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\section*{\Large SCHEDULED SPEAKERS / CONF\'ERENCIERS PR\'EVUS}
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\noindent
Here is a list of the scheduled speakers, along with the titles of
their talks where available.  Abstracts for all talks may be found at the following world
wide web page:

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\noindent {\small http://www.cms.math.ca/Events/winter98/}
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\noindent
Voici les conf\'erenciers pr\'evus, ainsi que les titres de leurs
conf\'erences.  Les r\'esum\'es pour tous les conf\'erences seront
disponibles \`a l'adresse Web suivante:

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\noindent {\small http://www.cms.math.ca/Events/winter98/}
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{\bf COXETER-JAMES LECTURE \\
CONF\'ERENCE COXETER-JAMES}
\end{center}

\abs{Henri Darmon}
	{McGill University}
	{Recent progress in the theory of elliptic curves}
\smallskip

\begin{center}
{\bf DOCTORAL PRIZE LECTURE \\
CONF\'ERENCE DU PRIX DOCTORAL}
\end{center}

\abs{Yuri Berest}
	{University of California, Berkeley}
	{Lacunae for hyperbolic differential operators with variable coefficients}
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\begin{center}
{\bf PLENARY SPEAKERS \\
CONF\'ERENCIERS PRINCIPAUX}
\end{center}

\abs{Miklos Cs\"{o}rgo}
        {Carleton University}
	{Random walking around financial mathematics}

\abs{Z. F\"{u}redi}
	{University of Illinois at Urbana / Inst. Hungarian Acad. Sci.}
	{Lotto, football pool and other covering radius problems}

\abs{W. Goldman}
 {University of Maryland}
 {Topology and dynamics of moduli spaces of geometric structures on surfaces}

\abs{Donal O'Shea}
        {Mt. Holyoke College}
        {The glory and perversity of us}


\begin{center}
{\bf PUBLIC LECTURE \\ 
CONF\'ERENCE PUBLIQUE}
\end{center}

\abs{H.S.M. Coxeter}
        {University of Toronto}
        {The Descartes circle theorem and Fibonacci numbers}
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\begin{center}
{\bf SPECIAL SESSIONS / S\'EANCES SP\'ECIALES}
\end{center}
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\begin{center}
{\bf Algebraic Geometry / G\'eom\'etrie alg\'ebrique}\\
(Org:  P. Milman)
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\abs{Fedya Bogomolov}
        {NYU Courant Institute}
        {On the fundamental groups and universal coverings of complex 
        projective surfaces and symplectic fourfolds}

\abs{Andrew Hwang}
        {University of Toronto}
        {Construction of Circle-Invariant Kahler Metrics}

\abs{Lisa Jeffrey}
        {University of Toronto}
        {The Verlinde formula for moduli spaces of parabolic bundles}

%\abs{Boris Khesin}
%        {University of Toronto}
%        {Defining absolute and relative linking numbers of complex submanifolds in a 
%        Calabi-Yau or Fano manifold}

\abs{Askold Khovansky}
        {University of Toronto}
        {Algebraic Geometry and Geometry of convex polyhedra}

\abs{Donal O'Shea}
{Mt. Holyoke College}
{Limits of tangent spaces to real surfaces}

\abs{Evgenii Shustin}
        {Tel-Aviv University}
        {Asymtotically proper bounds in the geometry of equisingular families of curves}

\abs{Yosef Yomdin}
        {Weizmann Institute}
        {A tractable problem of the way (hopefully) to counting limit cycles
         of polynomial vector fields}


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\begin{center}
{\bf Discrete Geometry / G\'eom\'etrie discr\`ete}\\
(Org:  Robert Erdahl, Marjorie Senechal, Walter Whiteley)
\end{center}
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\abs{V. Alexandrov}
       {University of Moscow}
       {Sufficient conditions for the extendibility of an $N$-th order flex of polyhedra}

\abs{Valery Alexeev}
	{University of Georgia}
	{Families of algebraic varieties associated with cell decompositions}

\abs{Pau Atela}
       {Smith College}
       {Periodicity in geometric dynamical models in Phyllotaxis}

\abs{Lynn Batten}
       {University of Manitoba}
       {Blocking sets and security}

\abs{Margaret Bayer}
       {University of Kansas}
       {Eulerian partially ordered sets}

\abs{Andr\'as Bezdek}
       {Auburn University}
       {A Sylvester type theorem on circles}

\abs{Karoly Bezdek}
       {University of Budapest}
       {On a stronger form of Rogers' lemma and the minimum surface area of Varoni
cells in unit ball packings}

\abs{T. Bisztriczky}
       {University of Calgary}
       {A signature theorem for unifrom oriented matroids}

\abs{Jin-Yi Cai}
       {University of Buffalo}
       {A new transferenece theorem in geometry of numbers with applications
        to Ajtai's connection factor}

\abs{R. Connelly}
       {Cornell University}
       {Holes in a membrane:  tension percolation}

\abs{H.S.M. Coxeter}
       {University of Toronto}
       {Whence does an ellipse look like a circle?}

\abs{Balazs Csikos}
 {E\"otv\"os University, Budapest}
 {Some results around the Hadwiger-Knesar-Poulsen conjecture}

\abs{Ludwig Danzer and Gerrit van Ophuysen}
       {University of Dortmund}
       {A species of planar triangular tilings with inflation
factor $\sqrt{-\tau}$}

\abs{Robert Dawson}
 {Saint Mary's University}
 {What Shape is a Loaded Die?}

\abs{Michel Deza and Mikhail Shtogrin}
 {Ecole Normale Sup., Paris}
 {Embedding of regular tilings and star-honeycombs}

\abs{Robert Erdahl}
 {Queen's University}
 {Voronoi's hypothesis on perfect domains}

\abs{Ferenc Fodor}
 {Auburn University}
 {Large polygons in convex sets and polygons with large perimeter}

\abs{Deborah Franzblau}
 {CUNY/College of Staten Island}
 {Generic rigidity of molecular graphs}

\abs{Christopher Gold}
 {Laval University}
 {Voronoi methods in geomatics -- the importance of the spatial model}

\abs{Chaim Goodman-Strauss}
 {University of Arkansas}
 {Addressing and substitution tilings}

\abs{Timothy Havel}
       {Harvard University}
       {The role of tensegrity in distance geometry}

\abs{Donald Jacobs}
       {Michigan State University}
       {Graph rigidity:  Applications of material science and proteins}

\abs{G\'abor Kert\'etz}
 {E\"otv\"os Lor\'and University}
 {Dido problem on planes of constant curvature}

\abs{Wlodzimierz Kuperberg}
       {Auburn University}
       {Covering the cube with equal balls}

\abs{Barry Monson}
 {University of New Brunswick}
 {Realizations of regular abstract polytypes}

\abs{Konstantin Rybnikov}
 {Queen's University}
 {On traces of $d$-stresses in the skeletons of lower dimensions of homology manifolds}

\abs{Idzhad Sabitov}
 {Moscow State University}
 {Solution of polyhedra}

\abs{Peter Schmitt}
 {Universit\"at Wien}
 {The versatility of (small) sets of prototiles}

\abs{I. Talata}
       {University of Budapest}
       {On translative coverings of a convex body with its homothetic copies of given total volume}

\abs{Anke Walz}
       {Cornell University}
       {The Bellows Conjecture in dimension four}

\abs{Walter Whiteley}
       {York University}
       {Constraining a spherical polyhedron with dihedral angles}

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\begin{center}
{\bf EDUCATION I/ \'EDUCATION I\\ 
IDENTIFYING AND OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO \\
TEACHING AND LEARNING MATHEMATICS AT UNIVERSITY/ \\
IDENTIFIER ET VAINCRE LES OBSTACLES \`A \\
L'ENSEIGNEMENT ET L'APPRENTISSAGE DES MATH\'EMATIQUES\\
\`A L'UNIVERSIT\'E}\\
(Org:  Morris Orzech and Grace Orzech)
\end{center}
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\abs{Ed Barbeau}
        {University of Toronto}
        {The teacher as coach}
      
\abs{William Byers}
        {Concordia University}
        {Revealing the inner mathematician}

\abs{Morris Orzech}
        {Queen's University}
        {Addressing student difficulties specific to linear algebra}

\abs{Tom Rishel}
        {Cornell University}
        {Teaching and job initiatives for graduate programs in mathematics}

\abs{Martha Siegel}
        {Towson University}
        {}

\abs{Keith Taylor}
        {University of Saskatchewan}
        {The math readiness project at the University of Saskatchewan}

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\begin{center}
{\bf EDUCATION II/ \'EDUCATION II\\ 
TEACHING MATHEMATICS -- WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO IN THE CLASSROOM?/ \\
L'ENSEIGNEMENT DES MATH\'EMATIQUES -- POURQUOI FAIT-ON CE QU'ON FAIT EN CLASSE?}\\
(Org:  William Higginson, Morris Orzech and Grace Orzech)
\end{center}
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\abs{George Gadanidis}
        {Durham Board of Education}
{If Piaget was a math teacher --- Theoretical images, classroom
practice and the power of students' minds}

\abs{William Higginson}
        {Queen's University}
        {Having, knowing, and being:  some fundamental questions about mathematics teaching}

\abs{Lynn McAlpine and Cynthia Weston}
        {McGill University}
        {How six outstanding math professors use reflection to improve their teaching}

\abs{Pat Rogers}
        {York University}
        {The importance of why:  encouraging students to reflect}

\abs{Nathalie Sinclair}
        {Queen's University}
        {Romancing powerful mathematical ideas}

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\begin{center}
{\bf Extremal Combinatorics / Combinatoire extr\'emale}\\
(Org:  D. de Caen)
\end{center}
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\abs{Richard Anstee}
        {University of British Columbia}
        {Small forbidden configurations}
       
\abs{Jason Brown}
        {Dalhousie University}
        {The inducibility of complete bipartite graphs}
      
\abs{Ralph Faudree}
        {University of Memphis}
        {Anti-Ramsey Colorings in several rounds}

\abs{David Fisher}
        {University of Colorado}
        {The minimum number of triangles in a graph}

\abs{Jerrold Griggs}
        {University of South Carolina}
        {Extremal graphs with bounded densities of small subgraphs}

\abs{Penny Haxell}
        {University of Waterloo}
        {Integer and fractional packings in dense graphs}

\abs{Felix Lazebnik}
        {University of Delaware}
        {On a class of algebraically defined graphs}

\abs{Laszlo Sz\'ekely}
        {University of South Carolina}
        {Some new Erd\"os-Ko-Rado type problems}

\abs{Bing Zhou}
        {Trent University}
        {Extremal graphs related to star chromatic number and fractional
chromatic number}

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\vskip .25cm
\begin{center}
{\bf GRADUATE STUDENT SESSION \\ S\'EANCE POUR \'ETUDIANTS DIPL\^OM\'ES}\\
(Org:  David Gregory)
\end{center}
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\abs{Leo Butler}
 {Queen's University}
 {A new class of homogenous manifolds with Liouville-integrable geodesic flows}

\abs{Leo Creedon}
 {University of Alberta}
 {Constructing free groups in modular group algebras}

\abs{Mark DeFazio}
 {York University}
 {The behaviour of the complex zeros of the Laguerre polynomials}

\abs{Jody Esmonde}
      {McGill University}
      {Parametric solutions to the generalized Fermat equation}

\abs{Shaun Fallet}
       {William and Mary University}
       {Multiplicative principal minor inequalities for totally nonnegative matrices}

\abs{Andrei Gagarin}
       {University of Manitoba}
       {Characterizations of $(\alpha, \beta)$-polar graphs by forbidden induced subgraphs}

\abs{Malcolm Harper}
        {McGill University}
       {A family of Euclidean rings containing $Z\left[\sqrt{14}\right]$}

%\abs{James Hirschorn}
% {University of Toronto}
% {Towers of measurable functions}

\abs{Yu-Ru Lui}
        {Harvard University}
       {The Tur\'an sieve and probabilistic Galois theory}

\abs{David McKinnon}
       {University of California, Berkeley}
       {An arithmetic B\'ezout theorem}

\abs{Satya Mohit}
       {Queen's University}
       {The $ABS$-Conjecture and bounds for the order of the Tate-Shafarevich group}

\abs{Daniel Pich\'e}
       {University of Waterloo}
       {Wavelet compression on fractal tilings}

\abs{Philip Saidak}
       {Queen's University}
       {On zero-free regions of the zeta function}

\abs{Gregory Smith}
        {University of California, Berkeley}
        {Computing global extension modules}

\abs{Sarah Sumner}
        {Queen's University}
       {Investigating transcendence in the field of $p$-adic numbers}

\abs{Drew Vandeth}
 {McQuarrie university, Australia}
 {Transcendence of the values of generalized Mahler function}

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\begin{center}
{\bf MATHEMATICS ON THE INTERNET\\
MATH\'EMATIQUES SUR INTERNET\\}
(Org: June Lester, Nathalie Sinclair and Malgorzata Dubiel)
\end{center}
\hrule
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\abs{Bill Casselman}
        {University of British Columbia}
        {Colour, animation, interaction -- the next generation of electronic 
articles}

\abs{Stan Devitt}
        {Waterloo Maple}
        {MathML support for defining notation -- an essential step towards 
live math on the web}

\abs{Stan Devitt}
        {Waterloo Maple}
        {The Relationship between OpenMath and MathML}

\abs{Nick Jackiw}
        {KCP Technologies}
        {JavaSketchpad:  Taking Dynamic Geometry on-line}

\abs{Loki J\"orgenson}
        {CECM}
        {The CMS journals on-line: A study in digital publishing}

\abs{Robert Miner}
        {WebEQ}
        {Putting math on the Web}

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\begin{center}
{\bf Number Theory/ Th\'eorie des nombres}\\
(Org:  Ram Murty, Noriko Yui)
\end{center}
\hrule
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\abs{Amir Akbary}
        {Concordia University}
        {On the distribution values of symmetric square $L$-functions in the half plane $Re(s)>\frac{3}{2}$}

\abs{Henri Darmon}
        {McGill University}
        {Modularity of hypergeometric abelian varieties}
  
\abs{Chantal David}
        {Concordia University}
        {}
  
\abs{Jacek Fabrykowski}
        {University of Manitoba}
        {}

\abs{G. Frei}
        {Laval University}
        {On the discovery of the reciprocity law by Artin}
  
\abs{Eyal Goren}
        {Corcordia \& McGill University, CICMA}
        {Stratifications of moduli spaces and modular forms}
 
\abs{C. Greither}
        {University of Laval}
        {On Brumer's Conjecture}

\abs{James Huard}
        {Canisius College, Carleton University}
        {An arithmetic reciprocity relation of Liouville type and applications}

\abs{Hershy Kisilevsky}
       {Concordia University}
       {Rank of $E(K)$ for cyclic cubic extensions $K/\Q$}
    
\abs{Manfred Kolster}
        {McMaster University}
        {Higher relative class number formulas}

\abs{Arne Ledet}
        {Queen's University}
        {Some small $2$-groups as Galois groups}

\abs{Claude Levesque}
        {University of Laval}
        {Explicit solutions of a family of Thue diophantine equations}

\abs{Kumar Murty}
        {University of Toronto}
        {Zeros of Dedekind zeta functions in towers of fields}

\abs{Werner Nowak}
        {University of Austria}
        {Large convex domains sometimes contain more lattice points than we would expect}

\abs{Yiannis Petridis}
        {McGill University}
        {Zeros of the Riemann Zeta function and central values of the $L$-series of
	 holomorphic cusp forms}

%\abs{Vladimir Platonov}
%        {University of Waterloo}
%        {}

\abs{Gael R\'emond}
	{University of Ottawa}
	{Theta heights and Kodaira construction}

\abs{Damien Roy}
        {University of Ottawa}
        {Criteria of algebraic independence and approximation by hypersurfaces}

\abs{Gary Walsh}
        {University of Ottawa}
        {Solving families of quartic equations}

\abs{Hugh Williams}
        {University of Manitoba}
        {Computer verification of the Ankeny-Artin-Chowla conjecture for all $p<5.10^{10}$}

\abs{Kenneth Williams}
        {Carleton University}
        {Values of the Dedekind eta function at quadratic irrationalities}


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{\bf Operator Algebras/ Alg\`ebre d'op\'erateurs}\\
(Org:  James Mingo)
\end{center}
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\abs{Berndt Brenken}
        {University of Calgary}
        {Endomorphisms of finite direct sums of $I_{\infty}$ factors}

\abs{Ken Davidson}
        {University of Waterloo}
        {Principal bimodules of nest algebras}
     
\abs{George Elliot}
        {University of Toronto}
        {An abstract Brown-Douglas-Fillmore absorption theorem, II}
        
\abs{Thierry Giordano}
        {University of Ottawa}
        {Ergodic theory and dimension $G$-spaces}

\abs{Daniel Kucerovsky}
 {Fields Institute, University of Toronto}
 {An abstract Brown-Douglas-Fillmore absorbtion theorem, I}
        
\abs{Michael Lamoureux}
 {Universtiy of Calgary}
 {Crossed product algebra constructions}

\abs{A. Nica}
 {University of Waterloo}
 {Some minimization problems for the free analogue of the Fisher information}


\abs{John Phillips}
        {University of Victoria}
        {Spectral flow and index in bounded and unbounded $\theta$-summable Fredholm modules}

\abs{Jack Spielberg}
        {Arizona State University}
        {A new look at C*-algebras of infinite graphs}

\abs{Sam Walters}
        {University of Northern British Columbia}
        {K-theory on non commutative spheres arising from the Fourier automorphism}      

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\begin{center}
{\bf Probability Theory/ Th\'eorie des probabilit\'es}\\
(Org:  Miklos Cs\"{o}rgo)
\end{center}
\hrule
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\abs{Siva Athreya}
 {Fields Institute}
 {Existance of positive solutions satisfying the boundary Harnack principle for a semi-linear
Dirichlet problem}

\abs{M. Claude Belisle}
 {Universit\'e Laval}
 {The hit-and-run sampler}

\abs{David Brillinger}
 {University of California, Berkeley}
 {Some aspects of the motion of particles described by stochastic
differential equations}

\abs{Murray D. Burke}
 {University of Calgary}
 {Model checking and estimation:  A large sample approach}

\abs{Colleen D. Cutler}
 {University of Waterloo}
 {Scaling structures, chaos, and determinism in time series}

\abs{Andre R. Dabrowski}
 {University of Ottawa}
 {A unified approach to fast teller queues and ATM} 

\abs{Eric Derbez}
 {McMaster University}
  {Generating functions and integrated super Brownian excursion (ISE)}

\abs{Shui Feng}
 {McMaster University}
 {The behaviour of some degenerate diffusions near boundary under large deviations}

\abs{Rene Ferland}
 {Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec \`a Montr\'eal}
 {Propagation of chaos:  from Physics to Finance}

\abs{Antonia Foldes}
 {The College of Staten Island, CUNY}
 {About the local time of random walk and Brownian motion}

\abs{Genevieve Gauthier}
 {\'Ecole des Hautes \'Etudes Commerciales}
 {Service de l'enseignement des methodes quantatives de gestion}

%\abs{Christian Genest}
% {Universit\'e Laval}

\abs{Edit Gombay}
 {University of Alberta}
  {Correcting some limit theorems about the likelihood ratio}

\abs{Lajos Horvath}
 {University of Utah}
 {Best approximations for bootstrapped processes with applications}

\abs{Gail Ivanoff}
 {University of Ottawa}
 {Set-Indexed Martingales}

\abs{Mike Kouritzin}
 {University of Alberta}
 {Parabolic equations with random coefficients}

\abs{Reg Kulperger}
 {University of Western Ontario}
 {Empirical processes and tests of independence}

\abs{Brenda MacGibbon}
 {Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec \`a Montr\'eal}
 {On statistical minimax estimation and principal Eigenfuctions of the Laplacian}

\abs{Neal Madras}
 {York University}
 {In search of faster simulations}

\abs{Don L. McLeish}
 {University of Waterloo}
 {Estimating parameters of financial time series using highs and lows}

\abs{Majid Mojirsheibani}
 {Carleton University}
 {Combined estimation and probabilistic classification}

\abs{Bruno Remillard}
 {Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec \`a Trois-Rivi\`eres}
 {Empirical Processes Based on Pseudo-Observations}

\abs{P\'al R\'ev\'esz}
 {Math. Inst. Hung. Acad Sci.}
 {Critical branching Weiner process}

\abs{Jeffrey S. Rosenthal}
 {University of Toronto}
 {The mathematics of Merkov chain Monte Carlo algorithims}

\abs{Tom Salisbury} 
 {York University}
 {The complement of the planar Brownian path}

\abs{Byron Schmuland}
 {University of Alberta}
 {Rademacher's theorem on configuration space}

\abs{Qi-Man Shao}
 {University of Oregon}
 {Gaussian correlation conjecture and small ball probabilities}

\abs{Zhan Shi}
 {Universit\'e Paris VI}
 {The maximum of the uniform emprical process}

\abs{Gordon Slade}
 {McMaster University}
 {The scaling limit of the incipient infinite cluster in high-dimensional percolation}

\abs{Chistopher G. Small}
 {University of Waterloo}
 {The analysis of random shapes}

\abs{Barbara Szyszkowicz}
 {Carleton University}
 {An Interplay of weighted approximations and change-point analysis}

\abs{Keith Worsley}
 {McGill University}
 {The geometry of correlation fields, with an application to functional connectivity of the brain}

\abs{Hao Yu}
 {University of Western Ontario}
 {Weighted Kolmogorov-Smirnov test of stock return distributions}

\abs{Ricardas Zitikis}
 {Carleton University}
 {The Vervaat, Lorenz and some other related processes 
 of probability and mathematical statistics in weighted metrics}

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{\bf Topology - 4 Sub-sessions/ Topologie - 4 sous-sessions}\\
(Org:  Eddy Campbell)
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{\bf 1) Differential Geometry and Global Analysis\\
G\'eom\'etrie diff\'erentielle et analyse globale}\\
(Org:  Muang Min-Oo, McKenzie Wang)
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\abs{Igor Belagradek}
 {McMaster University}
 {Pinching and Pontrjagin classes}

\abs{Christoph B\"ohm}
 {McMaster University}
 {Inhomogenous Einstein metrics on spheres}

\abs{Jeffrey Boland}
 {McMaster University}
 {Magnetic fields on negatively curved manifolds\/}

\abs{Virginie Charette}
 {University of Maryland}
 {Properly discontinous actions of free groups on Minkowski space}

\abs{Jingyi Chen}
 {University of British Columbia}
 {Triholomorphic curves and complex ASD connections}

\abs{Ailana Fraser}
 {Stanford University}
 {On the free boundary variational problem for minimal disks}

\abs{Mike Gage}
 {University of Rochester}
 {Remarks on B. S\"ussman's proof of the Banchoff-Pohl inequality}

\abs{Miroslav Lovric}
 {McMaster University}
 {Multivariate normal distributions parametrized as a Riemannian
symmetric space}

\abs{Mohan Ramachandran}
 {SUNY}
 {}

\abs{Patrick Ryan}
 {McMaster University}
 {Real hypersurfaces in complex space forms}

\abs{Patrice Sawyer}
 {Laurentian University}
 {Ghostly symmetric spaces}

\abs{Alina Stancu}
 {Courant Institute}
 {Asymptotoic behaviour of a crystalline evolution}

\abs{John Toth}
 {McGill University}
 {}

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{\bf 2) Homotopy Theory/Th\'eorie de l'homotopie}\\
(Org:  Lisa Langsetmo, Jim Shank)
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\abs{Dan Christensen}
       {Johns Hopkins University}
 {Phantom maps:  all or nothing}

\abs{Fred Cohen}
 {University of Rochester}
 {On stunted projective spaces}

\abs{Gustavo Granja}
 {MIT}
 {On self maps of $HP^n$}

\abs{Steve Halperin}
 {University of Toronto}
 {The homotopy Lie algebra of a finite complex}

\abs{Philip Heath}
 {Memorial University}
 {Fibre techniques in Nielsen perioidic point theory}

\abs{Barry Jessup}
 {University of Ottawa}
 {Estimating the rational of LS-category of elliptic spaces}

\abs{Brenda Johnson}
 {Union College}
 {Constructing and characterizing degree $n$ functors}

\abs{Keith Johnson}
 {Dalhousie University}
 {Elliptic homology cooperations}

\abs{Sadok Kallel}
 {University of British Columbia}
 {The homology structure of free loop spaces}

\abs{Kathryn Lesh}
 {University of Toledo}
 {Progress toward a partial splitting of $E_{2}$ in the UASS for $SO$}

\abs{Gaunce Lewis}
 {Syracuse University}
 {Recent results on Mackey functors for a compact Lie group}

\abs{John Martino}
 {University of Western Michigan}
 {A Minami-Webb formula for compact Lie groups}

\abs{Joe Neisendorfer}
 {Rochester University}
 {James-Hopf invariants, Anick's spaces, and decompositions of the double loops on a Moore space}

\abs{Stewart Priddy}
 {Northwestern University}
 {Decompsing products of classifying spaces}

\abs{Charles Rezk}
 {Northwestern University}
 {A model for the homotopy theory of homotopy theory}

\abs{Laura Scull}
 {University of Chicago}
 {Rational $S^1$-equivalent homotopy theory}

\abs{Paul Selick}
 {University of Toronto}
 {Natural decompositions of loop suspensions and tensor algebras}

\abs{Stephen Theriault}
   {MIT}
 {Homotopy exponents for certain mod-$2(r)$ Moore Spaces}

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{\bf 3) Set Theoretic Topology/Topologie des ensembles}\\
(Org:  Juris Steprans, Steve Watson)
\end{center}
\hrule
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\abs{Murray Bell}
 {University of Manitoba}
 {Cardinal functions of centered spaces}

\abs{Maxim Burke}
 {University of Prince Edward Island}
 {Continuous functions which take a somewhere dense set of values on every open set}

\abs{Krzysztof Cielsielski}
 {West Virginia University}
 {Each Polish space is cocompactly quasimetrizable}

\abs{Wistar Comfort}
 {Wesleyan University}
 {Continuos cross sections on Abelian groups equipped with a Bohr Topology}

\abs{Ilijas Farah}
 {York University}
 {$Exp(N^*)$ need not be an $N^*$-image\/}

\abs{Douglas Grant}
 {University College of Cape Breton}
 {Alternative universes:  the role of set theory in topological algebra}

\abs{Gary Gruenhage}
 {Auburn University}
 {More on alpha-Toronto spaces}

\abs{Melvin Henriksen}
 {Harvey Mudd College}
 {Embedding a ring of continuous functions in a regular ring; preliminary report}

\abs{James Hirschorn}
 {University of Toronto}
 {Towers of measurable functions}


\abs{Valery Miskin}
 {Kemerovo State University}
 {Set ideals everywhere}

\abs{Justin Moore}
 {University of Toronto}
 {A linearly fibered Souslinean space under Martin's axiom}

\abs{Eduardo Santillan}
 {UNAM - Mexico}
 {Topological properties of removable singularities for analytic functions}

\abs{Alexander Shibakov}
 {Tennessee Technological University}
 {Controlling sequential order in topological vector spaces}

\abs{Slawomir Solecki}
 {Indiana University}
 {Polish group actions and measures}

\abs{Paul Szeptycki}
 {Ohio University}
 {Normality and property (a)}

\abs{Andrzej Szymanski}
 {Slippery Rock University of Pennylvania}
 {On a class of special Namioka spaces}

\abs{Franklin Tall}
 {University of Toronto}
 {The topology of elementary submodels}

\abs{Murat Tuncali}
 {Nipissing University}
 {On Generalizations of the Hahn-Mazurkiewicz Theorem}

\abs{Ed Tymchatyn}
 {University of Saskatchewan}
 {Measures and topological dynamics on Menger manifolds}

\abs{Grant Woods}
 {University of Manitoba}
 {Recent Developments in Rings of Continuous Functions}

\abs{Eduardo Santillan}
 {York University, Cinvestav, Mexico}
 {Topological properties of removable singularities for analytic functions}

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\begin{center}
{\bf 4) Symplectic/Low Dimensional Topology\\
Topologie en basses dimension/\\
Topologie symplectique}\\
(Org:  Steve Boyer, Jacques Hurtubise, Fran\c{c}ois Lalonde)
\end{center}
\hrule
\vskip .4cm

\abs{Steve Boyer}
        {Universit\'e de Qu\'ebec \`a Montr\'eal}
        {Norm duality and hyperbolic 3-manifolds}

\abs{Jacques Hurtubise}
        {McGill University, CRM}
        {Framed parabolic bundles}

\abs{Fran\c{c}ois Lalonde}
        {Universit\'e de Qu\'ebec \`a Montr\'eal, CRM}
        {Applications of Quantum cohomology to some fundamental problems of dynamics}

\abs{Yuriy Shkolnikov}
	{University of Calgary}
	{A generalisation of Whitney's trick in dimension 4, borromeanism and related questions}

\abs{Jennifer Slimowitz}
 {Universit\'e de Qu\'ebec \`a Montr\'eal}
 {Length minimizing geodesics in the group of hamiltonian diffeomorphisms}

\abs{Xingriu Zhang}
        {SUNY Buffalo}
        {On simple points of the character variety of a cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold}

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\hrule
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\begin{center}
{\bf Universal Algebra and Multiple-Valued Logic\\
Alg\`ebre universelle et logique multiple valeurs}\\
(Org:  L. Haddad)
\end{center}
\hrule
\vskip .4cm

\abs{Clifford Bergman}
 {Iowa State University}
 {Complexity of some Problems in Universal Algebra}

\abs{Jie Fang}
 {Simon Fraser University}
 {Ockham algebras with pseudocomplementation}

\abs{Ibrahim Garro}
 {University of Toronto} 
 {An application of non-well founded sets to infinite valued infinitary propositional calculus}

\abs{George Gr\"atzer}
 {University of Manitoba}
 {Independence Theorems for automorphism groups and congruence lattices of lattices}

\abs{Jennifer Hyndman}
 {University of Northern British Columbia}
  {Dualizable is not the same as fully dualizable}

\abs{Benoit Larose}
 {Concordia University}
 {Projective graphs and Hedetnyemi's conjecture}

\abs{Jonathan Leech}
 {Westmount College}
 {Noncommutative lattices:  foundational issues and recent results}

\abs{Robert Quackenbush}
 {University of Manitoba}
 {Varieties of binary linear codes}

\abs{Ivo Rosenberg}
 {Universit\'e de Montr\'eal}
 {Completeness for uniformly delayed circuits}

\abs{Ross Willard}
 {University of Waterloo}
 {Independence of the linear commutator}

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\begin{center}
{\bf CONTRIBUTED PAPERS \\ COMMUNICATIONS LIBRES}\\
(Org:  L. Haddad)
\end{center}
\hrule

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\abs{Alexandru Gica}
	{University of Bucharest}
	{A conjecture which implies the theorem of Gauss-Heegner-Stark-Baker}

\abs{Igor Nikolaev}
 {Universit\'e de Montr\'eal}
 {3-manifolds, foliations and $K_0(C(X)\rtimes Z)$}

\abs{Dieter Ruoff}
        {University of Regina}
        {Solution of a Non-Euclidean convexity problem}

\abs{Andrew Toms}
 {Fields Institute, University ofToronto}
 {Perforated $K_0-$groups of $C^*-$algebras}

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