2025 CMS Winter Meeting
Toronto, Dec 5 - 8, 2025
Scientific Sessions
Education Sessions are listed at bottom of page.
Please note that all times are displayed in Eastern Standard Time (EST).
Additive Combinatorics and Applications  | |
| Org: Chi Hoi (Kyle) Yip (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Yifan Jing (Ohio State University) | |
| This session will focus on recent developments in additive combinatorics, as well its rich applications in areas such as discrete geometry, group theory, harmonic analysis, and number theory. This session aims to bring researchers with a common interest in additive combinatorics to showcase recent advancements and inspire new directions. | |
| Saturday December 6 (Duchesse) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Steven Senger (Missouri State University), Gaps in popular iterated sumset sizes |
| 8:30 - 9:30 | Fernando Xuancheng Shao (University of Kentucky), Recent developments on the polynomial Szemeredi theorem |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Leo Goldmakher (Williams College), Large subsets are sumsets |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Yu-Ru Liu (University of Waterloo), Equidistribution Theorems in Additive Combinatorics |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Ernie Croot (Georgia Institute of Technology), A survey of some results on digits of numbers in different bases related to a problem of R. L. Graham |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Yifan Jing (Ohio State University), Measure doubling for small sets in compact Lie groups |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Stanley Yao Xiao (University of Northern British Columbia), Primes of the form $f(p,q)$, $f$ quadratic, and applications |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | David Grynkiewicz (University of Memphis), Towards a Kneser-Pollard Theorem |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Jonathan Tidor (Princeton University), Uniform sets with few 4APs via colorings |
| Sunday December 7 (Duchesse) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Zhenchao Ge (University of Waterloo), An Additive property for polynomial sequence in function fields |
| 8:30 - 9:30 | Hunter Spink (University of Toronto), Geometric additive combinatorics via o-minimality |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Anton Mosunov (Cornell University), Numbers that are integrally representable by the homogenization of the minimal polynomial of $\tan(\pi/n)$ |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Marcel Goh (McGill University), Block complexity and idempotent Schur multipliers |
| AI and Mathematical Technologies for Decision Support in Public Health | |
| Org: Qi Deng, Seyed Moghades and Jianhong Wu (York University) | |
| This session unites researchers from mathematics, AI, and public health to explore how cutting-edge technologies and analytics drive advances in disease surveillance, policy design, and equitable health outcomes. Presentations will highlight methodological innovations and applications that inform data-driven decisions in population health. | |
| Sunday December 7 | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Bouchra Nasri (Université de Montréal), Infectious disease surveillance using deep learning models, Churchill A |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Junling Ma (University of Victoria), Detecting the change of the exponential growth rate during an early stage of an epidemic, Churchill A |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Nathaniel Osgood (University of Saskatchewan), Social Media-Based Respiratory Disease Surveillance: Multi-Assessor Labelling and Cross-Model Accuracy Assessment, Churchill A |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Woldegebriel Assefa Woldegerima (York University), Toy Introduction to Epidemiology-Informed Neural Networks (EINNs) with Application, Churchill A |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Michael Y. Li (University of Alberta), Modeling for a purpose: influenza outbreak in a boarding school revisited., Churchill A |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Chris Bauch (University of Waterloo), Tipping points in epidemiological systems, Churchill A |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Abbas Ghasemi (Toronto Metropolitan University), From Flow Instability to Airborne Transmission of Respiratory Diseases: A Computational Fluid Dynamics Approach, Churchill A |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Monica Cojocaru (University of Guelph), Expanding optimization ensemble model methods for forecasting seasonal influenza in the U.S., Churchill A |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Edward Thommes (Sanofi), Long-range forecasting of seasonal influenza vaccine uptake using web search data, Churchill A |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Affan Shoukat (University of Regina), Physics Informed Neural Networks for Fractional Logistic Growth Models, Churchill A |
| Monday December 8 | |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Qi Deng (York University), A physics-informed learner for decoding societal mobilization in epidemic transmission, Stevenson |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Carolyn McGregor (Ontario Tech University), Stevenson |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Sicheng Zhao (McMaster University), Improving Infectious Disease Prevalence Estimation and Parameter Inference Using Number of Tests and Positivity Data, Stevenson |
| Algebraic Graph Theory: progress and problems | |
| Org: Homer De Vera (University of Manitoba), Chris Godsil (University of Waterloo) and Hermie Monterde (University of Regina) | |
| We bring together experts on algebraic graph theory to present the most recent advances and discuss open problems in the area. This session will focus on graph spectra, eigenvectors and symmetries of graphs, and applications to quantum information on graphs. We hope that this session disseminates new ideas and inspire future collaborations. | |
| Saturday December 6 | |
| 8:30 - 9:30 | Chris Godsil (University of Waterloo), Problems in Algebraic Combinatorics II, Carlyle A |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | William Martin (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), The design strength of $P$- and $Q$-polynomial association schemes, Carlyle A |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Hermie Monterde (University of Regina), Equitable partitions and twin subgraphs, Carlyle A |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Steve Kirkland (University of Manitoba), An edge centrality measure based on Kemeny's constant, Carlyle A |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Harmony Zhan (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Laziness of quantum walks, Carlyle A |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Tino Tamon (Clarkson University), How strong is weak coupling?, Carlyle A |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | John Urschel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Nodal Statistics for Graphs and Matrices, Carlyle A |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Johnna Parenteau (University of Regina), Determining Distinctness in the Weighted Matching Polynomial, Carlyle A |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Ada Chan (York University), Type-II matrices, Carlyle A |
| Sunday December 7 | |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Steve Butler (Iowa State University), Cospectral constructions for the $q$-Laplacian matrix, Carlyle A |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Jane Breen (Ontario Tech University), Reinforcement learning for algebraic graph theory: parallelizing Wagner's approach, Carlyle A |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Alice Lacaze-Masmonteil (University of Regina), On the second largest eigenvalue of certain graphs in the perfect matching association scheme, Carlyle A |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | John Byrne (University of Delaware), Nonabelian Sidon sets and extremal problems on digraphs, Carlyle A |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Zilin Jiang (Arizona State University), Median eigenvalues of subcubic graphs, Carlyle A |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Joy Morris (University of Lethbridge), A new measure of EKR-robustness on permutation groups, Carlyle A |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Hitesh Kumar (Simon Fraser University), Square Energy: Conjectures and Results, Carlyle A |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Mariia Sobchuk (University of Waterloo), Quantum algorithms for matrix problems, Carlyle A |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Shivaram Pragada (Simon Fraser University), Structure of Eigenvectors of Graphs, Carlyle A |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Himanshu Gupta (University of Regina), Graph Complement and Delta Conjectures: Progress Using Classical Results, Carlyle A |
| Monday December 8 | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Homer de Vera (University of Manitoba), Minimizing Kemeny's constant for partial stochastic matrices with a single specified column, Seymour |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Sooyeong Kim (University of Guelph), A Nordhaus--Gaddum Problem for the Spectral Gap of a Graph, Seymour |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Michael Cavers (University of Toronto Scarborough), Digraphs with few distinct eigenvalues, Seymour |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Bobby Miraftab (Carleton University), When the adjacency matrix of a graph is a product of two adjacency matrices?, Seymour |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Meri Zaimi (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics), Finite bivariate Tratnik functions, Seymour |
| An invitation to low-dimensional topology | |
| Org: Adam Clay (University of Manitoba) and Patrick Naylor (McMaster University) | |
| The purpose of this session is for researchers to motivate and introduce the question(s) driving current research and recent progress in their area of specialization. Questions that can be understood by a broad audience in low-dimensional topology, and which have the potential to lead to new collaborations across sub-disciplines within the field, are particularly welcome. | |
| Saturday December 6 (Rosetti C) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | C.M. Michael Wong (University of Ottawa), Ribbon cobordisms |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Hans Boden (McMaster), Splitting the difference in the ribbon-slice conjecture |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Duncan McCoy (UQAM), Calculating the unknotting number (sometimes) |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Steve Boyer (UQAM), Do 3-manifolds with taut foliations have orderable fundamental groups? |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Office Hours |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Kasra Rafi (Toronto), From Mirzakhani’s Volumes to Random Surfaces |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Tyrone Ghaswala (Waterloo), Does the Loch Ness Monster's mapping class group even have a finite-index subgroup? |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Yvon Verberne (Western), Grand arcs and the Nielsen-Thurston Classification |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Maxime Fortier Bourque (UdeM), What are the best hyperbolic surfaces? |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Office Hours |
| Analytic–Geometric Synergies: Harmonic Analysis and Convexity | |
| Org: Almaz Butaev (University of the Fraser Valley), Galia Dafni (Concordia University) and Serhii Myroshnychenko (University of the Fraser Valley) | |
| Harmonic analysis and convex geometry are two areas of mathematics with deep historical connections and a growing number of modern interactions. Techniques from Fourier analysis have proven to be indispensable in addressing fundamental problems in convex and discrete geometry, such as volume inequalities, characterizations of special convex bodies, and stability questions. Conversely, geometric insights often inspire new analytic methods and results. | |
| Saturday December 6 (Scott B) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Almut Burchard (University of Toronto), Strict concavity properties of cross covariograms |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Ryan Gibara (Cape Breton University), The Neumann problem in metric measure spaces |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Scott Rodney (Cape Breton University), Sobolev Inequalities and the Solvability of Second Order Degenerate Elliptic Equations with rough low order terms |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Marcu-Antone Orsoni (Université Laval), On the dimension of observable sets for the heat equation |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Paul Hagelstein (Baylor University), Current developments in the theory of differentiation of integrals |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Ferenc Fodor (University of Szeged), Central diagonal sections of Gaussian cubes |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Elisabeth Werner (Case Western Reserve University), Floating bodies for ball-convex bodies |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Dmitry Faifman (Université de Montréal), Tubes and valuations in Lie groups |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Pavlos Kalantzopoulos (Waterloo University), A multiversion of real and complex hypercontractivity. |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Liangbing Luo (York University), Logarithmic Sobolev inequalities on some infinite-dimensional groups |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Andriy Prymak (University of Manitoba), On asymptotic Lebesgue's universal covering problem |
| Sunday December 7 (Scott B) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Denis Vinokurov (Université de Montréal), Topological Tensor Products, Harmonic Maps, and Spectral Optimization |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Alex Iosevich (University of Rochester), The Fourier ratio, probabilistic method and signal recovery |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Dmitry Jacobson (McGill University), Extremal metrics on graphs |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Yana Teplitskaya (Paris-Saclay University), About maximal distance minimizers. Regularity and explicit examples |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Blair Davey (Montana State University), Self-similar sets and Lipschitz curves |
| Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry | |
| Org: Megumi Harada, Brett Nasserden and Alexandre Zotine (McMaster University) | |
| Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry is a subfield of algebraic geometry which studies the many families of algebraic varieties arising in commutative algebra, representation theory, mathematical physics, and other fields, which have an explicit combinatorial structure. Toric varieties and Schubert varieties are traditionally the most prominent examples. However, many other spaces, such as the moduli space of curves and the Hilbert scheme of points, lie within this conceptual framework. | |
| Saturday December 6 (Turner) | |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Jake Levinson (Simon Fraser University), $\mathbb{A}^1$-degrees of twisted Wronski maps |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Tianyi Yu (UQAM), A positive combinatorial formula for the double Edelman--Greene coefficients |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Elana Kalashnikov (University of Waterloo), Tableaux Littlewood—Richardson rules for 2-step flags |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Nathan Grieve (Carleton University), Concepts of stability and positivity for big and nef line bundles, divisorial sheaves and divisors on the Zariski Riemann spaces |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Karolyn So (Simon Fraser University), Gröbner Cones for Finite Type Cluster Algebras |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Chris Manon (University of Kentucky) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Kiumars Kaveh (University of Pittsburgh) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Nathan Ilten (Simon Fraser University), Rational Curves in Projective Toric Varieties |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Patience Ablett (University of Warwick) |
| Sunday December 7 (Turner) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Santiago Estupiñán (UWaterloo), A new shifted Littlewood-Richardson rule |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Katrina Honigs (Simon Fraser University), McKay correspondence for reflection groups and derived categories |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Matt Cartier (University of Pittsburgh), Computing the Invariant $\beta$ for Certain Schubert Subvarieties |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Sara Stephens (Cornell University), Strictly Semistable Quasimaps to $\mathbb{P}^n$ |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Sharon Robins (Carnegie Mellon), Oda’s Conjecture for Smooth Projective Toric Varieties of Lower Picard Rank |
| Combinatorial Design Theory | |
| Org: Alice Lacaze-Masmonteil (University of Regina), David Pike (Memorial University of Newfoundland) and Doug Stinson (University of Waterloo) | |
| In the 18th century, several seemingly innocuous scheduling problems were proposed, often in the form of a puzzle. These problems were ultimately solved using tools and theoretical approaches that now lie in what is known as combinatorial design theory. Since then, this area of mathematics has seen tremendous growth in the diversity of designs, constructions, and applications that it encompasses. The purpose of this session is to showcase recent results in topics such as classical designs, cycle systems, graph decompositions, Latin squares and other aspects of design theory. | |
| Saturday December 6 (Austen) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Doug Stinson (University of Waterloo), Block designs and protocols for local differential privacy |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Masoomeh Akbari (University of Ottawa), A Complete Solution to the Generalized HOP with One Round Table |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Shuxing Li (University of Delaware), Perfect Sequence Covering Arrays: A Group-Based Approach |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Amy Wiebe (University of British Columbia, Okanagan), Counting transversals in group-based Latin squares |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Trent Marbach (Toronto Metropolitan University) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Brett Stevens (Carleton University), Linear and non-linear 1-intersecting pencils of conics |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Alena Ernst (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Designs in finite general linear groups |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Alice Lacaze-Masmonteil (University of Regina), On the directed Oberwolfach problem with tables of even lengths and $n \equiv 2 \ ( \textrm{mod}\ 4)$ guests |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Caleb Jones (Toronto Metropolitan University), Current Trends in Hypergraph Burning |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Sumin Leem (University of Calgary), Categorical design for encoding rule-based text |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Shonda Dueck (University of Winnipeg), Cyclic partitions of complete hypergraphs and large sets of combinatorial designs |
| Sunday December 7 (Austen) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Donald Kreher (Michigan Technological University), Factorization of finite groups |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Amanda Chafee (Carleton University), Hamiltonian Cycles on Coverings |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | William Martin (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Hitting all the n-tuples from a distance |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | William Kellough (Memorial University of Newfoundland), BIBDs That Almost Have Locally Equitable Colourings |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Mateja Sajna (University of Ottawa), From Spouse-Avoiding to Spouse-Loving: Transforming Solutions to the Oberwolfach Problem |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Peter Danziger (Toronto Metropolitan University), Packing designs with large block size |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Kianoosh Shokri (University of Ottawa), A recursive construction of strength-$4$ covering arrays using an ovoid in $PG(3,q)$ |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Andrea Burgess (University of New Brunswick- Saint John), Cyclic circular external difference families |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Shahriyar Pourakbar Saffar (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Constructing uniquely 2-colourable 4-cycle decompositions |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Tim Alderson (University of New Brunswick- Saint John), Maximal Arcs and Maximal-length A$^s$MDS Codes: Existence and Obstructions |
| Commutative Algebra | |
| Org: Giulia Gaggero (McMaster University), Mahrud Sayrafi (Fields/McMaster University) and Adam Van Tuyl (McMaster University) | |
| Not only does commutative algebra contribute to the algebraic side of algebraic geometry, commutative algebra has connections to areas such combinatorics, approximation theory, algebraic statistics, coding theory, and physics, among others. The goal of this session is to bring together Canadian mathematicians and colleagues from around the world to discuss recent progress in commutative algebra. | |
| Saturday December 6 (James) | |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Susan Cooper (University of Manitoba), Decomposing Star Configuration Ideals |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Kieran Bhaskara (McMaster University), $h$-polynomials and the GVD property of toric ideals of graphs |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Graham Keiper (Università di Cantania), Symbolic Powers of Toric Ideals |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Shah Rashan Zamir (Tulane University), On the algebraic properties of the Böröczky configuration |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Janet Vassilev (University of New Mexico), Patterns in differential powers of ideals in affine semigroup rings |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Emanuela Marangone (University of Manitoba), Weighted Veronese Rings |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Iresha Madduwe (Dalhousie University), Reconstruction Conjecture on Homological Invariants of Cameron-Walker Graphs |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Dharm Veer (Dalhousie University), Binomial ideals associated to polycubes. |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Denys Bulavka (Dalhousie University), A Hilton-Milner theorem for exterior algebras |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Selvi Kara (Bryn Mawr College), Algebraic Study of Polarized Neural Ideals |
| Sunday December 7 (James) | |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Gregory G. Smith (Queen’s University), Cellular free resolutions for normalizations of toric ideals |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Jay Yang (Vanderbilt University), Controlling Homology in Virtual Resolutions of Monomial Ideals |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Hasan Mahmood (Dalhousie University), Simplicial Resolutions of Powers of Monomial Ideals |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Sara Faridi (Dalhousie University), Extremal and D-Extremal ideals and their algebraic properties |
| Geometric Partial Differential Equations | |
| Org: Siyuan Lu and Yi-Lin Tsai (McMaster University) | |
| This session may include, but is not limited to, the following topics: minimal submanifolds, nonlinear differential equations on manifolds, conformal geometry, complex structures and Kahler geometry, and applications to general relativity. | |
| Saturday December 6 (Chesterton) | |
| 8:50 - 9:30 | Robert Haslhofer (University of Toronto), Singularities of mean curvature flow in $\mathbb{R}^4$ |
| 9:40 - 10:20 | Lorenzo Sarnataro (University of Toronto) |
| 15:00 - 15:40 | Freid Tong (University of Toronto), Calabi-Yau metrics and optimal transportation |
| 15:50 - 16:30 | Yulun Xu (University of Toronto), viscosity solution to complex Hessian quotient equation. |
| 16:40 - 17:20 | Kenneth DeMason (McMaster University), A Strong Form of the Quantitative Wulff Inequality for Crystalline Norms |
| Harmonic Analysis & PDE | |
| Org: Galia Dafni (Concordia University), Ryan Gibara (Cape Breton University) and Scott Rodney (Cape Breton University) | |
| This session will bring together junior and senior researchers in harmonic analysis and the analysis of PDEs. Topics explored will include functions spaces defined by mean oscillation, degenerate PDEs, weighted inequalities, sparse techniques, geometric methods, and more. The mix of specialities of the intended participants/audience will foster the fruitful exchange of ideas and possible cross-field collaborations. | |
| Saturday December 6 (Rosetti A) | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Eric Sawyer (McMaster University), A comparison of trilinear testing conditions for the paraboloid Fourier extension and Kakeya conjectures in three dimensions |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Cristian Rios (University of Calgary), Characterizations of the Kakeya maximal conjecture in three dimensions |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Ignacio Uriarte-Tuero (University of Toronto), Muckenhoupt $A_p$ weights, BMO, distance functions and Hardy-Sobolev inequalities |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Ana Čolović (University of Missouri), Composition of Paraproducts |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Dimiter Vassilev (University of New Mexico), Regularity of solutions to non-local semilinear equations related to Sobolev type embeddings on homogeneous groups |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Nguyen Lam (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Sharp Stability of the Second-order Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle |
| Sunday December 7 (Rosetti A) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Alptekin Goksan (University of Toronto), A sharp condition for Békollé-Bonami weights to satisfy the reverse Hölder inequality |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Yurij Salmaniw (Cape Breton University), Well-posedness of aggregation-diffusion equations and systems with irregular kernels |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Joshua Flynn (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Higher order boundary operators and trace inequalities on the Siegel domain and complex ball |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Sullivan MacDonald (University of Toronto), Progress toward the Krzyz conjecture |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Jesse Hulse (University of Manitoba), The Unified Transform Method: Beyond Circular or Convex Domains |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Alexia Yavicoli (University of British Columbia), The Erdős similarity problem for non-small Cantor sets |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Yuveshen Mooroogen (University of British Columbia), A large-scale variant of the Erdos similarity conjecture |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Julian Weigt (Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics), Regularity of maximal functions in higher dimensions |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Ángel David Martínez Martínez (CUNEF Universidad), On the monotonicity of the heat kernel |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Juyoung Lee (University of British Columbia), Variational inequalities for two-parameter averages over tori |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Chenjian Wang (University of British Columbia), Pinned patterns and density theorems in $\mathbb R^d$ |
| Monday December 8 (Rosetti A) | |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Shahaboddin Shaabani (University of Toronto), A view from above on $\text{JN}_p(\mathbb(R)^n$ |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Katja Vassilev (University of Chicago), One-dimensional wave kinetic theory |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Almaz Butaev (University of the Fraser Valley), Minimizing some discrete energy functionals on a regular metric measure space |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Ryan Alvarado (Amherst College) |
| Horizons in Operator Algebras | |
| Org: M. Ali Asadi-Vasfi (Purdue University), George Elliott (University of Toronto) and Viola Maria Grazia (Lakehead University Orillia) | |
| Operator algebras studies algebras of bounded linear operators on Hilbert spaces. Originating in the late 1920s and early 1930s to provide a rigorous mathematical framework for quantum mechanics, the field has become central to modern mathematics and theoretical physics, serving as a foundation for quantum information theory and quantum computing. Work in operator algebras and noncommutative geometry has also influenced number theory, harmonic analysis, model theory, group theory, knot theory, and ergodic theory. This session aims to highlight recent advances, discuss open questions, and explore new connections in the field. This session is done in organization with Paul Skoufranis (York). | |
| Saturday December 6 (Whistler) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Ken Davidson (University of Ottawa), Large Perturbations of Nest Algebras |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Christopher Schafhauser (University of Nebraska - Lincoln), KK-rigidity of simple nuclear C*-algebras |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Andrew Dean (Lakehead University), Classification problems concerning real structures and gradings |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Dolapo Oyetunbi (University of Windsor), Maximality and symmetry related to the 2-adic ring C*-algebra |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Remus Floricel (University of Regina), The spectral $C^*$-algebra of a product system |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Thomas Sinclair (Purdue University), Computability of C*-norms |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Zhuang Niu (University of Wyoming), $\mathcal Z$-absorption and small boundary property |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Branimir Cacic (University of New Brunswick), Revisiting the differential topology of higher-dimensional noncommutative tori |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Cristian Ivanescu (MacEwan University), Preservation of the Way-Below Relation Under Tensor Products |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Patrick Melanson (University of Regina), Pro-Tori and Inductive Limits of Non-Commutative Tori |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Bradd Hart (McMaster University), Decidedly undecidable results in operator algebras |
| Sunday December 7 (Whistler) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Charles Starling (Carleton University), Uniqueness theorems for combinatorial C*-algebras |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Saeed Ghasemi (Lakehead University), Preservation of Elementary Equivalence under Tensor Products |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Ebrahim Samei (University of Saskatchewan), Tempered representations on stationary spaces |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Dan Ursu (York University), Non-conventional averaging in C*-algebras |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Mehdi Moradi (University of Ottawa), On locally finite-dimensional traces |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Huaxin Lin (Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences), Almost commuting selfadjoint operators and quantum mechanics |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Jananan Arulseelan (Iowa State University) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Aareyan Manzoor (University of Waterloo), There is a non-Connes embeddable Equivalence Relation |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | David Kribs (University of Guelph), Operator Algebra Perspective on Entanglement-Assisted Quantum Codes |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Aaron Tikuisis (University of Ottawa), Basic homotopy lemmas via abstract classification |
| Schedule to be determined | |
| Feodor Kogan (University of Toronto), Whistler | |
| Integrability, Geometry, and Symmetry of Differential Equations | |
| Org: Stephen Anco (Brock University) and Konstantin Druzhkov (University of Saskatchewan) | |
| This session is devoted to exploration of recent developments in three interconnected areas of formal geometry of nonlinear PDEs. One common thread is the use of jet calculus, variational structures, and related methods in the study of these topics. Applications, both pure and applied, are welcomed. | |
| Schedule to be determined | |
| Stephen Anco (Brock University), Churchill Ballroom | |
| Evans Boadi (University at Buffalo), Discrete Kutznetsov-Ma breather solutions of the focusing Ablowitz-Ladik equation, Churchill Ballroom | |
| Kostya Druzhkov (University of Saskatchewan), Invariant reduction for partial differential equations: Poisson brackets, Churchill Ballroom | |
| Jordan Fazio (Brock University), Hierarchies of Flow Invariants and Conservation Laws in One-Dimensional Fluids, Churchill Ballroom | |
| James Hornick (McMaster University), BIFURCATIONS OF SOLITARY WAVES IN A COUPLED SYSTEM OF LONG AND SHORT WAVES, Churchill Ballroom | |
| Serhii Koval (Memorial University), Weyl algebras and symmetries of differential equations, Churchill Ballroom | |
| Mahdieh Gol Bashmani Moghadam (Brock University), Churchill Ballroom | |
| Alexander Odesski (Brock University), p-Determinants and monodromy of differential operators, Churchill Ballroom | |
| Barbara Prinari (University of Buffalo), Breather interactions in the integrable discrete Manakov system, Churchill Ballroom | |
| Archishman Saha (University of Ottawa), Deterministic Behaviour in Stochastic Collective Hamiltonian Systems, Churchill Ballroom | |
| Alireza Sharifi (University of Manitoba), Integrability and KAM Non–Ergodicity in the Thermostated Hamiltonian Systems, Churchill Ballroom | |
| Jacek Szmigielski (University of Saskatchewan), Churchill Ballroom | |
| Logic in Canada IV | |
| Org: Bradd Hart (McMaster University) and Rahim Moosa (University of Waterloo) | |
| Logic in Canada has had a long and storied history with contributions in model theory, set theory, category theory, computability and proof theory. This diversity has a common foundational core and three times in recent memory, the community has come together to celebrate this commonality and provide a venue for a new generation of young logicians. | |
| Sunday December 7 (Wren A) | |
| 15:00 - 15:50 | Spencer Unger (UofT) |
| 16:00 - 16:25 | Mathias Stout (McMaster), Integration in Hensel minimal fields |
| 16:30 - 16:55 | Leo Jimenez (Ohio State), Pfaffian functions and model theory |
| 17:00 - 17:25 | Ali Hamad (Ottawa), Bundles of metric structures as left ultrafunctors |
| 17:30 - 17:55 | Christine Eagles (Waterloo), Algebraic independence of solutions to multiple Lotka-Volterra systems |
| Monday December 8 (Wren A) | |
| 8:30 - 8:55 | Ilgwon Seo (McMaster), O-minimality of almost regular multisummable germs |
| 9:00 - 9:50 | Caroline Terry (UIC) |
| 10:00 - 10:25 | Diego Bejarano (York), Finding Order in Metric Structures |
| 10:30 - 10:55 | Joey Lakerdas-Gayle (Waterloo), Computability theory of function composition |
| Mathematical Finance | |
| Org: Christoph Frei and Alexander Melnikov (University of Alberta) | |
| This session will feature recent advances in mathematical finance, including topics such as asset pricing, risk management, market microstructure, and systemic risk. Emphasis will be placed on the development and application of stochastic, optimization-based, and machine learning methods in finance and insurance. | |
| Saturday December 6 (Rosetti B) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Anne MacKay (Université de Sherbrooke), Pricing lookback options on quantum computers |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Tahir Choulli (University of Alberta), Pricing formulas for vulnerable claims and death derivatives |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Frédéric Godin (Concordia University), Deep Hedging with Options Using the Implied Volatility Surface |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Alexandru Badescu (University of Calgary), Option Pricing with Recurrent Variance Dependent Stochastic Discount Factors and Realized Volatility |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Alexander Melnikov (University of Alberta), On Market Completions Approach to Option Pricing and Related Questions |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Geneviève Gauthier (HEC Montréal), Beyond volatility of volatility: Decomposing the informational content of VVIX |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Lars Stentoft (Western University), In estimation, the key is the volatility index, not the returns |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Matt Davison (Western University), A Real Options Approach to Wildfire Evacuations |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Mark Reesor (Wilfrid Laurier University), Approximating the Money-Weighted Rate of Return |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Kristina Stankova (Western University), Applying ruin theory to retirement savings: A case study |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Adam Metzler (Wilfrid Laurier University), Comparing Life-Cycle and Contrarian Investment Strategies |
| Sunday December 7 (Rosetti B) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Matheus Grasselli (McMaster University), A Tale of Two Regions: A North and South Macroeconomic-Ecological Model |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Alexandre Roch (Université du Québec à Montréal), Optimal Green Transition for a Firm |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | François-Michel Boire (University of Ottawa), Modeling Systemic House Price Risk |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Antony Ware (University of Calgary), Generative Pricing of Basket Options via Signature-Conditioned Mixture Density Networks |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Xiaofei Shi (University of Toronto), The Price of Information |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Alexander Schied (University of Waterloo), Exploring Roughness in Stochastic Processes: From Weierstrass Bridges to Volatility Estimation |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Cody Hyndman (Concordia University), Optimal annuitization with labor income under age-dependent force of mortality |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Jinniao Qiu (University of Calgary), Some recent progress on stochastic HJB equations |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Anastasis Kratsios (McMaster University), A Neural Black–Scholes Formula |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Dena Firoozi (University of Toronto), Ranking Quantilized Mean-Field Games and Early-Stage Venture Investments |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Foivos Xanthos (Toronto Metropolitan University), Star-Shaped Risk Measures: Representations and Cash-Additive Hulls |
| Monday December 8 (Rosetti B) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | David Saunders (University of Waterloo), Exploratory Investment-Consumption with Non-Exponential Discounting |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Ting-Kam Leonard Wong (University of Toronto), Excess growth rate and axiomatic characterizations |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Niushan Gao (Toronto Metropolitan University), On Continuity and Asymptotic Consistency of Measures of Risk and Variability |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Roman Makarov (Wilfrid Laurier University), Spectral Expansions for Structural Credit Risk Models Incorporating Occupation Area and Occupation Time |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Christoph Frei (University of Alberta), A Doubly Continuous Model for Equilibrium Trading Dynamics |
| Mathematical Relativity and Geometric Analysis | |
| Org: Aghil Alaee (Clark University) and Hari Kundrui (McMaster University) | |
| Mathematical general relativity addresses deep questions raised by Einstein's theory at the interface of geometric analysis, differential geometry, and mathematical physics. The purpose of this session is to bring together a varied set of researchers to (1) discuss recent advances across a range of subfields, and (2) create an environment for a useful exchange of ideas and possible collaboration across these subfields. | |
| Saturday December 6 | |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Niky Kamran (McGill University), Global counterexamples to uniqueness for a Calder\'on problem with $C^k$ conductivities, Stevenson |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Eric Woolgar (University of Alberta), Marginally outer trapped surfaces governed by Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature bounds, Stevenson |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Tracey Balehowsky (University of Calgary), The Inverse Problem of Recovering a Riemannian Metric from Area Data, Stevenson |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Jeff Jauregui (Union College), Optimizing capacity with nonnegative scalar curvature, Stevenson |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Ivan Booth (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Black hole evolution and internal structure: constraints from the stability operator, Stevenson |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Graham Cox (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Black hole mergers and bifurcations of marginally outer trapped surfaces, Stevenson |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Amir Babak Aazami (Clark University), Stevenson |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Ryan Ugner (University of California, Berkeley), Stevenson |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Nishanth Gudapati (College of the Holy Cross), Stevenson |
| Sunday December 7 | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Argam Ohanyan (University of Toronto), On the geometry of continuously differentiable spacetime metrics, Windsor |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | James Wheeler (University of Michigan), Asymptotically Euclidean Solutions of the Constraint Equations with Prescribed Asymptotics, Windsor |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Yakov Shlapentokh Rothman (University of Toronto), Polynomial Decay for the Klein-Gordon Equation on the Schwarzschild Black Hole, Windsor |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Mariem Magdy (Perimeter Institute), Estimates for spinor fields using the space-spinor formalism, Windsor |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Christopher Stith (University of Michigan), Windsor |
| Mathematics of Machine Learning | |
| Org: Ben Adcock (Simon Fraser University), Ricardo Baptista (University of Toronto) 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 December 6 (Wren A) | |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Isaac Gibbs (University of California, Berkeley), Designing probabilistic predictors for multiple decision makers |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Hung-Hsu Chou (University of Pittsburgh), More is Less: Understanding Compressibility of Neural Networks via Implicit Regularization and Neural Collapse |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Rachel Morris (Concordia University), Regularity guarantees for adversarially robust learning |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Yunan Yang (Cornell University), Training Distribution Optimization in the Space of Probability Measures |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Cameron Musco (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Structured Matrix Approximation via Matrix-Vector Products |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Alex Townsend (Cornell University), A Mathematical Guide to Operator Learning |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Avi Gupta (Simon Fraser University), Universal Nonlinear Learning of High-Dimensional Anisotropic Sobolev Functions from Point Samples |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Anastasis Kratsios (McMaster University), Incremental Generation is Necessity and Sufficient for Universality in Flow-Based Modelling |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Mohamed Hibat-Allah (University of Waterloo), Language models for quantum many-body physics |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Spencer Hill (Queen’s University), Communication Complexity of Exact Sampling under Exponential Cost |
| Sunday December 7 (Wren A) | |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Matthew Thorpe (Warwick University), How Many Labels Do You Need in Semi-Supervised Learning? |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Sophie Morin (Polytechnique Montreal), Equivariant machine learning for collision detection of ellipses and related shapes |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Esha Saha (University of Alberta), Data-Driven Solutions to Coupled PDEs using Disjoint Priors |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Shikhar Jaiswal (University of Toronto), Understanding The Modality Gap In Multi-Modal Systems |
| New trends in Analysis | |
| Org: Almut Buchard (University of Toronto) and Angel Martinez (CUNEF Universidad, Madrid) | |
| This session will bring together the sparse community of outlier analysts, whose problems and techniques touch upon other areas without fully belonging to them. In particular, we expect mathematicians interested in spectral, convex, geometric and variational problems to join this session. | |
| Monday December 8 (Wren B) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Dmitry Jakobson (McGill University), Nodal solutions of Yamabe equations and curvature prescription |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Jérôme Vetois (McGill University), Nonexistence of extremals for the second conformal eigenvalue in low dimensions |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Robert Haslhofer (University of Toronto), Free boundary minimal disks in convex balls |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Bruno Staffa (Rice University), Density and equidistribution of closed geodesics and stationary geodesic nets |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Dan Mangoubi (The Hebrew University), On common roots of Legendre polynomials |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Alba Dolores García Ruiz (CUNEF Universidad), High-Energy Laplace Eigenfunctions on Integrable Billiards |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | John Toth (McGill University), $L^2$ restriction bounds for analytic continuations of quantum ergodic Laplace eigenfunctions. |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Francisco Torres de Lizaur (Universidad de Sevilla), Symmetries of eigenfunctions |
| NSERC-CSE Research Communities: Robust, Secure and Safe Artificial Intelligence and Exploratory Analysis of Unstructured Data | |
| Org: Camille Archambault (McGill University), Steven Ding (McGill School of Information Studies) and David Thomson (Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing) | |
| The NSERC-CSE Research Communities are multi-institutional collaborations in related domains. The first NSERC-CSE Research Community on Robust, Secure and Safe Artificial Intelligence was awarded to the project ``An End-to-End Approach for Safe and Secure AI'' and the second NSERC-CSE Research Community on Exploratory Analysis of Unstructured Data was awarded to the project ``ZenithVector: Advanced Vectorization, Embedding, and Cybersecurity Analytics Toolkit for Scalable Intelligence.'' This session will highlight the mathematical underpinnings and recent advances at the nexus of these rich and timely areas. | |
| Sunday December 7 (Stevenson) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Opening Remarks |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | John Healy (Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing), Exploiting distortions in clustering and dimension reduction for unstructured data |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Kaleb Ruscitti (University of Waterloo), Modifying Mapper for Temporal Topic Modelling |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Paul McNicholas (McMaster University), Clustering and Dimension Reduction |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Sanjeena Dang (Carleton University), Clustering compositional data with a logistic normal multinomial mixture model with an underlying latent factor structure |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Gerald Penn (University of Toronto), Predicting Levenshtein Edit Sequences for Fine-Grained Estimation of Automatic Speech Recognition Error |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Toryn Qwyllyn Klassen (University of Toronto), Remembering to Be Fair: Non-Markovian Fairness in Sequential Decision Making |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Benjamin Cookson (University of Toronto), Unifying Proportional Fairness in Centroid and Non-Centroid Clustering |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Benoit Hamelin (Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing), Representation of cyber defense telemetry for exploration tasks |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Camille Archambault (McGill University), An Agentic Pipeline Combining GraphRAG and UMAP for Explainable Vulnerability Discovery in Low-Level Code. |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Steven Ding (McGill University) |
| Number Theory by Early Career Researchers | |
| Org: Jérémy Champagne, AJ Fong and Zhenchao Ge (University of Waterloo) | |
| This session provides a platform for early-career researchers, including PhD students nearing graduation, recent PhD graduates and postdoctoral fellows, to present their work in number theory. With contributions spanning algebraic and analytic number theory, as well as arithmetic geometry and other related topics, we aim to foster collaboration, exchange 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 7 (Rosetti C) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Emily Quesada-Herrera (University of Lethbridge), On the vertical distribution of the zeros of the Riemann zeta-function |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Jose Cruz (University of Calgary), A tale on trascendence and arithmetic equivalence |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Fatemeh Jalalvand (University of Calgary), Shape of log-unit lattices in $D_6$ fields |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Paul Péringuey, Joint distributions of error terms for primes in arithmetic progressions modulo 11 |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Félix Baril Boudreau (CICMA & Université du Luxembourg), Abelian varieties with homotheties |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Kyle Yip (Georgia Tech), Diophantine tuples and Diophantine powersets |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Alex Cowan (University of Waterloo), Murmurations from functional equations |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Keira Gunn (Mt Royal University), Some Results in Dynamics of the Positive Characterstic Tori |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Ali Alsetri (University of Kentucky), Burgess-type character sum estimates over generalized arithmetic progressions of rank 2. |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Nicol Leong (University of Lethbridge), On some results involving the Riemann zeta function and the Mobius function |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Nic Fellini (Queen’s University), Non-Wieferich Primes in Number Fields |
| Monday December 8 (Rosetti C) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Isabella Negrini (University of Toronto), Rigid Cocycles and the p-adic Kudla Program |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Hazem Hassan (McGill University), p-adic higher Green's functions |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Gian Cordana Sanjaya (University of Waterloo), Squarefree density of discriminant of polynomials with restricted coefficients |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Xiao Zhong (University of Waterloo), A dynamical Manin--Mumford type question on polynomial endomorphisms of $\mathbb{A}^2$ |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Fateme Sajadi (University of Toronto), A Unified Finiteness Theorem For Curves |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Hymn Chan (University of Toronto), The p-adic Langlands Program and Breuil's Lattice Conjecture |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Anton Shakov (Queen's University), Some Distributional Properties of $2$-Regular Integer Sequences |
| Probability and PDEs | |
| Org: Vincent Martinez (CUNY Hunter College), Geordie Richards (University of Guelph) and Philippe Sosoe (Cornell University) | |
| In this session the speakers will report on recent advances at the intersection of probability theory and the analysis of partial differential equations (PDEs). Topics will include probabilistic analysis of PDEs and the analysis of stochastic PDEs, with examples drawn from physics, engineering, and other fields. | |
| Saturday December 6 (Galsworthy) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Nathan Glatt-Holtz (Indiana University), On Long Time Accuracy for Stochastic Partial Differential Equations Under Approximation. |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Yuri Bakhtin (Courant Institute NYU), Differentiability of the effective Lagrangian for HJB equations in dynamic random environments |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Duncan Dauvergne (University of Toronto), Characterization of the directed landscape from the KPZ fixed point |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Mihai Nica (University of Guelph), A probabilist's guide to the Hermite polynomials |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Raluca Balan (University of Ottawa), Recent advances for SPDEs with L\'evy noise |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Jeremy Quastel (University of Toronto), Integrable PDE in random growth |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Yu-Ting Chen (University of Victoria), Martingale description of the two-dimensional stochastic heat equation |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Francesco Cellarosi (Queen's University), Stochastic Calculus for the Theta Process |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Bjoern Bringmann (Princeton University), Global well-posedness of the stochastic Abelian-Higgs equations in two dimensions |
| Sunday December 7 (Galsworthy) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Arjun Krishnan (University of Rochester), Field induced phase transition in the polymer model |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Christopher Kennedy (Queen's University), On the analysis of fluid-solid interactions |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Mustafa Avci (Athabasca University), A viscosity solution approach to the Feynman-Kac formula for a one-dimensional parabolic PDE with variable exponent coefficient |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Fauzia Jabeen (Toronto Metropolitan University), Efficient Method of Estimating Second-Order Sensitivities for Stochastic Discrete Biochemical Systems |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Zaib Un Nisa Memon (Toronto Metropolitan University), A hybrid method for stochastic simulations of reaction-diffusion epidemic models |
| Progress in differential equations and their applications in mathematical biology | |
| Org: Elena Braverman (University of Calgary), Kunquan Lan (Toronto Metropolitan University) and Gail Wolkowicz (McMaster University) | |
| The session is devoted to recent progress in the areas of ordinary, partial, and fractional differential equations and their application in mathematical biology. A focus will be on the qualitative behaviour of such equations, together with applied models described by differential equations in population dynamics, analysis of spread of infectious diseases, cell biology. | |
| Saturday December 6 (Scott A) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Chris Goodrich (UNSW Sydney, Austrailia), Luxemburg Norm Localisation for Nonlocal Differential Equations with Convolution Coefficients |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Chunhua Ou (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Traveling waves and propagation dynamics of competitive systems in a road-field environment with climate change |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Zhisheng Shuai (University of Central Florida, USA), A Tale of Two Incidence Functions: How Post-Infection Effects Shape Disease Dynamics |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Lin Wang (University of New Brunswick), Global dynamics of a Filippov SIQR model with delayed control |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Jianhong Wu (York University) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Sue Ann Campbell (University of Waterloo), The Eigenvalue Spectrum of Distributed Delay Differential Equations with Large Mean Delay |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Gail Wolkowicz (McMaster University), A predator-prey model with delay in both the prey and the predator growth terms |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Chenkuan Li (Brandon University), Existence, Uniqueness, and Hyers–Ulam's Stability of the Nonlinear Bagley–Torvik Equation with Functional Initial Conditions |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Xinzhi Liu (University of Waterloo), Observer-Based Adaptive Robust Control of Dual-Layer Multiagent Epidemic Models |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Xingfu Zou (Western University), Dynamics of a nonlocal dispersal population model with annually synchronized emergence of adults |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Hermann Eberl (University of Guelph), Travelling Waves in a highly degenerate PDE-ODE coupled model of cellulosic biofilm formation |
| Sunday December 7 (Scott A) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Jennifer Lawson (University of Calgary), Incorporating Ecological Data into Models of Population Spread with Different Forms of Dispersal |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | André Rickes (University of Calgary), Average population size of single species diffusing in heterogeneous environments |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Hilaire Epstein Nonhou Zogo (Queen's University), Event-Triggered Control for an SIS Epidemic Model |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Chongming Li (Queen's University), Uniform Persistence Analysis of the Bacteria Persister Model |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Christopher Heggerud (University of Manitoba), Regime shifts in biology and tools to predict them |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Tianxu Wang (University of Alberta), Existence and asymptotic stability of a generic Lotka-Volterra system with nonlinear spatially heterogenous cross-diffusion |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Maryam Basiri (Toronto Metropolitan University), Positive Solutions of Separated Boundary Value Problems |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Sumaira Rehman (Toronto Metropolitan University), Initial value problems for nonlinear higher-order fractional differential equations |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Gustavo Cicchini Santos (Toronto Metropolitan University), Strictly Positive Solutions of Neumann Boundary Value Problems and Applications to Duffing Type Models |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Afroditi Talidou (University of Calgary), Stability of front-like solutions of the FitzHugh-Nagumo equations on warped cylinders |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Vitali Vougalter (University of Toronto), Existence of stationary solutions for some integro-differential equations with the double scale anomalous diffusion |
| Schedule to be determined | |
| Elena Braverman (University of Calgary), Scott A | |
| Kunquan Lan (Toronto Metropolitan University), Scott A | |
| Quantum Error Correction and Related Topics | |
| Org: David Kribs and Rajesh Pereira (University of Guelph) | |
| Quantum error correction (QEC) is a central topic in quantum information science, now touching on almost every aspect of the field, ranging from theoretical to experimental investigations and in recent years as a key facet in the development of new quantum technologies. This session will explore recent developments in QEC with an emphasis on mathematical aspects of the subject. Related topics in which QEC techniques and tools have arisen will also be explored. | |
| Monday December 8 (Wren C) | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Alexander Frei (University of Waterloo) |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Ningping Cao (National Research Council), Quantum Error-Corrected Non-Markovian Metrology |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Guillaume Dauphinais (Xanadu Quantum Technologies) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Andrew Nemec (University of Texas at Dallas), Entanglement-Assisted Subspace Codes |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Sooyeong Kim (University of Guelph), Quasiorthogonality of Commutative Algebras and Implications for Quantum Information |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Sarah Hagen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Quantum Secret Sharing with Three and Four Qubits |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Serge Adonsou (University of Guelph), Unified and Generalized Approach to Entanglement-Assisted Quantum Error Correction |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Mukesh Taank (University of Guelph), Generalized Knill–Laflamme theorem for families of isoclinic subspaces |
| Recent Developments in Complex Analysis and Geometry | |
| Org: Alexander Brudnyi (University of Calgary), Rasul Shafikov (Western University) and Mahishanka Withanachchi (University of Calgary) | |
| This session brings together recent advances in complex analysis, several complex variables, operator theory, harmonic analysis, and geometric measure theory. Emphasizing both classical problems and emerging techniques, the session fosters dialogue between analysis and geometry to explore foundational and modern challenges. | |
| Saturday December 6 (Seymour) | |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Ilia Binder (Toronto), SLE as critical interface limits: power law rate of convergence |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Harshith Alagandala (UWO), Local Polynomial Convexity at Hyperbolic CR-singularity in $M^n \subset \mathbb{C}^n$ |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Tatyana Barron (UWO), Vanishing of Poincare series, revisited |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Roberto Albesiano (Waterloo), From division to extension |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Isabelle Chalendar (Université Gustave Eiffel) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Debraj Chakrabarti (Central Michigan), Restricted type estimates and the Bergman Projection |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Jesse Hulse (Manitoba), A Formula for the Pluricomplex Green Function of the Bidisk |
| Sunday December 7 (Seymour) | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Pierre-Olivier (UQTR) |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Yunus Zeytuncu (Michigan), Spectral Theory of the Kohn Laplacian on Quotient Manifoldsv |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Lis Vivas (Ohio State) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Luka Mernik (Florida Polytechnic University) |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Dan Coman (Syracuse), Tian’s theorem for Grassmannian embeddings and degeneracy sets of random sections |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Andy Raich (Arkansas), Tower multitype and compactness of the dbar-Neumann operator in complex manifolds |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Dror Varolin (Stony Brook) |
| Schedule to be determined | |
| Blake Boudreaux (Arkansas), Seymour | |
| Recent progress in convex and discrete geometry | |
| Org: Ferenc Fodor (University of Szeged, Hungary and University of Calgary, Canada) and Alina Stancu (Concordia University, Canada) | |
| This session will bring together leading researchers and emerging scholars to explore the latest advances in the theory and applications of convex geometry, discrete structures, and their rich interplay. Topics will include new results in the Brunn–Minkowski theory, geometric inequalities, phenomena in high dimensions, classical problems in discrete and combinatorial geometry, and computational aspects of convex bodies. Our goal is to foster collaboration and inspire novel research directions by providing a vibrant platform for exchanging ideas within the Canadian and international mathematical communities. | |
| Saturday December 6 (Wren C) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Dylan Langharst (Cargnegie Mellon University), Grünbaum’s inequality for probability measures |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Alex Iosevich (University of Rochester), Some parallels between Erdos type problems and exact signal recovery |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Pavlos Kalantzopoulos (University of Waterloo), Extremal Convex Bodies in Liakopoulos’s Generalized Dual Loomis–Whitney Inequality. |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Lam Nguyen (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Logarithmic Sobolev, Poincaré, and Beckner Inequalities on Hyperbolic Spaces |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Jie Xiao (Memorial University of Newfoundland), $C^1$-maximizer of $p$-mean torsion rigidity on convex bodies |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Bartlomiej Zawalski (Case Western Reserve University), On flat shadow boundaries from point light sources and the characterization of ellipsoids |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Kateryna Tatarko (University of Waterloo), Minimizing inradius for a given constraint |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Egon Schulte (Northeastern University), Bounding the Regularity Radius of Delone Sets |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Dmitry Ryabogin (Kent State University) |
| Sunday December 7 (Wren C) | |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Jaskaran Kaire (University of Manitoba), Hadwiger's Conjecture for Cap Bodies |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Dmitry Faifman (University of Montreal), Bi-invariant valuations and convolution on Lie groups |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Karoly Bezdek (University of Calgary), Non-separable arrangements revisited |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Elisabeth Werner (Case Western Reserve University), $L_p$ relative surface areas |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Gergely Ambrus (University of Szeged, Hungary), Large signed sums, polarization problems, and projection constants of convex bodies |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Ted Bisztriczky (University Calgary), Construction methods for polytopes |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Sergii Myroshnychenko (University of the Fraser Valley), Polytope Reconstruction: floating and illuminating structures |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Viktor Vigh (University of Szeged, Hungary), Circumscribed random spherical disc-polygons via duality |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Carsten Schütt (University of Kiel, Germany), Expected extremal area of facets of random polytopes |
| Set theory and its applications | |
| Org: Spencer Unger (University of Toronto) and Andy Zucker (University of Waterloo) | |
| The session will bring together a group of researchers working in the diverse area of applications of set theory to other areas of mathematics | |
| Saturday December 6 (Wren B) | |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Jorge Cruz Chapital (University of Toronto) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Isabella Negrini (University of Toronto), An Erdős–Rado theorem for perfect trees |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Narmada Varadarajan (University of Toronto), Circle-squaring with low Borel complexity |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Jashan Bal (University of Waterloo), Projectivity in topological dynamics |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Bo Peng (McGill University), Anti-classification results in dynamical systems |
| Sunday December 7 (Wren B) | |
| 8:00 - 9:00 | Julian Camilo Cano Ramos (Universidad de Los Andes), Combinatorics of Ramsey ideals |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Ronnie Chen (University of Florida) |
| Student Research Session | |
| Sunday December 7 (Chesterton) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Kate Tretiakova (University of Ottawa), "But How Do We Know?": Epistemological Trespass in the Math Classroom |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Rick Lu and Haonan Zhao (University of Toronto), L-functions and Numerical Computations Concerning Landau-Siegel Zeros |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Amaury De Burgos (University of Calgary), On the length of cyclic algebras |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Adrian Chitan (Western University), Stratification of the half-density quantization of the Jeffrey-Weitsman-Witten invariants |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Jiatong Sun (University of Alberta), Data-Driven Computation for Periodic Stochastic Differential Equations |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Dariche Nguyen (McMaster University), Weak anchoring around a colloidal particle |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Thanh Huynh (McMaster University), A numerical approach for local isoperimetric partitions |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Shohel Ahmed (University of Alberta), Modelling Foraging Behavior in Ecological Dynamics |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Shan Gao (University of Alberta), Tipping in Ecological Systems Driven by Periodic Climate Variability |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Austin Sun (University of Toronto), The Grassmannian of lines as the space of pencils of binary quantics: towards a GIT-free $PGL_2$-stratification of $Gr(2,n+1)$ |
| Theory and application of Inverse Problems in mathematical physics | |
| Org: Peter Gibson (York University) and Yue Zhao (Central China Normal University) | |
| The session aims to bring together a diversity of researchers in Inverse Problems to discuss recent results and open problems both from the theoretical and applied perspectives. Inverse problems related to medical and acoustic imaging, as well as to Riemannian or Lorentzian geometry are of particular interest. | |
| Saturday December 6 (Windsor) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Mahishanka Withanachchi (University of Calgary), Complex Analytic Methods in One Dimensional Scattering: Harmonic Exponentials, Inner Functions, and Toeplitz Kernels |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Ru-Yu Lai (University of Minnesota), Partial data inverse problems for the nonlinear magnetic Schrodinger equation |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Cristian Rios (University of Calgary), Applications of Alpert wavelets to imaging-based medical diagnosis |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Peter Gibson (York University), Inversion of the Miura map on the line |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Ali Feizmohammadi (University of Toronto) |
| Sunday December 7 (Windsor) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Tracey Balehowsky (Calgary), Transformation Optics and Models of Spatial Topology |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Spyros Alexakis (University of Toronto) |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Isaac Harris (Purdue University), Qualitative Methods Applied to Biharmonic Scattering |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Wenyuan Liao (University of Calgary), Adjoint Analysis of Seismic Wave Equation and its Applications in Full Waveform Inversion |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Michael Lamoureux (University of Calgary), Inverse problems in seismic imaging |
| Topology | |
| Org: Hans Boden (McMaster University) and Chris Kapulkin (Western University) | |
| The tools and language of topology have found applications in virtually every other field of mathematics and beyond, including areas as disparate as: theoretical computer science, data analysis, and quantum field theory. This session aims to bring together a diverse group of researchers working in different branches of topology, including: algebraic topology, geometric topology, homotopy theory, gauge theory, low-dimensional topology, knot theory, geometric group theory, symplectic and contact topology, and topological data analysis. The session would provide them an opportunity to present their latest advances in their fields. | |
| Saturday December 6 (Baker) | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Nick Rozenblyum (University of Toronto), String topology and the cyclic Deligne conjecture |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Daniel Carranza (Johns Hopkins University), Generalizing the Bousfield-Kan formula |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Martin Frankland (University of Regina), Enriched model categories and the Dold-Kan correspondence |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Kristine Bauer (University of Calgary), Differentiability in homotopy theory |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Dorette Pronk (Dalhousie University), A tom Dieck Fundamental Groupoid for Orbifolds |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Geunyoung Kim (McMaster University), Heegaard diagrams for 5-manifolds |
| Sunday December 7 (Baker) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Yvon Verberne (Western University), Graphs of quasicircles |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | B. Doug Park (University of Waterloo), Symplectic geography problem |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Duncan McCoy (Universite du Quebec a Montreal), Cusps of arithmetic hyperbolic manifolds |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Octav Cornea (Université de Montréal), Triangulated persistence categories and symplectic topology |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Andrew Salch (Wayne State University), Number theory and stable homotopy groups of spheres |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Martina Rovelli (University of Ottawa), Towards a complicial set of cobordisms |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | William Menasco (University of Buffalo), A construction of minimal coherent filling pairs |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Nathan Kershaw (Western University), Topological data analysis using discrete homology |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | C.M. Michael Wong (University of Ottawa), A profinite tensor product of vector spaces and bimodules |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Leland McInnes (Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing), Persistent Homology in High Dimensions |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Alexander Kupers (University of Toronto), Mapping class groups of exotic tori |
| Monday December 8 (Baker) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Adam Clay (University of Manitoba), Slope detection in knot complements and the L-space conjecture |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Patrick Naylor (McMaster University), Four-dimensional Murasugi sum |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Jeffrey Marshall-Milne (McMaster University), An invitation to alternating links and the Greene-Howie Theorem |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Steven Boyer (Université du Québec à Montréal), The L-space conjecture |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Tyrone Ghaswala (University of Waterloo), Mapping class groups admit a unique Polish topology |
| Schedule to be determined | |
| Alejandro Adem (University of British Columnia + NSERC), Baker | |
| Çağatay Kutluhan (University of Buffalo), Baker | |
| Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications | |
| Org: Heinz Bauschke (University of British Columbia), Walaa Moursi (University of Waterloo) and Shambhavi Singh (University of Waterloo) | |
| 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. | |
| Saturday December 6 (Carlyle B) | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Viktor Pavlovik, Accelerated Proximal Gradient Methods in the affine-quadratic case |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Shambhavi Singh, Eckstein-Ferris-Pennanen-Robinson duality revisited: paramonotonicity, total Fenchel-Rockafellar duality, and the Chambolle-Pock |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Aleksandr Arakcheev, On Generalisations of Fejér Monotonicity: Fejér* and Opial Sequences |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Walaa Moursi |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Yuan Gao, On the equivalence of $c$-potentiability and $c$-path boundedness in the sense of Artstein-Avidan, Sadovsky and Wyczesany. |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Hongda Li, Relaxed Weak Accelerated Proximal Gradient Method: A Unified Framework for Nesterov's Accelerations |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Tung Tran, On the boundedness of sequences generated by stochastic gradient and random projection algorithms |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Sadra Nejati |
| Variational Problems: Trends and Applications | |
| Org: Xinyang Lu (Lakehead University) and Chong Wang (Washington and Lee University) | |
| Variational problems are pervasive in the physical and biological worlds. This scientific session aims to bring together researches to discuss recent trends of variational problems, with diverse applications in physics, biology, and materials science. | |
| Schedule to be determined | |
| Mustafa Avci (Athabasca University), Existence of solutions for a singular double phase variable exponent problem with $(p(\cdot),q(\cdot))-$ Hardy-type potential, Wren B | |
| Li Bo (University of California, San Diego), Variational Modeling and Analysis of Phase Separation with Elasticity, Wren B | |
| Xinyang Lu (Lakehead University), Wren B | |
| Jack Tisdell (McGill University), Minimizing asymptotic score in random bullseye darts, Wren B | |
| Tong Zhang (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Liouville-type theorem for the fractional p-Laplacian inequalties, Wren B | |
Education Sessions
| Gender Equity in the Mathematical Sciences | |
| Org: Keira Gunn (Mount Royal University), Yu-Ru Liu (University of Waterloo) and Hermie Monterde (University of Regina) | |
| Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) have become integral to the framework of Canadian higher education. In this session, we offer a more nuanced approach to gender equity - the act of promoting fairness, impartiality and justice amongst all people regardless of gender. We gather leading advocates in the mathematical sciences to present effective strategies for gender equity and discuss initiatives that were successful in promoting the work of people with historically underrepresented genders (including, but not limited to, women, transgender individuals, nonbinary people, gender non-traditional folks, etc). We also welcome talks about the current discourse on gender diversity and the intersectionality of gender with other aspects of one's identity (such as race, class, cultural background, etc.). | |
| Sunday December 7 | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Erin Meger (Queen's University), Expanding Horizons: Applying Lessons from Women's Advocacy to Intersectional Equity, Churchill B |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Kyne Santos (Toronto Metropolitan University), Churchill B |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Ila Varma (University of Toronto), Concrete strategies for promoting Gender Equity in your mathematical spaces, Churchill B |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Emily Quesada-Herrera (University of Lethbridge), Math as a neurodivergent trans latina, Churchill B |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Zack Cramer (University of Waterloo), Out in the Open: Fostering 2SLGBTQIA+ Inclusion in Mathematics, Churchill B |
| Monday December 8 | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Kristine Bauer, Ozgur Yilmaz and Deanna Needell (PIMS), Strategies for building inclusivity: lessons from PIMS initiatives, Stevenson |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Amy Wiebe (UBC Okanagan), Curbs, Not Tickets: Conference Planning for Equity, Stevenson |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Erica Liu (University of Waterloo), Empowerment in Math Happens Through Doing Math Together, Stevenson |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Kseniya Garaschuk (University of the Fraser Valley), Human-centered classrooms, Stevenson |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Malabika Pramanik (UBC and BIRS), Creating Space: Evolving standards of Gender Equity and Collective Change in the Mathematical Sciences, Stevenson |
| Joy in university math classes | |
| Org: Matt Coles (University of British Columbia), Peter Harrington (Yale University) and Kelly Paton (University of British Columbia) | |
| Fun and joyful activities are one way to entice students to come to class, keep them engaged while they are there, and help them appreciate the beauty of mathematics. In this session we want to learn from instructors who have run activities in university classes that have brought their students joy. The session will conclude with a round table discussion centered on ways to bring joy to the university math classroom and the relative importance of joy in university mathematics.
We expect this session to be dynamic and interactive, so come prepared to participate in the activities run by the presenters. Presentations will run consecutively, so while you are welcome to leave or enter the session freely, the times on the following schedule are only an estimate of when each presentation will start and end. | |
| Sunday December 7 (Gerrard) | |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Burcu Karabina (University of Waterloo), Thinking Dice |
| 15:15 - 15:35 | Thomas Kielstra (University of Toronto Scarborough), Sweet Shots, Sharp Concepts: Teaching Piecewise Derivatives with a Marshmallow Gun |
| 15:35 - 15:55 | Parker Glynn-Adey and Samira Goder (University of Toronto Scarborough), String Stars: A Joyful Ending for a Class |
| 15:55 - 16:05 | Break |
| 16:05 - 16:15 | Christopher Heggerud (University of Manitoba), The joy of getting stuck in traffic |
| 16:15 - 16:35 | Michael Pawliuk (University of Toronto Mississauga), Valentine's Day Gallery Walk |
| 16:35 - 16:50 | Muhammad Awais (University of Victoria), Guessing \& Graphing Trig. Functions |
| 16:50 - 17:10 | Egan Chernoff (University of Saskatchewan), The Perplexing Power of Pop Quiz Pageantry |
| 17:10 - 17:20 | Break |
| 17:20 - 18:00 | Roundtable Discussion |
| Practical approaches to mentoring undergraduate research projects | |
| Org: Elisa Bellah (University of Toronto) and Yuveshen Mooroogen (University of British Columbia) | |
| This session will explore effective strategies for mentoring undergraduate students in mathematical research. Experienced mentors will share insights on selecting projects, guiding students through research processes, and developing essential skills such as mathematical communication and problem-solving. | |
| Saturday December 6 (Gerrard) | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Paige Bright (MIT) |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Michael Lamoureux (University of Calgary), Mathematical visualizations in undergraduate research projects |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Alex Losevich (University of Rochester), Research as an integral part of undergraduate curriculum |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Hazem Hassan (McGill University), Interaction between directed reading programs and undergraduate research projects |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Adrian Chitan (University of Western Ontario), Mentoring Success: Lessons from a Graduate-Undergraduate Model |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Parker Glynn-Adey (University of Toronto), Supporting A Departmental Culture of Undergraduate Research |
Posters
| AARMS-CMS Student Poster Session | |
| Schedule to be determined | |
| Shohel Ahmed (University of Alberta), Behaviorally Structured Consumer-Resource Dynamics | |
| Grace D'Agostino (University of Guelph), Uncertainty Analysis of a River Quality Model | |
| Amaury De Burgos (University of Calgary), The length of cyclic algebras | |
| Xinwen Ding (University of Toronto), Walk-on-Interfaces: A Monte Carlo Estimator for Elliptic Interface Problem | |
| Tan Phuong Dong le (University of Waterloo), Stable Mesh-Free Variational Radial Basis Function Approximation for Elliptic PDEs and Obstacle Problems | |
| Antun Nikola Dvorski (University of Toronto), A new proof of Baernstein's convolution inequality on the unit circle using geometric flow | |
| Joey Fingold (University of Guelph), Latent Gaussian Importance Sampling for Thinned Poisson Autoregressions | |
| Shan Gao (University of Alberta), Outbreak or Not? A Framework for Detecting Infectious Disease Outbreaks | |
| Cameron Jakub (University of Guelph), Depth Degeneracy in Neural Networks: Vanishing Angles in Fully Connected ReLU Networks on Initialization | |
| Vinay Joshy (University of Guelph), Sparse Group Lasso for Variable Selection in Finite Gaussian Mixture Regression Models | |
| Lexy Lawryshyn (University of Guelph), A Nonlinear ODE Model of Butyrate-Tumour-Immune Cell Dynamics in Colorectal Cancer | |
| Erica Liu (University of Waterloo), Toric Compactifications and Critical Points at Infinity in Analytic Combinatorics | |
| Rachana Mandal (University of Guelph), Modelling and Simulation Experiments on Directed Movement of Bacteria in Aqueous Medium with Counter-Diffusive Substrate Uptakes | |
| Arion Okubo (University of Toronto), Explicit Estimates for the Size of the Markoff mod p Cage | |
| Kenneth Shen (Carleton University Math Enrichment Centre), Families of rational-sided triangles with the same area and perimeter | |
| John Hunn Smith (University of Waterloo), Explicit Diagonal Asymptotics of Symmetric Multi-Affine Rational Functions via ACSV | |
| Aiden William James Taylor (University of Calgary), Wavelet Transforms and Machine Learning Methods for the Classification of Auroral Images | |
| Xuemeng Wang (Simon Fraser University), Christoffel Adaptive Sampling for Sparse Random Feature Expansions | |