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 11:15 - 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 Friday December 4 1:36 - 2:06 Marina Iliopoulou (Kent), Discrete Analysis, A discrete Kakeya-type inequality 2:12 - 2:42 Aled Walker (CRM Montreal), Discrete Analysis, Effective results on the structure of sumsets 2:48 - 3:18 Sarah Peluse (IAS), Discrete Analysis, Modular zeros in the character table of the symmetric group 3:24 - 3:54 Fernando Shao (University of Kentucky), Discrete Analysis, Gowers uniformity of primes in arithmetic progressions 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 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 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 Alexei Oblomkov (UMass Amherst), Algebraic Geometry of Integrable Systems, 3D sigma models with defects and knot homology 13:00 - 13:30 Romain Petrides (Université Paris Diderot), Geometric and Computational Spectral Theory, Free boundary minimal surfaces of any topological type in euclidean balls via shape optimization (Part 1) 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 Alan Thompson (Loughborough University), Fibrations and Degenerations in Algebraic Geometry 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 Henrik Mathiesen (Chicago), Geometric and Computational Spectral Theory, Free boundary minimal surfaces of any topological type in Euclidean balls via shape optimization (Part 2) 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 13:40 - 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 Francesco Cellarosi (Queens), Probability in Number Theory 14:00 - 14:30 Gong Chen (Fields Institute and University of Toronto, Canada), Nonlinear PDEs and kinetic problems 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 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 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) 14:00 - 14:30 Jeffrey Ovall (Portland State U.), Geometric and Computational Spectral Theory, Exploring Eigenvector Localization Using Filtered Subspace Iteration (FEAST) 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 14:20 - 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 Yakine Bahri (University of Victoria, Canada), Nonlinear PDEs and kinetic problems 14:30 - 15:00 Graham Cox (Memorial), Geometric and Computational Spectral Theory, Defining the spectral position of a Neumann domain 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 14:40 - 15:00 Becca Asquith (Imperial College London), Mathematical biology 15:00 - 15:30 Break 15:30 - 16:00 Samantha Dahlberg (Arizona State University), Algebraic Combinatorixx (Women in Algebraic Combinatorics) 15:30 - 16:00 Suresh Eswarathasan (Dalhousie), Probability in Number Theory, Counting tangencies of nodal domains 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 Nathan Ng (University of Lethbridge), Arithmetic Statistics, Mean values of long Dirichlet polynomials 15:30 - 16:00 Iosif Polterovich (Montréal), Geometric and Computational Spectral Theory, The Dirichlet-to-Neumann map, the boundary Laplacian and an unpublished paper of Hörmander 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 David Waszek (McGill), History and Philosophy of Mathematics 15:30 - 16:30 Daniel Lopez (IMPA), Fibrations and Degenerations in Algebraic Geometry 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) 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 16:30 - 17:30 Tokio Sasaki (University of Miami), Fibrations and Degenerations in Algebraic Geometry 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 Saturday December 5 1:30 - 2:00 Oleksiy Klurman (Bristol), Discrete Analysis, Zeros of Fekete polynomials 2:00 - 2:30 Matthew Colbrook (Cambridge University), Spectral Methods and Singular Integral Equations, A Mathieu function boundary spectral method for acoustic scattering 2:06 - 2:36 Zane Li (Indiana University), Discrete Analysis, Connections between decoupling and efficient congruencing 2:30 - 3:00 Travis Askham (NJIT), Spectral Methods and Singular Integral Equations, Fast multipole methods for continuous charge distributions 2:42 - 3:12 Larry Guth (MIT), Discrete Analysis, Incidence estimates for well spaced rectangles 3:00 - 3:30 Dan Fortunato (Harvard University), Spectral Methods and Singular Integral Equations, The ultraspherical spectral element method 3:18 - 3:48 Hong Wang (IAS), Discrete Analysis, Small cap decouplings 3:30 - 4:00 Andrew Horning (Cornell University), Spectral Methods and Singular Integral Equations, Twice is enough for dangerous eigenvalues 3:54 - 4:24 Ruxiang Zhang (IAS), Discrete Analysis, Local smoothing for the wave equation in 2+1 dimensions 4:00 - 4:30 Jim Bremer (UC Davis), Spectral Methods and Singular Integral Equations, A fast algorithm for simulating scattering from a radially symmetric potential 4:30 - 5:00 Dominique Kemp (Indiana University), Discrete Analysis 4:30 - 5:00 Nilima Nigam (Simon Fraser University), Spectral Methods and Singular Integral Equations, Steklov eigenfunctions: how and why to compute them 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 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 Ana Balibanu (Harvard University), Algebraic Geometry of Integrable Systems, Steinberg slices in quasi-Poisson varieties 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, Multivariate Monotone Inclusions in Saddle Form I: Theory and Algorithms 14:00 - 14:30 Brandon Doherty (University of Western Ontario), Homotopy Theory, Cubical models of (infinity,1)-categories 14:00 - 14:30 Ahmet Guloglu (Bilkent University), Arithmetic Statistics, Non-vanishing of Cubic Twists of L-functions 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 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 David Sher (DePaul U.), Geometric and Computational Spectral Theory, Inverse Steklov spectral problem for curvilinear polygons 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 14:20 - 14:40 Jacques Bélair (Université de Montréal), Mathematical biology, Waning immunity in a two-strain disease model 14:30 - 15:00 Minh Bui (NCSU), Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications, Multivariate Monotone Inclusions in Saddle Form II: Applications 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 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 Olivia Dumitrescu (UNC Chapel Hill), Algebraic Geometry of Integrable Systems 14:30 - 15:00 Suresh Eswarathasan (Dalhousie), Geometric and Computational Spectral Theory, Entropy of $\epsilon$-logarithmic quasimodes 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 15:00 - 15:20 Paul Francois (McGill University), Mathematical biology, Information in cytokine dynamics : robotic mapping and machine learning 15:00 - 15:30 Oscar Bruno (Caltech), Geometric and Computational Spectral Theory, Domains Without Dense Steklov Nodal Sets 15:00 - 15:30 Sunita Chepuri (University of Michigan), Algebraic Combinatorixx (Women in Algebraic Combinatorics) 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 15:00 - 15:30 Hao Hu (Waterloo), Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications 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 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 Jeremy Lane (McMaster), Symplectic Topology, Canonical bases, toric degenerations, and collective integrable systems 15:00 - 16:00 Sukjoo Lee (University of Pennsylvania), Fibrations and Degenerations in Algebraic Geometry 15:20 - 15:40 Nathanael Hozé (Institut Pasteur), Mathematical biology 15:30 - 16:00 Yankai Cao (UBC), Optimization and Data Science, A Global Optimization Algorithm for Clustering Problems 15:30 - 16:00 Vesselin Dimitrov (Toronto), Probability in Number Theory 15:30 - 16:00 Danny Dyer (MUN), Graph Theory, Gracefully labelling triangular cacti using Skolem sequences 15:30 - 16:00 Kimon Fountoulakis (Waterloo), Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications 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 algebra with involution 15:30 - 16:00 Braxton Osting (Utah), Geometric and Computational Spectral Theory, Maximal Spectral Gaps for Periodic Schroedinger Operators 15:30 - 16:00 Brent Pym (McGill University), Algebraic Geometry of Integrable Systems, Beauville-Bogomolov-Weinstein splitting for Poisson varieties 15:30 - 16:00 Sandra Visokolskis (National University of Cordoba, Argentina), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Fourier’s Resolution of the Heat Equation by Transduction: A Contemporary Approach. 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 16:00 - 16:30 Ahmad Alkasasbeh (MUN), Graph Theory, Graceful Labellings of Variable Windmills Using Skolem Sequences 16:00 - 16:30 Brenda Davison (SFU), History and Philosophy of Mathematics 16:00 - 16:30 Rachel Hardeman (University of Calgary), 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) 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 Asif Zaman (Toronto), Probability in Number Theory, Low moments of random power series 16:00 - 16:30 Xuwen Zhu (North Eastern), Geometric and Computational Spectral Theory, Spectral properties of spherical conical metrics 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 Maritza Branker (Niagara University), History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Euphemia Lofton Haynes: her forgotten legacy 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 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) 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 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 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 Leslie Chen (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, US), Nonlinear PDEs and kinetic problems, Multiscale Convergence Properties for Spectral Approximation of a Model Kinetic Equation 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 1:30 - 2:00 Michael Curran (Oxford), Discrete Analysis, Khovanskii's Theorem and Effective Results on Sumset Structure 2:00 - 2:30 Timon Gutleb (Imperial College London), Spectral Methods and Singular Integral Equations, Computing Equilibrium Measures with Power Law Kernels 2:06 - 2:36 Amita Malik (AIM), Discrete Analysis, Partitions into primes in arithmetic progression 2:30 - 3:00 Sheehan Olver (Imperial College London), Spectral Methods and Singular Integral Equations, Sparse spectral methods for singular integral and fractional differential equations 2:42 - 3:12 Jose Madrid (UCLA), Discrete Analysis, Improving estimates for discrete polynomial averages and related problems 3:00 - 3:30 Manas Rachh (Flatiron Institute), Spectral Methods and Singular Integral Equations, Towards automatically adaptive solvers for Maxwell's equations in three dimensions 3:18 - 3:48 Felipe Ramirez (Wesleyan University), Discrete Analysis, Remarks about inhomogeneous pair correlations 3:30 - 4:00 Richard Mikael Slevinsky (University of Manitoba), Spectral Methods and Singular Integral Equations, Fast associated classical orthogonal polynomial transforms 3:54 - 4:24 Ayla Gafni (University of Mississippi), Discrete Analysis, Asymptotics of Restricted Partition Functions 4:00 - 4:30 Alex Townsend (Cornell University), Spectral Methods and Singular Integral Equations, Computing the spectra of differential operators 4:30 - 5:00 Freddie Manners (UC San Diego), Discrete Analysis 4:30 - 5:00 Tom Trogdon (University of Washington), Spectral Methods and Singular Integral Equations, On arbitrary-precision enabled inverse scattering for the 1-dimensional Schr\"odinger operator 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 14:00 - 14:20 Arthur Sherman (National Institutes of Health), Mathematical biology, Clinical Insights from a Diabetes Progression Model 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 Mikhail Karpukhin (Caltech), Geometric and Computational Spectral Theory, Continuity of eigenvalues with applications to eigenvalue optimization 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 14:00 - 14:30 Levent Tuncel (Waterloo), Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications 14:00 - 14:40 Francisco Torres de Lizaur (Toronto), Symplectic Topology, Knots and links in Beltrami fields 14:00 - 15:00 Jordon Kostiuk (Brown University), Fibrations and Degenerations in Algebraic Geometry 14:20 - 14:40 Anmar Khadra (McGill University), Mathematical biology, Excitable media in fish keratocytes model: Canard explosion, traveling waves and beyond 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 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 Jean Lagacé (UCL), Geometric and Computational Spectral Theory, Geometric homogenisation theory and spectral shape optimisation 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 Steve Vavasis (Waterloo), Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications 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 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 15:00 - 15:30 Paul Bourgade (NYU), Probability in Number Theory, The Fyodorov-Hiary-Keating Conjecture 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 Dima Jakobson (McGill), Geometric and Computational Spectral Theory, Zero and negative eigenvalues of conformally covariant operators, and nodal sets in conformal geometry 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 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 15:20 - 15:40 Lisanne Rens (TU Delft), Mathematical biology, Computational models for feedback between cell shape, cell signaling and extracellular matrix 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 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 Emily Dryden (Bucknell), Geometric and Computational Spectral Theory, Heat content of polygons 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 15:30 - 16:00 Mark Schmidt (UBC), Optimization and Data Science, Faster Algorithms for Deep Learning? 15:40 - 16:00 Stephanie Portet (University of Manitoba), Mathematical biology, Intracellular transport driven by antagonistic motor proteins 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 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 Daniel Stern (Chicago), Geometric and Computational Spectral Theory, Shape optimization in spectral geometry via variational methods for harmonic maps 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 16:30 - 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 Karl Dilcher (Dalhousie), Probability in Number Theory, General Convolution Identities for Bernoulli and Euler Polynomials 16:30 - 17:00 Hadi Kharaghani (Lethbridge), Combinatorial Designs, On Equiangular Tight Frames 16:30 - 17:00 Brad Rodgers (Queen's University), Arithmetic Statistics, Primes in short intervals in number fields 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 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 Wanlin Li (CRM), Arithmetic Statistics, The Central Value of Dirichlet L-functions over Rational Function Fields 17:30 - 18:00 Wenbo Li (University of Toronto), Recent Advances in Harmonic and Complex Analysis, Conformal dimension and minimality of stochastic objects 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 14:00 - 14:30 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 Asma Hassanezhad (Bristol), Geometric and Computational Spectral Theory, Eigenvalue and multiplicity bounds for the mixed Steklov problem 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 - 15:00 Tony Pantev (Penn), Derived Categories and (Non)commutative Algebraic Geometry 14:20 - 14:40 Marc Roussel (University of Lethbridge), Mathematical biology, Dynamics-preserving model reduction using bipartite-graph representations of biochemical systems 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 Carolyn Gordon (Dartmouth), Geometric and Computational Spectral Theory, Comparing Hodge spectra of manifolds and orbifolds: Part 1 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 Frédéric Ouimet (Caltech), Probability in Number Theory 14:30 - 15:00 Dan Wolczuk and Paul McGrath (Waterloo), Creative Assessments in the COVID-19 times, Using Virtual Escape Rooms to Promote Student-Student Interactions 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 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 Sean Fitzpatrick (Lethbridge), Creative Assessments in the COVID-19 times, Deconstructing Exams for Remote Learning 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 Katie Gittins (Durham), Geometric and Computational Spectral Theory, Comparing Hodge spectra of manifolds and orbifolds: Part 2. 15:00 - 15:30 Warren Hare (UBC), Optimization and Data Science, Imaginary Derivative Free Optimization 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 - 16:00 Katrina Honigs (Oregon), Derived Categories and (Non)commutative Algebraic Geometry 15:20 - 15:40 Justin Tzou (Macquarie University), Mathematical biology, Localized patterns and narrow escape problems in more general geometries 15:30 - 16:00 Samantha-Jo Caetano (Toronto), Creative Assessments in the COVID-19 times, Trump vs. Biden - who will win? 15:30 - 16:00 Sebastian Dominguez (Simon Fraser), Geometric and Computational Spectral Theory 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 Richard Gottesman (Queens), Probability in Number Theory 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 16:00 - 16:30 Jean-Marie de Koninck (Laval), Probability in Number Theory, Consecutive integers divisible by a power of their largest prime factor 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 Antoine Metras (Montréal), Geometric and Computational Spectral Theory, Steklov extremal metrics in higher dimension 16:00 - 16:30 Nicholas Miller (University of California, Berkeley), Equidistribution on Arithmetic Manifolds, Geodesic submanifolds of hyperbolic manifolds 16:00 - 16:30 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 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 Sabin Cautis (UBC), Derived Categories and (Non)commutative Algebraic Geometry 16:30 - 17:00 Monica Gabriela Cojocaru (University of Guelph), Optimization and Data Science 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 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 Ram Murty (Queens), Probability in Number Theory, An "all-purpose" Erdos-Kac theorem 16:30 - 17:00 William Verreault (Université Laval), Recent Advances in Harmonic and Complex Analysis, Nonlinear Oscillatory Expansions of holomorphic functions 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 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 - 11:30 Arvind Ayyer (Indian Institute of Science), Enumerative Combinatorics, Toppleable permutations and excedances 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 - 11:30 Mario Schulz (Quenn Mary U. of London), Geometric and Computational Spectral Theory, Free boundary minimal surfaces in the unit ball 11:00 - 11:40 Xiudi Tang (Toronto), Symplectic Topology, Symplectic ray removal 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 Benjamin Bogosel (Polytechnique Paris), Geometric and Computational Spectral Theory, Shape optimization of the Steklov eigenvalues under various constraints 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 Alexia Yavicoli (University of St Andrews), Additive Combinatorics and Discrete Geometry, Patterns in thick compact sets 11:50 - 12:30 Lara Suarez Lopez (Bochum), Symplectic Topology, On the rigidity of Legendrian cobordisms 12:00 - 12:30 Jeffrey Galkowski (UCL), Geometric and Computational Spectral Theory, Geodesic beams and Weyl remainders 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 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 Daniel Di Benedetto (University of British Columbia), Additive Combinatorics and Discrete Geometry, Discretised point-line incidences and the dimension of Besicovitch sets 13:00 - 13:30 Dave Hewett (UCL), Geometric and Computational Spectral Theory, Acoustic scattering by fractal screens 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 - 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 Brandon Hanson (University of Georgia), Additive Combinatorics and Discrete Geometry, A better-than-Plunnecke bound for $A + 2A$ 13:30 - 14:00 Junehyuk Jung (Brown University), Equidistribution on Arithmetic Manifolds, Intersections of geodesics on the modular surface 13:30 - 14:00 Chiu-Yen Kao (Claremont Mckenna College), Geometric and Computational Spectral Theory, Computation of free boundary minimal surfaces via extremal Steklov eigenvalue problems 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 Alexandre Girouard (Laval), Geometric and Computational Spectral Theory, Planar domains with prescribed perimeter and large Steklov spectral gap must collapse to a point 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 - 15:00 Alicia Lamarche (Utah), Derived Categories and (Non)commutative Algebraic Geometry 14:10 - 14:50 Shira Tanny (Tel Aviv), Symplectic Topology, The Poisson bracket invariant: elementary and hard approaches. 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 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 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 16:20 - 17:00 Cheng Yang (Toronto), Symplectic Topology, Symplectic reduction and perturbation theory 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 16:30 - 17:30 Max Lieblich (Washington), Derived Categories and (Non)commutative Algebraic Geometry 17:00 - 17:30 Weikun He (Korea Institute of Advanced Study), Additive Combinatorics and Discrete Geometry, Sum-product in representations of Lie groups