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Algebraic Varieties with Group Actions
Banach Algebras and Abstract Harmonic Analysis
Complex Function Theory
Computer Algebra and Computer Algebra Systems
Finite Combinatorics
Mathematical Algorithms for Medical Imaging
Mathematical Biology
Mathematical / Computational Finance
Mathematical Immunology
Mathematical Physics
Mathematics Education
Mathematics of Infectious Diseases
Model Theory and its Applications
Network Algorithms
Nonlinear Methods in Computational Mathematics
Quantum Information Theory
Representations of Finite and Algebraic Groups
Resource Allocation Optimization
Statistical Learning
Contributed Papers

Algebraic Varieties with Group Actions [PDF]

Megumi Harada - An introduction to the topology of symplectic quotients
Colin Ingalls - Central extensions of finite subgroups of GL2
Kiumars Kaveh - String polytopes, G-C polytopes and geometry of flag and spherical varieties
Jochen Kuttler - On the Luna stratification of quotients
Hugh Thomas - (Co)minuscule Schubert calculus
Matthieu Willems - A Chevalley formula in Equivariant K-theory

Banach Algebras and Abstract Harmonic Analysis [PDF]

Yemon Choi - Biflatness for Clifford semigroup algebras
Constantin Costara - On local irreducibility of the spectrum
Brian Forrest - Projective Operator Spaces, Almost Periodicity and Completely Complemented
Niels Gronbaek - The L₁(H)-module L₁(G)_H
Zhiguo Hu - Multipliers on Banach algebras and applications to the second dual Banach algebras
Zinaida Lykova - The Hochschild and cyclic cohomology of simplicially trivial topological algebras
Tianxuan Miao - Approximation Properties of A_p(G) and A_p^r(G)
Matthias Neufang - Jordan Arens irregularity
Chi-Keung Ng - Property (T) and strong property (T) for C^*-algebras
Thomas Ransford - Pseudospectra and power growth
Zhong-Jin Ruan - Completely Bounded Multipliers on Locally Compact Quantum Groups
Ebrahim Samei - 2-weak amenability of Beurling algebras
Nico Spronk - Amenability constants for semilattice algebras
Ross Stokke - Approximate and pseudo-amenability of the Fourier Algebra
Thomas V. Tonev - Peripheral additivity and isomorphisms between semisimple
Faruk Uygul - A Representation Theorem for Completely Contractive Dual Banach Algebras
Michael C. White - The Bicyclic semigroup algebra
Yong Zhang - Fixed point properties characterized by existence of left invariant means on semigroups

Complex Function Theory [PDF]

Roger Barnard - Iceberg-type problems in two dimensions
Tom Bloom - Random polynomials and pluripotential theory
André Boivin - Weighted Hardy spaces for the unit disc: Approximation properties
Maritza Branker - Weighted pluripotential theory on Kahler manifolds
Richard Fournier - Asymptotics of the Bohr radius for polynomials of fixed degree
David Herron - Euclidean Quasiconvexity
Dan Jupiter - Weak Stein Neighbourhood Bases
Gabriela Kohr
Daniela Kraus - Critical points of inner functions, nonlinear partial differential equations, and an extension of Liouville's theorem
Javad Mashreghi - Integral representations of the derivatives of functions in H(b)
David Minda - Geometric variations of Schwarz's Lemma
Jerry Muir Jr. - Preservation of geometric properties by a class of extension operators
Rajesh Pereira - Inequalities in the Analytic Theory of Polynomials
John Pfaltzgraff - Conformal mapping of multiply connected slit domains
David Radnell - Interactions between conformal field theory and Teichmueller spaces
Thomas Ransford - Computation of capacity
Oliver Roth - On the isolated singularitites of a class of subharmonic functions
Stephan Ruscheweyh - Universally convex univalent functions
Alexander Solynin - Hyperbolic convexity and the analytic fixed point function
Ted Suffridge - Invariant mappings on the ball and extremal problems
Dror Varolin - Non-negative Hermitian polynomials and quotients of squared norms
Brock Williams - Circle Packings, Welding Operations, and Applications

Computer Algebra and Computer Algebra Systems [PDF]

Oleg Golubitsky A - Implementation of Arithmetics in Aldor
Howard Cheng - Time- and Space-Efficient Evaluation of Some Hypergeometric Constants
Vahid Dabbaghian-Abdoly - Implementation of Cellular Automata Models on Maple
Ron Ferguson - Search Algorithms for Low Autocorrelation Sequences
Mark Giesbrecht - Complexity and Practicality in Sparse Matrix Computation
Oleg Golubitsky B - Comprehensive Triangular Decomposition
Bryan Krawetz - Faster polynomial arithmetic over algebraic number and function fields in Maple 11
Scott MacLean - Mathematical Symbol Recognition in the MathBrush System
Matt Malenfant - Better Evaluation Points for the Interpolation of Sparse Symbolic Polynomials
Michael Monagan - Solving Linear Systems over Cyclotomic Fields
Roman Pearce - Sparse Polynomial Arithmetic using Heaps
Greg Reid - Introduction to Symbolic-Numeric Completion Methods for PDE
Allan Wittkopf - What's new in Maple 11
Wenyuan Wu - New Progress on Implicit Riquier Bases for PDE
Wei Zhou - Fraction-free Computation of LCM and GCD by values

Finite Combinatorics [PDF]

Wayne Broughton - Systems of Parallel Representatives
Zoltan Furedi - Color critical hypergraphs and forbidden configurations
Penny Haxell - On stable paths
Jonathan Jedwab - Bounds on the growth rate of the peak sidelobe level of binary sequences
Hadi Kharaghani - The asymptotic existence of amicable orthogonal designs
William Kocay - Non-Fano Quads in Finite Projective Planes
Vaclav Linek - Chromatic numbers of Steiner quadruple systems
Dhruv Mubayi - Turan's theorem with colors
Wendy Myrvold - Investigating Conjectures about Fullerenes
Ortrud Oellermann - Steiner Trees and Convex Geometries
Ranganathan Padmanabhan - A group representation for the anti-Pappian design
Bruce Reed - The diameter of sparse random graphs
Douglas Stinson - Unconditionally secure chaffing and winnowing with short authentication tags
Jacques Verstraete - Clique partitions of dense graphs
Mieko Yamada - Self-dual Z₄ codes generated by Hadamard matrices and conference matices

Mathematical Algorithms for Medical Imaging [PDF]

Jorge Alpuche - The Application of the Filtered Back Projection (FBP) Algorithm to Quantitative Scatter CT Reconstruction
Ali Ashtari - Resolution limits in nonlinear microwave image reconstruction
Homa Fashandi - Frequency Based Portal Image Registration for Radiotherapy Treatment
Daniel Flores - Wavefront Reconstruction Method for Microwave Imaging
Mickael Germain - Lie algebra data processing applied to medical images
Colin Gilmore - An Overview of The Electromagnetic Inverse Problem with Biomedical Applications
Ian Jeffrey - Adaptive Basis Functions Suitable for a Well-Conditioned Formulation to the Inverse Electromagnetic Scattering Problem under the BIM
Amir Meghdadi - Temporal and Spatial Imaging of Brain Epileptic Activities by Dynamical Characterization of EEG Signal
Puyan Mojabi - The use of the L-curve and NCP parameter-choice methods in electromagnetic inverse scattering problems
Malcolm Ng - Accuracy Improvement of an Existing Permittivity Measurement Technique for Dielectric Disk Samples
Barbara Pawlak - PET Image Reconstruction by Density Estimation
Abas Sabouni - Parallel FDTD/GA for Microwave Image Reconstruction
Parimala Thulasiraman - Design, development and implementation of a parallel algorithm for computed tomography using algebraic reconstruction technique
Niranjan Venugopal - A 3D Model-Based Outer Volume Suppression Technique for MR Spectroscopic Imaging of the Prostate

Mathematical Biology [PDF]

Caroline Bampfylde - Biological control through intraguild predation: what is the most efficient control method?
Jacques Belair - Stability in an Epidemiological Model with Two Transmission Rates and Application to Antibiotic Resistance in Commensal Bacteria
Luciano Buono - Delays, Oscillations and Hopf Bifurcations in Drug Delivery Systems
Eric Cytrynbaum - Connections between a 1D-spiral wave, fast and slow pulses
Raluca Eftimie - Modelling complex spatial animal group patterns: the role of different communication mechanisms
Kevin Hall
Frank Hilker - Dynamical behavior of a population with nonlinear growth and fatal disease
Yu Jin - Spatial Dynamics of a Periodic Population Model with Dispersal
Anmar Khadra - Robust Rhythmogenesis in Endocrine GnRH Neurons via Autocrine Regulations in a Common Pool of Extracellular Hormone
Frithjof Lutscher - The effect of foraging patterns on population dynamics for central place foragers
Fahima Nekka - Impact of Drug Intake Variability on Therapeutic Outputs
Alex Potapov - Modeling aquatic invasions and control in a lake system: principles and approaches
Robert Smith - The basic reproductive ratio: does the emperor have no clothes?
Philippe Tracqui - Proteolytic control of the mechanical switch leading to in vitro morphogenesis of capillary-like networks: a theoretical analysis
Rebecca Tyson - Modelling the swimming behaviour of the nematode
Allan Willms - A Geometric Comparison of Hodgkin-Huxley and Multi-State Models

Mathematical / Computational Finance [PDF]

Raj Appadoo - Lattice Valuation Model Using O(m,n)-Trapezoidal Type Fuzzy Numbers
Joe Campolieti - New State Dependent Diffusions and their Application to Option Pricing
Tahir Choulli - Two optimal pricing measures: A comparative study
Haohan Huang - Estimating Value at Risk with Non-negative Matrix Factorization technique
Ali Lazrak - Perfect competition among generations: growth theory under time
Alex Paseka - Information in Option Prices and the Underlying Asset Dynamics
Luis Seco - Modeling stochastic correlation in financial markets
Liqun Wang - First Hitting Time Distribution for Diffusion Processes and Time-Dependent Double Barriers
Xiaonan Wu - Anomaly Detection in Financial Fraud Data

Mathematical Immunology [PDF]

Catherine Beauchemin - Characterizing T Cell Movement within Lymph Nodes
Daniel Coombs - Virus competition and evolution at multiple scales
Vitaly Ganusov - Modeling CD8 T cell dynamics following acute and chronic viral infections
Beni Sahai - A Basis for Immunological Protection from Death Upon Pandemic Influenza Infection
Robert Smith - Predicting the potential impact of a cyctotoxic T-lymphocyte HIV vaccine: how often should you vaccinate and how strong should the vaccine be?
Dominik Wodarz - HIV coinfection, immunity, and virus evolution in vivo

Mathematical Physics [PDF]

Twareque Ali - Berezin-Toeplitz operators and vector coherent states related to supersymmetric quantum mechanics
Rainer Dick - String and brane techniques for surface science and nanotechnology
Richard Froese - Absolutely continuous spectrum for discrete Schrödinger operators on tree like graphs
Stephen Gustafson - Schroedinger Flow and Landau-Lifshitz Dynamics
Nan-Kuo Ho - Yang-Mills connections on 2-manifolds
Eugene Kritchevski - Hierarchical Anderson Model
Karl-Peter Marzlin - Criteria for the Existence of Decoherence-free Subspaces
Marco Merkli - Infinite Products of Random Matrices and Repeated Interaction Dynamics
Rob Milson - Curvature homogeneous geometries
David Rowe - Quasi-symmetry, critical phenomena, and embedded representations
Cristina Stoica - Variational principles for systems with configuration space isotropy

Mathematics Education [PDF]

Dhavide Aruliah - Mathematics Learning Objects in Undergraduate Math Education
Jim Brookes - Internship opportunities for grad students and post docs
Rebeccah Marsh and Hong Miao
Panel Discussion - Panelists
Randall Pyke
J.F. Williams - On the hows, wheres and whys of Industrial Mathematics Education

Mathematics of Infectious Diseases [PDF]

Christopher Bowman
Fred Brauer - Epidemic models with heterogeneous mixing
Elamin Elbasha - Global dynamics of an HPV vaccination model
Hongbin Guo - Global Dynamics of a Staged Progression Model for Infectious Diseases with Amelioration
Mudassar Imran - The Pharmacodynamics of Antibiotic Treatment
Zack Jacobson - How does vaccination affect transient population dynamics?
Edward Lungu - Anti-Tuberculosis resistance in patients co-infected with HIV and TB
Tufail Malik - Microbial Quiescence, A Survival Strategy In Environmental Stress
Ronald Mickens - SIR Models with Ö{SI} Dynamics
Jeff Musgrave - An evaluation of control strategies for the HIV epidemic
Chandra Podder - Mathematical Analysis of a Model for Assessing the Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy, Voluntary Testing and Condom Use in Curtailing HIV
Timothy Reluga - Population Games for Epidemiology
Oluwaseun Sharomi - Mathematical Analysis of the Transmission Dynamics of HIV/TB Co-infection in the Presence of Treatment and Condom Use
Naveen Vaidya - Modeling, Analysis, and Contol of the HIV Epidemics in Far Western Nepal
James Watmough - The final size of an epidemic
Matthias Winter - Spikes for Biological Systems: The Role of Boundary Conditions

Model Theory and its Applications [PDF]

John Baldwin - Notions of Excellence
Paul Bankston - Chainability and Unidimensionality from a Model-Theoretic Perspective
Alf Dolich - Independence relations, universality, and SOP₄
Alina Duca - Description of the injective modules over a principal left and right ideal domain
Dragos Ghioca - A dynamical version of the Mordell-Lang Theorem
Bradd Hart - Group existence in simple continuous theories
Dierdre Haskell - Stable domination and algebraically closed valued fields
Ivo Herzog - Definable subspaces of finite dimensional representations
Thomas Kucera - Elementary Socles and Radicals
Salma Kuhlmann - Restricted Exponentiation in Fields of Algebraic Power Series
Chris Laskowski - Ideals of formulas, 2-cardinal models, and group existence
Rahim Moosa - A consequence of the canonical base property
Philipp Rothmaler - Cotorsion modules
Thomas Scanlon - Trivial types and rational dynamics
Patrick Speissegger - A reasonably tame Cantor set
Yevgeniy Vasilyev - Externally definable sets in simple structures

Network Algorithms [PDF]

Anthony Bonato - Models of the Web Graph
Mark Coates - Compressed Network Monitoring
Stefan Dobrev - Local Computation in Location-Aware Ad-Hoc Networks
George Karakostas - Selfish Routing with More than One Kinds of Users
Michel Paquette - Communication in Networks with Positively Correlated Faults
Yiqiang Q. Zhao - Tail Asymptotics and Block-Form Compensation Algorithm for Parallel Systems

Nonlinear Methods in Computational Mathematics [PDF]

A. Bass Bagayogo - Hybrid Octree Grid Based Method and Application to an Aircraft Geometry
Feng Dai - An inequality on m-term approximation by ultraspherical polynomials and its applications
Zeev Ditzian - Sharp Jackson inequalities
German Dzyubenko - Shape preserving approximation of periodic functions
Qiang Guo - Adaptive wavelet method for aerosol dynamic equation
Tom Hogan - Implications of design optimization on geometry generation in aerospace
Yingkang Hu - Global Optimization using hyperbolic cross points with application in clustering
Francisco-Javier Muñoz-Delgado - Optimal shape perserving linear operators with different types of data
Bojan Popov - L₁ approximations of Hamilton-Jacobi equations
Andriy Prymak - Ul'yanov-type inequality for bounded convex sets in R^d
Igor Shevchuk - Convex and coconvex polynomial approximation in the uniform norm
Ping Zhou - Newton's interpolation formula in study of multivariate functions

Quantum Information Theory [PDF]

Gilad Gour - Quantum Resource Theories and Super Selection Rules
Patrick Hayden - A reverse Shannon theorem for quantum broadcast channels
Debbie Leung - Approximate error correction
Aidan Roy - Weighted complex projective 2-designs from bases
Barry Sanders - Information-theoretic security for authenticated long-distance quantum key distribution with partial trust networks
Alain Tapp - Anonymous message transmission

Representations of Finite and Algebraic Groups [PDF]

Peter Campbell - K-types for principal series representations of GL(3)
Xueqing Chen - Quivers, Ringel-Hall Algebras and Lie Theory
Jaydeep Chipalkatti - The higher transvectants are redundant
Allen Herman - The Group of Ring Automorphisms of a Rational Group Algebra
Greg Lee - Nilpotent symmetric units in group rings
David McNeilly
Fernando Szechtman - Modular Reduction of the Steinberg Lattice of the General Linear Group
Qianglong Wen - Some Irreducible Characters of GL(2,Z/pⁿZ) and GL(3,Z/pⁿZ)

Resource Allocation Optimization [PDF]

Robert Benkoczi - Collection depots facility location problems
Harvey Greenberg - Quadratic Binary Progamming Models in Computational Biology
David Kirkpatrick - Bit-Thrifty Algorithms for Facility Location
Katta G. Murty - New Algorithm for Linear Inequalities, Linear Programs (LP), using no Matrix Inversions
Godfried Toussaint - Facility Location and Assignment Problems with Applications to Computational Musicology

Statistical Learning [PDF]

Loubna Benabbou - Generalization bounds for multiclass classifiers
Yoshua Bengio - On the Challenge of Learning Abstractions
Julie Carreau - Hybrid Pareto models for asymmetric fat-tailed data
Ali Ghodsi - An SVD-based approach to nonnegative matrix factorization
Nicolas Le Roux - Representational Power of Restricted Boltzmann Machines and Deep Belief Networks
Ruslan Salakhutdinov - Non-linear Dimensionality Reduction using Neural Networks
Dana Wilkinson - Learning Useful Subjective Representations

Contributed Papers [PDF]

Natalia Bryksina - On the number and stability of limit cycles in an SIR model with saturated incidence
Chuanbin Du - Efficient splitting and domain decomposition methods for time-dependent problems and the applications
Carolyn Huston - Finding the fish: Straying trends between BC Pacific herring (Clupea pallasi) populations
Cheng Liu - Stockwell Transform as the Instantaneous Frequency Estimator
Odile Marcotte - Average Distance and Maximum Induced Forest
Michael Skotiniotis - The Spekkens toy model Revisited
Iickho Song - On the number of partitions with the length fixed
Jie Sun - Descent constructions for central extensions of infinite dimensional Lie algebras
Tamas Terlaky - Polytopes & Arrangements: Diameter & Curvature
Hong Yue - A John-Nirenberg Type Inequality for Q(Rⁿ)
Hu Zhang - Minimizing the Number of Critical Vertices in Network Design

CMS-MITACS Joint Conference 2007

Abstracts - Grouped by Session