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• Plenary Speakers
• Prize Lectures
• Coxeter-James Lecture
• Krieger-Nelson Lecture
• CMS Excellence in Teaching Award
• Public Lecture
• Category Theory
• Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems
• Discrete and Convex Geometry
• Game Theory / Number Theory
• Joint CMS/CMESG Education Session
• L-functions, Automorphic Forms and Representation Theory
• Mathematical Finance
• Model Theory
• Positivity in Functional Analysis and Applications
• Recent Work in History of Mathematics
• Set Theory and Infinitary Combinatorics
• Symmetry in Geometry
• Contributed Papers

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Plenary Speakers    [PDF]

• Steve Awodey - Algebraic Set Theory
• John Conway
• Nicole El Karoui - Derivatives Market: Recent developments in pricing, hedging and measuring market risk exposure
• Nigel Kalton - Extensions of Banach spaces and their applications
• Alexander S. Kechris - Logic, Ramsey theory and topological dynamics
• László Lovász - Very large graphs
• Dave Marker - Model Theory and Exponentiation

Prize Lectures

• Coxeter-James Lecture    [PDF]
  • Jim Geelen - An overview of the matroid minors project
• Krieger-Nelson Lecture    [PDF]
  • Penny Haxell - Independent transversals
• CMS Excellence in Teaching Award    [PDF]
  • Frédéric Gourdeau - Mathematical education: a mathematician's perspective / Education mathématique : la vision d'un mathématicien

Public Lecture    [PDF]

• William R. Pulleyblank - From paper tape to the internet to BlueGene-forty years of computing history

Category Theory    [PDF]

• Michael Barr - The category of Mackey spaces is *-autonomous
• Marta Bunge - Michael coverings are comprehensive
• John Fountain - Proper covers of left ample monoids
• Peter Freyd - *-autonomous structures on old categories
• Jonathon Funk - Semigroups and toposes
• Nicola Gambino - Presheaf and sheaf models for constructive set theory
• Pieter Hofstra
• Robin Houston - When coherence comes for free
• André Joyal - Beyond Category Theory
• Steve Lack - Partial maps in higher-dimensional categories
• Tom Leinster - The Thompson groups
• Dorette Pronk - Adjoining Cycles of Adjoint Arrows
• Pedro Resende - Applications of quantale theory to groupoids and inverse semigroups
• Phil Scott - Geometry of Interaction and the Dynamics of Proofs
• Robert Seely - Differential Categories
• Alex Simpson - Applications of Algebraic Set Theory
• Ben Steinberg - Mobius inversion, groupoids and inverse semigroup algebras
• Paul Taylor - Computable Real Analysis without Set Theory or Turing Machines
• Benno van den Berg - On a realisability model for CZF
• Jaap van Oosten - AST in realizability
• Michael Warren - Coalgebras in a category of classes
• Richard Wood - Variation and Enrichment

Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems    [PDF]

• Mohammadreza Anvari - Relative Dynamics in Systems Biology
• Baruch Cahlon - Stability Criteria for Certain High Even Order Delay Differential Equations
• Abba Gumel - Dynamics Analysis of HIV Vaccine Models
• Hongbin Guo - Global Dynamics of Multigroup SIR Epidemic Models
• Shafiqul Islam - Piecewise linear approximation of absolutely continuous invariant measures for random maps
• Damir Kinzebulatov - On Nicholson's blowflies equation with a distributed delay
• Bill Langford - Models of Cheyne-Stokes Respiration with Cardiovascular Pathologies
• Rongsong Liu - Spatiotemporal Patterns of Vector-borne Disease Spread
• James Muldowney - Implications of the stability of linearizations
• Gergeley Röst - Bifurcation of periodic delay differential equations
• Samir Saker - Periodic solutions, oscillation and attractivity of nonlinear delay discrete survival red blood cells model
• Pauline van den Driessche - Modeling relapse in infectious diseases
• Qian Wang - Some Results On A Diffusive SIR Model
• Yuan Yuan - Synchronization and Desynchronization in a Delayed Discrete Neural Network
• Zingfu Zou - Rich dynamics in a non-local population model over three patches

Discrete and Convex Geometry    [PDF]

• Karoly Bezdek - Antipodality revisited
• Karoly Boroczky - Transversals of hyperbolic disks
• Bob Erdahl - Delaunay Polytopes and the Pauli Principle
• Ferenc Fodor - Lower bounds on the surface area of Voronoi polyhedra
• Marina Gavrilova - Exact Point Location in Generalized Voronoi Diagram
• Mohammad Ghomi - Isoperimetric inequality outside convex bodies
• Luis Goddyn - Log-discrepancy and chromatic number of hyperplane arrangements
• Branko Grünbaum - Enumeration of square-faced isogonal infinite polyhedra
• Aladar Heppes - Near-transversal lines in families of congruent circles
• Gyorgy Kiss - On the illumination parameters of convex bodies
• Kee Yuen Lam - The combinatorics of sums of squares as studied via topology
• Hiroshi Maehara - Reversing a polyhedral surface
• Egon Schulte - Local Theorems in Combinatorial Tiling
• Jozsef Solymosi - The geometry of Schur's theorem
• Csaba D. Toth - Spanning trees for disjoint barriers in three-space
• Asia Ivic Weiss - Petrie-Coxeter maps revisited

Game Theory / Number Theory    [PDF]

• Mike Bennett - The prime factorization of binomial coefficients
• Elwyn Berlekamp - Yellow-Brown Hackenbush
• Peter Borwein - Littlewood's 22nd Problem
• David Boyd - Pisot sequences with periodic rounding rules
• Andrew Bremner - A problem in right triangles
• Denis Charles - Some applications of the graph of supersingular elliptic curves over a finite field
• Karl Dilcher - Divisibility properties of certain binomial sums
• Aviezri Fraenkel - Can one perceive the alpine wind of a game?
• Carl Pomerance - Covering congruences
• Renate Scheidler - Units in Cubic Function Fields
• Aaron Siegel - The Misère Mex Mystery
• David Singmaster - 17 Camels, 13 Camels, 11 Bridges, 3 Rabbits, Coconuts
• Alf van der Poorten - Curious cubes and self-similar sums of squares
• Stan Wagon - The postage-stamp problem: an application of geometry to number theory
• Gary Walsh - Don't try to solve these Diophantine equations
• David Wolfe - Introducing New Games

Joint CMS/CMESG Education Session    [PDF]

• Discussion Group - Does a Math Education PhD program belong in a Math Dept?
• Pamela Hagen
• Peter Liljedahl
• Lily Moshe
• Peter Taylor

L-functions, Automorphic Forms and Representation Theory    [PDF]

• Jeffrey Achter - Monodromy representations and function field class numbers
• Imin Chen - Diophantine equations via Galois representations
• Gerald Cliff - K-types of local Weil representations
• Chantal David - Non-vanishing of cubic twists of elliptic curves
• Lassina Dembele - Examples of automorphic forms on the unitary group U(3)
• Wentang Kuo - A generalization of the Sato-Tate Conjecture
• Yu-Ru Liu - On Erdös-Pomerance's conjecture for the Carlitz module
• Paul Mezo - Twisted trace Paley-Wiener theorems
• Fiona Murnaghan - Tame supercuspidal representations
• Kumar Murty
• Ram Murty - The Lang-Trotter conjecture
• Nathan Ng - Discrete mean values of the Riemann zeta function
• Rachel Pries - Twists of representations of fundamental groups in positive characteristic
• Hadi Salmasian - Small degenerate principal series and exceptional dual pairs

Mathematical Finance    [PDF]

• Abel Cadenillas - Optimal Risk-Sharing with Effort and Project Choice
• Joe Campolieti - New Families of Integrable Diffusion Models and their Applications to Finance
• Matt Davison - Some Optimal Control Problems in Natural Gas Storage
• Jean-Marie Dufour - Testing portfolio efficiency with an unobservable zero-beta rate and non-Gaussian distributions: a finite-sample identification-robust approach
• Robert Elliott - New Results for Fractional Brownian Motion
• Peter Forsyth - Dynamic Hedging Under Jump Diffusion with Transaction Costs
• Ulrich Horst - Climate Risk, Securitization, and Equilibrium Bond Pricing
• Adam Kolkiewicz - Inverse First-Passage Problem with Applications to Credit Risk Modeling
• Ali Lazrak - Non-commitment in continuous time
• Cristiane Lemieux - Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods and Finance
• Alex Melnikov - Partial Hedging for Valuation of Finance-Insurance Contracts
• Luis Seco - Collateralized Fund Obligations
• Anatoliy Swishchuk - Change of Time Method in Mathematical Finance
• Tony Ware - Swing options with continuous exercise

Model Theory    [PDF]

• Matthias Aschenbrenner - Asymptotic differential algebra
• Ozlem Beyarslan - Pseudofinite Fields and Tournaments
• Gregory Cherlin - Connected Groups of Finite Morley Rank: Structure
• Alf Dolich - Some Remarks on Weak O-minimality and Definable Completeness
• Dragos Ghioca - A generalization of the Manin-Mumford Theorem
• Deidre Haskell - Integral-definite rational functions in theories of valued fields
• Tobias Kaiser - An o-minimal version of the Riemann Mapping Theorem
• Salma Kuhlmann - Integer Parts and Complements to Valuation Rings of Ordered Fields
• David Lippel
• Chris Miller - A proper reduct of the real projective hierarchy that defines sets in each projective level
• Paul Potgieter - Nonstandard analysis, Hausdorff dimension and Brownian motion
• Fernando Sanz Sánchez - Non-oscillating solutions of a differential equation and Hardy fields
• Carol Wood - Partial Differential Fields and Separation of Variables

Positivity in Functional Analysis and Applications    [PDF]

• Safak Alpay - On b-weakly compact operators
• Razvan Anisca - Unconditional decompositions in Banach spaces
• Evgenios Avgerinos - On the solutions of multivalued problems governed by vector differential inclusions
• Gerard Buskes - Geometric mean in vector lattices
• Roman Drnovsek - On positive unipotent operators on Banach lattices
• Eduard Emelyanov - Some recent results on constrictive operators
• Julio Flores - Domination by positive Banach-Saks operators
• Valentina Galvani - Spanning with Options over a Borel Space
• Hailegebriel Gessesse - Minimal Vectors of Positive Operators On Ordered Banach Spaces
• Nigel Kalton - Symmetric functionals and traces
• Arkady Kitover - Universally order bounded operators on Hilbert Spaces
• Mehmet Orhon - On the ideal center of the dual of a Banach lattice
• Heydar Radjavi - Invariant Sublattices for Semigroups of Operators
• Anton Schep - Products of (weak) log convex operators are log convex
• Adi Tcaciuc - On the existence of asymptotic-l_p structures in Banach spaces
• Vladimir Troitsky - Norm closed algebraic ideals in L(l_p Ål_q)
• Martin Weber - On Finite Elements in Vector Lattices of Operators

Recent Work in History of Mathematics    [PDF]

• Tom Archibald - Picard and Integral Equations
• Marcus Barnes - John Charles Fields as student, researcher, and scientific organizer
• June Barrow-Green - Mathematics and pacifism in Cambridge 1915-1916: a student perspective
• Branko Grünbaum - Polygons: Meister was right and Poinsot was wrong but prevailed
• William W. Hackborn - Mathematical Ballistics up to World War I
• Deborah Kent - Fractions, Plants, and Planets: Extending the 19th-Century Law of Phylotaxis
• Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze - German refugee-mathematicians in Canada
• Laura Turner - The Origins of the Mittag-Leffler Theorem

Set Theory and Infinitary Combinatorics    [PDF]

• Ilijas Farah - Condensed groups
• Valentin Ferenczi - The class of separable reflexive Banach spaces is strongly bounded
• Vera Fischer - The Consistency of Arbitrarily Large Spread Between the Bounding and the Splitting Numbers
• Piotr Koszmider - Combinatorics of Boolean algebras applied in functional analysis
• Jordi Lopez-Abad - Partial unconditionality and Barriers
• Justin Moore - On linear orders with no real or Aronszajn suborders
• Cristian Rosendal - On the algebraic structure of the unitary group
• Slawomir Solecki - A Fubini theorem
• Juris Steprans - Localization properties of Silver forcing and countable support iterations
• Franklin Tall - PFA(S)[S]: mutually consistent consequences of PFA and V=L
• William Weiss - Problems caused by singular cardinals of countable cofinality

Symmetry in Geometry    [PDF]

• Catharine Baker - Affine planes, symmetry and 3-e.c. graphs
• Leah Berman - Symmetric Configurations
• Andras Bezdek - On the number of mutually touching cylinders
• Karoly Bezdek - On the X-ray numbers of 3-dimensional convex bodies
• Robert Dawson - Cebysev sets in hyperspaces over Rⁿ
• Antoine Deza - Colourful Simplicial Depth
• Chris Fisher - A Computer Drawing of the Complete Pascal Configuration
• Branko Grünbaum - Are all symmetry groups present in the Alhambra, and related questions
• Heiko Harborth - Integral Distances in Geometrical Figures
• Barry Monson - Down with Symmetry!
• Deborah Oliveros - Polygons enclosing point sets
• Tomaz Pisanski - Grünbaum incidence calculus
• Egon Schulte - The Classification of Chiral Polyhedra
• Arthur Sherk - A Class of Finite Three-Dimensional Metric Spaces

Contributed Papers