Departmental Colloquium: Friday 14:30-15:20 (Jeffery
Hall 234)
Fall 2011
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-09-16 | Zouheir Mansourati (TELUS) | Challenges and Opportunities in a Hyper-connected
Universe |
Ram Murty |
| 2011-09-23 | Jung-Jo Lee (Yonsei University, South Korea) |
Conjectures on the ranks of elliptic curves |
Ram Murty |
| 2011-09-30 | Ramarathnam Venkatesan (Microsoft Research) | Random Continued Fractions and new attacks on small exponent RSA | Ram Murty |
| 2011-10-07 | Andrei Akhmetzhanov (McMaster Univ.) | Using the method of characteristics in nonzero-sum
differential games |
Troy Day |
| 2011-10-14 | Jeffrey Rosenthal (Univ. Toronto) | Adapting Metropolis and Gibbs Samplers |
Serdar Yuksel |
| 2011-10-21 | Robert M. Gray (Stanford Univ.) | Faking an IID Gaussian Process with Coin Flips |
Tamas Linder |
| 2011-10-28 | Jan Foniok (Queen's) | What is a homomorphism duality? | |
| 2011-11-04 | Shahla Molahajloo (Queen's) | Diagonalization of Weyl Transforms and Heat Equations
for Time-Dependent Hermite Operators |
|
| 2011-11-11 | Ram Murty | The Mathematical Legacy of Srinivasa Ramanujan |
|
| 2011-11-18 | Kai Wang (Univ. Iowa) | An application of the proportional odds model to
genetic
association studies |
Paul Peng |
| 2011-11-25 |
Mihai Popa (Queen's) | Non-Commutative Functions and Some of Their
Applications in Free
Probability
|
|
| 2011-12-02 |
Luca Chiantini (Universita' di Siena) | On the Geometry of Tensors |
Tony Geramita |
Winter 2012
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-01-13 | Troy Day (Queen's) | What is wrong with evolutionary theory and how might it
be fixed?
|
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| 2012-01-20 | [Special Colloquium]
Serban
Belinschi (University of
Saskatchewan)
|
(Non)commutative probability through an analyst's lens
|
|
| 2012-01-24 |
[Special
Colloquium: @15:30] Ke Zhang (University of Toronto) |
Instability in nearly
integrable Hamiltonian systems |
|
| 2012-01-27 | [Special Colloquium] Oleg
Makarenkov (Imperial College London) |
Bifurcations in nonsmooth dynamical systems
|
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| 2012-01-31 | [Special Colloquium: @15:30] Pinhas Grossman (IMPA) |
Quantum subgroups of exotic fusion categories
|
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| 2012-02-10 | Man Wah Wong (York University) | Spectral Theory and Number Theory of the Twisted
Bi-Laplacian |
Abdol-Reza Mansouri |
| 2012-02-17 | Ilijas Farah (York University) | Classification problems in mathematics |
Jamie Mingo |
| 2012-03-02 | Philip Candelas (University of Oxford) | The Impact of String Theory on Mathematics |
Mike
Roth
|
| 2012-03-09 | Nuno
Martins (University of Maryland) |
New Convex Parametrizations for the Design of Sparsity Constrained Controllers | Serdar Yuksel |
| 2012-03-16 | David J. Thomson | A Communications Engineer Looks at Climate Data | |
| 2012-03-23 | Minyi Huang (Carleton University) | Decentralized Control in Mean Field Stochastic Systems |
Serdar Yuksel |
| 2012-03-30 | Manfred
Kolster (McMaster) |
Special values of zeta-functions |
Ram Murty |