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			Audio and/or slides are available for talks given at the Fields Institute during the following events in the year July 2003 - June 2004. For events from September 2012 onwards, plus selected events from June-August 2012, please see our video archive. For events from other years, plus those June-August 2012 talks that are only available in audio format, please consult the audio/slides home page. Various Dates Throughout the Year CRM-Fields Prize Lecture Quantitative Finance Seminar Series Fields Colloquium in Applied Mathematics 2003-2004 Coxeter Lecture Series Course on Partial Differential Equations Course on Optimal Transportation and Nonlinear Dynamics Course on Wave Propagation Course on Inverse Problems PRMIA Risk Management Seminar June 2004 Annual General Meeting Conference on Surface Water Waves Workshop on Semi-Classical Analysis May 2004 Workshop on Integrable and Near-Integrable Hamiltonian PDE Short Course on Hamiltonian Partial Differential Equations 2004 Distinguished Lecture Series April 2004 Third Annual IFID Conference on Asset Allocation and Mortality Workshop on Mathematical Oncology Fields Colloquium in Geometric Analysis Workshop on Kinetic Theory March 2004 Workshop on Kinetic Theory Short Course in Kinetic Theory Workshop on Nonlinear Wave Equations Weekend Meeting on Operator Algebras February 2004 Royal Canadian Institute Lectures Young Mathematicians Conference in PDE and Dynamical Systems January 2004 Young Mathematicians Conference in PDE and Dynamical Systems December 2003 Workshop on Bifurcation Theory and Spatio-Temporal Pattern Formation November 2003 Graduate School Information Day Workshop on Patterns in Physics MidWest Model Theory Meeting October 2003 FRSC Day Symposium on Inverse Problems September 2003 Workshop on Adaptive Designs Short Course on Mathematical Aspects of Fluid Dynamics 2003 CanQueue Conference First Canadian Workshop on Statistical Genomics August 2003 Workshop on the Calculus of Variations: Geometric Problems, Superconductivity, and Material Microstructures Workshop on Resonances in Linear and Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations July 2003 Workshop on Applications of Mathematics in Medicine Workshop and Conference on Infinite Dimensional Lie Theory and Its Applications CRM-Fields Prize Lecture March 8, 2004: John McKay, Concordia University: 196884 = 1 + 196883: A Monstrous tale November 5, 2003: Edwin Perkins, University of British Columbia: Super-Brownian Motion, Critical Spatial Stochastic Systems and Measure-Valued Diffusions Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Quantitative Finance Seminar Series October 29, 2003: Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Princeton University: Disentangling Diffusion from Jumps November 26, 2003: Ulrich Haussmann, University of British Columbia: Optimizing terminal wealth under partial observation November 26, 2003: Eliezer Z. Prisman, Schulich School of Business, York University: Arbitrage Violations and Implied Valuations: The Option Market January 28, 2004: Ivar Ekeland, Director, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences: A theory of bond portfolios January 28, 2004: Agnes Tourin, McMaster University: Numerical schemes for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations arising in mathematical finance February 25, 2004: John Hull, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto: Valuation of a CDO and an nth to Default CDS Without Monte Carlo Simulation February 25, 2004: Philip Protter, ORIE, Cornell University: Liquidity Risk and Arbitrage Pricing Theory March 31, 2004: René Carmona, Princeton University: American Options with Multiple Exercises: Theory and Numerics March 31, 2004: Heath Windcliff, TD Securities: Pricing and Hedging in Incomplete Markets with Basis Risk April 28, 2004: Alexander Melnikov, University of Alberta: Hedging Methodologies in Equity-Linked Life Insurance April 28, 2004: Chester Spatt, Carnegie Mellon University: Diversification and Capital Gains Taxes with Multiple Risky Assets May 26, 2004: John Chadam, University of Pittsburgh: Early exercise boundaries: Numerical and analytical approximations May 26, 2004: Eduardo Schwartz, Anderson School of Management, UCLA: A Model of R & D Valuation and the Design of Research Incentives Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Fields Colloquium in Applied Mathematics September 8, 2003: Giles Auchmuty, Houston University: Boundary-Value Problems for 3D Div. Curl Systems September 15, 2003: Joceline Lega, University of Arizona: Instability of Local Deformations of an Elastic Filament October 27, 2003: Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University: Entropy Dissipation and Conservation Laws November 3, 2003: Dario Bambusi, University of Milan: Birkhoff Normal Form for Some Quasilinear Hamiltonian PDEs November 24, 2003: Alexander Tovbis, University of Central Florida: Untitled November 27, 2003: Houde Han, Tsinghua University: The artificial boundary condition method for numerical solutions of PDEs on unbounded domains December 1, 2003: John Urbas, University of Southern Queensland: Self Similar Solutions of Gauss Curvature Flows January 12, 2004: Gregoire Loeper, The Fields Institute and Universite de Nice: The Inverse Problem for the Euler-Poisson System in Cosmology January 19, 2004: Adam Oberman, University of Texas at Austin: Building Solutions to Nonlinear Elliptic and Parabolic Partial Differential Equations January 26, 2004: Rafael Benguria, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile: Connection Between the Lieb-Thirring Conjecture for Schrodinger Operators and an Isoperimetric Problem for Ovals on the Plane February 2, 2004: Yakar Kannai, Weizmann Instititute and The Fields Institute: Real and complex approaches to Sub-Riemannian geometry and kernels associated with certain hypoelliptic operators February 9, 2004: Lars Jonsson, The Fields Institute: On Solitary Wave Dynamics in an External Potential February 24, 2004: David P Nicholls, Notre Dame: Stable Numerical Methods for Acoustic and Electromagnetic Scattering March 9, 2004: Frédéric Dias, CMLA: On the Stability of Solitary Waves March 22, 2004: Krzysztof Burdzy,, University of Washington: Neumann Eigenfunctions and Brownian Couplings April 5, 2004: E. B. Davies, King's College, London: Pseudospectra and Semi-Classical Analysis April 5, 2004: Wilfrid Gangbo, Georgia Institute of Technology: Michell Trusses and Extension of Vector Valued Maps April 19, 2004: Roger Temam, Universite de Paris Sud: Mathematical Problems in Meteorology and Oceanography April 26, 2004: Alexander Mikhailov, University of Leeds: Variety of Integrable PDEs May 10, 2004: Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton University: On the bounded L^2 curvature conjecture Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing 2003-2004 Coxeter Lecture Series October 20, 2003: L. Craig Evans, University of California, Berkeley: Introduction, Optimal Mass Transfer October 21, 2003: L. Craig Evans, University of California, Berkeley: Weak KAM Theory for Dynamics October 22, 2003: L. Craig Evans, University of California, Berkeley: Calculus of Variations in the Max-Norm May 3, 2004: Sergei Kuksin, Heriot-Watt University: Introduction - Mathematics of 2D Statistical Hydrodynamics May 4, 2004: Sergei Kuksin, Heriot-Watt University: The Uniqueness Theorem and Related Results May 5, 2004: Sergei Kuksin, Heriot-Watt University: The Uniqueness Theorem and Related Results II Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Course on Partial Differential Equations September 17, 2003: Walter Craig, McMaster University: Lecture September 24, 2003: Walter Craig, McMaster University: Lecture October 1, 2003: Walter Craig, McMaster University: Lecture October 8, 2003: Walter Craig, McMaster University: Lecture October 22, 2003: Walter Craig, McMaster University: Lecture October 29, 2003: Walter Craig, McMaster University: Lecture November 5, 2003: Walter Craig, McMaster University: Lecture (Part 1) November 5, 2003: Walter Craig, McMaster University: Lecture (Part 2) November 12, 2003: Walter Craig, McMaster University: Lecture November 19, 2003: Walter Craig, McMaster University: Lecture November 26, 2003: Walter Craig, McMaster University: Lecture December 3, 2003: Walter Craig, McMaster University: Lecture January 14, 2004: Walter Craig, McMaster University: Lecture January 28, 2004: Walter Craig, McMaster University: Lecture February 4, 2004: Walter Craig, McMaster University: Lecture February 11, 2004: Walter Craig, McMaster University: Lecture February 18, 2004: Walter Craig, McMaster University: Lecture February 25, 2004: Walter Craig, McMaster University: Lecture March 3, 2004: Walter Craig, McMaster University: Lecture March 10, 2004: Walter Craig, McMaster University: Lecture April 7, 2004: Walter Craig, McMaster University: Lecture April 14, 2004: Walter Craig, McMaster University: Lecture Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Course on Optimal Transportation and Nonlinear Dynamics September 8, 2003: Robert McCann, University of Toronto: Lecture September 11, 2003: John Urbas, Australian National University & The Fields Institute: Fully Nonlinear Elliptic PDE: A Graduate Level Introduction-Lecture September 16, 2003: Robert McCann, University of Toronto: Lecture September 30, 2003: Robert McCann, University of Toronto: Lecture October 7, 2003: Robert McCann, University of Toronto: Lecture October 14, 2003: Robert McCann, University of Toronto: Lecture October 16, 2003: John Urbas, Australian National University & The Fields Institute: Lecture October 21, 2003: John Urbas, Australian National University & The Fields Institute: Lecture October 28, 2003: Robert McCann, University of Toronto: Lecture (Part 1) October 28, 2003: Robert McCann, University of Toronto: Lecture (Part 2) November 4, 2003: Robert McCann, University of Toronto: Lecture November 6, 2003: John Urbas, Australian National University & The Fields Institute: Lecture November 11, 2003: Robert McCann, University of Toronto: Lecture November 13, 2003: John Urbas, University of Southern Queensland: Lecture November 20, 2003: Robert McCann, University of Toronto: Lecture November 25, 2003: Robert McCann, University of Toronto: Lecture November 27, 2003: John Urbas, University of Southern Queensland: Lecture December 2, 2003: Robert McCann, University of Toronto: Lecture Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Course on Wave Propagation September 15, 2003: Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto: September 15, 2003 September 16, 2003: Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto: September 16, 2003 September 22, 2003: Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto: September 22, 2003 September 29, 2003: Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto: September 29, 2003 September 30, 2003: Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto: September 30, 2003 October 7, 2003: Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto: October 7, 2003 October 14, 2003: Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto: October 14, 2003 October 20, 2003: Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto: October 20, 2003 October 21, 2003: Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto: October 21, 2003 October 27, 2003: Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto: October 27, 2003 October 28, 2003: Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto: October 28, 2003 November 10, 2003: Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto: November 10, 2003 November 11, 2003: Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto: November 11, 2003 November 24, 2003: Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto: November 24, 2003 November 25, 2003: Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto: November 25, 2003 December 1, 2003: Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto: December 1, 2003 December 2, 2003: Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto: December 2, 2003 Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Course on Inverse Problems January 13, 2004: Adrian Nachman, University of Toronto: Lecture January 20, 2004: Adrian Nachman, University of Toronto: Lecture January 27, 2004: Adrian Nachman, University of Toronto: Lecture February 3, 2004: Adrian Nachman, University of Toronto: Lecture February 10, 2004: Adrian Nachman, University of Toronto: Lecture February 24, 2004: Adrian Nachman, University of Toronto: Lecture March 2, 2004: Adrian Nachman, University of Toronto: Lecture March 9, 2004: Adrian Nachman, University of Toronto: Lecture March 23, 2004: Adrian Nachman, University of Toronto: Lecture April 15, 2004: Adrian Nachman, University of Toronto: Lecture April 20, 2004: Adrian Nachman, University of Toronto: Lecture Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing PRMIA Risk Management Seminar March 17, 2004: Erik A. Heitfield, Federal Reserve Board: Rating System Dynamics and Bank-Reported Default Probabilities under the New Basel Capital Accord May 19, 2004: Lorey Hoffman, Office of the Superintendant of Financial Institutions: Implementing Pillar 2 and the role of economic capital models Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Annual General Meeting (June 17, 2004) Lisa Jeffrey, University of Toronto: The Geometry of String Theory Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Conference on Surface Water Waves (June 14-18, 2004) Sergei Badulin, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology: Self-Similar Solutions for the Hasselmann Equation and Experimental Scaling of Wind-Wave Spectra Michael Banner, New South Wales: On the Onset and Strength of Breaking of Two-Dimensional Deep Water Waves Tom Beale, Duke: Analytical Issues in Boundary Integral Methods for 3D Water Waves Walter Craig, McMaster: Colliding solitary waves: counter- and co-propagating binary collisions Jim Duncan, Maryland: Effects of Surfactants on Spilling Breakers Alexander Dyachenko, Landau: Direct Numerical Simulation of 2+1 Dimensional Surface Waves on Deep Water Mark Groves, Loughborough: Three-Dimensional Solitary Gravity-Capillary Water Waves Robert Guza, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD: Field Observations of Shear Waves Samir Hamdi, Toronto: talk Joe Hammack, Pennsylvania State: Solitary-Wave Collisions Tetsu Hara, Rhode Island: Observation of Nonlinear Steep Waves Paul Hwang, Stennis Space Center: Spatial Measurements of Ocean Surface Waves Henrik Kalisch, Lund: Uniqueness Results for Periodic Traveling Waves Michael Longuet-Higgins, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD: Mass Transport by Shoaling Water Waves Over a Rough Sea Bed Per Madsen, Technical University of Denmark: Recent Progress in Modelling of Non-linear Water Waves Chiang Mei, MIT: Localization of Surface Waves by Random Variations in Depth Paul Milewski, Wisconsin: Hydraulic Jumps and Fluid Mixing in Two-layer Shallow Water Harvey Segur, Colorado: Stabilizing the Benjamin-Feir Instability Victor Shrira, Keele: What Drives Short Wind Waves? Resonant short-wave interactions, or long-wave/short-wave interactions Michael Stiassnie, Technion: On the Interaction of Four Water-Waves John Strain, UC Berkeley: Fast Semi-Lagrangian Computations with Complex Interfaces Walter Strauss, Brown: Periodic Water Waves with Vorticity Esteban Tabak, NYU-CIMS: Breaking Waves and Shear Instability in Two-Layer Flows Paul Taylor, Oxford: Directional Spreading and Non-Linear Wave Focussing on Deep Water Marshall Tulin, UC, Santa Barbara: Some Recent New Results in Water Waves Doug Wright, Fields Institute: Corrections to the KdV Approximation for Water Waves Lucy Wyatt, Sheffield: Directional Wave Measurements with HF Radar Harry Yeh, Oregon State: Long-Wave Runup on a Plane Beach Dick Yue, MIT: A Capability for Severe Weather Automated/Assisted Ship Handling (SWASH) Vladimir Zakharov, Arizona: Free-Surface Hydrodynamics in Conformal Variables and the Origin of Freak Waves Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Workshop on Semi-Classical Analysis (June 7-11, 2004) I. Alexandrova, Berkeley: Structure of the Semi-Classical Scattering Amplitude for General Scattering Relations D. Borthwick, Emory: A uniform quantum version of the Kolmogorov theorem W. Craig, McMaster: Invariant tori for PDEs H. Donnelly, Purdue: Spectral theory of the Laplacian for compact Riemannian manifolds (1) H. Donnelly, Purdue: Spectral theory of the Laplacian for compact Riemannian manifolds (2) H. Donnelly, Purdue: Spectral theory of the Laplacian for compact Riemannian manifolds (3) L. Friedlander, Arizona: An isoperimetric inequality for quantum graphs A. Ionescu, Wisconsin, Madison: L^p Carleman inequalities and uniqueness of solutions of nonlinear Schroedinger equation V. Ivrii, Toronto: 25 years after M. Min-Oo, McMaster: Asymptotic properties of the partition function Y. Petridis, CUNY, Lehman College: Weyl's Law for Heisenberg manifolds Y. Safarov, King’s College, London: Weyl formula for the Neumann Laplacian on domains with rough boundaries A. Sobolev, Sussex: Variation of the number of lattice points in large balls A. Uribe, Michigan: Properties and naturality of almost-Kahler quantization A. Venkatesh, MIT: Quantum chaos on locally symmetric spaces Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Workshop on Integrable and Near-Integrable Hamiltonian PDE (May 17-21, 2004) Simonetta Abenda, Università di Bologna: Modulation theory for the Camassa-Holm equation Dario Bambusi, Università degli Studi di Milano: Birkhoff normal form for PDEs with Tame Modulus Massimiliano Berti, SISSA, Trieste: Bifurcation of free vibrations for completely resonant wave equations Roy Choudhury, University of Central Florida: Integrability characteristics and coherent structures of integrable two-dimensional generalizations of NLS type equations Percy Deift, CIMS: Long-time asymptotics for solutions of the NLS equation with initial data in a weighted Sobolev space Hakan Eliasson, Université Paris 7: KAM for the non-linear Schroedinger equation Benoît Grébert, Université de Nantes: Birkhoff normal form for NLS and NLW John Harnad, CRM & Concordia University: Hamiltonian theory of the general rational isomonodromic deformation problem Eduard-Wilhelm Kirr, University of Chicago: Parametric resonance in NLS Sergei Kuksin, Heriot-Watt University: KAM for PDEs in 1D and nD Nader Masmoudi, CIMS: The zero surface tension limit for the water wave problem Nikolai Melnikov, Moscow State University: Finite dimentional Hamiltonian systems Maung Minoo, McMaster University: Some asymptotic properties of Gaudin spin chains N. Sri Namachchivaya, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Nonstandard reduction of noisy dynamical systems Jürgen Pöschel, Universitat Stuttgart: On the well-posedness of the KdV equation in weighted Sobolev spaces David Sattinger, Yale University: Calogero-Francoise flows and Periodic Peakons Michael Sigal, Notre Dame & University of Toronto: Some mathematical questions related to the Bose-Einstein condensation Vladimir Sokolov, Landau Institute: New integrable Hamiltonians in rigid body dynamics Jacek Szmigielski, University of Saskatchewan: Multi-peakon solutions of the Degasperis--Procesi equation and almost Padé approximants Alexander Tovbis, University of Central Florida: Semiclassical (zero dispersion limit) solutions to the focusing NLS for a special class of the initial data with both soliton and solitonless cases Stephanos Venakides, Duke University: Rigorous results on semiclassical long-time focusing NLS Vitali Vougalter, McMaster & The Fields Institute: Spectra of positive and negative energies in the linearized NLS problem Eugene Wayne, Boston University: Exponential averaging and the "pinning" of traveling waves in heterogenous media Doug Wright, McMaster & The Fields Institute: Higher order corrections to KdV approximations Yingfei Yi, Georgia Institute of Technology: Quasi-periodic standing waves in nonlinear Schrödinger equations Jiangong You, Nanjing University: Construction of quasi-periodic solutions via KAM theory Xin Zhou, Duke University: The L^p estimate for Riemann-Hilbert problems Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Short Course on Hamiltonian Partial Differential Equations (May 10-15, 2004) Jim Colliander, University of Toronto: Talk Walter Craig, McMaster University: Resonances in Hamiltonian PDE Bill Kath, Northwestern University: Applications of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation to optical fiber communications Bill Kath, Northwestern University: Methods for the simulation of rare events in lightwave systems Michael Weinstein, Bell Labs and Columbia: Resonance problems in photonics, Part I Michael Weinstein, Bell Labs and Columbia: Resonance problems in photonics, Part II V. E. Zakharov, Moscow & Arizona: Talk, Part I V. E. Zakharov, Moscow & Arizona: Talk, Part II Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing 2004 Distinguished Lecture Series (May 10-15, 2004) Jean Bourgain, I.A.S. Princeton & Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Introduction: Qualitative aspects of Hamiltonian PDE's and lattice models Jean Bourgain, I.A.S. Princeton & Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Quasi-periodic localization Jean Bourgain, I.A.S. Princeton & Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: The higher dimensional Anderson-Bernoulli model Jean Bourgain, I.A.S. Princeton & Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Nonlinear Schrodinger operators with a random potential Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Third Annual IFID Conference on Asset Allocation and Mortality (April 28, 2004) Laurence Booth, University of Toronto: Realistic Long-Term Risk and Returns for Retirement Planning Models Malcolm Hamilton, William M. Mercer Limited: The Risks and Returns from DB versus DC Pensions Roger Ibbotson, Yale University: Controlling the Three Risk Factors in your Retirement Portfolio Harry Marmer, Franklin Templeton: Lessons From Capital Market History Raimond Maurer, Goethe University: Betting on Death and Capital Markets in Retirement: A Shortfall Risk Analysis of Life Annuities versus Phased Withdrawal Plans Francesco Menoncin, Universita` di Brescia: Mortality risk and real optimal asset allocation for pension funds Kristen Moore, University of Michigan: Optimal Asset Allocation and Ruin-Minimization Annuitization Strategies: The Fixed Consumption Case Susan Thorp, University of New South Wales: Annuitization and Asset Allocation with HARA Utility Ashraf Zaman, Purdue University: Asset Location and Allocation with Multiple Risky Assets Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Workshop on Mathematical Oncology (April 23-24, 2004) John Adam, Old Dominion University: Developing mathematical models in cancer biology, some personal reflections David Hogg, University of Toronto: Developmental second hits and the concept of a mutation field Igor Jurisica, Ontario Cancer Institute: Integrative approach to molecular medicine Philip Maini, University of Oxford: Modelling aspects of vascular cancer Michael Milosevic, Princess Margaret Hospital, University of Toronto: Intertstitial Fluid Pressure (IFP) in Cervix Cancer: What is it telling us? Lance Munn, Harvard Universtity: The interaction of circulation cells with tumours - pharmacokinetic and fluid models Amit Oza, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto: Introduction Siv Sivaloganathan, University of Waterloo: Mathematical Oncology - A Brief Overview Kristen Swanson, University of Washington: Insights into the Behavior of Gliomas Provided by Quantitative Modeling Howard D. Thames, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center: Cluster Models of Dose-Volume Effects in Radiotherapy Marco Zaider, Sloane-Kettering Cancer Institute: On the question of the number of clonogens surviving radiation therapy Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Fields Colloquium in Geometric Analysis (April 6, 2004) Louis Nirenberg, CIMS: The Distance Function to the Boundary and Hamilton-Jacobi Equations Guofang Wang, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik: Analytic Aspects of the Toda System Rick Schoen, Stanford: Initial Data for the Vacuum Einstein Equations Jon Wolfson, Stanford & MSU: Area Minimizers and Calibrated Surfaces Luis Caffarelli, University of Texas at Austin: Talk Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Workshop on Kinetic Theory (March 29 - April 2, 2004) Claude Bardos, Universite Paris VI: Relevance of the Time Dependent Hatree Fock Approximation in the Mean Field Scaling Yann Brenier, Universite de Nice: Derivation of Particle and String Motions from the Born-Infeld Electromagnetic Field Theory Alain Brizard, Saint Michael's College: Variational Formulations of Exact and Reduced Vlasov-Maxwell Equations Steve Cowley, Imperial College, London: Transport in Tangled Astrophysical Magnetic Fields Pierre Degond, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse: Quantum Hydrodynamics and Quantum Diffusion Models Derived from the Entropy Principle Laurent Desvillettes, Ecole Normale Superieure, Cachan: Some Results about the Smoothness of Boltzmann and Landau Equations Patrick Diamond, University of California, San Diego: Granulation Formation and Turbulent Trapping in Wave Kinetics Jean Dolbeault, Universite Paris IX: How Far Can We Push Entropy Methods? Bill Dorland, University of Maryland: Resonant Heating in the Alfven Cascade Yves Elskens, CNRS-universite de Provence, Marseilles: From N Particles Interacting with M Waves, to Vlasov and to Quasilinear Equations--Chaos and Granularity in the Kinetic Limit Laszlo Erdos, Georgia Institute of Technology & University of Munich, Germany: Towards the Quantum Brownian Motion Irene Gamba, University of Texas at Austin: Sharp estimates to solutions of homogeneous Boltzmann type problems Robert Glassey, Indiana University: The Vlasov-Maxwell System Isaac Goldhirsch, Tel-Aviv University: Inelastic Kinetic Theory: The Granular Gas Francois Golse, Universite Paris VII: The Boltzmann-Grad limit for the periodic Lorenz gas Alex Gottlieb, University of Vienna: Quantum Effects in Mean Field Electron Dynamics Yan Guo, Brown University: A Nonlinear Energy Method in Boltzmann Theory Greg Hammett, Princeton University: Non-local Fluid Closure Approximations to Model Long Mean-Free-Path Dynamics Reinhard Illner, University of Victoria: Three Exotic Applications of Kinetic Equations Dave Levermore, University of Maryland: Gas Dynamics Beyond Navier-Stokes Giovanni Manfredi, Henri Poincare - Nancy 1: How to Model Quantum Plasmas Norbert Mauser, University of Vienna: Incompressible Euler and E-MHD as Scaling Limits of the Vlasov-Maxwell System Fabrice Mottez, CETP, Universite de Versailles-St Quentin en Yvelines: Implicit Particle in Cell Plasma Simulation Codes Maurizio Ottaviani, CEA, DSM / DRFC, Cadarache, France: Development of Gyrokinetic Codes using Semi-Lagrangian Methods Thierry Passot, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur: Fluid Description for Dispersive MHD Waves in a Collisionless Plasma Francesco Pegoraro, University of Pisa and INFM, Italy: Magnetic Field Line Reconnection in Dissipationless Regimes and Mixing of the Lagrangian Invariants in Strongly Magnetized, Two-dimensional, Plasma Configurations Benoit Perthame,, Ecole Normale Supérieure, DMA: Kinetic Model for Chemotaxis Benoit Perthame, Ecole Normale Supérieure, DMA: Kinetic Model for Chemotaxis, part 2 Marjolaine Puel, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique: Quasi neutral limits of the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system Hong Qin, Princeton University: General Gyrokinetic Theory Gerhard Rein, University of Bayreuth: The Vlasov equation as a matter model in General Relativity Fraydoun Rezakhanlou, University of California, Berkeley: A Stochastic Model for Coagulation-Fragmentation and Smoluchowski Equation Andrei Smolyakov, University of Saskatchewan: Collisionless Damping in Plasmas and Neutral Gases Eric Sonnendrucker, Universite Louis Pasteur: Adaptive Semi-Lagrangian Numerical Methods for the Vlasov Equation Gigliola Staffilani, MIT: Global Well-Posedness and Scattering in the Energy Space for Critical Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation in 3D Walter Strauss, Brown University: Some Global Solutions of the Hydrodynamic Model of Semiconductors R.D. Sydora, University of Alberta: Kinetic Theory and Simulation of Nonlinear Magnetic Structures Eitan Tadmor, University of Maryland: Kinetic formulations and regularizing effects in first and second order equations Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Short Course in Kinetic Theory (March 24-26, 2004) Yves Elskens, Marseille: Landau damping Yves Elskens, Marseille: Landau damping, part 2 Yves Elskens, Marseille: Landau damping, part 3 Francois Golse, Paris VII: Fluid dynamics from kinetic equations, part 1 Dave Levermore, Maryland: Fluid dynamics from kinetic equations, part 2 Francois Golse, Paris VII: Fluid dynamics from kinetic equations, part 3 Dave Levermore, Maryland: Fluid dynamics from kinetic equations, parts 4 and 5 Francois Golse, Paris VII: Fluid dynamics from kinetic equations, part 6 Thierry Passot, Observatoire de Nice: From kinetic to hydrodynamic descriptions of plasmas Thierry Passot, Observatoire de Nice: From kinetic to hydrodynamic descriptions of plasmas, part 2 Thierry Passot, Observatoire de Nice: From kinetic to hydrodynamic descriptions of plasmas, part 3 Hong Qin, Princeton: Gyrokinetic theory Hong Qin, Princeton: Gyrokinetic theory, part 2 Pierre-Louis Sulem, Observatoire de Nice: Guiding center theory Pierre-Louis Sulem, Observatoire de Nice: Guiding center theory , part 2 Pierre-Louis Sulem, Observatoire de Nice: Guiding center theory, part 3 William M. Tang, Princeton: Gyrokinetic theory Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Workshop on Nonlinear Wave Equations (March 15-19, 2004) Andrey Biryuk, The Fields Institute & McMaster: NLS With Small Viscosity. Lower Bounds for the Space Derivatives of the Solutions Jerry Bona, University of Illinois - Chicago: Two and Three Dimensional Water Waves Nicolas Burq, University Paris Sud Orsay: Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations on 3-d Compact Manifolds Stephen Gustafson, British Columbia: Scattering for the Gross-Pitaevskii Equation Slim Ibrahim, McMaster & The Fields Institute: On the Local Solvability for a Quasilnear Cubic Wave Equation Lars Jonsson, The Fields Institute: On Solitary Wave Dynamics in an External Potential Niky Kamran, McGill: Long Term Dynamics of Dirac and Scalar Fields in the Kerr Geometry Markus Keel, Minnesota: Regularity and Scattering for the Critical Defocusing Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation David Lannes, Bordeaux: Well-Posedness of the Water-Waves Equations Felipe Linares, IMPA: On a Degenerate Zakharov System Michael Loss, Georgia Tech: A Sharp Analog of Young's Inequality on S^N and Related Entropy Inequalities Nader Masmoudi, Courant Institute: Hydrodynamic Limits of the Boltzmann Equations Ken McLaughlin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Asymptotic Analysis of the Integrable Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation Frank Merle, Cergy Pontoise, IAS: Blow-up Behavior for Critical NLS Peter Miller, Michigan: Semiclassical Asymptotics for the Focusing Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation Andrea R. Nahmod, Massachusetts, Amherst and IAS, Princeton: The Cauchy Problem for the Hyperbolic-Elliptic Ishimori System Vladislav Panferov, Victoria: Maxwellian Upper Bounds for the Boltzmann Equation Guido Schneider, Karlsruhe: Long Time Existence and Blow Up of Modulated Waves in Case of Nontrivial Resonances Jalal Shatah, CIMS: talk Tai-Peng Tsai, British Columbia: Asymptotic Stability of Small NLS Solitons in Energy Space Luis Vega, Universidad del Pais Vasco: On a Pseudo Differential Calculus Related to Non-Elliptic Operators Stephanos Venakides, Duke: Steepest Descent and the G-Function Mechanism in Rigorous Semiclassical NLS Asymptotics Doug Wright, McMaster & The Fields Institute: Higher Order Corrections to the KdV Approximation for Water Waves Jared Wunsch, Northwestern: Morawetz and Strichartz Estimates for the Schrodinger Equation on Nontrapping Three-Manifolds Zhengfang Zhou, Michigan State: Study Nonlinear Wave Equations from the Einstein Universe Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Weekend Meeting on Operator Algebras (March 13-14, 2004) Xiaodong Hu, University of Toronto: Spectral triples and transversally elliptic operators Cristian Ivanescu, University of Toronto: On the classification of simple C-algebras which are inductive limits of continuous-trace C-algebras whose spectrum is homeomorphic to the closed interval [0,1] Masoud Khalkhali, University of Western Ontario: From transverse index theory to Hopf-cyclic cohomology via the local index formula David Kribs, University of Guelph: Non-selfadjoint directed graph operator algebras Dan Kucerovsky, University of New Brunswick: Absorption: What is it, where do we find it, and what is it good for? Philippe Larocque, University of Waterloo: The model for lamda-commuting isometries Hanfeng Li, University of Toronto: On the C-algebras and smooth algebras generated by projective representations of finitely generated abelian groups James Mingo, Queen's University: Fluctuations of Eigenvalue distributions and Orthogonal Polynomials Matthias Neufang, University of Ottawa-Carleton: Two-sided noncommutative fractional linear transformations N. Christopher Phillips, University of Oregon: Crossed products by actions with the tracial Rokhlin property N. Christopher Phillips, University of Oregon: Crossed products by actions with the tracial Rokhlin property, part II David Rosenthal, McMaster University: Split injectivity of the Baum-Connes assembly map Ana Savu, University of Toronto: Closed functions versus exact functions in interacting particle systems Roland Speicher, Queen's University: Fluctuations of random matrices and cyclic Fock spaces Andrew Toms, The Fields Institute: On the classifiability of nuclear C-algebras Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Royal Canadian Institute Lectures (February 29, 2004) Lila Kari, University of Western Ontario: How Does Nature Compute? Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Young Mathematicians Conference in PDE and Dynamical Systems (January 31 - February 1, 2004) M. Agueh, University of British Columbia: Asymptotic Behavior for Doubly Degenerate Parabolic Equations A. Biryuk, The Fields Institute: Flows Without Pressure, Geometry and Turbulence M. Braverman, University of Toronto: On the Computability of Julia Sets M. Cojocaru, University of Guelph: Projected Dynamical Systems: Overview and Recent Developments D. Gaydashev, University of Toronto: Renormalization of Isoenergetically Degenerate Hamiltonian Flows P. Guyenne, The Fields Institute & McMaster University: Wave Turbulence in One-dimensional Models N. Kamran, McGill University: Wave Equations in General Relativity K. Kang, University of British Columbia: On Regularity to the Stokes System and Navier-Stokes Equations Near Boundary T. Kolokolnikov, University of British Columbia: Instabilities of Stripe Solutions in the Two-Dimensional Gray-Scott Model A. Kuznetsov, University of Toronto: Poster S. Lawi, University of Toronto: Poster A. Nachman, University of Toronto: Introduction to Inverse Problems in Partial Differential Equations A. Savu, University of Toronto: Hydrodynamic Scaling Limit of the Fourth Order Ginzburg-Landau Model D. Slepcev, University of Toronto: Gradient-Flow Structure and Stability of Selfsimilar Solutions of Nonlinear Parabolic PDE's P. Tupper, McGill University: Ergodicity and Numerical Simulation Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Workshop on Bifurcation Theory and Spatio-Temporal Pattern Formation (December 11-13, 2003) Jacques Bélair, Université de Montreal: Delay induced oscillations in drug administration Sue Ann Campbell, University of Waterloo: Patterns of Oscillation in a Ring of Identical Cells with Delayed Coupling John Chadam, University of Pittsburgh: Bioremediation of waste in a porous medium Walter Craig, McMaster University: Invariant tori for PDE Michael Dellnitz, University of Paderborn: On the Identification of Macroscopic Dynamical Structures Eusebius Doedel, Concordia University: Elemental Periodic Orbits of the Circular Restricted 3-Body Problem Michael Field, University of Houston: Product Dynamics Leon Glass, McGill University: Dynamics of Reentrant Tachycardia Martin Golubitsky, University of Houston: Coupled cell systems: a potpourri of theory and examples John Guckenheimer, Cornell University: The van der Pol Equation and the Origins of Chaos George Haller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Strange eigenmodes in the mixing of diffusive tracers Philip Holmes, Princeton University: Dynamics of an 0-1-2 O(2)-equivariant system: Heteroclinic cycles and periodic orbits Gerard Iooss, Institut Non-Linéaire: Influence of the essential spectrum for bifurcations of travelliong waves in water wave problems Yannis Kevrekidis, Princeton University: Equation-Free Modeling of Complex Systems through Timesteppers: Enabling Microscopic Simulators to perform System Level Tasks Barbara Lee Keyfitz, University of Houston: Bifurcation of Shock Reflection Patterns Edgar Knobloch, University of California, Berkeley: Oscillatory binary fluid convection in finite containers Martin Krupa, New Mexico State University: Canards and mixed-mode oscillations Jeroen Lamb, Imperial College, London: Symmetric Homoclinic Tangles in Reversible Systems Bill Langford, University of Guelph: Spatio-temporal patterns in heat exchanger tube arrays Ian Melbourne, University of Surrey: Symmetric Chaos in a Local Codimension Two Bifurcation with $D_4$ symmetry Stephen Morris, University of Toronto: Experiments on Bifurcations in Annular Electroconvection Mary Pugh, University of Toronto: Blowing-up exact solutions of long-wave unstable thin film equations Mark Roberts, University of Surrey: Bifurcations of molecular and gravitational N-body problems Andre Vanderbauwhede, University of Gent: Subharmonic branching in equivariant reversible systems Jianhong Wu, York University: An Inverse Problem of Pattern Formation Jim Yorke, University of Maryland: Weather prediction and chaos Pei Yu, University of Western Ontario: Twelve limit cycles in a cubic case of the 16th Hilbert problem Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Graduate School Information Day (November 22, 2003) Victor LeBlanc, University of Ottawa: Euclidean Symmetry and the Dynamics of Spiral Waves Sam Roweis, Computer Science, University of Toronto: The Mathematics of Computer Science Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Workshop on Patterns in Physics (November 14-18, 2003) Guenter Ahlers, University of California, Santa Barbara: Fluctuations Near Bifurcations in Spatially Extended Non-Equilibrium Systems Eberhard Bodenschatz, Cornell University: Defects, Targets and Spirals in Rayleigh-Benard Convection David Cai, New York University: Kinetic Theory of Neuronal Networks - Mean-driven vs Fluctuation-driven Dynamics John Carter, University of Seattle: Qualitative Comparisons Between Physical Experiments of Waves on Deep Water and Perturbed Solutions of NLS Anne Catlla, Northwestern University: Impulsively Forced Faraday Waves Guillemette Caulliez, IRPHE: Three-dimensional Wave Patterns Observed at the Sea Surface Rustum Choksi, Simon Fraser University: Microphase Separation in Diblock Copolymer Melts Bernard Deconinck, University of Washington: Computing the Abel Transform Frédéric Dias, CMLA: Coherent Structures and One-Dimensional Wave Turbulence Arjen Doelman, Korteweg-de Vries Institute: The Dynamics of Modulated Wave Trains (Part 1) Arjen Doelman, Korteweg-de Vries Institute: The Dynamics of Modulated Wave Trains (Part 2) Karl Glasner, University of Arizona: The Secret Life of Liquid Droplets Matthew Hopkins, Sandia National Laboratories: Pattern Formation in a Suspension of Swimming Microorganisms Raymond Kapral, University of Toronto: Front Explosions in Oscillatory Reaction-Diffusion Systems Leah Keshet, University of British Columbia: Patterns in Molecular, Cellular and Social Systems Panayotis Kevrekidis, University of Massachusetts: Mean Field Models of Bose-Einstein Condensates: From Instabilities to Waves, from Solitons to Patterns Robert Kohn, Courant Institute: The Mathematics of Coarsening William Langford, University of Guelph: Near-Hamiltonian Hopf Bifurcation Mark Lewis, University of Alberta: Pattern Formation via Scent-Marking Philip Maini, Oxford University: Pattern Formation on Growing Domains Huseyin Merdan, University of Pittsburgh: Late Stage Interface Dynamics and Renormalization Group Methods Ehud Meron, Ben Gurion: Vegetation Patterns, Ecosystem Engineers and Species Richness: A Pattern Formation Approach Jeff Moehlis, University of California, Santa Barbara: The Response Dynamics of Neural Oscillator Populations Stephen Morris, University of Toronto: Oscillatory Patterns and Subdiffusion in Granular Segregation Experiments Thierry Passot, Obs. de la Côte d'Azur: Global Description of Patterns Far From Onset: A Case Study Mark Paul, California Institute of Technology: Rayleigh-Benard Convection in Large-Aspect-Ratio Domains Jens Rademacher, University of Minnesota: An Organizing Center for Tracefiring of Pulses in the Oregonator A. J. Roberts, University of Southern Queensland: Rational Modelling Determines Boundary Conditions Bjorn Sandstede, Ohio State University: Towards a Classification of Defects in Oscillatory Media Harvey Segur, University of Colorado: Stabilizing the Benjamin-Feir Instability Eran Sharon, University of Jerusalem: Buckling Cascades in Free Sheets and the Geometry of Wavy Leaves and Flowers Patrick Shipman, University of Arizona: Phyllotactic Patterns on Plants Peter Thomas, Salk Institute: Pattern Formation in the Development of Primary Visual Cortex Chad Topaz, University of California, Los Angeles: Faraday Wave Pattern Selection via Multi-Frequency Forcing Shankar Venkataramani, University of Chicago: Multiple Scale Behaviors in Thin Elastic Sheet Michael Ward, University of British Columbia: Spike Patterns in the Gray-Scott Model: Equilibria, Stability, and Pulse-Splitting Behavior Stephen J. Watson, Northwestern University: Coarsening Dynamics of Faceted Crystal Surfaces Jon Wilkening, New York University: Grain Boundary Diffusion due to Stress and Electromigration Tom Witelski, Duke University: Dynamics for a Critical-Case Unstable Generalized Thin Film Equation Aaron Yip, Purdue University: Structures of Local Minimizers of a One-Dimensional Higher Order Variational Problem Wendy Zhang, University of Chicago: Viscous Entrainment: Creating an Atomic-Sized Liquid Spout Walter Craig, McMaster University: Lecture Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing MidWest Model Theory Meeting (November 8-9, 2003) Matthias Aschenbrenner, University of Illinois at Chicago: Faithfully flat Lefschetz extensions Rahim Moosa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Differential Jet Spaces Kobi Peterzil, University of Haifa: Three Examples of nonstandard analytic sets, in o-minimal structures James Tyne, Ohio State University: Towards and exponential Wilkie inequality Matt Valeriote, McMaster University: Varieties with few finite members Yoav Yaffe, McMaster University: Lie Differential Fields - Model Completion and a version of Hensel's Lemma Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing FRSC Day (October 24, 2003) Ian F. Blake, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto: Directions in Cryptography Henri Darmon, Deptartment of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University: Elliptic curves and Kronecker's solution to Pell's equation J. Ian Munro, School of Computer Science, Waterloo: Succinct Data Structures Keith J. Worsley, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University: The geometry of random images in astrophysics and brain mapping Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Symposium on Inverse Problems (October 1-4, 2003) Christopher Croke, University of Pennsylvania: The Boundary Rigidity Problem: I Christopher Croke, University of Pennsylvania: The Boundary Rigidity Problem: II Victor Isakov, Wichita State: Carleman Estimates & Uniqueness and stability in the Cauchy problem: I Victor Isakov, Wichita State: Uniqueness and Stability in the Cauchy Problem: II & Applications to Inverse Problems and Optimal Control Hiroshi Isozaki, Tokyo Metropolitan: Inverse Problems and Hyperbolic Manifolds: I Hiroshi Isozaki, Tokyo Metropolitan: Inverse Problems and Hyperbolic Manifolds: II Slava Kurylev, Loughborough University: Gel'fand Inverse Boundary Problem in Multidimensions: I & II (Part 1) Slava Kurylev, Loughborough University: Gel'fand Inverse Boundary Problem in Multidimensions: I & II (Part 2) Slava Kurylev, Loughborough University: Gel'fand Inverse Boundary Problem in Multidimensions: III Adrian Nachman, University of Toronto: Introduction to Inverse Problems Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington: The Dirichlet to Neumann Map and the Boundary Distance Function: I Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington: The Dirichlet to Neumann Map and the Boundary Distance Function: II Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Workshop on Adaptive Designs (September 25-27, 2003) Yung-Pin Chen, Lewis & Clark College: Biased coin vs. Ehrenfest urn: an analysis of randomness, balance and power An-Lin Cheng, University of Georgia: Minimum Hellinger distance estimation for randomized play the winner design Nancy Flournoy, University of Missouri-Columbia: An Overview of Adaptive Designs Subir Ghosh, University of California, Riverside: Adaptive factorial experiments for model identification Janis Hardwick, University of Michigan: Optimal Few-Stage Designs for Clinical Trials Feifang Hu, University of Virginia: Response-adaptive designs: maximizing power and minimizing the expected number of failures Anastasia Ivanova, University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill: Response-adaptive designs: ethics and efficiency of estimation Tatsuki Koyama, Vanderbilt University: A calculus for design of two-stage adaptive procedures Hon Keung Tony Ng, Southern Methodist University, Dallas: Up-and-down designs for phase I trials; an evaluation of different designs and estimators Andre Rogatko, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia: Individualized patient dosing in phase I clinical trials Mourad Tighiouart, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia: Flexible Bayesian methods for cancer phase I clinical trials: dose escalation with overdose control Yevgen Tymofyeyev, University of Maryland, Baltimore County: Optimal Allocation in Multi-Armed Clinical Trials Xikui Wang, University of Manitoba: Bandit problems and adaptive clinical trials Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Short Course on Mathematical Aspects of Fluid Dynamics (September 22-30, 2003) Walter Craig, McMaster University: Remarks on a Theorem of Cordoba, de la Llave and Fefferman Walter Craig, McMaster University: Surface Water Waves: I Walter Craig, McMaster University: Surface Water Waves: II (Part 1) Walter Craig, McMaster University: Surface Water Waves: II (Part 2) Constantine Dafermos, Brown University: Recent Developments in Hyperbolic Conservation Laws: I Constantine Dafermos, Brown University: Recent Developments in Hyperbolic Conservation Laws: II Boris Khesin, University of Toronto: Geometry and Topology in Euler Hydrodynamics and KdV: I Boris Khesin, University of Toronto: Geometry and Topology in Euler Hydrodynamics and KdV: II Mikhail Vishik, University of Texas: Stability Theory for Incompressible Flows of an Ideal Fluid: I Mikhail Vishik, University of Texas: Stability Theory for Incompressible Flows of an Ideal Fluid: II Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing 2003 CanQueue Conference (September 19-20, 2003) Attahiru S. Alfa, University of Manitoba: Discrete-time analysis for data packet discarding in high-speed networks Doug Down, McMaster University: Scheduling Parallel Server Systems under High Variability Steve Drekic, University of Waterloo: Tutorial: Use of Symbolic Manipulation in Queueing Daniel M. Frances, University of Toronto: The Challenges of Predicting Critical Blood Product Shortages Winfried Grassman, University of Saskatchewan: Tutorial: State Reduction and Matrix Analytic Methods Armann Ingolfsson, University of Alberta: Queueing Models of Case Managers Sapna Isotupa, Wilfrid Laurier University: A Stochastic Perishable Inventory System with Two Types of Customers Elizabeth Jewkes, University of Waterloo: Empirical Discrete Distributions in Queueing Models Brij Kashyap, Ryerson University: Psychological Management of Waiting Lines Seokjin Kim, University of Toronto: Locating Mobile Servers under Stochastic Demands and Congestion Alexander Kreinin, Algorithmics, Toronto: Nonhomogeneous Random Walks: Applications in Queueing and Financial Risk Management Bernard F. Lamond, Université Laval: On the discrete convexity of a sequence of optimal expected processing times in flexible manufacturing Alberto Leon-Garcia, University of Toronto: Performance Modeling in Large-Scale Switches Marvin Mandelbaum, York University: Tutorial: Use of Symbolic Manipulation in Queueing Sri Gopal Mohanty, McMaster University: Transient Probability Functions of Batch-type Queueing Systems Michael Shalmon, Université du Quebec: Sample path decompositions, queueing analysis via LCFS-PR, and teletraffic multiplexing Javad Tavakoli, First Nations University of Canada: Two Stations Queueing Networks with Moving Servers, Blocking and Customer Loss Jinting Wang, University of Saskatchewan: Unreliable Production-Inventory Systems with Hyper-exponential Inter-arrival Demand Processes Xiao Yong Wu, University of Windsor: An M/G/1/1 Retrial Queue Huiling Xiong, University of Windsor: Inequalities for a Parking Lot Queueing Model Yiqiang Zhao, Carleton University: Is alpha-positivity a necessary condition on geometric tail asymptotics in two-dimensional models? Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing First Canadian Workshop on Statistical Genomics (September 3-5, 2003) Shelley Bull, University of Toronto: Lessons in Tumour Classification using Gene Expression Microarrays Vincent Carey, Harvard University: Genomic Exploratory Data Analysis and Modelling with R/Bioconductor Chris Field, Dalhousie University: Robustness Issues in Phylogeny Debashis Ghosh, University of Michigan: Clustering microarray data in cancer studies Gregory Gloor, University of Western Ontario: Co-evolution and mutual information of amino acid positions in protein families Robert Nadon, McGill University: From Algorithms to Scientific Application: An Age-Old Issue Updated for the Genomics Era Robert Tibshirani, Stanford University: Sparsity and smoothness via the Fused Lasso David Tritchler, University of Toronto: A Spectral Clustering Method for Microarray Data Kenny Ye, State University of New York at Stony Brook: Pooling or not pooling in microarray experiments - an experimental design point of view Brent Zanke, VP, Cancer Care Ontario; Ontario Cancer Research Network: Clinical Genomics: Molecular biology meets clinical medicine Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Workshop on the Calculus of Variations: Geometric Problems, Superconductivity, and Material Microstructures (August 25-31, 2003) Amandine Aftalion, Université Pierre et Maris Curie (Paris VI): Properties of Vortices in Rotating Bose Einstein Condensates Giovanni Alberti, Universita' di Pisa: Microsctructures in a Model of Di-block Copolymers Melt Giles Auchmuty, University of Houston: Variational Principles for Non-potential Problems Patricia Bauman, Purdue University: Variational Methods for Analyzing Phase Transitions in Chiral Liquid Crystals Fabrice Bethuel, Universite Paris VI: A Survey on Some New Results for Travelling Waves of the Gross-Pitaevskii Equation Ivan Blank, Rutgers University: Eliminating Mixed Asymptotics in Obstacle Type Free Boundary Problems Yann Brenier, Universite de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis: Asymptotic Analysis of the Born-Infeld Electromagnetism Georg Dolzmann, University of Maryland: Nonconvex Variational Problems and Minimizing Young Measures Gero Friesecke, University of Warwick: Variational Methods in Quantum Chemistry Nassif Ghoussoub, University of British Columbia: A Variational Principle for Dissipative Evolution Equations Tiziana Giorgi, New Mexico State University: Superconductors Surrounded by Normal Materials Yury Grabovsky, Temple University: A Generalized Theorem of Chandler Davis Stephen Gustafson, University of British Columbia: On the Dynamics of Vortices and Solitary Waves Hala Jadallah, Purdue University: Existence-Uniqueness-Regularity of time-Dependent GL Equations Huiqiang Jiang, New York University: Remarks on a Singular Elliptic Equations Xiaosong Kang, The Fields Institute: Localization Properties for a Porous Medium Equation with Source Term David Kinderlehrer, Carnegie Mellon University: The Mesoscale View of Grain Growth Michael Kowalczyk, Kent State University: Vortex Filaments in the Ginzburg-Landau Equation Carmillo de Lellis, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences: Nonlinear Versions of the BV Structure Theorem and of Vol'pert Chain Chi-Kun Lin, National Cheng-Kung University: Homogenization of the Dirac System Govind Menon, University of Wisconsin: Dynamic Scaling in Smoluchowski's Coagulation Equation Maher Moakher, National Engineering School at Tunis: Rods with microstructure as a model for double-standed rods Jose A. Montero, The Fields Institute: Stable vortex solutions to the Ginzburg Landau Energy Lidiya Novozhilova, Michigan State University: Global Injectivity and Partial Regularity of Axisymmetric Minimizers in Nonlinear Elasticity Felix Otto, University Kassel: Multiscale Analysis in Micromagnetism Etienne Sandier, Université Paris 12 Val de Marne: Asymptotics of the Time Dependant Ginzburg-Landau Equations Sylvia Serfaty, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences: Asymptotics of the Time Dependant Ginzburg-Landau Equation Itai Shafrir, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology: The Logarithmic HLS Inequality for Systems on Compact Manifolds Didier Smets, Université de Paris 6: Mean Curvature Flows and the Parabolic Ginzburg-Landau Equation Daniel Spirn, Brown University: Dynamics and Instability of Elliptical Vortex Patches Peter Sternberg, Indiana University: Stable Vortex Solutions to the Ginzburg-Landau Energy Gabriella Tarantello, Universita` di Roma "Tor Vergata": Liouville-type Equations in Gauge Field Theory Fridolin Ting, University of Toronto: Stability of Pinned Vortices of the Ginzburg Landau Equations with External Potential Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Workshop on Resonances in Linear and Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations (August 22, 2003) Scipio Cuccagna, University of Virginia: Perturbation theory for linearized operators associated to the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation Eduard-Wilhel Kirr, University of Chicago: Trains of pulse like perturbations in Schroedinger Equations Peter Miller, The University of Michigan: Nonlinear pulse propagation with weak anomalous dispersion Dmitry Pelinovsky, McMaster University: Parametric resonance of dispersion-managed solitons Alexander Tovbis, University of Central Florida: Solitary waves in singularly perturbed systems and the Stokes phenomenon Vitali Vougalter, McMaster University: Reduction of negative index for the linearized NLS problem Michael Weinstein, Bell Laboratories: Resonance problems for dispersion wave equations Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Workshop on Applications of Mathematics in Medicine (July 28-30, 2003) Jacques Bélair, Université de Montreal: Oscillations, Delays and Bifurcations in Drug Delivery Systems Helen Byrne, University of Nottingham: Exploiting macrophages to treat solid tumours Sue Ann Campbell, University of Waterloo: Rings and Oscillators with delayed coupling James Drake, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto: Cerebrospinal fluid circulation disorders - mystifying processes in need of mathematical solutions C. Ross Ethier, Toronto Western Research Institute: Biomechanics, Aqueous Humour Drainage and Glaucoma Jon Hunter, Mt. Sinai Research Institute, Toronto: Can Mathematics contribute to a model of illness vulnerability? Oliver Jensen, University of Nottingham: Modelling the re-opening of liquid-lined lung airways Miles Johnston, University of Toronto: Cerebrospinal fluid absorption: Do we know the basics? James Keener, University of Utah: A Mechanism for the Onset of Fibrillation following a Heart Attack Mohammad Kohandel, University of Waterloo: Viscoelastic modelling of hydrocephalus William Langford, University of Guelph: A compartment model of Cheynes-Stokes respiration Andre Longtin, University of Ottawa: Deterministic and Stochastic Dynamics of eye movements during reading Michael Mackey, McGill University: Mathematical Models of gene regulation Michael Mackey, McGill University: Periodic Hematological Diseases: mathematical modelling based treatment strategies Sean McKee, University of Strathclyde: Summer School - Mathematical Modelling in the Medical Biosciences and Design of Diagnostic Tools - Lecture 1 Sean McKee, University of Strathclyde: Summer School - Mathematical Modelling in the Medical Biosciences and Design of Diagnostic Tools - Lecture 2 Sean McKee, University of Strathclyde: Summer School - Mathematical Modelling in the Medical Biosciences and Design of Diagnostic Tools - Lecture 3 Sean McKee, University of Strathclyde: Summer School - Mathematical Modelling in the Medical Biosciences and Design of Diagnostic Tools - Lecture 4 Sean McKee, University of Strathclyde: Summer School - Mathematical Modelling in the Medical Biosciences and Design of Diagnostic Tools - Lecture 5 John Milton, University of Chicago: Delays, Noise and Acquisition Skills Robert Miura, New Jersey Institute of Technology: Ion Diffusion and the Spatial Buffer Mechanism in the Brain-Cell Microenvironment Amit Oza, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto: Cancer and challenges in treatment design Andrew Seely, University of Ottawa: Complex Systems, Variability Analysis and Critical Care Frances Skinner, Toronto Western Research Institute: Integration in neuroscience from a cellular-based neuronal network perspective Colin Studholme, University of California, San Francisco: Detecting and Mapping Brain Shape and Shape Change in Neuro-Degenerative Disease Hugh Wilson and Fran Wilkinson, York University: Dynamical Models of Visual Cortex and Migraine auras Hongmei Zhu, University of Calgary: Stockwell transform based noise filters in biomedical signal processing Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing Workshop and Conference on Infinite Dimensional Lie Theory and Its Applications (July 17-25, 2003) Chongying Dong, University of California, Santa Cruz: Vertex Operator Algebras and K-theory - Lecture I Chongying Dong, University of California, Santa Cruz: Vertex Operator Algebras and K-theory - Lecture II Chongying Dong, University of California, Santa Cruz: Vertex Operator Algebras and K-theory - Lecture III Chongying Dong, University of California, Santa Cruz: Vertex Operator Algebras and K-theory - Lecture IV Shrawan Kumar, University of North Carolina: Kac-Moody groups, their flag varieties and the Demazure character formula - Lecture I Shrawan Kumar, University of North Carolina: Kac-Moody groups, their flag varieties and the Demazure character formula - Lecture II Shrawan Kumar, University of North Carolina: Kac-Moody groups, their flag varieties and the Demazure character formula - Lecture III Shrawan Kumar, University of North Carolina: Kac-Moody groups, their flag varieties and the Demazure character formula - Lecture IV Jie Xiao, Tsinghua University, Beijing: Hall Algebras and Quantum Groups - Lecture I Jie Xiao, Tsinghua University, Beijing: Hall Algebras and Quantum Groups - Lecture II Jie Xiao, Tsinghua University, Beijing: Hall Algebras and Quantum Groups - Lecture III Jie Xiao, Tsinghua University, Beijing: Hall Algebras and Quantum Groups - Lecture IV Saied Azam, University of Isfahan: On the fixed point subalgebras of extended affine Lie algebras Yuri Bahturin, Memorial University of Newfoundland: Group gradings on simple Lie algebras Punita Batra, Harish-Chandra Research Institute: Representations of Twisted Multiloop Lie algebras Georgia Benkart, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Lie superalgebras graded by root systems Geoffrey Buhl, University of California, Santa Cruz: Rationality, regularity, and C_2 cofiniteness Anna Duff, York University: Central extensions of the elementary unitary Lie superalgebra Dimitar Grantcharov, University of California, Riverside: On the structure and characters of weight modules of Lie algebras and superalgebras Jacob Greenstein, Université Paris VI: Path Model and Quantum Loop Models Robert Griess, University of Michigan: Automorphisms of low rank VOAs of lattice type Gerald Hoehn, University of Freiburg: Generalized Moonshine for the Baby Monster Isaiah Kantor, Lund University: The universal graded Lie algebra and related topics Michael Lau, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Bosonic and Fermionic Representations Haisheng Li, Rutgers University: On certain categories of modules for affine Lie algebras Olivier Mathieu, Université Lyon I (Claude Bernard): Connections on stable bundles Daniel Nakano, University of Georgia: Realizing orbit closures via cohomology and representation theory Karl-Herman Neeb, University of Darmstadt: Abelian extensions of infinite-dimensional Lie groups Ivan Penkov, University of California, Riverside: gl(infty) and its representations: an intrinsic approach Senapati Eswara Rao, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research: Irreducible modules for Toroidal Lie algebras Bertrand Remy, Université Grenoble I (Joseph Fourier): Linear images of Kac-Moody groups and super-rigidity Olivier Schiffman, Ecole Normale Superieur, Paris: Quantum toroidal algebras and vector bundles on curves Matthew Szczesny, University of Philadelphia: Orbifolding the chiral de Rham complex Geanina Tudose, The Fields Institute: Quantum vertex operators for the Q-function algebra Friedrich Wagemann, University of Nantes: Crossed Modules of Lie algebras Weiqang Wang, University of Virginia: Stability of the class algebras of symmetric groups and wreath products Robert Wendt, University of Vienna: On representations of non-connected loop groups Yoji Yoshii, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Recent progress for Lie $G$-tori Back to 2003-2004 Event Listing