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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 2004 - June 2005.
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
June 2005
May 2005
April 2005
March 2005
January 2005
November 2004
October 2004
September 2004
August 2004
- May 18, 2005: Didier Sornette, Professor of Geophysics at UCLA:
Extreme Financial Risks
- March 30, 2005: Robert Almgren, Director, Mathematical Finance Program, University of Toronto:
Optimal Portfolios from Ordering Information
- February 23, 2005: Tom Hurd, McMaster University and director of PhiMac:
Fast CDO pricing in an affine Markov chain model of credit risk
- November 24, 2004: David Hobson, University of Bath, Princeton University:
Local Martingales, Bubbles and Option Prices
- November 24, 2004: Vicky Henderson, Princeton University:
Valuing the Option to Invest in an Incomplete Market
- October 27, 2004: Stanley R Pliska, Finance Department, University of Illinois at Chicago:
Optimal Mortgage Refinancing with Endogenous Mortgage Rates: an Intensity Based, Equilibrium Approach
- September 29, 2004: Mark Kamstra, York University:
Investing Confidence in the Ex Ante Equity Premium: A New Methodology and A Narrower Range of Estimates
- September 29, 2004: Luis A. Seco, University of Toronto:
Pricing Default Correlation Products within a structural framework
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- November 15, 2004: Nigel Hitchin, Mathematical Institute, Oxford:
Open orbits and geometrical structures
- November 16, 2004: Nigel Hitchin, Mathematical Institute, Oxford:
Instantons and bihermitian metrics
- November 17, 2004: Nigel Hitchin, Mathematical Institute, Oxford:
Geometry with B-fields
- January 17, 2005: Robbert Dijkgraaf, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Amsterdam:
The Mathematics of String Theory
- January 20, 2005: Robbert Dijkgraaf, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Amsterdam:
Topological String Theory II
- May 9, 2005: Renata Kallosh, Physics, Stanford University:
Towards String Cosmology
- May 11, 2005: Renata Kallosh, Physics, Stanford University:
Stabilization of moduli in string theory II
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- September 14, 2004: Kentaro Hori, University of Toronto:
Lecture 1
- September 21, 2004: Kentaro Hori, University of Toronto:
Lecture - Part 1
- September 21, 2004: Kentaro Hori, University of Toronto:
Lecture - Part 2
- October 5, 2004: Kentaro Hori, University of Toronto:
Lecture - Part 1
- October 5, 2004: Kentaro Hori, University of Toronto:
Lecture - Part 2
- October 12, 2004: Kentaro Hori, University of Toronto:
Lecture - Part 1
- October 12, 2004: Kentaro Hori, University of Toronto:
Lecture - Part 2
- October 19, 2004: Kentaro Hori, University of Toronto:
Lecture
- October 26, 2004: Kentaro Hori, University of Toronto:
Lecture - Part 1
- October 26, 2004: Kentaro Hori, University of Toronto:
Lecture - Part 2
- November 2, 2004: Kentaro Hori, University of Toronto:
Lecture - Part 1
- November 2, 2004: Kentaro Hori, University of Toronto:
Lecture - Part 2
- November 9, 2004: Kentaro Hori, University of Toronto:
Lecture
- November 16, 2004: Kentaro Hori, University of Toronto:
Lecture
- November 30, 2004: Kentaro Hori, University of Toronto:
Lecture
- December 3, 2004: Kentaro Hori, University of Toronto:
Lecture
- December 7, 2004: Kentaro Hori, University of Toronto:
Lecture - Part 1
- December 7, 2004: Kentaro Hori, University of Toronto:
Lecture - Part 2
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- November 2, 2004: Antony Vannelli, University of Waterloo:
New Modelling Techniques for the Global Routing Problem
- November 2, 2004: Henry Wolkowicz, University of Waterloo:
Robust algorithms for large sparse semidefinite programming (SDP)
- December 7, 2004: Geroge F. Corliss, Marquette University:
Automatic Differentiation
- December 7, 2004: Joaquim Martins, University of Toronto:
Aero-Structural Wing Design using Coupled Sensitivity Analysis
- February 1, 2005: John Betts, Math and Engineering Analysis, The Boeing Company:
Is a Good NLP all you need to Solve Optimal Control Problems?
- February 1, 2005: John Dennis, Research Professor and Noah Harding Professor Emeritus, Rice University:
Optimization using surrogates for engineering design
- March 1, 2005: Larry Biegler, Carnegie Mellon University:
Interior Point Algorithms for Large-Scale Nonlinear Programming: Applications in Dynamic Systems
- March 1, 2005: Andreas Waechter, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center:
Interior Point Algorithms for Large-Scale Nonlinear Programming: Theory and Algorithmic Development
- April 5, 2005: David R. Heltne, Managing Consultant - SCM, Lakeside Technology Associates:
Refinery Planning Using SLP Algorithms
- April 5, 2005: Leon Lasdon, Information, Risk, and Operations Management Dept., McCombs School of Business, University of Texas:
SLP Algorithms and Refinery Optimization
- May 3, 2005: Andrew Conn, IBM:
Optimization at Watson, Derivative Free Optimization and Not An Introduction and New Results
- May 3, 2005: Chandu Visweswariah, IBM:
Mathematics and Engineering: A Clash of Cultures?
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- October 4, 2004: Fyodor Malikov, University of Southern California / Fields Institute:
Algebras of chiral differential operators and the Courant bracket
- October 6, 2004: Ke Zhu, Fields Institute:
Degeneration of the moduli space of J-holomorphic discs and Legendrian contact homology
- October 18, 2004: F. Malikov, University of Southern California / Fields Institute:
Algebras of chiral differential operators and the Courant bracket (part 2)
- October 20, 2004: Paul Horja, Fields Institute:
Toric Deligne-Mumford stacks and mirror symmetry
- October 27, 2004: Jean-Yves Welschinger, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon / Fields Institute:
Invariants of real symplectic 4-manifolds out of reducible and cuspidal pseudo-holomorphic curves
- November 1, 2004: Robert Penner, University of Southern California / Fields Institute:
On a cell decomposition of a blow-up of the Deligne-Mumford compactification
- November 5, 2004: Eric Zaslow, Northwestern University / Fields Institute:
Affine Manifolds, Torus Fibrations and the Y-Vertex
- November 8, 2004: Wei-Dong Ruan, University of Illinois at Chicago / Fields Institute:
Deformations of integral coisotropic submanifolds in symplectic manifold
- December 1, 2004: Jim Bryan, UBC:
The local Gromov-Witten theory of curves
- December 8, 2004: Alexei Bondal, Steklov Mathemaical Institute / Fields Institute:
Mirror symmetry via constructible sheaves
- January 27, 2005: Jaemo Park, Pohang University:
Supertwistor Orbifolds: Gauge Theory Amplitudes and Topological Strings
- January 27, 2005: Amihay Hanany, MIT:
Quivers for Metrics
- January 31, 2005: Alexei Gorodentsev, ITEP, Moscow:
T-stabilities on triangulated categories
- February 3, 2005: Cobi Sonnenschein, Tel Aviv University:
More on the non-critical gauge/gravity duality
- February 10, 2005: Ofer Aharony, Weitzmann Institute:
Gravitational phase transitions from a field theory perspective
- February 10, 2005: Matthias Gaberdiel, Zurich, ETH:
Topological permutation branes
- March 10, 2005: Yan Soibelman, Kansas State:
Mirror symmetry and non-archimedean analytic geometry
- March 14, 2005: A. Semikhatov, Lebedev Inst., Moscow:
Nonsemisimple Verlinde algebras and quantum groups
- April 11, 2005: Duco van Straten, University of Gutenberg:
An Index theorem for Matrix Factorizations
- April 11, 2005: Duco van Straten, University of Gutenberg:
An Index theorem for Matrix Factorizations, part 2
- June 16, 2005: Don Marolf, University of California, Santa Barbara:
Clarifying holographic charges
- June 16, 2005: Mark Van Raamsdonk, UBC:
Phase diagrams for large N gauge theories on compact spaces
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- November 17, 2004: Paul Kunkel, Head of Audit, Ontario Power Generation:
Panel Discussion
- March 16, 2005: Suzanne Labarge, Retired Vice-Chairman and Chief Risk Officer of RBC Financial Group:
The Changing Face of Risk Management
- November 17, 2004: Chris Scammell, Senior Manager, Financial Governance, BMO:
Panel Discussion
- November 17, 2004: Rani Turna, Senior Manager, Risk and Regulatory Advisory Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers (Roundtable Moderator):
Panel Discussion
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- January 17, 2005: Ragnar Buchweitz, University of Toronto:
Lecture
- January 24, 2005: Ragnar Buchweitz, University of Toronto:
Lecture - Part 1
- January 24, 2005: Ragnar Buchweitz, University of Toronto:
Lecture - Part 2
- January 31, 2005: Ragnar Buchweitz, University of Toronto:
Lecture
- February 14, 2005: Ragnar Buchweitz, University of Toronto:
Lecture - Part 1
- February 14, 2005: Ragnar Buchweitz, University of Toronto:
Lecture - Part 2
- February 21, 2005: Ragnar Buchweitz, University of Toronto:
Lecture
- February 28, 2005: Ragnar Buchweitz, University of Toronto:
Slides only
- March 7, 2005: Ragnar Buchweitz, University of Toronto:
Lecture
- March 14, 2005: Ragnar Buchweitz, University of Toronto:
Lecture
- March 28, 2005: Ragnar Buchweitz, University of Toronto:
Lecture
- April 11, 2005: Ragnar Buchweitz, University of Toronto:
Lecture
- April 18, 2005: Ragnar Buchweitz, University of Toronto:
Lecture
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- N. Bergeron, York:
Schubert polynomials
- L. Chen, Ohio State:
Equivariant cohomology
- M. Harada, Toronto:
Schubert basics
- M. Harada, Toronto:
Equivariant cohomology and GKM theory for flag varieties
- J. Kamnitzer, UC Berkeley:
Mirkovic-Vilonen cycles
- L. Mare, Regina:
Quantum cohomology of full flag manifolds I. Generators and relations
- L. Mare, Regina:
Quantum cohomology of full flag manifolds II. The quantum Chevalley formula
- L. Mihalcea, Michigan:
Equivariant quantum Schubert calculus
- B. Rothbach, UC Berkeley:
Some comments about varieties defined by rank conditions
- A. Savage, Toronto:
Cohomology of flag varieties
- A. Savage, Toronto:
Geometric representation theory on flag varieties
- J. Tymoczko, Michigan:
Regular semisimple Hessenberg varieties
- M. Willems, Toronto:
K-theory
- M. Willems, Toronto:
Equivariant K-theory of Bott-Samelson varieties and flag varieties
- A. Woo, UC Berkeley:
Introduction to the Singularities of Schubert Varieties
- A. Yong, UC Berkeley/Fields Institute:
Schubert calculus: algebraic geometry and combinatorics
- A. Yong, UC Berkeley/Fields Institute:
Degeneracy loci
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- Miguel Costa, Porto University:
Chronology protection in string theory
- Sumit Das, University of Kentucky:
Time dependent backgrounds in 2D string theory
- Bernard de Wit, Utrecht University:
Variational principles for BPS black hole entropy
- Henriette Elvang, University of California, Santa Barbara:
Non-supersymmetric black rings
- Roberto Emparan, Universitat de Barcelona:
Nutty black rings and 4D black holes
- Jerome Gauntlett, Imperial College:
AdS solutions and some deformations
- Gary Horowitz, University of California, Santa Barbara:
Holographic Description of a Cosmological Singularity
- Renata Kallosh, Stanford University:
A simple example of moduli fixing
- Alex Maloney, SLAC and Stanford University:
Stringy resolution of null singularities
- David Mateos, Perimeter Institute:
Microscopics of black rings
- Shiraz Minwalla, Tata Institute and Harvard University:
Plasma Balls in Confining Large N Gauge Theories
- Harvey Reall, University of California, Santa Barbara:
Supersymmetric black rings
- Simon Ross, University of Durham:
Non-supersymmetric smooth geometries and D1-D5-P bound states
- Eva Silverstein, Stanford University:
The uses of tachyons
- Antoine Van Proeyen, K.U. Leuven - Belgium:
The geometry and landscape of supergravity
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- Jose A. Anquela, Universidad de Oviedo:
Martindale-like Covers of PI Quadratic Jordan Algebras
- Saeid Azam, University of Isfahan:
Derivations, automorphisms and tensor product of algebras
- Maribel Tocon Barroso, University of Ottawa:
The Kostrikin radical of EALAs of reduced type
- Georgia Benkart, University of Wisconsin-Madison:
More than Everything You Want to Know About Centroids of Lie Algebras
- Stephen Berman, University of Saskatchewan:
Conjugacy results for the Lie algebra $sl_2$ over an algebra which is a U.F.D.
- Yuly Billig, Carleton University:
Jet Modules
- Alberto Elduque, Universidad de Zaragoza:
Lie algebras with $S_4$ action and structurable algebras
- John Faulkner, University of Virginia:
Structurable Tori
- Skip Garibaldi, Emory University:
Algebras for algbraic groups of type $E_6$
- Noriaki Kamiya, University of Aizu:
Examples of triple systems and Lie superalgebras associated with their systems
- Issai Kantor, Lund University:
The Peirce Decomposition for Generalized Jordan Triple Systems of Finite Order
- Sergei Krutelevich, University of Ottawa:
Jordan algebras, exceptional groups, and higher composition laws
- Michael Lau, University of Ottawa:
Orbifold vertex algebras and EALA representations
- Antonio Fernandez Lopez, Universidad de Malaga:
The socle of a nondegenerate Lie algebra
- Consuela Martinez Lopez, Universidad de Oviedo:
Bimodules over simple finite dimensional Jordan superalgebras
- Kevin McCrimmon, University of Virginia:
Jordan derivations of TKK Lie algebras
- Fernando Montaner, Universidad de Zaragoza:
Jordan algebras of quotients
- Jun Morita, University of Tsukuba:
Gauss decomposition for groups, Lie algebras and tilings
- Erhard Neher, University of Ottawa:
Skew-dihedral homology and skew derivations
- Susumu Okubo, University of Rochester:
Triality and Structurable Algebras
- Arturo Pianzola, University of Alberta:
Extended Affine Lie Algebras: A cohomological perspective
- Michel Racine, University of Otttawa:
Maximal Orders in Split Lie Algebras over a Local Field
- Oleg Smirnov, College of Charleston:
Lie Algebras and Lie Triple Systems
- Kaiming Zhao, Wilfrid Laurier University:
ø(theta)-stable parabolic subalgebras
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- Larry Bradshaw, Fire Sciences Lab, MT:
Basics of the National Fire Danger Rating System
- John Braun, University of Western Ontario:
Local Likelihood Point Process Intensity Estimation
- David R. Brillinger, University of California, Berkeley:
Risk Analysis for Two Marked Point Process Data Sets
- David T. Butry, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station:
Estimate the Effect Wildfire Management has on Fire Behavior: A
- Andre Dabrowski, University of Ottawa:
Modeling distances between ignitions
- Charmaine Dean, Simon Fraser University:
Mixture Models for Spatio-Temporal Multi-State Processes
- Sylvia Esterby, UBC-Okanagan:
Analysis of fire index data
- Marcia L. Gumpertz, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station:
Estimating the Effect Wildfire Management has on Fire Behaviour: A Propensity-Score Matching Approach
- Fangliang He, University of Alberta:
Spatial Ecology
- Fuensanta Saura Igual, Jaume I, Spain:
Analysis of forest fires in Comunidid Valenciana (Spain) using a spatial statistics methodology
- Gail Ivanoff, University of Ottawa:
What is a multiparameter renewal process?
- Rafal Kulik, University of Ottawa:
Tutorial on point processes
- David Martell, University of Toronto:
Forest Fire Management - a Systems Modelling Perspective
- Robert McAlpine, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources:
Forest Fire Management in Ontario - a Primer and Manager's perspective
- Haiganoush Preisler, Southwest Research Stations, USDA Forest:
Some Statistical Issues in Predicting Wildland Fire Risk
- Rick Schoenberg, UCLA:
On the Estimation of Separable Point Processes and Possible Improvements to the Buring Index
- Dean Slonowsky, University of Manitoba:
Set-Indexed Martingales: Tools for Multidimensional Stochastic Modelling and Analysis
- Bo Song, Clemson:
Visualization of Fires
- David Stanford, University of Western Ontario:
What is missing from Fire Ecology?
- Brian Stocks, CFS:
Fire in the Boreal Forest
- Rolf Turner, University of New Brunswick:
Planar Point Pattern Analysis of New Brunswick Forest Fire Data
- David Vere-Jones, Victoria University of Wellington and Statistical Research Associates Ltd.:
Some Models and Procedures for Space-Time Point Processes
- Domingos Xavier Viegas, University of Coimbra, Portugal:
A Mathematical Model for Eruptive Fire Behaviour and Related Problems
- Douglas Woolford, University of Western Ontario:
Exploring Lightning and Fire Ignition Data
- Mike Wotton, Canadian Forest Service - Natural Resource Canada:
Using and interpreting output from the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System
- Mike Wotton, Canadian Forest Service - Natural Resource Canada:
Methods for the prediction of forest fire occurence in Ontario
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- Karel Casteels, University of Waterloo:
Universal Cycles
- Lap Chi, University of Toronto:
Packing Steiner Trees and Forests
- Harold Connamacher, University of Toronto:
Algorithmic Behavior of DPLL on Random XOR-SAT and an
- Babak Farzad, University of Toronto:
Planar Graphs and the Discharging Method
- Jim Geelen, University of Waterloo:
Universal Cycles
- Hamed Hatami, University of Toronto:
Fourier Analysis and Large Independent Sets in powers of complete graphs
- Danny Heap, University of Toronto:
Improved Sampling of Steiner Triple Systems
- Graeme Kemkes, University of Waterloo:
Long cycles in supercritical random graphs
- Andrew D. King, McGill University:
An Upper Bound on the Chromatic Number of Line Graphs
- Richard Krueger, University of Toronto:
The Graph Search Hierarchy: A Characterizing View of Vertex Orderings
- Karen Meagher, University of Ottawa:
Eigenvalues of the Uniform Qualitative Independence Graphs
- Shengjun Pan, University of Waterloo:
Rectilinear Crossing Number
- Aidan Roy, University of Waterloo:
Complex Lines with Restricted Angles
- Claude Tardif, Royal Military College:
Hedetniemi's Conjecture
- Robin Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology:
Matching
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- Bobby Acharya, Abdus Salam ICTP:
Statistics of M theory vacua and the Landscape
- Anirban Basu, University of Chicago:
(0,2) Duality
- Chris Beasley, Princeton University:
New Instanton Effects in N=1 Supersymmetric String Compactifications
- Melanie Becker, University of Maryland:
Flux Compactifications, Cosmology and the Standard Model of Elementary Particles
- Ralph Blumenhagen, Munich, Max Planck Institute:
Recent Progress with Intersecting D-brane models
- Volker Braun, University of Pennsylvania:
A Heterotic Standard Model
- Frederik Denef, Rutgers University:
Landscape studies
- Ron Donagi, University of Pennsylvania:
Geometric transitions, integrable systems, and large N duality
- Bogdan Florea, Rutgers University:
Moduli Stabilization in F-Theory Compactifications
- Mariana Grana, Ecole Normale Superieur-Paris:
Hitchin Functionals in Supergravity
- Sergei Gukov, Harvard University:
Heterotic Moduli Stabilization with Fractional Chern-Simons Invariants
- Ruben Minasian, Ecole Polytechnique:
On mirror symmetry with fluxes and branes
- Michael Schulz, California Institute of Technology:
Mapping Flux to Geometry
- Gary Shiu, University of Wisconsin/Perimeter Institute:
Building Chiral Flux Vacua
- Alessandro Tomasiello, Stanford University:
Towards generalized complex mirror symmetry
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- Mina Aganagic, UC Berkeley:
Black holes, quantum Yang-Mills theory and non-perturbative topological strings
- Jim Bryan, University of British Columbia:
The local Gromov-Witten theory of curves
- Cheol-Hyun Cho, Northwestern University:
A-infinity structure of open-closed map in A-model
- Kevin Costello, Imperial College London:
Topological conformal field theories and Calabi-Yau categories
- Duiliu Emanuel Diaconescu, Rutgers University:
Geometric Transitions and Integrable Systems
- Robbert Dijkgraaf, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Amsterdam:
Topological M-theory, Part II
- Alexander Givental, University of California at Berkeley:
Quantum Riemann-Roch for orbifolds and Bernoulli polynomials (after Hsian-Hua Tseng)
- Alexander Givental, University of California at Berkeley:
Hirzebruch-Riemann-Roch in Quantum cobordism theory
- Eleny-Nicoleta Ionel, Stanford University:
Embedded curves and the Gromow-Witten invariants of 3-folds
- Bumsig Kim, Korea Institute for Advanced Study:
Generalization of Hori-Vafa conjecture
- Yon Seo Kim, UCLA:
Computing Hodge integrals with one lambda class
- Albrecht Klemm, University of Wisconsin at Madison:
Open/closed string duality for topological gravity with matter
- Yuan-Pin Lee, University of Utah:
Invariance of tautological equations
- Jun Li, Stanford University:
Relative stable maps and topological vertex
- Andrei Losev, ITEP, Moskow:
Homological algebra, BV formalizm and (topological) string theory
- Yong-Geun Oh, University of Wisconsin at Madison:
Compactification of the moduli space of holomorphic maps with prescribed singularities
- Andrei Okounkov, Princeton University:
Overview of Gromov-Witten/ Donaldson-Thomas correspondence
- Andrei Okounkov, Princeton University:
Quantum cohomology of the Hilbert scheme
- Takuya Okuda, California Institute of Technology:
Calabi-Yau Crystals from Chern-Simons Gauge Theory
- Hirosi Ooguri, California Institute of Technology:
Black holes and topological string theory
- Pan Peng, UCLA:
Integrality of the Gopakumar-Vafa invariants on toric Calabi-Yau
- Nicolai Reshetikhin, UC Berkeley:
Limit shapes of fluctuating surfaces
- Lev Rozansky, University of North Carolina:
Topological theories on a 2d world-sheet foam
- Richard Thomas, Imperial College:
Constant scalar curvature Kähler metrics and stability of algebraic varieties
- Cumrun Vafa, Harvard University:
Topological M-theory, Part I
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- Mark Behrens, MIT:
Isogenies of elliptic curves and the K(2)-local sphere
- Alex Bene, UCLA:
The locus at hyperelliptic fatgraphs
- David Ben-Zvi, Texas:
The Geometric Langlands Program
- Michael Ching, MIT:
Operadic bar constructions and the Goodwillie derivatives of the identity
- Ralph Cohen, Stanford:
String topology and Gromov-Witten theory of cotangent bundles
- Christopher Douglas, MIT:
Twisted K-Theory of lie groups
- Nora Ganter, UIUC:
On orbifold genera, K(n)-local spectra, product formulas and power operations
- Veronique Godin, Stanford:
Fat graphs and the mapping class group of a surface with boundary
- Paul Goerss, Northwestern:
Morava modules and local Langlands
- Vassily Gorbounov, Kentucky:
Mirror symmetry formula for elliptic genus of some Fano varieties
- Andre Henriques, MIT:
Computation of Torus-equivariant complex oriented cohomology theories of flag varieties
- Michael Hopkins, MIT:
The work of Jack Morava
- Po Hu, Wayne State:
On algebraic analogues of string topology
- Mikhail Kapranov, Yale:
Floer homology for ind-schemes
- Nitu Kitchloo, San Diego:
Buildings for Kac-Moody groups
- Igor Kriz, Michigan:
Conformal field theory, Grothendieck-Teichmueller theory and other structures
- Jacob Lurie, MIT:
Elliptic Cohomology and Derived Algebraic Geometry
- James McClure, Purdue:
The intersection pairing for PL chains, with applications to string topology
- Goro Nishida, Kyoto:
Steenrod algebra, Dickson invariants and the automorphism groups of the additive group law
- Charles Rezk, UIUC:
On Dyer-Lash of algebras of operations on Morava E-Theory
- Eric Sharpe, UIUC:
D-branes and derived categories
- Andrew Stacey, NTNU, Trondheim:
A Construction of a Dirac Operator on Loop Space
- Stephan Stolz, Notre Dame:
Elliptic cohomology via conformal field theories?
- Dennis Sullivan, SUNY Stonybrook:
Chain level Gromov-Witten theory
- Hirotaka Tamanoi, UC Santa Cruz:
Decomposition of orbifold mapping spaces and geometric Hecke operators
- Constantin Teleman, Cambridge:
Twistings in Gromov-Witten theory
- Takeshi Torii, Fukuoka, Japan:
Degeneration of formal groups and generalized Chern characters
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- Joseph Bernstein, Tel Aviv University:
Subconvexity estimates and representation theory
- William Casselman, University of British Columbia:
Truncation and buildings
- Laurent Clozel, Paris-South:
Arthur's conjectures, restriction principle, and mysterious functorialities
- Stephen DeBacker, University of Michigan:
Murnaghan-Kirillov theory for depth zero supercuspidal representations
- Thomas Haines, University of Maryland:
Shimura varieties with parahoric level structure
- David Kazhdan, Hebrew University:
On endoscopic decomposition of certain weight zero representations
- Henry Kim, University of Toronto:
Functoriality for unitary groups
- Robert Kottwitz, University of Chicago:
Arthur's work on the trace formula
- Jean-Pierre Labesse, Institut Mathmatique:
Norm map for twisted endoscopy
- Robert Langlands, Insitute for Advanced Study:
The trace formula and the theory of numbers
- Erez Lapid, Hebrew University:
Explicit trace identities
- Gerard Laumon, CNRS and Universite Paris-Sud:
The Fundamental Lemma for Unitary Groups (I)
- Werner Muller, Bonn:
The trace formula and spectral theory of automorphic forms
- Bao Chau Ngo, Universite Paris-Sud:
The Fundamental Lemma for Unitary Groups (II)
- Michael Rapoport, Universitat Bonn:
Local models of Shimura Varieties
- Peter Sarnak, Princeton University:
Some analytic applications of the trace and related formulae
- Freydoon Shahidi, Purdue University:
Infinite dimensional groups and automorphic L-functions
- David Vogan, MIT:
Arthur packets and unitary representations
- Jean-Loup Waldspurger, Institut Mathmatique:
Identites de caracteres entre representations de SO(2n+1) et de GL(2n) tordu
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- Roberto Aldave and Simon Gluzman, Generation 5 Mathematical Technologies Inc.:
Prediction of Real Variables with Non-Polynomial Approximants
- David Banks, Duke University:
Scalability of Models in Data Mining
- Yoshua Bengio, University of Montreal:
Statistical Learning from High Dimensional and Complex Data: Not a Lost Cause
- Hugh Chipman, Acadia University:
Daily Discussant
- Merlise Clyde, Duke University:
Bayesian Perspectives on Combining Models
- Adele Cutler, University of Utah:
Random Forests: Proximity, Variable Importance and Visualization *Joint work with Leo Breiman
- Alex Depoutovitch, Generation 5 Mathematical Technologies Inc.:
The use of grid computing to speed up prediction
- Jerome Friedman, Standford University:
Importance Sampling: An Alternative View of Ensemble Learning *Joint work with Bogdan Popescu
- Henxue Huang, Generation 5 Mathematical Technologies Inc.:
Dependence Degree and Feature Selection for Categorical Data
- Grigoris Karakoulas, University of Toronto:
ROC-based Learing for Imbalanced Class Problems
- Helmut Kroger, University of Laval:
Learning in neural networks with small-world architecture
- Xianping Liu, Generation 5 Mathematical Technologies Inc.:
Generation 5 Hybrid Clustering System and its Application
- Joaquin Ordieres Mere, University of la Rioja:
Data-Mining for industrial processes
- Russell Steele, McGill University:
Algebraic Geometry and Model Selection for Naive Bayes Networks
- Godfried Toussaint, McGill University:
Proximity Graph Methods for Data Mining
- Steven Wang, York University:
Clustering Categorical Data Based on Distance Vectors
- William Welch, University of British Columbia:
Daily Discussant
- Stan Young, National Institute of Statistical Science:
Linking and pattern matching in multiple large data two-way tables
- Ruban Zamar, University of British Columbia:
Robust Methods and Data Mining
- Ji Zhu and Saharon Rosset, University of Michigan:
Is regularization: efficient and effect Priecewise linear SVM paths
- Mu Zhu, University of Waterloo:
An Adaptive Radial Basis Function Network Model for Statistical Detection
- Alex Zolotovitski, Generation 5 Mathematical Technologies Inc.:
Automated Trade area analysis. Case study of G5 MWM software application
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- Alexander Gorokhovsky, University of Colorado:
Bivariant Chern Character and Connes' Index Theorem
- Nigel Higson, Pennsylvania State University:
Introduction to the Connes-Moscovici formula
- X. Hu, University of Toronto:
Local index theorem for transversally elliptic operators
- Jerry Kaminker, IUPUI:
Duality in noncommutative geometry
- Masoud Khalkhali, University of Western Ontario:
Renormalization and Motivic Galois Theory (after Connes and Marcolli)
- Eckhart Meinrenken, University of Toronto:
Chern-Weil homomorphism for non-commutative differential algebras
- John Phillips:
From Specrtal Flow to the Odd Local Index Formula
- Raphael Ponge, Ohio State University:
Noncommutative geometry, Heisenberg calculus and CR geometry
- Bahram Rangipour, University of Victoria:
Cup product in Hopf cyclic cohomology and Connes Moscovici characteristic map
- Andrzej Sitarz, University of Wroclav:
Local index formula: going beyond spectral triples
- Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University:
BV operators in noncommutative geometry
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- S. Bull and J. P. Lewinger, University of Toronto, Dept of Public Health Sciences and Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute:
Missing Data in Family-Based Genetic Association Studies
- N. Chatterjee, National Cancer Institute:
Missing Data Problems in Statistical Genetics
- Jimbo Chen, NIH:
Semiparametric efficiency and optimal estimation for missing data problems, with application to auxiliary outcomes (no audio)
- R. Cook and G. Yi, University of Waterloo:
Marginal Methods for Incomplete Clustered Longitudinal Binary Data
- J. DiCesare, University of Waterloo:
Estimating Diffusions with Missing Data
- J. F. Lawless, Department of Statistics and Act. Sci., University of Waterloo:
Some Problems Concerning Missing Data in Survival and Event History Analysis
- Alan Lee, Department of Statistics, University of Auckland:
Asymptotic Efficiency Bounds in Semi-Parametric Regression Models (no audio)
- R. J. A. Little, University of Michigan:
Robust likelihood-based analysis of multivariate data with missing values
- A. Rotnitzky, Harvard:
Doubly-robust estimation of the area under the operating characteristic curve in the presence of non-ignorable verification bias
- D. L. McLeish & C.A. Struthers, University of Waterloo:
Regression with Missing Covariates: Importance Sampling and Imputation
- B. Nan:
A new look at some efficiency results for semiparametric models with missing data
- James Reilly, Department of Statistics, University of Auckland:
Multiple Imputation and Complex Survey Data (no audio)
- D. Scharfstein, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health:
Sensitivity Analysis for Informatively Interval-Censored Discrete Time-to-Event Data
- A. Scott, University of Auckland:
Fitting family-specific models to retrospective family data
- J. Stafford, Department of Public Health Science, University of Toronto:
ICE: Iterated Conditional Expectations
- M. E. Thompson, University of Waterloo:
Interval censoring of event times in the National Population Health Survey
- C. Wild, Dept. of Statistics, University of Auckland:
Some issues of efficiency and robustness
- G. Y. Yi, Dept. of Stat. and Act. Sci., University of Waterloo:
Median Regression Models for Longitudinal Data with Missing Observations
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Meeting on New Directions in Probability Theory
(August 6-7, 2004)
- Gerard Ben Arous, Courant Institute:
Quenched to annealed transition for the parabolic Anderson problem
- Siva Athreya, Indian Statistical Institute:
Branching coalescing particle systems
- David Brydges, University of British Columbia:
Self-avoiding walk in four dimensions
- Micheal Cranston, University of California, Irvine and University of Rochester:
Some results on the parabolic Anderson model
- John Harnad, Concordia University and CRM Université de Montréal:
Two matrix models, duality and Riemann-Hilbert problems
- Thomas P. Hayes, Toyota Technological Institute, Chicago:
Better coupling with less effort
- Kurt Johansson, Royal Institute of Technology:
Measures from non-intersecting paths
- Tom Kennedy, University of Arizona:
Monte Carlo studies of self-avoiding walks
- Leonid Koralov, Princeton University:
Asymptotic problems in random transport
- Greg Lawler, Cornell University:
Self-avoiding walk in two dimensions: detailed conjectures and few results
- Neal Madras, York University:
Knotting phenomena in self-avoiding walks
- Micheal Molloy, University of Toronto:
Generating random colourings of a graph with high girth and maximum degree
- Carl Mueller, Rochester University:
The heat equation with multiplicative Levy noise
- Robin Pemantle, University of Pennsylvania:
The complexity of finding a path with nearly optimal drift in a branching random walk
- Roland Speicher, Queen's University:
Random matrices and free probability
- Craig Tracy, University of California:
Differential equations for Dyson processes
- Horng-Tzer Yau, Stanford University & Courant Institute:
Brownian motion in quantum physics
- Xiaowen Zhou, Concordia University:
Self-duality of coalescing Brownian motion and its applications in measure-valued processes
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