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• Allison, Bruce - Coordinate algebras for extended affine Lie algebras of rank 1
• Anshelevich, Michael - Free martingale polynomials
• Aruliah, Dhavide - Fast solvers for electromagnetic problems in geophysical regimes
• Barr, Michael - Reminiscences of category theory and Homological algebra
• Beamish, Dan - Analysis of delayed feedback arm movement
• Behrend, Kai - Quantum Cohomology and the virtual fundamental class or ``how to count properly''
• Bélair, Jacques - Oscillations in drug administration: modeling pharmacokinetics by incorporating spatial effects
• Benkart, Georgia - Two-parameter quantum groups
• Berman, Stephen - Half lattice VOA's and toroidal algebras
• Biskri, Ismail - Combinatory logic, categorial grammar and natural language processing in the framework of applicative and cognitive grammar
• Bloch, Anthony - The geometry and analysis of symmetric and discrete rigid body flows
• Bogoyavlenskij, Oleg - New symmetries of the magnetohydrodynamics equilibrium equations
• Borwein, Jonathan - Aesthetics for the working mathematican
• Bozejko, Marek - Deformed free probability of Voiculescu
• Brenken, Berndt - Hilbert bimodules and Cuntz-Krieger algebras
• Bridge, Lloyd - A one-dimensional study of condensation in a porous medium
• Buono, Pietro-Luciano - Bifurcations in reversible equivariant dynamical systems
• Burris, Stan - Boole's equational treatment of particular statements
• Butscher, Adrian - The conformal constraint equations
• Campbell, Sue Ann - Rings of oscillators with delayed coupling
• Cao, Yongqiang - Neural network for data mining
• Chen, Imin - Elliptic curves with non-split mod 11 representation
• Chen, Yu - Minimal representations of affine Kac-Moody groups
• Chen, Yuming - Discrete Lyapunov functionals and symmetry
• Choi, Man-Duen - The norm estimate for the sum of two matrices
• Choksi, Rustum - On some recent methods for capturing multiple scales in material microstructures
• Cojocaru, Monica - Dynamical study of solutions to variational inequalities and complementarity problems
• Colliander, Jim - Ill-posedness for defocussing NLS
• Corvino, Justin - Scalar curvature deformation and applications
• Cummins, Chris - Modular equations and moonshine
• Daskalopoulos, Panagiota - Gauss curvature flow with flat sides: all time regularity of the interface
• Davidson, Ken - A Perron-Frobenius theorem for completely positive maps
• DeBello, Joan and Ronald Sklar - Woody Bledsoe's people-oriented approach to automated theorem proving
• Demaine, Erik - History of geometric constructions by paper folding
• Dionne, Benoit - Heteroclinic cycles and wreath product symmetries
• Elliott, George - An amenable properly infinite C<sup>*</sup>-algebra with a full finite projection
• Enekel, Robert - Fast pseudorandom number generation: mathematical innovation and architectural exploitation
• Fan, Lisa and Brien McGuire - An overview of an undergraduate student mentoring program
• Field, David - Assessing the quality of triangulation
• Filali, Mahmoud - On minimal idempotents in LUC(G)<sup>*</sup> and in similar algebras
• Floricel, Remus - Inner endomorphisms for von Neumann algebras
• Franz, Uwe - Free Lévy processes on dual groups
• Fraser, Ailana - The fundamental group of manifolds with positive isotropic curvature
• Friendly, Michael - The graphical works of Charles Joseph Minard
• Frigaard, Ian - Non-Newtonian displacement flows in the cementing of oil wells
• Gallant, Charles - Mathematics B.C.-when dinosaurs roamed the earth
• Gannon, Terry - The character of VOAs
• Gannon, Terry - Generalised Moonshine
• Golubitsky, Martin - Oscillations in coupled systems and animal gaits
• Goodman, Fred - Free probability of type B
• Grantcharov, Dimitar - A classification of the irreducible weight sl(n|1)-modules
• Guan, Bo - Regularity of pluricomplex Green functions
• Gustafson, Steve - Effective dynamics of magnetic vortices
• Guta, Madalin - On a class of generalised Brownian motions
• Hamel, Angele - Allowable Pairs and Labeled Trees: A Leaf-Preserving Bijection
• Hang, Fengbo - Density problem for Sobolev mappings
• Haskins, Mark - Singularities of special Lagrangian 3-folds
• Heinrich, Katherine - ``and nothing else has quite the kick of mathematics''
• Hurd, Tom - Martingales and their role in mathematical finance
• Ismail, Mourad - Some combinatorial statistics associated with the Rogers-Ramanujan identities
• Jakobson, Dima - Spectra of elements in the group ring of SU(2)
• Jerrard, Robert - Vortex density models
• Jung, Kenley - Free entropy dimension computations
• Junge, Marius - Martingale inequalities for noncommutative martingales
• Jurdjevic, Velimir - S. Kowalewski and the mathematical legacy of the top
• Klein, Moses - Set-theoretic perspectives on subgroups of Z^w
• Knopf, Dan - Rotationally symmetric shrinking and expanding gradient Kähler-Ricci solitons
• Kochman, Stanley - Maple labs for calculus
• Köstler, Claus - Inequalities for continuous non-commutative martingales
• Kribs, David - Weighted shifts on Fock space
• Lambek, Jim - The number systems in Greek philosophy
• LeBlanc, Victor G. - Forced symmetry-breaking for spiral waves
• Lewis, Gregory - Double Hopf bifurcations in the differentially heated rotating fluid annulus
• Liang, Dong - Numerical modelling of a 2D moving liquid drop/bubble on a solid surface
• Lin, Yanan
• Liu, Weijiu - Stabilization, controllability and observability for electromagnetic fields in dissipative material regions
• Lovric, Miroslav - Old math textbooks-Why did we abandon them?
• Marcoux, Laurent - Conjugation invariant subspaces of non-selfadjoint operator algebras
• McGuire, Brien and Lisa Fan - An overview of an undergraduate student mentoring program
• McKay, John - Two hundred years of Moonshine-from Gauss to the present day
• Melville, Duncan - Categories of representations for quantum affine algebras and certain subalgebras
• Milson, Robert - Invariant modules and dynamical symmetries of non-linear evolution equations
• Mingarelli, Angelo - The golden section in early renaissance Italian art
• Mingo, James - Self-similarity of Hofstadter's butterfly
• Mini-symposium
• Musat, Magdalena - Non-commutative BMO and John-Nirenberg theorem
• Nagata, Wayne - Reaction-diffusion models of growing plant tips: bifurcations on hemispheres
• Neher, Erhard - Locally finite root systems
• Ng, Nathan - Limiting distributions and zeros of Artin L-functions
• Norton, Simon - Counting nets in the Monster
• Ockendon, John - Simulating mathematics in industry
• Oellermann, Ortrud R. - Bipartite rainbow Ramsey numbers
• Pang, Peter - Nonlinear Schroedinger flows and equations
• Patrick, George W. - Stability of relative equilibria-noncompact symmetry and nongeneric momentumm
• Pianzola, Arturo - Local triviality and infinite dimensional Lie algebras
• Pimm, David - Interactions between language and mathematics: fluency, understanding and time
• Promislow, Keith - Front dynamics in PEM fuel cells
• Pugh, Mary - Long-time results for thin film equations
• Putnam, Ian - Recent results on orbit equivalence for Cantor minimal systems
• Radin, Michael - Boundedness and periodicity nature of positive solutions of a max-type difference equation x[n+1] = max_{1/x[n], A[n]/x[n-1]}
• Ratzkin, Jesse - An end to end gluing contstruction for constant mean curvature surfaces
• Robinson, Don - Anomaly cancellation in the standard model of particle physics
• Rotman, Rina - The length of a shortest closed geodesic
• Ruan, Shigui - Global dynamics of a ratio-dependent predator-prey system
• Ruan, Zhong-Jin - Approximation properties of non-commutative L_p spaces associated with discrete groups
• Ruoff, Dieter - An inventory of topics which belong to elementary hyperbolic geometry
• Ryan, Dan - Flow of a visco-plastic fluid in a wavy walled channel
• Sakakibara, Nobuhisa - Stieltjes moment problems on abelian *-semigroups
• Samaey, Giovanni - Numerical computation of connnecting orbits in delay differential equations
• Schilling, Anne - String functions, q-supernomials and a bijection between riggings and ribbons
• Schoen, Richard - Constructing calibrated submanifolds
• Schwendeman, Donald - Multiphase flow in a roll press nip: modeling and computations
• Sebbar, Abdellah - On the Moonshine congruence groups
• Seco, Luis - Mathematical finance: past, present and future
• Session A - Questions explored
• Session B - Answers sought
• Shimozono, Mark - Combinatorics of affine crystals and nilpotent varieties
• Sklar, Ronald and Joan DeBello - Woody Bledsoe's people-oriented approach to automated theorem proving
• Sniatycki, Jedrzej - Non-holonomic singular reduction
• Spring, David - The golden age of immersion theory in topology: 1959-1973
• Stefan, Marius - Applications of free entropy to certain type II₁-subfactors
• Stockie, John - Modelling condensation in porous media
• Suceava, Bogdan - Riemannian obstructions to minimal isometric immersions in Euclidean spaces
• Timorin, Vladen - Four dimensional geometry of circles
• Tourin, Agnes - Optimal glider flying
• van Wijngaarden, W.A. - History of lasers
• Voiculescu, Dan - Free entropy
• Westbrook, Rex - Sag bending
• Wetton, Brian - Dynamical contact angle of a drop in steady state motion
• Yamada, Sumio - Harmonic mappings into Teichmueller spaces
• Yong, Alexander - On Quantum cohomology for the Grassmannian
• Yoshii, Yoji - Root systems extended by an abelian group G, and the classification of Lie G-tori of type B
• Young, Carmen - Another look at Gromov compactness in dimension 4
• Yui, Noriko - Mirror moonshine phenomenon: examples
• Zabrocki, Mike - A quantization of non-commutative symmetric functions
• Zhao, Kaiming - Quantum differential operator algebras
• Zhao, Xiaoqiang - Fisher waves in an epidemic model
• Ziarko, Wojciech - Rough sets: the origins and current status
• Zou, Xingfu - Monotonicity jointly induced by delay and non-local effect in a population model