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: Li Li and Alex Yong (Illinois - Urbana-Champaign)

Andrew Berget (Minnesota), Ian Goulden (Waterloo), Christophe Hohlweg (UQAM), Kurt Luoto (Washington), Leonardo Mihalcea (Duke), Gregg Musiker (MIT), Nathan Reading (North Carolina State), Luis Serrano (Michigan - Ann Arbor), Kelli Talaska (Michigan - Ann Arbor), Peter Tingley (MIT), Henning Ulfarsson (Reykjavik), David Wagner (Waterloo).

Algebraic Geometry, Non-commutative Algebra and Derived Categories
Org: Colin Ingalls (UNB)

Chris Brav (Toronto), Pinar Colak (SFU), Michele D'Adderio (UC-San Diego), Ken Goodearl (UC-Santa Barbara), Ed Green (Virginia Polytechnic Inst.), Ellen Kirkman (Wake Forest), Basil Nanayakkara (UNB), Adam Nyman (Western Washington), David Saltman (Institute for Defense Analyses), Gordana Todorov (Northeastern), Hokuto Uehara (Tokyo Metropolitan, Japan), Xiande Yang (UNB).

Discrete Geometry
Org: Barry Monson (UNB) and Egon Schulte (Northeastern)

Leah Berman (Alaska-Fairbanks), Karoly Bezdek (Calgary), Ted Bisztriczky (Calgary), Ana Breda (Aveiro, Portugal), Antonio Breda (Aveiro, Portugal), Robert Dawson (Saint Mary's), Wendy Finbow-Singh (Saint Mary's), Mark Mixer (Northeastern), Barry Monson (UNB), Joy Morris (Lethbridge), Elissa Ross (York), Egon Schulte (Northeastern), Asia Weiss (York), Walter Whiteley (York), Gordon Williams (Alaska-Fairbanks).

Error Control Codes, Information Theory, and Applied Cryptography
Org: Tim Alderson (UNB - Saint John)

Aiden A. Bruen (Calgary), Trevor Bruen (St. Francis Xavier), Peter Dukes (Victoria), Frederic Edoukou (Nanyang Technological U. Singapore), Anwar Hasan (Waterloo), Michael Jacobson (Calgary), David Jao (Waterloo), Petr Lisonek (SFU), Michele Mosca (Waterloo), Monica Nevins (Ottawa), Daniel Panario (Carleton), Pradeep Sarvepalli (UBC), Renate Scheidler (Calgary), Eric Schost (Western), Francesco Sica (Calgary), Brett Stevens (Carleton), Dmitri Truhachev (Alberta), Ruizhong Wei (Lakehead).

Geometric and Combinatorial Aspects of Convex Optimization
Org: David Bremner (UNB)

Karoly Bezdek (Calgary), David Bremner (UNB), Michael Burr (NYU), Dan Chen (Carleton), Antoine Deza (McMaster), William Hua (McMaster), Edward Kim (UC Davis), Conor Meagher (McGill), Megan Owen (North Carolina State), Gabor Pataki (North Carolina), Diane Souvaine (Tufts), Csaba Toth (Calgary), Christophe Weibel (McGill), Henry Wolkowicz (Waterloo).

Geometric Topology
Org: Ryan Budney (Victoria) and Andy Nicas (McMaster)

Thomas Baird (Oxford; Memorial), Steve Boyer (UQAM), Ryan Budney (Victoria), Virginie Charette (Sherbrooke), Kiyoshi Igusa (Brandeis), Brian Munson (Wellesley), John Olsen (Rochester), Hugo Parlier (Toronto), Alexandra Pettet (Michigan), Liam Watson (UCLA).

Graph Theory
Org: Stephen Finbow (St. Francis Xavier) and Shannon Fitzpatrick (UPEI)

Anthony Bonato (Ryerson), Richard Brewster (Thompson Rivers), Nancy Clarke (Acadia), Art Finbow (Saint Mary's), Ortho Flint (Western), Bert Hartnell (Saint Mary's), Penny Haxell (Waterloo), William Kocay (Manitoba), Jessica McDonald (SFU), Margaret-Ellen Messinger (Ryerson), David Pike (Memorial), Asiyeh Sanaei (Memorial).

Group Actions and Their Invariants
Org: H E A Eddy Campbell (UNB), Jianjun Chuai (MUN) and David Wehlau (RMC; Queen's)

Harm Derksen (Michigan), Emilie Dufresne (Heidelberg), Jonathan Elmer (Queen Mary, UK), Gene Freudenberg (Western Michigan), Frank Grosshans (West Chester), Loek Helminck (North Carolina State), Harlan Kadish (Michigan), Gregor Kemper (Munich), Martin Kohls (Munich), Ugur Madran (Izmir Univ. of Economics, Turkey), Mufit Sezer (Bilkent), R. James Shank (Canterbury), David Wehlau (RMC; Queen's).

Inverse Problems in Partial Differential Equations
Org: Adrian Nachman (Toronto)

Guillaume Bal (Columbia), Allan Greenleaf (Rochester), Eldad Haber (UBC), Michael Lamoureux (Calgary), Shari Moskow (Drexel), Petri Ola (Helsinki, Finland), Mikko Salo (Helsinki, Finland), Benjamin Stephens (Washington), Alex Tamasan (Central Florida), Leo Tzou (Stanford).

Mathematical Ecology and Epidemiology
Org: Lin Wang and James Watmough (UNB)

Fred Brauer (UBC), Jiguo Cao (SFU), Guihong Fan (York), Meredith L. Greer (Bates), Abba Gumel (Manitoba), Hongbin Guo (York), Daihai He (McMaster), Jane Heffernan (York), David Iron (Dalhousie), Majid Jaberi-Douraki (UNB), Yu Jin (Alberta), Jing Li (Ottawa), Michael Li (Alberta), Yijun Lou (Memorial), Justine Gunog Seo (Ottawa), Robert Smith? (Ottawa), Shaun Strohm (UBC-Okanagan), Chengjun Sun (Manitoba), Hui Wan (York), Lin Wang (UNB), James Watmough (UNB), Brad Willms (Bishop's), Gail Wolkowicz (McMaster), Jianhong Wu (York).

Mathematical Perspectives on Quantum Theory and Gravity
Org: Jack Gegenberg and Viqar Husain (UNB)

Glenn Barnich (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Juliane Behrend (St. Francis Xavier), Ivan Booth (Memorial), Johan Brannlund (Dalhousie), Golam Hossain (UNB), Andreas Kreienbuehl (UNB), Hari Kunduri (Alberta), Gabor Kunstatter (Winnipeg), Tomas Liko (Penn State), Robert Mann (Waterloo), Robert Milson (Dalhousie), David Rideout (Perimeter), Kristen Schleich (UBC), Sanjeev Seahra (UNB), Don Witt (UBC), Eric Woolgar (Alberta).

Mathematics Education
Org: John Grant McLoughlin (UNB), Eric Robert (Leo Hayes HS), Alyssa Sankey (UNB) and Maureen Tingley (UNB)

Themes: Interdisciplinary approaches to first year science and/or engineering programmes; and use of online assignment and assessment packages (such as WebAssign or MathXL)in first year courses. If you have found innovative ways to work with students in their first year, or perhaps have tried new approaches that don't work, we invite you to submit a proposal for a short talk.

Maritza Branker (Niagara), Malgorzata Dubiel (SFU), Discussion, Facilitator: Jennifer Hyndman, Mark Mac Lean (UBC), Tina Rapke (Calgary), Karen Rhea (Michigan), Ami Mamolo, Peter Taylor (Queen's), Daryl Tingley (UNB).

Noncommutative Geometry
Org: Bahram Rangipour (UNB)

Paul Baum (Pennsylvania State), Margaret Beattie (Mount Allison), George Elliott (Toronto), Farzad Fathizadeh (Western), Alexander Gorokhovsky (Colorado-Boulder), Piotr M. Hajac (Warsaw, Poland), Mohammad Hassanzadeh (Western), Max Karoubi (Université Diderot; Paris 7, France), Ulrich Kraehmer (Glasgow, Scotland), Tomasz Maszczyk (Warsaw, Poland), Arash Pourkia (Western), Georgy Sharigyn (ITEP, Moscow), Reza G. Shoushtari (UNB), Andrzej Sitarz (Jagiellonian U., Poland), Piotr Soltan (Warsaw, Poland), Serkan Sutlu (UNB), Zhizhang Xie (Ohio State), Bartosz Zielinski (Warsaw, Poland).

Representation Theory of Algebras
Org: Ibrahim Assem (Sherbrooke), Thomas Brüstle (Sherbrooke; Bishop’s) and Shiping Liu (Sherbrooke)

Ibrahim Assem (Sherbrooke), Frauke Bleher (Iowa), Thomas Brüstle (Sherbrooke), Juan Carlos Bustamante (U. San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador), Grégoire Dupont (Sherbrooke), Ed Green (Virginia Tech), Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann (UC Santa Barbara), Kiyoshi Igusa (Brandeis), Mark Kleiner (Syracuse), Patrick Le Meur (ENS, France), Frantisek Marko (Penn State), Charles Paquette (Sherbrooke), Yvan Saint-Aubin (Montréal), Ralf Schiffler (Connecticut), Gordana Todorov (Northeastern), Sonia Trepode (U. Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina), Helene Tyler (Manhattan College).

Spectral Methods in the Analysis of Differential Equations
Org: Almut Burchard and Marina Chugunova (Toronto)

Paul Binding (Calgary), Almut Burchard (Toronto), Marina Chugunova (Toronto), Yufang Hao (Waterloo), Illia Karabash (Calgary), Choi Man-Duen (Toronto), Angelo Mingarelli (Carleton), Boris Mityagin (Ohio State), Gideon Simpson (Toronto), Hans W. Volkmer (Wisconsin-Milwaukee).

Stability in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
Org: Stephen Gustafson (UBC) and Dmitry Pelinovsky (McMaster)

Bernardo Galvao-Sousa (McMaster), Stephen Gustafson (UBC), Slim Ibrahim (Victoria), Kay Kirkpatrick (Courant Inst.), Eduard Kirr (Illinois), Eva Koo (UBC), Qiuping Lu (Centro de Modelamiento Matematico, U. de Chile), Dmitry Pelinovsky (McMaster), Patrick Reynolds (Queen's), Anton Sakovich (McMaster), Gideon Simpson (Toronto), Holger Teismann (Acadia), Fridolin Ting (Lakehead), Vitali Vougalter (York).

Tensor Categories
Org: Robert Paré (Dalhousie)

Margaret Beattie (Mount Allison), Marta Bunge (McGill), Geoff Cruttwell (Calgary), Jeff Egger (Edinburgh), Peter Freyd (University of Pennsylvania), Pieter Hofstra (Ottawa), Toby Kenney (Dalhousie), Fred Linton (Wesleyan), Michael Makkai (McGill), Octavio Malherbe (Ottawa), Micah McCurdy (Macquarrie), Susan Niefield (Union), Bob Paré (Dalhousie), Dorette Pronk (Dalhousie), Brian Redmond (Calgary), Robert Rosebrugh (Mount Allison), Phil Scott (Ottawa), Robert Seely (McGill), Michael Shulman (Chicago), Michael Warren (Ottawa), Richard Wood (Dalhousie).