Abstracts - Plenary, Prize and Public Lectures

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• Plenary Speakers
• Prizes and Awards
• Public Lecture

Plenary Speakers    [PDF]

• Jonathan Borwein - Why Convex?
• Anthony To-Ming Lau - The Fourier algebra and the group von Neumann algebra
• Naomi Leonard - Stability and Robustness of Collective Dynamics
• Nancy Reid - Likelihood inference in complex models
• Christine Shoemaker - Continuous Optimization with Response Surfaces for Computationally Expensive Simulation Models Including Environmental Applications
• David Vogan - Signatures of Hermitian forms and unitary representations

Prizes and Awards

• Adrien Pouliot Award    [PDF]
  • Walter Whiteley - Bridging Mathematics and Mathematics Education: Mathematics departments' contributions to the preparation of teachers
• Coxeter-James Prize    [PDF]
  • Patrick Brosnan - Essential dimension for moduli stacks
• Doctoral Prize    [PDF]
  • Mark Braverman - Computability and Complexity of Julia Sets

Public Lecture    [PDF]

• Alan H. Schoenfeld - How We Think (a work in progress)