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.

Aperiodic Order
Org: Elaine Beltaos and Nicolae Strungaru (Grant MacEwan)

James Currie (Winnipeg), George Elliott (Toronto), Natalie Frank (Vassar), Jeong-Yup Lee (Kwandong, Korea), Robert Moody (Victoria), Ian Putnam (Victoria), Narad Rampersad (Liege, Belgium), Christoph Richard (Erlangen, Germany), Lorenzo Sadun (Texas).

Applicable Harmonic Analysis and Approximation Theory
Org: Bin Han (Alberta)

Twareque Ali (Concordia), Elena Braverman (Calgary), Feng Dai (Alberta), Zeev Ditzian (Alberta), Miroslav Englis (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic), Jean-Pierre Gabardo (McMaster), Bin Han (Alberta), Kirill Kopotun (Manitoba), Ming-Jun Lai (Georgia), Andriy Prymak (Manotoba), Keith Taylor (Dalhousie), Ozgur Yilmaz (UBC).

Asymptotic Geometric Analysis and Convex Geometry
Org: Alexander Litvak, Nicole Tomczak-Jaegerman and Vlad Yaskin (Alberta)

David Alonso-Gutierrez (Alberta), Ferenc Fodor (Szeged), Peter Pivovarov (Texas A&M), Alina Stancu (Concordia), Viktor Vigh (Calgary).

Banach Spaces and Operators Between Them
Org: Edward Odell (Texas), Thomas Schlumprecht (Texas, A&M) and Vladimir Troitsky (Alberta)

Razvan Anisca (Lakehead), Qingying Bu (Mississippi), Gerard Buskes (Mississippi), Hülya Duru (Istanbul, Turkey), Daniel Freeman (Texas A&M), Robb Fry (Thompson Rivers), Arkady Kitover (Community College of Philadelphia), Coenraad Labuschagne (Witwatersrand, South Africa), Chris Lennard (Pittsburg), Denny Leung (National U. of Singapore), Timur Oikhberg (UC-Irvine), Mehmet Orhon (New Hampsire), Alexey Popov (Alberta), Haskell Rosenthal (Texas), Anton Schep (South Carolina), Eigeniu Spinu (Alberta), Bentuo Zheng (Memphis).

Combinatorial Matrix Theory
Org: Shaun Fallat (Regina) and Kevin N. Vander Meulen (Redeemer College)

Wayne Barrett (BYU), Michael Cavers (Calgary), Louis Deaett (Victoria), Randy Elzinga (RMC), Shaun Fallat (Regina), Yi Zheng Fan (Regina), Chris Godsil (Waterloo), In-Jae Kim (Minnesota), Zhongshan Li (Georgia), Judi McDonald (Washington), Karen Meagher (Regina), Vladimir Nikiforov (Memphis), Dale Olesky (Victoria), Pauline van den Driessche (Victoria), Kevin Vander Meulen (Redeemer).

Computational Toric Geometry
Org: Charles Doran (Alberta), Andrey Novoseltsev (Alberta) and William Stein (Washington)

Tristram Bogart (MSRI; San Francisco State), Vincent Bouchard (Alberta), Volker Braun (Dublin Inst. for Advanced Studies), Charles Doran (Alberta), Andrey Novoseltsev (Alberta), Ursula Whitcher (Harvey Mudd College).

Dynamical Systems
Org: Arno Berger and Hao Wang (Alberta)

Arno Berger (Alberta), Christopher Bose (Victoria), Yongfeng Li (USRA, Houston), William Mance (Ohio State), James Muldowney (Alberta), Cecilia Gonzalez Tokman (Victoria), Hao Wang (Alberta).

Geometry and Physics
Org: Vincent Bouchard and Charles Doran (Alberta)

Kai Behrend (UBC), Volker Braun (Dublin Inst. for Advanced Studies), Freddy Cachazo (Perimeter Institute), Benoit Charbonneau (Waterloo), Jacques Hurtubise (McGill), Lisa Jeffrey (Toronto), Spiro Karigiannis (Waterloo), Olivier Marchal (Alberta), Brendan McLellan (Alberta), Stefan Mendez-Diez (Alberta), Andrey Novoseltsev (Alberta), Natalia Saulina (Perimeter Institute).

Homotopy and Categories
Org: Pieter Hofstra (Ottawa), George Peschke (Alberta) and Dorette Pronk (Dalhousie)

Kristine Bauer (Calgary), Ryan Budney (Victoria), Robin Cockett (Calgary), Martin Frankland (Illinois - Urbana-Champaign), Rick Jardine (Western), Gábor Lukács (Manitoba), Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine (Dalhousie), Michael Makkai (McGill), Bob Paré (Dalhousie), Emily Riehl (Chicago), Laura Scull (Fort Lewis College), Jeff Smith (UBC), Don Stanley (Regina), Claire Tomesch (Chicago), Michael Warren (Dalhousie).

L-Functions and Number Theory
Org: Clifton Cunningham and Mathew Greenberg (Calgary)

Alina Bucur (UC - San Diego), Michael Coons (Waterloo), Michael Dewar (Queen's), Brandon Fodden (Lethbridge), Leo Goldmakher (Toronto), Hester Graves (Queen's), Nathan Jones (Mississippi), Dimitris Koukoulopoulos (CRM), Matilde Lalin (Montréal), Xiannan Li (Stanford), Charles Samuels (UBC), Ethan Smith (CRM), Matthew Smith (UBC), Frank Thorne (Stanford), Tim Trudgian (Lethbridge).

Lie Theory
Org: Terry Gannon and Nicolas Guay (Alberta)

Katrina Barron (Notre-Dame), Yuly Billig (Carleton), Erik Carlsson (Northwestern), Scott Carnahan (IPMU), Gerald Cliff (Alberta), Clifton Cunningham (Calgary), Ivan Dimitrov (Queen's), Alex Feingold (SUNY-Binghamton), Jacob Greenstein (UC-Riverside), Michael Lau (Laval), Frantisek Marko (Pennsylvania State - Hazleton), Erhard Neher (Ottawa), Juana Sanchez Ortega (U. of Malaga, Spain), Arturo Pianzola (Alberta), Marina Tvalavadze (Saskatchewan).

Mathematical Finance
Org: Tahi Choulli and Alexander Melnikov (Alberta)

Carole Bernard (Waterloo), Christoph Frei (Alberta), Cody Hyndman (Concordia), Alexey Kuznetsov (York), Nadia Massoud (York), Don McLeish (Waterloo), Tom Salisbury (York), Martin Schweizer (ETH, Zurich), Anatoliy Swishchuk (Calgary), Aerambamoorthy Thavaneswaran (Manitoba).

Mathematics Education
Org: Tiina Hohn (Grant MacEwan)

Cristina Anton (MacEwan), Pamini Thangarajah, Roberta La Haye (Mount Royal), Judith Rioux-Wilson (Catholic School Board of Education), SNAP Math Fair (Andy Liu and the Math Club), Nicolae Strungaru (MacEwan).

New Mathematical Tools for the Modeling of Cellular Processes
Org: Thomas Hillen (Alberta)

Dana Cobzas (Alberta), Adriana Dawes (Alberta), Gerda de Vries (Alberta), Peter Hinow (Winsconsin), John Loewengrub (UC - Irvine), Zhian Wang (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.).

Operator Algebras
Org: Berndt Brenken (Calgary), George Elliott (Toronto) and Cristian Ivanescu (Alberta)

Serban Belinschi (Saskatchewan), Julian Buck (Francis Marion U.,), Man-Duen Choi (Toronto), Ken Davidson (Waterloo), Valentin Deaconu (Nevada), Andrew Dean (Lakehead), George Elliott (Toronto), Doug Farenick (Regina), Cristian Ivanescu (MacEwan; Alberta), David Kerr (Texas A&M), Brady Killough (Mount Royal Univ. Calgary), Michael Lamoureux (Calgary), Frederic Latremoliere (Denver), Terry Loring (New Mexico), Jamie Mingo (Queen's), Nishan Charitha Mudalige (Guelph), Bogdan Nica (Victoria), Zhuang Niu (Memorial), Ian Putnam (Victoria), Mike Whittaker (Wollongong, Australia).

Turbulent Flow and its Mathematical Foundations
Org: John C. Bowman and Xinwei Yu (Alberta)

Luke Blackbourn (St. Andrews), John Bowman (Alberta), David Dritschel (St. Andrews), Evelyn Lunasin (Michigan), Phil Morrison (Texas - Austin), Malcolm Roberts (Alberta), Chuong Van Tran (St. Andrews), Xinwei Yu (Alberta), Zhichun Zhai (Alberta).