CMS/SMC
CMS/CSHPM Summer Meeting 2009
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, June 6 - 8, 2009 www.cms.math.ca//Events/summer09
Sessions        

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: Steve Kirkland and Karen Meagher (Regina)

Robert Bailey (Carleton), Amy Glen (Reykjavik, Iceland), Chris Godsil (Waterloo), John Irving (St. Mary's), Mahdad Khatirinejad (SFU), Huilan Li (UQAM), Bill Martin (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Mike Newman (Ottawa), Kevin Purbhoo (Waterloo), Robert Raussendorf (UBC), Aidan Roy (Calgary), Alyssa Sankey (UNB), Simone Severini (Waterloo), Martha Yip (Wisconsin).

Algebraic Geometry and Topology (Canada/Korea)
Org: Alejandro Adem (UBC) and Jong Hae Keum (KIAS)

Additional funding provided by PIMS and CMS.

Alejandro Adem (UBC, PIMS), Hans Boden (McMaster), Patrick Brosnan (UBC), Jae Choon Cha (Postech-Pohang Univ. of Science and Tech), Octav Cornea (Montréal), Joel Kamnitzer (Toronto), JongHae Keum (KIAS), Yong-Geun Oh (Wisconsin-Madison).

Algebraic Group Actions and Invariant Theory
Org: Eddy Campbell (Memorial), Juanjun Chuai (Memorial) and David Wehlau (RMC; Queen's)

Bram Broer (Montréal), Jianjun Chuai (Memorial), Emilie Dufresne (Heidelberg), Alex Duncan (UBC), Jonathan Elmer (Aberdeen), Jorge Ferreira (Kent), Peter Fleischmann (Canterbury), Gene Freudenburg (Western Michigan), Julia Hartmann (RWTH Aachen University), Jia Huang (Minnesota), Gregor Kemper (Munich), Martin Kohls (Technische Univ. München), Nicole Lemire (Western), Ugur Madran (Izmir University of Economics, Turkey), Annette Maier (RWTH Aachen University), Mufit Sezer (Bilkent), Jim Shank (Canterbury), Peter Symonds (Manchester), David Wehlau (Royal Military College).

Combinatorial Designs and Related Topics
Org: Václav Linek (Winnipeg) and Nabil Shalaby (Memorial)

Cathy Baker (Mount Allison), Elizabeth J. Billington (Queensland), Iliya Bluskov (UNBC), Andrea Burgess (Ottawa), Peter Danziger (Ryerson), William Martin (Worcester Polytechnic Inst.), Jim McQuillan (Western Illinois), Daniela Silvsan (Memorial), Brett Stevens (Carleton), Steven Wang (Carleton).

Financial Mathematics
Org: Cody Hyndman (Concordia) and Rogemar Mamon (Western)

Alex Badescu (Calgary), Dervis Bayazit (Florida State), Marcos Escobar (Ryerson), Andrew Heunis (Waterloo), Cody Hyndman (Concordia), Natasha Kirby (Western), Reg Kulperger (Western), Alexey Kuznetsov (York), Chantal Labbe (HEC Montréal), Craig Nolder (Florida State), Marianito Rodrigo (ITAM, Mexico), François Watier (UQAM).

Geometric Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations
Org: Jie Xiao (Memorial)

Rauno Aulaskari (Joensuu, Finland), Jingyi Chen (UBC), Miroslav Englis (Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic), David Hartenstine (Western Washington), Chin-Cheng Lin (National Central Univ., Taiwan), Paolo Salani (Firenze, Italy), Xinwei Yu (Alberta), Denglin Zhou (Waterloo).

Graph Searching
Org: Anthony Bonato (Ryerson), Danny Dyer (Memorial) and Gary McGillivray (Victoria)

Anthony Bonato (Ryerson), Ehsan Chiniforooshan (Concordia), Nancy Clarke (Acadia), Danny Dyer (Memorial), Art Finbow (Saint Mary's), Stephen Finbow (St. Francis Xavier), Bert Hartnell (Saint Mary's), Jan Kratochvil (Charles Univ., Prague), Margaret-Ellen Messinger (Montana), Richard Nowakowski (Dalhousie), Pawel Pralat (Dalhousie), Boting Yang (Regina).

Groups and Hopf Algebras
Org: Yuri Bahturin (Memorial), Margaret Beattie (Mount Allison), Eric Jespers (VUB, Belgium), Wolfgang Kimmerle (Stuttgart, Germany), Mikahil Kotchetov (Memorial), David Radford (Illinois), Sudarshan Sehgal (Alberta) and Earl Taft (Rutgers)

This session is organized in conjunction with the International Workshop on Groups and Hopf Algebras; talks scheduled for June 3-5 are part of the workshop and require a separate registration. Details are available at http://www.math.mun.ca/~aac

Eli Aljadeff (Technion, Israel), Andreas Bächle (Stuttgart, Germany), Frauke Bleher (Iowa), Stefaan Caenepeel (Vrije Univ. Brussel, Belgium), Juan Cuadra (Almeria, Spain), Florian Eisele (Aachen), Gaston García (Cordoba, Spain), Allen Herman (Regina), Martin Hertweck (Stuttgart, Germany), Eric Jespers (VUB, Belgium), Lars Kadison (Pennsylvania), Yevgenia Kashina (DePaul), Christian Kassel (Strasbourg; CNRS, France), Wolfgang Kimmerle (Stuttgart, Germany), Alexander Konovalov (St. Andrews, Scotland), Matthias Kuenzer (Aachen, Germany), Aaron Lauve (Texas A&M), Mitja Mastnak (Saint Mary's), Jason McGraw (Memorial), Gabi Nebe (Aachen, Germany), Dmitry Nikshych (New Hampshire), Jan Okninski (Warsaw, Poland), Cesar Polcino Milies (São Paulo, Brazil), David Radford (Illinois-Chicago), Serban Raianu (California State), Bahram Rangipour (UNB-Fredericton), Hans-Jürgen Schneider (Munich, Germany), A. C. Souza-Filho (Sao Paulo, Brazil).

History and Philosophy of Mathematics (CSHPM)
Org: Tom Drucker (Wisconsin-Whitewater)

Bruce Burdick (Roger Williams Univ.), Gregg de Young (American Univ., Cairo, Egypt), Roger Godard (Royal Military College), Hardy Grant (York), W. Jim Jordan (Waterloo), Gregory Lavers (Concordia), Michael Molinsky (Maine), Andrew Perry (Springfield College), Bruce Petrie (Toronto), V. Frederick Rickey (United States Military Academy), Joel Silverberg (Roger Williams Univ.), Charlotte Simmons (Central Oklahoma), J.J. Tattersall (Providence College), Marina Vulis (Norwalk Community College; CUNY), Byron Wall (York), Maria Zack (Point Loma Nazarene Univ.).

History of the Relationship Between Mathematics and the Physical Sciences (CSHPM)
Org: Tom Archibald (SFU)

Amy Ackerberg-Hastings (U. Maryland; UC), Tom Archibald (SFU), Menolly Lysne (SFU), Robert Moir (Western), David Orenstein, Josipa Petrunic (Edinburgh;Toronto).

Interactions between Algebraic Geometry and Ring Theory
Org: Jason Bell (SFU) and Colin Ingalls (UNB)

Tom Cassidy (Bucknell), Larissa Horn (Wake Forest Univ.), Ellen Kirkman (Wake Forest Univ.), Ed Letzter (Temple Univ.), Shiping Liu (Sherbrooke), Martin Lorenz (Temple Univ.), Bahram Rangipour (UNB), David Saltman (Texas-Austin), Agata Smoktunowicz (Edinburgh, UK), Ashish Srivastava (St. Louis), Hugh Thomas (UNB-Fredericton), Hokuto Uehara (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.), Michaela Vancliff (UT Arlington).

Mathematical Physics
Org: Marco Merkli and Chris Radford (Memorial)

Ivan Booth (Memorial), Richard Froese (UBC), Gilad Gour (Calgary), Cody Holder (Alberta), Richard Lavine (Rochester), Karl-Peter Marzlin (St. Xavier), Marco Merkli (Memorial), Dmitry Pelinovsky (McMaster), Tuoc V. Phan (UBC), Yvan Saint-Aubin (Montréal), Roman Smirnov (Dalhousie), Reinel Sospedra (Victoria), Shannon Starr (Rochester), Holger Teismann (Acadia), Fred Ting (Lakehead), Robert van den Hoogen (St. Francis Xavier), Buks van Rensburg (York), Vitali Vougalter (York), Eric Woolgar (Alberta).

Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications
Org: Gail Wolkowicz (McMaster), Yuan Yuan (Memorial) and Xiaoqiang Zhao (Memorial)

Jacques Belair (Montréal), Elena Braverman (Calgary), Guihong Fan (York), Abba Gumel (Manitoba), Mudassar Imran (McMaster), Majid Jaberi-Douraki (UNB), Luju Liu (China), Junling Ma (Victoria), Tufail Malik (Mount Allison), Jonathan Martin (Alberta), Connell McCluskey (Wilfrid Laurier), Chunhua Ou (Memorial), Marion Weedermann (Dominican, USA), Gail Wolkowicz (McMaster), Yuan Yuan (Memorial), Zhiyong Zhang (Alberta), Xiaoqiang Zhao (Memorial), Huaiping Zhu (York), Xingfu Zou (Western).

Numeracy / Mathematics Education
Org: Sherry Mantyka (Memorial) and Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network (CLLRNet)

This session is organized in conjunction with the Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network (CLLRNet). Further information is available here.

Daniel Ansari (Psychology, Western), Jeff Bisanz (Psychology, Alberta), Peter Bryant (Psychology, Oxford Brookes, UK), Site Visit to Math Learning Centre, Garry Davis (Evan Hardy Collegiate, Saskatoon Public School Division), Darcy Hallett (Psychology, Memorial), John Mighton (Fields Institute), Terezinha Nunes (Oxford; UK), Helena Osana (Concordia), Panel Discussion, Michael Rabinowitz (Psychology, Memorial).

Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
Org: Jahrul Alam (Memorial) and Wenyuan Liao (Calgary)

Jahrul Alam (Memorial), John Bowman (Alberta), Sharene Bungay (Memorial), Marina Chugunova (Toronto), Ronald Haynes (Acadia), Shahadat Hossain (Lethbridge), Nicholas Kevlahan (McMaster), Serpil Kocabiyik (Memorial), Wenyuan Liao (Calgary), Jeff M. McNally (Saint Francis Xavier), Dali Zhang (Calgary).

Operator Algebras
Org: Andrew J. Dean (Lakehead), George Elliott (Toronto) and Marco Merkli (Memorial)

Serban Belinschi (Saskatchewan), Man-Duen Choi (Toronto), Ken Davidson (Waterloo), Andrew J. Dean (Lakehead), George Elliott (Toronto), Claus Koestler (St. Lawrence), Greg Maloney (Toronto), Gordon McDonald (UPEI), Marco Merkli (Memorial), James A. Mingo (Queen's), Fernando Mortari (Toronto), Matthias Neufang (Carleton; Fields), Zhuang Niu (Oregon), Vladimir Pestov (Ottawa), Bahram Rangipour (UNB), Leonel Robert (York; Fields), Luis Santiago (Fields), Michael Sigal (Toronto), Keith Taylor (Dalhousie), Aaron Tikuisis (Toronto), Maria Grazia Viola (Lakehead), Dilian Yang (Windsor), Beatriz Zamora-Aviles (York).

Reaction-Diffusion Systems and Their Applications
Org: David Iron (Dalhousie), Theodore Kolokolnikov (Dalhousie) and Chunhua Ou (Memorial)

Dave Amundsen (Carleton), Thomas Hillen (Alberta), Huaxiong Huang (York), David Iron (Dalhousie), Mei Ming (Chaplain; McGill), Dmitry Pelinovsky (McMaster), Michael Ward (UBC), Zou Xingfu (Western), Zhiyong Zhang (Alberta), Xiao-Qiang Zhao (Memorial).

Topological Algebra, Topology, and Functional Analysis
Org: Alex Karassev (Nipissing), Gábor Lukács (Manitoba) and Paul Szeptycki (York)

Max Burke (UPEI), Tadeusz Dobrowolski (Pittsburg State), Alan Dow (UNC-Charlotte), Stefan Geschke (Hausdorff Center, Bonn; Boise State), Salvador Hernandez (Univ. Jaume I, Spain), Neil Hindman (Howard), Dan Kucerovsky (UNB), Matthias Schröder (Universität der Bundeswehr, Munich, Germany), Juris Steprans (York; Fields), Murat Tuncali (Nipissing), Ed Tymchatyn (Saskatchewan), Beatriz Zamora-Aviles (York).

Event Sponsors

Memorial University of Newfoundland    AARMS: Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences    Centre de recherches mathématiques Fields Institute MITACS Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network

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