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.

Analysis and Geometry of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
Org: Nassif Ghoussoub (UBC), Young-Heon Kim (UBC) and Robert McCann (Toronto)

Martial Agueh (Victoria), Lia Bronsard (McMaster), Sun-Sig Byun (Seoul National Univ., Korea), Rustum Choksi (McGill), Marina Chugunova (Toronto), Jaywan Chung (KAIST, Korea), Pengfei Guan (McGill), David Hartenstine (Western Washington), Weiyong He (Oregon), Slim Ibrahim (Victoria), Robert Jerrard (Toronto), Yong Jung Kim (KAIST, Korea), Ki-Ahm Lee (Seoul National Univ., Korea), Adam Oberman (SFU), Brendan Pass (Toronto), Louis P. Saumier (Victoria), Artur Sowa (Saskatchewan), Vitali Vougalter (Toronto), Jie Xiao (Memorial).

Commutative Algebra and Combinatorics
Org: Sara Faridi (Dalhousie) and Adam Van Tuyl (Lakehead)

Ali Alilooee (Amir-Kabir Univ. ; Dalhousie), Jennifer Biermann (Cornell), Shelly Bouchat (Slippery Rock), Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz (Toronto), Jaydeep Chipalkatti (Manitoba), David Cook II (Kentucky), Anton Dochtermann (Dartmouth), Tony Geramita (Queen's; Genova), Andrew Hoefel (Dalhousie), Claudia Miller (Syracuse), Susan Morey (Texas State), Uwe Nagel (Kentucky), Sonja Petrovic (Illinois - Chicago), Thuy Pham (University of Toronto), Greg Smith (Queen's), Rafael Villarreal (CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico), Gwyn Whieldon (Cornell), Russ Woodroofe (Washington).

Compressed Sensing: Theory, Algorithms and Application
Org: Michael Friedlander, Felix Herrmann and Ozgur Yilmaz (UBC)

Lorne Applebaum (Princeton), Stephen Becker (Caltech), Jim Burke (Washington), Mike Davies (Edinburgh), Laurent Demanet (MIT), Felix Herrmann (UBC), Gitta Kutyniok (Osnabrück), Zhaosong Lu (SFU), Hassan Mansour (UBC), Ali Pezeshki (Colorado State), Holger Rauhut (Bonn, Germany), Benjamin Recht (Wisconsin), Justin Romberg (Georgia Tech), Rayan Saab (UBC), Thomas Strohmer (UC Davis), Ewout van den Berg (Stanford), Rachel Ward (Courant Institute), Rebecca Willet (Duke).

Computational Number Theory
Org: Mark Bauer (Calgary) and Mike Bennett (UBC)

Paul Buckingham (Alberta), Sander Dahmen (UBC), Felix Fontein (Calgary), Eyal Goren (McGill), Matt Greenberg (Calgary), Patrick Ingram (Waterloo), Matilde Lalin (Montréal), Matthew Musson (Calgary), Mathew Rogers (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Renate Scheidler (Calgary), Katherine Stange (UBC; SFU), Hugh Williams (Calgary).

Convex and Nonsmooth Analysis
Org: Philip Loewen (UBC) and Yves Lucet (UBC-Okanagan)

Heinz Bauschke (UBC), James V. Burke (Washington), Mclean Edwards (UBC), Nassif Ghoussoub (UBC), Yasin Gocgun (UBC), Rafal Goebel (Loyola - Chicago), Eldad Haber (UBC), Zhaosong Lu (SFU), Yves Lucet (UBC), Tamon Stephen (SFU), Mohamed Tawhid (Thompson Rivers), Shawn Wang (UBC), Lin Xiao (Microsoft Research), Liangjin Yao (UBC), Jim Zhu (Western Michigan), Yurij Zinchenko (Calgary).

Discrete Mathematics
Org: Jozsef Solymosi and Stephanie van Willigenburg (UBC)

Richard Anstee (UBC), Matt Beck (SFSU), Nantel Bergeron (York), Karoly Bezdek (Calgary), Sara Billey (UW), Ted Bisztriczky (Calgary), Fan Chung (UCSD), Chris Godsil (Waterloo), Angele Hamel (Wilfrid Laurier), Penny Haxel (Waterloo), David Kirkpatrick (UBC), Fu Liu (UCDavis), Gary MacGillivray (Victoria), Marni Mishna (SFU), Bojan Mohar (SFU), Isabella Novik (Washington), Bruce Reed (McGill), Jeff Remmel (UCSD), Frank Ruskey (Victoria), Anne Schilling (UCDavis), Rekha Thomas (Washington), Csaba D. Toth (Calgary), Karen Yeats (SFU).

Harmonic Analysis and Additive Combinatorics
Org: Izabella Laba, Akos Magyar and Malabika Pramanik (UBC)

Michael Bateman (UCLA), Karsten Chipeniuk (UBC), Brian Cook (UBC), Ciprian Demeter (Indiana), Burak Erdogan (UIUC), S. Zubin Gautam (Indiana), John Griesmer (UBC), Mariah Hamel (Georgia), Alex Iosevich (Rochester), Nets Katz, Michael Lacey (Georgia Tech), Neil Lyall (Georgia), Richard Oberlin (UCLA), Steven Senger (Missouri), Olof Sisask (Queen Mary), Matthew Smith (UBC), Lindsay Stovall (UCLA), Krystal Taylor (Rochester), Tyler Whitehouse (Vanderbilt), Kelan Zhai (UBC).

History and Philosophy of Mathematics
Org: Tom Archibald (SFU), Alan Richardson (UBC) and Glen van Brummelen (Quest Univ.)

Tom Archibald (SFU), J. L. Berggren (SFU), James Evans (Univ. of Puget Sound), Deborah Kent (Hillsdale College), Menolly Lysne (Toronto), Josipa Petrunic (University College, London), Robert Thomas (Manitoba), Glen van Brummelen (Quest Univ.).

Mathematics Education
Org: Jennifer Hyndman (UNBC) and Mark MacLean (UBC)

Melania Alvarez & David Leeming (UBC, Victoria), Warren Code (UBC), Malgorzata Dubiel (SFU), Fred Harwood, Jennifer Hyndman (UNBC), Djun Kim & Joanne Nakonechy (UBC), Jesse Mason & Eric Naslund (UNBC), Sandi Merchant (UBC), Costanza Piccolo (UBC), Round Table on Creativity, Nathalie Sinclair (SFU).

Methods in Nonlinear Dynamics
Org: George Patrick (Saskatchewan) and Cristina Stoica (Wilfrid Laurier)

Juan Artes (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona), Lennard Bakker (Brigham Young Univ.), Pietro Luciano Buono (UOIT), Florin Diacu (Victoria), Razvan Fetecau (SFU), Juan Luis García Guirao (Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain), Antonio Hernandez-Garduno (UNAM), Eduardo Goes Leandro (Recife, Brazil), Jaume Llibre (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona), George Patrick (Saskatchewan), Manuele Santoprete (Wilfrid Laurier), Tanya Schmah (Toronto), Sebastian Walcher (RWTH Aachen, Germany).

p-adic groups, Automorphic forms, and Geometry
Org: Clifton Cunningham (Calgary) and Julia Gordon (UBC)

Hesameddin Abbaspour (UBC), Pramod Achar (Louisiana State), Moshe Adrian (Utah), Amir Akbary (Lethbridge), Bill Casselman (UBC), Clifton Cunningham (Calgary), Dragos Ghioca (UBC), Eyal Goren (McGill), Matt Greenberg (Calgary), Masoud Kamgarpour (UBC; Calgary), Guillermo Mantilla-Soler (UBC), Paul Mezo (Carleton), Dragan Milicic (Utah), Hadi Salmasian (Ottawa), Lior Silberman (UBC), Jonathan Sparling (Rutgers), Loren Spice (Texas Christian Univ.), Tasho Statev-Kaletha (IAS; Princeton), Zhiwei Yun (MIT).

Probability in Biology and Computer Science
Org: David Brydges and Ed Perkins (UBC)

Shankar Bhamidi (North Carolina), Steve Evans (Berkeley), Christoph Hauert (UBC), Alexander Holroyd (UBC/Microsoft Research), Richard Hoshino (National Inst. of Informatics, Tokyo), Sylvie Meleard (Paris VI, France), Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research), Leah Popovic (Concordia), Bruce Reed (McGill).

Spectral Theory
Org: Richard Froese (UBC), Dmitry Jakobson (McGill) and Mahta Khosravi (UBC)

Ben Adcock (SFU), Tayeb Aissiou (McGill), Shimon Brooks (Stony Brook), Yaiza Canzani (McGill), Serguei Denissov (Wisconsin), Ailana Fraser (UBC), Joel Friedman (UBC), Carolyn Gordon (Dartmouth), Alex Iosevich (Missouri), Dmitry Jakobson (McGill), Vojkan Jaksic (McGill), Eugene Kritchevski (Toronto), Peter Perry (Kentucky), Emmanuel Schenck (Northwestern), Lior Silberman (UBC), Melissa Tacy (Northwestern), Balint Virag (Toronto), Vitali Vougalter (Toronto), Steve Zelditch (Northwestern).

Symbolic Dynamics and Ergodic Theory
Org: Chris Bose (Victoria), Doug Lind (Washington), Ian Putnam (Victoria) and Anthony Quas (Victoria)

Mahsa Allahbakhshi (Univ. of Victoria), Marcy Barge (Montana State), Arno Berger (Alberta), Chris Bose (Victoria), Sasha Fish (Wisconsin), Brady Killough (Mount Royal), Jarek Kwapisz (Montana State), Doug Lind (Washington), Brian Marcus (UBC), Tom Meyerovitch (UBC), Robert Moody (Victoria), Dave Morris (Lethbridge), Viorel Nitica (West Chester), Piotr Oprocha (AGH Univ., Poland), Ronnie Pavlov (Denver), Marcus Pivato (Trent), Anthony Quas (Victoria), Cecilia Gonzalez Tokman (Victoria), Reem Yassawi (Trent).

Symmetry Methods for Differential Equations
Org: Stephen Anco (Brock), George Bluman (UBC) and Alexei Cheviakov (Saskatchewan)

Sajid Ali (Brock), Stephen Anco (Brock), Alexei Cheviakov (Saskatchewan), Raouf Dridi (UBC), Changzheng Qu (Northwest Univ., Xi'an, China), Thomas Wolf (Brock).

Theory and Application of Sequences and Arrays
Org: Jonathan Jedwab (SFU) and Brett Stevens (Carleton)

Robert Bailey (Regina), Jim Davis (Richmond), Megan Dewar (Carleton), Peter Dukes (Victoria), Frank Fiedler (Wesley College), Aaron Gulliver (Victoria), Richard Hoshino (National Inst. of Informatics, Tokyo), Honggang Hu (Waterloo), Jonathan Jedwab (SFU), Daniel Katz (SFU), Hadi Kharaghani (Lethbridge), Mahdad Khatirinejad (UBC), Petr Lisonek (SFU), Daniel Panario (Carleton), Andrew Rechnitzer (UBC), Kai-Uwe Schmidt (SFU), Brett Stevens (Carleton), Doug Stinson (Waterloo), Stephanie van Willigenburg (UBC), Steven Wang (Carleton), Amy Wiebe (SFU).