2014 CMS Winter Meeting
McMaster University, December 5 - 8, 2014
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.
All scientific sessions will take place at the Sheraton Hamilton Hotel.
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- Algebraic Geometry of Moduli Spaces
- Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry
- Automorphic Forms and Representation Theory
- Commutative Algebra: Interactions with Algebraic Combinatorics, Algebraic Geometry, and Representation Theory
- Computability Theory
- Contributed Papers
- Differential Geometry
- Dynamical Systems with Applications in Mathematical Biology
- Dynamics of Biological Systems
- Environmental and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
- Financial Mathematics
- Frames, Fractals, Tiling, and Wavelets, in Connection with the Fuglede's Conjecture
- Geometric Discretization Methods and Adaptivity
- Geometry and Topology of Manifolds in Low-Dimensions
- Graduate Student Research Presentations
- Integrable Systems: Recent Developments
- Model Theory
- Non-Linear PDE of Mathematical Physics
- Operator Algebras and Operator Theory
- Origin and Evolution of Bacterial Genomes
- Recent Advances in Variational Analysis and Linear Optimization
- Stochastic Models and Applications
- Teaching Introduction to Proofs Courses
- Toric and Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry
- Undergraduate Mathematics Education in 21st Century: Rethinking Curriculum
Algebraic Geometry of Moduli Spaces  | |
| Org: Ruxandra Moraru (Waterloo) and Steven Rayan (Toronto) | |
| Monday December 8 (Buchanan Room) | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Tyler Holden (Toronto), Generalized Equivariant Cohomology and Stratifications I |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Peter Crooks (Toronto), Generalized Equivariant Cohomology and Stratifications II |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Alejandra Vicente-Colmenares (Waterloo), Stable co-Higgs bundles over $\mathbb{P}^1 \times\mathbb{P}^1$. |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Jeremy Lane (Toronto), Monodromy of a Completely Integrable System |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Kevin Luk (Toronto), Logarithmic Courant Algebroids |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | James Mracek (Toronto), Betti Numbers of Symplectic Quotients of Based Loop Groups |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Alan Thompson (Waterloo), Degenerations of Plane Sextics |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Nikita Nikolaev (Toronto), Spectral Networks and Moduli of Flat Connections |
| 18:00 - 18:30 | Daniel Rowe (Toronto), Lusztig Slices in the Affine Grassmannian |
| Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry | |
| Org: Manfred Kolster (McMaster) | |
| Sunday December 7 (Hamilton Convention Centre: Room 203) | |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Al Weiss (Alberta), What is equivariant Iwasawa theory? |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Meng Fai Lim (Toronto), Comparing the Iwasawa mu-invariants of Selmer groups |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Jonathan Sands (University of Vermont), Zeta-functions and Finiteness of the Number of Ideal Classes in Quaternion Orders |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Antonio Lei (Laval), Universal norm of crystalline classes |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Ernst Kani (Queen's), Perfect Cuboids and the Box Variety |
| Monday December 8 (Hamilton Convention Centre: Room 203) | |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Romyar Sharifi (Arizona), The arithmetic of modular symbols |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Kumar Murty (Toronto) |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Dylan Attwell-Duval (McGill), Counting cusps for orthogonal Shimura varieties |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Soroosh Yazdani (Google), Largest Prime Divisor of terms of EDS |
| Automorphic Forms and Representation Theory | |
| Org: Moshe Adrian (Toronto) | |
| Monday December 8 (Hamilton Convention Centre: Room 202) | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Moshe Adrian (Toronto), The Local Converse Problem for GL(n,F) |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Monica Nevins (Ottawa), Branching to the derived group of length-one toral supercuspidal representations |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Clifton Cunningham (Calgary), From the function-sheaf dictionary to quasicharacters of $p$-adic tori |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Paul Mezo (Carleton), Twisted endoscopy in the framework of Adams-Barbasch-Vogan |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Geo Kam-Fai Tam (McMaster), Endoscopic classification of tame supercuspidal representations of p-adic quasi-split classical groups |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Hugo Chapdelaine (Laval), Real analytic Eisenstein series twisted by integral non-discrete unitary characters |
| Commutative Algebra: Interactions with Algebraic Combinatorics, Algebraic Geometry, and Representation Theory | |
| Org: Tony Geramita (Queen's & Genoa) and Adam Van Tuyl (Lakehead) | |
| Saturday December 6 (Ballroom West) | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Juan Migliore (Notre Dame), Secant varieties to the varieties of reducible hypersurfaces |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Yong Su Shin (Sungshin Women's University), The Minimal Free Graded Resolution of A Star-Configuration in $\mathbb P^n$ |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Tai Ha (Tulane), Algebraic invariants of fiber products |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Jennifer Biermann (Mt. Holyoke), Generalized edge and cover ideals |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Enrico Carlini (Monash/Politecnico di Torino), On the Waring rank of cubics |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Mats Boij (KTH), Cones of Hilbert Functions |
| Sunday December 7 (Ballroom West) | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Brian Harbourne (Nebraska), Survey of recent work on resurgences and the containment problem |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Sarah Mayes (Quest), Boij-S\"{o}derberg decompositions of systems of ideals |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Susan Cooper (North Dakota), Fat Points, Grids, and Partial Intersections |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Paolo Mantero (UC Riverside), On a conjecture by G. V. Chudnovsky |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Luca Chiantini (Siena), On the representation of general forms |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Alessandro Oneto (Stockholm), A Waring problem with higher degree terms |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Zach Teitler (Boise State), Lower bound for ranks of invariant forms |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Hiro Abo (Idaho), Eigenvectors of tensors |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Tomasz Szemberg (Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny), On Sylvester-Gallai Theorem for conics |
| Monday December 8 (Ballroom West) | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Ali Alilooee (Dalhousie), When is a Squarefree Monomial Ideal of Linear Type? |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Nursel Erey (Dalhousie), Multigraded Betti numbers of monomial ideals |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Gregory G. Smith (Queen's), Parliaments of polytopes and toric vector bundles |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | David Wehlau (RMC and Queen's), Hilbert Functions of Graded Gorenstein Ideals with an $S_n$-action. |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Elena Guardo (Catania), On the Hilbert functions of points in $\mathbb{P}^1\times \mathbb{P}^1\times \mathbb{P}^1$. |
| Computability Theory | |
| Org: Peter Cholak (Notre Dame) and Barbara Csima (Waterloo) | |
| Saturday December 6 (Charlton Room) | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Steffen Lempp (Wisconsin – Madison), Kalimullin pairs and definability in the enumeration degrees |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Ellen Chih (California - Berkeley), Splittings and computably enumerable sets |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Valentina Harizanov (The George Washington University), Interaction of computability theory and computable algebra |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Matthew Harrison-Trainor (California – Berkeley), Independence in computable algebra |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Alexander Melnikov (California – Berkeley), Torsion-free abelian groups and infinite divisibility |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Noah Schweber (California – Berkeley), Computability and structures in generic extensions |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Julia Knight (Notre Dame), Comparing two versions of the reals using computability |
| 18:00 - 18:30 | Mingzhong Cai (Wisconsin-Madison), The join property and low$_2$ r.e.\ degrees |
| Sunday December 7 (Charlton Room) | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Jan Reimann (Penn State), Algorithmically random point processes |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Christopher Porter (Florida), Initial segment complexity and randomness for computable measures |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Douglas Cenzer (Florida), Algorithmically random functions and effective capacity |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Eric Astor (Chicago), Asymptotic density, immunity, and randomness |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Damir Dzhafarov (Connecticut), Computable, uniform, and strong reductions |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Gregory Igusa (Notre Dame), Cohen 1-generics and the finite intersection principle |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | David Belanger (Cornell), The jump of an ideal of degrees |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Linda Westrick (Connecticut), Comparing subshifts in $\mathbb{Z}$ and $\mathbb{Z}^2$ |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Denis Hirschfeldt (Chicago), Homogeneous sets for colorings of $\mathbb N$ |
| Monday December 8 (Charlton Room) | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Iskander Kalimullin (Kazan Federal University), Index sets and enumerability of families |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Karen Lange (Wellesley College), Classifying $\mathcal{D}$-maximal sets |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Keng Meng (Selwyn) Ng (Nanyang Technological University), Diamond embeddings and minimal pairs in the r.e. truth table degrees |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Andrew Marks (Caltech), Poly-time Turing reducibility is universal |
| Contributed Papers | |
| Org: Jamie Foster (McMaster) | |
| Saturday December 6 (Buchanan Room) | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Mohammad Alamgir Hossain (Memorial), Numerical modelling of the nonhydrostatic mesoscale stratified flows |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Lucas Calixto (Ottawa), Equivariant Map Queer Lie Superalgebras |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Reese Johnston (University of Wisconsin), Complexity of binary trees of uncountable height |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Michael Cavers (Calgary), Rewiring dynamics on directed graphs |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Schehrazad Selmane (University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algeria), Forecast of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Incidence using Temperature |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Robert Strehl (Ryerson), Efficient stochastic simulation of multiscale reaction-diffusion models |
| Sunday December 7 (Buchanan Room) | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Douglas Henrich (Iroquois Ridge High School), Mathematical Ethics: Values, Valences and Virtues |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Ethan McCarthy (Wisconsin—Madison), Counting periodic billiard paths on some tessellating polygons |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | S.M. Ashrafur Rahman (Western), Modelling the impact of early versus late antiretroviral treatment on HIV epidemics |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Xiaoying Wang (Western), A two-patch predator-prey model with adaptive habitancy of predators |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Greg Doyle (Carleton University), Explicit Evaluation of Double Gauss Sums |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Farzad Pourbabaee (McMaster), Assortative Configuration Graphs |
| Differential Geometry | |
| Org: Benoit Charbonneau (Waterloo), Spiro Karigiannis (Waterloo) and McKenzie Wang (McMaster) | |
| Saturday December 6 (Ferguson Room) | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Jacques Hurtubise (McGill), Poisson Surfaces and Integrable Systems |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Ailana Fraser (UBC), Uniqueness theorems for free boundary minimal surfaces |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Frédéric Rochon (UQAM), A Cheeger-Müller theorem on manifolds with cusps |
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Reza Seyyadali (Waterloo), Extremal metrics on ruled manifolds |
| Sunday December 7 (Ferguson Room) | |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Ruxandra Moraru (Waterloo), Generalized holomorphic bundles on non-Kaehler elliptic surfaces |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Xiangwen Zhang (Columbia), Minkowski formulae and Alexandrov's theorems in spacetimes |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | William Wylie (Syracuse), Positive weighted sectional curvature |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Marco Gualtieri (Toronto), Log symplectic vs generalized complex geometry |
| Dynamical Systems with Applications in Mathematical Biology | |
| Org: Hermann Eberl (Guelph) and Gail Wolkowicz (McMaster) | |
| Saturday December 6 (Heritage Room) | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Jianhong Wu (York), Mathematics for food-borne disease spread: water chemistry and pathogen cross-contamination dynamics during washing procedures |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Marion Weedermann (Dominican), Optimization of biogas production in a model for anaerobic digestion |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Robert Smith? (Ottawa), Can mathematics change the world? Insights into policy changes using HPV modelling as an example |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Peter Stechlinski (Waterloo), Control strategies for a seasonal model of chikungunya disease |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Hongbin Guo (Public Health Agency of Canada), Immigration Disease Models |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Felicia Magpantay (University of Michigan), Fitting models of imperfect vaccines to pertussis incidence data |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Gergely Rost (University of Szeged), Endemic Bubbles Generated by Delayed Behavioral Response in Epidemic Models |
| Sunday December 7 (Heritage Room) | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Sue Ann Campbell (Waterloo), Mean Field Analysis of Networks of Neurons |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Guihong Fan (Columbus State), The Bifurcation Study of 1:2 Resonance in a Delayed System of Two Coupled Neurons |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Lin Wang (UNB), Biological systems with multiple stable states |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Victor LeBlanc (Ottawa), Lattice symmetry breaking perturbations for spiral waves |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Xingfu Zou (Western), Budding vs lysis---- on viral release strategies in virus replication |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Connell McCluskey (Wilfrid Laurier), Disease Models with Immigration |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Xiaoqiang Zhao (Memorial), Propagation Phenomena for A Reaction and Diffusion Model with Seasonal Succession |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Xinzhi Liu (Waterloo), A generalized invariance principle for infectious disease models with switching and pulse control |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Yuming Chen (Wilfrid Laurier), The global stability of an SIRS model with infection age |
| Monday December 8 (Heritage Room) | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Michael Li (Alberta), Developing a Mathematical Modeling Approach to Public Health Assessment: HIV in China as a Case Study |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Fred Brauer (UBC), Some simple nosocomial disease transmission models |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Tony Humphries (McGill), Modelling myelopoiesis with state-dependent delay differential equations |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Jacques Belair (Montreal), An age-structured model of erythropoiesis with dynamical destruction rate |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Bill Langford (Guelph), Huygens' clocks revisited |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Huaiping Zhu (York), Bifurcation of limit cycles in predator-prey models, canard cycles and Hilbert's 16th problem |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Silvana Ilie (Ryerson), Effective methods for stochastic biochemical kinetics |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Pietro-Luciano Buono (UOIT), Symmetry and Bifurcations in First-order Hyperbolic PDEs with Nonlocal Terms Modelling Animal Aggregation |
| Dynamics of Biological Systems | |
| Org: Ben Bolker and Jonathan Dushoff (McMaster) | |
| Saturday December 6 (McQuesten Room) | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Sébastien Portalier (McGill), Size-related Effects of Physical Factors on Trophic Interactions |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Steve Walker (McMaster) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Marie Auger-Méthé (Alberta), Tackling the challenges of fitting movement models to marine data |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Katherine Scranton (Yale), Life history variation and environmental fluctuations jointly shape extinction risk of a population |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Tarik Gouhier (Northeastern University), Coral disease dynamics under environmental change |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Alexandra Teslya (McMaster), Predator-prey models with distributed delay: numerical exploration |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Yanyu Xiao (Alberta), Modeling the effect of human activities on the transmission of vector-borne diseases |
| Sunday December 7 (McQuesten Room) | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Xi Huo (Ryerson), An age-structured epidemic disease model with delayed contact tracing |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Bernhard Konrad (UBC), Mathematical models to quantify and optimize HIV interventions in British Columbia |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Ali Khanafer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Stability of SIS Models over Directed Graphs: A Positive Systems Approach |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Eric Foxall (Victoria), Social contact processes and the partner model |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Irena Papst (McMaster), (Don’t) Panic! — Modelling changes in human behaviour over the course of an infectious disease outbreak |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Dora Rosati (McMaster), Song popularity as a contagious process |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | David Champredon (McMaster), An agent-based model to disentangle the epidemiology of sexually transmitted co-infections |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Lindsay Keegan (McMaster), Analytic calculations of finite-population reproductive numbers |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Sarder Mohammed Asaduzzaman (Victoria), The coexistence or replacement of two subtypes of influenza |
| Monday December 8 (McQuesten Room) | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Bryce Morsky (Guelph), Homophilic replicator equations |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | James O'Dwyer (University of Illinois), From Bacterial Phylogenies to Ecological Complexity |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Matthew Scott (Waterloo), Using mathematics to untangle mechanism from physiology |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Mo'tassem al-Arydah (Khalifa University), Applications of Mathematical Modelling in Managing the Spread of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Wild Deer |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Clay Cressler (Queen's), Disentangling the interaction among energy, immunity, and pathogens |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Nicole Mideo (Toronto), Explaining the complex lives of malaria parasites |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Xingpeng Jiang (Drexel), Exploring Microbiome Dynamics by Sparse Vector Autoregessive Modeling |
| Environmental and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics | |
| Org: Francis Poulin (Waterloo) | |
| Sunday December 7 (Hamilton Convention Centre: Room 201) | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Gualtiero Badin (University of Hamburg), Hydrodynamic Nambu Brackets derived by Geometric Constraints |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Walter Craig (McMaster), Birkhoff normal forms for water waves |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Jacques Vanneste (University of Edinburgh), Interactions between near-inertial waves and mean flow in the ocean |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Marek Stastna (Waterloo), Swimming Plankton: Limit cycles and the effect of intrinsic vs extrinsic noise |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Paul Kushner (Toronto), Decomposing atmospheric planetary waves into standing and travelling components |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Liv Herdman (Stanford & Waterloo), Heat balances and thermally-driven lagoon-ocean exchanges on a tropical coral reef system (Moorea, French Polynesia) |
| Monday December 8 (Hamilton Convention Centre: Room 201) | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Michael Waite (Waterloo), The spectral kinetic energy budget in dry convective turbulence |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Nicholas Kevlahan (McMaster), Compressive sampling for energy spectrum estimation of turbulent flows |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Michael Dunphy (Waterloo), Internal tide generation with a background shear current |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Kevin Lamb (Waterloo), Shoaling Internal Solitary Waves in the South China Sea |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Francis Poulin (Waterloo), Simple Models of Oceanic Fronts |
| Financial Mathematics | |
| Org: Minsuk Kwak and Traian Pirvu (McMaster) | |
| Sunday December 7 (Adelaide Room) | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Bruno Remillard (HEC Montreal), Option pricing in a discrete time model for the limit order book |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Alex Badescu (University du Quebec a Montreal), Derivative pricing with Non-Gaussian GARCH Models and their Diffusion Limits |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Cody Hyndman (Concordia), Optimal measure transformation problems for defaultable bonds, futures prices and forward prices |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Anatoliy Swishchuk (Calgary), Volatility Derivatives: History, Ideas and Developments |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Petar Jevtic (McMaster), Assessing the solvency of insurance portfolios via a continuous-time cohort model |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Adam Metzler (Wilfired Laurier), Regulatory Concerns Related to CoCo Bonds - Mathematical Modeling |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | David Saunders (Waterloo), Lower Tail Independence of Diffusion Hitting Times |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Joe Campolieti (Wilfired Laurier), Some functionals for solvable diffusion processes with applications to financial modelling and option pricing |
| Monday December 8 (Adelaide Room) | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Patrice Gaillardetz (Concordia), Valuation of Equity-Linked Products in the Presence of Policyholder Surrender Using Risk Measures |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Matt Davison (Western), Modeling Energy Spreads with a Novel Mean-reverting Stochastic Process |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Minsuk Kwak (McMaster), Cumulative prospect theory with skewed return distribution |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Kristina Sendova (Western), On a perturbed dual risk model with dependence between inter-gain times and gain sizes |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Roman Makarov (Wilfired Laurier), Modelling Default Risk with Occupation Time |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Huan (Georgia) Gao (Western) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Xinghua Alan Zhou (Western), Misrepresentation and Capital Structure: Quantifying the Impact on Corporate Security Value |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Sebastian Jaimungal (Toronto), A Mean-Field Gama Approach To Optimal Execution |
| Frames, Fractals, Tiling, and Wavelets, in Connection with the Fuglede's Conjecture | |
| Org: Jean Pierre Gabardo (McMaster) and Chun-Kit Lai (San Francisco State University) | |
| Saturday December 6 (Hamilton Convention Centre: Room 205) | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Chun-Kit Lai (San Francisco State University), Fuglede's and generalized Fuglede's conjecture on ${\mathbb R}^1$ |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Dorin Dutkay (University of Central Florida), Tiling and scaling properties of spectra of fractals |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Kathryn Hare (Waterloo), Hausdorff and packing measures of balanced Cantor sets |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Franklin Mendivil (Acadia), Hausdorff and packing measures of Cantor sets associated with series |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Kyle Hambrook (UBC), Explicit Salem Sets |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Jason Phillips (Wright State University) |
| Sunday December 7 (Hamilton Convention Centre: Room 205) | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Mihalis Kolountzakis (University of Crete), Riesz bases of exponentials for domains that tile multiply with a lattice |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | József Vass (Waterloo), On the Exact Convex Hull of IFS Fractals |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Baris Ugurcan (Western), Whitney-type Problems and Haar Expansions on the Sierpinski Gasket |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Trubee Davison (University of Colorado), Generalizing the Kantorovich Metric to Projection Valued Measures: With an Application to IFS |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Eric Weber (Iowa State University), Fourier Frames for the Cantor-4 Set |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Deguang Han (University of Central Florida), Frames, dilations and related problems |
| Geometric Discretization Methods and Adaptivity | |
| Org: Marc Laforest (École Polytechnique de Montréal) and Gantumur Tsogtgerel (McGill) | |
| Saturday December 6 (Hamilton Convention Centre: Room 201) | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Nicholas Kevlahan (McMaster), A dynamically adaptive wavelet-based method for the shallow water equations on the icosahedral sphere |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Kris Van Der Zee (Nottingham), Stable discretization of gradient-flow diffuse-interface models |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Scott MacLachlan (Memorial), First-order system Petrov-Galerkin discretization for a singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion problem |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Andy Wan (McGill), The multiplier method to construct conservative finite difference schemes for ordinary and partial differential equations |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Gerard Awanou (University of Illinois Chicago), Analysis of numerical methods for the Monge-Amp\`ere equation |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Harbir Antil (George Mason), Optimal control of a free boundary problem |
| Sunday December 7 (Hamilton Convention Centre: Room 201) | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Anil Hirani (University of Illinois Urbana-Champain), New Spaces for DEC |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Andy Wan (McGill), Adaptive space-time finite element method for the $p$-curl problem from high temperature superconductivity |
| Geometry and Topology of Manifolds in Low-Dimensions | |
| Org: Hans U. Boden (McMaster) and Liam Watson (Glasgow) | |
| Saturday December 6 (MacNab Room) | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | John Baldwin (Boston College), A refinement of the Ozsvath-Szabo contact invariant |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Joshua Greene (Boston College), Strong L-spaces |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Cagatay Kutluhan (Buffalo), Sutured ECH is a natural invariant |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Andrew Donald (Michigan State), Embedding 3-manifolds smoothly in $S^4$ |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Chris Cornwell (UQAM), Conormal tori and knot contact homology |
| Sunday December 7 (MacNab Room) | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Daniel Ruberman (Brandeis), Smooth structures on contractible 4-manifolds |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Adam Levine (Princeton), Satellite operators and piecewise-linear concordance. |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Dror Bar-Natan (Toronto), Tangles, Wheels, Balloons |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Johanna Mangahas (Buffalo), Convex cocompactness in right-angled Artin groups |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Peter Samuelson (Toronto), Character varieties and a deformed peripherial map |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Alyson Hildum (McMaster), Topological 4-manifolds with RAAG fundamental groups |
| Monday December 8 (MacNab Room) | |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Matt Hedden (Michigan State), Obstructing the existence of algebraic curves in $\mathbb{C}P^2$ with prescribed singularities |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | David Duncan (Michigan State), From instantons to quilts with seam degenerations |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Steve Boyer (UQAM), On the Neumann and Reid conjecture concerning knots with hidden symmetries |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Nima Anvari (McMaster), Cyclic Group Actions on Contractible Four-Manifolds |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Eric Harper (McMaster), Virtual knots, almost classical knots, and their Alexander invariants |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Francois Charette (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics), Quantum homology of orientable Lagrangian surfaces |
| Graduate Student Research Presentations | |
| Org: Irena Papst and Adrien Thierry (McMaster) | |
| Monday December 8 (Hamilton Convention Centre: Room 205) | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Spencer Hunt (McMaster), HPV Type Replacement and Spatial Within-Host Modelling |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Athinthra Sethurajan (McMaster), Reconstruction of State-Dependant Material Properties and Its Application in Electrochemical Systems |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Peter Sinclair (McMaster), Computable Axiomatizability of Elementary Classes |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Adrien Thierry (McMaster), Inversion factor. |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Yusuke Shimabukuro (McMaster), Nonlinear waves in the integrable systems |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Sergei Melkoumian (McMaster), The Effects of Wakes and Multiple Moving Bodies on Darwinian Drift |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Ali Ghasemi (McMaster), Simulation of high Reynolds fluid flow through an array of moving cylinders |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Zafer Selcuk Aygin (Carleton), Fourier series representations of new classes of eta quotients |
| Integrable Systems: Recent Developments | |
| Org: Stephen Anco (Brock) and Dmitry Pelinovsky (McMaster) | |
| Saturday December 6 (Adelaide Room) | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Dmitry Korotkin (Concordia), Bergman tau-function and geometry of moduli spaces |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Vasilisa Shramchenko (Sherbrooke), Poncelet theorem and Painlevé VI |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Thomas Wolf (Brock), Integrability study of breaking-wave equations |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Alexander Odesski (Brock), Non-homogeneous systems of hydrodynamic type possessing Lax representations |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Danilo Riglioni (Montréal), Superintegrable systems with spin induced by coalgebra symmetry |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Masoumeh Sajedi (Montréal), Two-dimensional superintegrable quantum systems with potentials expressed in terms of Painlevé transcendents |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Xiangke Chang (Saskatchewan), A generalized nonisospectral Camassa-Holm equation and its multipeakon solutions |
| Model Theory | |
| Org: Omar Sanchez and Patrick Speissegger (McMaster) | |
| Saturday December 6 (Hamilton Convention Centre: Room 202) | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Rahim Moosa (Waterloo), Differential fields with free operators |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Ronnie Nagloo (City University of New York), Internality and the Painlevé property for order one equations |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | James Freitag (California, Berkeley), Varieties and isogeny classes of elliptic curves |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Gal Binyamini (Toronto), Bezout-type theorems for differential fields |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Maryanthe Malliaris (Chicago), Saturation of ultrapowers and Keisler's order |
| Sunday December 7 (Hamilton Convention Centre: Room 202) | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Athipat Thamrongthanyalak (Ohio State), Continuous Definable Skolem Functions in O-minimal Structures |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Sanjay Patel (McMaster), o-minimality for quasi-analytic algebras of functions of one variable |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Philipp Hieronymi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Expansions of the ordered additive group of real numbers by two discrete subgroups |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Jana Marikova (Western Illinois), Measuring definable sets in o-minimal structures |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Matthew Luther (McMaster), Instability of Asymptotic Cones of Symmetric Spaces |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Chris Eagle (Toronto), Saturation and elementary equivalence of commutative C*-algebras |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Bradd Hart (McMaster), Model theory and operator algebras |
| Non-Linear PDE of Mathematical Physics | |
| Org: Stan Alama and Lia Bronsard (McMaster) | |
| Saturday December 6 (Beckett Room) | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Robert McCann (Toronto), The spectrum for a family of fourth order diffusions near the self-similar attractor |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Vitali Vougalter (University of Cape Town), Existence of stationary solutions for some nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Robert L Jerrard (Toronto), Existence and uniqueness of minimizers of general least gradient problems |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Marina Chugunova (Claremont Graduate University), Nonnegative weak solutions for a degenerate system modeling the spreading of surfactant on thin films |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Stefanella Boatto (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Andres Contreras (Fields) |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Qi Gao (National Taiwan University), Symmetric vortices of two-component Ginzburg-Landau system |
| Sunday December 7 (Beckett Room) | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Lyudmila Korobenko (McMaster), Infinitely degenerate elliptic equations and non doubling metrics |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Alexei Cheviakov (Saskatchewan), Nonlinear Equations for Finite-Amplitude Wave Propagation in Fiber-Reinforced Hyperelastic Media |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Dmitry Pelinovsky (McMaster), Orbital stability of periodic waves and black solitons in the cubic defocusing NLS equation |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Gino Biondini (University of Buffalo), The integrable nature of modulational instability |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Yuri Cher (Toronto), On a class of Generalized Derivative Nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equations |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Bernardo Galvao-Sousa (Toronto), Accelerating Fronts in Semilinear Wave Equations |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Walter Craig (McMaster), Birkhoff normal form for wave equation null forms |
| Monday December 8 (Beckett Room) | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Almut Burchard (Toronto), Geometric stability of the Coulomb energy |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Ihsan Topaloglu (McMaster), Nonlocal attractive-repulsive interaction energies of binary densities |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Dmitry Golovaty (University of Akron), Solutions of Ginzburg-Landau equations in the presence of weak electric currents |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Tiziana Giorgi (New Mexico State University), Field-induced smectic phases in liquid crystals |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Mary Pugh (Toronto), Special Solutions in Smectic Electroconvection |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Xavier Lamy (McMaster and University of Lyon), Uniaxial symmetry and `biaxial escape' in nematic liquid crystals |
| Operator Algebras and Operator Theory | |
| Org: Ken Davidson (Waterloo) and Matthew Kennedy (Carleton) | |
| Saturday December 6 (Ballroom South) | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Marcelo Laca (Victoria), von Neumann algebras of strongly connected higher rank graphs |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Raphael Clouatre (Waterloo), Duality and peak-interpolation for continuous multipliers of the Drury-Arveson space |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | George Elliott (Toronto), Recent progress in C*-algebra classification theory |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Adam Fuller (Nebraska), Von Neumann Algebras and Extensions of Inverse Semigroups |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Yanli Song (Toronto), Localization of fundamental K-homology classes |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Martin Argerami (Regina), Classification of finitely generated operator systems |
| Sunday December 7 (Ballroom South) | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Laurent Marcoux (Waterloo), On selfadjoint extensions of semigroups of partial isometries |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Qingyun Wang (Toronto), Regularity property and actions with the weak tracial Rokhlin property |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Matt Wiersma (Waterloo), C*-norms for tensor products of discrete group C*-algebras |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Chris Ramsey (Virginia), The semicrossed product algebra of a dynamical system |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Doug Farenick (Regina), Expectation and Bayes rule with quantum random variables |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Paul Skoufranis (Texas A&M University), Free Probability for Pairs of Faces |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Dilian Yang (Windsor), Cycline subalgebras of k-graph C*-algebras |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Adam Dor-On (Waterloo), C*-envelopes of tensor algebras arising from Markov chains |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Jamie Mingo (Queen's), Freeness and the Transpose |
| Monday December 8 (Ballroom South) | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Ilijas Farah (York), Model theory of strongly self absorbing C*-algebras |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Zhuang Niu (Wyoming), The C*-algebra of a minimal homeomorphism with zero mean dimension |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Matthew Kennedy (Carleton), C*-simplicity and the unique trace property for discrete groups |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Maria-Grazia Viola (Lakehead), Classification of spatial $L^p$ AF algebras |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Martino Lupini (York), Uniqueness, homogeneity, and universality of the noncommutative Gurarij space |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Michael Hartz (Waterloo), Nevanlinna-Pick spaces with subnormal multiplication operators |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Vladimir Troitsky (Alberta), Multinorms, p-multinorms, and Banach lattices |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Kun Wang (Toronto), Equivalence of two Invariants of $\text{C}^*$-algebras with the ideal property |
| Origin and Evolution of Bacterial Genomes | |
| Org: Paul Higgs and Ralph Pudritz (McMaster) | |
| Sunday December 7 (Wellington Room) | |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Yuri Wolf (National Center for Biotechnology Information, Maryland), Turbulent genomes: quantification of gene acquisition, loss and displacement in prokaryotes |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Tal Dagan (University of Kiel), Phylogenomic networks reveal trends and barriers to lateral gene transfer during microbial evolution |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Daniel Brown (Waterloo), Fast algorithms for phylogenetic reconstruction of aligned sequeneces |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Weilong Hao (Wayne State University), Estimating evolutionary rates of discrete characters, and its application on genome evolution |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Radhey Gupta (McMaster), A Signature Protein Based In silico Microbial Identification Tool Using Next Generation Sequence Data |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Eric Collins (University of Alaska) |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Paul Higgs (McMaster), Phylogenetic models of bacterial genome evolution incorporating gene insertion and deletion and horizontal gene transfer |
| Recent Advances in Variational Analysis and Linear Optimization | |
| Org: Antoine Deza (McMaster) and Henry Wolkowicz (Waterloo) | |
| Saturday December 6 (York Room) | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Henry Wolkowicz (Waterloo), Coordinate Shadows of Semi-definite and Euclidean Distance Matrix Completions |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Bartosz Protas (McMaster), Probing Fundamental Bounds in Hydrodynamics Using Variational Optimization Methods |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Yuen-Lam (Vris) Cheung (Waterloo), Efficient and Accurate Solutions for Linear Programs with Bound Constraints |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Yichuan (Daniel) Ding (UBC), An Overloaded Bipartite Queueing System with Scoring-Based Priority Rules |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Antoine Deza (McMaster), On the polynomial Hirsch conjecture and its continuous analogue |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Ahad Dehghani (McGill), A Primal-Dual Regularized Interior-Point Method for Semidefinite Programming |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Yuriy Zinchenko (Calgary), On a shortest 2-path problem |
| Sunday December 7 (York Room) | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Warren Hare (UBC), Numerical Variational Analysis |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Michael Metel (McMaster), Chance Constrained Optimization for Parimutuel Horse Race Betting |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Walaa Moursi (UBC), Generalized solutions for the sum of two maximally monotone operators. |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Heinz Bauschke (UBC), The Douglas-Rachford Algorithm: Recent Progress |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Hristo Sendov (Western), Loci of complex polynomials |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Shawn Xianfu Wang (UBC), Weak subdifferentials, rl-density and maximal monotonicity |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Abdo Alfakih (Windsor), A New Semidefinite Farkas lemma and the dimensional rigidity of bar frameworks |
| Stochastic Models and Applications | |
| Org: Shui Feng (McMaster) and Bruno Remillard (HEC Montreal) | |
| Saturday December 6 (Suite 302) | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Donald A. Dawson (Carleton), Random walk, percolation and branching systems on the hierarchical group |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Louis-Pierre Arguin (Montreal), Probabilistic approach for the maxima of the Riemann Zeta function on the critical line |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Phelim Boyle (Wilfrid Laurier), Beyond Perron Frobenius |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Clarence Simard (HEC Montreal), General model for limit order book and market orders |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Wei Sun (Concordia), New criteria for Hunt’s hypothesis (H) of Levy processes |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Raluca Balan (Ottawa), Intermittency for the stochastic wave and heat equations with fractional noise in time |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Rafal Kulik (Ottawa), Heavy tailed time series with extremal independence |
| Sunday December 7 (Suite 302) | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Neal Madras (York), Random 312-Avoiding Permutations |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Louigi Addario-Berry (McGill), Random maps and their cores |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Don L. McLeish (Waterloo), Convergence of the Discrete Variance Swap in Time-Homogeneous Diffusion Models |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Deli Li (Lakehead), A Characterization of a New Type of Strong Law of Large Numbers |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Xiaowen Zhou (Concordia), Some Support Properties of $\Lambda$-Fleming-Viot Processes with Brownian Spatial Motion |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Stefano Favaro (University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto), A new tool for nonparametric estimation of species variety with Gibbs-type priors |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Youzhou Zhou (Zhongnan University of Economics and Law), Some Large Deviation Principles and Law of Large Numbers for Random Energy Model |
| Teaching Introduction to Proofs Courses | |
| Org: Shay Fuchs and Jaimal Thind (Toronto) | |
| Saturday December 6 (Hamilton Convention Centre: Room 203) | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Bernardo Galvao-Sousa (Toronto), Proofs with Clickers |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Daniel Solow (Case Western Reserve University), What an Ideal Transition Course Should (and Should Not) Be...in My Opinion |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Maria Wesslen (Toronto), Connecting an Introduction to Proofs course with higher level courses |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Patrick Rault (SUNY Geneseo), Using inquiry-based learning to teach proofs. |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Steve Furino (Waterloo), A Generation of Teaching Proofs |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Dale Garraway (Eastern Washington University), The role of Structure in an introduction to proofs course. |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Jaimal Thind and Shay Fuchs [Joint] (Toronto), Once we teach, what do we ask? |
| Toric and Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry | |
| Org: Eric Katz (Waterloo) and Jessie Yang (McMaster) | |
| Saturday December 6 (Durand Room) | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Askold Khovanskii (Toronto), Newton polyhedra and irreducible components of complete intersection |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Kiumars Kaveh (University of Pittsburgh), Toric degenerations and applications |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Kalle Karu (UBC), Non-finitely generated Cox rings |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Dave Anderson (IMPA), Beyond the determinantal formula of Schubert calculus |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Charles Doran (Alberta), K3 fibrations on Calabi-Yau threefolds and Landau-Ginzburg models of Fano threefolds |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Hugh Thomas (UNB), Monodromy for the quintic mirror |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Kael Dixon (McGill), How black holes give counter-examples to the convexity of the moment map. |
| Sunday December 7 (Durand Room) | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Dustin Cartwright (Yale), Tree compactifications of the moduli space of genus 0 curves |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Farbod Shokrieh (Cornell), Faithful Tropicalization of Abelian Varieties |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Graham Denham (Western), Coordinate rings of compactified arrangements |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Christopher Manon (George Mason University), Toric geometry of moduli spaces of principal bundles on a curve. |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Lisa Jeffrey (Toronto), A Hamiltonian circle action on the triple reduced product of coadjoint orbits of SU(3) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Yael Karshon (Toronto), Non-compact symplectic toric manifolds |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Matthias Franz (Western), Syzygies in equivariant cohomology for non-abelian Lie groups |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Caroline Junkins (Western), The Steinberg basis and the twisted gamma-filtration |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Joel Lemay (Ottawa), Geometric Fock Space Representations of Affine sl(n) and gl(n) |
| Undergraduate Mathematics Education in 21st Century: Rethinking Curriculum | |
| Org: Chantal Buteau (Brock) and Miroslav Lovric (McMaster) | |
| Sunday December 7 (Ballroom Centre/East) | |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Hichem Ben-El-Mechaiekh, Nadia Hardy, Dragana Martinovic and Yvan St-Aubin (Brock, Concordia, Windsor, and Montreal), PANEL DISCUSSION: What is the mathematics we ‘should’ teach and the pedagogy we ‘should’ use in this XXIst Century? |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Miroslav Lovric and Chantal Buteau (McMaster and Brock), Undergraduate Mathematics Education in 21st Century — Rethinking Curriculum : Introduction |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Frédéric Gourdeau (Laval), Mathematics, technology and curriculum: a complex interaction |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Nadia Hardy (Concordia), 1939 – 2014: Can the mathematics undergraduate curriculum catch up? (*) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Chester Weatherby (Wilfrid Laurier), Underprepared for first year Mathematics: Now what? |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Walter Whiteley (York), Spatial Reasoning and Communication: Core Mathematics Curriculum |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Ami Mamolo (UOIT), An argument for the unconventional in undergraduate mathematics education |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Ashley Nahornick, Is Calculus Really Necessary |
| Monday December 8 (Ballroom Centre/East) | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Laura Broley (Montréal), Computer Programming and the Ideal Undergraduate Mathematics Program: Some Mathematicians' Perspectives |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Chantal Buteau (Brock), Undergraduates Learning Programming for Simulation and Investigation of Mathematics Concepts and Real-World Modelling |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Andrey Novoseltsev (Alberta), Reflections on Increasing Use of Software in Teaching Mathematical Optimization |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Carmen Bruni (UBC), The Math Exam/Educational Resources Wiki |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Margo Kondratieva (Memorial), On the importance of combining new and old mathematical ideas |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | David Poole (Trent), Flattening the Mathematics Curriculum |
