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
Org: Nantel Bergeron and Mike Zabrocki (York)

Carolina Benedetti (York), Chris Berg (UQAM), François Bergeron (UQAM), Jonah Blasiak (Michigan), Jonathan Novak (Waterloo), Steve Pon (Connecticut), Ed Richmond (UBC), Franco Saliola (UQAM), Luis Serrano (UQAM), Vasu Tewari (UBC), Hugh Thomas (UNB), Steph van Willigenburg (UBC), Vince Vatter (Florida).

Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra
Org: Anthony V. Geramita and Gregory G. Smith (Queen's)

Christine Berkesch (Duke), Giulio Caviglia (Purdue), Luca Chiantini (Universitá degli Studi di Siena), Jaydeep Chipalkatti (Manitoba), Emma Connon (Dalhousie), Susan Cooper (Central Michigan), David A. Cox (Amherst College), Daniel Erman (Michigan), Sara Faridi (Dalhousie), Brian Harbourne (Nebraska-Lincoln), Andrew Hoefel (Queen's), Allen Knutson (Cornell), Victor Lozovanu (Queen's), Luke Oeding (UC Berkeley), Kevin Purbhoo (Waterloo), Jenna Rajchgot (Cornell), Steven V Sam (MIT), Mike Stillman (Cornell), Adam Van Tuyl (Lakehead), Fabrizio Zanello (Michigan Technological Univ.).

Analytic Number Theory and Diophantine Approximation
Org: Cameron Stewart (Waterloo)

Shabnam Akhtari (Montreal), Jason Bell (S.F.U.), Michael Bennett (UBC), Timothy Caley (Waterloo), Michael Coons (Waterloo), Karl Dilcher (Dalhousie), John Friedlander (Toronto), Andrew Granville (Montreal), Patrick Ingram (Colorado State), Matilde Lalin (Montreal), Kumar Murty (Toronto), Nathan Ng (Lethbridge), Damien Roy (Ottawa), Michael Rubinstein (Waterloo), Katherine Stange (Stanford), Chester Weatherby (Queen's), Hugh Williams (Calgary).

Complex Networks
Org: Jeannette Janssen (Dalhousie) and Pawel Prałat (Ryerson)

Shankar Bhamidi (North Carolina - Chapel Hill), Anthony Bonato (Ryerson), Maria Deijfen (Stockholm Univ.), Matt Hurshman (Dalhousie), Alex Lopez-Ortiz (Waterloo), Tobias Mueller (CWI, Amsterdam), Mariana Olvera-Cravioto (Columbia), Pawel Pralat (Ryerson), Ladislav Stacho (SFU), Charalampos Tsourakakis (Carnegie Mellon), Rory Wilson (Dalhousie), Nick Wormald (Waterloo).

Composition Operators
Org: Javad Mashreghi (Laval) and Nina Zorboska (Manitoba)

Carl Cowen (Purdue), Paul Gauthier (Montréal), Gordon MacDonald (PEI), Javad Mashreghi (Laval), Gabriel Prajitura (SUNY-Brockport), Katie Quertermous (James Madison), Maria Tjani (Arkansas), Wen Xu (Memorial), Ruhan Zhao (SUNY-Brockport).

Delay Differential Equations
Org: Sue Ann Campbell (Waterloo) and Xingfu Zou (Western)

Jacques Belair (Montréal), Pietro-Luciano Buono (UOIT), Yuming Chen (Wilfrid Laurier), Tony Humphries (McGill), Victor LeBlanc (Ottawa), Xinzhi Liu (Waterloo), Lin Wang (UNB), Gail Wolkowicz (McMaster), Jianhong Wu (York), Pei Yu (Western), Xiaoqiang Zhao (Memorial).

Designs, Factorizations and Coverings
Org: Peter Danziger (Ryerson), Lucia Moura (Ottawa) and Brett Stevens (Carleton)

Robert Bailey (Regina), Andrea Burgess (Ryerson), Charlie Colbourn (Arizona State), Peter Danziger (Ryerson), Nevena Francetic (Toronto), Richard Hoshino (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo), Heather Jordon (Illinois State), David Pike (Memorial), Alex Rosa (McMaster), Mateja Sajna (Ottawa), Brett Stevens (Carleton).

Differential Geometry
Org: Benoit Charbonneau (St. Jerome) and Spiro Karigiannis (Waterloo)

Spyros Alexakis (Toronto), Michael Bailey (Toronto), Benoit Charbonneau (St. Jerome's), Virginie Charette (Sherbrooke), Albert Chau (UBC), Tatyana Foth (Western), Shengda Hu (Wilfrid Laurier), Jacques Hurtubise (McGill), Thomas A. Ivey (College of Charleston), Niky Kamran (McGill), Spiro Karigiannis (Waterloo), Steven Lu (UQAM), Ruxandra Moraru (Waterloo), Martin Pinsonnault (Western), Steven Rayan (Toronto), Aaron Smith (Waterloo), Christina Tønnesen-Friedman (Union College), McKenzie Wang (McMaster).

Discrete Geometry
Org: Elissa Ross and Walter Whiteley (York)

Anthony Nixon (Fields), Megan Owen (Fields), Vincent Pilaud (Fields), Elissa Ross (Fields), Bernd Schulze (Fields), Csaba Toth (Calgary), Ryan Trelford (Calgary), Viktor Vigh (Fields).

Dynamics of Climate Impact on Environment and Health
Org: Huaiping Zhu (York)

Richard Bello (York), Yurong Cao (York), David N. Fisman (Toronto), Robin Gras (Windsor), Kaho Hayashi (Toronto), Kaz Higuchi (York), Rachel Hirsch (York), William Langford (Guelph), Yijun Lou (York), Asit Mazumder (Victoria), Xin Qiu (York), Graham Smith (Toronto), Ranga Sudarsan (Guelph), Jiafeng Wang (York).

Financial Mathematics
Org: Matt Davison (Western), Marcus Escobar (Ryerson), Sebastian Ferrando (Ryerson), Pablo Olivares (Ryerson) and Luis Seco (Toronto)

Alexander Alvarez (Ryerson), Alex Badescu (Calgary), German Bernhart (Munich, Germany), Joe Campolieti (Wilfrid Laurier), Barbara Goetz (Munich, Germany), Matheus Grasselli (McMaster), Tom Hurd (McMaster), Cody Hyndman (Concordia), Sebastian Jaimungal (Toronto), R Kulperger (Western), Alexey Kuznetsov (York), Roman Makarov (Wilfrid Laurier), Rogemar Mamon (Western), Adam Metzler (Western), Dave Saunders (Waterloo), Anatoliy Swishchuk (Calgary), Tony Ware (Calgary).

Fluid Dynamics
Org: Serge D’Alessio (Waterloo), J.P. Pascal (Ryerson) and Katrin Rohlf (Ryerson)

Jahrul Alam (Memorial), David Amundsen (Carleton), John Bowman (Alberta), Lucy Campbell (Carleton), Georges Djoumna (Waterloo), Jerzy Floryan (Western), Greg Lewis (UOIT), Francis Poulin (Waterloo), Mary Pugh (Toronto), Malcolm Roberts (Alberta), Marek Stastna (Waterloo), Bruce Sutherland (Alberta), Michael Waite (Waterloo).

History and Philosophy of Mathematics
Org: Tom Archibald (SFU), Craig Fraser (Toronto) and Menolly Lysne (Toronto)

Tom Archibald (SFU), David Bellhouse (Western), William Hackborn (Augustana College), Deborah Kent (Hillsdale College), Alex Koo (Toronto), Jemma Lorenat (SFU), Sylvia Nickerson (Toronto), Bruce Petrie (Toronto), Josipa Petrunic (Toronto), Aaron Wright (Toronto).

Mathematical Biology
Org: Kunquan Lan (Ryerson) and Jianhong Wu (York)

Julien Arino (Manitoba), Fred Brauer (UBC), Elena Braverman (Calgary), Pietro-Luciano Buono (UOIT), Matt Calder (Western), Sue Ann Campbell (Waterloo), Yuming Chen (Wilfrid Laurier), Troy Day (Queen's), Hedia Fgaier (Guelph), Abba Gumel (Manitoba), Silvana Ilie (Ryerson), Wei Lin (Fudan Univ., China), Xinzhi Liu (Waterloo), Daniel Munther (Ohio State), Vardayani Ratti (Guelph), Gunog Seo (Thompson Rivers), Haiyan Wang (Arizona State), James Watmough (New Brunswick), Gail Wolkowicz (McMaster), Youping Yang (Xian Jiaotong U, China), Zhitao Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China), Xiaoqiang Zhao (Memorial), Huaiping Zhu (York), Xingfu Zou (Western).

Mathematics Education
Org: Walter Whiteley (York)

Panel on Statistical Inference: Alison Gibbs (Toronto), Stewart Craven (part time Continuing Education, York University) and Len Rack

Olive Chapman (Calgary), Shawn Godin (Ottawa-Carleton District School Board), Ann Kajander (Lakehead), Margo Kondratieva (Memorial), Kathy Kubota & Pat Margerm, Miroslav Lovric (McMaster), Panel on Statistical Inference, Medhat Rahim (Lakehead), Tina Rapke (Calgary), Marian Small (UNB), Walter Whiteley (York), Chris Wild (Aukland).

Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications
Org: Almut Burchard, Marina Chugunova and Catherine Sulem (Toronto)

Stephen Anco (Brock), Shaohua George Chen (Cape Breton), Alexei F. Cheviakov (Saskatchewan), James Colliander (Toronto), Walter Craig (McMaster), Magdalena Czubak (Binghampton), Mohammad El Smaily (Carnegie Mellon; Inst. Superior Tecnico), Mostapha Fazly (UBC), Ehsan Kamalinejad (Toronto), Xiao Liu (Toronto), Robert McCann (Toronto), Arian Novruzi (Ottawa), Dmitry Pelinovsky (McMaster), Mary Pugh (Toronto), Anton Sakovich (McMaster), Alessandro Selvitella (McMaster), Gideon Simpson (Minnesota), Fridolin Ting (Lakehead), Yun Wang (McMaster).

Operator Algebras
Org: Pinar Colak (SFU), George Elliott (Toronto), Zhiqiang Li (Toronto), Henning Petzka (Toronto), Adam Sierakowski (Toronto) and Aaron Tikuisis (Toronto)

The slides of the talks in this session are available at http://www.math.uni-muenster.de/u/aaron.tikuisis/cms-slides.html

Michael Brannan (Queen's), Nate Brown (Penn State), Man-Duen Choi (Toronto), Nhan-Phu Chung (SUNY-Buffalo), Ken Davidson (Waterloo), Ilijas Farah (York), Farzad Fathizadeh (York), Adam Fuller (Waterloo), Thierry Giordano (Ottawa), Ryan Hamilton (Waterloo), Vadim Kaimanovich (Ottawa), Evgenios Kakariadis (Waterloo), Matthew Kennedy (Carleton), David Kerr (Texas A&M), Masoud Khalkhali (Western), Marcelo Laca (Victoria), Greg Maloney (Massachusetts), James Mingo (Queen's), Norio Nawata (Kyushu), Matthias Neufang (Carleton; Fields; Université Lille1), Ping Wong Ng (Louisiana-Lafayette), Zhuang Niu (Memorial), Chris Ramsey (Waterloo), Leonel Robert (Louisiana-Lafayette), Luis Santiago (Oregon), Dilian Yang (Windsor).

Probability
Org: Jeremy Quastel (Toronto) and Tom Salisbury (York)

Louigi Addario-Berry (McGill), Louis-Pierre Arguin (Montréal), Ilia Binder (Toronto), Alex Bloemendal (Harvard), David Brydges (UBC), Vadim Kaimanovich (Ottawa), Konstantin Khanin (Toronto), Termeh Kousha (Ottawa), Alexey Kuznetsov (York), Neal Madras (York), Lerna Pehlivan (York), Lea Popovic (Concordia), Daniel Remenik (Toronto), Christian Sadel (UC Irvine), Yvan Saint-Aubin (Montreal), Deniz Sezer (Calgary), Narn-Rueih Shieh (Taipei), Gordon Slade (UBC), Balint Virag (Toronto), Xiaowen Zhou (Concordia).

Quantum Information
Org: David Kribs (Guelph), Ashwin Nayak (Waterloo) and Bei Zeng (Guelph)

Jianxin Chen (Guelph), Andrew Childs (Inst. of Quantum Computing, Waterloo), Roger Colbeck (Perimeter Inst.), Sarah Croke (Perimeter Inst.), Gus Gutoski (Inst. of Quantum Computing, Waterloo), Zhengfeng Ji (Inst. of Quantum Computing, Waterloo), Nathaniel Johnston (Guelph), Debbie Leung (Inst. of Quantum Computing, Waterloo), Marco Piani (Inst. of Quantum Computing, Waterloo), Sarah Plosker (Guelph), Aidan Roy (Inst. of Quantum Computing, Waterloo), John Watrous (Inst. of Quantum Computing, Waterloo).

Representations of Algebras
Org: Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz (Toronto), Vlastimil Dlab (Carleton) and Shiping Liu (Sherbrooke)

Luchezar L. Avramov (Nebraska-Lincoln), Yuri Bahturin (Memorial), Margaret Beattie (Mount Allison), Frauke Bleher (Iowa), Thomas Brüstle (Bishop’s; Sherbrooke), Xueqing Chen (Wisconsin-Whitewater), Ed Green (Virginian Tech), Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann (California-Santa Barbara), Kiyoshi Igusa (Brandeis), Colin Ingalls (UNB), Ellen Kirkman (Wake Forest), Mark Kleiner (Syracuse), Graham Leuschke (Syracuse), Fero Marko (Pennsylvania), Roberto Martinez-Villa (UNAM-Morelia), Alex Martsinkovsky (Northeastern), Puiman Ng (Sherbrooke), Charles Paquette (UNB), Marju Purin (Syracuse), Alistair Savage (Ottawa), Benjamin Steinberg (Carleton), Hugh Thomas (UNB), Gordana Todorov (Northeastern), Helene Tyler (Manhattan College), Dan Zacharia (Syracuse).

Set Theory
Org: Ilijas Farah (York)

Samuel Coskey (Fields; York), Sean Cox (Muenster, Germany), James Cummings (Carnegie Mellon), John Krueger (North Texas), Aleksandra Kwiatkowska (UIUC), Claude Laflamme (Calgary), Justin Moore (Cornell), Itay Neeman (UCLA), Assaf Rinot (Fields), Grigor Sargsyan (Rutgers), Dima Sinapova (UC Irvine), Slawomir Solecki (UIUC), Juris Steprans (York), Asger Tornquist (Copenhagen), Martin Zeman (UC Irvine).