2018 CMS Summer Meeting

Fredericton, June 1 - 4, 2018

Schedules        

Schedule - Plenary, Prize and Public Lectures

 
Friday June 1
17:00 - 18:00 Patrick Reynolds (University of New Brunswick), Public Lecture, Why Math?, Tilley 102
 
Saturday June 2
11:00 - 12:00 Mark Lewis (University of Alberta), Plenary Lecture, Genetic consequences of range expansion under climate change, Tilley 102

13:30 - 14:30 Allen Knutson (Cornell University), Plenary Lecture, Schubert calculus and scattering diagrams, Tilley 102

14:30 - 15:30 Gary MacGillivray (University of Victoria), Excellence in Teaching Award, The evolution of UVic's Logic and Foundations course, Tilley 102
 
Sunday June 3
11:00 - 12:00 Megumi Harada (McMaster University), Krieger-Nelson Prize, Wall-crossing for Newton-Okounkov bodies: a glimpse of combinatorial symplectic and algebraic geometry, Tilley 102

13:30 - 14:30 Lia Bronsard (McMaster University), Plenary Lecture, On Saturn-ring defects in a nematic liquid crystal / Sur les défauts du type “anneau de Saturne" des cristaux liquides nématiques, Tilley 102

14:30 - 15:30 Gordon Slade (University of British Columbia), Jefferey-Williams Prize, Self-avoiding walk, spin systems and renormalisation, Tilley 102
 
Monday June 4
11:00 - 12:00 Carl Pomerance (Dartmouth College), Plenary Lecture, Random Number Theory, Tilley 102

13:30 - 14:30 Nassif Ghoussoub (University of British Columbia), Plenary Lecture, A Theory of Transfers, Tilley 102

14:45 - 15:45 Jason Bell (University of Waterloo), Plenary Lecture, Growth of groups and algebras, Tilley 102

Sponsors

Centre de recherches mathématiques Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Fields Institute AARMS: Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences University of New Brunswick - Fredericton

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