2024 CMS Winter Meeting

Vancouver/Richmond, Nov 29 - Dec 2, 2024

       

Scientific Sessions

Education Sessions are listed at bottom of page.

Please note that all times are displayed in Pacific Standard Time (PST).

Algebraic Geometry
Org: Katrina Honigs and Nathan Ilten (Simon Fraser University)
This session will focus on recent developments in algebraic geometry. Given the wide range of interests represented in the Canadian algebraic geometry landscape, topics covered may include such areas as classical algebraic geometry, derived categories, combinatorial algebraic geometry, and mirror symmetry, among others.
 
Schedule to be determined
Jim Bryan (UBC)
Susan Cooper (University of Manitoba), Viewing Codes Through the Lens of Fat Points
Michael Groechenig (University of Toronto), Bialynicki-Birula theory for quotient stacks
Kalle Karu (UBC), Anisotropy in Stanley-Reisner rings
Arnab Kundu (University of Toronto), Motivic cohomology in mixed-characteristic
Jake Levinson (Université de Montréal), Limits in tropical compactifications and tropical psi classes
Haggai Liu (Simon Fraser University), Moduli Spaces of Weighted Stable Curves and their Fundamental Groups
Ahmad Mokhtar (Simon Fraser University), Connectedness of Fano schemes of matrices of bounded rank
Shubhodip Mondal (UBC), Unipotent homotopy theory of schemes
Sharon Robins (Simon Fraser University), Versal Deformations of Smooth Complete Toric Varieties
Sasha Zotine (McMaster University), Kawaguchi-Silverman for Projective Bundles on Elliptic Curves
 
Algebraic Graph Theory I
Org: Sooyeong Kim (University of Guelph), Sarobidy Razafimahatratra (Fields Institute) and Harmony Zhan (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
The goal of this scientific session is to bring together mathematicians working in algebraic graph theory and applications to discuss the most recent advances in the area, disseminate new ideas, and inspire future collaborations. This is Part I of the two part session on algebraic graph theory, and will focus on the spectra, eigenvectors and symmetries of graphs.
 
Saturday November 30  (R 1380)
9:00 - 9:30 Sarobidy Razafimahatratra (Fields Institute), The intersection density of transitive groups of degree $3p$
10:00 - 10:30 Thedore Kolokolnikov (Dalhousie University)
15:00 - 15:30 Bojan Mohar (Simon Fraser University), Square energy of graphs
15:30 - 16:00 Kumar Hitesh (Simon Fraser University), Combinations of first and second eigenvalue of trees
16:00 - 16:30 Shivaram Pragada (Simon Fraser University), Bollobas-Nikiforov conjecture and triangle counting
16:30 - 17:00 Allen Herman (University of Regina), Parameters of quotient-polynomial graphs
17:00 - 17:30 Jinting Liang (UBC), Log-concavity and log-convexity via distributive lattices
 
Sunday December 1  (R 1380)
8:30 - 9:00 Thomás Spier (University of Waterloo), Efficient reconstruction of the characteristic polynomial
9:00 - 9:30 Lord Kavi (University of Ottawa), Towards Haemers Laplacian Toughness Conjecture
9:30 - 10:00 Kim Sooyeong (University of Guelph), Perfect state transfer in a graph and its line graph
17:00 - 17:30 Himanshu Gupta (University of Regina), Minimum number of distinct eigenvalues of Johnson and Hamming graphs
 
Algebraic Graph Theory II
Org: Hermie Monterde (University of Manitoba), Thomás Spier (University of Waterloo) and Xiaohong Zhang (Université de Montréal)
"The goal of this scientific session is to bring together mathematicians working in algebraic graph theory and applications to discuss the most recent advances in the area, disseminate new ideas, and inspire future collaborations. This is Part II of the two part session on algebraic graph theory, and will focus on the applications of algebraic graph theory, specifically to quantum information and quantum walks on graphs. "
 
Saturday November 30  (R 1380)
8:30 - 9:00 Luc Vinet (Université de Montréal), Spin systems on $q$-hypercubes and the connection to dual polar graphs
10:00 - 10:30 Harmony Zhan (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Limiting behavior of coined quantum walks with marked vertices
 
Sunday December 1  (R 1380)
15:00 - 15:30 Chris Godsil (University of Waterloo), Continuous quantum walks on locally finite graphs.
15:30 - 16:00 Hermie Monterde (University of Manitoba), New results in vertex sedentariness
16:00 - 16:30 David Feder (University of Calgary), Hard-core bosons on lattices as the symmetric power of cycle graphs
16:30 - 17:00 Xiaohong Zhang (Université de Montréal), Real state transfer
 
Monday December 2  (R 1380)
8:30 - 9:00 Ada Chan (York University), Pair-state transfer in distance regular graphs
9:00 - 9:30 Sarah Plosker (Brandon University), Quantum state transfer in weakly Hadamard diagonalizable graphs
9:30 - 10:00 Gabor Lippner (Northeastern University), Regular graphs with the most number of k-cycles.
 
Applications of Dynamical Systems in Biology
Org: Adam Stinchcombe (University of Toronto) and Afroditi Talidou (University of Calgary)
This session will explore recent applications of dynamical systems to several areas of biology, including neuroscience, biochemical reaction networks, cell biology, and systems biology. This will demonstrate how mathematical modelling and simulation can capture the dynamics that underlie biological systems and lead to insight into biological phenomena. By bringing together young and senior researchers in mathematics, biology, and computer science, this session aims to foster interdisciplinary collaborations and inspire novel approaches to tackling complex biological phenomena through the lens of dynamical systems theory.
 
Sunday December 1  (R2060)
8:00 - 8:30 Qi Deng (York University), Uncovering the impact of infection routes on within-host MPXV dynamics: insights from a mathematical modeling study
8:30 - 9:00 Belal Abuelnasr (Waterloo), Effects of Diabetes on Renal Calcium Homeostasis
9:00 - 9:30 Adam Stinchcombe (Toronto), A mathematical model for the role of dopamine-D2 self-regulation in the production of ultradian rhythms
9:30 - 10:00 Spandan Sengupta (Toront/Krembil), Using a Population Rate Model of the CA1 Hippocampus to examine cell-type specific contributions to theta-gamma coupled rhythms
10:00 - 10:30 Merlin Pelz (UMN), Synchronized Memory-Dependent Intracellular Oscillations in Compartmental-Reaction Diffusion Systems
15:00 - 15:30 Sue Ann Campbell (Waterloo), Distributed Time Delay and Synchronization in a Neural Mass Model
15:30 - 16:00 Kelsey Gasior (Notre Dame), The Impact of Dynamical System Nondimensionalization on Sensitivity Analysis when Modeling the Epithelial Mesenchymal Transition
16:00 - 16:30 Katharine Faulkner (UBC), Modelling Glucose Regulation: Lipotoxicity and the Progression to Type 2 Diabetes
16:30 - 17:00 Eric Cytrynbaum (UBC), Spatiotemporal patterning in reptile tooth replacement
17:00 - 17:30 Nicolas Doyon (Laval), Using the Finite Element method to solve the Poisson Nernst-Planck equations in neural structures
17:30 - 18:00 Donglin Han (University of Alberta), Retrospective estimation of proportion of total infections of COVID-19 during the first wave in Alberta
 
Applications of Symmetries, Conservation Laws, and Related Algebraic Structures for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
Org: Stephen Anco (Brock Univ.), Kostya Druzhkov (University of Saskatchewan) and Alexey Shevyakov (University of Saskatchewan)
Development and application of symmetry analysis, methods for conservation laws, and related algebraic structures that are useful for studying PDE models in theoretical and applied science. The session is dedicated in part to celebrate the life-long work of George Bluman as a leader in symmetry.
 
Sunday December 1
8:30 - 9:00 Shawn McAdam (University of Saskatchewan)
9:00 - 9:30 Rehana Naz (Lahore School of Economics), Lie symmetries, closed-form solutions, and conservation laws
9:30 - 10:00 Michel Grundland (CRM, Université de Montréal)
10:00 - 10:30 Alexey Shevyakov (University of Saskatchewan), Exact Internal Waves in a Two-Fluid System
15:00 - 15:30 George Bluman (University of British Columbia), Use of the symmetry-based method to construct non-invertible mappings
15:30 - 16:00 Zuhal Kucukarslan Yuzbasi (University of British Columbia), New non-invertible mappings of Schrödinger equations to free particle equations
16:00 - 16:30 Subhankar Sil (University of British Columbia), Non-invertible mappings relating linear PDEs to corresponding nonlinear PDEs through symmetry-based method
16:30 - 17:00 Stephen Anco (Brock University), Hidden symmetry groups in classical mechanics and beyond
17:00 - 17:30 Kostya Druzhkov (University of Saskatchewan)
 
Monday December 2
8:00 - 8:30 Mahdieh Moghadam (Brock University)
8:30 - 9:00 Jaiden Dahlke (Brock University)
9:00 - 9:30 Willy Hereman (Colorado School of Mines), Symbolic computation of conservation laws of nonlinear partial differential equations
9:30 - 10:00 Stathis Charalampidis (California Polytechnic State University)
10:00 - 10:30 Rafael de la Rosa Silva (Universidad de Cádiz), The natural extension to PDEs of Lie's reduction of order algorithm for ODEs
 
Schedule to be determined
Thomas Wolf (Brock University), Towards a classification of evolution equations with Lax pairs over the octonions
 
Arithmetic Aspects of Galois Representations
Org: Debanjana Kundu (UTRGV) and Antonio Lei (University of Ottawa)
Galois representations naturally emerge in various contexts within number theory, ranging from elliptic curves and modular forms to the Langlands program. There is a wide array of sophisticated tools available to study these representations, including $p$-adic $L$-functions, deformation theory, and moduli spaces. This session will focus on new developments in this area.
 
Saturday November 30
8:30 - 9:00 Daniel Vallieres (California State University Chico), Iwasawa theory for branched $\mathbb{Z}_{p}$-towers of finite graphs
9:00 - 9:30 Kim Tuan Do (UCLA), Euler systems over imaginary quadratic and biquadratic fields
9:30 - 10:00 Payman Eskandari (Winnipeg), On the unipotent parts of the Hodge and Tate conjectures
10:00 - 10:30 Raul Alonso (UC Santa Barbara), An anticyclotomic Euler system for Hilbert cuspforms over a real quadratic field
15:00 - 15:30 Sujatha Ramdorai (UBC), Iwasawa theory over anticyclotomic extensions
15:30 - 16:00 Heejong Lee (Purdue), Recent advances on the Serre weight conjectures
16:00 - 16:30 Peikai Qi (MSU), An analogue of Greenberg pseudo-null conjecture for CM fields
16:30 - 17:00 Chi-Yun Hsu (Santa Clara), $p$-adic companion forms for Yoshida lifts
17:00 - 17:30 Tam Nguyen (UBC), Residually isomorphic modular forms and BDP p-adic L-functions
17:30 - 18:00 Ila Varma (University of Toronto), The number of $D_4$-fields ordered by Artin conductor
 
Sunday December 1
8:30 - 9:00 Pavel Coupek (MSU), Heights of modular forms and Eisenstein congruences
9:00 - 9:30 Adithya Chakravarthy (Toronto), The Iwasawa $\mu$-invariants of elliptic curves over the rational numbers
9:30 - 10:00 Simone Maletto (UBC), Congruences of special values of the symmetric square L-function
 
Asymptotic Geometric Analysis
Org: Susanna Dann (Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia), Daniel Galicer (Universidad de Buenos Aires , Argentina) and Alexander Litvak (University of Alberta)
Asymptotic Geometric Analysis (AGA) is mainly concerned with geometric and linear properties of infinite dimensional objects, such as convex sets and normed spaces, especially with the characteristic behavior that emerges when the dimension, or a number of other relevant free parameters, is suitably large or tends to infinity. High-dimensional systems are very frequent in mathematics and applied sciences hence understanding of high-dimensional phenomena is becoming increasingly important. By virtue of AGA general framework, methods, and its impact on related fields, AGA can be situated at the crossroads of many branches of mathematics: functional analysis, convex and discrete geometry (described below), several areas of probability including random matrix theory, some aspects of graph theory, among others.
 
Saturday November 30  (WSOD 2930)
8:30 - 9:00 Mathias Sonnleitner (University of Alberta), Strange shadows of $\ell_p$-balls
9:00 - 9:30 Andrii Arman (University of Manitoba), Bodies of constant width that have small volume
9:30 - 10:00 Kirill Kashkan (University of Toronto), Dense Forests With Low Visibility
10:00 - 10:30 Veatriki Eleni Vritsiou (University of Alberta), Illuminating certain high-dimensional 1-unconditional convex bodies
15:00 - 15:30 Vishesh Jain (University of Illinois), Entangled states are typically incomparable
15:30 - 16:00 Sudan Xing (University of Arkansas), On the s-Gaussian Measure in $\mathbb{R}^n$
16:00 - 16:30 Serhii Myroshnychenko (University of the Fraser Valley), Stability of simplex slicing
16:30 - 17:00 Alina Stancu (Concordia University), An asymmetric flow with many symmetric solutions
 
Schedule to be determined
Manuel Fernandez (The Georgia Institute of Technolog), WSOD 2930
Chase Reuter (University of Alberta), WSOD 2930
 
Automorphic forms and number theory
Org: Lior Silberman (University of British Columbia), Nahid Walji (University of British Columbia) and Tian An Wong (University of Michigan - Dearborn)
Automorphic forms appear in many number theoretic contexts, including elliptic curves, modular forms, and up to the broader viewpoint of the Langlands program. This session will focus on new developments in various topics involving automorphic forms, including, but not limited to, results for Fourier coefficients and Hecke eigenvalues, beyond endoscopy, and distribution results within families.
 
Saturday November 30
9:00 - 9:30 Kimball Martin (University of Oklahoma), Distributions of root numbers and Fourier coefficients of modular forms
9:30 - 10:00 Amir Akbary (University of Lethbridge), Dual pairs of eta quotients
10:00 - 10:30 Isabella Negrini (University of Toronto), Modular generating series for rigid cocycles
15:00 - 15:30 Julia Gordon (University of British Columbia), Explicit improvement on Harish-Chandra's integrability bound
15:30 - 16:00 Sarah Dijols (University of British Columbia), Parabolically induced representations of p-adic G2 distinguished by SO4
16:00 - 16:30 Jennifer Johnson-Leung (University of Idaho), Index lowering operators on Jacobi forms and stable Klingen theory
16:30 - 17:00 Malors Espinosa Lara (University of Toronto)
 
Sunday December 1
9:00 - 9:30 Naomi Tanabe (Bowdoin College), Subconvexity for L-functions of Hilbert modular forms
9:30 - 10:00 Khalil Besrour (University of Ottawa), Modular Solutions to Modular Differential Equations
10:00 - 10:30 Lucas Villagra Torcomian (Simon Fraser University), The modular method for Generalized Fermat equations
 
Automorphic forms and representations
Org: Sarah Dijols (UBC), Andrew Fiori (University of Lethbridge) and Ray Mishty (Carleton University)
The purpose of this session is to offer the opportunity for a large and diverse list of mathematicians to present their recent works on the topics of Representation theory over local and global fields (directly related to automorphic forms); Langlands program, including its geometric or categorical perspectives; Analytical aspects of the Langlands program (for instance L-functions, their construction and properties); Connections with Galois representations, and Shimura varieties.
 
Saturday November 30
8:30 - 9:10 James Steele (University of Calgary), Between equivariant and constructible Yoneda algebras in the $p$-adic local Langlands correspondence
9:20 - 9:40 Jacob Stockton (University of British Columbia), A derived Hecke algebra
9:50 - 10:30 Rachel Ollivier (University of British Columbia), Rigid dualizing complexes for affine Hecke algebras.
15:00 - 15:40 Ila Varma (University of Toronto), Geometry of numbers in the cusp
15:50 - 16:30 Alex Hazeltine (University of Michigan), The local theta correspondence and functoriality
16:40 - 17:00 Jose Cruz (University of Calgary), On the Fourier transform and Vogan's perspective on the Local Langlands Correspondence
17:10 - 17:50 Chi-Heng Lo (Purdue University), On local Arthur packets and unitary dual of classical groups
 
Sunday December 1
8:00 - 8:40 Kristaps Balodis (University of Calgary), The Status and Consequences of the p-adic Kazhdan-Lusztig Hypothesis
8:50 - 9:10 Wong Tian An (University of Michigan), Towards a notion of mesoscopy
9:20 - 9:40 Serine Bairakji (University of Ottawa), Lost in Levis: The Case of the Missing Middle
9:50 - 10:30 Miao (Pam) Gu (University of Michigan), On Triple Product L-functions
15:00 - 15:40 Yanze Chen (University of Alberta), Eisenstein series on metaplectic covers and multiple Dirichlet series
15:50 - 16:10 Danielle Wang (Berkely), Twisted GGP conjecture in the unramified case
16:20 - 16:40 Fatma Cicek (UNBC), Moments of Rankin-Selberg Convolution $L$-functions Near the Central Point
16:50 - 17:10 Manish M. Patnaik (University of Alberta)
17:20 - 17:40 Lior Silberman (University of British Columbia), Arithmetic Quantum Unique Ergodicity on Hyperbolic spaces
 
Cayley Graphs
Org: Soffia Arnadottir (UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais)) and Joy Morris (University of Lethbridge)
Cayley graphs are a special class of graphs that have very nice symmetry properties and are closely connected to permutation group theory. In this session, a variety of cutting-edge research on Cayley graphs will be presented. The session will include diverse presenters from a variety of countries, and at a variety of career stages, who have been achieving important results in this area.
 
Saturday November 30  (WSOD 1950)
8:30 - 9:00 Amarpreet Rattan (SFU), Centrality of star factorizations
9:00 - 9:30 Soffía Árnadóttir (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)), Cayley incidence graphs
9:30 - 10:00 Raghu Pantangi (University of Regina), Perfect State Transfer in Cayley and double coset graphs related to linear groups in two dimensions.
10:00 - 10:30 Xiaohong Zhang (Université de Montréal), Signed or oriented Cayley graphs with nice spectrum
15:00 - 15:30 Bobby Miraftab (Carleton University), From finite to infinite: hamiltonian structures in Cayley graphs
15:30 - 16:00 Gabriel Verret (University of Auckland), Density of quotient orders in groups and applications to locally-transitive graphs
16:00 - 16:30 Primoz Potocnik (University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)), Extended Census of Cubic Cayley Graphs
16:30 - 17:00 Ted Dobson (University of Primorska (Slovenia)), ${\mathbb Z}_{p}\times{\mathbb Z}_p$ is a BCI-group
17:00 - 17:30 Shasha Zheng (Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia)), Asymptotic proportion of graphical regular representations among Cayley graphs
 
Celebrating Greg Martin: A Chorus of Contributions to Analytic Number Theory
Org: Alia Hamieh (UNBC) and Habiba Kadiri (University of Lethbridge)
This session is a celebration of analytic number theory, especially the topics that have been influenced by the work of Greg Martin. Experts in multiplicative number theory, comparative prime number theory, elementary number theory, and Diophantine approximations at various career stages will present and discuss their work, particularly in collaboration with Greg Martin or inspired by his influential work.
 
Saturday November 30  (WSOD 1960)
8:30 - 9:00 Welcome
9:00 - 9:30 Paul Pollack (University of Georgia), Counting primes with a given primitive root, uniformly
9:30 - 10:00 Lucile Devin (LMPA Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale), Polynomial races with big ties
10:00 - 10:30 Paul Péringuey (UBC), Refinements of Artin's primitive root conjecture
15:00 - 15:30 Lee Troupe (Mercer University), The number of subgroups of the multiplicative group
15:30 - 16:00 Ayla Gafni (University of Mississippi), Exponential Sums with Additive Coefficients
16:00 - 16:30 Susan Cooper (University of Manitoba), A Little Support Goes A Long Way - An EDI Journey
16:30 - 17:00 Matilde Lalin (Université de Montréal), Variances of prime independent multiplicative functions over function fields
17:00 - 17:30 Yu-Ru Liu (University of Waterloo), Equidistribution of Polynomial Sequences in Function Fields
17:30 - 18:00 Asif Zaman (University of Toronto), Improving the trivial bound for class group torsion
 
Sunday December 1  (WSOD 1960)
9:00 - 9:30 Chi Hoi Yip (Georgia Tech), Counting powerfree-like numbers
9:30 - 10:00 Cecile Dartyge (Institut Élie Cartan de Lorraine), Exponential sums and reducible polynomials.
10:00 - 10:30 Daniel Fiorilli (CNRS Université Paris-Saclay), Biases and variances in the distribution of primes
15:00 - 15:30 Andrey Feuerverger (University of Toronto), Statistics in Number Theory???
15:30 - 16:00 Stephen Choi (Simon Fraser University), Polynomials whose reducibility is related to the Goldbach conjecture
16:00 - 16:30 Miao Gu (University of Michigan), Factorization tests arising from counting modular forms and automorphic representations
16:30 - 17:00 Amita Malik (Penn State University), Zeros of derivatives of L-functions attached to Maass forms
17:00 - 17:30 Reginald Simpson (UBC), The Density and Distribution of Cyclic Groups in the Invariant Factor Decomposition of the Multiplicative Group
17:30 - 18:00 Trevor Wooley (Purdue University), Smooth values of polynomials and superirreducibility
 
Combinatorial Designs
Org: Peter Danziger (Toronto Metropolitan University) and Peter Dukes (University of Victoria)
Combinatorial design theory has a history dating back to the 18th century when Leonhard Euler pondered the existence of orthogonal pairs of Latin squares. This session will showcase recent results in topics such as classical designs, cycle systems, graph decompositions, Latin squares and other aspects of design theory.
 
Sunday December 1
8:00 - 8:30 David Pike (Memorial), 2-Block-Intersection Graphs of Twofold Triple Systems
8:30 - 9:00 Esther Lamken (unaffiliated), Duplicated Steiner triple systems with self-orthogonal near resolutions
9:00 - 9:30 Andrea Burgess (UNB), Colourings of Kirkman triple systems
9:30 - 10:00 Kianoosh Shokri (Ottawa), A construction of strength-$4$ covering arrays using three $k$-caps in $PG(3, q)$
10:00 - 10:30 Alice Lacaze-Masmonteil (Ottawa), Completing the solution of the directed Oberwolfach problem with two tables
15:00 - 15:30 Doug Stinson (Waterloo), Recent results on near-factorizations of groups
15:30 - 16:00 Trent Marbach (TMU)
16:00 - 16:30 Jonathan Jedwab (SFU), Additive triples in groups of odd prime order
16:30 - 17:00 Shuxing Li (Delaware), Intersection Distributions and Related Steiner Systems
17:00 - 17:30 Masoomeh Akbari (Ottawa), The Generalized Honeymoon Oberwolfach Problem with one large table of size 2m
 
Monday December 2
9:00 - 9:30 Prangya Parida (Ottawa), Cover-free families on graphs
9:30 - 10:00 Hadi Kharaghani (Lethbridge), Hadamard matrices related to orthogonal arrays
10:00 - 10:30 Open problem discussion
 
Computational aspects of arithmetic geometry and analytic number theory
Org: Nils Bruin (SFU) and Stanley Xiao (UNBC)
In this session we discuss aspects of computation in arithmetic geometry and analytic number theory. This includes explicit results, experimental results, and related topics.
 
Saturday November 30
9:00 - 9:30 Nathan Grieve (Acadia University), On Schmidt's Subspace Theorem, Vojta's height inequalities and algebraic points in projective varieties: selected recent progres
9:30 - 10:00 Asif Zaman (University of Toronto), Explicit Deuring-Heilbronn phenomenon for Dirichlet $L$-functions
10:00 - 10:30 Ila Varma (University of Toronto), Counting number fields and predicting asymptotics
15:00 - 15:30 Julie Desjardins (University of Toronto), Trisections of Low Genus on Del Pezzo Surfaces of Degree 1
15:30 - 16:00 Imin Chen (Simon Fraser University), Improved constants for Serre's open image theorem
16:00 - 16:30 Yixin Chen (Simon Fraser University), Two-torsion in Brauer groups of hyperelliptic fibered surface
16:30 - 17:00 Colin Weir (Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing), On the distribution of $a$-numbers of hyperelliptic curves.
17:00 - 17:30 Liljana Babinkostova (Boise State University)
17:30 - 18:00 Renate Scheidler (University of Calgary), Solving norm equations in global function fields using compact representations
 
Sunday December 1
9:00 - 9:30 Matilde Lalin (Université de Montréal), Arithmetic constants for symplectic variances of the divisor function
9:30 - 10:00 Marion Scheepers (Boise State University)
10:00 - 10:30 Brett Nasserden (University of Western Ontario)
15:00 - 15:30 Dave McKinnon (University of Waterloo)
15:30 - 16:00 Shabnam Akhtari (Penn State), Index Form Equations and Monogenized Orders in Quartic Number Fields
16:00 - 16:30 Kevin Hare (University of Waterloo), Non-expansive matrix number systems with bases similar to certain Jordan blocks
 
Continuous Optimization – Algorithms, Applications, and Analysis
Org: Ahmet Alacaoglu, Michael Friedlander and Jiajin Li (University of British Columbia)
Algorithms for continuous optimization are crucial to numerous applications in science, engineering, and industry, where they play a central role in data-driven decision-making and scientific discovery. Ensuring these methods are reliable, efficient, and theoretically sound is essential. This session brings together researchers focusing on theory, analysis, software implementation, and innovative applications to foster collaboration and encourage emerging research.
 
Sunday December 1
9:30 - 10:00 Heinz Bauschke (UBC Okanagan), On the Bredies-Chenchene-Lorenz-Naldi algorithm
10:00 - 10:30 Michael Friedlander (UBC), Density Estimation from Moments
15:00 - 15:30 Dominique Orban (Ecole Polytechnique), Complexity of trust-region methods in the presence of unbounded Hessian approximations
15:30 - 16:00 Zhaosong Lu (University of Minnesota), Variance-reduced first-order methods for stochastic optimization with deterministic constraints
16:00 - 16:30 Ying Cui (UC Berkeley), Variational Theory and Algorithms for a Class of Asymptotically Approachable Nonconvex Problems
16:30 - 17:00 Jiajin Li (UBC), Unveiling Spurious Stationarity and Hardness Results for Bregman Proximal-Type Algorithms
17:00 - 17:30 Alp Yurtsever (Umea University), Block Coordinate DC Programming
 
Monday December 2
9:30 - 10:00 Henry Wolkowicz (Waterloo), The $omega$-condition number for optimal preconditioning of linear systems
10:00 - 10:30 Jelena Diakonikolas (University of Wisconsin), Faster solutions to variational inequalities with highly nonuniform component or block Lipschitz constants
15:00 - 15:30 Ahmet Alacaoglu (UBC), Towards Weaker Variance Assumptions for Stochastic Optimization: A Blast From the Past
15:30 - 16:00 Tianyi Lin (Columbia), Lower bound construction in nonsmooth optimization
16:00 - 16:30 Cho Ho (Peter) Lam (Huawei Technologies), Faster Infeasibility Analysis for Linear Programs
16:30 - 17:00 Nicholas Richardson (UBC), Density Separation with Tensor Factorization
17:00 - 17:30 Tim Hoheisel (McGill), Stability in nonsmooth optimization via graphical differentiation
 
Schedule to be determined
Dima Drusvyatskiy (University of Washington)
Naomi Graham (UBC)
 
Descriptive Set Theory, Continuous Logic, and Applications
Org: Christopher Eagle (UVic), Marcin Sabok (McGill) and Assaf Shani (Concordia)
Descriptive set theory and continuous model theory are two central topics in mathematical logic. Both have deep connections and applications to analysis, topology, and other fields of mathematics. This session will showcase recent work on the theory and applications of both fields.
 
Schedule to be determined
Rachael Alvir (Waterloo), Scott Complexity and Torsion Abelian Groups, R 2005
Jan Arulseelan (McMaster), Computability in Continuous Logic with Applications to Operator Algebras, R 2005
James Hanson (Iowa State University), R 2005
Christopher Karpinski (McGill), Hyperfiniteness of boundary actions of small cancellation groups, R 2005
Josh Lau (Toronto), Algebro-topological invariants of co-existentially closed continua, R 2005
Samuel Murray (McGill), R 2005
Tori Noquez (Saint Mary's College of California), Fractals as Final Coalgebras in Various Categories of Metric Spaces, R 2005
Bo Peng (McGill), Generalized Oxtoby systems and hyperfiniteness, R 2005
Antoine Poulin (McGill University), Borel quasi-trees are treeable, R 2005
Forte Shinko (Berkeley), Hyperfiniteness of graphs of slow intermediate growth, R 2005
Luis Suarez (Maryland), R 2005
Danielle Ulrich (Maryland), R 2005
Spencer Unger (Toronto), Equidecomposition and discrepancy, R 2005
Allison Wang (Carnegie Mellon), Complexity of codes for Ramsey positive sets, R 2005
Michael Wolman (Caltech), Invariant uniformization, R 2005
Clement Yung (Toronto), An alternative proof of the Mathias-Silver theorem using the Kastanas game, R 2005
Andy Zucker (Waterloo), Topological groups with tractable minimal dynamics, R 2005
 
Discrete Probability
Org: Sarai Hernandez-Torres (Instituto de Matemáticas, UNAM) and Gourab Ray (University of Victoria)
The session will gather early-career researchers across different topics in discrete probability. The topics considered for this session include random trees and maps, percolation and related statistical mechanics models, extremal combinatorics, and disordered systems.
 
Sunday December 1
9:30 - 10:00 Minghao Pan (Caltech), Dimension jump at the uniqueness threshold for percolation in $\infty + d$ dimensions
10:00 - 10:30 Hannah Cairns (McGill), Cooperative motion in higher dimensions
15:00 - 15:30 Kesav Krishnan (U. Victoria), Local Convergence of Integer Valued Lipschitz Functions on Trees
15:30 - 16:00 Lily Reeves (Caltech), Phase Transitions of Ballistic Annihilation
16:00 - 16:30 Daniel de la Riva Massaad (UBC), Voter Model stability with respect to conservative noises
16:30 - 17:00 Yucheng Liu (UBC), The torus plateau for the high-dimensional Ising model
17:00 - 17:30 Johannes Bäumler (UCLA), The truncation problem for long-range percolation
 
Emerging Frontiers in Number Theory: Insights from Early-Career Researchers
Org: Seda Albayrak and Renate Scheidler (UCalgary)
This session provides a platform for early-career researchers, including PhD students nearing graduation, recent PhD graduates, and postdoctoral fellows, to present their cutting-edge work in number theory. With contributions spanning algebraic and analytic number theory, as well as arithmetic geometry, we aim to foster collaboration, exchange innovative ideas, and offer a space for networking. This is an excellent opportunity for young researchers to gain visibility and engage with the broader number theory community.
 
Sunday December 1
8:00 - 8:30 Jaxon Shumaker (University of Oregon), Classifying monogenic quartic orders
8:30 - 9:00 Rebecca DeLand (University of Colorado Boulder), Limiting Density of Elliptic Divisibility Sequences
9:00 - 9:30 Fatemezahra Janbazi (University of Toronto), Boundedness of average rank of elliptic curves ordered by the coefficients
9:30 - 10:00 Nathan Heisz (McMaster University), Densities of Bounded Primes in Hypergeometric Series
10:00 - 10:30 Dan Barake (McMaster University), Characters in p-adic Vertex Operator Algebras
15:00 - 15:30 Samprit Ghosh (University of Calgary), Certain Polytopes associated to Algebraic integer conjugates
15:30 - 16:00 Nic Banks (University of Waterloo), Galois Theory and Computation of Intersective Polynomials
16:00 - 16:30 Jose Cruz and Fatemeh Jalalvand (University of Calgary), Geometric Properties of Log Unit Lattices
16:30 - 17:00 Abbas Maarefparvar (University of Lethbridge), An Application of Terada's Principal Ideal Theorem
17:00 - 17:30 Brett Nasserden (McMaster University)
17:30 - 18:00 Kristaps Balodis (University of Calgary), L-functions, representation theory, and geometry.
 
Monday December 2
8:00 - 8:30 James Cumberbatch (Purdue University)
8:30 - 9:00 Kin Ming Tsang (University of British Columbia), Comparing Hecke eigenvalues of automorphic representations for GL(2)
9:00 - 9:30 Emily Quesada-Herrera (University of Lethbridge), Fourier optimization and quadratic forms
9:30 - 10:00 Paul Péringuey (University of British Columbia), Sign correlation between error terms of counting functions of primes in arithmetic progressions modulo 11
10:00 - 10:30 Zhenchao Ge (University of Waterloo), A discrete mean value for Dirichlet L-function over local extrema
 
Finite Fields and Applications
Org: Ariane Masuda (New York City College of Technology (CUNY)) and Daniel Panario (Carleton University)
This session will delve into the rich and diverse world of finite fields, which play a pivotal role in various branches of mathematics and computer science, such as coding theory, cryptography, and combinatorics. We aim to bring together a group of researchers to discuss and showcase the latest advancements and practical implementations of finite fields. By fostering an environment of knowledge exchange, this session seeks to disseminate and inspire new research directions.
 
Saturday November 30
8:00 - 8:30 Lucia Moura (University of Ottawa), New families of strength-3 covering arrays using LFSR sequences
8:30 - 9:00 Neranga Fernando (College of the Holy Cross), Idempotents and Tripotents in Quandle Rings
9:00 - 9:30 Chi Hoi (Kyle) Yip (Georgia Institute of Technology), Extensions of Carlitz-McConnel theorem on permutations over finite fields
9:30 - 10:00 Shuxing Li (University of Delaware), On the Nonexistence of Generalized Bent Functions
10:00 - 10:30 Jonathan Jedwab (Simon Fraser University), Quaternary Legendre pairs of even length
15:00 - 15:30 Daniel Katz (California State University), Almost perfect nonlinear power functions with exponents expressed as fractions
15:30 - 16:00 Petr Lisonek (Simon Fraser University), On a new class of Hadamard matrices
16:00 - 16:30 Kenza Guenda (University of Victoria and University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene), Code-based cryptography
16:30 - 17:00 Hugo Teixeira (Carleton University), The functional graph of $f(X)=(cX^q+aX)(X^{q}-X)^{n-1}$ over quadratic extensions of finite fields
17:00 - 17:30 Hassan Khodaiemehr (The University of British Columbia), Quantum Bosonic Codes and Finite Fields
17:30 - 18:00 David Thomson (Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing)
 
Sunday December 1
8:00 - 8:30 Ariane Masuda (New York City College of Technology/The City University of New York), Involutions over finite fields
8:30 - 9:00 Welington Santos (University of Wisconsin-Stout), Codes for Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication
9:00 - 9:30 Bianca Sosnovski (Queensborough Community College/The City University of New York), Applications of Finite Fields in Cayley Hash Functions
9:30 - 10:00 Jozsef Solymosi (The University of British Columbia), On the Thue-Vinogradov Lemma
10:00 - 10:30 Daniel Panario (Carleton University), Stable binomials over finite fields
 
From single to collective cell migration: A geometric multi-physics bulk-surface PDE approach
Org: Anotida Madzvamuse (University of British Columbia) and Stephanie Portet (University of Manitoba)
 
Saturday November 30
8:00 - 8:30 Fabian Spill (Birmingham)
8:30 - 9:00 Davide Cusseddu (Lisbon)
9:00 - 9:30 Steven Ruuth (SFU), A Closest Point Method for PDEs on Manifolds with Interior Boundary Conditions for Geometry Processing
9:30 - 10:00 Michael Ward (UBC)
15:00 - 15:30 Kudzanayi Mapfumo (UBC)
15:30 - 16:00 Thedore Kolokolnikov (Dalhousie)
16:00 - 16:30 Holmes William Robert (Indiana University)
16:30 - 17:00 Jupiter Algorta (UBC)
17:00 - 17:30 Fengwei Yang (UBC)
17:30 - 18:00 Chunyi Gai (UNBC), An Asymptotic Analysis of Spike Self-Replication and Spike Nucleation of Reaction-Diffusion Patterns on Growing 1-D Domains
 
Sunday December 1
8:00 - 8:30 Brian Camley (Johns Hopkins University)
8:30 - 9:00 Wakil Sarfaraz and Haad Bhutta (Corndel Ltd, UK and UBC)
9:00 - 9:30 Raquel Barreira (Polytechnic University of Setúbal and CMAFcIO)
9:30 - 10:00 Victor Juma (UBC)
15:00 - 15:30 Clement Soubrier (UBC)
15:30 - 16:00 Merlin Pelz (Minnesota), Symmetry-Breaking in Compartmental-Reaction Diffusion Systems with Comparable Diffusivities
16:00 - 16:30 Pearson W. Miller (USCD)
16:30 - 17:00 Jack Hughes (UBC), Travelling waves and wave pinning (polarity): Switching between random and directional cell motility
 
Geometric Analysis and PDE
Org: Joshua Flynn (NSF and MIT), Ryan Gibara (Cape Breton University) and Maria Ntekoume (Concordia University)
This session will bring together researchers working on various subfields of geometric analysis and partial differential equations, with an emphasis on geometric techniques and nonlinearity. Participants will have expertise in areas ranging from nonlinear PDE to nonlinear potential theory, from harmonic analysis to analysis on manifolds. The mix of specialties of the intended participants/audience will foster the fruitful exchange of ideas and possible cross-field collaborations.
 
Schedule to be determined
Ailana Fraser (University of British Columbia), Minimal surfaces in higher codimension, WSOD 2920
Stephen Gustafson (University of British Columbia), Two-solitons with logarithmic separation for 1D NLS with repulsive delta potential, WSOD 2920
Slim Ibrahim (University of Victoria), Persistence of vorticity concentration in the two-point vortex system of the 2D Euler equations, WSOD 2920
Kennedy Idu (University of Toronto), Optimality results on Alexandrov’s estimate, WSOD 2920
Ilmari Kangasniemi (University of Cincinnati), On the theory of quasiregular values, WSOD 2920
Chenkuan Li (Brandon University), The analytical solution to the multi-term time-fractional diffusion-wave equation, WSOD 2920
Caleb Marshall (University of British Columbia), The Size of Spanning Sets of Lines for Fractal Subsets of $\mathbb{R}^n$, WSOD 2920
Yuveshen Mooroogen (University of British Columbia), A large-scale variant of the Erdos similarity conjecture, WSOD 2920
Sergii Myroshnychenko (University of Fraser Valley), Centroid of a convex body can be rarely the centroid of its sections, WSOD 2920
Jose Palacios (University of Toronto), Linearized dynamic stability for vortices of Ginzburg-Landau evolutions, WSOD 2920
Cristian Rios (University of Calgary), Continuity of solutions to infinite degenerate elliptic equations in the plane, WSOD 2920
Scott Rodney (Cape Breton University), Existence, Boundedness, and Regularity - an overview of some recent results in Partial Differential Equations, WSOD 2920
Siddharth Sabharwal (Texas A&M University), Existence and Asymptotics of Nonlinear Helmholtz Eigenfunctions, WSOD 2920
Ignacio Uriarte-Tuero (University of Toronto), Muckenhoupt Ap weights, BMO, distance functions and related problems, WSOD 2920
Beatrice-Helen Vritsiou (University of Alberta), On a Blaschke-Santaló-type inequality for projections of (non-symmetric) convex bodies, and some applications, WSOD 2920
Joshua Zahl (University of British Columbia), A survey of the Kakeya problem, WSOD 2920
 
Geometric quantization for young people
Org: Tatyana Barron (University Western Ontario), Lisa Jeffrey (University of Toronto) and Yael Karshon (University of Toronto Mississauga and Tel-Aviv University)
Geometric quantization provides recipes to get from a classical mechanical system to a corresponding quantum mechanical system. Introduced in the 1960s, the field continues to thrive. The purpose of this session is to foster exchanges of ideas between graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who work on different aspects of geometric quantization.
 
Sunday December 1  (R 1690)
8:30 - 9:30 Yu-Tung (Tony) Yau (University of Michigan), Berezin-Toeplitz quantization in real polarizations
9:30 - 10:30 Ethan Ross (University of Toronto), Quantization of Symplectic Stratified Spaces
15:00 - 16:00 Reebhu Bhattacharyya (University of Michigan), Isotropic States on Kähler Manifolds
16:00 - 16:30 Matthew Koban (University of Toronto), Bundle representations of double quivers
16:30 - 17:30 Hyunmoon Kim (University of Toronto), Stratification of families of representations of the Heisenberg Lie algebra
17:30 - 18:00 Discussion
 
Monday December 2  (R 1690)
8:30 - 9:30 Dan Wang (IST, University of Lisbon), Geometric Quantization on Toric Varieties
9:30 - 10:00 Alex Kazachek (University of Waterloo), Quantum Channel Capacities and Additivity Conjectures
10:00 - 10:30 Kaleb D. Ruscitti (University of Waterloo), Degeneration of Holomorphic Sections to Bohr-Sommerfeld points for Moduli of SL(2,C) Bundles
15:00 - 16:00 Michael Francis (MacEwan University), Towards $b^k$-analogues of Berezin-Toeplitz quantization
16:00 - 17:00 Ood Shabtai (University of Toronto), Pairs of spectral projections of quantum observables on Riemann surfaces
17:00 - 18:00 Zhongkai Tao (U.C. Berkeley), Spectral asymptotics for kinetic Brownian motion
 
Graph Coloring, Minors, and Hypergraphs (previously Graph Theory)
Org: Alexander Clow, Bojan Mohar and Ladislav Stacho (Simon Fraser University)
This session focuses on recent progress in graph coloring as well as the related areas of graph minor theory and hypergraph theory. By bringing together researchers active in one or more of these areas the session aims to stimulate discussion on recent advancements.
 
Saturday November 30
8:00 - 8:30 Penny Haxell (Waterloo), A bounded diameter strengthening of K\H onig's Theorem
8:30 - 9:00 Andrew Lane (UVic), Proper Rainbow Saturation for Trees
9:00 - 9:30 Emily Heath (Cal Poly Pomona), Proper Rainbow Saturation for Cliques
9:30 - 10:00 Ben Moore (ISTA), On powers of sparse graphs
10:00 - 10:30 Gena Hahn (UMontreal), Resurrection -- revisiting old problems
15:00 - 15:30 Alexander Clow (SFU), A Map Colour Theorem for Oriented Colouring
15:30 - 16:00 Joshua Nevin (UOttawa), Distant 2-Colored Components on Embeddings
16:00 - 16:30 Jeannette Janssen (Dalhousie), Orthogonal Colourings of Random Geometric Graphs
16:30 - 17:00 Jozsef Solymosi (UBC), A sparse removal lemma for pentagons
 
Graph Structure and Algorithms
Org: Richard Brewster (Thompson Rivers University), Benjamin Cameron (University of Prince Edward Island) and Kathie Cameron (Wilfrid Laurier University)
It is generally believed that for most fundamental problems on graphs and networks, efficient algorithms that apply to all possible inputs cannot exist. One approach to finding efficient algorithms is to study the structure of graphs which are restricted in various ways. This session will focus on graph structure and its application to designing efficient algorithms for important problems including graph colouring, homomorphisms, combinatorial reconfiguration, flows, packings and coverings, and finding Hamiltonian cycles.
 
Sunday December 1
15:00 - 15:30 Ben Moore (Institute of Science and Technology, Austria), Orientations of Highly Edge Connected Graphs
15:30 - 16:00 Kathryn Nurse (Simon Fraser University), Nowhere-zero flows and group connectivity - an intermediate step
16:00 - 16:30 Benjamin Cameron (University of PEI), Vertex-critical graphs in co-gem-free graphs
16:30 - 17:00 Ben Seamone (Dawson College), Ramsey numbers of signed graphs
17:00 - 17:30 Angèle Foley (Wilfrid Laurier University), When is a graph e-positive?
 
Monday December 2
9:00 - 9:30 César Hernández Cruz (UNAM, Mexico), Full homomorphisms to trees
9:30 - 10:00 Kiara McDonald (University of Victoria), Broadcast Independence in Different Classes of Graphs
10:00 - 10:30 Shannon Ogden (University of Victoria), The Rainbow Connection
15:00 - 15:30 Iain Beaton (Acadia University), Reconfiguration Graphs for Minimal Domination Sets
15:30 - 16:00 Nancy Clarke (Acadia University), On the Structure of Dominating Graphs of Trees and Cycles
16:00 - 16:30 Kathie Cameron (Wilfrid Laurier University), Frozen Colourings
16:30 - 17:00 Pavol Hell (Simon Fraser University), Signed Graphs and Homomorphisms
 
Harmonic Analysis and Geometric Measure Theory
Org: Sean Douglas, Caleb Marshall and Yuveshen Mooroogen (University of British Columbia)
This session aims to provide a venue for established experts, early-career researchers, and graduate students to discuss recents advances in harmonic analysis on Euclidean spaces and geometric measure theory. Possible topics include Fourier restriction and decoupling, maximal functions, projection theorems, distance problems, Kakeya sets, fractal geometry, weighted inequalities, and related problems in areas such as probability, number theory and fractals.
 
Saturday November 30
8:00 - 8:30 Tainara Borges (Brown University), Bounds for bilinear averages and associated maximal functions
8:30 - 9:00 K.S. Senthil Raani (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research), Sets containing all sufficiently large distances
9:00 - 9:30 Break
9:30 - 10:00 Igancio Uriarte-Turo (University of Toronto), Two weight norm inequalities for singular and fractional integral operators in $\mathbb{R}^n$
10:00 - 10:30 Pablo Shmerkin (University of British Columbia), Restricted projections and self-similar sets
15:00 - 15:30 Shahaboddin Shaabani (Concordia University), The Operator Norm of Paraproducts on Bi-parameter Hardy Spaces
15:30 - 16:00 Junqiang Zhang (China University of Mining and Technology), On Odd Normal Numbers
16:00 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 17:00 Akos Magyar (University of Georgia)
17:00 - 17:30 Josh Zahl (University of British Columbia), curve tangencies and maximal functions
17:30 - 18:00 Meet for Group Dinner
 
Sunday December 1
8:00 - 8:30 Jacob Denson (University of Wisconsin--Madison), A Characterization of Boundedness For Multipliers of Spherical Harmonic Expansions
8:30 - 9:00 Sean Douglas (University of British Columbia), Chain Rule For Weighted Triebel-Lizorkin Spaces
9:00 - 9:30 Break
9:30 - 10:00 Rodolfo Torres (University of Calafornia Riverside), EXTRAPOLATION OF COMPACTNESS FOR CERTAIN PSEUDODIFFERENTIAL OPERATORS
10:00 - 10:30 Izabella Łaba (University of British Columbia), A short survey of integer tilings
15:00 - 15:30 Alexia Yavicoli (University of British Columbia), The Erdős similarity problem for non-small Cantor sets
15:30 - 16:00 Emily Casey (University of Washington), Anisotropic singular integrals and rectifiability
16:00 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 17:00 Junjie Zhu (University of British Columbia), Hausdorff dimension and quadratic Roth
17:00 - 17:30 Bodan Arsovski (IAS)
 
Monday December 2
8:00 - 8:30 Angel Cruz (University of British Columbia), Fourier Dimension and Trasnlation-Invariant Linear Equations
8:30 - 9:00 Ryan Bushling (University of Washington), An Integral Identity with Applications to Convex Sets
9:00 - 9:30 Break
9:30 - 10:00 Krystal Taylor (Ohio State University), Projections and Favard length in a nonlinear setting
15:00 - 15:30 Paige Bright (University of British Columbia), A Continuum Erd\H{o}s--Beck Theorem
 
Incidence Problems in Analysis
Org: Ryan Bushling (University of Washington), William O'Regan (University of British Columbia) and Bobby Wilson (University of Washington)
We explore recent developments at the interface between real analysis and incidence geometry. Topics include Kakeya-type problems, projection problems, distance sets, sum-product phenomena, efficient coverings, finding and avoiding patterns in sets, and applications to other areas of analysis.
 
Sunday December 1
8:00 - 8:30 Alex McDonald (Kennesaw State University), Prescribed projections and efficient coverings of sets by curves
8:30 - 9:00 Alex Cohen (MIT), Branching structure in phase space
9:00 - 9:30 Yuveshen Mooroogen (UBC), A large-scale variant of the Erdos similarity conjecture
9:30 - 10:00 Raani K. S. Senthil (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research)), Distribution of distances in quasi-regular sets
10:00 - 10:30 Terence Harris (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Exceptional sets for length under restricted families of projections onto lines in $\mathbb{R}^3$
15:00 - 15:30 Izabella Łaba (UBC), Incidence questions in p-adic geometry
15:30 - 16:00 Paige Bright (UBC), Dual Furstenberg Sets
16:00 - 16:30 Caleb Marshall (UBC), Pinned Dot Product Set Estimates
16:30 - 17:00 Donald M. Stull (University of Chicago), Exceptional sets for orthogonal directions
17:00 - 17:30 Jacob B. Fiedler (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Universal sets for pinned distances
17:30 - 18:00 Robert Fraser (Wichita State University)
 
Interplay between Discrete Geometry, Convexity, and Combinatorics
Org: Károly Bezdek (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary, Canada), Márton Naszódi (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary) and Déborah Oliveros (Instituto de Matemáticas Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Discrete geometry studies configurations of geometric objects (such as packings and coverings, combinatorial and metric theory of polytopes, rigidity theory, and the geometry of numbers), which may often be studied by the theory of convex bodies. All this is further enhanced by methods from combinatorics. This scientific session is intended to be a meeting place for senior and junior experts of discrete geometry, convexity, and combinatorics in order to interact and share their ideas about current problems, recent advances and emerging directions.
 
Saturday November 30  (R 2620)
15:00 - 15:30 Egon Schulte (Northeastern University), Skeletal polyhedra, complexes, and their classification by symmetry
15:30 - 16:00 Leah Wrenn Berman (University of Alaska Fairbanks), Infinite classes of movable $(n_{4})$ configurations using Poncelet polygons
16:00 - 16:30 Gordon Williams (University of Alaska Fairbanks), On Prisms of Polytopes
17:00 - 17:30 Silvia Fernandez (California State University), Bounding Sylvester’s four-point constant and the rectilinear crossing number of the complete graph
17:30 - 18:00 Tamon Stephen (Simon Fraser University), Hypergraph Transversal Pairs Near the Fredman-Khachiyan Bound
 
Sunday December 1  (R 2620)
8:00 - 8:30 Ferenc Fodor (University of Szeged), Stability of mean width inequalities
8:30 - 9:00 Peter van Hintum (Institute of Advanced Studies), Discrete Brunn-Minkowski theory
9:00 - 9:30 Zsolt Lángi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics), Steiner symmetrization on the sphere
9:30 - 10:00 Alexey Glazyrin (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), Illuminating constant width bodies
10:00 - 10:30 Gyivan Lopez Campos (Instituto de Matemáticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), 0/1-Borsuk problem on matroids
15:00 - 15:30 Alexey Garber (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), On spheres with $k$ points inside
15:30 - 16:00 Anouk Brose (University of California), Computing Lattice Diameters of Lattice Polygons
16:00 - 16:30 Antonio Torres Hernandez (University of California), Counting Vertices on Hyperplane Slices of Polytopes
17:00 - 17:30 Illya Ivanov (University of Calgary), Counting $C$-polyhedra facets
17:30 - 18:00 Federico Firoozi (University of Calgary), Counting lattice paths with respect to a linear boundary of rational slope
 
Mathematics in Business Modeling, Optimization, Risk, and Decision Making
Org: Anas Abdallah (McMaster), Mahboobeh (Mary) Hosseinyazdi (KPU) and Mehdi Salimi (KPU)
Mathematics is a powerful tool in business and actuarial science, providing essential techniques for modeling complex systems, optimizing resources, managing risk, and making strategic decisions. From financial analysis and supply chain management to marketing strategies and risk assessment, mathematical models describe real-world scenarios and help decision-makers forecast outcomes and find optimal solutions. Areas like operations research, game theory, financial mathematics, and actuarial science leverage optimization, statistical analysis, and stochastic models to address business challenges, drive innovation, and enhance decision-making. Join us to explore the latest mathematical techniques and tools that shape business success
 
Saturday November 30  (R 2510)
15:00 - 15:30 Christoph Frei (University of Alberta), Bayesian Clustering for Portfolio Credit Risk
15:30 - 16:00 Matheus Grasselli (McMaster University), From debt crisis to financial crashes (and back)
16:00 - 16:30 Alexander Melnikov (University of Alberta), On dual problem of imperfect hedging with life insurance applications
16:30 - 17:00 Cody Hyndman (Concordia University), Generative Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Markets via Geometric Deep Learning
17:00 - 17:30 David Saunders (University of Waterloo), Generalized Optimal Transport Problems in Finance
 
Sunday December 1  (R 2510)
8:30 - 9:00 Jean-François Bégin (Simon Fraser University), Benefit volatility-targeting strategies in lifetime pension pools
9:00 - 9:30 Mahboobeh (Mary) Hosseinyazdi (Kwantlen Polytechnic University), The solution set of a system of max-min-product fuzzy relational inequalities
9:30 - 10:00 Masomeh Jamshid-Nejad (Kwantlen Polytechnic University), The Impact of Excel-Based Instruction on Business Students' Understanding of the Normal Distribution in Statistics
10:00 - 10:30 Mehdi Salimi (Kwantlen Polytechnic University), Decision-Making Strategies for Pursuers with Speed and Energy Constraints in a Pursuit-Evasion Differential Game
 
Mathematics of Machine Learning
Org: Ben Adcock (Simon Fraser University), Elina Robeva (UBC) and Giang Tran (University of Waterloo)
Despite the profound impact of machine learning on many different sectors including scientific research, industry, and policymaking, its mathematical foundations are still far from being well understood. By bringing together researchers with diverse backgrounds, this session explores emerging ideas aimed at reducing the gap between theory and practice in this fast-growing and exciting field.
 
Saturday November 30  (R 2300)
8:30 - 9:00 Rahul Parhi (University of California San Diego), Deep Learning Meets Sparse Regularization
9:00 - 9:30 Ozgur Yilmaz (University of British Columbia), Generative compressed sensing with Fourier measurements
9:30 - 10:00 Ricardo Baptista (California Institute of Technology), Dynamics and Memorization Behaviour of Score-Based Diffusion Models
10:00 - 10:30 Samuel Lanthaler (California Institute of Technology), Generative AI for the statistical computation of fluids
15:00 - 15:30 Wuyang Chen (Simon Fraser University), Towards Data-Efficient and OOD Generalization of Scientific Machine Learning Models
15:30 - 16:00 Hans De Sterck (University of Waterloo), Fast Multipole Attention for Transformer Neural Networks
16:00 - 16:30 Wenlong Mou (University of Toronto), Continuous-time reinforcement learning: blessings of elliptic structures and high-order approximations
16:30 - 17:00 Sharan Vaswani (Simon Fraser University), Global Convergence of Softmax Policy Gradient for Stochastic Bandits
17:00 - 17:30 Nick Harvey (University of British Columbia), When Online Learning Meets Stochastic Calculus
17:30 - 18:00 Andrew Warren (University of British Columbia), Estimation of one-dimensional structures from noisy empirical observation
 
Sunday December 1  (R 2300)
8:30 - 9:00 Christos Thrampoulidis (University of British Columbia), Implicit Geometry of Next-token Prediction: From Language Sparsity Patterns to Model Representations
9:00 - 9:30 Mathias Lecuyer (University of British Columbia), Adaptive Randomized Smoothing: Certified Adversarial Robustness for Multi-Step Defences
9:30 - 10:00 Miranda Holmes-Cerfon (University of British Columbia), Programmable assembly: inverse design of materials from discrete components
10:00 - 10:30 Benjamin Bloem-Reddy (University of British Columbia), Causal Inference with Cocycles
15:00 - 15:30 Danica Sutherland (University of British Columbia), Expander Graphs and Low-Distortion Embeddings for Learning on Graphs
15:30 - 16:00 Ke Li (Simon Fraser University), Rethinking Regression: Insights from Machine Learning
16:00 - 16:30 Yiming Xu (University of Kentucky), Statistical Ranking with Dynamic Covariates
 
Modeling, Analysis, and Computation of Variational Problems
Org: Xinyang Lu (Lakehead University) and Chong Wang (Washington and Lee University)
Variational problems are widespread in both the physical and biological sciences. This scientific session aims to bring together researchers to discuss recent advances in the analysis, and computation of variational problems, with applications in physics, biology, and materials science.
 
Sunday December 1
8:00 - 8:30 Bo Li (University of California San Diego), The Legendre-Transformed Poisson-Boltzmann Electrostatics
8:30 - 9:00 Theodore Kolokolnikov (Dalhousie University)
9:00 - 9:30 Sookyung Joo (Old Dominion University), stability of nematic state in periodically modulated nematic phases
9:30 - 10:00 Guanying Peng (Worceser Polytechnic Institute), A regularizing property of the 2D Eikonal equation
10:00 - 10:30 Rossitza Marinova (Concordia University of Edmonton), Variational Approach for Computing Solitary-Wave Solutions
15:00 - 15:30 Hansol Park (Dalhousie University), Emergent behavior of mathematical models on manifolds
15:30 - 16:00 Zhichun Zhai (MacEwan University), A nonlinear equation induced by fractional $p-$convexity
16:00 - 16:30 Chong Wang (Washington and Lee Univeristy), Core Shells, Double Bubbles, and Lens Clusters in Ternary Nonlocal Isoperimetric Problems
16:30 - 17:00 Xin Yang Lu (Lakehead University), Geometry of minima in co-polymer models
 
Operator Theory, Function Theory, and Geometry: Connections to Corona Problems and Geometric Analysis
Org: Alexander Brudnyi and Mahishanka Withanachchi (University of Calgary)
This session will explore the latest research in operator theory, function theory, and geometric analysis, with a special focus on the Corona problem and its variants. We invite submissions that highlight theoretical advancements and practical applications in scientific fields such as physics, engineering, computer science, and biology. Join us to share insights and foster interdisciplinary collaborations.
 
Saturday November 30  (R 2525)
15:00 - 15:30 Akram Aldroubi (Vanderbilt), Dynamical sampling: source term recovery and frames
15:30 - 16:00 Ilia Binder (University of Toronto), Conformal Dimension of Planar fractals.
16:00 - 16:30 Krystal Taylor (Ohio State)
16:30 - 17:00 Alex Brudnyi (University of Calgary), Runge-Type Approximation Theorem for Banach-valued $ H^\infty$ Functions on a Polydisk
17:00 - 17:30 Ludovick Bouthat (Université Laval), Exploring Hadamard multipliers on weighted Dirichlet spaces through $L$-matrices
17:30 - 18:00 Maria Cristina (New Mexico)
 
Sunday December 1  (R 2525)
9:00 - 9:30 Damir Kinzebulatov (Université Laval)
9:30 - 10:00 Raphael Clouatre (Manitoba), Joint spectra and annihilators in multivariate operator theory
10:00 - 10:30 Eric Sawyer (McMaster), Probabilistic and Deterministic Fourier Extension
15:00 - 15:30 William Verreault (Toronto), The Cesàro Operator on local Dirichlet spaces
15:30 - 16:00 Pierre Olivier (UQTR)
16:00 - 16:30 Nina Zorboska (Manitoba), Hankel measures and Hankel type operators on weighted Dirichlet spaces
16:30 - 17:00 Zhichun Zhai (MacEwan University), Stengthened Fractional Sobolev Inequalities and Geometric Inequalities
17:00 - 17:30 Mahishanka Withanachchi (University of Calgary), Vanishing Cohomology and the Corona Problem for the Algebra of Bounded Holomorphic Functions on the Polydisk
 
Optimization, control, dynamics and stochastics: interplay and applications
Org: Eric Foxall (University of British Columbia), Jinniao Qiu (University of Calgary) and Zhongwei Shen (UA)
Optimization, control, dynamics, and stochastics are fundamental concepts in applied mathematics and various scientific disciplines. Significant progress has been made in these fields, as well as in their interactions. The purpose of this session is to bring together researchers from related areas to share recent advancements, exchange ideas on future directions, and foster collaboration.
 
Sunday December 1
8:00 - 8:30 Amy Hurford (Memorial University), Optimal control strategies for community and traveler isolation under resource constraints
8:30 - 9:00 Xiong Wang (Johns Hopkins University)
9:00 - 9:30 Pouria Ramazi (Brock University), Towards Optimizing Vaccine Uptake Through Tailored Communication Strategies
9:30 - 10:00 Siddharth Sabharwal (Texas A&M University), Population Size in Stochastic Ecological Dynamics
10:00 - 10:30 Eric Foxall (University of British Columbia Okanagan), Optimal control of ribosome population for gene expression under periodic nutrient intake
15:00 - 15:30 Kexue Zhang (Queen's University), Impulsive Synchronization of Complex Networks: an Event-Triggered Pinning Algorithm
15:30 - 16:00 Jiniao Qiu (University of Calgary), A particle consensus approach to solving nonconvex-nonconcave min-max problems
16:00 - 16:30 Tyler Meadows (Queen's University), Optimizing biomass production in bioreactors
16:30 - 17:00 Nhu Nguyen (University of Rhode Island), Stochastic Approximation and Applications
17:00 - 17:30 Zhongwei Shen (University of Alberta), WKB Approximation of Quasi-stationary Distributions with Applications
17:30 - 18:00 Yang Yang (University of Calgary), Infinite dimensional optimal control differential systems with randomness and path-dependence
 
Recent Advances in Differential Equations and Applications
Org: Elena Braverman (University of Calgary) and Kunquan Lan (Toronto Metropolitan University)
The talks of the session will reflect recent progress in the area of ordinary, fractional, delay differential and partial differential equations, and their applications to Mathematical Biology and Medicine.
 
Saturday November 30
8:00 - 8:30 Kunquan Lan (Toronto Metropolitan University), Have the classical Riemann-Liouville fractional integrals been fully understood before?
8:30 - 9:00 Yuming Chen (Wilfrid Laurier University), An algebraic approach to determining negative (semi-)definiteness in applying the Lyapunov direct method
9:00 - 9:30 Hermann Eberl (University of Guelph), A spatio-temporal model of blossom blight
9:30 - 10:00 Qi Deng (York University), Modeling the Interaction of Cytotoxic T-lymphocytes and Oncolytic Viruses in a Tumor Microenvironment
15:00 - 15:30 Chongming Li (Queen's University), Evolutionary Stability of Bacterial Persister Cells
15:30 - 16:00 Olga Vasilyeva (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Grenfell Campus), Steady states and evolution of dispersal in river networks
16:00 - 16:30 Gail Wolkowicz (McMaster University), Decay Consistent Models of Growth, Competition, and Predation
16:30 - 17:00 Kexue Zhang (Queen's University), Input-to-State Stability in Terms of Two Measures
17:00 - 17:30 Elena Braverman (University of Calgary), On logistic models incorporating various diffusion strategies with and without harvesting
 
Sunday December 1
8:30 - 9:00 Yuanxi Yue (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Traveling wavefronts for the Belousov-Zhabotinsky system with non-local delayed interaction
9:00 - 9:30 Zhisheng Shuai (University of Central Florida, USA), Impact of Incidence Functions on Epidemiological Model Dynamics: Mass Action vs. Standard Incidence
9:30 - 10:00 Sue Ann Campbell (University of Waterloo), Time Delays, Symmetry and Hopf Bifurcation in Oscillator Networks
 
Recent Progress of Stochastic Analysis and Related Fields
Org: Yu-Ting Chen (University of Victoria) and Thomas Hughes (University of Bath)
This special session will present recent results on stochastic analysis and the related fields of random walks and discrete spatial stochastic models. Topics of stochastic analysis welcome include, but are not limited to, heat kernels, SDEs with singular drift, Gaussian measure theory, SPDEs, and superprocesses.
 
Saturday November 30
8:00 - 8:30 Damir Kinzebulatov (Université Laval)
8:30 - 9:00 Te-Chun Wang (University of Victoria), Asymptotics and the sub-limit at $L^{2}$-criticality of higher moments for the SHE in dimension $d\geq 3$
9:00 - 9:30 Kodjo Raphael Madou (McGill University)
9:30 - 10:00 Jinniao Qiu (University of Calgary), Viscosity solutions of a class of second-order Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equations in the Wasserstein Space
15:00 - 15:30 Zoe Huang (UNC Chapel Hill)
15:30 - 16:00 Lucas Teyssier (Univeristy of British Columbia)
16:00 - 16:30 Arturo Arellano Arias (McGill University)
16:30 - 17:00 Saraí Hernández-Torres (National Autonomous University of Mexico), Minkowski content of the scaling limit of 3D loop-erased random walk
17:00 - 17:30 Mathav Murugan (University of British Columbia)
17:30 - 18:00 Shuwen Lou (Loyola University of Chicago)
 
Sunday December 1
8:00 - 8:30 Yaozhong Hu (University of Alberta)
8:30 - 9:00 Zachary Selk (Queen’s University), Rough Paths above Weierstrass Functions
9:00 - 9:30 Brock Klippenstein (University of Manitoba), Fast Analytical-Numerical Hybrid Methods for Solving the Cosmic Ray Fokker-Planck Equation
9:30 - 10:00 Thomas Hughes (University of Bath)
10:00 - 10:30 Xiaowen Zhou (Concordia University), Speeds of coming down from infinity for $\Lambda$-Fleming-Viot supports
 
Structure-Preserving Discretizations and their Applications
Org: Jingwei Hu (University of Washington), Steven Ruuth (Simon Fraser University) and Andy Wan (UC Merced)
Structure-preserving discretizations are numerical approximations that respect important properties of mathematical models at the discrete level. This special session aims to bring together leading experts working on structure-preserving methods and their applications to share their knowledge and foster potential future collaborations.
 
Sunday December 1
8:30 - 9:00 Chunyi Gai (University of Northern British Columbia), Pattern Formation and Spike Dynamics in the Presence of Noise
9:00 - 9:30 Yuzhe Qin (UBC), A second-order accurate numerical scheme for the Poisson-Nernst-Planck-Navier-Stokes (PNPNS) system
9:30 - 10:00 Mayya Tokman (UC Merced), Exponential integration and applications
10:00 - 10:30 Andy Wan (UC Merced), Minimal $\ell^2$ Norm Discrete Multiplier Method
15:00 - 15:30 Vrushali Bokil (Oregon State), Structure Preserving Discretizations for Magnetohydrodynamics
15:30 - 16:00 John Bowman (University of Alberta), Conservative, Symplectic, and Exponential Integrators
16:00 - 16:30 Nilima Nigam (Simon Fraser), Structure-preservation and the Steklov eigenfunctions
16:30 - 17:00 Seth Taylor (McGill), A functional discretization of the coadjoint action on the diffeomorphism group
17:00 - 17:30 Daniel Venn (Simon Fraser), Meshfree Integration Techniques for Scattered Data on Curves and Surfaces
17:30 - 18:00 Siqi Wei (Saskatchewan), Operator-splitting methods for qualitative property preservation of production-destruction systems
 
Student Research Session
 
Sunday December 1
9:00 - 9:30 Matt Spragge (Simon Fraser University)
9:30 - 10:00 Aaron Tronsgard (University of Toronto)
10:00 - 10:30 Khalil Besrour (Ottawa)
15:00 - 15:30 Michael Astwood (Manitoba)
15:30 - 16:00 Scott Wesley (Dalhousie)
16:00 - 16:30 Linh Dinh (Dalhousie)
16:30 - 17:00 Owen Sharpe (Waterloo)
17:00 - 17:30 Tanjima Akhter & Adriana-Stefania Ciupeanu (University of Alberta, University of Manitoba)
 
The Theory of Pursuit-Evasion Games
Org: Rylo Ashmore (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Danny Dyer (Memorial University of Newfoundland) and Erin Meger (Queen's University)
The game of Cops and Robbers on graphs has been the flagship graph searching game for nearly four decades. Recently, there have been more developments in the field of graph searching, especially when it comes to deterministic and probabilistic games. In this session, we will highlight some of the most recent results in this highly diverse area. The theory of graph searching games often contains new and novel bounds on different games and their game variants based on the structure of the underlying graphs. In this session, we will highlight new variants of known games, as well as important improvements on long-standing theoretical results.
 
Schedule to be determined
Rylo Ashmore (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Herding logical cats with Rabin’s Theorem, R 2225
Alex Clow (Simon Fraser University), Eternal Distance-k Domination in Trees, R 2225
Stephen Finbow (St. Francis Xavier University), R 2225
Melissa Huggan (Vancouver Island University), Cops and Attacking Robbers: A Shift in Power, R 2225
Meagan Mann (Queen’s University), A Data-Centric Approach to Cops and Robbers, R 2225
Joy Morris (University of Lethbridge), Cop numbers of generalised Petersen graphs, R 2225
Todd Mullen (University of Prince Edward Island), An Empowered Robber, R 2225
Amanda Porter (University of Victoria), Hyperopic Cops and Robbers: Cops with Vision Problems, R 2225
Asiyeh Sanaei (Kwantlen Polytechnic University), Damage Number of Small Graphs, R 2225
Boting Yang (University of Regina), Constrained Graph Searching on Trees, R 2225
 
Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications
Org: Heinz Bauschke (UBC Okanangan) and Xianfu Wang (UBC Okanagan)
Variational Analysis lies at the heart of modern optimization and underlies the convergence analysis of several algorithms. The purpose of this session is to bring together selected experts from the Northamerican optimization and analysis communities to exchange ideas and present new results.

We will strike a balance between early-career researchers and experts.

 
Saturday November 30
8:30 - 9:00 Walaa Moursi (Waterloo)
9:00 - 9:30 Shambhavi Singh (Waterloo), Analysis of Chambolle-Pock through the lens of duality
9:30 - 10:00 Yuan Gao (UBCO), On a result by Baillon, Bruck, and Reich
10:00 - 10:30 Ziyuan Wang (UBCO), Level proximal subdifferential, variational convexity, and beyond.
15:00 - 15:30 Henry Wolkowicz (Waterloo), Regularized Nonsmooth Newton Algorithms for Best Approximation with Applications
15:30 - 16:00 Ahmet Alacaoglu (UBCV), Revisiting Inexact Fixed-Point Iterations for Min-Max Problems: Stochasticity and Structured Nonconvexity
16:00 - 16:30 Xianfu Wang (UBCO), On Bauschke-Bendit-Moursi modulus of averagedness and classifications of averaged nonexpansive operators
16:30 - 17:00 Philip Loewen (UBCV), Sensitivity Analysis for the Linear Quadratic Regulator

Education Sessions
Determination and Resilience in Mathematics
Org: Carmen Bruni (University of Waterloo), Hannah Keese (University of British Columbia) and Vanessa Radzimski (University of the Fraser Valley)
Determination and resilience are pillars for lifelong learning. In this session, we will explore the ways in which university mathematics instructors can support students to develop resilience through mathematical practice.
 
Saturday November 30
8:30 - 9:00 Brian Forrest (Waterloo), It's ok to be wrong!!! Really!
9:00 - 9:30 Cindy Blois (UofT)
9:30 - 10:00 Diana Skrzydlo (Waterloo), Resilience Through Reflection
10:00 - 10:30 Lindsay Daniels (UBC), Building resilience through self-affirmation and reflection exercises
15:00 - 15:30 Danielle Cox (MSVU), Reflective Practices \& Interpreting Student Errors
15:30 - 16:00 Peter Harrington (UBC), Mastery grading and its effect on student resilience and determination
16:00 - 16:30 Judy Larsen (UFV)
16:30 - 17:00 Jeremy Chiu (Langara), What inhibits resilience, and what can we do about it?
17:00 - 17:30 Joanna Niezen (SFU), Assignment Resubmission and Resilience
17:30 - 18:00 Asmita Sodhi (Victoria), Ms. Frizzle Teaches Calculus
 
Embedding Ethics In Mathematics
Org: Diana Skrzydlo (University of Waterloo)
Mathematics, statistics, and computer science have a major impact on many aspects of life, and with that comes important ethical considerations, such as cryptography and privacy laws, bias in data collection, algorithms reinforcing existing inequalities, pricing of insurance, and misleading investment products. Students need to be thinking about these issues throughout their education, so they can use mathematics ethically and responsibly. This session will have several speakers discuss the work they have done to embed ethics education into their math courses, and will also have an opportunity for a large group discussion.
 
Sunday December 1  (WSOD 4900)
8:00 - 8:30 Carmen Bruni (University of Waterloo), On the Ethics of Social Computing for Computer Science Majors
8:30 - 9:00 Matt Hayat (Georgia State University), Integrating Ethics into Mathematics and Statistics Education
9:00 - 9:30 Samantha-Jo Caetano (University of Toronto), Teaching Ethics in the Era of Data
9:30 - 10:00 Vicki Zhang (University of Toronto), Taking Stock: Eight Years of Embedded Ethics at UofT's Actuarial Science Program
10:00 - 10:30 Judith Koeller (University of Waterloo), Experiences teaching About Ethics in Math via Peace Studies
15:00 - 15:30 Dan Brown and Maura Grossman (University of Waterloo), Teaching computer ethics by focusing on discrimination and surveillance: takeaways from an online teaching experiment
15:30 - 16:00 Maritza Branker (Niagara University), Viewing our students as ambassadors of our discipline: a new approach to the mathematics senior seminar.
16:00 - 16:30 Lindsay Poirier (Smith College), Data Ethnography: Cultivating Reflexive Sensibilities through the Cultural Analysis
16:30 - 17:00 Nathalie Moon (University of Toronto), Embracing Uncertainty: Weaving Ethics into Statistics Education
17:00 - 18:00 Talkback/roundtable session (open to all), Talkback/roundtable discussion
 
Scalable learning analytics and feedback tools for large undergraduate classrooms
Org: Lindsey Daniels (University of British Columbia)
Large class sizes pose unique challenges in providing individualized, timely, and actionable feedback to instructors and students. Mathematical tools and techniques can assess and analyze student course work to bring the student voice into a more active role of teaching and learning in large scale courses.
 
Schedule to be determined
Aden Chan (University of British Columbia), A framework for utilizing online grading software to deliver efficient assessment and feedback to students, WSOD 4900
Matt Coles and Kelly Paton (University of British Columbia), Student experience of group work in a large first-year calculus course: measuring, facilitating, improving, WSOD 4900
Lindsey Daniels (University of British Columbia), Utilizing text analytics, data visualizations, and regression to inform teaching and feedback in large enrollment courses, WSOD 4900
Kenneth G. Monks (University of Scranton), WSOD 4900
 
The Mathematics of Mathematics Education
Org: Egan Chernoff (University of Saskatchewan) and Rina Zazkis (Simon Fraser University)
As the field of mathematics education continues to expand and evolve, an argument has been made that mathematics is getting left behind in mathematics education. Trending research topics, for example, mathematics anxiety, social justice, classroom technology, pedagogical trends, assessment and evaluation, and many others, while important, are also beginning to eclipse mathematics education research that leans heavily on mathematics. However, a dedicated group of Canadian researchers continues to embrace the mathematics of mathematics education, that is, they further the focus on the teaching, learning and understanding (or understanding better what was understood previously) of various mathematical topics and ideas. Said work will be highlighted and explored in this Education Session of the 2024 Winter Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society . Please join us.
 
Schedule to be determined
Rebecca Carter (Queen’s University), Mathematical Inquiry with Concurrent Education Students, R 2500
Egan Chernoff (University of Saskatchewan), Popularizing the Mathematics of Mathematics Education, R 2500
Sean Chorney (Simon Fraser University), Teaching Math for Social Insight: A Pedagogy of Mathematising, R 2500
Edward Doolittle (First Nations University), R 2500
Gleb Glebov (Simon Fraser University), The Non-Uniqueness of Decimal Representations and the Modified Long Division, R 2500
Dan Krause (University of Saskatchewan), On Assigning Meanings in Mathematics Education, R 2500
Wes Maciejewski (Red Deer Polytechnic), Teaching Mathematical Practice, R 2500
Ami Mamolo (Ontario Tech University), Mathematics in society – what is on the horizon?, R 2500
Alan Pasos (Simon Fraser University), Coping with Coercion in Logic, R 2500
Peter Taylor (Queen’s University), Discrete Optimization for school and university, R 2500
Nia Tzvetkova (UBC), R 2500
Nahid Walji (UBC), Incorporating student-perspective resources into a proofs course, R 2500
Rina Zazkis (Simon Fraser University), Mathematical Incidents and resulting research, R 2500
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