2019 CMS Summer Meeting

Regina, June 7 - 10, 2019

Sessions        

Scientific Sessions

All scientific sessions will take place at the University of Regina.

Assessment in Mathematics
Org: Shannon Ezzat (Winnipeg) and Rebecca McKay (UNB)
 
Sunday June 9  (ED 623, Education Building)
8:00 - 8:30 Darja Barr (University of Manitoba), Taking Math Students from 'Blah' to 'Aha': How Can Assessment Help?
8:30 - 9:00 Rebecca Milley (Grenfell Campus, Memorial University), Reading, Writing, Arithmetic: Assessment Strategies for Readings and Written Work in Mathematics
9:00 - 9:30 Lauren DeDieu (University of Calgary), Using Assessments to Boost Motivation in a Second-Year Linear Algebra Class
9:30 - 10:00 Christopher Eagle (University of Victoria), In-class formative assessment in proof-heavy courses
10:00 - 10:30 Rebecca McKay (University of New Brunswick, Saint John), Active Assessment
16:00 - 16:30 Discussion Session
16:30 - 17:00 Danny Dyer (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
17:00 - 17:30 Patrick Reynolds (University of New Brunswick), Assessing and Grading with Crowdmark
17:30 - 18:00 Marie Langlois (Cornell University), Using Free Online Software to Efficiently Assess Students
 
Categorical Approaches to Topology and Geometry
Org: Marzieh Bayeh (Dalhousie), Darien DeWolf (St Francis Xavier) and Dorette Pronk (Dalhousie)
 
Saturday June 8
16:30 - 17:00 Jonathan Scott (Cleveland State University), Wasserstein distance for generalized persistence modules and abelian categories, ED 314, Education Building
17:30 - 18:00 Seth Wolbert (University of Manitoba), Fibrations as presentations of actions on stacks, ED 314, Education Building
 
Sunday June 9
8:00 - 8:30 Robin Cockett (University of Calgary), Hyperconnections, ED 314, Education Building
8:30 - 9:00 Chris Kapulkin (Western University), Cubical models of higher category theory, ED 314, Education Building
9:00 - 9:30 Zach Lindsey (Western University), Cubical models of higher category theory, ED 314, Education Building
9:30 - 10:00 Hellen Colman (Wilbur Wright College), Equivariant motion planning, ED 314, Education Building
10:00 - 10:30 Rory Lucyshyn-Wright (Brandon University), Functional distribution monads and $\tau$-additive measures
16:00 - 16:30 Laura Scull (Fort Lewis College), Defining Bicategories of Fractions with Small Hom Sets, ED 314, Education Building
16:30 - 17:00 Dorette Pronk (Dalhousie University), Nice properties of the bicategory of orbigroupoids, ED 314, Education Building
17:00 - 17:30 Jordan Watts (Central Michigan University), Bredon Cohomology for Transitive Groupoids, ED 314, Education Building
17:30 - 18:00 Joel Villatoro (KU Leuven), Geometric structures on differentiable stacks, ED 314, Education Building
 
Monday June 10
8:00 - 8:30 Kristine Bauer (University of Calgary), The Kleisli category of a pseudomonad for chain complexes, CK 187, Centre for Kinesiology
8:30 - 9:00 JS Lemay (Oxford University), The Poincaré Lemma for Codifferential Categories with Antiderivatives, CK 187, Centre for Kinesiology
9:00 - 9:30 Ben McAdam (University of Calgary), Involution Algebroids, CK 187, Centre for Kinesiology
9:30 - 10:00 Geoff Cruttwell (Mount Allison University), Curvature and torsion without negatives, CK 187, Centre for Kinesiology
10:00 - 10:30 Marzieh Bayeh (Dalhousie University), Orbit Category and The Category of Orbit Classes, CK 187, Centre for Kinesiology
14:45 - 15:15 Darien Dewolf (St. Francis Xavier University), The equivalence of ordered groupoids and left cancellative categories using double categories, CK 187, Centre for Kinesiology
15:15 - 15:45 Curran McConnell (Dalhousie University), Combinatorics of spaces of trees: an application of topology to phylogenetics, CK 187, Centre for Kinesiology
15:45 - 16:15 Michael Lambert (Dalhousie University), A Site for Continuous 2-Group Actions, CK 187, Centre for Kinesiology
16:15 - 16:45 Jonathan Gallagher (Dalhousie University), Etale Subobject classifiers in SDG and tangent categories, CK 187, Centre for Kinesiology
 
Contributed Papers
Org: Allen Herman (Regina), Alexander Litvak (Alberta) and Karen Meagher (Regina)
 
Sunday June 9  (CK 185, Centre for Kinesiology)
16:00 - 16:30 A. Sarobidy Razafimahatratra (University of Regina), Erdős–Ko–Rado Theorem for permutation groups
16:30 - 17:00 Zhenyuan Zhang (University of Waterloo), On discrete-time self-similar processes with stationary increments
17:00 - 17:30 Hossein Pourali (Brandon University), ALGEBRAIC AND GRAPH THEORETIC ASPECTS IN LATTICES AND POSETS
17:30 - 18:00 Saleh Mustafa (University of Regina), Higher Rank Numerical Ranges for Certain Non-normal Matrices
 
Equivariant Methods in Differential and Algebraic Geometry
Org: Lisa Jeffrey (Toronto), Liviu Mare (Regina) and Leonardo Mihalcea (Virginia Tech)
 
Saturday June 8  (ED 106.1, Education Building)
8:00 - 8:30 Anders Buch (Rutgers University), Positivity of minuscule quantum K-theory
8:50 - 9:20 Jenna Rajchgot (University of Saskatchewan), Grobner bases for certain type C Kazhdan-Lusztig ideals
9:40 - 10:10 Matthias Franz (University of Western Ontario), The number of connected orbit types in a $G$-manifold
16:00 - 16:30 Alejandro Adem (University of British Columbia), Twisted equivariant K-theory of compact Lie group actions with maximal rank isotropy
16:40 - 17:10 Chi-Kwong Fok (University of Auckland), Twisted K-theory and extended Verlinde algebra
17:20 - 17:50 Jeffrey Carlson (University of Toronto), The equivariant K-theory of a cohomogeneity-one action
 
Sunday June 9  (ED 106.1, Education Building)
8:00 - 8:30 Steven Rayan (University of Saskatchewan), Linearizations of character varieties of curves: geometry and mirror symmetry
8:50 - 9:20 Evan Sundbo (University of Saskatchewan), The Geometry of Twisted Cyclic Quiver Varieties
9:40 - 10:10 Jordan Watts (Central Michigan University), Classifying Spaces for Diffeological Groups
16:00 - 16:30 Kirill Zanoulline (University of Ottawa), Localized Landweber-Novikov operations on generalized cohomology
16:40 - 17:10 Changlong Zhong (SUNY Albany), On the K-theoretic stable bases
17:20 - 17:50 Tom Baird (Memorial University of Newfoundland), E-polynomials of character varieties associated to a real curve
 
Monday June 10  (ED 106.1, Education Building)
8:00 - 8:30 Derek Krepski (University of Manitoba), An analogue of Kostant’s formula for Lie group-valued moment maps
8:50 - 9:20 Yiannis Loizides (Penn State University), Quasi-polynomials, asymptotics and [Q,R]=0
9:40 - 10:10 Mark Hamilton (Mount Allison University), Integral integral affine geometry, quantization, and Riemann-Roch.
14:45 - 15:15 Jeremy Lane (University of Geneva), Volume exhausting, $T$-equivariant symplectic embeddings of toric manifolds into regular coadjoint orbits
15:25 - 15:55 Peter Crooks (Northeastern University), Kostant-Toda lattices and invariant theory
16:05 - 16:35 Rebecca Goldin (George Mason University), Schubert Calculus, Schubert Operators, and Positivity
 
Finite and Infinite Dimensional Structures in Non-Commutative Analysis
Org: Martin Argerami and Remus Floricel (Regina)
 
Saturday June 8  (ED 191, Education Building)
8:00 - 8:30 Dilian Yang (University of Windsor), KMS states of self-similar k-graph C*-algebras
8:30 - 9:00 Matthias Neufang (Carleton University), Solution to several problems regarding tensor products and crossed products of $C^*$- and von Neumann algebras
9:00 - 9:30 Marcelo Laca (University of Victoria), Reconstructing directed graphs
9:30 - 10:00 Jason Crann (Carleton University), An equivariant weak expectation property and amenable actions
10:00 - 10:30 Paul Skoufranis (York University), Majorization, Convexity, and Expectations
16:00 - 16:30 Nico Spronk (University of Waterloo), Fixed points of contractive measures acting by convolution
16:30 - 17:00 Masoud Khalkhali (Western University), Von Neumann information entropy, second quantization, and spectral action
17:00 - 17:30 Volker Runde (University of Alberta), Amenability of the Fourier algebra in the completely bounded multiplier norm
17:30 - 18:00 Daniel Drimbe (University of Regina), Prime II$_1$ factors arising from actions of product groups
 
Sunday June 9  (ED 191, Education Building)
8:00 - 8:30 Vern Paulsen (University of Waterloo), Preservation of the joint essential matricial range
8:30 - 9:00 Heath Emerson (University of Victoria), Transversals and Connes' duality for the irrational rotation algebra
9:00 - 9:30 Francesco Fidaleo (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Uniquely Ergodic $C^*$-Dynamical Systems for the noncommutative 2-torus
9:30 - 10:00 Raphael Clouatre (University of Manitoba), Residual finite-dimensionality for general operator algebras
10:00 - 10:30 Berndt Brenken (University of Calgary), Partial isometries implementing cpc C*- dynamical systems
16:00 - 16:30 Jiun-Chau Wang (University of Saskatchewan), Probability measures in bi-free probability
16:30 - 17:00 Cristian Ivanescu (MacEwan University), Pedersen ideals of tensor products of nonunital C*-algebras
17:00 - 17:30 Edward Timko (University of Manitoba), The Spectrum of Constrained Model $d$-tuples
17:30 - 18:00 Anamaria Savu (University of Alberta), Conservative Restricted Solid-on-Solid Model
 
Finite Geometry
Org: Tim Alderson (UNB) and Brett Stevens (Carleton)
 
Saturday June 8  (CK 185, Centre for Kinesiology)
9:00 - 9:30 Tim Alderson (University of New Brunswick Saint John), $t$-Extensions of Linear Codes
9:30 - 10:00 James McQuillan (Western Illinois University), Desargues configurations with self-conjugate points
10:00 - 10:30 Aiden Bruen (Carleton University), An extension of Desargues Theorem
16:00 - 16:30 Brett Stevens (Carleton University), Affine planes with ovals for blocks
16:30 - 17:00 John Sheekey (University College Dublin), Finite Geometry and Rank-Metric Codes
17:30 - 18:00 David Wehlau (Royal Military College of Canada), Planes, Division Sequences and ZZ-topes
 
Functional and Complex Analysis
Org: Douglas Farenick (Regina) and Javad Mashreghi (Laval)
 
Saturday June 8  (ED 315, Education Building)
8:00 - 8:30 Damir Kinzebulatov (Université Laval), A new look at the KLMN theorem
8:30 - 9:00 Mohammad Shirazi (University of Manitoba), Grunsky and Faber Operators for Riemann Surfaces with One Border
9:00 - 9:30 Christopher Ramsey (Grant MacEwan University), What is and is not a Tensor algebra
9:30 - 10:00 Ryan Tessier (University of Regina), Purity of the Identity Map on the Operator System generated by the Free Group
10:00 - 10:30 Raphael Clouatre (University of Manitoba), Uniform quotients and $\mathrm{C}^*$-envelopes on the Drury-Arveson space
16:00 - 16:30 Abdel Rahman (University of Regina), Homogeneous Levi Foliations
16:30 - 17:00 Ed Timko (University of Manitoba), Row Contractions Constrained by Higher Order Vanishing Ideals.
17:00 - 17:30 Bruce Gilligan (University of Regina), Pseudoconvex homogeneous manifolds
17:30 - 18:00 Richard Fournier (Dawson College), A Schwarz lemma for locally univalent meromorphic functions
18:00 - 18:30 Javad Mashreghi (Université Laval), Approximation schemes in function spaces
 
High-Dimensional Problems in Finance and Quantitative Research
Org: Taehan Bae and Andrei Volodin (Regina)
 
Saturday June 8  (ED 438, Education Building)
8:00 - 8:30 Alexander Melnikov (University of Alberta), On Option Pricing Methods in Modern Mathematical finance
8:30 - 9:00 Xuemiao Hao (University of Manitoba), Sharp Tail Estimate for Aggregate Critical Illness Claims in a Large Population
9:00 - 9:30 Yangho Choi (Hanyang University), Macroscopic Modeling of Data Breach Risk with Spatial and Temporal Autocorrelation
9:30 - 10:00 Shanoja Naik (Registered Nurses Association of Ontario), On Wishart Process and Sovereign Credit Risk Modelling
10:00 - 10:30 Naeima Ashleik (University of Saskatchewan), Learning for Contingency Tables and Survival Data Using Imprecise Probabilities
16:00 - 16:30 Syed Ejaz Ahmed (Brock University), Implicit Bias in Big Data Analytics
16:30 - 17:00 Shakhawat Hossain (University of Winnipeg), Estimation strategy of multilevel model for ordinal longitudinal data
17:00 - 17:30 Thuntida Ngamkham (University of Calgary), Confidence intervals for a ratio of binomial proportions
17:30 - 18:00 Salma Saad (University of Regina), Asymptotic Analysis of Method of Moments Estimators of Parameters p and m for the Binomial Distribution
 
Indigenization and Reconciliation in Mathematics
Org: Douglas Farenick (Regina) and Keith Taylor (Dalhousie)
 
Saturday June 8  (ED 558, Education Building)
8:00 - 8:30 Keith Taylor (Dalhousie University), What can the CMS do about reconciliation?
8:30 - 9:00 Brian Forrest (University of Waterloo), Expanding Mathematics Educational Opportunites for Indigenous Teachers
9:00 - 9:30 Veselin Jungic (Simon Fraser University), Changing Lives or Scratching the Surface: Five Years of the SFU Academic Summer Camp for Aboriginal Students
9:30 - 10:00 Darja Barr (University of Manitoba), The Impact of Working Together
10:00 - 10:30 Melania Alvarez (University of British Columbia), Engaging Indigenous communities through math outreach
16:00 - 16:30 Edward Doolittle (First Nations University of Canada)
16:30 - 17:00 Kathy Nolan (University of Regina), A Reframing of Mathematics through Critical and Culturally Responsive Pedagogies
17:00 - 17:30 Gale Russell (University of Regina), Truth before Reconciliation in Mathematics and Mathematics Education: An Invitation to Action
17:30 - 18:00 Open Discussion
 
Sunday June 9  (ED 558, Education Building)
8:30 - 9:00 Arzu Sardarli (First Nations University of Canada), Use of Indigenous elements in teaching introductory Statistics courses
9:00 - 9:30 Doug Farenick (University of Regina), Acts of Reconciliation -- A Scientist's Experience
9:30 - 10:00 Open Discussion
10:00 - 10:30 Open Discussion
 
Mathematical Techniques for Analysing Quantum Structures and Materials
Org: Steven Rayan and Artur Sowa (Saskatchewan)
 
Saturday June 8  (ED 106.2, Education building)
8:00 - 8:30 Alex Zagoskin (Loughborough University), Towards the qualitative theory of large quantum coherent structures
8:30 - 9:00 Cihan Okay (University of British Columbia), Topology of quantum contextuality
9:00 - 9:30 Joseph Maciejko (University of Alberta), Strongly interacting topological phases of matter
9:30 - 10:00 Robert Green (University of Saskatchewan), Numerical Many Body Models for Synchrotron Spectroscopy of Quantum Materials
10:00 - 10:30 Ray Spiteri (University of Saskatchewan), Quantum control for high-fidelity multi-qubit gates
16:00 - 16:30 Neil J. Ross (Dalhousie University), Number-Theoretic Methods in Quantum Compiling
16:30 - 17:00 Gilad Gour (University of Calgary), Mathematical structures and features of quantum resource theories
17:00 - 17:30 Artur Sowa (University of Saskatchewan), Qubits, wavelets, fractals, bands
 
Matrix Theory and its Applications
Org: Shaun Fallat (Regina) and Shahla Naserasr (Brandon)
 
Sunday June 9  (ED 106.2, Education building)
8:00 - 8:30 Murray R. Bremner (University of Saskatchewan), Computing a short basis for the nullspace of a modular matrix
8:30 - 9:00 Pietro Paparella (University of Washington Bothell), Matricial Proofs of Some Classical Results about Critical Point Location
9:00 - 9:30 Keivan Monfared (University of Victoria), An Analog of Matrix Tree Theorem for Signless Laplacians
9:30 - 10:00 Colin Garnett (Black Hills State University), Non-sparse Companion Matrices
10:00 - 10:30 Xiaohong Zhang (University of Manitoba), Perfect state transfer on weighted paths
16:00 - 16:30 Lon Mitchell (University of South Florida St. Petersburg), Optimal Colin de Verdière Matrices for Complete Multipartite Graphs
16:30 - 17:00 Sivaram K. Narayan (Central Michigan University), Graph Complement Conjecture for Classes of Shadow Graphs
17:00 - 17:30 Harmony Zhan (Université de Montréal), Quantum state transfer in the algebra of the Johnson scheme
17:30 - 18:00 Kerry Tarrant (University of Iowa), The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Minimally Cop Win and Maximally Robber Win Graphs
 
Monday June 10  (ED 106.2, Education building)
8:00 - 8:30 Robert Bailey (Memorial University of Newfoundland - Grenfell Campus), Orthogonal matrices with zero diagonal
8:30 - 9:00 Chun-Hua Guo (University of Regina), Explicit convergence region of Newton's method for the matrix $p$th root
9:00 - 9:30 Rajesh Pereira (University of Guelph), The real joint numerical range and the real higher rank numerical range
9:30 - 10:00 Samuel Cole (University of Manitoba), Spectral recovery of stochastic block models on graphs and hypergraphs
10:00 - 10:30 Mahsa Nasrollahi Shirazi (University of Regina), Erdős-Ko-Rado theorem for t-intersecting families of perfect matchings
14:45 - 15:15 Gurmail Singh (University of Regina), Encoding the vertices of a hyper cube
15:15 - 15:45 Eugene Bilokopytov (University of Manitoba), From Principal Minor Assignment problem for matrices to characterization of the isometries on Hilbert Spaces
15:45 - 16:15 Robert Craigen (University of Manitoba)
16:15 - 16:45 Nathan Krislock (Northern Illinois University)
 
Probabilistic Methods in Geometric Functional Analysis and Convexity
Org: Grigoris Paouris (Texas A&M), Alina Stancu (Concordia), Beatrice-Helen Vritsiou (Alberta) and Vlad Yaskin (Edmonton)
 
Saturday June 8  (ED 193, Education Building)
8:00 - 8:30 Elisabeth Werner (Case Western Reserve University), Entropy inequalities for log concave functions
8:30 - 9:00 Galyna Livshyts (Georgia Institute of Technology), Smallest singular value of inhomogeneous random square matrices via double counting and random rounding
9:00 - 9:30 Konstantin Tikhomirov (Georgia Institute of Technology), Small ball probability for the condition number of random matrices
9:30 - 10:00 Arnaud Marsiglietti (University of Florida), Hyperplane conjecture and central limit theorem
10:00 - 10:30 Piotr Nayar (University of Warsaw), The log-concave moment problem
16:00 - 16:30 Mokshay Madiman (University of Delaware), Sharp moment-entropy inequalities for log-concave distributions
16:30 - 17:00 Yair Shenfeld (Princeton University), Extremals in Minkowski's quadratic inequality
17:00 - 17:30 Kateryna Tatarko (University of Alberta), On the solution to the reverse isoperimetric problem
17:30 - 18:00 Susanna Dann (Universidad de los Andes), Affine isoperimetric inequalities on flag manifolds.
 
Sunday June 9  (ED 193, Education Building)
8:00 - 8:30 Jie Xiao (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Gaussian BV Capacity
8:30 - 9:00 Deping Ye (Memorial University of Newfoundland), The polar Orlicz-Minkowski problem
9:00 - 9:30 Qingzhong Huang (Memorial University of Newfoundland), The $L_p$ John ellipsoid for Sobolev functions
9:30 - 10:00 Sudan Xing (Memorial University of Newfoundland), The general dual-polar Orlicz-Minkowski problem
10:00 - 10:30 Victor Glasgo (Case Western Reserve University), Gravitational illumination bodies (Preliminary report)
16:00 - 16:30 Alexander Litvak (University of Alberta), On the volume ratio between convex bodies
16:30 - 17:00 Paata Ivanisvili (University of California, Irvine), Weissler's conjecture on the Hamming cube
17:00 - 17:30 Sergii Myroshnychenko (University of Alberta)
17:30 - 18:00 Boaz Slomka (Weizmann Institute of Science), On Hadwiger's covering problem
 
Randomness and Limited Information in Graph Searching Problems
Org: Danny Dyer (Memorial) and Ryan Tifenbach (Mount Allison)
 
Saturday June 8  (CK 187, Centre for Kinesiology)
8:00 - 8:30 Anthony Bonato (Ryerson), Limited information Cops and Robbers games
8:30 - 9:00 Andrea Burgess (University of New Brunswick St. John), Cops that surround a robber
9:00 - 9:30 Ryan Hayward (University of Alberta), Searching for Winning Strategies in Hex
9:30 - 10:00 Shahin Kamali (University of Manitoba), On the complexity of burning and broadcasting problems
10:00 - 10:30 David Pike (Memorial University of Newfoundland), The Firebreak Problem
 
Recent Advances in Probability and Stochastics
Org: Michael Kozdron (University of Regina) and Gregory Lawler (University of Chicago)
 
Saturday June 8  (ED 623, Education Building)
9:00 - 9:30 Christian Benes (Brooklyn College), Rates of Convergence for the Simple Random Walk Green's Function
9:30 - 10:00 Larissa Richards (University of Toronto), The polynomial rate of convergence of critical interfaces.
10:00 - 10:30 Arno Berger (University of Alberta), Best Kantorovich and Levy approximations on the real line
16:00 - 16:30 Yinon Spinka (University of British Columbia), A short proof of the discontinuity of phase transition in the planar random-cluster model with $q>4$
16:30 - 17:00 Kasun Fernando Akurugodage (University of Toronto), Higher order asymptotics for Large Deviations
17:00 - 17:30 Sarai Hernandez Torres (University of British Columbia), Scaling limits of uniform spanning trees in three dimensions
 
Representation Theory of Groups Defined Over Local Fields
Org: Monica Nevins (Ottawa) and Jerrod Smith (Calgary)
 
Saturday June 8  (ED 312, Education Building)
8:00 - 8:30 Paul Mezo (Carleton University), Equivalent definitions of Arthur-packets for real classical groups
8:30 - 9:00 Nicolas Arancibia (Carleton University), $A$(rthur)-Packets of Cohomological Representations
9:00 - 9:30 Ed Belk (University of British Columbia), The Local Trace Formula as a Motivic Identity
9:30 - 10:00 Daniel Le (University of Toronto), mod $p$ representations of $p$-adic $\mathrm{GL}_2$
10:00 - 10:30 Boaz Elazar (University of British Columbia), Schwartz Functions And Tempered Distributions On Singular Quasi-Nash Varieties
16:00 - 16:30 Adele Bourgeois (University of Ottawa), On the Multiplicities in the Restriction of a Supercuspidal Representation
16:30 - 17:00 David Roe (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), A database of p-adic tori
17:00 - 17:30 Nicole Kitt (University of Calgary), An ABV-packet for a General Linear Group with Two Representations
17:30 - 18:00 Loren Spice (Texas Christian University), New developments in the construction of tame, supercuspidal representations
 
Sunday June 9  (ED 312, Education Building)
8:30 - 9:00 Qing Zhang (University of Calgary), local converse theorems for unitary groups
9:00 - 9:30 Joshua Lansky (American University), Explicit liftings of conjugacy classes in finite reductive groups
9:30 - 10:00 Wan-Yu Tsai (University of Ottawa), The orbit philosophy for Spin groups
10:00 - 10:30 Hadi Salmasian (University of Ottawa), The minimal faithful dimension of finite p-groups: an application of the orbit method to the essential dimension
 
STUDC Research Session
 
Sunday June 9  (CK 185, Centre for Kinesiology)
8:00 - 8:30 Curran McConnell (Dalhousie University), Combinatorics of spaces of trees: an application of topology to phylogenetics
8:30 - 9:00 Asmita Sodhi (Dalhousie University), Integer-valued polynomials and a game called $p$-ordering
9:00 - 9:30 Nicole Kitt (University of Calgary), How to calculate perverse sheaves on quiver representation varieties of type A
9:30 - 10:00 Anne Dranowski (Univeristy of Toronto), MV cycles from generalized orbital varieties
10:00 - 10:30 Peter Bradshaw (Simon Fraser University), Cops and robbers on Cayley graphs
 
The Mathematics behind Quantum Information Science
Org: Nathaniel Johnston (Mount Allison) and Sarah Plosker (Brandon)
 
Saturday June 8  (ED 230, Education Building)
8:00 - 8:30 Vern Paulsen (University of Waterloo), Constant Gap for Self-embezzlement
8:30 - 9:00 Mizanur Rahaman (University of Waterloo), A new bound on quantum Wielandt inequality
9:00 - 9:30 Nathaniel Johnston (Mount Allison University), Pairwise Completely Positive Matrices and Quantum Entanglement
9:30 - 10:00 Sarah Plosker (Brandon University), The robustness of $k$-coherence
10:00 - 10:30 Eric Chitambar (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Playing Mermin’s Game with Nonlocal Resources
16:00 - 16:30 Rupert Levene (University College Dublin), Schur multipliers and mixed unitary maps
16:30 - 17:00 Jeremy Levick (University of Cape Town), Factorizable Quantum Channels and Linear Matrix Inequalities
17:00 - 17:30 Rajesh Pereira (University of Guelph), Quasiorthogonal algebras
17:30 - 18:00 Sabine Burgdorf (University of Konstanz), Quantum correlations and optimization
 
Sunday June 9  (ED 230, Education Building)
8:30 - 9:00 Gilad Gour (University of Calgary), Theories of Dynamical Quantum Resources
9:00 - 9:30 Carlo Maria Scandolo (University of Calgary), Necessary and Sufficient Conditions on Measurements of Quantum Channels
9:30 - 10:00 Jason Crann (Carleton University), State convertibility in the von Neumann algebra framework.
10:00 - 10:30 Comfort Mintah (University of Guelph), Operator algebras and quantum one-way LOCC state distinguishability
16:00 - 16:30 Neil J. Ross (Dalhousie University), A Characterization of Integral, Real, and Gaussian Clifford+T Operators
16:30 - 17:00 Sam Harris (University of Waterloo), Separating the matrix-valued bipartite correlation sets
17:00 - 17:30 Jamie Sikora (Perimeter Institute), Shadow Probabilities
17:30 - 18:00 Satish Pandey (Technion)
 
Topology
Org: Martin Frankland, Donald Stanley and Paul Arnaud Songhafouo Tsopméné (Regina)
 
Saturday June 8  (ED 318, Education Building)
8:00 - 8:30 Robin Koytcheff (University of Louisiana at Lafayette), The Taylor tower for the space of knots and finite-type knot invariants
8:30 - 9:00 Robin Koytcheff (University of Louisiana at Lafayette), Operadic decompositions of spaces of string links
9:00 - 9:30 Laura Scull (Fort Lewis College), Transitive Groupoids with Interesting Topological Properties
9:30 - 10:00 Jeffrey Carlson (University of Toronto), Local integration in equivariant cobordism theory
10:00 - 10:30 Rachel Hardeman (University of Calgary), An Introduction to A-Homotopy Theory: A Discrete Homotopy Theory for Graphs
16:00 - 16:30 Ben Williams (University of British Columbia), $\mathbb{A}^1$-homotopy and a conjecture of Suslin
16:30 - 17:00 Steven Rayan (University of Saskatchewan), The quiver at the bottom of the twisted nilpotent cone on $\mathbb P^1$
17:00 - 17:30 Cihan Okay (University of British Columbia), Mod-$\ell$ homotopy type of the classifying space for commutativity
17:30 - 18:00 Anthony Bahri (Rider University), Polyhedral products and their applications
 
Sunday June 9  (ED 318, Education Building)
8:30 - 9:00 Tyrone Ghaswala (University of Manitoba), Promoting circle actions to actions on the real line
9:00 - 9:30 Patrick Naylor (University of Waterloo), Trisections and twists of 4-manifolds
9:30 - 10:00 Kate Poirier (New York City College of Technology), Directed planar trees, V-infinity algebras, and string topology
10:00 - 10:30 Krishanu Sankar (University of British Columbia), Mod 2 cohomology and the braid group
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