Scientific Sessions

By invitation of the Meeting Committee, there will be sessions in the following areas. The list of speakers is preliminary, and participants interested in delivering a talk in one of the sessions should contact one of the organizers of that session.

Algebraic Varieties with Group Actions
Org: Jaydeep Chipalkatti (Manitoba)

Megumi Harada (MacMaster), Colin Ingalls (UNB), Kiumars Kaveh (Toronto), Jochen Kuttler (Alberta), Hugh Thomas (UNB), Matthieu Willems (Toronto).

Banach Algebras and Abstract Harmonic Analysis
Org: Yong Zhang (Manitoba)

Yemon Choi (Manitoba), Constantin Costara (Laval), Brian Forrest (Waterloo), Niels Gronbaek (Copenhagen, Denmark), Zhiguo Hu (Windsor), Zinaida Lykova (Newcastle,UK), Tianxuan Miao (Lakehead), Matthias Neufang (Carleton), Chi-Keung Ng (Chern Inst. of Mathematics, Nankai Univ., China), Thomas Ransford (Laval), Zhong-Jin Ruan (Illinois - Urbana-Champaign), Ebrahim Samei (Waterloo), Nico Spronk (Waterloo), Ross Stokke (Winnipeg), Thomas V. Tonev (Montana-Missoula), Faruk Uygul (Alberta), Michael C. White (Newcastle, UK), Yong Zhang (Manitoba).

Complex Function Theory
Org: Ian Graham (Toronto) and Eric Schippers (Manitoba)

Roger Barnard (Texas Tech), Tom Bloom (Toronto), André Boivin (UWO), Maritza Branker (Niagara), Richard Fournier (CRM), David Herron (Cincinnati), Dan Jupiter (Texas A & M), Gabriela Kohr (Babes-Bolyai, Romania), Daniela Kraus (Würzburg, Germany), Javad Mashreghi (Laval), David Minda (Cincinnati), Jerry Muir Jr. (Scranton), Rajesh Pereira (Saskatchewan), John Pfaltzgraff (North Carolina - Chapel Hill), David Radnell (American Univ. of Sharjah, UAE), Thomas Ransford (Laval), Oliver Roth (Würzburg, Germany), Stephan Ruscheweyh (Würzburg, Germany), Alexander Solynin (Texas Tech), Ted Suffridge (Kentucky), Dror Varolin (Stony Brook), Brock Williams (Texas Tech).

Computer Algebra and Computer Algebra Systems
Org: Michael Monagan (SFU)

Oleg Golubitsky A (UWO), Howard Cheng (Lethbridge), Vahid Dabbaghian-Abdoly (SFU), Ron Ferguson (SFU), Mark Giesbrecht (Waterloo), Oleg Golubitsky B (UWO), Bryan Krawetz (MapleSoft), Scott MacLean (Waterloo), Matt Malenfant (UWO), Michael Monagan (SFU), Roman Pearce (SFU), Greg Reid (OWO), Allan Wittkopf (MapleSoft), Wenyuan Wu (UWO), Wei Zhou (Waterloo).

Finite Combinatorics
Org: Robert Craigen and David Gunderson (Manitoba)

Wayne Broughton (UBC Okanagan), Zoltan Furedi (Illinois-Urbana Champaign), Penny Haxell (Waterloo), Jonathan Jedwab (SFU), Hadi Kharaghani (Lethbridge), William Kocay (Manitoba), Vaclav Linek (Winnipeg), Dhruv Mubayi (Illinois-Chicago), Wendy Myrvold (Victoria), Ortrud Oellermann (Winnipeg), Ranganathan Padmanabhan (Manitoba), Bruce Reed (McGill), Douglas Stinson (Waterloo), Jacques Verstraete (Waterloo), Mieko Yamada (Kanazawa, Japan).

Mathematical Algorithms for Medical Imaging
Org: Sima Noghanian (Manitoba)

Jorge Alpuche (CancerCare Manitoba), Ali Ashtari (Manitoba), Homa Fashandi (Manitoba), Daniel Flores (Manitoba), Mickael Germain (Montréal), Colin Gilmore (Manitoba), Ian Jeffrey (Manitoba), Amir Meghdadi (Manitoba), Puyan Mojabi (Manitoba), Malcolm Ng (Manitoba), Barbara Pawlak (Manitoba), Abas Sabouni (Manitoba), Parimala Thulasiraman (Manitoba), Niranjan Venugopal (CancerCare Manitoba).

Mathematical Biology
Org: Gerda de Vries (Alberta) and Frithjof Lutscher (Ottawa)

Caroline Bampfylde (Alberta), Jacques Belair (Montreal), Luciano Buono (UOIT), Eric Cytrynbaum (UBC), Raluca Eftimie (Alberta), Kevin Hall (NIH, Washington DC), Frank Hilker (Alberta), Yu Jin (Memorial), Anmar Khadra (UBC), Frithjof Lutscher (Ottawa), Fahima Nekka (Montreal), Alex Potapov (Alberta), Robert Smith (Ottawa), Philippe Tracqui (IMAG, Grenoble, France), Rebecca Tyson (UBC-Okanagan), Allan Willms (Guelph).

Mathematical / Computational Finance
Org: Ruppa K. Thulasiram (Manitoba)

Raj Appadoo (Manitoba), Joe Campolieti (Wilfrid Laurier), Tahir Choulli (Alberta), Haohan Huang (York), Ali Lazrak (UBC), Alex Paseka (Manitoba), Luis Seco (Risk Lab), Liqun Wang (Manitoba), Xiaonan Wu (MUN).

Mathematical Immunology
Org: Beni Sahai (Cadham Provincial Laboratory) and Robert Smith (Ottawa)

Catherine Beauchemin (New Mexico), Daniel Coombs (UBC), Vitaly Ganusov (Utrecht, Netherlands), Beni Sahai (Cadham Provincial Laboratory), Robert Smith (Ottawa), Dominik Wodarz (California - Irvine).

Mathematical Physics
Org: Richard Froese (UBC) and Tom Osborn (Manitoba)

Twareque Ali (Concordia), Rainer Dick (Saskatchewan), Richard Froese (UBC), Stephen Gustafson (UBC), Nan-Kuo Ho (National Cheng Kung Univ., Taiwan), Eugene Kritchevski (McGill), Karl-Peter Marzlin (Calgary), Marco Merkli (Memorial), Rob Milson (Dalhousie), David Rowe (Toronto), Cristina Stoica (Wilfrid Laurier).

Mathematics Education
Org: Abba Gumel (Manitoba) and Randall Pyke (SFU)

"The Impact of Mathematics in Industry": One of the challenges universities are facing is in training mathematics students in relevant areas so as to prepare them for work in industry, as well as to attract more students into the mathematical sciences. These two issues are certainly related. The aim of this session is to identify what is being done now to bring together mathematics and industry, what role mathematics and mathematicians now have in industry, and to discuss what could be done to strengthen these ties.

Dhavide Aruliah (UOIT), Jim Brookes (MITACS), Rebeccah Marsh and Hong Miao (Alberta and Calgary), Panel Discussion, Randall Pyke (SFU), J.F. Williams (SFU).

Mathematics of Infectious Diseases
Org: Abba Gumel (Manitoba)

Christopher Bowman (Inst. for Biodiagnostics), Fred Brauer (UBC), Elamin Elbasha (Merck Inc.), Hongbin Guo (Alberta), Mudassar Imran (Arizona State), Zack Jacobson (Health Canada), Edward Lungu (Botswana), Tufail Malik (Arizona State), Ronald Mickens (Clark Atlanta), Jeff Musgrave (UNB), Chandra Podder (Manitoba), Timothy Reluga (Los Alamos National Lab.), Oluwaseun Sharomi (Manitoba), Naveen Vaidya (York), James Watmough (UNB), Matthias Winter (Brunel, UK).

Model Theory and its Applications
Org: Bradd Hart (McMaster), Thomas Kucera (Manitoba) and Rahim Moosa (Waterloo)

John Baldwin (Illinois - Chicago), Paul Bankston (Marquette University), Alf Dolich (Illinois - Chicago), Alina Duca (Manitoba), Dragos Ghioca (McMaster), Bradd Hart (McMaster), Dierdre Haskell (McMaster), Ivo Herzog (Ohio State; Lima), Thomas Kucera (Manitoba), Salma Kuhlmann (Saskatchewan), Chris Laskowski (Maryland), Rahim Moosa (Waterloo), Philipp Rothmaler (CUNY-Bronx), Thomas Scanlon (California - Berkeley), Patrick Speissegger (McMaster), Yevgeniy Vasilyev (Windsor).

Network Algorithms
Org: Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton)

Additional information on this session is available at http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~kranakis/IT/IT-07.html.

Anthony Bonato (Wilfrid Laurier), Mark Coates (McGill), Stefan Dobrev (Ottawa), George Karakostas (McMaster), Michel Paquette (Carleton), Yiqiang Q. Zhao (Carleton).

Nonlinear Methods in Computational Mathematics
Org: Kirill Kopotun (Manitoba)

A. Bass Bagayogo (Univ. College of Saint-Boniface), Feng Dai (Alberta), Zeev Ditzian (Alberta), German Dzyubenko (National Academy of Science, Ukraine), Qiang Guo (York), Tom Hogan (The Boeing Company), Yingkang Hu (Georgia Southern), Francisco-Javier Muñoz-Delgado (Universidad de Jaén, Spain), Bojan Popov (Texas A&M), Andriy Prymak (Alberta), Igor Shevchuk (Kyiv, Ukraine), Ping Zhou (St. Francis Xavier).

Quantum Information Theory
Org: Richard Cleve (Waterloo)

Gilad Gour (Calgary), Patrick Hayden (McGill), Debbie Leung (Waterloo), Aidan Roy (Calgary), Barry Sanders (Calgary), Alain Tapp (Montréal).

Representations of Finite and Algebraic Groups
Org: Gerald Cliff (Alberta) and Anna Stokke (Winnipeg)

Peter Campbell (Bristol, UK), Xueqing Chen (Wisconsin - Whitewater), Jaydeep Chipalkatti (Manitoba), Allen Herman (Regina), Greg Lee (Lakehead), David McNeilly (Alberta), Fernando Szechtman (Regina), Qianglong Wen (Alberta).

Resource Allocation Optimization
Org: Binay Bhattacharya and Abraham Punnen (SFU)

Robert Benkoczi (Queen's), Harvey Greenberg (Colorado), David Kirkpatrick (UBC), Katta G. Murty (Michigan), Godfried Toussaint (McGill).

Statistical Learning
Org: Yoshua Bengio (Montreal)

Loubna Benabbou (Laval), Yoshua Bengio (Montreal), Julie Carreau (Montreal), Ali Ghodsi (Waterloo), Nicolas Le Roux (Montreal), Ruslan Salakhutdinov (Toronto), Dana Wilkinson (Waterloo).