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• Abdelrazec, Ahmed - Spread and control of dengue with limited public health resources
• Akbary, Amir - On the greatest prime factor of some divisibility sequences
• Askaripour, Nadya - Poincar\'e series operator on spaces of automorphic forms
  
  
• Barron, Tatyana - Toeplitz operators on K\"ahler and hyperk\"ahler manifolds.
• Bendaoud, Mohamed - Local spectra-preserving nonlinear transformations on operators
• Bergeron, Maxime - The Topology of Representation Spaces
• Bergeron, Maxime - Kempf-Ness Theory and Character Varieties
• Bollobas, Bela - Percolation, Bootstrap Percolation, and Random Monotone Cellular Automata
• Bonato, Anthony - Independence densities of hypergraphs
• Bondarenko, Andriy - On Borsuk's conjecture
• Bou-Rabee, Khalid - Full residual finiteness growths of nilpotent groups
• Brewster, Richard - The complexity of signed graph homomorphisms
• Brown, Aidan - Ubiquitin and adaptor protein dynamics on mammalian peroxisome membranes
• Brown, Jason - G-Convexity of Graphs
• Browne, Cameron - A Nosocomial Epidemic Model with Room Contamination
• Bruni, Carmen - Twisted extensions of Fermat's Last Theorem
• Bumagin, Inna - Free Lyndon length functions and CAT(0) spaces
  
  
• Cappadocia, Christopher - Weak hyperbolic dimension of metric spaces
• Chen, Yuqun - Gr\"{o}bner-Shirshov bases for semirings
• Choi, Stephen - On a Problem of Bourgain Concerning the Lp Norms of Exponential Sums
• Clay, Adam - Bi-orderability of fundamental groups of $3$-manifolds
• Colonna, Flavia - Norm and essential norms of weighted composition operators acting on reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces of analytic functions.
• Craigen, Robert - Supercharging the 'Unreal' construction for Hadamard and Generalized Hadamard matrices
• Crooks, Peter - The Torus-Equivariant Cohomology of Nilpotent Orbits in Semisimple Lie Algebras
• Cuckovic, Zeljko - From the $\overline{\partial}$-Neumann operator to Axler-Zheng Theorem
• Cytrynbaum, Eric - Estimating the bending modulus of a FtsZ bacterial-division protein filament
  
  
• Dawes, Adriana - EGF and Notch signalling in Caenorhabditis vulval development
• de Vries, Gerda - Lessons Learned from Teaching Calculus in the Context of a First-Year Integrated Science Course
• de Vries, Gerda - Hands-On-Heads-On Activities for the Discovery of Mathematics in Elementary Schools
• de Vries, Gerda - Formation of Animal Groups: The Importance of Communication
• Dilcher, Karl - Pairs of reciprocal quadratic congruences involving primes
• Ditzian, Zeev - Measure of smoothness on the unit ball
• Dowdall, Spencer - Fibrations and polynomial invariants for free-by-cyclic groups
• Dubiel, Malgorzata - Remedial Flipped
• Duffner, Antonia - Preservers and converters of immanant functions
• Dzyubenko, German - Nearly comonotone approximation of periodic functions
  
  
• Felix, Adam - On invariants of elliptic curves on average
• Finbow, Stephen - Vertex Colouring of Plane Graphs with Restrictions Given by Faces
• Fisher, Jonathan - Quivers and Higgs bundles
• Fitzpatrick, Sean - Higher rank Boothby-Wang fibrations
• Flannery, Skype Round Table with Dane
• Fournier, Richard - An interpolation formula for the derivative of a polynomial
• Franz, Matthias - Big polygon spaces produce maximal syzygies in equivariant cohomology
  
  
• Gagarin, Andrei - The bondage number of graphs on topological surfaces and Teschner's conjecture
• Gosselin, Shonda - Metric Dimension of circulant graphs and Cayley hypergraphs
• Gualtieri, Marco - Generalized complex geometry
• Gualtieri, Marco - Log affine manifolds and symplectic geometry
• Gunderson, Karen - Time for graph bootstrap percolation
  
  
• Hare, Kevin - Simultaneous beta-expansions
• Harper, Eric - SU(N) Casson-Lin invariants for links in $S^3$
• Hillen, Thomas - Mathematical Modelling with Fully Anisotropic Diffusion
• Hu, Shengda - Generalized holomorphic bundles, Part II
  
  
• Ivrii, Oleg - Lavaurs-Epstein boundary
  
  
• Jankauskas, Jonas - On Littlewood Polynomials with Prescribed Number of Zeros Inside the Unit Disk
• Janssen, Jeannette - Uniform linear embeddings of random graphs
• Javame, Ali - Role of Pap Screening on HPV Transmission Dynamics
• Jeffrey, Lisa - Intersection cohomology of universal imploded cross-section
• Jikine, Alexandra - An interlocked feed-forward loop circuit can explain the phenotypic heterogeneity of fat-cell differentiation.
• Johnston, Nathaniel - Preservers of Unextendible Product Bases and the Local Distinguishability of Quantum States
  
  
• Kalajdzievska, Darja - Taking Math Students from 'Blah' to 'Aha': What Can We Do?
• Keyfitz, Barbara - Not Your Grandmother's Applied Mathematics
• Kharaghani, Hadi
• Kinyon, Michael - Loop Theory and Automated Deduction
• Klurman, Oleksiy - Weighted Bernstein and Markov-Nikolskii type inequalities for monotone polynomials of order k
• Koryukin, Anatoly - Gröbner-Shirshov bases of the Lie algebras $A_n^+$, $B_n^+$, $C_n^+$, $D_n^+$
• Krajcevski, Mile - Challenges with using visual representations in undergraduate mathematics
• Kreher, Donald L. - Vertex-Transitive Graphs Of Prime-Squared Order Are Hamilton-Decomposable
• Kuo, Wentang - On Erdos-Pomerance conjecture
  
  
• LaHaye, Roberta - Integrating Mathematics and Art for Pre-Service Elementary Teachers
• Leeming, David - The Math Mania Outreach Program
• Lemaire-Beaucage, Jonathan - Left-orderability of the fundamental group of the double branched cover of links
• Lewis, Mark - The mathematics behind biological invasion processes
• Li, Chi-Kwong - Preservers on tensor product of matrices and vectors
• Lin, Francis - Studying Directed Cell Migration Using Microfluidic Devices and Quantitative Modelling
• Liu, Xuan - Algorithms for finding Lie superalgebra structure of regular super differential equations
• Loly, Peter - "Multimagic" Latin Squares
• Lovric, Miroslav - Advanced Math Problem-Solving Course at McMaster
  
  
• Ma, Junling - Modeling SIS disease dynamics on random contact networks
• Madariaga, Sara - Jordan quadruple systems
• Maizlish, Oleksandr - Adaptive Triangulations
• Manolaki, Myrto - Holomorphic functions with universal Taylor series and their boundary behaviour
• Mantyka, Sherry - Developing Automatic Recall of Basic Skills in Mathematics
• Marinova, Rossitza - Increasing the Appreciation of Mathematics in Canada through the Canadian Math Kangaroo Contest
• Maynard, James - Small Gaps between primes
• Maza, Marc Moreno - On Fulton's Algorithm for Computing Intersection Multiplicities in Higher Dimension
• Meagher, Karen - Graph Theory and the Erd\H{o}s-Ko-Rado Theorem
• Melesse, Dessalegn - Understanding heterogeneity in HIV transmission dynamics among high risk populations: a mathematical modeling approach
• Messinger, Magaret-Ellen - Elimination Schemes and Lattices
• Mia, Abdus Sattar - Conservation laws of the nonlinear two-fluid model
• Mighton, John - The Myth of Ability
• Minda, David - Rescaling non-uniformly Lipschitz sequences
• Moghaddam, Hossein Iraghi - On Semigroups admitting Commutators or Conjugates
• Molnar, Lajos - Transformations on density operators preserving quantum relative entropy or related quantities
• Monagan, Michael
• Moraru, Ruxandra - Generalized holomorphic bundles, Part I
• Morris, Joy - The isomorphism problem for Cayley graphs
• Motorna, Oxana - On the approximation with Jacobi weights
• Moussavi, Zahra
• Mynhardt, Kieka - Edgeless Graphs are the Only Universal Fixers
  
  
• Nazari, Fereshteh
  
  
• Okhmatovski, Vladimir - A Well-Conditioned Non-Iterative Approach to Solution of the Inverse Problem
• Orel, Marko - Preserver Problems and Graph Theory
  
  
• Padmanabhan, R. - Algebra and Geometry with Computers
• Padmanabhan, R. - Mathematical Hobbies for the iGeneration
• Parks, James - Low-lying zeros of elliptic curve $L$-functions: Beyond the ratios conjecture
• Penfound, Bryan - Matrix vector products of the coefficients of the conformal welding maps
• Penfound, Bryan - The Flipped Classroom Model in Post-Secondary Education
• Pérez, Marco Antonio - Relative extensions and natural transformations from disk and sphere chain complexes
• Phillips, J.D. - On Bruck Loops
• Pike, David - Brushing without capacity restrictions
• Pinsky, Tali - Geodesics on Surfaces, as Knots.
• Poon, Edward - Preserving entangled states
• Poon, Yiu-Tung - Pseudospectra of special operators and Pseudosectrum preservers
• Portet, Stephanie - Modelling intermediate filaments
• Pouliasis, Stamatis - Condenser capacity, exponential Blaschke products and universal covering maps
• Pralat, Pawel - Power of $k$ choices in the process of generating rainbow spanning trees in random graphs
• Pym, Brent - Categorified isomonodromic deformations via Lie groupoids
  
  
• Qiu, Zhipeng - Complex dynamics of a nutrient-plankton system with nonlinear phytoplankton morality and allelopathy
  
  
• Radnell, David - Determinant Line Bundles in Conformal Field Theory
• Ramras, Dan - Moduli spaces of representations
• Ransford, Thomas - Computation of analytic capacity and the subadditivity problem
• Ransford, Tom - One-box conditions for Carleson measures for the Dirichlet space
• Reid, Greg - Approximate symmetry analysis
• Roth, Oliver - The Schramm-Loewner equation for multiple slits
  
  
• Sarkar, Soumen - Complex cobordism of quasitoric orbifolds
• Semrl, Peter - Invertibility preservers
• Shadrin, Alexei - Stable reconstruction from Fourier samples
• Sherif, Sherif S. - Super-resolution in Optical Imaging
• Shevchuk, Igor - On the approximation with Jacobi weights
• Shtylla, Blerta - Mathematical models of force generation at the cellular nanoscale: interplay of protein flexibility and diffusion.
• Sit, William - On Rota's Problem, Differential Type and Rota-Baxter Type Algebras
• Skala, Matthew - Cycle-maximal graphs of fixed girth
• Song, Yanli - The Cubic Dirac Operator and Geometric Quantization
• Stokke, Anna - Math outreach in Manitoba
• Szollosi, Ferenc - Modular Combinatorial Designs
  
  
• Taylor, Tara - Mathematical Variations on Woven Figure Eights
• Thangarajah, Pamini - Mathematics Minor for Elementary Education at MRU: An Innovative Collaboration with Education
• Tsai, Ming Cheng - Preserver problems on convex combinations of positive elements
  
  
• Van Rees, John - The Relationship between (16,6,3)-BIBDs and (25,12) Binary Self-Orthogonal Codes
  
  
• Watts, Jordan - Coarse Moduli Spaces of Stacks over Manifolds
• Weir, Rachel - Normal Weighted Composition Operators on Weighted Dirichlet Spaces
• Williams, Brock - Biological Applications of Conformal Invariants
• Williams, M. Carol - Strengthening the Mathematical Content Knowledge of In-Service Teachers
• Wilson, Jenny - Stability phenomena for sequences of representations of the classical Weyl groups and topological applications
• Wilson, Stephen - Textbooks and real world problems
• Wolkowicz, Dr. Gail - Attempts at Understanding the Dynamics of Interacting Populations
• Wolkowicz, Henry - Coordinate Shadows of Semi-definite and Euclidean Distance Matrix Completions
• Woodhouse, Daniel - Virtually Special Tubular Groups
  
  
• Yodzis, Michael - Dynamics of Pollution-induced Illnesses in Fishing Communities, with Social Feedbacks
• Yuan, Sanling - Dynamics of a stochastic model for algal bloom with and without distributed delay
  
  
• Zhao, Xiangui - Gelfand-Kirillov dimension of modules over differential difference algebras
• Zhu, Huaiping - Modeling and forecasting of West Nile virus