CMS/SMC
2012 CMS Summer Meeting
Regina Inn and Ramada Hotels (Regina~Saskatchewan), June 2 - 4, 2012 www.cms.math.ca//Events/summer12
Schedules        

Schedules - By Session

Detailed session schedules will be posted on the web site beginning in late October. Once the schedules are made available to us by the organizers, we will post them as quickly as possible. Please note that schedules are subject to change without notice.

The plenary and public lectures, registration, exhibits, social events, and coffee breaks are located at the Regina Inn. The scientific talks take place at the Regina Inn and the Ramada Hotel ("RH").

Cluster Algebras and Related Topics
Org: Ralf Schiffler (Connecticut) and Hugh Thomas (UNB)
 
Saturday June 2  (Wascana A)
10:30 - 11:20 Kiyoshi Igusa (Brandeis), Distinguished triangles in continuous cluster categories.
14:00 - 14:50 Adam-Christian van Roosmalen (Regina), Cluster categories associated to new hereditary categories
16:15 - 16:55 Lucas David-Roesler (Connecticut), Representation theory using surfaces
17:00 - 17:40 Dylan Rupel (Oregon), Quantum Cluster Characters via Hall-Ringel Algebras
 
Sunday June 3  (Wascana A)
8:00 - 8:50 Michael Gekhtman (Notre Dame), Cremmer-Gervais Cluster Algebras
9:00 - 9:50 Max Glick (Michigan), Singularity confinement for the pentagram map
14:00 - 14:50 Vasilisa Shramchenko (Sherbrooke), Cluster automorphisms
16:15 - 17:05 Gordana Todorov (Northeastern), Morphisms detemined by objects.
 
Monday June 4  (Wascana A)
8:00 - 8:50 Kyungyong Lee (Wayne State), Positivity in rank 2 cluster algebras
9:00 - 9:50 Gregg Musiker (Minnesota), Graph theoretical formulas for certain periodic quivers
14:00 - 14:50 Ibrahim Assem (Sherbrooke), On the first Hochschild cohomology group of a cluster-tilted algebra
15:00 - 15:50 Juan Carlos Bustamante, Hochschild cohomology and the derived class of $m$-cluster tilted algebras of type $\mathbb{A}$
 
Combinatorics
Org: Karen Meagher (Regina) and Marni Mishna (SFU)
 
Saturday June 2  (Kenosee)
10:00 - 10:25 Brett Stevens (Carleton), Linear feedback shift registers and covering arrays
10:30 - 10:55 Amy Wiebe (SFU), Golay sequence and array pairs
11:00 - 11:25 Peter Dukes (Victoria), Intersections of Latin Squares
14:00 - 14:25 Michael Cavers (Calgary), Graphs with large distinguishing chromatic number
14:30 - 14:55 Robert Bailey (Regina), Metric dimension of distance-regular graphs: an update
16:15 - 16:40 Ortrud Oellermann (Winnipeg), The Average Connectivity of Graphs and Digraphs
16:45 - 17:10 Andrea Burgess (Ryerson), Cops and robbers on graphs based on designs
 
Sunday June 3  (Kenosee)
8:00 - 8:25 Chris Godsil (Waterloo), Graphs, Polytopes, Quadrics
8:30 - 8:55 Ada Chan (York), Trivial Nomura algebra
9:00 - 9:25 Glenn Hurlbert (Arizona State), EKR on Graphs and Lattices
9:30 - 9:55 Alison Purdy (Regina), EKR-type results using the method of Ahlswede and Khachatrian
14:00 - 14:25 Ben Li (Manitoba), friendship 3-hypergraphs
14:30 - 14:55 Karen Meagher (Regina), Sperner partition systems
16:15 - 16:40 Penny Haxell (Waterloo), Packing and covering in $r$-partite hypergraphs
16:45 - 17:10 Karen Yeats (SFU), Feynman graphs and a chord diagram expansion
17:15 - 17:40 Angele Hamel (Laurier), A Generalized Anonymity Metric for Probabilistic Attacks
 
Monday June 4  (Kenosee)
8:00 - 8:25 Chris Soteros (Saskatchewan), Self-Avoiding Polygon Models of Polymer Entanglements
8:30 - 8:55 Sophie Burrill (SFU), Combinatorics in arc diagrams: crossings, nestings and topology
9:00 - 9:25 Samuel Johnson (SFU), The exponential growth of restricted lattice paths
9:30 - 9:55 Marni Mishna (SFU), Towards generating random mammalian genomes
14:00 - 14:25 Mateja Sajna (Ottawa), On Sheehan's Conjecture for graphs with symmetry
14:30 - 14:55 Yi Cao (Alberta), DP-complete Problems Derived from Extremal NP-complete Properties
15:00 - 15:25 Joy Morris (Lethbridge), Structure of circulant graphs
15:30 - 15:55 Jessica McDonald (SFU), Average Degree in Graph Powers
 
Complex Geometry and Related Fields
Org: Tatyana Barron (Western) and Eric Schippers (Manitoba)
 
Saturday June 2  (Aspen, Ramada)
10:00 - 10:25 Ajneet Dhillon (Western), Vector bundles with parabolic structure and algebraic stacks
10:30 - 10:55 Gordon Heier (Houston), On uniformly effective birationality and the Shafarevich Conjecture over curves
11:00 - 11:25 Vasilisa Shramchenko (Sherbrooke), Higher genus Weierstrass sigma-function
14:00 - 14:25 David Minda (Cincinnati), Hyperbolic geometry and conformal invariants.
14:30 - 14:55 Ken Stephenson (Tennessee), Quasiconformal Mappings via Circle Packing: a Conjecture
16:15 - 16:40 Bruce Gilligan (Regina), Holomorphic Reductions of Pseudoconvex Homogeneous Manifolds
 
Sunday June 3  (Aspen, Ramada)
9:00 - 9:25 Oleg Ivrii (Harvard), Ghosts of the Mapping Class Group
9:30 - 9:55 Eric Schippers (Manitoba), A refined Teichmuller space of bordered surfaces
14:00 - 14:25 Nadya Askaripour (Inst. Henri Poincare), Poincare series map on open Riemann surfaces
14:30 - 14:55 Alexey Kokotov (Concordia), Polyhedral surfaces and determinant of Laplacian
 
Computation of Analytical Operators in Applied and Industrial Mathematics
Org: Peter Gibson (York) and Michael Lamoureux (Calgary)
 
Sunday June 3  (Whitmore)
8:00 - 8:25 Peter Gibson (York), Identification of minimum phase preserving operators on the half line
8:30 - 8:55 Mohammad Tavalla (York), A study on weighted composition operators on unit disk
9:30 - 9:55 Fotini Labropulu (Regina), Non-Newtonian mixed convection flowon a vertical surface in the presence of a magnetic field
14:00 - 14:25 Chun-Hua Guo (Regina), Numerical solution of nonlinear matrix equations arising from Green's function calculations in nano research
14:30 - 14:55 Mike Haslam (York), Fast and Accurate Calculation of Acoustic Potentials with Application to Scattering from Periodically Rough Surfaces
16:15 - 16:40 Vladimir Zubov (Calgary), Mesh refining in data preprocessing for the seismic inversion problem
16:45 - 17:10 Artur P Sowa (Saskatchewan), Operators resulting from the Dirichlet series
 
Monday June 4  (Whitmore)
8:00 - 8:25 Timur Akhunov (Calgary), On the Cauchy problem for the Airy type equations
8:30 - 8:55 Michael Lamoureux (Calgary), Generalized frames for computing differential operators
9:00 - 9:25 Shafiqul Islam (PEI), Computation of the Frobenius - Perron operator of dynamical systems
 
Connections in Mathematics Education
Org: Roberta La Haye (Mount Royal), Patrick Maidorn (Regina) and Kathy Nolan (Regina)
 
Saturday June 2  (Wascana B)
10:00 - 10:25 Kathleen Nolan and J. Harley Weston (Regina), Connecting with Community: From Aboriginal Perspectives to Math on the Move
10:30 - 10:55 Alyson Worrall (Lethbridge), Incorporating Children’s Literature in the Mathematics Classroom
11:00 - 11:25 Carol Youck-Cousins and Donna Ell (Prairie Valley School Division and Miller Comprehensive HS), Puzzling it Out
14:00 - 14:25 Rick Seaman (Regina), Talking about Connections
14:30 - 14:55 Egan Chernoff (Saskatchewan), Solving equations: A make-work project for math teachers
16:15 - 16:40 Gale Russell (Saskatchewan), Mathematics Education through the Eyes of Two Worldviews – Possibility, Impacts, and Barriers
16:45 - 17:10 Roberta La Haye and Irene Naested (Mount Royal), Connecting Mathematics and Art in Elementary Education
 
Contributed Papers
Org: Edward Doolittle (First Nations University) and Fotini Labropulu (Regina)
 
Saturday June 2  (Whitmore)
16:15 - 16:40 Vahid Anvari (Saskatchewan), System Dynamic Modeling of Chronic Wasting Disease
16:45 - 17:10 Mahshid Atapour (Saskatchewan), Enhancing the Learning of Business Mathematics/Statistics Using Customized Electronic-Learning Modules
 
Free Probability Theory: New Developments and Applications
Org: Serban Belinschi (Saskatchewan) and Benoît Collins (Ottawa)
 
Saturday June 2  (Pine, Ramada)
10:00 - 10:25 Nadia Saad (Ottawa), Integration of Invariant Matrices and Applications to Statistics
10:30 - 10:55 Emily Redelmeier (Paris-Sud), Real Second-Order Freeness
11:00 - 11:25 James Mingo (Queen's), Fluctuations of Free Wigner Matrices
14:00 - 14:25 Victor Vinnikov (Ben Gurion; Israel), Noncommutative Functions and Their Regularity Properties
14:30 - 14:55 Mihai V. Popa (Queen's), Some Applications of Non-Commutative Functions in Free Analysis
16:15 - 16:40 Raj Rao Nadakuditi (Michigan), Numerical computation of convolutions in free probability
16:45 - 17:10 Jiun-Chau Wang (Saskatchewan), Questions around free Levy processes of the second kind
 
Geometric Topology
Org: Steve Boyer (UQAM), Ryan Budney (Victoria) and Dale Rolfsen (UBC)
 
Saturday June 2  (Qu'Appelle)
10:00 - 10:40 Radu Cebanu (UQAM), Knots in lens spaces with $S^1\times S^2$ surgeries
10:45 - 11:25 Adam Clay (UQAM), Foliations of graph manifolds and left-orderability
16:15 - 16:55 Zsuzsanna Dancso (Toronto), Odd Khovanov homology via hyperplane arrangements
17:00 - 17:40 Mikael Pichot (McGill), Randomizing higher rank lattices
 
Sunday June 3  (Qu'Appelle)
8:30 - 9:10 Tetsuya Ito (Tokyo; UBC), Open book foliation and incompressible surfaces
9:15 - 9:55 Ben Burton (Queensland), Regina in Regina: Adventures in computation with knots and 3-manifolds
14:00 - 14:40 William Jaco (Oklahoma State), Minimal triangulations of certain 3-manifolds
16:15 - 16:55 Liam Watson (UCLA), Heegaard Floer homology and the fundamental group
17:00 - 17:40 Tom Baird (Memorial), Moduli Spaces of Vector Bundles over a real curve.
 
Monday June 4  (Qu'Appelle)
8:30 - 9:10 Eduardo Martinez-Pedroza (Memorial), Coherence and Negative Sectional Curvature in Complexes of Groups
9:15 - 9:55 David Krebes (Calgary), Units of the String Link Monoids
 
Geometry and Topology of Lie Transformation Groups
Org: Lisa Jeffrey (Toronto) and Liviu Mare (Regina)
 
Sunday June 3  (Wascana B)
8:00 - 8:25 Oliver Goertsches (Hamburg), Equivariant cohomology of transverse actions and $K$-contact manifolds
8:30 - 8:55 Matthias Franz (Western), Equivariant cohomology, syzygies and orbit structure
9:00 - 9:25 Steven Rayan (Toronto), Constructions of co-Higgs bundles in higher dimensions
9:30 - 9:55 Jochen Kuttler (Alberta), Tensors of bounded rank are defined in bounded degree
14:00 - 14:25 Tom Baird (Memorial), GKM-sheaves and equivariant cohomology
14:30 - 14:55 Jonathan Fisher (Toronto), The Kirwan method in hyperk\"ahler geometry
16:15 - 16:40 Derek Krepski (McMaster), On symplectic toric orbifolds as quotients of a finite group action
16:45 - 17:10 David Li-Bland (Toronto), Colored moduli spaces of flat connections
17:15 - 17:40 Jacques Hurtubise (McGill), Flat bundles and Grassmann framings
17:45 - 18:10 Julianna Tymoczko (Smith College), Combinatorial tools for cohomological calculations
 
Monday June 4  (Wascana B)
8:00 - 8:25 Peter Quast (Augsburg), The 'equator' of a symmetric space
8:30 - 8:55 Catalin Zara (Massachusetts Boston), Balanced Fiber Bundles and GKM Theory
9:00 - 9:25 Leonardo Mihalcea (Virginia Tech), Curve neighborhoods of Schubert varieties
14:00 - 14:25 Kathleen Smith (Toronto), Connectivity and Convexity Properties of the Moment Map for Group Actions on Hilbert Manifolds
14:30 - 14:55 Travis Li (Toronto), Construction of symplectic groupoids
15:00 - 15:25 Gregory D. Landweber (Bard College), Moduli spaces for off-shell supersymmetry
15:30 - 15:55 Liviu Mare (Regina), Nonabelian GKM Theory
 
Harmonic Analysis and Operator Spaces
Org: Yemon Choi and Ebrahim Samei (Saskatchewan)
 
Saturday June 2  (Birch, Ramada)
10:00 - 10:25 Michael Brannan (Queen's), Representations of quantum group convolution algebras
10:30 - 10:55 Mehrdad Kalantar (Carleton), Harmonic Operators on LC Quantum Groups
11:00 - 11:25 Yemon Choi (Saskatchewan)
14:00 - 14:25 Mahmood Alaghmandan (Saskatchewan), Amenability properties for the centres of certain discrete group algebras
14:30 - 14:55 Fereidoun Ghahramani (Manitoba), Automorphisms and derivations of the $p$-Volterra algebras and $p$-weighted convolution algebras
16:15 - 16:40 Elcim Elgun (Waterloo), The Eberlein Compactification of Locally Compact Groups
16:45 - 17:10 Matthew Mazowita (Alberta), The weighted compactification of a group and topological centres
 
Sunday June 3  (Birch, Ramada)
9:00 - 9:25 Nico Spronk (Waterloo), On the algebra generated by pure positive definite functions
9:30 - 9:55 Laura Marti Perez (Waterloo), A groupoid generalization of the map $\overline{L^2(H)}\otimes L^2(H) \to A(H)$.
14:00 - 14:25 Keith Taylor (Dalhousie), Groups with (essentially) one point duals
14:30 - 14:55 Mahya Ghandehari (Dalhousie), Matrix coefficients of unitary representations and projections in $L^1(G)$.
16:15 - 16:40 Yong Zhang (Manitoba), The invariant subspace property for F-algebras
16:45 - 17:10 Ben Willson (Windsor), A Hilbert space approach to approximate diagonals for locally compact quantum groups
17:15 - 17:40 Volker Runde (Alberta), Weighted Fig\`a-Talamanca--Herz algebras
 
Homotopy Theory
Org: Kristine Bauer (Calgary) and Marcy Robertson (Western)
 
Saturday June 2  (Diefenbaker)
10:00 - 10:25 Don Stanley (Regina), Homotopy invariance of configuration spaces
10:30 - 10:55 Martin Frankland (Illinois - Urbana-Champaign), Non-realizable 2-stage $\Pi$-algebras
11:00 - 11:25 Hugo Rodriguez Ordonez (Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes), Dimensional restrictions upon counterexamples to Ganea's conjecture
14:00 - 14:25 Sean Tilson (Wayne State), Power Operations and the Kunneth Spectral Sequence
16:15 - 16:40 Keith Johnson (Dalhousie), Homogeneous integer valued polynomials and the stable homotopy of BU
16:45 - 17:10 Dorette Pronk (Dalhousie), Bredon Cohomology with Local Coefficients
 
Sunday June 3  (Diefenbaker)
14:00 - 14:25 Simona Paoli (Leicester, UK), n-fold groupoids and n-types
14:30 - 14:55 Marcy Robertson (Western), On Topological Triangulated Orbit Categories
16:15 - 16:40 Phil Hackney (UC-Riverside), Homotopy theory of props
16:45 - 17:35 Julie Bergner (UC-Riverside), Homotopy operads as diagrams
 
Monday June 4  (Diefenbaker)
9:00 - 9:50 Rick Jardine (Western), Cosimplicial spaces and cocycles
14:00 - 14:25 Parker Lowrey (Western), The derived motivic Hall algebra associated to a projective variety.
14:30 - 14:55 Dan Lior (Illinois - Urbana-Champaign), The use of labelled trees in the Goodwillie-Taylor tower of discrete modules
15:00 - 15:25 Brenda Johnson (Union College), Models for Taylor Polynomials of Functors
15:30 - 15:55 Michael Ching (Amherst College), A classification of Taylor towers
 
Interactions Between Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra
Org: Susan Cooper (Central Michigan) and Sean Sather-Wagstaff (North Dakota State)
 
Saturday June 2  (Maple, Ramada)
10:00 - 10:25 Brian Harbourne (Nebraska-Lincoln), Containments of symbolic powers in ordinary powers
10:30 - 10:55 Mike Janssen (Nebraska-Lincoln), Ideals of almost collinear points in $\mathbb{P}^2$
11:00 - 11:25 Annika Denkert (Nebraska-Lincoln), Resurgence and related questions for two intersecting lines in $\mathbb{P}^2$
14:00 - 14:25 Sandra Spiroff (Mississippi), The Vanishing of Invariants on Complete Intersections
14:30 - 14:55 Kristen Beck (Arizona), Depth and dimension for high syzygies
16:15 - 16:40 Luke Oeding (UC-Berkeley), The trifocal variety
16:45 - 17:10 Nathan Grieve (Queen's), Cup-product problems on an abelian variety
17:15 - 17:40 Enrico Carlini (Politecnico di Torino), Determining the Waring rank: special cases
 
Sunday June 3  (Maple, Ramada)
8:00 - 8:25 Sara Faridi (Dalhousie), Monomial resolutions supported by simplicial trees
8:30 - 8:55 Andrew Hoefel (Queen's), Powers of edge ideals with linear resolutions
9:00 - 9:25 Jennifer Biermann (Lakehead), Balanced vertex decomposable simplicial complexes and their h-vectors
9:30 - 9:55 Melissa Lindsey (Indiana Wesleyan), Using lex-plus-powers ideals to maximize global Betti numbers
14:00 - 14:25 Chris Peterson (Colorado State), Linear algebra and the Tangent Bundle
14:30 - 14:55 Chris Francisco (Oklahoma State), Borel ideals and connections to discrete geometry
16:15 - 16:40 Stephen Sturgeon (Kentucky), Combinatorics of Boij-Soderberg Theory
16:45 - 17:10 Megan Patnott (Notre Dame), The $h$-vectors of arithmetically Gorenstein sets of points on a general sextic surface in $\mathbb{P}^3$
17:15 - 17:40 Uwe Nagel (Kentucky), Gorenstein algebras presented by quadrics
 
Number Theory
Org: Mark Bauer (Calgary), Richard McIntosh (Regina) and Eric Roettger (Mount Royal)
 
Saturday June 2  (Hillsdale)
10:00 - 10:25 Cameron Stewart (Waterloo), Well spaced integers generated by an infinite set of primes
10:30 - 10:55 Karl Dilcher (Dalhousie), Congruences for sums of reciprocals
11:00 - 11:25 Patrick Ingram (Colorado State), The arithmetic of Henon maps
14:00 - 14:25 Matthew Greenberg (Calgary)
14:30 - 14:55 Colin Weir (Calgary), Decomposing the Jacobians of Hermitian Curves
16:15 - 16:40 Dan Brown (Certicom), Cryptography in Diophantine Cloak
16:45 - 17:10 David Jao (Waterloo), Isogeny-based Cryptography
17:15 - 17:40 Michael Jacobson (Calgary), Tabulating Class Groups of Real Quadratic Fields
 
Sunday June 3  (Hillsdale)
9:00 - 9:25 Hugh Williams (Calgary), Compact Representations of Certain Algebraic Integers
9:30 - 9:55 Keith Johnson (Dalhousie), Integer valued polynomials on noncommutative rings
14:00 - 14:25 Paul Buckingham (Alberta), Connecting homomorphisms associated to Tate sequences
14:30 - 14:55 Renate Scheidler (Calgary), Cubic Function Field Tabulation and 3-Ranks of Hyperelliptic Curves
16:15 - 16:40 Michael Bennett (UBC), A problem of Erdos and Graham revisited
16:45 - 17:10 Michael Coons (Waterloo), The rational-transcendental dichotomy of Mahler functions
17:15 - 17:40 Richard McIntosh (Regina), p-adic equations for power sums
 
Operator Algebras
Org: Martin Argerami, Juliana Erlijman and Remus Floricel (Regina)
 
Saturday June 2  (Cedar, Ramada)
10:00 - 10:25 Laurent Marcoux (Waterloo), Almost invariant subspaces
10:30 - 10:55 Shawn McCann (Calgary), $C^*$-algebras Associated with Topological Group Quivers
11:00 - 11:25 Dilian Yang (Windsor), Type III von Neumann algebras associated with rank 2 graphs
14:00 - 14:25 Man-Duen Choi (Toronto), The Taming of the Shrew with Positive Linear Maps
14:30 - 14:55 Siri-Malén Høynes (Trondheim, Norway), Toeplitz dynamical systems and their K-theory
16:15 - 16:40 Andrew Dean (Lakehead), Classification of C*-dynamical systems
16:45 - 17:10 Eugeniu Spinu (Edmonton), Domination problem in the non-commutative setting
 
Sunday June 3  (Cedar, Ramada)
9:00 - 9:25 Doug Farenick (Regina), Ando's numerical radius theorem revisited
9:30 - 9:55 Gilad Gour (Calgary), Closed formula for the relative entropy of entanglement
14:00 - 14:25 Berndt Brenken (Calgary), Universal C*-algebras of *-semigroups and the C*-algebra of a partial isometry
14:30 - 14:55 Ami Viselter (Alberta), Locally compact quantum groups and amenability
16:15 - 16:40 Heath Emerson (Victoria), Fredholm modules and boundaries of hyperbolic groups
16:45 - 17:10 Yasuhiko Sato (Kyoto), Strict comparison and Z-absorption of nuclear C*-algebras
17:15 - 17:40 Cristian Ivanescu (Grant MacEwan), A Krein-Milman type theorem for C*-algebras
 
Perspectives in Mathematical Physics
Org: Yvan Saint-Aubin and Luc Vinet (Montréal)
 
Saturday June 2  (Glenelm)
10:00 - 10:25 Tiago Dinis da Fonseca (CRM), Higher spin 6-Vertex model and Macdonald polynomials
10:30 - 10:55 Daniel Gottesman (Perimeter Institute), Quantum Error Correction
11:00 - 11:25 Josh Lapan (McGill), Black Hole Greybody Factors and Monodromies
14:00 - 14:25 Patrick Desrosiers (Universidad de Talca), Beta-ensembles of random matrices
14:30 - 14:55 Stefan Mendez-Diez (Alberta), Elliptic curves, KR-theory and T-duality
16:15 - 16:40 Walid Abou Salem (Saskatchewan), Adiabatic evolution of coupled surface and internal waves
16:45 - 17:10 Robert Milson (Dalhousie), A Conjecture on Exceptional Orthogonal Polynomials
17:15 - 17:40 Sarah Post (CRM), Recent advances in the theory of superintegrable systems
 
Sunday June 3  (Glenelm)
9:00 - 9:25 Alexi Morin-Duchesne (Montréal), Periodic loop models and extended XXZ Hamiltonians
9:30 - 9:55 Shunji Matsuura (McGill), Protected boundary states in gapless topological phases
14:00 - 14:25 Gabor Kunstatter (Winnipeg), Quantum mechanics on the discretized half-line
14:30 - 14:55 Marco Merkli (Memorial), Repeated Interaction Quantum Systems
16:15 - 16:40 Ferenc Balogh (Concordia), Reduction of planar orthogonality to non-hermitian orthogonality on contours
16:45 - 17:10 Manu Paranjape (Montréal), Solitons and instantons in an effective model of CP violation
17:15 - 17:40 Raymond Laflamme (Waterloo), Quantum Error Correction: from theory to practice
 
Monday June 4  (Glenelm)
8:30 - 8:55 David Feder (Calgary), Graph Theory in Quantum Many-Body Physics
9:00 - 9:25 Vincent Bouchard (Alberta), The (un)reasonable effectiveness of string theory in mathematics
 
Representation Theory of Groups, Lie Algebras, and Hopf Algebras
Org: Allen Herman and Fernando Szechtman (Regina)
 
Saturday June 2  (Cypress)
10:00 - 10:25 Gerald Cliff (Alberta), Representations of GL(n,R) and Sp(2n,R) where R is a p-adic field or a finite local ring
11:00 - 11:25 Gerhard Hiss (Aachen), On the Chevalley property of a finite-dimensional group algebra and its Drinfeld double
14:00 - 14:25 Nicolas Guay (Alberta), Coideal subalgebras of quantized enveloping algebras.
14:30 - 14:55 Anna Stokke (Winnipeg), Global crystal bases and $q$-Schur algebras
16:15 - 16:40 Leandro Cagliero (Cordoba), The classification of uniserial $\mathfrak{sl}(2)\ltimes V(m)$-modules and a new interpretation of the Racah-Wigner $6j$-symbol
16:45 - 17:10 Paolo Casati (Milan), Simple representations of simple Lie algebras remain Indecomposable restricted to some Abelian Subalgebras
17:15 - 17:40 Murray Bremner (Saskatchewan), The fundamental invariants of 3 x 3 x 3 arrays
 
Sunday June 3  (Cypress)
8:30 - 8:55 Hader Elgendy (Saskatchewan), The universal Associative envelope of the anti-Jordan triple system of $n \times n$ matrices
9:00 - 9:25 Hubert de Guise (Lakehead), Some indecomposable representations in physics
9:30 - 9:55 Michael Lau (Laval), Representations of Twisted Forms
14:00 - 14:25 Sonia Natale (Cordoba), Extensions of tensor categories.
16:45 - 17:10 Rachael Quinlan (Galway), Characters of covering groups of elementary abelian 2-groups
 
Monday June 4  (Cypress)
8:30 - 8:55 Ryan Vinroot (William and Mary), Semisimple symplectic characters of finite unitary groups
9:00 - 9:25 Michael Geline (Northern Illinois), Knörr lattices for elementary abelian $p$-groups
14:00 - 14:25 Mark Lewis (Kent State), Counting characters in blocks of solvable groups with abelian defect group
14:30 - 14:55 Xiangqian Guo (Zhengzhou), New irreducible modules for Virasoro algebra
15:00 - 15:25 Jose Pantoja (Valparaiso), Weil Representations of the groups $GL^*_{\epsilon}(2,A)$ and $SL^*_{\epsilon}(2,A)$
 
Total Positivity
Org: Shaun Fallat (Regina) and Michael Gekhtman (Notre Dame)
 
Saturday June 2  (Whitmore)
10:00 - 10:25 Alvaro Barreras (Zaragoza), Signed bidiagonal decompositions
10:30 - 11:20 Stephane Launois (Kent), Deleting derivations algorithm and TNN matrices
14:00 - 14:50 Shahla Nasserasr (Regina), TP$_k$ completion of partial matrices with one unspecified entry
16:15 - 16:40 Mahmoud Manjegani (Regina), Hadamard Powers of Totally Positive Matrices
16:45 - 17:10 Shaun Fallat (Regina), Rank Deficiency and Shadows in Totally Nonnegative Matrices

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