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