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• Algebraic Combinatorics
• Algebraic Geometry and Topology (Canada/Korea)
• Algebraic Group Actions and Invariant Theory
• Combinatorial Designs and Related Topics
• Financial Mathematics
• Geometric Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations
• Graph Searching
• Groups and Hopf Algebras
• History and Philosophy of Mathematics (CSHPM)
• History of the Relationship Between Mathematics and the Physical Sciences (CSHPM)
• Interactions between Algebraic Geometry and Ring Theory
• Mathematical Physics
• Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications
• Numeracy / Mathematics Education
• Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Operator Algebras
• Reaction-Diffusion Systems and Their Applications
• Topological Algebra, Topology, and Functional Analysis
• Contributed Papers

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Algebraic Combinatorics    [PDF]

• Robert Bailey - Metric dimension of distance-regular graphs
• Amy Glen - Abelian repetitions and crucial words
• Chris Godsil - Periodic Graphs
• John Irving - Another Look at Factorizations of Full Cycles
• Mahdad Khatirinejad - Optimal configuration of points in quaternionic projective spaces
• Huilan Li - Combinatorial Hopf algebras and Towers of Algebras-dimension, quantization, and functoriality
• Bill Martin - The ideal of a cometric association scheme
• Mike Newman
• Kevin Purbhoo - Visualizing type-E root systems
• Robert Raussendorf - Graph Theory and the hardness of classical simulation of quantum computation
• Aidan Roy - Minimal Euclidean representations of graphs
• Alyssa Sankey - Weighted strongly regular graphs associated with S₄(q)
• Simone Severini - Combinatorics of unitary matrices
• Martha Yip - Alcove walks and Macdonald polynomials

Algebraic Geometry and Topology (Canada/Korea)    [PDF]

• Alejandro Adem - Commuting Elements and Simplicial Spaces of Homomorphisms
• Hans Boden - Metabelian SL(n,C) representations of knot groups
• Patrick Brosnan - Essential dimension of gerbes over complete local rings
• Jae Choon Cha - Torsion in link concordance and Hirzebruch-type invariants from iterated p-covers
• Octav Cornea - Numerical Invariants for Lagrangian Submanifolds
• Joel Kamnitzer - Categorical sl(2) actions and equivalences of categories
• JongHae Keum - Rational homology projective planes
• Yong-Geun Oh - Seidel's long exact sequence on Calabi-Yau manifolds

Algebraic Group Actions and Invariant Theory    [PDF]

• Bram Broer - Modules of covariants in modular invariant theory
• Jianjun Chuai - Invariant Theory for Sub-representations
• Emilie Dufresne - Well-behaved separating algebras
• Alex Duncan - Finite Groups of Essential Dimension 2
• Jonathan Elmer - Depth and cohomological detection in invariant theory
• Jorge Ferreira - On Invariant Rings of Sylow Subgroups of Classical Groups
• Peter Fleischmann - On inhomogeneous modular invariants of finite groups
• Gene Freudenburg - Additive group actions associated to derivations of R[X,Y,Z] with a slice
• Julia Hartmann - A local global principle for algebraic group actions and applications
• Jia Huang - Linear Sparsity Groups and Their Polynomial Invariants
• Gregor Kemper - The computation of invariant fields
• Martin Kohls - The depth of invariants of (infinite) algebraic groups
• Nicole Lemire - Upper bounds for the Essential Dimension of a Moduli Stack of SL_n Bundles over a Curve
• Ugur Madran - On the invariants of non-abelian p-groups
• Annette Maier - Frobenius modules and Galois groups in positive characteristic
• Mufit Sezer - Constructing modular separating invariants
• Jim Shank - On the ring of invariants of the third symmetric power representation of SL(2,p)
• Peter Symonds - Regularity of invariant rings
• David Wehlau - First main theorems for SL₂(F_p) and C_p

Combinatorial Designs and Related Topics    [PDF]

• Cathy Baker - Extended near Skolem sequences: where are we now?
• Elizabeth J. Billington - Gregarious cycles: an antipodean update
• Iliya Bluskov - On Packing Designs
• Andrea Burgess - Cycle decompositions of 3K_m
• Peter Danziger - On bipartite 2-factorisations of K_n-I and the Oberwolfach problem
• William Martin - Roughly independent binary random variables
• Jim McQuillan - Desargues' theorem and related configurations
• Daniela Silvsan - The intersection spectrum of Skolem sequences and its applications to l-fold cyclic triple systems
• Brett Stevens - Octahedral Designs
• Steven Wang - Costas arrays and permutations with distinct difference property

Financial Mathematics    [PDF]

• Alex Badescu - Esscher Transforms and Consumption-Based Models
• Dervis Bayazit - Calculating sensitivities of options using Malliavin weights II
• Marcos Escobar - Quasi-closed-form solutions for some multidimensional derivatives
• Andrew Heunis - Mean-variance hedging with portfolio constraints and portfolio insurance
• Cody Hyndman - Evaluation of insurance participating policies
• Natasha Kirby - Using Real Options to Value an Ethanol Plant
• Reg Kulperger - Smooth Baseline Hazard Modelling for Corporate Exits
• Alexey Kuznetsov - To what extent do marginal distributions and correlations determine the prices of basket credit derivatives?
• Chantal Labbe - A simple discretization scheme for nonnegative diffusion processes, with applications in option pricing
• Craig Nolder - Calculating sensitivities of options using Malliavin weights I
• Marianito Rodrigo - A unified approach to explicit bond price solutions under a time-dependent affine term structure modelling framework
• François Watier - Mean-variance portfolio under a Heston volatility model

Geometric Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations    [PDF]

• Rauno Aulaskari - A non-a-normal function whose derivative has finite area integral of order less than 2/a
• Jingyi Chen - Lagrangian Mean Curvature flow for entire Lipschitz graphs
• Miroslav Englis - Hankel operators and the Dixmier trace
• David Hartenstine - Dual Brunn-Minkowski Inequality for (n-1)-Capacity
• Chin-Cheng Lin - Hardy spaces associated with Schrödinger operators on the Heisenberg group
• Paolo Salani - An overdetermined problem for a Finsler-Laplacian
• Xinwei Yu - On the Conserved Quantities of the 2D Surface Quasi-geostrophic Equation
• Denglin Zhou - Gaps in the ratios of the spectrum of Laplacians on fractals

Graph Searching    [PDF]

• Anthony Bonato - Cops and Robbers from a Distance
• Ehsan Chiniforooshan - When cops and robbers do not move on the same graph
• Nancy Clarke - Edge-Critical Cops and Robber
• Danny Dyer
• Art Finbow - Designing Resilient Graphs
• Stephen Finbow - Firefighting on K₄ minor free graphs
• Bert Hartnell - On Scheduling the Watchmen
• Jan Kratochvil - Who's gonna catch the Robber? And when?
• Margaret-Ellen Messinger - Parallel Cleaning of a Network with Brushes
• Richard Nowakowski - Cleaning with Sequential Brushes
• Pawel Pralat - Cleaning random d-regular graphs with brooms
• Boting Yang - Guarding graphs with small diameter

Groups and Hopf Algebras    [PDF]

• Eli Aljadeff - Specht Problem for G-graded Algebras
• Andreas Bächle - On torsion units in ZSz(q)
• Frauke Bleher - Universal deformation rings and group rings
• Stefaan Caenepeel - Cohomology of commutative Hopf algebroids
• Juan Cuadra - Computing the Brauer group of certain quasi-triangular Hopf algebras
• Florian Eisele - Algorithms for p-adic group rings
• Gaston García - Quantum Subgroups of GL_a,b(n)
• Allen Herman - The Rings of Generalized Groups
• Martin Hertweck - Units in integral group rings and Zassenhaus conjectures
• Eric Jespers
• Lars Kadison - Depth of a Subgroup
• Yevgenia Kashina - Applications of Frobenius-Schur indicators
• Christian Kassel - Invariant Drinfeld twists on group algebras
• Wolfgang Kimmerle - On group rings of finite simple groups
• Alexander Konovalov - On Orders of Torsion Units in Integral Group Rings of Sporadic Simple Groups
• Matthias Kuenzer - A Fourier-Hopf inversion and spectral sequences
• Aaron Lauve - Nichols algebras in positive characteristic
• Mitja Mastnak - Graded bialgebras and their deformations
• Jason McGraw - Gradings on the Cartan type Lie algebras
• Gabi Nebe - p-adic integral group rings
• Dmitry Nikshych - Burnside's pⁿ q^m theorem for Hopf algebras
• Jan Okninski - Algebras, groups and monoids determined by set-theoretic solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation
• Cesar Polcino Milies - Anticommutativity of symmetric and skew-symmetric elements in group rings
• David Radford - Complete Reducibility Theorems for Generalized Quantum Enveloping algebras
• Serban Raianu - The antipode of a co-Frobenius dual quasi-Hopf algebra is bijective
• Bahram Rangipour - Hopf algebras of transverse transverse symmetries, characteristic map and its generalizations
• Hans-Jürgen Schneider - Hopf algebras and root systems
• A. C. Souza-Filho - Free Groups in Quaternion Algebras

History and Philosophy of Mathematics (CSHPM)    [PDF]

• Bruce Burdick - Mathematics and Astrology in the Printed Works of the Americas before 1700
• Gregg de Young - Ziy¯ad¯at Literature: An Early Form of Commentary in the Arabic Euclidean Tradition
• Roger Godard - Some examples of eigenvalue problems in mathematical physics
• Hardy Grant - Eighteenth-century mathematics: the naysayers
• W. Jim Jordan - Structuralist Mirages on the Road from Antiquity: Why the Ancient Greek Mathematicians Were Not Mathematical Structuralists
• Gregory Lavers - Frege the conventionalist and Carnap the Fregean
• Michael Molinsky - The Mathematical Education of a Founding Father: John Adams
• Andrew Perry - Isaac Greenwood And The Earliest American Textbooks
• Bruce Petrie - Why Euler Didn't Prove the Irrationality of PI: A Chapter in the History of Transcendence
• V. Frederick Rickey - Choosing Department Heads at West Point
• Joel Silverberg - Nathaniel Torporley and his Diclides Coelometricae (1602)-A Preliminary Investigation
• Charlotte Simmons - Benjamin Gompertz: Pioneer of Actuarial Science
• J.J. Tattersall - A Late Nineteenth Century Mathematical Subculture
• Marina Vulis - Early Mathematics Russian Mathematics Textbooks
• Byron Wall - Some 19th century arguments for the rational assignment of probabilities for possible events in Nature
• Maria Zack - Robert Hooke and An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth from Observations

History of the Relationship Between Mathematics and the Physical Sciences (CSHPM)    [PDF]

• Amy Ackerberg-Hastings - John Playfair in the Natural Philosophy Classroom
• Tom Archibald - Henri Poincaré and the Rings of Saturn
• Menolly Lysne - Patronage and Laplace's Early Career.
• Robert Moir - The Conversion of Phenomena to Theory: Lessons on Applicability from the Early Development of Electromagnetism
• David Orenstein - Helen Hogg's Mathematical Methods for Variable Star Light Curves, in the Hercules Cluster, M13
• Josipa Petrunic - P. G. Tait's Engagements with Quaternion Analysis, 1880 to 1900

Interactions between Algebraic Geometry and Ring Theory    [PDF]

• Tom Cassidy - Quadratic algebras with Ext algebras generated in two degrees
• Larissa Horn - Tensor Products of Jacobson Rings
• Ellen Kirkman - Invariant Subrings of Regular Algebras under Hopf Algebra Actions
• Ed Letzter - Detecting Infinitely Many Irreducible Representations in a Fixed Finite Dimension
• Shiping Liu - The Auslander-Reiten theory in a triangulated category
• Martin Lorenz - Algebraic group actions on noncommutative spectra
• Bahram Rangipour - Duality in Hopf cyclic cohomology of x-Hopf algebras
• David Saltman - Ramification in Bad Characteristics
• Agata Smoktunowicz - Makar-Limanov's conjecture on free subalgebras
• Ashish Srivastava - A New Characterization of Right Noetherian Rings
• Hugh Thomas - Faithfulness of braid group actions on derived categories
• Hokuto Uehara - Fourier-Mukai numbers of minimal elliptic rational surfaces
• Michaela Vancliff - Graded Skew Clifford Algebras

Mathematical Physics    [PDF]

• Ivan Booth - Supersymmetric isolated horizons
• Richard Froese - Absolutely continuous spectrum for a random potential on a tree with strong transverse correlations and large weighted loops
• Gilad Gour - On the additivity conjecture in quantum information
• Cody Holder - Liouvillian Quasinormal Modes of Black Holes
• Richard Lavine - Time of Decay in Quantum Mechanics
• Karl-Peter Marzlin - Moyal phase-space analysis of nonlinear optical Kerr media
• Marco Merkli - Evolution of entanglement and coherence
• Dmitry Pelinovsky - Asymptotic stability of small bound states in the discrete NLS equation
• Tuoc V. Phan - Stable Directions for Degenerate Excited States of Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations
• Yvan Saint-Aubin - Critical exponents for the homotopy of Fortuin-Kasteleyn clusters on a torus
• Roman Smirnov - Hamilton-Jacobi theory in Minkowski space via Cartan geometry
• Reinel Sospedra - Global classical solutions to the 3D relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system with bounded spatial density
• Shannon Starr - CLT in the Annealed Region of the Diluted Mean-Field Spin Glass
• Holger Teismann - Controllability of nonlinear Schrödinger equations
• Fred Ting - Multi-Vortex Pinning to Ginzburg-Landau equations with External Potential in the Plane
• Robert van den Hoogen - Parallel Transport, Non-local Calculus, and the Smoothing of Spacetime
• Buks van Rensburg - Monte Carlo Sampling of Self-Avoiding Walks and Polygons
• Vitali Vougalter - Solvability conditions for some non-Fredholm operators
• Eric Woolgar - The Ricci flow and Bartnik's quasi-local mass

Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications    [PDF]

• Jacques Belair - Delays and stability in pharmacodynamic modeling
• Elena Braverman - Break of Chaos in Dynamical Systems: Scalar and Spatial Models
• Guihong Fan - Hopf Bifurcation in a Delayed Predator Prey Model in the Chemostat
• Abba Gumel - Mathematics of Chlamydia Transmission Dynamics
• Mudassar Imran - Pharmacology of Antibiotic Treatment
• Majid Jaberi-Douraki - Dynamics of a higher order non-autonomous difference equation
• Luju Liu - A tuberculosis model with migration
• Junling Ma - Disease spread on contact networks
• Tufail Malik - A Model of Photoacclimation in Phytoplankton with Optimal Resource Allocation
• Jonathan Martin - Curve Evolutions and Forest Fires
• Connell McCluskey - Global Stability for Epidemic Models with Delay
• Chunhua Ou - Food chain length in a chemotactic bio-reactor model
• Marion Weedermann - Coupled chemostat with nutrient chain and internal inhibition: a dynamic model for methanogenesis
• Gail Wolkowicz - Competition in the presence of a virus in an aquatic system
• Yuan Yuan - Bogdanov-Takens Singularity in Van der Pol's Oscillator with Delayed Feedback
• Zhiyong Zhang - Asymptotic behavior of dissipative system with different constant end states
• Xiaoqiang Zhao - A Climate-Based Malaria Transmission Model with Age-structure
• Huaiping Zhu - Epidemic Models for Complex Networks with Demographics
• Xingfu Zou - Impact of map dynamics on the dynamics of the associated delay reaction diffusion equation with Neumann condition

Numeracy / Mathematics Education    [PDF]

• Daniel Ansari - Numeracy and Arithmetic in the brain: the roles of development and individual differences
• Jeff Bisanz - Detours in the Development of Mathematical Thinking
• Peter Bryant - The importance of understanding the inverse relation between addition and subtraction
• Site Visit to Math Learning Centre
• Garry Davis - Avoiding Hangdog Mathematics
• Darcy Hallett - The implications of symbolic systems and non-symbolic systems in fraction understanding
• John Mighton - The Importance of Teaching Math to Children
• Terezinha Nunes - The scheme of correspondence and its role in understanding relations
• Helena Osana - Understanding Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching: An Examination of the Content Knowledge of First-Grade Teachers
• Panel Discussion
• Michael Rabinowitz - Nim, Human Learning, and Teaching Mathematics

Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing    [PDF]

• Jahrul Alam - A multi-level adaptive numerical method for nonlinear boundary value problems
• John Bowman - A Fully Lagrangian Advection Scheme for Dirichlet Boundary Conditions
• Sharene Bungay - Topological Indices for Chemical Structure Identification
• Marina Chugunova - Dynamics of a viscous incompressible fluid on the outer surface of a rotating cylinder
• Ronald Haynes - Adaptive Space-Time Methods for Differential Equations
• Shahadat Hossain - The CPR Method and Beyond
• Nicholas Kevlahan - Shock generated vorticity in the interstellar medium and the origin of the stellar initial mass function
• Serpil Kocabiyik - A fixed-grid model for simulation of a moving body in free surface flows
• Wenyuan Liao - Robust HOC schemes for Burgers' equation with high Reynolds number
• Jeff M. McNally - A Parallel Solution for Diagonally Dominant Pentadiagonal Toeplitz Linear Systems
• Dali Zhang - Padé approximation for identification of Q-factor of a viscoelastic medium

Operator Algebras    [PDF]

• Serban Belinschi - Free infinite divisibility for the classical normal distribution
• Man-Duen Choi - What sort of non-commutative analysis is needed in quantum computing?
• Ken Davidson - Semicrossed products of the non-commutative disc algebra
• Andrew J. Dean - Classification of C^*-dynamical systems
• George Elliott - Some remarks on classification
• Claus Koestler - Noncommutative independence and characters of the infinite symmetric group
• Greg Maloney - Tilings, continued fractions, and C^*-algebras
• Gordon McDonald
• Marco Merkli - Repeated interaction quantum systems
• James A. Mingo - Higher order freeness
• Fernando Mortari - Tracial state spaces of higher stable rank simple C^*-algebras
• Matthias Neufang - The intrinsic group of a locally compact quantum group
• Zhuang Niu - Lifting KK-elements, asymptotical unitary equivalence and the classification of simple C^*-algebras
• Vladimir Pestov - Non-isomorphic C^* algebras with isomorphic unitary groups
• Bahram Rangipour - Index Theory, past, present, and future
• Leonel Robert - Classification of homomorphisms from C₀(0,1] to a C^*-algebra
• Luis Santiago - Classification of non-simple C^*-algebras using the Cuntz semigroup
• Michael Sigal - On quantum, stationary, non-equilibrium states
• Keith Taylor - Wavelets with Crystal Symmetries
• Aaron Tikuisis - The Cuntz Semigroup for Commutative C^*-algebras
• Maria Grazia Viola - A simple, separable, exact C^*-algebra non-isomorphic to its opposite algebra
• Dilian Yang - Endomorphisms and Modular Theory of 2-Graph C^*-Algebras
• Beatriz Zamora-Aviles - Analytic P-ideals of B (H)⁺ _{£ 1}

Reaction-Diffusion Systems and Their Applications    [PDF]

• Dave Amundsen - Symmetry breaking and pattern formation in a model for neural development
• Thomas Hillen - Merging and Emerging Patterns in Chemotaxis
• Huaxiong Huang - Models for Bread Baking: Moisture Transport and Diffusive Instability
• David Iron - Dynamics of a Two-Spike Solution to the Gierer-Meinhard System in Two-Dimensions
• Mei Ming - Stability of travelling waves for time-delayed reaction-diffusion equations
• Dmitry Pelinovsky - Advection-diffusion equations with sign-varying diffusion
• Michael Ward - Diffusion on a Sphere with Localized Traps: Mean First Passage Time, Eigenvalue Asymptotics, and Fekete Points
• Zou Xingfu - Co-invasion waves of a reaction diffusion model for competing pioneer and climax species
• Zhiyong Zhang - A analysis of a biosensor model
• Xiao-Qiang Zhao - Monotone Wavefronts for Partially Degenerate Reaction-Diffusion Systems

Topological Algebra, Topology, and Functional Analysis    [PDF]

• Max Burke - Large cross sections through sets in Euclidean spaces
• Tadeusz Dobrowolski - Refining the Linear Structure of non-AR Linear Space
• Alan Dow - Countable spaces and connectifications
• Stefan Geschke - A forcing dichotomy for closed graphs on Polish spaces
• Salvador Hernandez - Duality methods in topological abelian groups
• Neil Hindman - An elementary proof that commutative semigroups satisfy the strong Folner condition
• Dan Kucerovsky - Weyl-von Neumann
• Matthias Schröder - Topology in Computable Analysis
• Juris Steprans - Subgroups of the symmetric group on the integers
• Murat Tuncali - Remarks on Countable Rank Maps
• Ed Tymchatyn - Extending Isotopies of Planar Continua
• Beatriz Zamora-Aviles - Gaps in the poset of projections of the Calkin Algebra

Contributed Papers    [PDF]

• Peter Booth - On the Classification of 3-stage Postnikov Towers
• Canan Bozkaya - Computation of flow past a cylinder beneath of a free surface
• Dennis D.A. Epple - The Bichromatic number of a graph
• Kseniya Garaschuk - Rational decompositions of graphs