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• Plenary Speakers
• Prizes
• CMS Jeffery-Williams Lecture
• CMS Krieger-Nelson Lecture
• Public Lecture
• Algebraic and Geometric Topology
• Approximation Theory and Applied Harmonic Analysis
• Computational and Analytical Techniques in Modern Applications
• Conformal Field Theory
• Design Theory and Coding Theory
• Discrete Mathematics
• Dynamical Systems
• Industrial Mathematics
• Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems
• Mathematical and Computational Finance
• New and Successful Courses and Programmes in Mathematics
• Physics and Geometry
• Real Analysis
• Contributed Papers Session

Plenary Speakers

• Ingrid Daubechies - An iterative algorithm for linear inverse problems with a sparsity constraint
• Roland Glowinski - Operator splitting methods for initial Value problems: application to the direct numerical simulation of particulate flow and to computational differential geometry
• Gerhard Huisken - Surgery for geometric evolution equations
• James Lepowsky - An introduction to vertex operator algebra theory and some of its problems
• Dennis Shasha - Upstart puzzles

Prizes

• CMS Jeffery-Williams Lecture
  • Ram Murty - Ramanujan graphs and zeta functions
• CMS Krieger-Nelson Lecture
  • Leah Keshet - Mathematical biology of cellular and biomedical problems

Public Lecture

• Robert Moody - Tilings: an evening excursion to the zoo
• Welcoming Remarks

Algebraic and Geometric Topology

• Kristine Baxter Bauer - Towards classifying functors from spaces to spaces
• David Blanc - Rectifying homotopy commutative diagrams of spaces
• Peter Booth - On the use of non-standard mapping spaces in homotopy theory
• Ryan Budney - Geometric coincidences on knots
• Eddy Campbell - Modular invariant theory
• Ralph Cohen - Graphs, loop spaces, and Morse theory
• Octavian Cornea - The Serre spectral sequence and Lagrangian intersections
• Diarmuid Crowley - Classifying bordisms
• Po Hu - Some aspects of conformal field theory
• Igor Kriz - D-brane cohomology and elliptic cohomology
• Gaunce Lewis - Localizing Mackey functors at Mackey functor prime ideals of the Burnside ring
• Peter May - Parametrized equivariant homotopy theory
• Andrew Nicas - Trace and duality in symmetric monoidal categories
• Igor Nikolaev - Noncommutative geometry of 3-manifolds
• Duane Randall - On tangent 4-fields with finite singularities
• Dale Rolfsen - Virtually orderable 3-manifold groups
• Yuli Rudyak - Toward the general theory of affine linking numbers
• Hal Sadofsky - Morava K-theory and inverse limits
• Parameswaran Sankaran - A coincidence theorem for holomorphic maps to G/P
• Don Stanley - The rational homotopy type of a blowup

Approximation Theory and Applied Harmonic Analysis

• David Amundsen - Highly stable explicit evolution schemes based on the Padé Approximant
• Len Bos - Heisenberg frames
• Martin Brooks - Simplification of topological piecewise monotone functions
• Alex Brudnyi - Remez-type inequalities for analytic functions
• Wen Chen - Accuracy analysis for the first order sigma-delta system
• Serge Dubuc - Scalar subdivision schemes and Hermite subdivision schemes
• Jean Pierre Gabardo - Wavelet sets and self-similarity
• Kirill Kopotun - Coconvex polynomial approximation
• David J. Leeming - Real roots of the Bernoulli Polynomials-the ambiguous case
• Daniel Lemire - Quadratic and cubic 2-step subdivision schemes
• Qun Mo - Symmetric wavelet frames with high vanishing moments
• Faramarz Samavati - Diagrammatic tools for generating biorthogonal multiresolutions
• Ivan Selesnick - Motion-based 3-D wavelet frames for video processing
• Remi Vaillancourt - Smooth tight frame wavelets and image microanalysis in the Fourier domain
• Yang Wang - On existence of Gabor basis
• Tony Ware - A semi-Lagrangian wavelet method for convection-dominated PDEs
• Jie Xiao - Capacitary strongtype inequalities for fractional order variations
• Shuzhang Xu - Some simple analysis in ML, MAP and turbo decoding
• Yuesheng Xu - Greedy algorithms and tree wavelet approximation
• Ping Zhou - Multivariate Padé approximants to some special functions

Computational and Analytical Techniques in Modern Applications

• John Bowman - The dual cascade in bounded and unbounded two-dimensional fluids
• Li-Qun Cao - Multiscale mathematical methods and numerical simulations in composite materials and porous media
• Graeme Fairweather - Orthogonal spline collocation methods for partial integro-differential equations in two space variables
• Marina Gavrilova - Exact computation library development: challenges in manipulating floating-point numbers
• Abba Gumel - Nonstandard finite-difference methods for some real-life problems
• Dong Liang - Nonstandard upwinding finite covolume methods for the convection diffusion problems
• Tao Lin - An immersed finite element method for axial symmetric 3-D nonlinear interface problems
• Dongwoo Sheen - Nonconforming elements on quadrilaterals
• S. Sivaloganathan - Tracking the motion of the vevtricular wall in shunted hydrocephalus
• Manfred Trummer - Adaptive multiquadric collocation for boundary layer problems
• H. van Roessel
• Erik Van Vleck - Spatially discrete models of nerve impulses
• Zhimin Zhang - A posteriori Error estimator based on polynomial preserving recovery

Conformal Field Theory

• C. Cummins - Congruence subgroups
• Marc de Montigny
• Benjamin Doyon - Twisted modules for vertex operator algebras and Bernoulli polynomials
• Terry Gannon - The classification of fusion rings, I
• J. Gegenberg
• Mark Jackson - The classification of fusion rings, II
• J. Lepowsky - Intertwining operators for vertex operator algebras and recursions for q-series
• R. Mann - From soup to NUTS
• P. Mathieu
• J. Rasmussen - On the su(2)_-1/2 WZW model
• Gordon Semenoff
• M. Walton - Affine fusion

Design Theory and Coding Theory

• Frank Bennett - Existence of (v, 5, w*)-PBDs
• Iliya Bluskov - Computing "small" designs
• Robert Craigen - Power Hadamard matrices
• David Drake - Nets with and without ovals or hyperovals
• Hadi Kharaghani - A review of Ionin-type designs
• Don Kreher - Computing transverse t-designs
• Clement Lam - An update on the computer search for a (22,33,12,8,4)-BIBD
• Esther Lamken - Skew SOLS-ordered room squares
• Ben Li - A parallel algorithm for enumerating covering designs
• Gary Mullen - Sets of partially orthogonal latin squares and projective planes
• Ron Mullin - The factorization of certain polynomials in finite fields
• Kevin Phelps
• Vera Pless - Explicit constructions of families of LDPC codes with girth at least six
• Rolf Rees - An application of Skolem sequences to the construction of pairwise balanced designs
• Joe Yucas - Paley triple arrays

Discrete Mathematics

• Jason Brown - Well-covered vector spaces of graphs
• Chong Suh Chun - The maximum sum of the values on the edges of a given graph
• Nancy Clarke - Cops and robber played with partial information
• Rob Craigen - Classes of orthogonal matrices
• James Currie - The probabilistic method and problems in semigroups
• Terry Gannon - Graph theory in string theory
• Ian Goulden - Ramified covers, symmetrization and Lagrange's Theorem
• Steve Kirkland - Digraph-based conditioning for Markov chains
• Pierre Mathieu
• Shai Moore - Recursive and parameterized constructions for all k-extended Langford sequences of large defect, hooked and un-hooked
• Eric Moorhouse - On the chromatic number of the plane
• Anna Stokke - A symplectic Desarmenien matrix
• Hugh Thomas - Analogues of the map from S_n to triangulations of an n+2-gon in other types
• Terry Visentin - Recent progress on the Q-conjecture

Dynamical Systems

• Bhagwan Aggarwala - On a difference equations model for propagation of HIV/AIDS
• Wael Bahsoun - Weakly convex and concave random maps with position dependent probabilities
• Bernard Brooks - Searching for linear stability conditions of a first order 4-dimensional discrete dynamic
• John E. Franke - Invading species impact the probabilty of extinction and permance in discrete, competitive Lotka-Volterra systems
• Abba Gumel - Assessing the role of influenza vaccine: dynamics analysis
• Harold M. Hastings - Microscopic fluctuations and pattern formation in a supercitical oscillatory chemical system
• Candace M. Kent - On x[n+1]=max{A[n]/x[n],B[n]/x[n-1]} with periodic parameters
• Herbert Kunze - The role of collage coding in parameter estimation
• Rossitza Marinova - Strong stability in solving higher Reynolds number incompressible flows via finite-difference operator splitting
• Michael A. Radin - Unbounded solutions of a max-type difference equation
• Christiane Rousseau - Modulus of analytic classification of a family unfolding a diffeomorphism with a parabolic point
• Dashun Xu - Threshold dynamics in a class of nonautonomous delay differential equations
• Huaiping Zhu - Bifurcation analysis of a predator-prey system with nonmonotonic functional response

Industrial Mathematics

• Claudia Caia - Finite element method for 3D multiphase flow modelling: validation and numerical results
• Jinwen Chen and Zbigniew Ring - Modeling fixed-bed chemical reactors with high heat release
• Chuwang Cheng - Fault tolerant control systems with stochastic integral quadratic constraints
• Kevin Davies - On symmetric pyramidal finite elements
• Feng Ding - Parameter estimation for dual-rate systems with finite measurement data
• Michael G. Forbes and Fraser Forbes - Regulating discrete-time stochastic processes: Focusing on the probability density function
• Robert Hayes - Modelling and optimisation of the automotive catalytic converter
• Kevin L. Heppner - Computation of mass transport in electrolytic systems
• Biao Huang - Control of chaos in a convective loop system
• Shijie Liu - Parametric estimation and error structure
• Xiaodong Liu - New approaches to H_¥-control for T-S Fuzzy descriptor systems via LMI approach
• Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri - ABS solution of full row rank linear inequality systems over real and integer spaces
• Edgar Tamayo
• Andrew Willis - Condition monitoring of flow instrumentation through inferential modeling
• Jason Zhang - Radiation modeling of an air phase corrugated plate photocatalytic reactor

Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems

• Steve Cantrell - Brucellosis, botflies and brainworms: the impact of edge habitats on pathogen transmission and species extinction
• Yuming Chen - Pattern formation in isolated neurons
• Chris Cosner - Multiple competitive reversals via changing boundary conditions in a reaction-diffusion model
• O. Diekmann - Quasilinear population models
• Yihong Du - Realization of prescribed patterns in certain population models
• Marek Fila - Grow-up on the boundary
• K.P. Hadeler - Moving populations with sedentary states
• Mark Lewis - Pattern formation via scent-marking
• Frithjof Lutscher - From Langevin's equation to biological application
• Peter Polacik - On global solutions of semilinear parabolic equations on R^N
• Mary Pugh - Blowing-up exact solutions of long-wave unstable thin film equations
• Brian Sleeman - A reinforced random walk model of tumour angiogenesis
• Moxun Tang - Turing patterns in the CIMA reaction diffusion system
• Horst Thieme - Compact attractors for a class of nonlinear evolution equations
• Jun Cheng Wei - Ground state solutions for the Gierer-Meinhardt system
• Yingfei Yi - On almost automorphic pattern formation and spatial chaos
• Xiaoqiang Zhao - Saddle point behavior for monotone semiflows and reaction-diffusion models
• Xingfu Zou - Periodic solutions of neutral functional differential equations

Mathematical and Computational Finance

• Felipe Aguerrevere - Equilibrium investment strategies and output price behavior: a real-options approach
• Cristin Buescu - Optimal portfolio management when there are taxes and transaction costs
• Abel Cadenillas - Optimal manager compensation with choice of effort and volatility
• Jacques Carriere - Martingale valuation of cash-flows for insurance and interest models
• Shui Feng - The valuation of some American call options
• Sebastian Ferrando - Haar wavelets systems for pricing and hedging financial derivatives
• Bob Kimmel - Market price of risk specifications for affine models: theory and evidence
• Ali Lazrak - Information neutrality in the stochastic differential utility
• Alexander Melnikov - On the pricing of life-insurance contracts based on risky assets
• Pat Muldowney - A generalized Black-Scholes equation without Ito calculus
• Bruno Remillard - Discrete time problems in hedging strategies and portfolio optimization
• Louis Seco - Entropy methods for time series calibration
• Michael Taksar - Ruin probability minimization and dividend distribution optimization in diffusion models
• Ruppa Thulasiram - Fast Fourier transform in option pricing-a parallel algorithm
• Hao Wang - Calibrated models for heavy-tailed risk factors
• Lixin Wu - LIBOR market model: from deterministic to stochastic volatility
• Yong Zeng - A cass of partially-observed models for micro-movement of asset orices with Bayesian inference via filtering
• Xingqiu Zhao - Option pricing with modified fractional Brownian motion

New and Successful Courses and Programmes in Mathematics

• Sharon Friesen
• Jakub Jasinski
• Henryk Kolacz - Statistics lab exams on-line system
• Indy Lagu
• Ted Lewis
• Andy Liu
• Mike Long - TIGERS: Connecting K-12 with higher ed, innovative teaching with current research
• James Stewart - Three centuries of calculus wars

Physics and Geometry

• Stephen Anco - Nonlinear deformations of the Yang-Mills equations
• Michael Anderson - Dehn surgery construction of Einstein metrics
• Adrian Butscher - The conformal constraint equations
• Jack Gegenberg - Using 3D stringy gavity to understand the Thurston conjecture
• C. Robin Graham - CR invariant powers of the sublaplacian
• Gerhard Huisken - Analytical aspects of mean curvature flow with singularties
• Robert Mann - Nutty thermodynamics and the AdS/CFT correspondence
• M. Min-Oo - Asymptotically symmetric spaces
• Don Page - Positive mass without local energy conditions
• Kristin Schleich - Topological censorship and beyond: black holes and singularities from topological structures in d > 4
• Gordon Semenoff - Gauge fields, strings and gravity
• Sumati Surya - Singular propagation of quantum fields in topology changing spacetimes
• Sachin Vaidya - Perturbative and nonperturbative dynamics in noncommutative spaces
• Xiandong Wang - Holography and geometry of some convex cocompact hyperbolic 3-manifolds
• Marcia Weaver - Global foliation of spatially inhomogeneous solutions to Einstein's Equation
• Don Witt - Charged and spinning initial data sets

Real Analysis

• David Borwein - A one-sided Tauberian theorem for the Borel summability method
• John Coffey - Differentiation and Henstock integration of functions taking values in an ordered vector space
• Richard Darst - A fractal family
• Krishna Garg - Derivability theorems in terms of some new derivatives
• Hadi Hooshmand - Convex and concave limit summable functions
• Hong Taek Hwang - Bounded vector measures on effect algebra
• Paul Lewis - Strong Dunford-Pettis sets and spaces of operators
• Chenkuan Li - On defining the product r^-k ·Ñ^l d
• Peter Loeb - Lusin's Theorem and Bochner Integration
• Franklin Mendivil - Hausdorff measure and dimension of general cantor sets
• Patrick Muldowney - Cousin's Lemma in infinite dimensions
• Paul Musial - The L^r-Henstock-Kurzweil Integral
• Kandasamy Muthuvel - Sets with no repeated differences
• Pamela Pierce - On the invariance of classes FBV, LBV under composition
• Florin Popovici - A general Riemann-type integration theory including the Bochner integral
• David Ross - An elementary proof of Lyapunov's Theorem
• Cesar Silva - Mixing on a class of rank one transformations
• David Skoug - Integral transforms, convolution products, and first variations of functionals on Wiener space
• Erik Talvila - The distributional Denjoy integral
• Robert Vallin - On preserving quasi-metrics and weightability
• Shawn Wang - Cone monotone functions: differentiability and continuity
• Woodford Zachary - An adjoint for operators in Banach spaces

Contributed Papers Session

• Majid Behbahani - An exhuastive search for orthogonal designs of small order
• Tchavdar Marinov - Identification the heat-conduction coefficient via method of variational imbedding
• Ariane Masuda - A characterization of permutation polynomials based on their coefficients
• Justin Mauger - The cohomology of certain Hopf algebras associated with p-groups
• Karen Meagher - Covering arrays on graphs
• Marni Mishna - A holonomic approach to combinatorics