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Symposia
[A more recent list of scheduled speakers is available here ]
By invitation of the Programme Committee,
there will be symposia in the following areas.
(Org: P. Milman, University of Toronto)
Donal O'Shea (Mt. Holyoke College)
Fedya Bogomolov (NYU Courant Institute)
Askold Khovanskii (Univ. of Toronto)
Jenia Shustin (Tel-Aviv Univ.)
Yosef Yomdin (Weizmann Institute)
Discrete Geometry
(Org: Robert Erdahl, Queen's University,
Marjorie Senechal, Smith College,
and Walter Whiteley, York University)
V. Alexandrov (Moscow)
P. Atela (Smith College)
L. Batten (Manitoba)
M. Bayer (Kansas)
A. Bezdek (Auburn)
K. Bezdek (Budapest)
T. Bisztriczky (Calgary)
Jin-Yi Cai (Buffalo)
R. Connelly (Cornell)
H.S.M. Coxeter (Toronto)
L. Danzer (Dortmund)
T. Havel (Harvard)
D. Jacobs (Michigan State)
W. Kuperburg (Auburn)
M. Senechal (Smith College)
I. Talata (Budapest)
A. Walz (Cornell)
W. Whiteley (York)
Education Session I
Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to Teaching
and Learning Mathematics at University
(Org: Morris Orzech and Grace Orzech,
Queen's University)
Ed Barbeau (Toronto)
William Byers (Concordia)
Tom Rishel (Cornell)
Morris Orzech (Queen's)
Donal O'Shea (Mt. Holyoke College)
Martha Siegel (Towson)
Keith Taylor (Saskatchewan)
Education Session II
Teaching mathematics - Why We
Do What We Do in the Classroom
(Org: William Higginson, Grace Orzech and Morris Orzech,
Queen's University)
This session is supported by the Fields Institute, and will be held at MacArthur College, situated some distance from the hotels.
The Queen's University Instructional Development Centre is planning a workshop featuring some of the invited speakers. Meeting participants will have an opportunity to register for this workshop.
William Higginson (Queen's)
Lynn McAlpine (McGill)
Pat Rogers (York)
Nathalie Sinclair (Queen's)
Extremal Combinatorics
(Org: D. de Caen, Queen's University)
Zoltan Füredi
(University of Illinois at Urbana and Math. Inst. Hungarian Acad. Sci.)
Richard Anstee (UBC)
Jason Brown (Dalhousie)
Ralph Faudree (Memphis)
Jerrold Griggs (South Carolina)
Penny Haxell (Waterloo)
David Fisher (Colorado)
Felix Lazebnik (Delaware)
Laszlo Székely (South Carolina)
Bing Zhou (Trent)
Mathematics on the Internet
(Org: June Lester, University of New Brunswick,
Nathalie Sinclair, Queen's University, and
Malgorzata Dubiel, Simon Fraser University)
This session is supported by the Fields Institute and the Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
There will also be two workshops entitled Introduction to Geometer's Sketchpad and JavaSketchpad: Geometry on the Web. The first is suitable for teachers and the second for those with some web experience. For more information, please contact the organizers at the following email addresses: jalester@cecm.sfu.ca or dubiel@cs.sfu.ca or sinclair@cecm.sfu.ca
Bill Casselman (UBC)
Stan Devitt (Waterloo Maple)
Chris Howlett (Web Pearls)
Loki Jörgenson (CECM)
Number Theory
(Org: Ram Murty and Noriko Yui, Queen's University)
This session has received additional funding from the Centre de recherches mathématiques.
Henri Darmon (McGill)
Chantal David (Concordia)
Jacek W. Fabrykowski (Manitoba)
Gunther Frei (Laval)
E. Goren (McGill)
C. Greither (Laval)
J. Huard (Canisius and Carleton)
Hershy Kisilevsky (Concordia)
Manfred Kolster (McMaster)
A. Ledet (Queen's)
Claude Levesque (Laval)
Kumar Murty (Toronto)
W. Nowak (Austia)
Y. Petridis (McGill)
Vladimir Platonov (Waterloo)
C.S. Rajan (Tata Institute)
Damien Roy (Ottawa)
Gary Walsh (Ottawa)
Hugh Williams (Manitoba)
Kenneth Williams (Carleton)
Operator Algebras
(Org: James Mingo, Queen's University)
Ken Davidson (Waterloo)
George Elliott (Toronto)
Thierry Giordano (Ottawa)
Andu Nica (Waterloo)
Probability Theory
(Org: Miklos Csörgo, Carleton University)
This session has received additional funding from The Fields Institute.
Siva Athreya (Fields)
M. Claude Belisle
Murray D. Burke
Colleen D. Cutler (Waterloo)
Andre R. Dabrowski (Ottawa)
Eric Derbez (McMaster)
Shui Feng (McMaster)
Rene Ferland
Antonia Foldes
Genevieve Gauthier
Christian Genest
Edit Gombay
Lajos Horvath
Gail Ivanoff (Ottawa)
Mike Kouritzin (Alberta)
Reg Kulperger (Western Ontario)
Brenda MacGibbon
Neal Madras (York)
Don L. McLeish (Waterloo)
Majid Mojirsheibani
Bruno Remillard (Québec-Trois Rivières)
Jeffrey S. Rosenthal (Toronto)
Tom Salisbury (York)
Byron Schmuland (Alberta)
Qi-Man Shao
Zhan Shi
Gordon Slade (McMaster)
Chistopher G. Small (Waterloo)
Barbara Szyszkowicz (Carleton)
Jean Vaillancourt
Keith Worsle
Hao Yu
Ricardas Zitikis
Topology - 4 Sub-sessions
(Org: Eddy Campbell, Queen's University)
1) Differential Geometry and Global Analysis
(Org: Muang Min-Oo and McKenzie Wang, McMaster University).
Christoph Boehm (McMaster)
Jingyi Chen (MIT)
Ailana Fraser (Stanford)
W. Goldman (Maryland)
Ross Niebergall (UNBC)
P. Ryan (McMaster)
John Toth (McGill)
Patrice Sawyer (Laurentian)
Miroslav Lovric (McMaster)
Jeffrey Boland (McMaster)
Alina Stancu (Courant Institute)
Igor Belagradek (McMaster)
Mike Gage (Rochester)
Mohan Ramachandran (SUNY Buffalo)
2) Homotopy Theory
(Org: Lisa Langsetmo, University of Ottawa
and Jim Shank, Queen's University).
Speakers to be announced.
3) Set Theoretic Topology
(Org: Juris Steprans and Steve Watson, York University).
Speakers to be announced.
4) Symplectic/Low Dimensional Topology
(Org: Steve Boyer, UQAM), Jacques Hurtubise, McGill, CRM
and François Lalonde, UQAM, CRM).
Speakers to be announced.
Universal Algebra and Multiple-Valued Logic
(Org: L. Haddad, Royal Military College)
Speakers to be announced.
Contributed Papers Session
(Org: L. Haddad, Royal Military College)
Contributed papers of 15 minutes duration are invited and graduate students are particularly urged to participate. Abstracts for CMS contributed papers should be prepared as specified below. For an abstract to be eligible, the abstract must be received before September 30, 1998. The abstract must be accompanied by its contributor's registration form and appropriate fees.
(Org: David Gregory, Queen's University)
In this session, graduate students will have an opportunity to present contributed papers on their research. Abstracts should be prepared as specified in the September issue of the CMS Notes. A limited fund will be available to pay part of the costs of travel for student speakers (last year this was about $3,500 at a payment of approximately $500 per speaker). Please contact the Meeting Directors for details on funding. Anyone interested in participating in the organization of this programme should contact the Meeting Director at the following address: md-w98@cms.math.ca.
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