in Discrete Mathematics Distributions in Analytic Number Theory Org: Alia Hamieh (University of Northern British Columbia), Habiba Kadiri (University of Lethbridge), Greg Martin (University of British Columbia) and Nathan Ng (University of Lethbridge) Saturday December 8  (Port Hardy) 8:00 - 8:30 Daniel Fiorilli (University of Ottawa), Large values of the variance of primes in arithmetic progressions 8:30 - 9:00 Matilde Lalin (Universite de Montreal), The mean value of cubic $L$-functions over function fields 9:00 - 9:30 Chantal David (Concordia University), Averages of cubic Gauss sums over functions fields 9:30 - 10:00 Alexander Mangerel (Universite de Montreal/CRM), The Variance of Bounded Multiplicative Functions in Arithmetic Progressions 10:00 - 10:30 Kyle Pratt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Some non-vanishing results for Dirichlet L-functions 16:00 - 16:30 Lola Thompson (Oberlin College), Counting quaternion algebras 16:30 - 17:00 Amita Malik (Rutgers University), Distribution of zeros of derivatives of the Riemann $\xi$-function 17:00 - 17:30 Peng-Jie Wong (University of Lethbridge/PIMS), A Bombieri-Vinogradov Theorem for Modular Forms 17:30 - 18:00 Asif Zaman (Stanford University), Moments of other random multiplicative functions Sunday December 9  (Port Hardy) 8:30 - 9:00 Kirsti Biggs (University of Bristol), Efficient congruencing in ellipsephic sets 9:00 - 9:30 Xiancheng Meng (McGill University/CRM), Chebyshev's bias for products of irreducible polynomials - I 9:30 - 10:00 Lucile Devin (University of Ottawa), Chebyshev's bias for products of irreducible polynomials -- II 10:00 - 10:30 Ayla Gafni (University of Rochester), Extremal primes for elliptic curves without complex multiplication 16:00 - 16:30 Jack Klys (University of Calgary), Moments of unramified 2-group extensions of quadratic fields 16:30 - 17:00 Allysa Lumley (York University), Distribution of Values of $L$-functions associated to Hyperelliptic Curves over Finite Fields 17:00 - 17:30 Caroline Turnage-Butterbaugh (Carleton College), A Chebotarev density theorem for families, and an application to class groups 17:30 - 18:00 Lee Troupe (University of Lethbridge/PIMS), Distributions of polynomials of additive functions Educational Resources in Mathematics Org: Kseniya Garaschuk (University of the Fraser Valley), Andrew Hare (Saint Mary's University) and Petra Menz (Simon Fraser University) Sunday December 9  (Pavilion Ballroom A) 8:00 - 8:25 Andrew Hare (Saint Mary’s University), Two Textbooks in the Course: Gesture and Language 8:25 - 8:50 Leah Edelstein-Keshet (University of British Columbia), Developing an Open calculus book for Life Sciences 8:50 - 9:15 Cynthia Nicol (University of British Columbia), Educational Resources for Learning to Teach Mathematics 9:15 - 9:40 Richard Hoshino, Ben Klaff & Michael Lamoureux (Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences), Callysto: an educational resource for data analytics and computational thinking 9:40 - 10:05 Nicola Mulberry (Simon Fraser University), Experiences Creating and Teaching from Open Calculus Material 10:05 - 10:30 Kseniya Garaschuk (University of the Fraser Valley), Adoption of WebWork: a Department initiative 16:00 - 16:20 Sean Chorney (Simon Fraser University), Orchestrating Desmos: Rethinking thinking about digital technology 16:20 - 16:40 Mike Pruner, Resources in a High School Mathematics Classroom 16:40 - 17:00 Elaine Simmt (University of Alberta), An abundance of resources 17:00 - 18:00 Open Discussion Explicit Methods in Arithmetic Geometry Org: Nils Bruin (Simon Fraser University) and Michael Jacobson (University of Calgary) Sunday December 9  (Azure) 8:00 - 8:30 Nathan Grieve (Michigan State), Around the Riemann-Roch Theorem for Abelian varieties 8:30 - 9:00 Beth Malmskog (Colorado College, Colorado Springs), Solving S-unit equations in Sage and Applications 9:00 - 9:30 Brett Nasserden (University of Waterloo), Explicit calculations with a moduli space of abelian surfaces 9:30 - 10:00 Colin Weir (Tutte Institute), Classifying the $p$-torsion of Jacobians and Pryms 10:00 - 10:30 Adam Topaz (University of Alberta), Reconstructing Function Fields from their $\ell$-adic Cohomology 16:00 - 16:30 Jeff Achter (Collorado State, Fort Collins), Arithmetic moduli for lattice-polarized K3 surfaces 16:30 - 17:00 Ari Shnidman (Boston College), Selmer groups of genus 2 Jacobians with root 3 level structure 17:00 - 17:30 Jennifer Paulhus (Grinnell College), Jacobian variety decompositions 17:30 - 18:00 Michael Bennett (University of British Columbia), Shifted powers in Lucas-Lehmer sequences Geometric Analysis and Spectral Geometry Org: Richard Froese (University of British Columbia) and Alexandre Girouard (Laval University | Université Laval) Saturday December 8  (Galiano) 8:30 - 9:00 Albert Chau (UBC), Complete solutions to Kahler Ricci flow on quasi-projctive varieties. 9:00 - 9:30 Dima Jakobson (Mcgill), Zero and negative eigenvalues of the conformal laplacian 9:30 - 10:00 Renan Assimos Martins (Max Planck Institute), A remark on the Geometry of Some Maximum Principles 10:00 - 10:30 Carolyn Gordon (Dartmouth), Transplantation and isogeny of intermediate Jacobians of Kahler manifolds 16:00 - 16:30 Richard Laugesen (Illinois), From Neumann to Steklov and beyond, via Robin: the Weinberger way 16:30 - 18:00 Open Problems and Discussion Sunday December 9  (Galiano) 9:00 - 9:30 Donato Cianci (Michigan), On branched minimal immersions of surfaces by first eigenfunctions 9:30 - 10:00 Nicolau Sarquis Aiex (UBC), Index estimate of self-shrinkers. 10:00 - 10:30 David Sher (DePaul), The Steklov eigenvalue problem on polygons Monday December 10  (Galiano) 8:30 - 9:00 Craig Sutton (Dartmouth) 9:00 - 9:30 Evans Harrell (Georgia Institute of Technology), Two-term asymptotically sharp bounds for eigenvalue means of the Laplacian 14:45 - 15:15 Elisabeth Stanhope (Lewis & Clark), Bounding the multiplicity of the Steklov eigenvalues of an orbisurface 15:15 - 15:45 Jingyi Chen (UBC), Recent progress on Hamiltonian stationary Lagrangian submanifolds 16:00 - 16:30 Asma Hassannezhad (Bristol), On a relation between Dirichlet-to-Neumann and Laplacian spectra on manifolds 16:30 - 17:00 Alexandre Girouard (Laval), Steklov eigenvalues of submanifolds with prescribed boundary in Euclidean space Hamiltonian dynamics and applications Org: Tanya Schmah (University of Ottawa) and Cristina Stoica (Wilfred Laurier University) Saturday December 8  (Pavilion Ballroom A) 8:00 - 8:30 George Patrick (University of Saskatchewan), The intrinsic linearization of equilibria of nonholonomic systems 8:30 - 9:00 Dan Offin (Queen's University), Stability of periodic orbits by index methods 9:00 - 9:30 Corey Shanbrom (Sacramento State University), A New Family of Solutions to the Kepler-Heisenberg Problem 9:30 - 10:00 Tanya Schmah (University of Ottawa), Controlling rigid body attitude via shape change 10:00 - 10:30 Lennard Bakker (Brigham Young University), A Model for the Binary Asteroid 2017 YE5 16:30 - 17:00 Claudio Vidal (University of Bío-Bío) 17:00 - 17:30 Zhifu Xie (University of Southern Mississippi), Central Configurations and Super Central Configurations in the Collinear 5-body Problem 17:30 - 18:00 Manuele Santoprete (Wilfrid Laurier University), On the Relationship between Two Notions of Compatibility for Bi-Hamiltonian Systems Harmonic Analysis and its Connections to Geometric Measure Theory and Combinatorics Org: Kyle Hambrook (San Jose State University) and Itay Londner (Tel Aviv University) Friday December 7  (Beluga) 13:00 - 13:30 Ruixiang Zhang (University of Wisconsin - Madison), The pointwise convergence problem for the free Schrödinger equation in high dimensions 13:30 - 14:00 Thomas Yang (University of British Columbia), Small sets containing many patterns 14:00 - 14:30 Jongchon Kim (University of British Columbia), Elliptic difference equations with random coefficients 14:30 - 15:00 Steven Senger (Missouri State), Chains and other multiple point configurations 15:00 - 15:30 Ed Granirer (University of British Columbia), Some Geometric Properties of the Fourier Algebras. 15:30 - 16:00 Itay Londner (University of British Columbia), Exponential frames and syndetic Riesz sequences 16:00 - 16:30 Kyle Hambrook (San Jose State University), Construction of fractal measures with rapid Fourier decay 16:30 - 17:00 Alex Iosevich (University of Rochester), The Falconer distance conjecture in the plane Saturday December 8  (Beluga) 8:00 - 8:30 Josh Zahl (University of British Columbia), An improved bound on the Hausdorff dimension of Besicovitch sets in $\mathbb{R}^3$ 8:30 - 9:00 Krystal Taylor (Ohio State University), Lipschitz Images of Fractal Sets and an Application to Pinned Distance Sets 9:00 - 9:30 Joris Roos (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Averages of the simplex Hilbert transform 9:30 - 10:00 Chun-Kit Lai (San Francisco State University), Existence and exactness of exponential Riesz sequences and frames for fractal measures 10:00 - 10:30 Marcin Bownik (University or Oregon), Wavelets for non-expanding dilations 16:00 - 16:30 Izabella Laba (University of British Columbia), Maximal operators and decoupling for Lambda(p) Cantor measures 16:30 - 17:00 Marina Iliopoulou (University of California, Berkeley), Counting joints formed by lines and a k-plane 17:00 - 17:30 Shahaf Nitzan (Georgia Institute of Technology) 17:30 - 18:00 K. S. Senthil Raani (IISER Berhampur), Role of curvature measures in determining Fourier asymptotics Sunday December 9  (Beluga) 8:00 - 8:30 Hong Wang (Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMassachusetts Institute of), A restriction estimate in $\mathbb{R}^3$ 8:30 - 9:00 Jacob Denson (University of British Columbia), Fractals Avoiding Fractal Configurations 9:00 - 9:30 Rachel Greenfeld (Bar-Ilan University), Fuglede's spectral set conjecture 9:30 - 10:00 Marc Carnovale (Ohio State University), Abundance of 3APs in sparse subsets of integers, finite fields, and Euclidean spaces 10:00 - 10:30 Neil Lyall (University of Georgia), Geometric Configurations in Sets of Positive Density 16:00 - 16:30 Betsy Stovall (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Extremizability of Fourier restriction to the paraboloid 16:30 - 17:00 Xu Robert Yang (University of Waterloo), Interpolation Sets 17:00 - 17:30 Simon Bortz (University of Washington), Two-Phase Free Boundary Problems for Harmonic Measure 17:30 - 18:00 Malabika Pramanik (University of British Columbia), On Salem sets avoiding solutions of linear equations History and Philosophy of Mathematics Org: Maritza Branker (Niagara University), Nicolas Fillion (Simon Fraser University) and Glen Van Brummelen (Quest University) Sunday December 9  (Gulf Island C) 8:00 - 8:30 Jim Brown (University of Toronto), Plato vs Aristotle 8:30 - 9:00 Conor Mayo-Wilson (University of Washington), Potential Infinity and the Aristotelian Plane 9:00 - 9:30 Victor Katz (University of the District of Columbia), Modern Mathematical Ideas from Medieval Times 9:30 - 10:00 John Mumma (California State University, San Bernardino), The effectiveness of geometric diagrams in geometric proofs 10:00 - 10:30 Len Berggren (Simon Fraser University), Some Mathematics of the "Mountain Man" 16:00 - 16:30 Tom Donaldson (Simon Fraser University), Language, Truthmaking, and Logic 16:30 - 17:00 Glen Van Brummelen (Quest University) 17:00 - 17:30 Derek Postnikoff (University of Saskatchewan), Mathematics as a Liberating Art 17:30 - 18:00 Nicolas Fillion (Simon Fraser University), A philosophical take on variational crimes in the finite element method 18:00 - 18:30 Brenda Davison (Simon Fraser University), Divergent series leading up to the turn of the 20th century Indigenization and Reconciliation through University Mathematics: Why, When and How ? Org: Darja Barr (University of Manitoba), Shawn Desaulniers (University of Alberta), Edward Doolittle (First Nations University) and Veselin Jungic (Simon Fraser University) Friday December 7  (Port Alberni) 14:30 - 15:00 Edward Doolittle (First Nation University of Canada) 15:00 - 15:30 Mark MacLean (UBC), Expanding the Mathematics Curriculum Conversation for an Indigenous Teacher Education Program 15:30 - 16:00 Melania Alvarez (PIMS/UBC), Math Outreach: Many Needs, Many Ways 16:00 - 16:30 Randall Pyke (SFU), Reaching out to the Aboriginal community: Volunteer tutoring at the Native Education College in Vancouver Saturday December 8  (Port Alberni) 8:00 - 8:30 Shawn Desaulniers (University of Alberta), Is Recruitment Enough? 8:30 - 9:00 Cynthia Nicol (UBC), What Role does Mathematics Play for Community Resilience and Innovation? 9:00 - 9:30 Darja Barr (University of Manitoba), Easing the Transition into University Mathematics with Summer Bridge Programs 9:30 - 10:00 Emily McKinnon (Universityof Manitoba), Access to Success in Math: Lessons learned and new directions for the University of Manitoba’s Access Program 10:00 - 10:30 Betty Wilson (Tla'amin Nation), A Tla’amin Perspective on Math 16:00 - 16:30 Henry Fowler (Navajo Technical University), The Silence Beat of Mathematics 16:30 - 17:00 Lillian Prince and Dennis Contois (Native Education College), Colonialism, First Peoples and Adult Basic Education in Canada 17:00 - 17:30 Cedric Chauve (SFU), Designing Coast Salish woven basket patterns using Jupyter notebooks 17:30 - 18:00 Veselin Jungic (SFU), Teaching each other: Working with Indigenous learners Inverse Problems in Mathematical Physics Org: Peter Gibson and Yue Zhao (York University) Saturday December 8  (Junior Ballroom B) 9:00 - 9:30 Ru-yu Lai (University of Minnesota), Global uniqueness for the semilinear fractional Schr\"{o}dinger equation 9:30 - 10:00 Isaac Harris (Purdue University), Transmission Eigenvalues for a Conductive Boundary 10:00 - 10:30 Alexandre Timonov (University of South Carolina Upstate), On the large time behavior of the solution to the regularized weighted mean curvature flow problem 16:00 - 16:30 Peter Gibson (York University), Acoustic imaging of layered media 16:30 - 17:00 Jian Zhai (Rice University/University of Washington), A semiclassical inverse spectral problem for elastic surface-wave tomography 17:00 - 17:30 Luz Angélica Caudillo-Mata (University of British Columbia), Multiscale Modeling of Geophysical Electromagnetic Fields in Highly Heterogeneous Media 17:30 - 18:00 Bas Peters (University of British Columbia), Intersections and sums of sets for the regularization of inverse problems Sunday December 9  (Junior Ballroom B) 8:00 - 8:30 Michael Lamoureux (PIMS/University of Calgary), Inverse theory in imaging 8:30 - 9:00 Michael Haslam (York University), A High Order Method for Electromagnetic Scattering from Penetrable Rough Surfaces 9:00 - 9:30 Wenyuan Liao (University of Calgary), A numerical method for earth mover's distance calculation and its application in full waveform inversion 9:30 - 10:00 Yue Zhao (York University), Inverse source problems in electrodynamics Mathematical and Computational Modeling from Sub-Cellular to Collective Behaviour in Cells Org: Andreas Buttenschoen and Leah Keshet (University of British Columbia) Monday December 10  (Port Hardy) 8:00 - 8:30 Lisanne Rens (University of British Columbia), Multiscale computational modeling of chemical and mechanical signaling in collective cell migration 8:30 - 9:00 Zachary Pellegrin (University of British Columbia), A Model of Cell Signaling, Migration and Interaction through PDE Simulations in the Cellular Potts Model 9:00 - 9:30 Erikur Palsson (Simon Fraser University), A 3-D Individual Cell Based Model (ICBM) for simulating cell mobility, cell-cell and cell-ECM interactions. 14:45 - 15:15 Gerda de Vries (University of Alberta), A Model of Microtubule Organization in the Presence of Motor Proteins 15:15 - 15:45 Dan Coombs (University of British Columbia), Multistate modelling and parameter inference for cell surface receptor tracking analysis 16:00 - 16:30 Laurent Mackay (McGill), The dynamics of mechanosensitive nascent adhesion formation 16:30 - 17:00 Andreas Buttenschoen (University of British Columbia), Non-Local Cell Adhesion Models: Steady States and Bifurcations 17:00 - 17:30 Jay Newby (University of Alberta), Weaker is better: how weak transient molecular interactions give rise to robust, dynamic immune protection 17:30 - 18:00 Brian Merchant (University of British Columbia), A Rho-GTPase based model explains spontaneous collective migration of neural crest cell clusters Mathematical Epidemiology Org: Fred Brauer (University of British Columbia) and Carlos Castillo-Chavez (Arizona State University) Friday December 7  (Blue Whale) 13:00 - 13:30 Pauline van den Driessche (University of Victoria), Disease extinction versus persistence in discrete-time epidemic models 13:30 - 14:00 Julien Arino (University of Manitoba), Modelling global aspects in vaccination 14:00 - 14:30 James Watmough (University of New Brunswick), A mathematical analysis of an integrated approach to malaria control targeting vector-host interactions 14:30 - 15:00 Ping Yan (Public Health Agency of Canada), Discussions on generation intervals and beyond 15:00 - 15:30 Michael Li (University of Alberta), Mathematical Modeling of HIV/SIV Infection in Brain Saturday December 8  (Blue Whale) 8:30 - 9:00 Baltazar Espinoza (Arizona State University), Consequences of short-term mobility across heterogeneous risk environments: the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak 9:00 - 9:30 Victor Moreno (Arizona State University), Understanding the Impact of Social Factors on the Transmission Dynamics of Infectious Diseases 9:30 - 10:00 Zhilan Feng (Purdue University), Implications for infectious disease models of heterogeneous mixing on control thresholds 10:00 - 10:30 Sherry Towers (Arizona State University), Assessing the average length of infection chains in an outbreak of infectious disease 16:00 - 16:30 Cesar Montalvo (Arizona State University), The regressive burden of Water Related infections on income disparity 16:30 - 17:00 Anuj Mubayi (Arizona State University), Modeling, Estimation, and Uncertainty: Challenges associated with Transmission Dynamics and Control of Leishmaniasis 17:00 - 17:30 Abba Gumel (Arizona State University), Mathematical Assessment of the Role of Insecticide Resistance on Malaria Dynamics 17:30 - 18:00 Gerardo Chowell (Georgia State University), Forecasting epidemic trajectories using simple dynamic models Sunday December 9  (Blue Whale) 8:30 - 9:00 Kyongah Nah (York University), Assessing Systemic and Non-systemic Transmission Risk of Tick-borne Encephalitis 9:30 - 10:00 Karyn Sutton (University of Louisiana- Lafayette), The Role of Social Distance and Infectiousness in TB Transmission 10:00 - 10:30 Joan Ponce (Purdue University), Dynamics of a childhood disease model with quarantine Mathematical Games Org: Gary MacGillivray and Andrew McEachern (University of Victoria) Saturday December 8  (Gulf Island D) 8:00 - 8:30 Hedayat Zarkoob (University of British Columbia), Report-sensitive spot-checking in peer grading system 8:30 - 9:00 Boting Yang (University of Regina), Fast Searching Game on Cartesian Products of Graphs 9:00 - 9:30 Richard Hoshino and Maximilian Kahn (Quest University), Birds of a Feather: a perfect-information solitaire card game 9:30 - 10:00 Monica Cojocaru (University of Guelph), The replicator dynamics for generalized Nash Games 16:00 - 16:30 Ryan Hayward (University of Alberta), A Hex History Mystery: Who Posed the Puzzles? 16:30 - 17:00 Nancy Clarke (Acadia University), Farsighted Cops and Robber 17:00 - 17:30 Richard Nowakowski (Dalhousie University), The Orthogonal Colouring Game on Graphs 17:30 - 18:00 Peter Taylor and Stefanie Knebel (Queen's University), The parent game in the grade 11 classroom Sunday December 9  (Gulf Island D) 8:00 - 8:30 Chris Duffy (University of Saskatchewan), The Evacuation Number of a Graph 8:30 - 9:00 Daniel Ashlock (University of Guelph), Game Theory: simulation versus theory. 9:30 - 10:00 Jordan Barret (Dalhousie University), The Power Index Game 10:00 - 10:30 Charlie Gerrie (Dalhousie University), The Power Index Game On A Lattice Nonlocal Interaction Models: From Collective Behaviour to Pattern Formation Org: Razvan Fetecau (Simon Fraser University) and Ihsan Topaloglu (Virginia Commonwealth University) Saturday December 8  (Pavilion Ballroom B) 8:00 - 8:30 Maria D'Orsogna (California State University, Northridge), Dynamics of neuroendocrine stress response: bistability, trauma and PTSD 8:30 - 9:00 David Iron (Dalhousie University), Delay and Spike Dynamics in the Gierer-Meinhardt Equations 9:00 - 9:30 Alethea Barbaro (Case Western Reserve University), A Kinetic Perspective on Fearful Crowds 9:30 - 10:00 Nancy Rodriguez-Bunn (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Birth-jump process in plan dynamics 10:00 - 10:30 Thomas Hillen (University of Alberta), Non-local Models for Cellular Adhesion 16:00 - 16:30 Xin Yang Lu (Lakehead University), Regularity of cells in crystallization of the second moment energy in 3D 16:30 - 17:00 Alpar Meszaros (University of California, Los Angeles), Degenerate nonlinear diffusion equations with discontinuous nonlinearities 17:00 - 17:30 Xiaochuan Tian (University of Texas at Austin), Nonlocal models with heterogeneous localization and their application to seamless local-nonlocal coupling 17:30 - 18:00 Hui Huang (Simon Fraser University), On self-organized dynamics over domains with boundaries Sunday December 9  (Pavilion Ballroom B) 8:00 - 8:30 Andrew Bernoff (Harvey Mudd College), Agent-Based and Continuous Models of Locust Hopper Bands: Insights Gained Through the Lens of Dynamical Systems 8:30 - 9:00 Katy Craig (University of California, Santa Barbara), Aggregation diffusion to constrained interaction: minimizers and gradient flows in the slow diffusion limit 9:00 - 9:30 Francesco Patacchini (Carnegie Mellon University), The interaction equation near attracting manifolds 9:30 - 10:00 Theodore Kolokolnikov (Dalhousie University), Spikes and vortices in inhomogeneous environments Operator Algebras Over Groups Org: Volker Runde and Matthew Wiersma (University of Alberta) Saturday December 8  (Finback) 8:00 - 8:30 Brian Forrest (University of Waterloo), Exotic Ideals in the Fourier-Stieltjes Algebra of a Locally Compact group. 8:30 - 9:00 Michael Brannan (Texas A&M University), Quantum permutations and their matrix models 9:00 - 9:30 Jason Crann (Carleton University), An equivariant weak expectation property and amenable actions 9:30 - 10:00 Prachi Loliencar (University of Alberta), Measures on compact right topological groups 10:00 - 10:30 Varvara Shepelska (University of Saskatchewan), Norm-controlled inversion in weighted convolution algebras 16:00 - 16:30 Ebrahim Samei (University of Saskatchewan), Exotic C$^*$-algebras of geometric groups 16:30 - 17:00 Nico Spronk (University of Waterloo), Idempotents, topologies and ideals 17:00 - 17:30 Rufus Willett (University of Hawaii), Lp group algebras 17:30 - 18:00 Marcelo Laca (University of Victoria) Sunday December 9  (Finback) 8:00 - 8:30 Ian Putnam (University of Victoria), Odometers 8:30 - 9:00 Sang-Gyun Youn (Queen's University), On the complete representability of convolution algebras of quantum groups as operator algebras 9:00 - 9:30 Mahya Ghandehari (University of Delaware), Spectra of Beurling-Fourier Algebras 9:30 - 10:00 Keith Taylor (Dalhousie University), Wavelet Sets for Shifts by Wallpaper Symmetries 10:00 - 10:30 Caleb Eckhardt (Miami University), C*-rigidity of two-step nilpotent groups 16:00 - 16:30 Christopher Schafhauser (York University), MF approximations of crossed products 16:30 - 17:00 Camila Fabre Sehnem, On $C^*$-algebras associated to product systems 17:00 - 17:30 Qianhong Huang (University of Alberta), Translation continuous measures on locally compact semigroup 17:30 - 18:00 Thierry Giordano (University of Ottawa), A relative bicommutant theorem: the stable case of Pedersen's question Recent Advances in Arithmetic and Hyperbolic Geometry Org: Nathan Grieve (Michigan State University), Steven Lu (Université du Québec à Montréal) and Mike Roth (Queen's University) Saturday December 8  (Gulf Island A) 8:30 - 9:00 Xi Chen (University of Alberta), ${\mathbb A}^1$ curves on Log K3 Surfaces 9:00 - 9:30 Min Ru (University of Houston), Holomorphic curves into projective varieties intersecting general divisors 9:30 - 10:00 Marc-Hubert Nicole (Universite d'Aix-Marseille), Families of Modular Forms on Drinfeld Modular Varieties for $GL_N$ 10:00 - 10:30 Junjiro Noguchi (University of Tokyo), A big Picard theorem and the Manin-Mumford conjecture 16:00 - 16:30 Gordon Heier (University of Houston), A generalized Schmidt subspace theorem for closed subschemes 16:30 - 17:00 Erwan Rousseau (Université d'Aix-Marseille), Orbifold hyperbolicity 17:00 - 17:30 Nils Bruin (Simon Fraser University), Prym varieties in genus 4 17:30 - 18:00 David McKinnon (University of Waterloo), The arithmetic puncturing problem Sunday December 9  (Gulf Island A) 8:00 - 8:30 Behrouz Taji (Notre Dame), Hyperbolicity properties of base space of famillies of projective manifolds 8:30 - 9:00 Amos Turchet (Washington), Arithmetic and algebraic hyperbolicity of surface pairs with almost ample cotangent bundle 9:00 - 9:30 Jorg Winkelmann (Bochum), Tame Discrete Sets 9:30 - 10:00 Aaron Levin (Michigan State University), Greatest common divisors in Diophantine approximation and Nevanlinna theory 10:00 - 10:30 Dragos Ghioca (University of British Columbia), Unlikely intersections in arithmetic dynamics Recent Trends in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Related Problems Org: Yakine Bahri (University of Victoria), Slim Ibrahim (University of Victoria) and Hiroaki Kikuchi (Meiji University) Saturday December 8  (Vancouver) 8:00 - 8:30 Isao Kato (Kyoto University), Local well-posedness for the Cauchy problem of the Zakharov type system 8:30 - 9:00 Nobu Kishimoto (Kyoto University), Ill-posedness of the periodic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with third-order dispersion and Raman scattering term 9:00 - 9:30 Ikkei Shimizu (Kyoto University), Remarks on local theory for Schr\"odinger maps near harmonic maps 9:30 - 10:00 Masahiro Ikeda (Keio University), Well-posedness of fourth-order Schr\"odinger equation with derivative nonlinearities 10:00 - 10:30 Takahisa Inui (Osaka University), Strichartz estimates for the damped wave equation and its application to the nonlinear problem 16:00 - 16:30 Stephen Gustafson (University of British Columbia), Chiral magnetic skyrmion solutions of 2D Landau-Lifshitz equations: existence. 16:30 - 17:00 Li Wang (University of British Columbia), Chiral magnetic skyrmion solutions of 2D Landau-Lifshitz equations: stability. 17:00 - 17:30 Yakine Bahri (University of Victoria), Transverse stability of line soliton for wave guide Schrödinger equations. 17:30 - 18:00 Yanxia Deng (University of Victoria), Global Existence and Singularity of the N-body Problem. Sunday December 9  (Vancouver) 9:00 - 9:30 Hiroaki Kikuchi (University of Victoria & Tsuda University), Minimization problem associated with ground states to combined power-type nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations 9:30 - 10:00 Junho Choi (UNIST, Republic of Korea), On an Interior Layer for the Burgers Equations in $\mathbb{R}$ 10:00 - 10:30 Slim Ibrahim (University of Victoria), Relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell for strongly magnetized Plasmas 16:00 - 16:30 Tai-Peng Tsai (University of British Columbia), Existence, uniqueness, and regularity results for elliptic equations with drift terms in critical weak spaces 16:30 - 17:00 Xinwei Yu (University of Alberta), A New Type of Regularity Criterion for the 3D Navier-Stokes Equations 17:00 - 17:30 Shengyi Shen (University of Victoria), Analysis about a Two fluid mode and its comparison with MHD system 17:30 - 18:00 Keisuke Takasao (Kyoto University), Global existence of weak solution for volume preserving mean curvature flow via phase field method Session in Honor of Dr. Robert Woodrow on the Occasion of his 70th birthday. Topics: Model Theory of Relational Structures; Homogeneous Structures; Ordered Sets; Graphs Org: Gena Hahn (University of Montreal) and Imed Zaguia (Royal Military College) Friday December 7  (Pavilion Ballroom B) 13:00 - 13:30 Graham Wright and Geňa Hahn (CMS / Université de Montréal) 13:30 - 14:00 Julia Knight (Notre Dame), Coding one structure in another 14:00 - 14:30 Pierre Simon (Berkley), Geometric homogeneous structures 14:30 - 15:00 Jan Hubička (Charles University), Metrically homogeneous graphs as homogenizations of $(1,\delta)$-structures 15:00 - 15:30 Peter Cameron (St. Andrews), Synchronization update 15:30 - 16:00 Norbert Sauer (Calgary), Partitions of homogenous graphs and other structures 16:00 - 16:30 Bill Sands (Calgary), Two open problems from joint work with Robert Woodrow 16:30 - 17:00 Maurice Pouzet (Université Claude Bernard), A topological interpretation of de Jongh -Parikh theorem and applications Sunday December 9  (Pavilion Ballroom B) 16:00 - 16:30 Andrés Aranda, Morphism extension classes of graphs 16:30 - 17:00 Peter Gibson (York), The profile of a relation 17:00 - 17:30 Thomas Kucera (Manitoba), Saturated Free Algebras and Almost Indiscernible Theories 17:30 - 18:00 Benoit Larose (Champlain College and UQAM), Some questions on finite groups motivated by the complexity of QCSP Monday December 10  (Pavilion Ballroom B) 8:00 - 8:30 Michael Pawliuk (Calgary), Some homogeneous directed graphs are strange 8:30 - 9:00 David Wehlau (RMC), Finite planes, ZZ-topes and Fibonacci Numbers. 9:00 - 9:30 Anthony Bonato (Ryerson), The new world of infinite random geometric graphs 14:45 - 15:15 Lucien Haddad (RMC), Hereditarily Semi-Rigid Families of Linear Orders 15:15 - 15:45 Bojan Mohar (SFU), 50 years of the Ringel and Youngs Map Colour Theorem Sparse Recovery, Learning, and Neural Networks Org: Ben Adcock (Simon Fraser University), Simone Brugiapaglia (Simon Fraser University), Yaniv Plan (University of British Columbia) and Ozgur Yilmaz (University of British Columbia) Saturday December 8  (Parksville) 9:00 - 9:30 Eric Price (The University of Texas at Austin), Compressed Sensing and Generative Models 9:30 - 10:00 Yaniv Romano (Stanford University), Classification Stability for Sparse-Modeled Signals 10:00 - 10:30 Charles Delahunt (University of Washington), Biological mechanisms for learning: experiments and mathematical questions 16:00 - 16:30 Rongrong Wang (Michigan State University), Sigma Delta quantization on wide-band signals 16:30 - 17:00 Sinan Gunturk (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences), Bounded total variation of Kaczmarz trajectories for arbitrary control sequences 17:00 - 17:30 Hau Tieng-Wu (Duke University), Recover fetal electrocardiogram morphology via optimal shrinkage 17:30 - 18:00 Shuyang Ling (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University), Certifying Global Optimality of Graph Cuts via Semidefinite Relaxation: A Performance Guarantee for Spectral Clustering Sunday December 9  (Parksville) 9:00 - 9:30 Roman Vershynin (University of California, Irvine), Neural capacity 9:30 - 10:00 Mahdi Soltanolkotabi (University of Southern California), From Shallow to Deep: Rigorous Guarantees for Training Neural Networks 10:00 - 10:30 Chris Liaw (University of British Columbia), Nearly-Tight Sample Complexity Bounds for Learning Mixtures of Gaussians 16:00 - 16:30 Dustin G. Mixon (The Ohio State University), SqueezeFit: Label-aware dimensionality reduction by semidefinite programming 16:30 - 17:00 Nick Dexter (Simon Fraser University), Energy norm regularized sparse simultaneous reconstruction of solutions to parameterized PDEs 17:00 - 17:30 Giang Tran (University of Waterloo), Sparse Recovery and Outliers Detection for Dependent Data 17:30 - 18:00 Xiaowei Li (University of British Columbia), Bernstein’s Inequality and Sharp Bounds for Concentration of Euclidean Norm STUDC Research Session Org: Ismail Abouamal (University of Toronto) and Daniel Zackon (McGill University) Monday December 10  (Beluga) 8:30 - 9:00 John Sastrillo (University of British Columbia), Analyzing the Nature of Citations and Their Automatic Classification 9:00 - 9:30 Adela Gherga (University of British Columbia), Implementing algorithms to compute elliptic curves over $Q$ 14:45 - 15:15 Alice Lacaze-Masmonteil (Acadia University), The game of Ambush Cops and Robbers played on the products of graphs 15:15 - 15:45 Pierre-Olivier Parisé (Université Laval), The Impossibility of Polynomial Approximations in Some de Branges-Rovnyak Spaces 16:00 - 16:30 Avleen Kaur (University of Manitoba), The eigenvalue problem of the Uzawa pressure operator 16:30 - 17:00 Sarah Nataj and S. H. Lui (University of Manitoba), Superlinear convergence of quasi-Newton methods based on assumptions about the initial point Symbolic and Regular Powers of Ideals Org: Susan Marie Cooper (University of Manitoba), Sara Faridi (Dalhousie University) and Adam Van Tuyl (McMaster University) Saturday December 8  (Orca) 8:00 - 8:30 Juan Migliore (University of Notre Dame), Unexpected hypersurfaces 8:30 - 9:00 Brian Harbourne (Univeristy of Nebraska, Lincoln), Primer on Unexpected Varieties 9:00 - 9:30 Alessandro De Stefani (Univeristy of Nebraska, Lincoln), Symbolic powers in mixed characteristic 9:30 - 10:00 William Trok (University of Kentucky), Hyperplane Arrangements and Extremal Behavior 10:00 - 10:30 Benjamin Drabkin (Univeristy of Nebraska, Lincoln), Symbolic Defect and Cover Ideals 16:00 - 16:30 Susan Morey (Texas State University), Depth and Regularity of Regular and Symbolic Powers of Monomial Ideals 16:30 - 17:00 Ali Alilooee (North Dakota State University), Packing properties of some classes of cubic squarefree monomial ideals 17:00 - 17:30 Chris Francisco (Oklahoma State University), Some new results on asymptotic resurgence 17:30 - 18:00 Maryam Ehya Jahromi (Dalhousie University), Stability of Powers of Cover Ideals of Hypergraphs Sunday December 9  (Orca) 8:00 - 8:30 Elena Guardo (University of Catania), On the Waldschmidt constant and resurgence of some ideals in $\mathbb{P}^n$ and $\mathbb{P}^1\times \mathbb{P}^1$ 8:30 - 9:00 Tomasz Szemberg (Pedagogical University of Cracow), Unexpected algebraic and geometric properties of Fermat-type configurations. 9:00 - 9:30 Eloísa Grifo (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), A stable version of Harbourne's Conjecture 9:30 - 10:00 Federico Galetto (Cleveland State University), Betti numbers of symbolic powers of star configurations 10:00 - 10:30 Alexandra Seceleanu (Univeristy of Nebraska, Lincoln), Minimum distance functions for fat point ideals Topology Org: Krishanu Sankar and Claudius Zibrowius (University of British Columbia) Saturday December 8  (Junior Ballroom D) 8:00 - 8:30 Hans Boden (McMaster University), The Gordon-Litherland pairing for virtual links 8:30 - 9:00 Allison Moore (UC Davis), Surgery on links and the d-invariant 9:00 - 9:30 John Berman (UT Austin), Rational Euler Characteristic 9:30 - 10:00 Paul Arnaud Songhafouo Tsopmene (University of Regina), Cosimplicial models for manifold calculus 10:00 - 10:30 William Rushworth (McMaster University), Ascent sliceness 16:00 - 16:30 Jonathan Rubin (UCLA), Norms on $G$-categories 16:30 - 17:00 Biji Wong (UQAM), A Floer homology invariant for $3$-orbifolds via bordered Floer theory 17:00 - 17:30 Rick Jardine (Western University), Fuzzy presheaves 17:30 - 18:00 Daniel Sheinbaum (UBC), Quasi-adiabatic stability of Fermi surfaces and K-theory Sunday December 9  (Junior Ballroom D) 8:00 - 8:30 Adam Clay (University of Manitoba), Circular orderings and amalgamation 8:30 - 9:00 Chris Herald (University of Nevada), Traceless character varieties, the pillowcase and Khovanov cohomology 9:00 - 9:30 Kristine Bauer (University of Calgary), Operad structures in the abelian functor calculus tower 9:30 - 10:00 Martin Frankland (University of Regina), Towards the dual motivic Steenrod algebra in positive characteristic 10:00 - 10:30 Lisa Piccirillo (University of Texas at Austin), The Conway knot is not slice Variational Analysis and Monotone Operator Theory Org: Heinz Bauschke (University of British Columbia), Walaa Moursi (Stanford University) and Xianfu Wang (University of British Columbia) Sunday December 9  (Port Alberni) 8:00 - 8:30 Henry Wolkowicz (University of Waterloo), Solving DNN Relaxations of the Quadratic Assignment Problem with ADMM and Facial Reduction 8:30 - 9:00 Yuriy Zinchenko (University Calgary), Towards efficient approximation of p-cones 9:00 - 9:30 Walaa Moursi (Stanford University), Reflected resolvents in the Douglas-Rachford algorithm: order of the operators and linear convergence 9:30 - 10:00 Hui Ouyang (University of British Columbia Kelowna), Circumcenters of finite sets with applications in Hilbert spaces 10:00 - 10:30 Mau Nam Nguyen (Portland State University), Smoothing Techniques and DC Programming with Applications to Image Reconstructions 16:00 - 16:30 Michael P. Friedlander (University of British Columbia) 16:30 - 17:00 Minh Bui (North Carolina State University), On sums and convex combinations of projectors onto convex sets 17:00 - 17:30 Wei Li (Chengdu University of Technology and University of British Columbia Kelowna), differential inverse variational inequalities in finite dimensional spaces 17:30 - 18:00 Zhaosong Lu (Simon Fraser University), Exact penalty results on sparse recovery models based on partial regularization