2017 CMS Winter Meeting

Waterloo, December 8 - 11, 2017

Schedules        

Schedule - Plenary, Prize and Public Lectures

 
Friday December 8
17:00 - 18:00 Edward Burger (Southwestern University), Public Lecture, How Always to Win at Limbo, Silver Lake Ballroom A+B, Delta Waterloo
 
Saturday December 9
11:00 - 12:00 Joel Kamnitzer (University of Toronto), Plenary Lecture, Geometric constructions in representation theory and symplectic duality, Room M3-1006, Univ. Waterloo

13:30 - 14:30 Ilijas Farah (York University), Plenary Lecture, Necessary uses of abstract set theory in mathematics, Room M3-1006, Univ. Waterloo

14:30 - 15:30 Sabin Cautis (University of British Columbia), Coxeter-James Prize, ${N \choose k} = {N \choose N-k}$, Room M3-1006, Univ. Waterloo

19:00 - 20:00 Richard Hoshino (Quest University), Adrien Pouliot Award, Four Problem-Solving Strategies for Mathematics and for Life, M3-1006, Univ Waterloo
 
Sunday December 10
11:00 - 12:00 Niky Kamran (McGill University), Plenary Lecture, Solving the Einstein equations holographically, Room M3-1006, Univ. Waterloo

13:30 - 14:30 Natalia Komarova (University of California - Irvine), Plenary Lecture, Mathematical methods in evolutionary dynamics, Room M3-1006, Univ. Waterloo

14:30 - 15:30 Bernard Hodgson (Laval University), Excellence in Teaching Award, On the contribution of mathematicians to the education of teachers, Room M3-1006, Univ. Waterloo
 
Monday December 11
11:00 - 12:00 Bill Cook (University of Waterloo), Plenary Lecture, Exact solutions to the traveling salesman problem, Room M3-1006, Univ. Waterloo

13:30 - 14:30 Konstantin Tikhomirov (Princeton University), Doctoral Prize, The extreme singular values of random matrices: a geometric approach, Room M3-1006, Univ. Waterloo

Sponsors

Centre de recherches mathématiques Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Fields Institute AARMS: Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences University of Waterloo

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