2019 CMS Summer Meeting

Regina, June 7 - 10, 2019

Schedule - by day

Detailed session schedules will be posted on the web site beginning in late April. 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. All scientific sessions will be held at the University of Regina.

 Thursday June 6 18:00 - 22:00 CMS Executive Committee, Heritage Boardroom, Hotel Saskatchewan Friday June 7 8:00 - 19:30 Registration, ED 101.1 Corridor, Education Building 9:00 - 12:00 Allen Herman and Karen Meagher (University of Regina), Mini-Courses, Minicourse on Building Your Career in Mathematics, ED 106.1, Education Building 12:30 - 16:30 CMS Board of Directors Meeting, ED 114, Education Building 13:00 - 16:00 Chris Fisher, Brett Stevens and Tim Alderson (University of Regina, Carleton University and University of New Brunswick), Mini-Courses, Geometry Workshop, ED 191, Education Building 13:00 - 16:00 Krystal Guo, Mini-Courses, Using the Sage Mathematics Software System in Algebra and Discrete Math, CW 317.37, College West Building 13:00 - 16:00 Sarah Plosker and Nathaniel Johnston (CRC Chair, University of Brandon and Mount Allison University), Mini-Courses, Basics of Quantum Information Theory, CK 185, Centre for Kinesiology 13:00 - 16:00 Hadi Salmasian (University of Ottawa), Mini-Courses, Interpolation polynomials and representation theory: transcending the classical Capelli identity, ED 312, Education Building 13:00 - 16:00 Jonathan Scott (Cleveland State University), Mini-Courses, Category Theory in Topological Data Analysis, ED 438, Education Building 13:00 - 16:00 Konstantin Tikhomirov (Georgia Tech), Mini-Courses, Convex-Geometric Methods in Random Matrix Theory, ED 193, Education Building 14:15 - 14:30 Break, ED 101.1 Corridor, Education Building 17:00 - 18:00 Nilima Nigam (Simon Fraser University), Public Lecture, When mathematicians play the drums, RI 119, Research and Innovation Centre 19:30 - 20:30 Education Committee, ED 192, Education Building 20:00 - 22:00 Student Social Saturday June 8 7:30 - 18:00 Registration, ED 101.1 Corridor, Education Building 8:00 - 8:30 Anthony Bonato (Ryerson), Randomness and Limited Information in Graph Searching Problems, Limited information Cops and Robbers games, CK 187, Centre for Kinesiology 8:00 - 8:30 Anders Buch (Rutgers University), Equivariant Methods in Differential and Algebraic Geometry, Positivity of minuscule quantum K-theory, ED 106.1, Education Building 8:00 - 8:30 Damir Kinzebulatov (Université Laval), Functional and Complex Analysis, A new look at the KLMN theorem, ED 315, Education Building 8:00 - 8:30 Robin Koytcheff (University of Louisiana at Lafayette), Topology, The Taylor tower for the space of knots and finite-type knot invariants, ED 318, Education Building 8:00 - 8:30 Alexander Melnikov (University of Alberta), High-Dimensional Problems in Finance and Quantitative Research, On Option Pricing Methods in Modern Mathematical finance, ED 438, Education Building 8:00 - 8:30 Paul Mezo (Carleton University), Representation Theory of Groups Defined Over Local Fields, Equivalent definitions of Arthur-packets for real classical groups, ED 312, Education Building 8:00 - 8:30 Vern Paulsen (University of Waterloo), The Mathematics behind Quantum Information Science, Constant Gap for Self-embezzlement, ED 230, Education Building 8:00 - 8:30 Keith Taylor (Dalhousie University), Indigenization and Reconciliation in Mathematics, What can the CMS do about reconciliation?, ED 558, Education Building 8:00 - 8:30 Elisabeth Werner (Case Western Reserve University), Probabilistic Methods in Geometric Functional Analysis and Convexity, Entropy inequalities for log concave functions, ED 193, Education Building 8:00 - 8:30 Dilian Yang (University of Windsor), Finite and Infinite Dimensional Structures in Non-Commutative Analysis, KMS states of self-similar k-graph C*-algebras, ED 191, Education Building 8:00 - 8:30 Alex Zagoskin (Loughborough University), Mathematical Techniques for Analysing Quantum Structures and Materials, Towards the qualitative theory of large quantum coherent structures, ED 106.2, Education building 8:30 - 16:30 AARMS-CMS Student Poster Session, ED 101.1 Corridor, Education Building 8:30 - 9:00 Nicolas Arancibia (Carleton University), Representation Theory of Groups Defined Over Local Fields, $A$(rthur)-Packets of Cohomological Representations, ED 312, Education Building 8:30 - 9:00 Andrea Burgess (University of New Brunswick St. John), Randomness and Limited Information in Graph Searching Problems, Cops that surround a robber, CK 187, Centre for Kinesiology 8:30 - 9:00 Brian Forrest (University of Waterloo), Indigenization and Reconciliation in Mathematics, Expanding Mathematics Educational Opportunites for Indigenous Teachers, ED 558, Education Building 8:30 - 9:00 Xuemiao Hao (University of Manitoba), High-Dimensional Problems in Finance and Quantitative Research, Sharp Tail Estimate for Aggregate Critical Illness Claims in a Large Population, ED 438, Education Building 8:30 - 9:00 Robin Koytcheff (University of Louisiana at Lafayette), Topology, Operadic decompositions of spaces of string links, ED 318, Education Building 8:30 - 9:00 Galyna Livshyts (Georgia Institute of Technology), Probabilistic Methods in Geometric Functional Analysis and Convexity, Smallest singular value of inhomogeneous random square matrices via double counting and random rounding, ED 193, Education Building 8:30 - 9:00 Matthias Neufang (Carleton University), Finite and Infinite Dimensional Structures in Non-Commutative Analysis, Solution to several problems regarding tensor products and crossed products of $C^*$- and von Neumann algebras, ED 191, Education Building 8:30 - 9:00 Cihan Okay (University of British Columbia), Mathematical Techniques for Analysing Quantum Structures and Materials, Topology of quantum contextuality, ED 106.2, Education building 8:30 - 9:00 Mizanur Rahaman (University of Waterloo), The Mathematics behind Quantum Information Science, A new bound on quantum Wielandt inequality, ED 230, Education Building 8:30 - 9:00 Mohammad Shirazi (University of Manitoba), Functional and Complex Analysis, Grunsky and Faber Operators for Riemann Surfaces with One Border, ED 315, Education Building 8:50 - 9:20 Jenna Rajchgot (University of Saskatchewan), Equivariant Methods in Differential and Algebraic Geometry, Grobner bases for certain type C Kazhdan-Lusztig ideals, ED 106.1, Education Building 9:00 - 9:30 Tim Alderson (University of New Brunswick Saint John), Finite Geometry, $t$-Extensions of Linear Codes, CK 185, Centre for Kinesiology 9:00 - 9:30 Ed Belk (University of British Columbia), Representation Theory of Groups Defined Over Local Fields, The Local Trace Formula as a Motivic Identity, ED 312, Education Building 9:00 - 9:30 Christian Benes (Brooklyn College), Recent Advances in Probability and Stochastics, Rates of Convergence for the Simple Random Walk Green's Function, ED 623, Education Building 9:00 - 9:30 Yangho Choi (Hanyang University), High-Dimensional Problems in Finance and Quantitative Research, Macroscopic Modeling of Data Breach Risk with Spatial and Temporal Autocorrelation, ED 438, Education Building 9:00 - 9:30 Ryan Hayward (University of Alberta), Randomness and Limited Information in Graph Searching Problems, Searching for Winning Strategies in Hex, CK 187, Centre for Kinesiology 9:00 - 9:30 Nathaniel Johnston (Mount Allison University), The Mathematics behind Quantum Information Science, Pairwise Completely Positive Matrices and Quantum Entanglement, ED 230, Education Building 9:00 - 9:30 Veselin Jungic (Simon Fraser University), Indigenization and Reconciliation in Mathematics, Changing Lives or Scratching the Surface: Five Years of the SFU Academic Summer Camp for Aboriginal Students, ED 558, Education Building 9:00 - 9:30 Marcelo Laca (University of Victoria), Finite and Infinite Dimensional Structures in Non-Commutative Analysis, Reconstructing directed graphs, ED 191, Education Building 9:00 - 9:30 Joseph Maciejko (University of Alberta), Mathematical Techniques for Analysing Quantum Structures and Materials, Strongly interacting topological phases of matter, ED 106.2, Education building 9:00 - 9:30 Christopher Ramsey (Grant MacEwan University), Functional and Complex Analysis, What is and is not a Tensor algebra, ED 315, Education Building 9:00 - 9:30 Laura Scull (Fort Lewis College), Topology, Transitive Groupoids with Interesting Topological Properties, ED 318, Education Building 9:00 - 9:30 Konstantin Tikhomirov (Georgia Institute of Technology), Probabilistic Methods in Geometric Functional Analysis and Convexity, Small ball probability for the condition number of random matrices, ED 193, Education Building 9:30 - 10:00 Darja Barr (University of Manitoba), Indigenization and Reconciliation in Mathematics, The Impact of Working Together, ED 558, Education Building 9:30 - 10:00 Jeffrey Carlson (University of Toronto), Topology, Local integration in equivariant cobordism theory, ED 318, Education Building 9:30 - 10:00 Jason Crann (Carleton University), Finite and Infinite Dimensional Structures in Non-Commutative Analysis, An equivariant weak expectation property and amenable actions, ED 191, Education Building 9:30 - 10:00 Robert Green (University of Saskatchewan), Mathematical Techniques for Analysing Quantum Structures and Materials, Numerical Many Body Models for Synchrotron Spectroscopy of Quantum Materials, ED 106.2, Education building 9:30 - 10:00 Shahin Kamali (University of Manitoba), Randomness and Limited Information in Graph Searching Problems, On the complexity of burning and broadcasting problems, CK 187, Centre for Kinesiology 9:30 - 10:00 Daniel Le (University of Toronto), Representation Theory of Groups Defined Over Local Fields, mod $p$ representations of $p$-adic $\mathrm{GL}_2$, ED 312, Education Building 9:30 - 10:00 Arnaud Marsiglietti (University of Florida), Probabilistic Methods in Geometric Functional Analysis and Convexity, Hyperplane conjecture and central limit theorem, ED 193, Education Building 9:30 - 10:00 James McQuillan (Western Illinois University), Finite Geometry, Desargues configurations with self-conjugate points, CK 185, Centre for Kinesiology 9:30 - 10:00 Shanoja Naik (Registered Nurses Association of Ontario), High-Dimensional Problems in Finance and Quantitative Research, On Wishart Process and Sovereign Credit Risk Modelling, ED 438, Education Building 9:30 - 10:00 Sarah Plosker (Brandon University), The Mathematics behind Quantum Information Science, The robustness of $k$-coherence, ED 230, Education Building 9:30 - 10:00 Larissa Richards (University of Toronto), Recent Advances in Probability and Stochastics, The polynomial rate of convergence of critical interfaces., ED 623, Education Building 9:30 - 10:00 Ryan Tessier (University of Regina), Functional and Complex Analysis, Purity of the Identity Map on the Operator System generated by the Free Group, ED 315, Education Building 9:40 - 10:10 Matthias Franz (University of Western Ontario), Equivariant Methods in Differential and Algebraic Geometry, The number of connected orbit types in a $G$-manifold, ED 106.1, Education Building 10:00 - 16:30 Exhibits, ED 101.1 Corridor, Education Building 10:00 - 10:30 Melania Alvarez (University of British Columbia), Indigenization and Reconciliation in Mathematics, Engaging Indigenous communities through math outreach, ED 558, Education Building 10:00 - 10:30 Naeima Ashleik (University of Saskatchewan), High-Dimensional Problems in Finance and Quantitative Research, Learning for Contingency Tables and Survival Data Using Imprecise Probabilities, ED 438, Education Building 10:00 - 10:30 Arno Berger (University of Alberta), Recent Advances in Probability and Stochastics, Best Kantorovich and Levy approximations on the real line, ED 623, Education Building 10:00 - 10:30 Aiden Bruen (Carleton University), Finite Geometry, An extension of Desargues Theorem, CK 185, Centre for Kinesiology 10:00 - 10:30 Eric Chitambar (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), The Mathematics behind Quantum Information Science, Playing Mermin’s Game with Nonlocal Resources, ED 230, Education Building 10:00 - 10:30 Raphael Clouatre (University of Manitoba), Functional and Complex Analysis, Uniform quotients and $\mathrm{C}^*$-envelopes on the Drury-Arveson space, ED 315, Education Building 10:00 - 10:30 Boaz Elazar (University of British Columbia), Representation Theory of Groups Defined Over Local Fields, Schwartz Functions And Tempered Distributions On Singular Quasi-Nash Varieties, ED 312, Education Building 10:00 - 10:30 Rachel Hardeman (University of Calgary), Topology, An Introduction to A-Homotopy Theory: A Discrete Homotopy Theory for Graphs, ED 318, Education Building 10:00 - 10:30 Piotr Nayar (University of Warsaw), Probabilistic Methods in Geometric Functional Analysis and Convexity, The log-concave moment problem, ED 193, Education Building 10:00 - 10:30 David Pike (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Randomness and Limited Information in Graph Searching Problems, The Firebreak Problem, CK 187, Centre for Kinesiology 10:00 - 10:30 Paul Skoufranis (York University), Finite and Infinite Dimensional Structures in Non-Commutative Analysis, Majorization, Convexity, and Expectations, ED 191, Education Building 10:00 - 10:30 Ray Spiteri (University of Saskatchewan), Mathematical Techniques for Analysing Quantum Structures and Materials, Quantum control for high-fidelity multi-qubit gates, ED 106.2, Education building 10:30 - 11:00 Break, ED 101.1 Corridor, Education Building 11:00 - 15:00 Publications Committee, ED 192, Education Building 11:00 - 12:00 Pham Huu Tiep (Rutgers University), Plenary Lecture, Finite groups, representations, character values, and applications, EA 106, Education Building 12:00 - 13:30 Equity and Diversity Luncheon, ED 191, Education Building 13:30 - 14:30 Caroline Colijn (Simon Fraser University), Plenary Lecture, The forests and the trees: new metrics on some flavours of trees, EA 106, Education Building 14:30 - 15:30 Grigoris Paouris (Texas A&M University), Plenary Lecture, The interplay of Probability and Geometry, EA 106, Education Building 15:30 - 16:00 Break, ED 101.1 Corridor, Education Building 16:00 - 16:30 Alejandro Adem (University of British Columbia), Equivariant Methods in Differential and Algebraic Geometry, Twisted equivariant K-theory of compact Lie group actions with maximal rank isotropy, ED 106.1, Education Building 16:00 - 16:30 Syed Ejaz Ahmed (Brock University), High-Dimensional Problems in Finance and Quantitative Research, Implicit Bias in Big Data Analytics, ED 438, Education Building 16:00 - 16:30 Adele Bourgeois (University of Ottawa), Representation Theory of Groups Defined Over Local Fields, On the Multiplicities in the Restriction of a Supercuspidal Representation, ED 312, Education Building 16:00 - 16:30 Edward Doolittle (First Nations University of Canada), Indigenization and Reconciliation in Mathematics, ED 558, Education Building 16:00 - 16:30 Rupert Levene (University College Dublin), The Mathematics behind Quantum Information Science, Schur multipliers and mixed unitary maps, ED 230, Education Building 16:00 - 16:30 Mokshay Madiman (University of Delaware), Probabilistic Methods in Geometric Functional Analysis and Convexity, Sharp moment-entropy inequalities for log-concave distributions, ED 193, Education Building 16:00 - 16:30 Abdel Rahman (University of Regina), Functional and Complex Analysis, Homogeneous Levi Foliations, ED 315, Education Building 16:00 - 16:30 Neil J. Ross (Dalhousie University), Mathematical Techniques for Analysing Quantum Structures and Materials, Number-Theoretic Methods in Quantum Compiling, ED 106.2, Education building 16:00 - 16:30 Yinon Spinka (University of British Columbia), Recent Advances in Probability and Stochastics, A short proof of the discontinuity of phase transition in the planar random-cluster model with $q>4$, ED 623, Education Building 16:00 - 16:30 Nico Spronk (University of Waterloo), Finite and Infinite Dimensional Structures in Non-Commutative Analysis, Fixed points of contractive measures acting by convolution, ED 191, Education Building 16:00 - 16:30 Brett Stevens (Carleton University), Finite Geometry, Affine planes with ovals for blocks, CK 185, Centre for Kinesiology 16:00 - 16:30 Ben Williams (University of British Columbia), Topology, $\mathbb{A}^1$-homotopy and a conjecture of Suslin, ED 318, Education Building 16:30 - 17:00 Kasun Fernando Akurugodage (University of Toronto), Recent Advances in Probability and Stochastics, Higher order asymptotics for Large Deviations, ED 623, Education Building 16:30 - 17:00 Gilad Gour (University of Calgary), Mathematical Techniques for Analysing Quantum Structures and Materials, Mathematical structures and features of quantum resource theories, ED 106.2, Education building 16:30 - 17:00 Shakhawat Hossain (University of Winnipeg), High-Dimensional Problems in Finance and Quantitative Research, Estimation strategy of multilevel model for ordinal longitudinal data, ED 438, Education Building 16:30 - 17:00 Masoud Khalkhali (Western University), Finite and Infinite Dimensional Structures in Non-Commutative Analysis, Von Neumann information entropy, second quantization, and spectral action, ED 191, Education Building 16:30 - 17:00 Jeremy Levick (University of Cape Town), The Mathematics behind Quantum Information Science, Factorizable Quantum Channels and Linear Matrix Inequalities, ED 230, Education Building 16:30 - 17:00 Kathy Nolan (University of Regina), Indigenization and Reconciliation in Mathematics, A Reframing of Mathematics through Critical and Culturally Responsive Pedagogies, ED 558, Education Building 16:30 - 17:00 Steven Rayan (University of Saskatchewan), Topology, The quiver at the bottom of the twisted nilpotent cone on $\mathbb P^1$, ED 318, Education Building 16:30 - 17:00 David Roe (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Representation Theory of Groups Defined Over Local Fields, A database of p-adic tori, ED 312, Education Building 16:30 - 17:00 Jonathan Scott (Cleveland State University), Categorical Approaches to Topology and Geometry, Wasserstein distance for generalized persistence modules and abelian categories, ED 314, Education Building 16:30 - 17:00 John Sheekey (University College Dublin), Finite Geometry, Finite Geometry and Rank-Metric Codes, CK 185, Centre for Kinesiology 16:30 - 17:00 Yair Shenfeld (Princeton University), Probabilistic Methods in Geometric Functional Analysis and Convexity, Extremals in Minkowski's quadratic inequality, ED 193, Education Building 16:30 - 17:00 Ed Timko (University of Manitoba), Functional and Complex Analysis, Row Contractions Constrained by Higher Order Vanishing Ideals., ED 315, Education Building 16:40 - 17:10 Chi-Kwong Fok (University of Auckland), Equivariant Methods in Differential and Algebraic Geometry, Twisted K-theory and extended Verlinde algebra, ED 106.1, Education Building 17:00 - 17:30 Bruce Gilligan (University of Regina), Functional and Complex Analysis, Pseudoconvex homogeneous manifolds, ED 315, Education Building 17:00 - 17:30 Nicole Kitt (University of Calgary), Representation Theory of Groups Defined Over Local Fields, An ABV-packet for a General Linear Group with Two Representations, ED 312, Education Building 17:00 - 17:30 Thuntida Ngamkham (University of Calgary), High-Dimensional Problems in Finance and Quantitative Research, Confidence intervals for a ratio of binomial proportions, ED 438, Education Building 17:00 - 17:30 Cihan Okay (University of British Columbia), Topology, Mod-$\ell$ homotopy type of the classifying space for commutativity, ED 318, Education Building 17:00 - 17:30 Rajesh Pereira (University of Guelph), The Mathematics behind Quantum Information Science, Quasiorthogonal algebras, ED 230, Education Building 17:00 - 17:30 Volker Runde (University of Alberta), Finite and Infinite Dimensional Structures in Non-Commutative Analysis, Amenability of the Fourier algebra in the completely bounded multiplier norm, ED 191, Education Building 17:00 - 17:30 Gale Russell (University of Regina), Indigenization and Reconciliation in Mathematics, Truth before Reconciliation in Mathematics and Mathematics Education: An Invitation to Action, ED 558, Education Building 17:00 - 17:30 Artur Sowa (University of Saskatchewan), Mathematical Techniques for Analysing Quantum Structures and Materials, Qubits, wavelets, fractals, bands, ED 106.2, Education building 17:00 - 17:30 Kateryna Tatarko (University of Alberta), Probabilistic Methods in Geometric Functional Analysis and Convexity, On the solution to the reverse isoperimetric problem, ED 193, Education Building 17:00 - 17:30 Sarai Hernandez Torres (University of British Columbia), Recent Advances in Probability and Stochastics, Scaling limits of uniform spanning trees in three dimensions, ED 623, Education Building 17:20 - 17:50 Jeffrey Carlson (University of Toronto), Equivariant Methods in Differential and Algebraic Geometry, The equivariant K-theory of a cohomogeneity-one action, ED 106.1, Education Building 17:30 - 18:00 Anthony Bahri (Rider University), Topology, Polyhedral products and their applications, ED 318, Education Building 17:30 - 18:00 Sabine Burgdorf (University of Konstanz), The Mathematics behind Quantum Information Science, Quantum correlations and optimization, ED 230, Education Building 17:30 - 18:00 Susanna Dann (Universidad de los Andes), Probabilistic Methods in Geometric Functional Analysis and Convexity, Affine isoperimetric inequalities on flag manifolds., ED 193, Education Building 17:30 - 18:00 Daniel Drimbe (University of Regina), Finite and Infinite Dimensional Structures in Non-Commutative Analysis, Prime II$_1$ factors arising from actions of product groups, ED 191, Education Building 17:30 - 18:00 Richard Fournier (Dawson College), Functional and Complex Analysis, A Schwarz lemma for locally univalent meromorphic functions, ED 315, Education Building 17:30 - 18:00 Open Discussion, Indigenization and Reconciliation in Mathematics, ED 558, Education Building 17:30 - 18:00 Salma Saad (University of Regina), High-Dimensional Problems in Finance and Quantitative Research, Asymptotic Analysis of Method of Moments Estimators of Parameters p and m for the Binomial Distribution, ED 438, Education Building 17:30 - 18:00 Loren Spice (Texas Christian University), Representation Theory of Groups Defined Over Local Fields, New developments in the construction of tame, supercuspidal representations, ED 312, Education Building 17:30 - 18:00 David Wehlau (Royal Military College of Canada), Finite Geometry, Planes, Division Sequences and ZZ-topes, CK 185, Centre for Kinesiology 17:30 - 18:00 Seth Wolbert (University of Manitoba), Categorical Approaches to Topology and Geometry, Fibrations as presentations of actions on stacks, ED 314, Education Building 18:00 - 18:30 Javad Mashreghi (Université Laval), Functional and Complex Analysis, Approximation schemes in function spaces, ED 315, Education Building 19:00 - 22:30 Reception and Awards Banquet, Regency Ballroom, Hotel Saskatchewan Sunday June 9 7:30 - 18:00 Registration, ED 101.1 Corridor, Education Building 8:00 - 8:30 Darja Barr (University of Manitoba), Assessment in Mathematics, Taking Math Students from 'Blah' to 'Aha': How Can Assessment Help?, ED 623, Education Building 8:00 - 8:30 Murray R. Bremner (University of Saskatchewan), Matrix Theory and its Applications, Computing a short basis for the nullspace of a modular matrix, ED 106.2, Education building 8:00 - 8:30 Robin Cockett (University of Calgary), Categorical Approaches to Topology and Geometry, Hyperconnections, ED 314, Education Building 8:00 - 8:30 Curran McConnell (Dalhousie University), STUDC Research Session, Combinatorics of spaces of trees: an application of topology to phylogenetics, CK 185, Centre for Kinesiology 8:00 - 8:30 Vern Paulsen (University of Waterloo), Finite and Infinite Dimensional Structures in Non-Commutative Analysis, Preservation of the joint essential matricial range, ED 191, Education Building 8:00 - 8:30 Steven Rayan (University of Saskatchewan), Equivariant Methods in Differential and Algebraic Geometry, Linearizations of character varieties of curves: geometry and mirror symmetry, ED 106.1, Education Building 8:00 - 8:30 Jie Xiao (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Probabilistic Methods in Geometric Functional Analysis and Convexity, Gaussian BV Capacity, ED 193, Education Building 8:30 - 16:30 AARMS-CMS Student Poster Session, ED 101.1 Corridor, Education Building 8:30 - 9:00 Heath Emerson (University of Victoria), Finite and Infinite Dimensional Structures in Non-Commutative Analysis, Transversals and Connes' duality for the irrational rotation algebra, ED 191, Education Building 8:30 - 9:00 Tyrone Ghaswala (University of Manitoba), Topology, Promoting circle actions to actions on the real line, ED 318, Education Building 8:30 - 9:00 Gilad Gour (University of Calgary), The Mathematics behind Quantum Information Science, Theories of Dynamical Quantum Resources, ED 230, Education Building 8:30 - 9:00 Chris Kapulkin (Western University), Categorical Approaches to Topology and Geometry, Cubical models of higher category theory, ED 314, Education Building 8:30 - 9:00 Rebecca Milley (Grenfell Campus, Memorial University), Assessment in Mathematics, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic: Assessment Strategies for Readings and Written Work in Mathematics, ED 623, Education Building 8:30 - 9:00 Pietro Paparella (University of Washington Bothell), Matrix Theory and its Applications, Matricial Proofs of Some Classical Results about Critical Point Location, ED 106.2, Education building 8:30 - 9:00 Arzu Sardarli (First Nations University of Canada), Indigenization and Reconciliation in Mathematics, Use of Indigenous elements in teaching introductory Statistics courses, ED 558, Education Building 8:30 - 9:00 Asmita Sodhi (Dalhousie University), STUDC Research Session, Integer-valued polynomials and a game called $p$-ordering, CK 185, Centre for Kinesiology 8:30 - 9:00 Deping Ye (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Probabilistic Methods in Geometric Functional Analysis and Convexity, The polar Orlicz-Minkowski problem, ED 193, Education Building 8:30 - 9:00 Qing Zhang (University of Calgary), Representation Theory of Groups Defined Over Local Fields, local converse theorems for unitary groups, ED 312, Education Building 8:50 - 9:20 Evan Sundbo (University of Saskatchewan), Equivariant Methods in Differential and Algebraic Geometry, The Geometry of Twisted Cyclic Quiver Varieties, ED 106.1, Education Building 9:00 - 9:30 Lauren DeDieu (University of Calgary), Assessment in Mathematics, Using Assessments to Boost Motivation in a Second-Year Linear Algebra Class, ED 623, Education Building 9:00 - 9:30 Doug Farenick (University of Regina), Indigenization and Reconciliation in Mathematics, Acts of Reconciliation -- A Scientist's Experience, ED 558, Education Building 9:00 - 9:30 Francesco Fidaleo (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Finite and Infinite Dimensional Structures in Non-Commutative Analysis, Uniquely Ergodic $C^*$-Dynamical Systems for the noncommutative 2-torus, ED 191, Education Building 9:00 - 9:30 Qingzhong Huang (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Probabilistic Methods in Geometric Functional Analysis and Convexity, The $L_p$ John ellipsoid for Sobolev functions, ED 193, Education Building 9:00 - 9:30 Nicole Kitt (University of Calgary), STUDC Research Session, How to calculate perverse sheaves on quiver representation varieties of type A, CK 185, Centre for Kinesiology 9:00 - 9:30 Joshua Lansky (American University), Representation Theory of Groups Defined Over Local Fields, Explicit liftings of conjugacy classes in finite reductive groups, ED 312, Education Building 9:00 - 9:30 Zach Lindsey (Western University), Categorical Approaches to Topology and Geometry, Cubical models of higher category theory, ED 314, Education Building 9:00 - 9:30 Keivan Monfared (University of Victoria), Matrix Theory and its Applications, An Analog of Matrix Tree Theorem for Signless Laplacians, ED 106.2, Education building 9:00 - 9:30 Patrick Naylor (University of Waterloo), Topology, Trisections and twists of 4-manifolds, ED 318, Education Building 9:00 - 9:30 Carlo Maria Scandolo (University of Calgary), The Mathematics behind Quantum Information Science, Necessary and Sufficient Conditions on Measurements of Quantum Channels, ED 230, Education Building 9:30 - 10:00 Raphael Clouatre (University of Manitoba), Finite and Infinite Dimensional Structures in Non-Commutative Analysis, Residual finite-dimensionality for general operator algebras, ED 191, Education Building 9:30 - 10:00 Hellen Colman (Wilbur Wright College), Categorical Approaches to Topology and Geometry, Equivariant motion planning, ED 314, Education Building 9:30 - 10:00 Jason Crann (Carleton University), The Mathematics behind Quantum Information Science, State convertibility in the von Neumann algebra framework., ED 230, Education Building 9:30 - 10:00 Anne Dranowski (Univeristy of Toronto), STUDC Research Session, MV cycles from generalized orbital varieties, CK 185, Centre for Kinesiology 9:30 - 10:00 Christopher Eagle (University of Victoria), Assessment in Mathematics, In-class formative assessment in proof-heavy courses, ED 623, Education Building 9:30 - 10:00 Colin Garnett (Black Hills State University), Matrix Theory and its Applications, Non-sparse Companion Matrices, ED 106.2, Education building 9:30 - 10:00 Open Discussion, Indigenization and Reconciliation in Mathematics, ED 558, Education Building 9:30 - 10:00 Kate Poirier (New York City College of Technology), Topology, Directed planar trees, V-infinity algebras, and string topology, ED 318, Education Building 9:30 - 10:00 Wan-Yu Tsai (University of Ottawa), Representation Theory of Groups Defined Over Local Fields, The orbit philosophy for Spin groups, ED 312, Education Building 9:30 - 10:00 Sudan Xing (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Probabilistic Methods in Geometric Functional Analysis and Convexity, The general dual-polar Orlicz-Minkowski problem, ED 193, Education Building 9:40 - 10:10 Jordan Watts (Central Michigan University), Equivariant Methods in Differential and Algebraic Geometry, Classifying Spaces for Diffeological Groups, ED 106.1, Education Building 10:00 - 16:30 Exhibits, ED 101.1 Corridor, Education Building 10:00 - 10:30 Peter Bradshaw (Simon Fraser University), STUDC Research Session, Cops and robbers on Cayley graphs, CK 185, Centre for Kinesiology 10:00 - 10:30 Berndt Brenken (University of Calgary), Finite and Infinite Dimensional Structures in Non-Commutative Analysis, Partial isometries implementing cpc C*- dynamical systems, ED 191, Education Building 10:00 - 10:30 Victor Glasgo (Case Western Reserve University), Probabilistic Methods in Geometric Functional Analysis and Convexity, Gravitational illumination bodies (Preliminary report), ED 193, Education Building 10:00 - 10:30 Rory Lucyshyn-Wright (Brandon University), Categorical Approaches to Topology and Geometry, Functional distribution monads and $\tau$-additive measures 10:00 - 10:30 Rebecca McKay (University of New Brunswick, Saint John), Assessment in Mathematics, Active Assessment, ED 623, Education Building 10:00 - 10:30 Comfort Mintah (University of Guelph), The Mathematics behind Quantum Information Science, Operator algebras and quantum one-way LOCC state distinguishability, ED 230, Education Building 10:00 - 10:30 Open Discussion, Indigenization and Reconciliation in Mathematics, ED 558, Education Building 10:00 - 10:30 Hadi Salmasian (University of Ottawa), Representation Theory of Groups Defined Over Local Fields, The minimal faithful dimension of finite p-groups: an application of the orbit method to the essential dimension, ED 312, Education Building 10:00 - 10:30 Krishanu Sankar (University of British Columbia), Topology, Mod 2 cohomology and the braid group, ED 318, Education Building 10:00 - 10:30 Xiaohong Zhang (University of Manitoba), Matrix Theory and its Applications, Perfect state transfer on weighted paths, ED 106.2, Education building 10:30 - 11:00 Break, ED 101.1 Corridor, Education Building 10:30 - 12:00 Student Committee, CK 187, Centre for Kinesiology 11:00 - 12:00 Denis Auroux (Harvard University), Plenary Lecture, An Invitation to Homological Mirror Symmetry, EA 106, Education Building 12:00 - 13:30 CMS AGM, ED191, Education Building 13:30 - 16:00 Mathematical Competitions Committee, ED 192, Education Building 13:30 - 14:30 Gregory Lawler (University of Chicago), Plenary Lecture, Random fractals from statistical physics, EA 106, Education Building 14:30 - 15:30 Jeremy Quastel (University of Toronto), Jefferey-Williams Prize, EA 106, Education Building 15:30 - 16:00 Break, ED 101.1 Corridor, Education Building 16:00 - 16:30 Discussion Session, Assessment in Mathematics, ED 623, Education Building 16:00 - 16:30 Alexander Litvak (University of Alberta), Probabilistic Methods in Geometric Functional Analysis and Convexity, On the volume ratio between convex bodies, ED 193, Education Building 16:00 - 16:30 Lon Mitchell (University of South Florida St. Petersburg), Matrix Theory and its Applications, Optimal Colin de Verdière Matrices for Complete Multipartite Graphs, ED 106.2, Education building 16:00 - 16:30 A. Sarobidy Razafimahatratra (University of Regina), Contributed Papers, Erdős–Ko–Rado Theorem for permutation groups, CK 185, Centre for Kinesiology 16:00 - 16:30 Neil J. Ross (Dalhousie University), The Mathematics behind Quantum Information Science, A Characterization of Integral, Real, and Gaussian Clifford+T Operators, ED 230, Education Building 16:00 - 16:30 Laura Scull (Fort Lewis College), Categorical Approaches to Topology and Geometry, Defining Bicategories of Fractions with Small Hom Sets, ED 314, Education Building 16:00 - 16:30 Jiun-Chau Wang (University of Saskatchewan), Finite and Infinite Dimensional Structures in Non-Commutative Analysis, Probability measures in bi-free probability, ED 191, Education Building 16:00 - 16:30 Kirill Zanoulline (University of Ottawa), Equivariant Methods in Differential and Algebraic Geometry, Localized Landweber-Novikov operations on generalized cohomology, ED 106.1, Education Building 16:30 - 17:00 Danny Dyer (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Assessment in Mathematics, ED 623, Education Building 16:30 - 17:00 Sam Harris (University of Waterloo), The Mathematics behind Quantum Information Science, Separating the matrix-valued bipartite correlation sets, ED 230, Education Building 16:30 - 17:00 Cristian Ivanescu (MacEwan University), Finite and Infinite Dimensional Structures in Non-Commutative Analysis, Pedersen ideals of tensor products of nonunital C*-algebras, ED 191, Education Building 16:30 - 17:00 Paata Ivanisvili (University of California, Irvine), Probabilistic Methods in Geometric Functional Analysis and Convexity, Weissler's conjecture on the Hamming cube, ED 193, Education Building 16:30 - 17:00 Sivaram K. Narayan (Central Michigan University), Matrix Theory and its Applications, Graph Complement Conjecture for Classes of Shadow Graphs, ED 106.2, Education building 16:30 - 17:00 Dorette Pronk (Dalhousie University), Categorical Approaches to Topology and Geometry, Nice properties of the bicategory of orbigroupoids, ED 314, Education Building 16:30 - 17:00 Zhenyuan Zhang (University of Waterloo), Contributed Papers, On discrete-time self-similar processes with stationary increments, CK 185, Centre for Kinesiology 16:40 - 17:10 Changlong Zhong (SUNY Albany), Equivariant Methods in Differential and Algebraic Geometry, On the K-theoretic stable bases, ED 106.1, Education Building 17:00 - 17:30 Sergii Myroshnychenko (University of Alberta), Probabilistic Methods in Geometric Functional Analysis and Convexity, ED 193, Education Building 17:00 - 17:30 Hossein Pourali (Brandon University), Contributed Papers, ALGEBRAIC AND GRAPH THEORETIC ASPECTS IN LATTICES AND POSETS, CK 185, Centre for Kinesiology 17:00 - 17:30 Patrick Reynolds (University of New Brunswick), Assessment in Mathematics, Assessing and Grading with Crowdmark, ED 623, Education Building 17:00 - 17:30 Jamie Sikora (Perimeter Institute), The Mathematics behind Quantum Information Science, Shadow Probabilities, ED 230, Education Building 17:00 - 17:30 Edward Timko (University of Manitoba), Finite and Infinite Dimensional Structures in Non-Commutative Analysis, The Spectrum of Constrained Model $d$-tuples, ED 191, Education Building 17:00 - 17:30 Jordan Watts (Central Michigan University), Categorical Approaches to Topology and Geometry, Bredon Cohomology for Transitive Groupoids, ED 314, Education Building 17:00 - 17:30 Harmony Zhan (Université de Montréal), Matrix Theory and its Applications, Quantum state transfer in the algebra of the Johnson scheme, ED 106.2, Education building 17:20 - 17:50 Tom Baird (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Equivariant Methods in Differential and Algebraic Geometry, E-polynomials of character varieties associated to a real curve, ED 106.1, Education Building 17:30 - 18:00 Marie Langlois (Cornell University), Assessment in Mathematics, Using Free Online Software to Efficiently Assess Students, ED 623, Education Building 17:30 - 18:00 Saleh Mustafa (University of Regina), Contributed Papers, Higher Rank Numerical Ranges for Certain Non-normal Matrices, CK 185, Centre for Kinesiology 17:30 - 18:00 Satish Pandey (Technion), The Mathematics behind Quantum Information Science, ED 230, Education Building 17:30 - 18:00 Anamaria Savu (University of Alberta), Finite and Infinite Dimensional Structures in Non-Commutative Analysis, Conservative Restricted Solid-on-Solid Model, ED 191, Education Building 17:30 - 18:00 Boaz Slomka (Weizmann Institute of Science), Probabilistic Methods in Geometric Functional Analysis and Convexity, On Hadwiger's covering problem, ED 193, Education Building 17:30 - 18:00 Kerry Tarrant (University of Iowa), Matrix Theory and its Applications, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Minimally Cop Win and Maximally Robber Win Graphs, ED 106.2, Education building 17:30 - 18:00 Joel Villatoro (KU Leuven), Categorical Approaches to Topology and Geometry, Geometric structures on differentiable stacks, ED 314, Education Building Monday June 10 7:30 - 18:00 Registration, ED 101.1 Corridor, Education Building 8:00 - 8:30 Robert Bailey (Memorial University of Newfoundland - Grenfell Campus), Matrix Theory and its Applications, Orthogonal matrices with zero diagonal, ED 106.2, Education building 8:00 - 8:30 Kristine Bauer (University of Calgary), Categorical Approaches to Topology and Geometry, The Kleisli category of a pseudomonad for chain complexes, CK 187, Centre for Kinesiology 8:00 - 8:30 Derek Krepski (University of Manitoba), Equivariant Methods in Differential and Algebraic Geometry, An analogue of Kostant’s formula for Lie group-valued moment maps, ED 106.1, Education Building 8:30 - 9:00 Chun-Hua Guo (University of Regina), Matrix Theory and its Applications, Explicit convergence region of Newton's method for the matrix $p$th root, ED 106.2, Education building 8:30 - 9:00 JS Lemay (Oxford University), Categorical Approaches to Topology and Geometry, The Poincaré Lemma for Codifferential Categories with Antiderivatives, CK 187, Centre for Kinesiology 8:50 - 9:20 Yiannis Loizides (Penn State University), Equivariant Methods in Differential and Algebraic Geometry, Quasi-polynomials, asymptotics and [Q,R]=0, ED 106.1, Education Building 9:00 - 9:30 Ben McAdam (University of Calgary), Categorical Approaches to Topology and Geometry, Involution Algebroids, CK 187, Centre for Kinesiology 9:00 - 9:30 Rajesh Pereira (University of Guelph), Matrix Theory and its Applications, The real joint numerical range and the real higher rank numerical range, ED 106.2, Education building 9:30 - 10:00 Samuel Cole (University of Manitoba), Matrix Theory and its Applications, Spectral recovery of stochastic block models on graphs and hypergraphs, ED 106.2, Education building 9:30 - 10:00 Geoff Cruttwell (Mount Allison University), Categorical Approaches to Topology and Geometry, Curvature and torsion without negatives, CK 187, Centre for Kinesiology 9:40 - 10:10 Mark Hamilton (Mount Allison University), Equivariant Methods in Differential and Algebraic Geometry, Integral integral affine geometry, quantization, and Riemann-Roch., ED 106.1, Education Building 10:00 - 10:30 Marzieh Bayeh (Dalhousie University), Categorical Approaches to Topology and Geometry, Orbit Category and The Category of Orbit Classes, CK 187, Centre for Kinesiology 10:00 - 10:30 Mahsa Nasrollahi Shirazi (University of Regina), Matrix Theory and its Applications, Erdős-Ko-Rado theorem for t-intersecting families of perfect matchings, ED 106.2, Education building 10:30 - 11:00 Break, ED 101.1 Corridor, Education Building 11:00 - 12:00 Julia Gordon (University of British Columbia), Krieger-Nelson Prize, Quantifier elimination and uniform bounds for oscillatory integrals, EA 106, Education Building 13:30 - 14:30 Walking Tour of First Nations University of Canada, First Nations University of Canada 14:45 - 15:15 Darien Dewolf (St. Francis Xavier University), Categorical Approaches to Topology and Geometry, The equivalence of ordered groupoids and left cancellative categories using double categories, CK 187, Centre for Kinesiology 14:45 - 15:15 Jeremy Lane (University of Geneva), Equivariant Methods in Differential and Algebraic Geometry, Volume exhausting, $T$-equivariant symplectic embeddings of toric manifolds into regular coadjoint orbits, ED 106.1, Education Building 14:45 - 15:15 Gurmail Singh (University of Regina), Matrix Theory and its Applications, Encoding the vertices of a hyper cube, ED 106.2, Education building 15:15 - 15:45 Eugene Bilokopytov (University of Manitoba), Matrix Theory and its Applications, From Principal Minor Assignment problem for matrices to characterization of the isometries on Hilbert Spaces, ED 106.2, Education building 15:15 - 15:45 Curran McConnell (Dalhousie University), Categorical Approaches to Topology and Geometry, Combinatorics of spaces of trees: an application of topology to phylogenetics, CK 187, Centre for Kinesiology 15:25 - 15:55 Peter Crooks (Northeastern University), Equivariant Methods in Differential and Algebraic Geometry, Kostant-Toda lattices and invariant theory, ED 106.1, Education Building 15:45 - 16:15 Robert Craigen (University of Manitoba), Matrix Theory and its Applications, ED 106.2, Education building 15:45 - 16:15 Michael Lambert (Dalhousie University), Categorical Approaches to Topology and Geometry, A Site for Continuous 2-Group Actions, CK 187, Centre for Kinesiology 16:05 - 16:35 Rebecca Goldin (George Mason University), Equivariant Methods in Differential and Algebraic Geometry, Schubert Calculus, Schubert Operators, and Positivity, ED 106.1, Education Building 16:15 - 16:45 Jonathan Gallagher (Dalhousie University), Categorical Approaches to Topology and Geometry, Etale Subobject classifiers in SDG and tangent categories, CK 187, Centre for Kinesiology 16:15 - 16:45 Nathan Krislock (Northern Illinois University), Matrix Theory and its Applications, ED 106.2, Education building