Scientific Sessions

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

Algebraic Combinatorics, Representations and Geometry
Org: Lex Renner (Western) and Benjamin Steinberg (Carleton)

Marcelo Aguiar (Texas A&M), Mahir Can (Western), John Fountain (York, UK), Eddy Godelle (Caen), Christophe Hohlweg (UQAM), Zhenheng Li (South Carolina), Zhuo Li (Xiangtan University, China), Martin Malandro (Dartmouth), Claus Mokler (Wuppertal), Lex Renner (Western), Franco Saliola (UQAM), Benjamin Steinberg (Carleton), Hugh Thomas (UNB), Hamid Usefi (UBC), Steven Wang (Carleton).

Algebraic Stacks
Org: Ajneet Dhillon (Western)

Jarod Alper (Stanford), Arend Bayer (Utah), Renzo Cavalieri (Michigan), Mike Fried (California-Irvine), Yufeng Jiang (UBC), Kiumars Kaveh (Toronto), Daniel Krashen (Yale), Manish Kumar (Purdue), Behrang Noohi (Florida State), Greg Smith (Queen's), Razvan Veliche (Utah).

Algorithmic Challenges in Polynomial and Linear Algebra
Org: Stephen Watt (Western)

Carlos Beltran (Toronto), Jon Borwein (Dalhousie), Jacques Carette (McMaster), Wayne Eberly (Calgary), William M. Farmer (McMaster), Mark Giesbrecht (Waterloo), Michael Jacobson (Calgary), Ilias Kotsireas (Wilfrid Laurier), George Labahn (Waterloo), Songxin Liang (Western; Maplesoft), John May (Maplesoft), Marc Moreno-Maza (Waterloo), Eric Schost (Waterloo), Arne Storjohann (Waterloo), Yuzhen Xie (Waterloo).

Calculus of Variations in Physics, Geometry and Economics
Org: Robert McCann and Benjamin Stephens (Toronto)

Almut Burchard (Toronto), Adrian Butscher (Stanford), Albert Chau (UBC), Alessio Figalli (Pisa), Yuxin Ge (Paris XII; Washington), Marc Henry (Montreal), Young-Heon Kim (Toronto), Abdeslem Lyaghfouri (Toronto), Abbas Moameni (Queen's), Santiago Moreno (UBC), Daniel Offin (Queen's), Alexander Shnirelman (Concordia), Alina Stancu (Concordia), Dennis The (McGill), Maxim Trokhimtchouk (Berkeley).

Combinatorics and its Applications to Mathematical Physics
Org: Michael Gekhtman (Notre Dame) and Michael Shapiro (Michigan State)

Renzo Cavalieri (Michigan), Leonid Chekhov (Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow), Shaun Fallat (Regina), Anna Felikson (Moscow Independent University), Sergei Fomin (Michigan), Christof Geiss (UNAM, Mexico), Ian Goulden (Waterloo), David Jackson (Waterloo), Peter Magyar (Michigan State), Bruce Sagan (Michigan State), Mark Skandera (Lehigh), John Stembridge (Michigan), Ravi Vakil (Stanford), Dave Wagner (Waterloo).

Complex Analytic Geometry
Org: Tatyana Foth (Western), Finnur Larusson (Adelaide) and Rasul Shafikov (Western)

Janusz Adamus (Western), Edward Bierstone (Toronto), Alexander Brudnyi (Calgary), Debraj Chakrabarti (Western), Adam Coffman (IU-Purdue Fort Wayne), Peter Ebenfelt (UCSD), Xianghong Gong (Wisconsin), Jaehong Kim (Purdue), Damir Kinzebulatov (Toronto), Blaine Lawson (SUNY Stony Brook), Jiri Lebl (UIUC), Laszlo Lempert (Purdue), Sophia Vassiliadou (Georgetown).

Error Control Codes, Information Theory and Applied Cryptography
Org: Aiden Bruen (Calgary) and David Wehlau (Queens; RMC)

Tim Alderson (UNB), Elwyn Berlekamp (Berkeley), Richard Blahut (Illinois), Keldon Drudge (Prism Valuations, Toronto), Peter Dukes (Victoria), Vincent Gaudet (Alberta), Martin Hassner (IBM Hitachi, San José), Olof Heden (Royal Inst. of Technology, Stockholm), Peter Lisonek (SFU), Jim McQuillan (Western Illinois), Michele Mosca (Waterloo), Aidan Roy (Calgary), Christian Schlegel (Alberta), Claude Tardif (RMC), Dmitry Trukhachev (Alberta).

Graph Theory
Org: Sebastian Cioaba (UC-San Diego), Stephen Kirkland (Regina) and Claude Tardif (RMC)

Rick Brewster (Thompson Rivers), Andrea Burgess (Ottawa), Steve Butler (UC San Diego), Sebastian Cioaba (UC San Diego), Randy Elzinga (Queen's), Steve Kirkland (Regina), Cynthia Loten (Fraser Valley), Odile Marcotte (UQAM), Dan McQuillan (Norwich), Karen Meagher (Regina), Wendy Myrvold (Victoria), Hamed Shirazi (Waterloo), Claude Tardif (Royal Military College).

History and Philosophy of Mathematics
Org: Tom Archibald (SFU) and Deborah Kent (Hillsdale College)

Tom Archibald (SFU), John Bell (Western), David Bellhouse (Western), James Robert Brown (Toronto), Robert Dawson (St. Mary's), David DeVidi (Waterloo), Jackie Feke (Toronto), Alexander Jones (Toronto), Deborah Kent (Hillsdale College), Zoë Misiewicz (Toronto), Glen van Brummelen (Quest University).

Homotopy Theory
Org: Kristine Bauer (Calgary)

Kristine Bauer (Calgary), Julia Bergner (Kansas), Sunil Chebolu A (Western), Sunil Chebolu B (Western), Dan Christensen (Western), Veronique Godin (Harvard), Izak Grugric (UBC), Dan Isaksen (Wayne State), Rick Jardine (Western), Brenda Johnson (Union College), Keith Johnson (Dalhousie), Jack Morava (Johns Hopkins), Hugo Rodriguez Ordonez (Regina), Paul Pearson (Rochester), Kate Ponto (Chicago), Dorette Pronk (Dalhousie), Laura Scull (UBC), Don Stanley (Regina), Enrique Torres (UBC), Tian Yang (Rutgers), Peter Zvengrowski (Calgary).

Iwasawa Theory
Org: Manfred Kolster and Romyar Sharifi (McMaster)

Mahesh Agarwal (McMaster), Ben Howard (Boston College), Adrian Iovita (Concordia), Jennifer Johnson-Leung (Idaho), Byoung-du Kim (Northwestern), Kumar Murty (Toronto), Jeehoon Park (McGill), Al Weiss (Alberta), Bei Zhang (Columbia).

Mathematical Applications of Category Theory
Org: F. William Lawvere (SUNY Buffalo) and Walter Tholen (York)

Bernard Badzioch (Buffalo), Michael Barr (McGill), John Bell (Western), Marta Bunge (McGill), Robin Cockett (University of Calgary), Jonathon Funk (West Indies), Gabor Lukacs (Manitoba), Ernie Manes (Massachusetts), Matias Menni (Universidad Nacional de La Plata), Susan Niefield (Union College), Open Discussion (chaired by F. William Lawvere), Robert Pare (Dalhousie), Dorette Pronk (Dalhousie), Bob Rosebrugh (Mount Allison), Myles Tierney (UQAM), Richard Wood (Dalhousie).

Mathematical Imagination
Org: George Gadanidis (Western)

Robert Bilinski (Collège Montmorency), Calculus: The Musical (Matheatre), Stewart Craven (Toronto District School Board), William Higginson (Queen's), John Kezys (Mohawk College), Donna Kotsopoulos and Michelle Cordy (Thames Valley District School Board, Wilfrid Laurier), Math Imagination Musical Performance (G. Gadanidis, D. Bee, J. Bee), Math-e-Motion (Stewart Craven), Panel Discussion (W. Higginson, D. Kotsopoulos, P. Taylor, I. Namukasa).

Mathematics of Finance
Org: Matt Davison, Rogemar Mamon and Mark Reesor (Western)

Alex Badescu (Calgary), Dave Bolder (Bank of Canada), Abel Cadenillas (Alberta), Joe Campolieti (Wilfrid Laurier), Matt Davison (Western), Keldon Drudge (Prism Valuation, Waterloo), Marcos Escobar-Anel (Ryerson), Matheus Grasselli (McMaster), Jeremy Graveline (Minnesota), Tom Hurd (McMaster), Cody Hyndman (Concordia), Sebastian Jaimungal (Toronto), Madhu Kalimipalli (Wilfrid Laurier), Valery Kholodnyi (Platts Ltd.), Adam Kolkiewicz (Waterloo), Hua Li (Calgary), Roman Makarov (Wilfrid Laurier), Marianito Rodrigo (Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico), Dave Saunders (Waterloo), Luis Seco (Toronto), Anatoliy Swishchuk (Calgary), Ken Vetzal (Waterloo), Xikui Wang (Manitoba).

Non-Commutative Geometry
Org: Masoud Khalkhali (Western)

Paul Baum (Penn State), Katia Consani (Johns Hopkins), George Elliott (Toronto), Heath Emerson (Victoria), Sasha Gorokhovsky (Boulder), Li Guo (Rutgers), Piotr Hajac (Warsaw, Poland), Jerry Kaminker (Davis), Marcelo Laca (Victoria), Hanfeng Li (Buffalo), Snigdhayan Mahanta (Fields Institute), John Phillips (Victoria), Raphael Ponge (Toronto), John Roe (Penn State), Claude Schochet (Wayne State), Xiang Tang (St. Louis).

Nonlinear Wave Equations and Applications
Org: Walter Craig (McMaster) and Catherine Sulem (Toronto)

Stephen Anco (Brock), Oliver Diaz-Espinosa (McMaster), Clement Gallo (McMaster), Jiansheng Geng (McMaster ; Nanjing), Philippe Guyenne (Delaware), Konstantin Khanin (Toronto), David Lannes (Bordeaux), Jeremy Quastel (Toronto).

Quantum Information Theory in Quantum Gravity
Org: David Kribs (Guelph) and Fotini Markopoulou (Perimeter Institute)

Cedric Beny (Waterloo), Louis Kauffman (Illinois-Chicago), Achim Kempf (Waterloo), Robert Martin (Waterloo).