Abstracts - Plenary, Prize and Public Lectures

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• Plenary Speakers
• 2011 Adrien Pouliot Award
• Coxeter-James Prize
• Excellence in Teaching Award Lecture
• Krieger-Nelson Prize Lecture
• Public Lecture

Plenary Speakers    [PDF]

• Dror Bar-Natan - Meta-Groups, Meta-Bicrossed-Products, and the Alexander Polynomial
• Lisa Jeffrey - Equivariant K-theory of the based loop group of SU(2)
• Marius Junge - From Bell inequalities to the Grothendieck program in Operator Algebras
• Ulrike Tillmann - Manifolds and Topological Field Theory
• Margaret Walshaw - Characteristics of effective teaching for diverse mathematics learners

2011 Adrien Pouliot Award    [PDF]

• Malgorzata Dubiel - Mathematics for Elementary Teachers – The Most Important Course You Can Teach?

Coxeter-James Prize    [PDF]

• Greg Smith - Polytopes and Syzygies

Excellence in Teaching Award Lecture    [PDF]

• Veselin Jungic - The Blended Learning Approach to Teaching a Calculus Class: What May Change and What Should Stay the Same

Krieger-Nelson Prize Lecture    [PDF]

• Ailana Fraser - An eigenvalue problem and minimal surfaces in the ball

Public Lecture    [PDF]

• John Fyfe - Mathematics and Climate Change