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• Public Lecture
  • De Witt Sumners - Calculating the secrets of life: mathematics in biology and medicine
• Plenary Speakers
  • Georgia Benkart - Canadian Lie algebras
  • Zoe Chatzidakis - Model theory of generic difference fields
  • Geoffrey Grimmett - Conformality and universality
  • Barry Simon - Singular continuous spectra for Schrodinger operators
• Prize Lectures
  • CMS Jeffery-Williams Lecture
    • David Boyd - Mahler's measure, hyperbolic geometry and the dilogarithm
  • CMS Krieger-Nelson Lecture
    • Lisa Jeffrey - Gauge theories and flat connections on Riemann surfaces
• Abstract Harmonic Analysis
  • Larry Baggett - An abstract formulation of wavelet theory
  • Brian Forrest - The Fourier algebra as an operator space
  • John Fournier - The peculiar cases of the lower majorant property
  • Fereidoun Ghahramani - Point derivations and amenability of measure algebras
  • Colin Graham - Arens Regularity for quotients A_p(E) of the Herz algebra
  • Edmond Granirer - A few remarks on quotients of the Fourier Algebra
  • Zhiguo Hu - Inductive extreme non-Arens regularity of the Fourier algebra
  • Wojciech Jaworski - Probability measures on almost connected amenable locally compact groups and some related ideals in group algebras
  • Eberhard Kaniuth - Hardy's uncertainty principle for Lie groups
  • Mahmood Khoshkam - Regular representations of groupoids
  • Laurent Marcoux - Weak amenability of triangular Banach algebras
  • Tianxuan Miao - On the multiplier algebra of A_p(G)
  • Matthias Neufang - Abstract harmonic analysis and quantized functional analysis
  • Volker Runde - Operator Figà-Talamanca-Herz algebras
  • Eckart Schulz - Continuous and semi-discrete tight frames on Rⁿ
  • Peter Wood - Invariant complementation and projectivity in A(G)
  • Yong Zhang - Approximate identities for ideals of Segal algebras on a compact group
• Geometric Topology
  • Sergei M. Ageev - Geometric models of the Chigogidze and Dranishnikov resolutions
  • Harold Bell - On relating winding numbers and the fixed point index
  • Beverly Brechner - Another approach to the Hilbert-Smith conjecture
  • Nikolay Brodskiy - Sections of maps with low-dimensional fibers
  • Robert J. Daverman - 4-manifolds as PL fibrators
  • Alexander N. Dranishnikov - On asymptotic dimension
  • Jerzy Dydak - Strict contractibility
  • Paul Fabel - Characterizations of almost periodic homeomorphisms of metrizable spaces
  • Jonathan Funk - Unramified maps
  • Alejandro Illanes - Continua determined by their hyperspaces
  • Alexandre Karassev - Approximations and selections of multivalued mappings
  • Kazuhiro Kawamura - Suspensions of the Hawaiian earring
  • James E. Keesling - Adding machines and the quadratic family of maps
  • James Maissen - Constructing locally connected invariant sets of p-adic action
  • John C. Mayer - Rotational invariant sets for covering maps of the circle
  • Lex G. Oversteegen - In-channels for negatively oriented maps of the plane
  • Janusz R. Prajs - Confluent mappings and arc property of Kelley
  • H. Murat Tuncali - On dimensionally restricted maps
  • Vesko Valov - Selections and finite-dimensional spaces
  • Youcheng Zhou - A note on the self-homeomorphisms of solenoid and bucket handle
• Graph Theory
  • Anthony Bonato - New vertex partitions properties of graphs and digraphs
  • Donovan Hare - Color critical subgraphs of color critical graphs
  • Jing Huang - Convex-round and concave-round graphs
  • Petr Lisonek - Geometric representations of graphs
  • Jim Liu - The total chromatic numbers of joins of sparse graphs
  • Bill Martin - Bounds on error-correcting codes via the Terwilliger algebra of the n-cube
  • Joy Morris - Normal circulant graphs
  • Richard Nowakowski - Well-covered (weightings of) graphs
  • Bruce Richter - 3-connected subsets of the sphere embed uniquely
  • Karen Seyffarth - Graph products with small cycle double covers
  • Claude Tardif - A fractional version of Hedetniemi's conjecture
  • Roger Yu - Matching extension problem
• Infinite Dimensional Lie Theory and Representation Theory
  • Bruce Allison - Extended affine Lie algebras of nonreduced type
  • Georgia Benkart - Classical Lie (super)algebras over associative algebras
  • Yuly Billig - To be announced
  • Dan Britten - On the lattice of submodules of generalized Verma modules
  • Chongying Dong - To be announced
  • Terry Gannon - To be announced
  • Yun Gao - Double affine algebras
  • Maria Golenishcheva-Kutuzova - G-conformal algebras
  • Bob Griess - To be announced
  • Frank Lemire - A duality theorem for torsion free modules of symplectic Lie algebras
  • Hai sheng Li - A certain higher dimensional analogue of vertex algebras
  • Kiyokazu Nagatomo - Finiteness of conformal blocks and C₂ finiteness
  • Erhart Neher - Lie superalgebras graded by 3-graded root systems
  • Arturo Pianzola - A geometric interpretation of affine Kac-Moody Lie algebra
  • Yoji Yoshii - A simple characterization of the core of an EALA
  • Mikhail Zaicev - To be announced
• Mathematical Education Cognition in Mathematics
  • Colin Campbell - The expanding role of Mathcad in mathematical courses at Waterloo
  • Jamie Campbell - Cognitive architecture and numerical skills
  • Alan Cooper and Eric Woolgar - Web-based resources for teaching and learning: building a location and retrieval service for the Canadian mathematical community
  • Implications for Teaching I - discussion of Orzech/Orzech talk
  • Implications for Teaching II - discussion of Campbell/May/Rabinowitz
  • Implications for Teaching III - discussion of Sierpinska talk
  • Sherry May and Michael Rabinowitz - To be announced
  • Grace Orzech and Morris Orzech - Dealing with dimension & teaching and learning issues
  • Anna Sierpinska - Is it enough to `understand' when learning mathematics? Is it necessary?
• Matrix Analysis
  • Rod Edwards - Common invariant proper cones and ray dynamics
  • Shaun Fallat - Eigenvalues of products of matrices and submatrices in certain positivity classes
  • Chun-Hua Guo - Iterative methods for a nonlinear matrix equation
  • Allen Herman - A maximal eigenvalue conjecture equivalent to permanental dominance
  • Hadi Kharaghani - w-shift matrices and applications
  • Steve Kirkland - A bound on algebraic connectivity for graphs with cutpoints
  • Chi-Kwong Li - Linear Preserver Problems: A gentle introduction and some recent results
  • Gordon MacDonald - N-transitivity and the complementation property
  • John Maroulas - On compressions of normal matrices
  • Carl Meyer - Replacing the SVD in LSI and information retrieval applications
  • Dale Olesky - Successively-ordered elementary bidiagonal factorization
  • P.N. Shivakumar - Some nonsingular matrices and their applications
  • Michael Tsatsomeros - Perron-Frobenius type results on the numerical range
  • Peter Zizler - Norms of sampling operators
• Model Theoretic Algebra
  • Zoe Chatzidakis
  • Bradd Hart - To be announced
  • Franz-Viktor Kuhlmann - Additive polynomials and the model theory of valued fields in positive characteristic
  • Salma Kuhlmann - Lexicographic chains
  • Jim Loveys - To be confirmed
  • Michael Makkai - Logic and D. G. Quillen's homotopical algebra
  • Murray Marshall - Open questions in the theory of spaces of orderings
  • Chris Miller - Hausdorff dimension, analytic sets and transcendence
  • Toniann Pitassi - To be announced
  • Hans Schoutens - Determining the number of equations of an affine curve
  • Ziv Shami - Towards a binding group theorem for simple theories
  • Reed Solomon - The effective content of spaces of orders on groups and fields
  • Katrin Tent - BN-pairs of finite Morley rank
  • Ross Willard - Palyutin's h-formulas and a problem from universal algebra
  • Robert E. Woodrow - Absorbing sets in arc-coloured tournaments
• Number Theory - in Honour of David Boyd
  • Jim Arthur - To be announced
  • Imin Chen - On relations between induced representations for GL₂(Z/p²Z)
  • Kwok Kwong (Stephen) Choi - Small prime solutions of quadratic equations
  • Karl Dilcher - Bernoulli numbers and confluent hypergeometric functions
  • Ron Ferguson - Units in integral cyclic group rings for order 4p
  • John Friedlander - Exponential sums over thin sets
  • Kevin Hare - Spectra of Pisot numbers
  • Hershy Kisilevsky - Vanishing and non-vanishing of twisted L-functions
  • Greg Martin - Squarefree values of trinomial discriminants
  • Kumar Murty - To be announced
  • Ram Murty - Pair correlation conjecture and the Chebotarev density theorem
  • Nathan Ng - The summatory function of the Mobius function
  • Christopher Pinner - A bound for a complete exponential sum modp
  • Damien Roy - Interpolation on perturbations of cartesian products
  • Cam Stewart - Multivariate Diophantine equations with many solutions
  • Michel Waldschmidt - Polylogarithms and multiple zeta values
  • Hugh Williams - Some computational results concerning Yokoi's conjecture
• Rigorous Studies in the Statistical Mechanics of Lattice Models
  • Mireille Bousquet-Mélou - The site-perimeter of bargraphs
  • Richard Brak - Combinatorial aspects of the simple asymmetric exclusion process
  • Frank den Hollander - Heteropolymers near interfaces
  • Yuanan Diao - Upper bounds on linking numbers of thick links
  • Bertrand Duplantier - Distribution of potential near conformally invariant boundaries
  • Tony Guttmann - The scaling function of self-avoiding polygons
  • Edna James - Critical exponents for trails in Z² with a fixed number of vertices of degree 4
  • Buks Janse van Rensburg - Knots in adsorbing polygons
  • Antal Jarai - Incipient infinite clusters in 2D percolation
  • Pierre Leroux - Enumeration of symmetry classes of convex and parallelogram polyominoes
  • Neal Madras - Self-avoiding walks on hyperbolic graphs
  • Aleks Owczarek - An infinite hierarchy of exact scaling functions
  • Nicholas Pippenger - Random Boolean functions
  • Andrew Rechnitzer - Polymer adsorption and Dyck-paths
  • Yvan Saint-Aubin - Non-unitarity of some observables of the critical 2d Ising model
  • Gordon Slade - High-dimensional networks of self-avoiding walks
  • Alan Sokal - Potts models, chromatic polynomials, and all that
  • Chris Soteros - Random knotting and linking in lattice models of polymers
  • De Witt Sumners - Using knots to analyze DNA packing in viral capsids
  • Stu Whittington - Localization transition in a randomly coloured self-avoiding walk
• Scattering Theory and Integrable Systems
  • Mark Adler - Generalized orthogonal polynomials, integral mechanics and Darboux transforms on band matrices and weights
  • Richard Beals - Inverse scattering, strings, and moments
  • Yuri Berest - I - Huygens' operators and Hadamard's conjecture
  • Yuri Berest - II - Geometry without points
  • Percy Deift - On the integrable method and some recent examples of its unreasonable effectiveness
  • Misha Gekhtman - Inverse moment problem for elementary co-adjoint orbits
  • Maria Golenishcheva-Kutuzova - Soliton equations in terms of intertwining operator
  • Jacques Hurtubise - Multi-Hamiltonian structures, classical r-matrix systems spectral transforms and separation of variables
  • Gerard Misiolek - Well-posedness results for an integrable evolution equation
  • Yoshimasa Nakamura - Solving integrable systems in terms of continued fractions
  • Beatrice Pelloni - Applications of the Fokas transform method to the study of boundary value problems for PDEs in two dimensions
  • Enrique Reyes - On differential geometry and integrability
  • David Sattinger - Solitary wave interactions for the Euler-Poisson equations
  • Barry Simon - The A-function approach to inverse spectral theory
• Contributed Papers Session
  • Khalid El-Yassini - Some interior-exterior points methods for linear programming
  • Ilhan Izmirli - On some generalizations of an indeterminate problem of Ibn Hamza
  • John H. Ursell - An elementary proof of the second case of Fermat's last theorem
  • Youchen Zhou - On Moeckel-like boundary of the local Siegel disk
• Graduate Student Poster Session
  • Ana Duff - Derivations of orthosymplectic Lie superalgebras
  • Dave Morgan - To be announced
  • John Steele - To be announced
  • Khalid El Yassini