Schedule - Plenary, Prize and Public Lectures


Friday December 7
19:30 - 20:30	Ivar Ekeland (UBC; Paris-Dauphine), Public Lecture, Une longue histoire: la planète Terre et les mathématiques, St-François

Saturday December 8
9:00 - 9:50	Graciela Chichilnisky (Columbia), Plenary Speakers, "The Foundations of Probability and Statistics with Black Swans", St-François

11:30 - 12:20	Matthew Kennedy (Carleton), Doctoral Prize, Multivariable operator theory, St-François

19:00 - 20:00	Doyne Farmer (Oxford), Public Lecture, The complex challenge of sustainability, St-François

Sunday December 9
9:00 - 9:50	Duong H. Phong (Columbia), Plenary Speakers, Green's functions and complex Monge-Ampere equations, St-François

10:30 - 11:20	Ted Hsu (Physicist and Federal MP), Plenary Speakers, Reflections of a new scientist-parliamentarian, St-François

11:30 - 12:20	Melania Alvarez ((UBC; PIMS)), Adrien Pouliot Award, Mathematics Outreach: Getting Mathematicians Involved, St-François

Monday December 10
9:00 - 9:50	Catherine Sulem (Toronto), Plenary Speakers, The Dynamics of Ocean Waves, St-François

10:30 - 11:20	Martin Nowak (Harvard), Plenary Speakers, Evolution of Cooperation, St-François

11:30 - 12:20	Roland Speicher (Universität des Saarlandes), Jeffery-Williams Prize, On the effectiveness of operator-valued free probability theory, St-François

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