Scientific Sessions

By invitation of the Meeting Committee, there will be sessions in the following areas. The list of speakers is preliminary, and participants interested in delivering a talk in one of the sessions should contact one of the organizers of that session.

Cluster Algebras and Related Topics
Org: Ralf Schiffler (Connecticut) and Hugh Thomas (UNB)

Ibrahim Assem (Sherbrooke), Juan Carlos Bustamante, Lucas David-Roesler (Connecticut), Michael Gekhtman (Notre Dame), Max Glick (Michigan), Kiyoshi Igusa (Brandeis), Kyungyong Lee (Wayne State), Gregg Musiker (Minnesota), Dylan Rupel (Oregon), Vasilisa Shramchenko (Sherbrooke), Gordana Todorov (Northeastern), Adam-Christian van Roosmalen (Regina).

Combinatorics
Org: Karen Meagher (Regina) and Marni Mishna (SFU)

Robert Bailey (Regina), Andrea Burgess (Ryerson), Sophie Burrill (SFU), Yi Cao (Alberta), Michael Cavers (Calgary), Ada Chan (York), Peter Dukes (Victoria), Chris Godsil (Waterloo), Angele Hamel (Laurier), Penny Haxell (Waterloo), Glenn Hurlbert (Arizona State), Samuel Johnson (SFU), Ben Li (Manitoba), Jessica McDonald (SFU), Karen Meagher (Regina), Marni Mishna (SFU), Joy Morris (Lethbridge), Ortrud Oellermann (Winnipeg), Alison Purdy (Regina), Mateja Sajna (Ottawa), Chris Soteros (Saskatchewan), Brett Stevens (Carleton), Amy Wiebe (SFU), Karen Yeats (SFU).

Complex Geometry and Related Fields
Org: Tatyana Barron (Western) and Eric Schippers (Manitoba)

Nadya Askaripour (Inst. Henri Poincare), Ajneet Dhillon (Western), Bruce Gilligan (Regina), Gordon Heier (Houston), Oleg Ivrii (Harvard), Alexey Kokotov (Concordia), David Minda (Cincinnati), Eric Schippers (Manitoba), Vasilisa Shramchenko (Sherbrooke), Ken Stephenson (Tennessee).

Computation of Analytical Operators in Applied and Industrial Mathematics
Org: Peter Gibson (York) and Michael Lamoureux (Calgary)

Timur Akhunov (Calgary), Peter Gibson (York), Chun-Hua Guo (Regina), Mike Haslam (York), Shafiqul Islam (PEI), Fotini Labropulu (Regina), Michael Lamoureux (Calgary), Artur P Sowa (Saskatchewan), Mohammad Tavalla (York), Vladimir Zubov (Calgary).

Connections in Mathematics Education
Org: Roberta La Haye (Mount Royal), Patrick Maidorn (Regina) and Kathy Nolan (Regina)

Egan Chernoff (Saskatchewan), Roberta La Haye and Irene Naested (Mount Royal), Kathleen Nolan and J. Harley Weston (Regina), Gale Russell (Saskatchewan), Rick Seaman (Regina), Alyson Worrall (Lethbridge), Carol Youck-Cousins and Donna Ell (Prairie Valley School Division and Miller Comprehensive HS).

Free Probability Theory: New Developments and Applications
Org: Serban Belinschi (Saskatchewan) and Benoît Collins (Ottawa)

James Mingo (Queen's), Raj Rao Nadakuditi (Michigan), Mihai V. Popa (Queen's), Emily Redelmeier (Paris-Sud), Nadia Saad (Ottawa), Victor Vinnikov (Ben Gurion; Israel), Jiun-Chau Wang (Saskatchewan).

Geometric Topology
Org: Steve Boyer (UQAM), Ryan Budney (Victoria) and Dale Rolfsen (UBC)

Tom Baird (Memorial), Ben Burton (Queensland), Radu Cebanu (UQAM), Adam Clay (UQAM), Zsuzsanna Dancso (Toronto), Tetsuya Ito (Tokyo; UBC), William Jaco (Oklahoma State), David Krebes (Calgary), Eduardo Martinez-Pedroza (Memorial), Mikael Pichot (McGill), Liam Watson (UCLA).

Geometry and Topology of Lie Transformation Groups
Org: Lisa Jeffrey (Toronto) and Liviu Mare (Regina)

Tom Baird (Memorial), Jonathan Fisher (Toronto), Matthias Franz (Western), Oliver Goertsches (Hamburg), Jacques Hurtubise (McGill), Derek Krepski (McMaster), Jochen Kuttler (Alberta), Gregory D. Landweber (Bard College), Travis Li (Toronto), David Li-Bland (Toronto), Liviu Mare (Regina), Leonardo Mihalcea (Virginia Tech), Peter Quast (Augsburg), Steven Rayan (Toronto), Kathleen Smith (Toronto), Julianna Tymoczko (Smith College), Catalin Zara (Massachusetts Boston).

Harmonic Analysis and Operator Spaces
Org: Yemon Choi and Ebrahim Samei (Saskatchewan)

Mahmood Alaghmandan (Saskatchewan), Michael Brannan (Queen's), Yemon Choi (Saskatchewan), Elcim Elgun (Waterloo), Fereidoun Ghahramani (Manitoba), Mahya Ghandehari (Dalhousie), Mehrdad Kalantar (Carleton), Laura Marti Perez (Waterloo), Matthew Mazowita (Alberta), Volker Runde (Alberta), Nico Spronk (Waterloo), Keith Taylor (Dalhousie), Ben Willson (Windsor), Yong Zhang (Manitoba).

Homotopy Theory
Org: Kristine Bauer (Calgary) and Marcy Robertson (Western)

Julie Bergner (UC-Riverside), Michael Ching (Amherst College), Martin Frankland (Illinois - Urbana-Champaign), Phil Hackney (UC-Riverside), Rick Jardine (Western), Brenda Johnson (Union College), Keith Johnson (Dalhousie), Dan Lior (Illinois - Urbana-Champaign), Parker Lowrey (Western), Hugo Rodriguez Ordonez (Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes), Simona Paoli (Leicester, UK), Dorette Pronk (Dalhousie), Marcy Robertson (Western), Don Stanley (Regina), Sean Tilson (Wayne State).

Interactions Between Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra
Org: Susan Cooper (Central Michigan) and Sean Sather-Wagstaff (North Dakota State)

Kristen Beck (Arizona), Jennifer Biermann (Lakehead), Enrico Carlini (Politecnico di Torino), Annika Denkert (Nebraska-Lincoln), Sara Faridi (Dalhousie), Chris Francisco (Oklahoma State), Nathan Grieve (Queen's), Brian Harbourne (Nebraska-Lincoln), Andrew Hoefel (Queen's), Mike Janssen (Nebraska-Lincoln), Melissa Lindsey (Indiana Wesleyan), Uwe Nagel (Kentucky), Luke Oeding (UC-Berkeley), Megan Patnott (Notre Dame), Chris Peterson (Colorado State), Sandra Spiroff (Mississippi), Stephen Sturgeon (Kentucky).

Number Theory
Org: Mark Bauer (Calgary), Richard McIntosh (Regina) and Eric Roettger (Mount Royal)

Michael Bennett (UBC), Dan Brown (Certicom), Paul Buckingham (Alberta), Michael Coons (Waterloo), Karl Dilcher (Dalhousie), Matthew Greenberg (Calgary), Patrick Ingram (Colorado State), Michael Jacobson (Calgary), David Jao (Waterloo), Keith Johnson (Dalhousie), Richard McIntosh (Regina), Renate Scheidler (Calgary), Cameron Stewart (Waterloo), Colin Weir (Calgary), Hugh Williams (Calgary).

Operator Algebras
Org: Martin Argerami, Juliana Erlijman and Remus Floricel (Regina)

Berndt Brenken (Calgary), Man-Duen Choi (Toronto), Andrew Dean (Lakehead), Heath Emerson (Victoria), Doug Farenick (Regina), Gilad Gour (Calgary), Siri-Malén Høynes (Trondheim, Norway), Cristian Ivanescu (Grant MacEwan), Laurent Marcoux (Waterloo), Shawn McCann (Calgary), Yasuhiko Sato (Kyoto), Eugeniu Spinu (Edmonton), Ami Viselter (Alberta), Dilian Yang (Windsor).

Perspectives in Mathematical Physics
Org: Yvan Saint-Aubin and Luc Vinet (Montréal)

Ferenc Balogh (Concordia), Vincent Bouchard (Alberta), Tiago Dinis da Fonseca (CRM), Patrick Desrosiers (Universidad de Talca), David Feder (Calgary), Daniel Gottesman (Perimeter Institute), Gabor Kunstatter (Winnipeg), Raymond Laflamme (Waterloo), Josh Lapan (McGill), Shunji Matsuura (McGill), Stefan Mendez-Diez (Alberta), Marco Merkli (Memorial), Robert Milson (Dalhousie), Alexi Morin-Duchesne (Montréal), Manu Paranjape (Montréal), Sarah Post (CRM), Walid Abou Salem (Saskatchewan).

Representation Theory of Groups, Lie Algebras, and Hopf Algebras
Org: Allen Herman and Fernando Szechtman (Regina)

Murray Bremner (Saskatchewan), Leandro Cagliero (Cordoba), Paolo Casati (Milan), Gerald Cliff (Alberta), Hubert de Guise (Lakehead), Hader Elgendy (Saskatchewan), Michael Geline (Northern Illinois), Nicolas Guay (Alberta), Xiangqian Guo (Zhengzhou), Gerhard Hiss (Aachen), Michael Lau (Laval), Mark Lewis (Kent State), Sonia Natale (Cordoba), Jose Pantoja (Valparaiso), Rachael Quinlan (Galway), Anna Stokke (Winnipeg), Ryan Vinroot (William and Mary).

Total Positivity
Org: Shaun Fallat (Regina) and Michael Gekhtman (Notre Dame)

Alvaro Barreras (Zaragoza), Shaun Fallat (Regina), Stephane Launois (Kent), Mahmoud Manjegani (Regina), Shahla Nasserasr (Regina).