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 Combinatorics
Org: Christophe Hohlweg and Franco Saliola (UQAM)

Jean-Christophe Aval (Bordeaux I), Roland Berger (St Etienne), François Bergeron (UQAM), Nantel Bergeron (York), Jean Berstel (Marne-la-Vallée), Valérie Berthé (Lirmm, Montpellier), James Currie (Winnipeg), François Descouens (Fields Intitute), Christian Kassel (CNRS, Louis Pasteur), Jean-Louis Loday (CNRS, Louis Pasteur), Frédéric Patras (CNRS, Nice Sophia Antipolis), Kevin Purbhoo (Waterloo), Christophe Reutenauer (UQAM), Ralf Schiffler (Amherst), Hugh Thomas (UNB), Laurent Vuillon (LAMA, Chambéry).

Algebraic Groups and Related Topics
Org: Philippe Gille (CNRS-ENS, Paris) and Zinovy Reichstein (UBC)

Patrick Brosnan (UBC), Vladimir Chernousov (Alberta), Ajneet Dhillon (Western), Mathieu Florence (Paris VI), Skip Garibaldi (Emory), Julia Gordon (UBC), Nikita Karpenko (Paris VI), Daniel Krashen (Pennsylvania), Jochen Kuttler (Alberta), Ahmed Laghribi (Lens), Jan Minac (Western), Arturo Pianzola (Alberta), Anne Quéguiner-Mathieu (Paris XIII), Nicolas Ressayre (Montpellier II), Rupert Yu (Poitiers).

Algebraic Topology
Org: Alejandro Adem (UBC) and Bob Oliver (Paris XIII)

Kai Behrend (UBC), Ryan Budney (Victoria), Jose Maria Cantarero (UBC), Vincent Franjou (Nantes), Gregory Ginot (Paris VI), Veronique Godin (Harvard), Pierre Guillot (Strasbourg), Rick Jardine (Western), Sadok Kallel (Lille), Muriel Livernet (Paris XIII), Andrew Nicas (McMaster), Jeff Smith (UBC), Bruno Vallette (Nice), Christine Vespa (Lausanne).

Analytic Number Theory
Org: Philippe Michel (Montpellier) and Ram Murty (Queen's)

Amir Akbary (Lethbridge), Michael Bennett (UBC), Michael Coons (SFU), John Friedlander (Toronto), Greg Martin (UBC), Christian Mauduit (Méditerranée, Marseille), Kumar Murty (Toronto), Guillaume Ricotta (Bordeaux), Joel Rivat (Marseille), Damien Roy (Ottawa), Emmanuel Royer (Clermont-Ferrand), Kaneenika Sinha (Toronto), Thomas Stoll (Vienna University of Technology), Jie Wu (Nancy).

Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory
Org: Gaëtan Chenevier (CNRS, Paris XIII) and Henri Darmon (McGill)

Laurent Berger (ENS Lyon III), Olivier Brinon (Paris XIII), François Brunault (ENS Lyon), Pierre Charollois (Institut Math. Jussieu), Christophe Cornut (Institut Math. Jussieu), Chantal David (Montréal), Wentang Kuo (Waterloo), Yu-Ru Liu (Waterloo), Adriano Marmora (Strasbourg), David McKinnon (Waterloo), Kumar Murty (Toronto), Rachel Ollivier (ENS Paris), Marusia Rebolledo (Blaise Pascal, Cermont-Ferrand II), Vinayak Vatsal (UBC), Olivier Wittenberg (CNRS, Louis Pasteur).

Automorphic Forms
Org: Stephen Kudla (Toronto) and Colette Moeglin (CNRS-IMJ)

Ioan Badulescu (Poitiers), Pascal Boyer (Jussieu), Pierre-Henri Chaudouard (Orsay), Clifton Cunningham (Calgary), Francois Dat (Paris XIII), Brooke Feigon (Toronto), Paul Mezo (Carleton), Sophie Morel (IAS), Fiona Murnaghan (Toronto), Marc Hubert Nicole (Jussieu), Vincent Secherre (Marseille).

Complex Analysis and Operator Theory
Org: Emmanuel Fricain (Lyon), Javad Mashreghi (Laval) and Thomas Ransford (Laval)

Catalin Badea (Lille), Frédéric Bayart (Bordeaux), Chafiq Benhida (Lille), André Boivin (Western), Alexander Borichev (Marseille), Michel Crouzeix (Rennes), Ken Davidson (Waterloo), Omar El-Fallah (Rabat), Richard Fournier (Dawson College; Montréal), Emmanuel Fricain (Lyon), Sophie Grivaux (Lille), Karim Kellay (Marseille), Stanislas Kupin (Marseille), Laurent Marcoux (Waterloo), Mohamed Zarrabi (Bordeaux).

Complex Dynamical Systems
Org: Xavier Buff (Toulouse), Tan Lei (Cergy-Pontoise) and Misha Lyubich (Toronto)

Magnus Aspenberg (Warsaw), François Berteloot (Toulouse), Ilia Binder (Toronto), Xavier Buff (Toulouse), Serge Cantat (Rennes), Laura Demarco (Chicago), Bob Devaney (Boston), Jeremy Kahn (SUNY Stony Brook), Volker Mayer (Lille), Kevin Pilgrim (Indiana), Roland Roeder (Toronto), Pascale Roesch (Toulouse), Vladlen Timorin (Bremen), Misha Yampolsky (Toronto).

Financial Mathematics
Org: Tom Salisbury (York)

Wael Bahsoun (Manchester), Matt Davison (Western), Tom Hurd (McMaster), Felix Kan (Western), Alexey Kuznetsov (UNB), Alexander Melnikov (Alberta), Vladimir Surkov (Toronto), Anatoly Swishchuk (Calgary).

Geometric and Nonlinear Analysis
Org: Pengfei Guan (McGill) and Emmanuel Hebey (Cergy)

Vestislav Apostolov (UQAM), Olivier Druet (ENS Lyon), Ailana Fraser (UBC), Colin Guillarmou (Nice), Niky Kamran (McGill), Spiro Karigiannis (Oxford; Waterloo), Olivier Ley (Tours), Junfang Li (McGill), Frederic Robert (Nice), Jean-Marc Schlenker (Toulouse), Alina Stancu (Concordia), McKenzie Wang (McMaster), Jie Xiao (Memorial).

Industrial Fluid Mechanics
Org: Neil Balmforth (UBC), Jean Frédéric Gerbeau (INRIA) and Bertrand Maury (Paris Orsay)

Bruno Despres (CEA), Miguel Fernandez (INRIA), Ian Frigaard (UBC), Jean-Frédéric Gerbeau (INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt), Serguei Iakovlev (Dalhousie), Dong Liang (York), Yvon Maday (Paris VI), Bertrand Maury (Paris-Sud), Peter Minev (Alberta), Bijan Mohammadi (Montpellier II), Nilima Nigam (McGill), Jean-Luc Thiffeault (Wisconsin), Martin Vohralik (Paris VI), Brian Wetton (UBC).

Kinetic Methods in Partial Differential Equations
Org: François Castella (Rennes) and Reinhard Illner (Victoria)

Naoufel Ben Abdallah (Toulouse), Martial Agueh (Victoria), Guillaume Bal (Columbia), Nassif Ghoussoub (Vancouver), Thierry Goudon (Lille), Frederic Herau (Reims), Reinhard Illner (Victoria), Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin (Nice), Boualem Khouider (Victoria), Antoine Mellet (UBC), Paul Milewski (Madison), Marjolaine Puel (Toulouse), Pierre Raphael (Toulouse), Catherine Sulem (Toronto).

Mathematics Education
Org: Michèle Artigue (Paris) and Bernard Hodgson (Laval)

Monday: Undergraduate mathematics teaching and secondary-tertiary transition (M. Rogalski, K. Taylor, V.D. Guerrier, M. Lovric); Tuesday: Technology and the teaching/learning of mathematics (L. Trouche, C. Laflamme, C. Buteau, C. Cazes); Wednesday: The mathematical education of teachers of mathematics (E. Simmt, N. Bopp, W. Whiteley, A. Robert); Thursday: Attracting students towards mathematics: the role of mathematicians (V. Hussin, J.-M. De Koninck, D. Grenier and F. Sauvageot).

Nicole Bopp (IRMA; IUFM d'Alsace), Chantal Buteau (Brock), Claire Cazes (Paris VI), Jean-Marie De Koninck (Laval), Denise Grenier and François Sauvageot (IJF, Grenoble and LJL, Nantes), Viviane Durand Guerrier (LIRDHIST; IUFM Lyon), Véronique Hussin (Montréal), Claude Laflamme (Calgary), Miroslav Lovric (McMaster), Aline Robert (DIDIREM; IUFM Versailles), Marc Rogalski (Lille), Elaine Simmt (Alberta), Keith Taylor (Dalhousie), Luc Trouche (INRP), Walter Whiteley (York).

Model Theory and Applications to Geometry
Org: Zoé Chatzidakis (CNRS) and Patrick Speissegger (McMaster)

Salih Azgin (McMaster), Luc Bélair (UQAM), Franck Benoist (Leeds), Elisabeth Bouscaren (Paris-Sud), Françoise Delon (Paris VII), Andreas Fischer (Saskatchewan), Eric Jaligot (Lyon), Gareth O. Jones (McMaster), T. G. Kucera (Manitoba), Salma Kuhlmann (Saskatchewan), Olivier Le Gal (Rennes), François Loeser (Ecole Normale Supérieure), Amador Martin-Pizarro (Lyon), Mickael Matusinski (Saskatchewan), Rahim Moosa (Waterloo), Alexandre Rambaud (Paris VII).

Non-Commutative Geometry and K-Theory for Operator Algebras
Org: Alain Connes (Collège de France; IHES), George Elliott (Toronto) and Andrew Toms (York)

Teodor Banica (Paul Sabatier), Julien Bichon (Blaise Pascal), Etienne Blanchard (Jussieu), Paulo Carrillo (Jussieu), Benoit Collins (Ottawa), Claire Debord (Blaise Pascal), George Elliott (Toronto), Heath Emerson (Victoria), Thierry Giordano (Ottawa), Maria-Paula Gomez-Aparicio (Jussieu), Benoit Jacob (Paris VII), Masoud Khalkhali (Western), Raphael Ponge (Toronto), Ian Putnam (Victoria), Leonel Robert (Fields Institute), Andrew Toms (York).

Nonlinear Dynamics in Life Sciences
Org: Jaques Bélair (Montréal), Pascal Chossat (CIRM-Marseille), Fahima Nekka (Montréal) and Jianhong Wu (York)

Julien Arino (Manitoba), Alain Arneodo (ENS Lyon), Henri Berestycki (EHESS Paris), Sue Ann Campbell (Waterloo), Troy Day (Queen's), Free Discussion, Olivier Faugeras (INRIA Sophia Antipolis), Bastien Fernandez (Méditerranée, Marseille), Régis Ferrière (ENS Paris), Jun Li (Montréal), André Longtin (Ottawa), Elisabeth Pécou (Nice Sophia-Antipolis), Huaiping Zhu (York), Xingfu Zou (Western).

Numerical Analysis for Hyperbolic Systems
Org: Paul Arminjon (Montréal), Marc Laforest (Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal) and Emmanuel Lorin (UOIT)

Paul Arminjon (Montréal), Bruno Desprès (Paris VI), Jean-Michel Ghidaglia (ENS Cachan), Pauline Godillon-Lafitte (Lille I), Barbara Keyfitz (Houston; Fields Institute), Boualem Khouider (Victoria), Lilia Krivodonova (Waterloo), Frédéric Lagoutière (Paris VII), Nathalie Lanson (Waterloo), Philippe G. LeFloch (Paris VI), Frédéric Pascal (ENS Cachan), Dominik Schötzau (UBC), Marie-Odette St-Hilaire (Lockheed-Martin, Montréal).

Partial Differential Equations
Org: Henri Berestycki (Paris) and Robert Jerrard (Toronto)

Lia Bronsard (McMaster), James Colliander (Toronto), Walter Craig (McMaster), Maria Esteban (CNRS-Paris Dauphine), Nassif Ghoussoub (UBC), Emmanuel Grenier (ENS, Lyon), Stephen Gustafson (UBC), Francois Hamel (Paul Cezanne, Marseille), Yvan Martel (Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), Gregoire Nadin (ENS, Paris), Pierre Raphael (Toulouse), Jean-Michel Roquejoffre (Toulouse), Alexander Shnirelman (Concordia), Michael Sigal (Toronto).

Probability
Org: Martin Barlow (UBC), J.F. Le Gall (Paris XI-ENS), Edwin Perkins (UBC) and Wendelin Werner (Paris Orsay)

Jean Bertoin (Paris VI), Francis Comets (Paris VII), Don Dawson (Carleton), Jean-François Delmas (Paris-Est), Benjamin Doyon (Durham, UK), Alison Etheridge (Oxford), Antal Jarai (Carleton), Mike Kozdron (Regina), Neal Madras (York), Gregory Miermont (Paris XI), Pierre Nolin (Paris XI), Denis Sezer (York), Alain Sznitman (ETH Zurich).

Scientific Computing
Org: Christine Bernardi (CNRS-Paris VI), Anne Bourlioux (Montréal) and Brian Wetton (UBC)

Mohammed Amara (Pau), Faker Ben Belgacem (Technologie de Compiègne), Zakaria Belhachmi (Metz), Adel Blouza (Paris VI), André Fortin (Laval), Frédéric Hecht (Paris VI), Nicholas Kevlahan (McMaster), Boualem Khouider (Victoria), Emmanuel Lorin (UOIT), Bertrand Maury (Paris XI), Bijan Mohammadi (Montpellier), Serge Nicaise (Valenciennes), Nilima Nigam (McGill), Steve Ruuth (SFU), Dominik Schoetzau (UBC), John Stockie (SFU).

Set Theory and its Applications
Org: Alain Louveau (Paris VI) and Stevo Todorcevic (Toronto; Paris Dauphine)

Maxim Burke (PEI), Ilijas Farah (York), Vera Fischer (York), Claude Laflamme (Calgary), Dominique Lecomte (Paris VI), Pierre Matet (Caen), Julian Melleray (Lyon), Vladimir Pestov (Ottawa), Juris Steprans (Fields Institute), Asger Tornquist (Toronto).

Statistics
Org: Yannick Baraud (Nice) and Boris Levit (Queen's)

Sylvain Arlot (Paris-Sud Orsay), Prof Miklós Csörgö (Carleton), Arnak Dalalyan (Paris VI), Elisabeth Gassiat (Paris Sud), Christophe Giraud (Nice Sophia-Antipolis), Hanna Jankowski (York; Washington), Joseph Johnson (Queen's), Peter Kim (Guelph), Keith Knight (Toronto), Oleg Lepski (Provence-Marseille), Boris Levit (Queen's), Jim Ramsey (McGill), Patricia Reynaud-Bouret (ENS-Paris), Muni Shanker Srivastava (Toronto), Gilles Stoltz (Ecole normale supérieure), Jean-Philippe Vert (Ecole des Mines de Paris).

Stochastic Processes in Evolution, Ecology and Genetics
Org: Don Dawson (Carleton) and Sylvie Méléard (Ecole Polytéchnique-Paris X)

Julien Beresticky (Marseille), Nicolas Champagnat (Antibes), Shui Feng (McMaster), Olivier François (Grenoble), Amaury Lambert (Paris), Nicolas Lanchier (Rouen), Sabin Lessard (Montréal), Edwin Perkins (UBC), Lea Popovic (Concordia), David Steinsaltz (Queen's), Xiaowen Zhou (Concordia).

Symplectic and Contact Geometry
Org: Emmanuel Giroux (CNRS-ENS Lyon) and Yael Karshon (Toronto)

Denis Auroux (MIT), Jean-François Barraud (Lille), Patrick Bernard (CEREMADE, Paris-Dauphine), Paul Biran (Tel-Aviv), Basak Gürel (Montréal), Megumi Harada (McMaster), Samuel Lisi (Stanford), Klaus Niederkrüger (Lyon), Alexandru Oancea (Strasbourg), Martin Pinsonnault (Montréal), Jean-Yves Welschinger (Lyon).

Topology, Knots and Related Fields
Org: Michael Boileau (Toulouse) and Steven Boyer (UQAM)

Hans Boden (McMaster), Ryan Budney (Victoria), Olivier Collin (UQAM), Pierre Derbez (Provence, Marseille), Paolo Ghiggini (CalTech), François Gueritaud (DMA; ENS), Cyril Lecuire (Paul Sabatier, Toulouse), Christine Lescop (Grenoble I), Melissa Macasieb (UBC), Sylvain Maillot (Louis Pasteur; CNRS), Julien Marché (Paris VI), Luisa Paoluzzi (Bourgogne), Dale Rolfsen (UBC), Genevieve Walsh (Tufts), Bert Wiest (CNRS, Rennes), Dani Wise (McGill).

Variational and Numerical Methods in Geometry, Physics and Chemistry
Org: Lia Bronsard (McMaster), Eric Cances (ENPC) and Maria J. Esteban (CNRS-Paris Dauphine)

Stan Alama (McMaster), Christophe Besse (Lille), Xavier Blanc (Paris VI), Rustum Choksi (SFU), Erwan Faou (INRIA, Rennes), Nassif Ghoussoub (UBC), Stephen Gustafson (UBC), Bernard Helffer (Paris Sud-Orsay), Robert L. Jerrard (Toronto), Mathieu Lewin (Cergy-Pontoise), Dmitry Pelinovski (McMaster), Etienne Sandier (Paris XII, Créteil), Didier Smets (Paris VI), Eric Sonnendrucker (Strasbourg), Tai-Peng Tsai (UBC), Marie Helene Vignal (Toulouse).

Women in Mathematics
Org: Maritza Branker (Niagara), Barbara Keyfitz (Fields Institute) and Marie-Françoise Roy (Rennes)

Ivana Alexandrova (East Carolina), Amal Amleh (St. Mary's), Michele Artigue (Paris), Christine Bernardi (CNRS-Paris), Laurence Broze (Lille), Zoe Chatzidakis (CNRS Paris), Sara Faridi (Dalhousie), Valerie Girardin (Caen), Penny Haxell (Waterloo), Yael Karshon (Toronto), Barbara Lee Keyfitz (Fields Institute; Houston), Rachel Kuske (UBC), Fahima Nekka (Montréal), Panel Discussion, Maryam Verdian Rizi (SFU).