Public Lecture

Alexei G. Myasnikov (McGill) - Complexity of Computations and Cryptography


Plenary Speakers

Michael Bennett (British Columbia)
Persi Diaconis (Stanford)
Rostislav Grigorchuk (Texas A&M)
François Lalonde (Université de Montréal)
Rainer Steinwandt (Karlsruhe)


Prizes and Awards

CMS Adrien Pouliot Prize Jean-Marie De Koninck (Laval)
CMS Coxeter-James Prize Lecture Izabella Laba (British Columbia)
CMS Doctoral Prize Lecture Nicolaas Spronk (Waterloo)
CMS G. de B. Robinson Award     Victor Havin (St. Petersburg),
Javad Mashreghi (Laval)
CMS Distinguished Service Award     Edgar Goodaire (Memorial)


Sessions

By invitation of the Meeting Committee, there will be sessions in the following areas. Following is the preliminary list of speakers. Participants interested in delivering a talk in one of the sessions, should contact one of the organizers of that session.

Algebraic Combinatorics
Org: François Bergeron, Riccardo Biagioli, Peter McNamara and Christophe Reutenauer (UQAM)

, Nantel Bergeron (York), Francesco Brenti (Rome), Sergey Fomin (Michigan), Ian Goulden (Waterloo), Frederico Incitti (KTH, Stockholm), David Jackson (Waterloo), Mercedes Rosas (York), Mark Skandera (Dartmouth), Richard Stanley (MIT), John Stembridge (Michigan), Stephanie van Willigenburg (UBC), Mike Zabrocki (York).

Approximation Theory
Org: Richard Fournier and Paul Gauthier (Montreal)

Thomas Bloom (Toronto), André Boivin (Western), Maxim Burke (PEI), Dimiter Dryanov (Concordia), Serge Dubuc (Montréal), Richard Fournier (CRM), Paul Gauthier (Montréal), Dan Kucerovsky (UNB), Javad Mashreghi (Laval), Thomas Ransford (Laval), Gerald Schmieder (Oldenburg), Jie Xiao (Memorial), Eduardo Zeron (Mexico), Ping Zhou (St. Francis Xavier).

Arithmetic Geometry
Org: Eyal Goren (McGill) and Adrian Iovita (Concordia)

Gil Alon (CICMA), David Boyd (UBC), Imin Chen (SFU), Sebastian Cioaba (Queen's), Pete Clark (CICMA), Henri Darmon (McGill), Samit Dasgupta (Harvard), Jordan Ellenberg (Wisconsin), Alexandru Ghitza (CICMA), Yoshitaka Hachimori (CICMA), Ernst Kani (Queen's), Payman Kassaei (CICMA), Hershy Kisilevsky (Concordia), Mark Kisin (Chicago), Manfred Kolster (McMaster), Gilles Lachaud (CNRS-Luminy), James Lewis (Alberta), Alvaro Lozano-Robledo (Colby College), Marc-Hubert Nicole (McGill), Ken Ono (Wisconsin), David Savitt (CICMA), Romyar Sharifi (McMaster), Ye Tian (CICMA), Mak Trifkovich (CICMA), Hui June Zhu (McMaster).

Combinatorial and Geometric Group Theory
Org: Inna Bumagin (Carleton) and Dani Wise (McGill)

Gregory Bell (Penn State), Bob Burns (York), Ruth Charney (Brandeis), Indira Chatterjee (Cornell), Sean Cleary (CUNY), Ross Geoghegan (Binghamton), Yair Glasner (UIC), Boris Goldfarb (Albany), Joint Panel Discussion, John Meier (Lafayette), Luis Ribes (Carleton), Tim Riley (Yale), Yves Stalder (Neuchâtel, Switzerland), Benjamin Steinberg (Carleton), Jennifer Taback (Bowdoin College), Francis Tang (Waterloo), Ted Turner (Albany), Karen Vogtmann (Cornell), Kevin Wortman (Cornell).

Commutative Algebra
Org: Sara Faridi (Ottawa), Sindi Sabourin (York), Will Traves (US Naval Academy) and Adam van Tuyl (Lakehead)

Jason Bell (Michigan), Alessandra Bernardi (Universita` degli Studi di Milano), Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz (Toronto), Massimo Caboara (Pisa, Italy), Jaydeep Chipalkatti (Manitoba), Brian Coolen (Queen's), Susan Cooper (Queen's), Daniel Daigle (Ottawa), Anthony Geramita (Queen's, Genova), Graham Leuschke (Syracuse), Ping Li (Queen's), Moira McDermott (Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota), Claudia Miller (Syracuse), Reza Naghipour (Tabriz, Iran), Leslie Roberts (Queen's), Michael Roth (Queen's), Monireh Sedghi (Tabriz, Iran), Gregory Smith (Queen's), David Wehlau (RMC, Queen's).

Discrete Geometry
Org: Karoly Bezdek (Calgary), Rob Calderbank (Princeton), Robert Connelly (Cornell) and Bob Erdahl (Queen's)

Karoly Bezdek (Calgary), Ted Bisztriczky (Calgary), Aiden Bruen (Calgary), Robert Connelly (Cornell), Robert J. MacG. Dawson (Saint Mary's), Robert Erdahl (Queen's), Jacob E. Goodman (CUNY), Joseph Ling (Calgary), Barry Monson (UNB), Andrei Ordine (Queen's), Kostya Rybnikov (Massachusetts), Norbert Sauer (Calgary), Egon Schulte (Northeastern), Brigitte Servatius (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA), Maria Sloughter (Cornell), Jozsef Solymosi (UBC), Ileana Streinu (Smith College, Northampton), Godfried Toussaint (McGill), Asia Ivic Weiss (York), Sue Whitesides (McGill), Allan R. Wilks (AT&T Labs-Research).

Dynamical Systems and Applications
Org: Michael A. Radin (RIT)

William Basener (RIT), Lora Billings (Montclair State), Stefanella Boatto (McMaster), Erik Bollt (Clarkson), Bernard Brooks (RIT), Leo Butler (Queen's), Hamideh D. Hamedani (Shahid Beheshti, Iran), Harold Hastings (Hofstra), Vassilios Kovanis (RIT), Herbert Kunze (Guelph), Franklin Mendivil (Acadia), Tamas Wiandt (RIT).

Groups, Equations, Non-commutative Algebraic Geometry
Org: Olga Kharlampovich and Alexei G. Myasnikov (McGill)

Dmitri Bormotov (CUNY), Ian Chiswell (Queen Mary College, London), Evelina Daniyarova (Omsk State), Volker Diekert (Stuttgart), Andrew Duncan (Newcastle), Ben Fine (Fairfield), Antony Gaglione (Naval Academy), Bob Gilman (Stevens Institute), Joint Panel Discussion, Ilya Kazatchkov (Omsk State), Olga Kharlampovich (McGill), Alexei G. Myasnikov (McGill), Vladimir Remeslennikov (Omsk State), Dennis Serbin (McGill), Dennis Spellman (Temple).

Harmonic Analysis
Org: Galia Dafni (Concordia)

James Colliander (Toronto), Paul Gauthier (Montréal), Pengfei Guan (McGill), Kathryn Hare (Waterloo), Xinhou Hua (Ottawa), Marianne Korten (Kansas State), Izabella Laba (UBC), Akos Magyar (Georgia), Javad Mashreghi (Laval), Ming Mei (Concordia), Marius Mitrea (Missouri), Camil Muscalu (Cornell), Philippe Poulin (McGill), Tom Ransford (Laval), Eric Sawyer (McMaster), Alina Stancu (Polytechnic), Paul Taylor (McMaster), Dimiter Vassilev (McGill, UQAM), Jie Xiao (Memorial).

History of Mathematics
Org: Thomas Archibald (Acadia, Dibner Institute MA), Rich O'Lander (St. John's), Ron Sklar (St. John's) and Alexei Volkov (UQAM)

Thomas Archibald (Dibner Institute, Cambridge), Ryan Beaton (McGill), Jon Borwein (Dalhousie), Louis Charbonneau (UQAM), David Coyle (Montréal, Dawson College), Joseph Dauben (CUNY), Robert Dawson (SMU), Paul Deguire (Moncton), Harold Hastings, Marysia Weiss, Yihren Wu (Hofstra), Michel Helfgott (East Tennessee State), Robert Irwin (SUNY at Oswego), Alexander Jones (Toronto), Niky Kamran (McGill), Jim Lambek (McGill), Duncan Melville (St-Lawrence, NY), Round Table Discussion, Christiane Rousseau (Montréal), Nathan Sidoli (Toronto), Glen van Brummelen (Bennington College VT), Alexei Volkov (UQAM).

Interactions between Algebra and Computer Science
Org: Olga Kharlampovich (McGill), Alexei G. Myasnikov (McGill) and Vladimir Shpilrain (CUNY)

Peter Ackermann (Dortmund), Arkady Berenstein (Oregon), Andrew Duncan (Newcastle), Ben Fine (Fairfield), Lothar Gerritzen (Bochum), Dennis Hofheinz (Karlsruhe), Stepan Holub (Prague), Joint Panel Discussion, Ilya Kapovich (UIUC), Bilal Khan (CUNY), Martin Kreuzer (Dortmund), Stuart Margolis (Bar Ilan), Alex D. Miasnikov (CUNY), Gerhard Rosenberger (Dortmund), Paul Schupp (UIUC), Lev Shneerson (CUNY), Vladimir Shpilrain (CUNY), Jiri Tuma (Prague), Alexander Ushakov (CUNY).

Mathematical Methods in Statistics
Org: Russell Steele, Alain Vandal and David Wolfson (McGill)

Jean-Francois Angers (Montréal), Masoud Asgharian (McGill), Christian Genest (Laval), Pierre Legendre (Montréal), Brenda MacGibbon (UQAM), Neal Madras (York), Paul Marriot (Waterloo), Bruno Remillard (HEC Montréal), Louis-Paul Rivest (Laval), Alain Vandal (McGill).

Mathematics for Future Teachers
Org: Leo Jonker (Queen's)

France Caron (Montréal), Viktor Freiman (Moncton), Frederic Gourdeau (Laval), John Grant McLoughlin (UNB), Richard Hill (Michigan State), Bernard Hodgson (Laval), Leo Jonker (Queen's), Cathy Kessel (Consultant, Berkeley, CA), Morris Orzech (Queen's), Christiane Rousseau (Montréal).

Number Theory
Org: Chantal David (Concordia) and Andrew Granville (Montreal)

Mark Bauer (Calgary), Alina C. Cojocaru (Princeton), Jean-Marie De Koninck (Laval), Karl Dilcher (Dalhousie), Jack Fearnley (Montréal), Harald Helfgott (Montréal), Habiba Kadiri (Montréal), Wentang Kuo (Waterloo), Youness Lamzouri (Montréal), Jung-Jo Lee (Queen's), Claude Levesque (Laval), Yu-Ru Liu (Waterloo), Said Manjra (Ottawa), David McKinnon (Waterloo), Roger Patterson (Calgary), Guillaume Ricotta (Montréal), Damien Roy (Ottawa), Michael Rubinstein (Waterloo), Renate Scheidler (Calgary), Cam Stewart (Waterloo), Zhi-Hong Sun (Carleton, Huaiyin Teachers College), Alain Togbe (Purdue), Gary Walsh (Ottawa), Hugh C. Williams (Calgary), Guangwu Xu (Toronto), Liangyi Zhao (Toronto).

Special Structures in Differential Geometry
Org: Gordon Craig (Bishop's) and Spiro Karigiannis (McMaster)

Vestislav Apostolov (UQAM), Henrique Bursztyn (Fields), Adrian Butscher (Toronto), Benoit Charbonneau (McGill), Gordon Craig (Bishops), David Duchemin (UQAM), Marco Gualtieri (Fields), Pengfei Guan (McGill), Marianty Ionel (McMaster), Niky Kamran (McGill), Spiro Karigiannis (McMaster), Maung Min-Oo (McMaster), Ruxandra Moraru (Fields).

Universal Algebra and Complexity
Org: Jennifer Hyndman (UNBC), Benoit Larose (Concordia) and Denis Therien (McGill)

David Mix Barrington (Massachusetts), Martin Beaudry (Sherbrooke), Manuel Bodirsky (Berlin), Andrei Bulatov (SFU), Victor Dalmau (UPF, Barcelona), Ricard Gavalda (TUC, Barcelona), Pavol Hell (SFU), Miki Hermann (Polytechnique, CNRS), Andrei Krokhin (Durham), Gabor Kun (Budapest), Francois Lemieux (Chicoutimi), Cynthia Loten (SFU, UCFV), Jaroslav Nesetril (Prague), Steve Seif (Louisville), Howard Straubing (Boston College), Csaba Szabó (Budapest), Pascal Tesson (Tübingen), Jiri Tuma (Prague), Matt Valeriote (McMaster), Ross Willard (Waterloo).


Contributed Papers Session

 Org: William G. Brown (McGill)

Contributed papers of 20 minutes duration are invited.

Abstracts for contributed papers should be prepared as specified below. For an abstract to be eligible, the abstract, the contributor's registration form, and payment of fees have to be received before October 10, 2004. To assist the organizers, please include the Primary AMS Classification (http://www.ams.org/msc/) and specify your wish to participate in the contributed papers session.

There will be a maximum of 20 papers in this session.