2020 CMS Winter Meeting
Montreal, December 4 - 7, 2020
Schedule - by day
Detailed session schedules will be posted on the web site beginning in
late April. Once the schedules are made available to us by the
organizers, we will post them as quickly as possible. Please note that schedules are subject to change without notice. All scientific sessions will be held
Online. All times listed below are Eastern Standard Time (EST).
Tuesday December 1  | |
| 13:00 - 17:00 | CMS Executive Committee |
| Thursday December 3 | |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Marc Masdeu (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Computations with Arithmetic Groups, Quaternionic rigid meromorphic cocycles |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Graham Ellis (National University of Ireland, Galway), Computations with Arithmetic Groups, An algorithm for computing Hecke operators |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Angelica Babei (Centre de recherches mathématiques), Computations with Arithmetic Groups, Zeros of period polynomials for Hilbert modular forms |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | CMS Development Group Meeting |
| 11:00 - 14:00 | Paulina Chin (Software Architect, Maplesoft), An Introduction to Programming in Maple |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Ben Breen (Clemson University), Computations with Arithmetic Groups, A trace formula for Hilbert modular forms |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Avner Ash (Boston College), Computations with Arithmetic Groups, Cohomology of congruence subgroups of $SL_3(Z)$ and real quadratic fields |
| 12:30 - 17:30 | CMS Board of Directors Meeting |
| 14:30 - 17:30 | Anton Bernshteyn (Georgia Tech), The Lovász Local Lemma and its applications in ergodic theory and descriptive set theory |
| 14:30 - 17:30 | Mike Bennett (University of British Columbia), Stacey Smith? (University of Ottawa), and NSERC., Student Committee Mini-Course |
| 14:30 - 17:30 | Andrew Harder (Lehigh University), Filtrations on cohomology in mirror symmetry |
| 14:30 - 17:30 | Maxence Mayrand (University of Toronto), Symplectic Reduction and Geometric Invariant Theory |
| Friday December 4 | |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Opening and Welcome |
| 11:15 - 12:45 | CMS |CMESG Panel |
| 12:45 - 13:00 | Break |
| 12:45 - 13:00 | Equity, Diversity and Inclusiveness Committee Breakout - COVID19 Panel Discussion |
| 13:00 - 13:20 | Fernando Peruani (CY Cergy Paris Université), Mathematical biology, A mathematical approach to bacterial infections: models for bacterial exploration and infection |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Kristine Bauer (University of Calgary), Homotopy Theory, Operads of functors with derivatives |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Sam Chow (Warwick), Discrete Analysis, Bohr sets in diophantine approximation |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Craig Fraser (IHSPT-Toronto), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Henri Poincaré's Development of Hamilton-Jacobi Theory |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Stefan Glock (ETH Zurich), Combinatorial Designs, Approximate Steiner triple systems of large girth |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Jan Hubicka (Charles University), Logic and Applications, Big Ramsey degrees of the homogeneous universal partial order |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Dimitris Koukoulopoulos (Montréal), Probability in Number Theory, How concentrated can the divisors of a typical integer be? |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Lucas Mol (University of Winnipeg), Graph Theory, The Threshold Dimension of a Graph |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Neha Prabhu (Chennai Mathematical Instittue), Arithmetic Statistics, A joint distribution theorem with applications to extremal primes for elliptic curves |
| 13:00 - 13:40 | Zhang Jun (Montreal), Symplectic Topology, Quantitative Lagrangian embeddings |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Jordon Kostiuk (Brown University), Fibrations and Degenerations in Algebraic Geometry, Geometric Variations of Local Systems |
| 13:20 - 13:40 | Grant Lythe (University of Leeds), Mathematical biology, How many TCR clonotypes does a body maintain? |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Ricardo Alonso (Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar), Nonlinear PDEs and kinetic problems, Brief Intro to Dissipative Particle Systems and the role of self-similarity |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Emma Bailey (CUNY), Probability in Number Theory, Random matrices and $L$-functions: moments of moments, branching, and log-correlation |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Curtis Bright (Waterloo), Combinatorial Designs, A Resolution of Lam's Problem via Satisfiability Solvers |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Ben Cameron (Guelph), Graph Theory, The mean subtree order of a graph under edge addition |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Anup Dixit (Chennai Mathematical Institute), Arithmetic Statistics, On the classification problem for general Dirichlet series |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Colin Jahel (Lyon), Logic and Applications, Actions of automorphism groups of Fraïssé limits on the space of linear orderings. |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Ruxandra Moraru (University of Waterloo), Algebraic Geometry of Integrable Systems, Moduli spaces of stable bundles on complex nilmanifolds |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Apurva Nakade (University of Western Ontario), Homotopy Theory, Discrete Chern-Simons via 2-group bundles on elliptic curves |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Yelda Nasifoglu (Oxford), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, The changing nature of mathematical diagrams in the seventeenth century |
| 13:36 - 14:06 | Marina Iliopoulou (Kent), Discrete Analysis, A discrete Kakeya-type inequality |
| 13:40 - 14:00 | Bard Ermentrout (University of Pittsburgh), Mathematical biology, A model for the the inflammatory response to SARS-CoV-2 in the upper- and lower-respiratory tracts. |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Sam Jamaleddine (McGill University), Mathematical biology, Investigating the effects of T cell avidity distributions on acute vs. chronic viral infection dynamics |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Iain Beaton (Dalhousie University), Graph Theory, The Average Order of Dominating Sets of a Graph |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Gong Chen (Fields Institute and University of Toronto, Canada), Nonlinear PDEs and kinetic problems, Long-time dynamics of the sine-Gordon equation |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Iren Darijani (Memorial), Combinatorial Designs, Colourings of star systems |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Lucile Devin (Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg), Arithmetic Statistics, Chebyshev’s bias and sums of two squares |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Jack Ding (University of Toronto), Algebraic Geometry of Integrable Systems, Equivariant multiplicities of Schubert Varieties in the Based Loop Group |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Suresh Eswarathasan (Dalhousie), Probability in Number Theory, Counting tangencies of nodal domains |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Juan Fernández González and Dirk Schlimm (McGill), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, From a doodle to a theorem: a case study in mathematical discovery |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Dakota Ihli (UIUC), Logic and Applications, What generic automorphisms of the random poset look like |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Sacha Ikonicoff (University of Calgary), Homotopy Theory, Unstable algebras over an operad |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Rosa Orellana (Dartmouth College), Algebraic Combinatorixx (Women in Algebraic Combinatorics), Restricting Howe Duality |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Elana Kalashnikov (Harvard University), Fibrations and Degenerations in Algebraic Geometry |
| 14:10 - 14:50 | Marcelo Atallah (Montreal), Symplectic Topology, Hamiltonian no-torsion |
| 14:12 - 14:42 | Aled Walker (CRM Montreal), Discrete Analysis, Effective results on the structure of sumsets |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Jürgen Reingruber (Institut de Biologie École Normale Supérieure), Mathematical biology, Monitoring and predicting the Covid-19 epidemic and its implications for hospitals |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Katharine Adamyk (University of Western Ontario), Homotopy Theory, Lifting A(1)-Modules |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Zheng Chen (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, US), Nonlinear PDEs and kinetic problems, Multiscale Convergence Properties for Spectral Approximation of a Model Kinetic Equation |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Alexandra Florea (Columbia University), Arithmetic Statistics, Non-vanishing for cubic $L$-functions |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Jeannette Janssen (Dalhousie University), Graph Theory, Simultaneous embeddings of nested interval graphs |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Sacha Mangerel (CRM), Probability in Number Theory, Arrangements of Consecutive Values of Real Multiplicative Functions |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Davesh Maulik (MIT), Algebraic Geometry of Integrable Systems, Cohomology of the moduli of Higgs bundles and the Hausel-Thaddeus conjecture |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Margaret E. Schotte (York), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, ‘Demonstrate all this with diagrams’: Recovering mathematical practice from early modern navigation exams |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Sophie Spirkl (University of Waterloo), Algebraic Combinatorixx (Women in Algebraic Combinatorics), A complete multipartite basis for the chromatic symmetric function |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Andy Zucker (UCSD), Logic and Applications, Big Ramsey degrees via coding trees |
| 14:48 - 15:18 | Sarah Peluse (IAS), Discrete Analysis, Modular zeros in the character table of the symmetric group |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Break |
| 15:24 - 15:54 | Fernando Shao (University of Kentucky), Discrete Analysis, Gowers uniformity of primes in arithmetic progressions |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Matt Bowen (McGill), Logic and Applications, Monochromatic products and sums in $\mathbb{N}$ |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Francesco Cellarosi (Queens), Probability in Number Theory, Rational Horocycle lifts and the tails of Quadratic Weyl sums |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Samantha Dahlberg (Arizona State University), Algebraic Combinatorixx (Women in Algebraic Combinatorics), Diameters of Graphs of Reduced Words of Permutations |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Daniel Horsley (Monash), Combinatorial Designs, An Evans-style result for block designs |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Margaret-Ellen Messinger (Mount Allison), Graph Theory, Reconfiguration for Dominating Sets |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Boris Mordukhovich (Wayne State), Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications, A Generalized Newton Method for Subgradient Systems |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Dayton Preissl (University of Victoria, Canada), Nonlinear PDEs and kinetic problems, The Hot, Magnetized Relativistic Maxwell Vlasov System |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Junliang Shen (MIT), Algebraic Geometry of Integrable Systems, Cohomological $\chi$-independence for moduli of 1-dimensional sheaves and moduli of Higgs bundles |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Quanli Shen (University of Lethbridge), Arithmetic Statistics, The fourth moment of quadratic Dirichlet $L$-functions |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | David Waszek (McGill), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, From notational change to substantial discovery: Leibniz, Bernoulli, and the exponential notation for differentials |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Daniel Lopez (IMPA), Fibrations and Degenerations in Algebraic Geometry, Homology supported in Lagrangian submanifolds in mirror quintic threefolds |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Robert Bailey (Grenfell Campus, MUN), Graph Theory, On the 486-vertex distance-regular graphs of Koolen--Riebeek and Soicher |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | William Dou (University of Hawaii-Manoa), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, What Does "Aligning" Mean? Practices of Justification across Chinese Logic and Mathematics |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Tao Feng (BJTU), Combinatorial Designs, Nov\'{a}k's conjecture on cyclic Steiner triple systems and its generalization |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Iva Halacheva (Northeastern University), Algebraic Geometry of Integrable Systems, Lagrangian correspondences in Schubert calculus |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Alia Hamieh (University of Northern British Columbia), Arithmetic Statistics, Mean squares of long Dirichlet polynomials with the divisor function $\tau_2(n)$ |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Megumi Harada (McMaster University), Algebraic Combinatorixx (Women in Algebraic Combinatorics), Permutation bases for the cohomology rings of regular semisimple Hessenberg varieties. |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Jamal Kawach (Toronto), Logic and Applications, Fraïssé and Ramsey properties of Fréchet spaces |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Walaa Moursi (Waterloo), Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Aled Walker (CRM & Cambridge), Probability in Number Theory, Triple correlations of dilates squares modulo 1 |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Alicia Carriquiry (Iowa State University), Public Lecture, Statistics, Mathematics, and the Fair Evaluation of Evidence |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Tokio Sasaki (University of Miami), Fibrations and Degenerations in Algebraic Geometry, Limits of geometric higher normal functions and Apéry constants |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Women in Algebraic Combinatorics Social, Algebraic Combinatorixx (Women in Algebraic Combinatorics) |
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Student Social |
| 19:00 - 19:30 | Hiroaki Kikuchi (Tsuda University, Japan), Nonlinear PDEs and kinetic problems, Existence of a ground state and blowup problem for a class of nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations |
| 19:30 - 20:00 | Takafumi Akahori (Shizuoka University, Japan), Nonlinear PDEs and kinetic problems, Uniqueness of ground states for combined power-type nonlinear scalar field equations |
| 20:00 - 20:30 | Kai Koike (Kyoto University, Japan), Nonlinear PDEs and kinetic problems, Refined pointwise estimates for the solutions to a system of a 1D viscous compressible fluid and a moving point mass |
| 20:30 - 21:00 | Tong Yang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Nonlinear PDEs and kinetic problems, Some recent progress on the Boltzmann equation without angular cutoff |
| 21:00 - 21:30 | I-Kun Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan), Nonlinear PDEs and kinetic problems, A Revisit of the Velocity Averaging Lemma: On the Regularity of Stationary Boltzmann Equation in a bounded Convex Domain |
| Saturday December 5 | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Karen Strung (Czech Academy of Sciences), Operator algebras, (semi)groups, and dynamics, Constructions in minimal amenable dynamics and applications to classification of C*-algerbas. |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Kristin Courtney (University of Münster), Operator algebras, (semi)groups, and dynamics, C*-structure on images of completely positive order zero maps |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Jamie Gabe (University of Southern Denmark), Operator algebras, (semi)groups, and dynamics, Classification of embeddings |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Eloise Hamilton (IMJ-PRG, University of Paris), Algebraic Geometry of Integrable Systems, Moduli spaces for unstable Higgs bundles of rank 2 and their geometry |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Peter Crooks (Northeastern University), Algebraic Geometry of Integrable Systems, Hessenberg varieties and Poisson slices |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Aaron Tikuisis (University of Ottawa), Operator algebras, (semi)groups, and dynamics, Classification of embeddings II |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Yvan Saint Aubin (Université de Montréal), Plenary Lecture, Teaching modeling in first year - Un cours de modélisation en première année |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Break |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Veselin Jungic (Simon Fraser University), Adrien Pouliot Award, Teaching and Preaching Mathematics: Reflections on the Past and Thoughts on the Future |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Break |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Oleksiy Klurman (Bristol), Discrete Analysis, Zeros of Fekete polynomials |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Alexei Oblomkov (UMass Amherst), Algebraic Geometry of Integrable Systems, 3D sigma models with defects and knot homology |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Simon Girel (Université Côte d'Azur), Mathematical biology, Mathematical modeling of the CD8 T-cells immune response |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Montaz Ali (University of the Witwatersrand), Optimization and Data Science, Convex Formulation for Planted Quasi-Clique Recovery |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Mariya Boyko (Independent scholar), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Socialist competition and its role in Soviet mathematics education |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Patrick Combettes (NCSU), Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications, Proximal Analysis of Deep Neural Networks |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Brandon Doherty (University of Western Ontario), Homotopy Theory, Cubical models of (infinity,1)-categories |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Olivia Dumitrescu (UNC Chapel Hill), Algebraic Geometry of Integrable Systems, Mirror curve of orbifold Hurwitz numbers |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Ahmet Guloglu (Bilkent University), Arithmetic Statistics, Non-vanishing of Cubic Twists of L-functions |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Timon Gutleb (Imperial College London), Spectral Methods and Singular Integral Equations, Computing Equilibrium Measures with Power Law Kernels |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Adam Harper (Warwick), Probability in Number Theory, Large fluctuations of random multiplicative functions |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Pamela Harris (Williams College), Algebraic Combinatorixx (Women in Algebraic Combinatorics), Kostant's partition function and magic multiplex juggling sequences |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Deirdre Haskell (McMaster), Logic and Applications |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Melissa Huggan (Ryerson), Graph Theory, The Orthogonal Colouring Game |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Matjaž Konvalinka (University of Ljubljana), Enumerative Combinatorics, Some natural extensions of the parking space |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Robert McCann (University of Toronto), Optimal Transport and Applications, Inscribed radius bounds for lower Ricci bounded metric measure spaces with mean convex boundary |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Joanna Niezen (Victoria), Combinatorial Designs, Sarvate-Beam Group Divisible Designs |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Stacey Smith? (Ottawa), Applications and Recent Developments in Discontinuous Dynamical Systems, Using non-smooth models to determine thresholds for microbial pest management |
| 14:00 - 14:40 | Ilia Kirillov (Toronto), Symplectic Topology, Classification of coadjoint orbits for symplectomorphism groups of surfaces with boundary |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Matt Kerr (Washington University at St. Louis), Fibrations and Degenerations in Algebraic Geometry, Frobenius constants and limiting mixed Hodge structures |
| 14:06 - 14:36 | Zane Li (Indiana University), Discrete Analysis, Connections between decoupling and efficient congruencing |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Jacques Bélair (Université de Montréal), Mathematical biology, Waning immunity in a two-strain disease model |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Travis Askham (NJIT), Spectral Methods and Singular Integral Equations, Fast multipole methods for continuous charge distributions |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Ana Balibanu (Harvard University), Algebraic Geometry of Integrable Systems, Steinberg slices in quasi-Poisson varieties |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Everaldo de Mello Bonotto (Universidade de Sau Paulo), Applications and Recent Developments in Discontinuous Dynamical Systems, Impulsive semidynamical systems |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Minh Bui (NCSU), Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications, Multivariate Monotone Inclusions in Saddle Form |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Claire Burrin (CRM), Probability in Number Theory, Higher moment formulas for discrete lattice orbits in the plane |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Taboka Chalebgwa (McMaster), Logic and Applications, A remark on certain Schanuel $n$-tuples for the $j$-function. |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Nancy Clarke (Acadia University), Graph Theory, Surrounding Cops and Robber |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Luigi De Pascale (Università di Pisa), Optimal Transport and Applications, The relaxation of the Coulomb multi-marginal optimal transport cost and applications |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Kevin Halasz (SFU), Combinatorial Designs, Near transversals in group-based latin squares |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Lucy Martinez (Stockton University), Algebraic Combinatorixx (Women in Algebraic Combinatorics), Minimum Rank of Regular Bipartite Graphs |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Courtney Paquette (McGill University), Optimization and Data Science, Halting Time is Predictable for Large Models: A Universality Property and Average-case Analysis |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Dorette Pronk (Dalhousie University), Homotopy Theory, Three approaches toward orbifold mapping objects |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Vasu Tewari (University of Pennsylvania), Enumerative Combinatorics, Refined mixed Eulerian numbers |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Maryam Vulis (St Johns University), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, The Life and Work of Zygmunt Janiszewski (1888 -1920) |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Asif Zaman (Toronto), Arithmetic Statistics, An approximate form of Artin's holomorphy conjecture and nonvanishing of Artin L-functions |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Eric Foxall (University of British Columbia), Mathematical biology, Bifurcation theory of well-mixed stochastic population models |
| 14:42 - 15:12 | Larry Guth (MIT), Discrete Analysis, Incidence estimates for well spaced rectangles |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Paul Francois (McGill University), Mathematical biology, Information in cytokine dynamics : robotic mapping and machine learning |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Sunita Chepuri (University of Michigan), Algebraic Combinatorixx (Women in Algebraic Combinatorics), Kazhdan-Lusztig Immanants for $k$-Positive Matrices |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coen del Valle (Victoria), Combinatorial Designs, Block designs of dimension three |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Tom Drucker (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, From Plato to the Jabberwocky |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Dan Fortunato (Harvard University), Spectral Methods and Singular Integral Equations, The ultraspherical spectral element method |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Hao Hu (Waterloo), Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications, Computing the Nearest Doubly Stochastic Matrix by a Newton-type Method |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Lisa Jeffrey (University of Toronto), Algebraic Geometry of Integrable Systems, The triple reduced product and Higgs bundles |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Claude Laflamme (Calgary), Logic and Applications, How many siblings do you have? |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Youness Lamzouri (Lorraine), Probability in Number Theory, Zeros of linear combinations of $L$-functions near the critical line |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Tongseok Lim (Purdue University), Optimal Transport and Applications, Geometry of interaction energy minimizers |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Zhaosong Lu (University of Minnesota), Optimization and Data Science, First-Order Augmented Lagrangian Methods for Convex Conic Programming |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Amita Malik (AIM), Arithmetic Statistics, Bias statistics for the zeros of L-functions |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Nicholas Meadows (Carleton University), Homotopy Theory, Spectral Sequences in $(\infty, 1)$-categories |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Todd Mullen (University of Saskatchewan), Graph Theory, Recent Results in Diffusion |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Svetlana Poznanovikj (Clemson University), Enumerative Combinatorics, Hecke insertion and maximal increasing and decreasing sequences in fillings of polyominoes |
| 15:00 - 15:40 | Lara Suarez Lopez (Bochum), Symplectic Topology, On the rigidity of Legendrian cobordisms |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Sukjoo Lee (University of Pennsylvania), Fibrations and Degenerations in Algebraic Geometry, The mirror P=W conjecture from Homological Mirror Symmetry |
| 15:00 - 17:00 | CMESG/CMS Working Group, Hacking COVID-19: Share your innovative ways to deal with teaching online, Hacking COVID-19: Sharing experiences with online teaching |
| 15:18 - 15:48 | Hong Wang (IAS), Discrete Analysis, Small cap decouplings |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Nathanael Hozé (Institut Pasteur), Mathematical biology, Assessing virus circulation levels in the context of high serological cross-reactivity: the case of Mayaro and Chikungunya virus |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Maritza Branker (Niagara University), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Euphemia Lofton Haynes: her forgotten legacy |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Yankai Cao (UBC), Optimization and Data Science, A Global Optimization Algorithm for Clustering Problems |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | William Chan (CMU), Logic and Applications, Definable Combinatorics of the First Uncountable Cardinal |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Vesselin Dimitrov (Toronto), Probability in Number Theory, Small algebraic points and random polynomials: a distributional parallel and some recent results |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Gabriel Duchesne (McGill), Applications and Recent Developments in Discontinuous Dynamical Systems, Rigorous computations of periodic solutions for the pulse-harvested Hutchinson equation |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Danny Dyer (MUN), Graph Theory, Gracefully labelling triangular cacti using Skolem sequences |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Andrew Horning (Cornell University), Spectral Methods and Singular Integral Equations, Twice is enough for dangerous eigenvalues |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Yash Jhaveri (Columbia University), Optimal Transport and Applications, On the (in)stability of the identity map in optimal transportation |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Allysa Lumley (CRM), Arithmetic Statistics, Primes in short intervals: Heuristics and calculations |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Trent Marbach (Ryerson University), Combinatorial Designs, The localization number of designs |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Niny Arcila Maya (University of British Columbia), Homotopy Theory, Decomposition of topological Azumaya algebras with involution |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Brent Pym (McGill University), Algebraic Geometry of Integrable Systems, Beauville-Bogomolov-Weinstein splitting for Poisson varieties |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Nancy Wallace (UQAM), Algebraic Combinatorixx (Women in Algebraic Combinatorics), Toward a Schurification of Schröder path formulas. |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Johannes Textor (Radboud University Medical Center), Mathematical biology, A tipping point in cancer-immune dynamics leads to divergent immunotherapy responses and hampers biomarker discovery |
| 15:54 - 16:24 | Ruxiang Zhang (IAS), Discrete Analysis, Local smoothing for the wave equation in 2+1 dimensions |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Ahmad Alkasasbeh (MUN), Graph Theory, Graceful Labellings of Variable Windmills Using Skolem Sequences |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Jim Bremer (UC Davis), Spectral Methods and Singular Integral Equations, A fast algorithm for simulating scattering from a radially symmetric potential |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Saeed Ghasemi (Czech Academy of Sciences), Logic and Applications, Strongly self-absorbing C*-algebras and Fra\"\i ss\'e limits |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Rachel Hardeman (University of Calgary), Homotopy Theory, A Search for Model Structure for A-Homotopy Theory |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Young-heon Kim (University of British Columbia), Optimal Transport and Applications, Optimal transport for dendritic structures |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Kirsten Nelson (Carleton), Combinatorial Designs, Interleaved Sequences |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Ibrahim Numanagić (University of Victoria), Optimization and Data Science, Optimization in Pharmacogenomics |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Anna Pun (University of Virginia), Algebraic Combinatorixx (Women in Algebraic Combinatorics), Distribution properties for t-hooks in partitions |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Colleen Robichaux (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Enumerative Combinatorics, An Efficient Algorithm for Deciding the Vanishing of Schubert Polynomial Coefficients |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Will Sawin (Columbia), Arithmetic Statistics, Measures from moments for random groups |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Shiyu Shen (University of Toronto), Algebraic Geometry of Integrable Systems, Topological mirror symmetry for parabolic Higgs bundles |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Mohamed Tawhid (TRU), Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications, Improved Salp Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Data Clustering |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Aili Wang (Baoji University of Arts and Sciences), Applications and Recent Developments in Discontinuous Dynamical Systems |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Asif Zaman (Toronto), Probability in Number Theory, Low moments of random power series |
| 16:00 - 16:40 | Jordan Payette (Montreal), Symplectic Topology, Mean value inequalities for the Poisson bracket invariant |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Ursula Whitcher (Mathematical Reviews), Fibrations and Degenerations in Algebraic Geometry |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Salihah Alwadani (UBCO), Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications, Resolvents and Yosida approximations of displacement mappings of isometries |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Jacques Hurtubise (McGill University), Algebraic Geometry of Integrable Systems, Moduli of bundles and degenerations of curves. |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Seonghyeon Jeong (Michigan State University), Optimal Transport and Applications, Equivalence of the synthetic MTW conditions |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | David Keating (University of California, Berkeley), Enumerative Combinatorics, A Vertex Model for LLT Polynomials |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Dominique Kemp (Indiana University), Discrete Analysis |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Seoyoung Kim (Queen's University), Arithmetic Statistics, From the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture to Nagao's conjecture |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Kyle MacKeigan (Dalhousie University), Graph Theory, Orthogonal Colourings of Graphs |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Olya Mandelshtam (Brown University), Algebraic Combinatorixx (Women in Algebraic Combinatorics), The multispecies TAZRP and modified Macdonald polynomials |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Pavlos Motakis (York), Logic and Applications, Coarse Universality |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Mahsa Nasrollahi (Regina), Combinatorial Designs, The Erdős-Ko-Rado theorem for 2-intersecting families of perfect matchings |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Nilima Nigam (Simon Fraser University), Spectral Methods and Singular Integral Equations, Steklov eigenfunctions: how and why to compute them |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Brad Rodgers (Queens), Probability in Number Theory, The distribution of sums of two squares in short intervals |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Luis Scoccola (Michigan State University), Homotopy Theory, Homotopy coherence in applied topology |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Jabed Tomal and Jan Ciborowski (Thompson River University, University of Calgary), Optimization and Data Science, Detection of environmental thresholds by assessing discontinuities in slopes and variances via a Bayesian regression model |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Chris Duffy (University of Saskatchewan), Graph Theory, Homomorphisms to Reflexive Oriented and Edge-Coloured Graphs |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Stanley Xiao (University of Toronto), Arithmetic Statistics, The number of quartic-$D_4$ fields having monogenic cubic resolvent ordered by conductor |
| 19:00 - 19:30 | Quyuan Lin (Texas A&M, US), Nonlinear PDEs and kinetic problems, The Inviscid Primitive Equations and the Effect of Rotation |
| 19:30 - 20:00 | Ikkei Shimizu (Kyoto University, Japan), Nonlinear PDEs and kinetic problems, Local well-posedness for the Landau-Lifshitz equation with helicity term |
| 20:00 - 20:30 | Yanxia Deng (Sun Yat-sen University), Nonlinear PDEs and kinetic problems, Global existence and singularity of the Hill’s type lunar problem |
| 20:30 - 21:00 | Yakine Bahri (University of Victoria, Canada), Nonlinear PDEs and kinetic problems, Self-similar blow-up profiles for slightly supercritical nonlinear Schrödinger equations |
| 21:00 - 21:30 | Razvan Fetecau (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Nonlinear PDEs and kinetic problems, Aggregation with intrinsic interactions on Riemannian manifolds |
| 21:30 - 22:00 | Shugo Yasuda (University of Hyogo, Japan), Nonlinear PDEs and kinetic problems, Numerical analysis of the instability and aggregation in a kinetic transport equation with internal state |
| Sunday December 6 | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Irene Fonseca (Carnegie Mellon's Center for Nonlinear Analysis (CNA)), Plenary Lecture, Geometric Flows and Phase Transitions in Heterogeneous Media |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Break |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Jacopo De Simoi (University of Toronto), Coxeter-James Prize, Dynamical spectral rigidity and determination |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Break |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Michael Curran (Oxford), Discrete Analysis, Khovanskii's Theorem and Effective Results on Sumset Structure |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Sourabhashis Das (University of Lethbridge), Student Research Talks Session |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Arthur Sherman (National Institutes of Health), Mathematical biology, Clinical Insights from a Diabetes Progression Model |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Matthew Colbrook (Cambridge University), Spectral Methods and Singular Integral Equations, A Mathieu function boundary spectral method for acoustic scattering |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Paula Fermín Cueto (University of Edinburgh), Optimization and Data Science, Machine learning and statistical methods for characterising and predicting capacity degradation of Li-ion cells |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Justine Falque (Université Paris-Sud), Enumerative Combinatorics, 3-dimensional Catalan objets: a (partial) overview and a new bijection |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Alfred Galichon (New York University), Optimal Transport and Applications, Equilibrium transport with entropic regularization |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Paul Gauthier (Université de Montréal), Recent Advances in Harmonic and Complex Analysis, Asymptotic first boundary value problem for holomorphic functions of several complex variables |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Antonina Kolokolova (Memorial), Logic and Applications |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Sander Kupers (University of Toronto), Homotopy Theory, The rational homotopy type of certain diffeomorphism groups |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Esther Lamken, Combinatorial Designs, Applications of incomplete pairwise balanced designs |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Arul Shankar (University of Toronto), Arithmetic Statistics, The 2-torsion subgroups of the class groups in families of cubic fields |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Levent Tuncel (Waterloo), Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications, A journey from the theory of self-concordant functions and variable metrics to applications in convex optimization |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Kexue Zhang (Calgary), Applications and Recent Developments in Discontinuous Dynamical Systems, A unified asymptotic stability result for time-delay systems with delayed impulses |
| 14:00 - 14:40 | Francisco Torres de Lizaur (Toronto), Symplectic Topology, Knots and links in Beltrami fields |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Alan Thompson (Loughborough University), Fibrations and Degenerations in Algebraic Geometry, Mirror Symmetry for Fibrations and Degenerations |
| 14:06 - 14:36 | Amita Malik (AIM), Discrete Analysis, Partitions into primes in arithmetic progression |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Anmar Khadra (McGill University), Mathematical biology, Excitable media in fish keratocytes model: Canard explosion, traveling waves and beyond |
| 14:22 - 14:42 | William Verreault (Université Laval), Student Research Talks Session |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Emilia Alvarez (University of Bristol), Arithmetic Statistics, Moments of the logarithmic derivative of characteristic polynomials from $SO(N)$ and $USp(2N)$ |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Marzieh Bayeh (University of Ottawa), Homotopy Theory, Higher Equivariant and Invariant Topological Complexities |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Kevin Church (McGill), Applications and Recent Developments in Discontinuous Dynamical Systems, Spectral theory for impulsive delay differential equations |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Galia Dafni (Concordia University), Recent Advances in Harmonic and Complex Analysis, Extension domains for bmo |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Gonçalo dos Reis (University of Edinburgh), Optimization and Data Science, State of Health for the capacity and internal resistance of Li-ion cells: A machine learning approach with knees and elbows |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Sam Hopkins (University of Minnesota), Enumerative Combinatorics, Promotion of Kreweras words |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Sheehan Olver (Imperial College London), Spectral Methods and Singular Integral Equations, Sparse spectral methods for singular integral and fractional differential equations |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Michel Pain (NYU), Probability in Number Theory, Extrema of branching random walks and log-correlated fields |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | David Pike (Memorial), Combinatorial Designs, Colourings of Group Divisible Designs |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Dino Rossegger (Waterloo), Logic and Applications, Degree spectra of analytic complete equivalence relations |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Steve Vavasis (Waterloo), Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications, Nonlinear Conjugate Gradient for Convex Functions |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Shuangjian Zhang (École normale supérieure, Paris), Optimal Transport and Applications, Wasserstein Control of Mirror Langevin Monte Carlo |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Thomas Hillen (University of Alberta), Mathematical biology, Non-local Models for Cellular Adhesion |
| 14:42 - 15:12 | Jose Madrid (UCLA), Discrete Analysis, Improving estimates for discrete polynomial averages and related problems |
| 14:44 - 15:04 | Alexis Langlois-Rémillard (Ghent University), Student Research Talks Session |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Khoren Ponsin (McGill University), Mathematical biology, Mathematical Modeling of Cellular Phagocytosis During Embryogenesis of the Urogenital System |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Emma Bailey (University of Bristol), Arithmetic Statistics, Moments of Moments of $L$-functions |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Paul Bourgade (NYU), Probability in Number Theory, The Fyodorov-Hiary-Keating Conjecture |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Elena Braverman (Calgary), Applications and Recent Developments in Discontinuous Dynamical Systems, Stabilization of cycles with impulse stochastic control |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Ryan Gibara (Université Laval), Recent Advances in Harmonic and Complex Analysis, Boundedness and continuity of rearrangements on spaces defined by mean oscillation |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Maria Gillespie (Colorado State University), Enumerative Combinatorics, Parking functions and a projective embedding of $\overline{M}_{0,n}$ |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Lukasz Golab (University of Waterloo), Optimization and Data Science, Explanation Tables |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Bradd Hart (McMaster), Logic and Applications, Undecidability and embedding problems in continuous logic |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Ivan Limonchenko (University of Toronto), Homotopy Theory, On homotopy theory of polyhedral products with Golod face rings |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Manas Rachh (Flatiron Institute), Spectral Methods and Singular Integral Equations, Towards automatically adaptive solvers for Maxwell's equations in three dimensions |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Mateja Sajna (Ottawa), Combinatorial Designs, Bipartite 2-factorizations of complete multigraphs via layering |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Hristo Sendov (Western), Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications, A unified approach to operator monotone functions |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Adrian Tudorascu (West Virginia University), Optimal Transport and Applications, ON THE CONVEXITY CONDITION FOR THE SEMI-GEOSTROPHIC SYSTEM |
| 15:00 - 15:40 | Dominique Rathel-Fournier (Montreal), Symplectic Topology, Unobstructed Lagrangian cobordism groups of surfaces |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Adrian Clingher (University of Missouri - St. Louis), Fibrations and Degenerations in Algebraic Geometry, On K3 surfaces of Picard rank 14 |
| 15:00 - 17:00 | CMESG/CMS Working Group, Hacking COVID-19: Share your innovative ways to deal with teaching online, Hacking COVID-19: Sharing experiences with online teaching |
| 15:06 - 15:26 | Benoît Corsini (McGill University), Student Research Talks Session |
| 15:18 - 15:48 | Felipe Ramirez (Wesleyan University), Discrete Analysis, Remarks about inhomogeneous pair correlations |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Lisanne Rens (TU Delft), Mathematical biology, Computational models for feedback between cell shape, cell signaling and extracellular matrix |
| 15:28 - 15:48 | Farzaneh Nikbakhtsarvestani (University of Manitoba), Student Research Talks Session |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Farhan Abedin (Michigan State University), Optimal Transport and Applications, Exponential Convergence of Parabolic Optimal Transport on Bounded Domains |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Steven Amelotte (University of Rochester), Homotopy Theory, The homotopy type of the fibre of the $p^\text{th}$ power map on loop spaces of spheres |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Sedi Bartz (UM Lowell), Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications, Open questions in multi-marginal monotonicity and convex analysis |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Ronnie Chen (UIUC), Logic and Applications, A universal characterization of standard Borel spaces |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Antoine Comeau-Lapointe (Concordia University), Arithmetic Statistics, One-level density of the family of twists of an elliptic curve over function fields |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Peter Danziger (Ryerson), Combinatorial Designs, Directed cycle decompositions of complete digraphs |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Marcia Federson (Universidade de Sau Paulo), Applications and Recent Developments in Discontinuous Dynamical Systems, An overview on stability results for impulsive and measure functional differential equations |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Adi Glucksam (University of Toronto), Recent Advances in Harmonic and Complex Analysis, Computability of harmonic measures |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Maksym Radziwill (Caltech), Probability in Number Theory, Moments of the Riemann zeta function in tiny intervals |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Mark Schmidt (UBC), Optimization and Data Science, Faster Algorithms for Deep Learning? |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Richard Mikael Slevinsky (University of Manitoba), Spectral Methods and Singular Integral Equations, Fast associated classical orthogonal polynomial transforms |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Stephanie Portet (University of Manitoba), Mathematical biology, Intracellular transport driven by antagonistic motor proteins |
| 15:54 - 16:24 | Ayla Gafni (University of Mississippi), Discrete Analysis, Asymptotics of Restricted Partition Functions |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Andrea Burgess (UNB), Combinatorial Designs, On the Oberwolfach Problem for single-flip 2-factors via graceful labellings |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Martin Cech (Concordia University), Arithmetic Statistics, Mean values of real Dirichlet characters and double Dirichlet series |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Katy Craig (University of California, Santa Barbara), Optimal Transport and Applications, A blob method for spatially inhomogeneous degenerate diffusion and applications to sampling and two layer neural networks. |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Tim Hoheisel (McGill), Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications, From perspective maps to epigraphical projections |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Xinzhi Liu (Waterloo), Applications and Recent Developments in Discontinuous Dynamical Systems, Impulsive Formation Control of Multi-Agent Systems |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Yu-Ru Liu (Waterloo), Probability in Number Theory, Number of Prime Factors with a Given Multiplicity |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Ali Assem Mahmoud (University of Ottawa), Enumerative Combinatorics, On the Enumerative Structures in QFT |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Kate Poirier (New York City College of Technology), Homotopy Theory, Polyhedra for V-infinity algebras, string topology, and moduli spaces |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Tamon Stephen (SFU), Optimization and Data Science, Minimal Cuts Set and Computing with Monotone Boolean Functions |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Alex Townsend (Cornell University), Spectral Methods and Singular Integral Equations, Computing the spectra of differential operators |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Michael Wolman (Caltech), Logic and Applications, Probabilistic Programming Semantics for Name Generation |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Malik Younsi (University of Hawaii), Recent Advances in Harmonic and Complex Analysis, Holomorphic motions, capacity and conformal welding |
| 16:00 - 16:40 | Jean-Philippe Chassé (Montreal), Symplectic Topology, The impact of metric constraints on the behavior of shadow metrics |
| 16:05 - 16:25 | David Stapleton (University of Amsterdam), Student Research Talks Session |
| 16:27 - 16:47 | Maiko Serizawa (University of Ottawa), Student Research Talks Session |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Alexander Brudnyi (University of Calgary), Recent Advances in Harmonic and Complex Analysis, On nonlinear Runge approximation problems |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | René Cabrera (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Optimal Transport and Applications, The Monge-Kantorovich Optimal Transportation of Mass Problem on Rectifiable Continuous Paths |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Jean-Marie de Koninck (Laval), Probability in Number Theory, Consecutive integers divisible by a power of their largest prime factor |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Chris Kapulkin (Western Ontario), Logic and Applications, Canonicity for Homotopy Type Theory |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Hadi Kharaghani (Lethbridge), Combinatorial Designs, On Equiangular Tight Frames |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Freddie Manners (UC San Diego), Discrete Analysis, Some facts about very dense Sidon sets |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Brad Rodgers (Queen's University), Arithmetic Statistics, Primes in short intervals in number fields |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Tom Trogdon (University of Washington), Spectral Methods and Singular Integral Equations, On arbitrary-precision enabled inverse scattering for the 1-dimensional Schr\"odinger operator |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Nathan Williams (University of Texas, Dallas), Enumerative Combinatorics, Strange Expectations in Affine Weyl Groups |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Jane Ye (Victoria), Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications, Second-order optimality conditions for non-convex set-constrained optimization problems |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Xuekui Zhang (University of Victoria), Optimization and Data Science, The Optimal Design of Clinical Trials with Potential Biomarker Effects, A Novel Computational Approach |
| 16:49 - 17:09 | Tingzhou Yu (University of Victoria), Student Research Talks Session |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Ludovick Bouthat (Université Laval), Recent Advances in Harmonic and Complex Analysis, The norm of an infinite L-matrix |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Kimon Fountoulakis (Waterloo), Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications, p-Norm Flow Diffusion for Local Graph Clustering |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Wanlin Li (CRM), Arithmetic Statistics, The Central Value of Dirichlet L-functions over Rational Function Fields |
| 17:11 - 17:31 | Damanvir Binner (Simon Fraser University), Student Research Talks Session |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Wenbo Li (University of Toronto), Recent Advances in Harmonic and Complex Analysis, Conformal dimension and minimality of stochastic objects |
| 17:33 - 17:53 | Antoine Poulin (McGill University), Student Research Talks Session |
| 18:00 - 18:30 | Frédéric Morneau-Guérin (Université TÉLUQ), Recent Advances in Harmonic and Complex Analysis, La $\ast$-stabilité de l’espace pondéré des suites de carré sommable sur la somme directe de groupes abéliens finis |
| Monday December 7 | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Takuya Takeishi (Kyoto Institute of Technology), Operator algebras, (semi)groups, and dynamics, Partition functions as C*-dynamical invariants and actions of congruence monoids |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Xin Li (University of Glasgow), Operator algebras, (semi)groups, and dynamics, K-theory for semigroup C*-algebras and partial crossed products |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Nadia Larsen (University of Oslo), Operator algebras, (semi)groups, and dynamics, Equilibrium states on C*-algebras of right lcm monoids |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Camila Fabre Sehnem (Victoria University of Wellington), Operator algebras, (semi)groups, and dynamics, Nuclearity for partial crossed products by exact discrete groups |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Nicolas Bergeron (École normale supérieure), Plenary Lecture, Linking in torus bundles and Hecke L functions |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Break |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Equity, Diversity and Inclusiveness Committee Breakout - Challenges Faced by Mathematicians from Underrepresented Groups |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Equity, Diversity and Inclusiveness Committee Breakout - Challenges Faced by Parents of Young Children |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Duncan Dauvergne (Princeton), Doctoral Prize, The Archimedean limit of random sorting networks |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Break |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Equity, Diversity and Inclusiveness Committee Breakout - Supporting Early Career Researchers |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Equity, Diversity and Inclusiveness Committee Breakout - Supporting LGBTQ+ Mathematicians |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Laurent Mackay (McGill University), Mathematical biology, Feedback onto cellular polarization from paxillin, implications for migrating cells. |
| 14:00 - 14:25 | Amenda Chow and Iain Moyles (York), Creative Assessments in the COVID-19 times, Choose your own adventure in a multi-variable calculus course for engineering students |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Tomasz Ciesla (Lancaster), Logic and Applications, On lifting invariant probability measures |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Winston Heap (Max Planck), Probability in Number Theory, Random multiplicative functions and a model for the Riemann zeta function |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Abdelmonem Ibrhaim (Alzahr University), Optimization and Data Science, Binary whale optimization algorithm for feature selection |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Matthew Kennedy (University of Waterloo), Operator algebras, (semi)groups, and dynamics, Amenability, proximality and higher order syndeticity |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Amir Mohammadi (University of California, San Diego), Equidistribution on Arithmetic Manifolds, Effective results in homogeneous dynamics |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Thomas Ransford (Université Laval), Recent Advances in Harmonic and Complex Analysis, A Gleason-Kahane-Żelazko theorem for reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Gail Wolkowicz (McMaster), Applications and Recent Developments in Discontinuous Dynamical Systems, Bifurcation analysis of an impulsive system describing Partial Nitritation and Anammox in a hybrid reactor |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Tony Pantev (Penn), Derived Categories and (Non)commutative Algebraic Geometry, Mirror symmetry, intersection of quadrics, and Hodge theory |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Marc Roussel (University of Lethbridge), Mathematical biology, Dynamics-preserving model reduction using bipartite-graph representations of biochemical systems |
| 14:25 - 14:50 | Sean Fitzpatrick (Lethbridge), Creative Assessments in the COVID-19 times, Deconstructing Exams for Remote Learning |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Aleksandr Aravkin (University of Washington), Optimization and Data Science, A Robust Risk Score for Evaluating Evidence in Global Health |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Almaz Butaev (University of Calgary), Recent Advances in Harmonic and Complex Analysis, On geometric preduals of jet spaces on subsets of $\mathbb{R}^n$ |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Asaf Katz (University of Michigan), Equidistribution on Arithmetic Manifolds, An application of Margulis’ inequality to effective equidistribution |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Frithjof Lutscher (Ottawa), Applications and Recent Developments in Discontinuous Dynamical Systems, Population dynamics of discrete breeders |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Ram Murty (Queens), Probability in Number Theory, An "all-purpose" Erdos-Kac theorem |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Forte Shinko (Caltech), Logic and Applications, Lifts of Borel actions on quotient spaces |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Dilian Yang (University of Windsor), Operator algebras, (semi)groups, and dynamics, Zappa-Sz\'ep Actions of Groups on Product Systems |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Khanh Dao Duc (University of British Columbia), Mathematical biology, A study of stochastic dynamics of mRNA translation and their impact across biological scales |
| 14:50 - 15:15 | Dan Wolczuk and Paul McGrath (Waterloo), Creative Assessments in the COVID-19 times, Using Virtual Escape Rooms to Promote Student-Student Interactions |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Brian Merchant (University of British Columbia), Mathematical biology, Using a Rho GTPase based model of cell polarization to explain group advantage in chemotaxis |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Shai Evra (Princeton University), Equidistribution on Arithmetic Manifolds, Ramanujan Conjecture and the Density Hypothesis |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Elizabeth Gillaspy (University of Montana), Operator algebras, (semi)groups, and dynamics, Homotopy of product systems, and K-theory for higher-rank graphs |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Warren Hare (UBC), Optimization and Data Science, Imaginary Derivative Free Optimization |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Iain Moyles (York), Applications and Recent Developments in Discontinuous Dynamical Systems, A model of phosphorus recycling at the plant scale |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Pierre-Olivier Parisé (Université Laval), Recent Advances in Harmonic and Complex Analysis, Cesàro summability of Taylor series in weighted Dirichlet spaces |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Cameron Stewart (Waterloo), Probability in Number Theory, Counting solvable S-unit equations |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Jenna Zomback (UIUC), Logic and Applications, A backward ergodic theorem and its forward implications |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Katrina Honigs (Oregon), Derived Categories and (Non)commutative Algebraic Geometry, An obstruction to weak approximation on some Calabi-Yau threefolds |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Justin Tzou (Macquarie University), Mathematical biology, Localized patterns and narrow escape problems in more general geometries |
| 15:25 - 15:50 | Samantha-Jo Caetano (Toronto), Creative Assessments in the COVID-19 times, Trump vs. Biden - who will win? |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Anna Duwenig (University of Wollongong), Operator algebras, (semi)groups, and dynamics, Cartan subalgebras for non-principal twisted groupoid C*-algebras |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Mikolaj Fraczyk (The University of Chicago), Equidistribution on Arithmetic Manifolds, Density hypothesis in horizontal families |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Larissa Richards (University of Toronto), Recent Advances in Harmonic and Complex Analysis, On the rate of convergence of discrete interfaces to SLE. |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Xiaoping Shi (Thompson River University), Optimization and Data Science, Graph-based change-point test |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Marco Tosato (York), Applications and Recent Developments in Discontinuous Dynamical Systems, Multi-cycle Periodic Solutions of a Differential Equation with Delay that Switches Periodically |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Spencer Unger (Toronto), Logic and Applications, Embeddings and factor maps between $\mathbb{Z}^d$ actions |
| 15:50 - 16:15 | Jerrod Smith (Calgary), Creative Assessments in the COVID-19 times, Peer and Open-ended Assessment in Linear Algebra and Intro Proof Courses |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Ben Hayes (University of Virginia), Operator algebras, (semi)groups, and dynamics, A random matrix approach to the Peterson-Thom conjecture |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Thomas Humphries (University of Washington Bothell), Optimization and Data Science, Unrolled iterative algorithm for CT image reconstruction with learned penalty term |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Tyler Meadows (University of Idaho), Applications and Recent Developments in Discontinuous Dynamical Systems, Self-cycling fermentation with a produced compound |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Nicholas Miller (University of California, Berkeley), Equidistribution on Arithmetic Manifolds, Geodesic submanifolds of hyperbolic manifolds |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Riley Thornton (UCLA), Logic and Applications, Factor of i.i.d. processes and Cayley diagrams |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Ignacio Uriarte-Tuero (Michigan State University), Recent Advances in Harmonic and Complex Analysis, Two weight norm inequalities for singular integrals in $\mathbb{R}^n$ |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Max Lieblich (Washington), Derived Categories and (Non)commutative Algebraic Geometry, Filtered derived equivalence and birational Torelli theorems |
| 16:15 - 16:40 | Anton Mosunov (Waterloo), Creative Assessments in the COVID-19 times, Let’s Think Together: Using Oral Assessments to Develop Students’ Thought Process |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Monica Gabriela Cojocaru (University of Guelph), Optimization and Data Science, On Minty-variational inequalities and evolutionary stable states of generalized stable games |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Tyrone Crisp (University of Maine), Operator algebras, (semi)groups, and dynamics, An imprimitivity theorem for Hilbert modules |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Alex Kontorovich (Rutgers University), Equidistribution on Arithmetic Manifolds, Applications of Thin Orbits |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | William Verreault (Université Laval), Recent Advances in Harmonic and Complex Analysis, Nonlinear Oscillatory Expansions of holomorphic functions |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Konrad Wrobel (Texas A&M), Logic and Applications, Cost of inner amenable equivalence relations |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | General Discussion, Creative Assessments in the COVID-19 times |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Equity, Diversity and Inclusiveness Committee Panel / Social |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | James Wilson (University of Vermont), Recent Advances in Harmonic and Complex Analysis, Discretization of adapted functions |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Scott Rodney (Cape Breton University), Recent Advances in Harmonic and Complex Analysis, Bounded Weak Solutions of Second Order Linear PDEs with Data in Orlicz Spaces |
| 18:00 - 18:30 | Jie Xiao (Memorial University), Recent Advances in Harmonic and Complex Analysis, An optimal regularity for the planar $\bar{\partial}$-equation |
| 18:30 - 19:00 | Javad Mashreghi (Université Laval), Recent Advances in Harmonic and Complex Analysis, Outer Functions and the Schur Class |
| Tuesday December 8 | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Dan Ursu (University of Waterloo), Operator algebras, (semi)groups, and dynamics, Characterizing traces on crossed products of noncommutative C*-algebras |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Cecile Armana (Université de Franche-Comté), Computations with Arithmetic Groups, Sturm bounds for Drinfeld-type automorphic forms over function fields |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Hung-Chang Liao (University of Ottawa), Operator algebras, (semi)groups, and dynamics, Almost finiteness, comparison, and tracial Z-stability |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Neil Dummigan (University of Sheffield), Computations with Arithmetic Groups, Congruences involving non-parallel weight Hilbert modular forms |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Maria Grazia Viola (Lakehead University), Operator algebras, (semi)groups, and dynamics, Regularities properties of Cuntz-Pimsner algebras associated to C*-correspondences over commutative C*-algebras |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Johannes Christensen (KU Leuven), Operator algebras, (semi)groups, and dynamics, A new approach to describing KMS states on $C^{*}$-algebras. |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Fang-Ting Tu (Louisiana State University), Computations with Arithmetic Groups, A Geometric Interpretation of a Whipple's $_7F_6$ Formula |
| 11:00 - 13:00 | Mathematical Competitions Committee |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Arvind Ayyer (Indian Institute of Science), Enumerative Combinatorics, Toppleable permutations and excedances |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Noe de Rancourt (Vienna), Logic and Applications, Intersection-smooth equivalence relations |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Kari Eifler (Texas A&M University), Operator algebras, (semi)groups, and dynamics, Non-local games and quantum metric spaces |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Lam Pham (Hebrew University), Equidistribution on Arithmetic Manifolds, Arithmetic Groups and the Lehmer conjecture |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Orit Raz (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Additive Combinatorics and Discrete Geometry, Dimension-expanding polynomials and the discretized Elekes-R\'onyai theorem |
| 11:00 - 11:40 | Shira Tanny (Tel Aviv), Symplectic Topology, The Poisson bracket invariant: elementary and hard approaches. |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Ellen Kirkman (Wake Forest), Derived Categories and (Non)commutative Algebraic Geometry, Degree bounds for Hopf actions on Artin-Schelter regular algebras |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Mark McConnell (Princeton University), Computations with Arithmetic Groups |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Ilse Fischer (University of Vienna), Enumerative Combinatorics, Bijective proofs of (skew) Schur polynomial factorizations |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Arie Levit (Yale University), Equidistribution on Arithmetic Manifolds, Quantitative weak uniform discreteness |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Boyu Li (University of Victoria), Operator algebras, (semi)groups, and dynamics, The Zappa-Szép product of a Fell bundle by a groupoid |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Zoltán Vidnyánszky (Caltech), Logic and Applications, Bases for Borel graphs of large chromatic number: injective case |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Alexia Yavicoli (University of St Andrews), Additive Combinatorics and Discrete Geometry, Patterns in thick compact sets |
| 11:50 - 12:30 | Cheng Yang (Toronto), Symplectic Topology, Symplectic reduction and perturbation theory |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Mathilde Gerbelli-Gauthier (McGill University), Computations with Arithmetic Groups, Limit multiplicity of non-tempered representations and endoscopy. |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Mathilde Gerbelli-Gauthier (McGill University), Equidistribution on Arithmetic Manifolds, Limit multiplicity of non-tempered representations and endoscopy. |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Helen Jenne (Université de Tours), Enumerative Combinatorics, Double-dimer condensation and the dP3 Quiver |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Aristotelis Panagiotopoulos (Munster), Logic and Applications, Dynamical obstructions to classification by (co)homology and other TSI-group invariants. |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Sophie Stevens (Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics), Additive Combinatorics and Discrete Geometry, The Elekes-Szabó Problem and the Uniformity Conjecture |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Break |
| 13:00 - 13:20 | John Rinzel (New York University), Mathematical biology, A neuronal model for learning to keep a rhythmic beat. |
| 13:00 - 13:20 | Peter Taylor (peter.taylor@queensu.ca), The legacy of Mindstorms, Let’s invite Seymour into our calculus classroom. |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Brandon Hanson (University of Georgia), Additive Combinatorics and Discrete Geometry, A better-than-Plunnecke bound for $A + 2A$ |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Marni Mishna (Simon Fraser University), Enumerative Combinatorics, Enumerating excursions on Cayley graphs |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Will Sawin (Columbia University), Equidistribution on Arithmetic Manifolds, The mixing conjecture over function fields |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Felix Weilacher (CMU), Logic and Applications, Descriptive Chromatic Numbers of Locally Finite and Everywhere Two Ended Graphs |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Colin Ingalls (Carleton), Derived Categories and (Non)commutative Algebraic Geometry, Explicit coverings of families of elliptic surfaces by squares of curves |
| 13:10 - 13:50 | Qun Wang (Toronto), Symplectic Topology, Choreographies in the N-Vortex Problem |
| 13:20 - 13:40 | Alfonso Gracia-Saz (alfonso@math.toronto.edu), The legacy of Mindstorms, Playing with Desmos in the classroom |
| 13:20 - 13:40 | David Holcman (Institut de Biologie École Normale Supérieure), Mathematical biology |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Shaun Allison (CMU), Logic and Applications, Polish groups with the pinned property |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Daniel Di Benedetto (University of British Columbia), Additive Combinatorics and Discrete Geometry, Discretised point-line incidences and the dimension of Besicovitch sets |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Junehyuk Jung (Brown University), Equidistribution on Arithmetic Manifolds, Intersections of geodesics on the modular surface |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Joel Lewis (George Washington University), Enumerative Combinatorics, Hurwitz numbers for reflection groups |
| 13:40 - 14:00 | Andrew McEachern (andrewm6@yorku.ca), The legacy of Mindstorms, Tournaments in a Proofs Class |
| 13:40 - 14:00 | Lawrence Oprea (McGill University), Mathematical biology, Simulation and analysis of white matter in a variably hypomyelinated transgenic mouse model |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Break |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Bernardo Galvao-Sousa (beni@math.toronto.edu), The legacy of Mindstorms, Open ended modelling problems |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Charles S. Peskin (New York University – Courant), Mathematical biology, Interaction of Facilitation and Depression in Synaptic Transmission |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Lindsay Dever (Bryn Mawr College), Equidistribution on Arithmetic Manifolds, Ambient prime geodesic theorems on compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Jongchon Kim (University of British Columbia), Additive Combinatorics and Discrete Geometry, Estimates for some geometric maximal functions associated with a set of directions |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Assaf Shani (Harvard), Logic and Applications, Classification by sequences of countable sets of reals |
| 14:00 - 14:40 | Xiudi Tang (Toronto), Symplectic Topology, Symplectic ray removal |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Alicia Lamarche (Utah), Derived Categories and (Non)commutative Algebraic Geometry, Derived Categories, Arithmetic, and Rationality |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Saeed Farjami (Univeristy of Surrey), Mathematical biology, Non-sequential Spike Adding in Cerebellar Stellate Cells |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Sarah Mayes-Tang (smt@math.toronto.edu), The legacy of Mindstorms, Using Stories to Learn Math in A First-Year Seminar |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Filippo Calderoni (UIC), Logic and Applications, Descriptive set theory: order and classification |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Jonathan Tidor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Additive Combinatorics and Discrete Geometry, Joints of Varieties |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Matthew Young (Texas A&M University), Equidistribution on Arithmetic Manifolds, Moments and hybrid subconvexity for symmetric-square L-functions |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Igor Belykh (Georgia State University), Mathematical biology, When repulsive coupling promotes synchronization of bursting neurons |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | General Discussion, The legacy of Mindstorms |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Romain Veltz (INRIA-Sophia Antipolis), Mathematical biology, Mean field study of stochastic spiking neural networks |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Wenyu Pan (The University of Chicago), Equidistribution on Arithmetic Manifolds, Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps |
| 15:30 - 16:10 | Pranav Chakravarthy (Western Ontario), Symplectic Topology, Homotopy type of equivariant symplectomorphisms of rational ruled surfaces. |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Dylan Allegretti (UBC), Derived Categories and (Non)commutative Algebraic Geometry, Stability conditions and cluster varieties |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Thomas Hille (Northwestern University), Equidistribution on Arithmetic Manifolds, Bounds for the Least Solution of Homogeneous Quadratic Diophantine Inequalities. |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Tongou Yang (University of British Columbia), Additive Combinatorics and Discrete Geometry, Uniform decoupling in l2 for polynomials |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Alireza Salehi Golsefidy (University of California, San Diego), Equidistribution on Arithmetic Manifolds, Two new concepts for compact groups: Spectral independence and local randomness |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Caroline Terry (Ohio State University), Additive Combinatorics and Discrete Geometry, A stable arithmetic regularity lemma in finite abelian groups |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Sabin Cautis (UBC), Derived Categories and (Non)commutative Algebraic Geometry, Categorical structure of Coulomb branches of 4D N=2 gauge theories |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Weikun He (Korea Institute of Advanced Study), Additive Combinatorics and Discrete Geometry, Sum-product in representations of Lie groups |