2015 CMS Winter Meeting
McGill University, December 4 - 7, 2015
Schedule - Plenary, Prize and Public Lectures
Friday December 4  | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Isabelle Gallagher (Université Paris-Diderot), Public Lecture, Est-ce que les mathématiques peuvent permettre de prévoir le temps ?, Soprano A & B |
| Saturday December 5 | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Anna Gilbert (Michigan), Plenary Lecture, Recent developments in the Sparse Fourier Transform, Soprano A & B |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Mark Mac Lean (UBC), Adrien Pouliot Award, Small Number and Beyond: Entering Spaces for Aboriginal Learning, Soprano A & B |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Martin Hairer (Warwick, U.K.), Plenary Lecture, On random rubber bands, Soprano A & B |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | John Baez (U. C. Riverside, California), Public Lecture, The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, Soprano A & B |
| Sunday December 6 | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Caroline Series (Warwick, U.K.), Plenary Lecture, Boundaries of discreteness and hyperbolic 3-manifolds, Soprano A & B |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Alejandro Adem (UBC), Jeffery-Williams Prize, Finite Groups from a Topology Perspective, Soprano A & B |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Jamie Tappenden (Michigan), Plenary Lecture, Styles of Mathematical Explanation. Why do Elliptic Functions have Two Periods?, Soprano A & B |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Bernard Hodgson (Laval), Plenary Lecture, History of mathematics as a component of university math education: reflections inspired by Archimedes’ mathematical rhetoric, Soprano A & B |
| Monday December 7 | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Yuval Filmus (Toronto), Doctoral Prize, Analysis of Boolean functions on exotic domains, Soprano A & B |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Gilles Brassard (Montréal), Plenary Lecture, Cryptography in a Quantum World, Soprano A & B |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Hector Pasten (Queen’s), Doctoral Prize, The abc conjecture: a review and update, Soprano A & B |
