ARCHIVED COLLOQUIUM

Past Talks: (Click on the talk for place, time and abstract of talk)

Monday, January 18, 2010, Todd Kemp, University of California, San Diego & Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT). Title - Chaos and the Fourth Moment.

Friday, January 15, 2010 Hari Bercovici, Indiana University. Title - Intersection theory in a von Neumann algebra

Friday, January 8, 2010 Florin Boca, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The angular distribution of lattice points and application to some problems in geometirc probability.

Friday, November 20, 2009 Douglas Farenick, University of Regina. Multipliers and local multipliers of C*-algebra theory.

Friday, November 6, 2009 James A. Mingo, Queen's University. Free Probaility and The Weingarten Function

Thursday, October 22, 2009 - Speaker: Josnei Antonio Novacoski

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - Speaker: Maxime Fevrier, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse

Friday,October 2, 2009. Speaker Mikelis Bickis, University of Saskatchewan

September 25, 2009 - Speaker Michael Anshelevich, Texas A & M University.

Dr. Carol K. Hall, Visting Lecturer & Role Model Speaker. (September 10 and 11)

Friday, September 4, 2009. Hans Lundmark, Linkoping University, Sweden.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009, Seyed M. Moghadas National Research Council of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Thursday, April 2, 2009, Kenneth C. Millett, University of California, Santa Barbara

March 23-25, Mini-workshop on New Perspectives in Valuation Theory

Friday March 20, 2009, Harry Joe, University of British Columbia

Friday March 13, 2009, Michael Kozdron, University of Regina

The Eighth ColloquiumFest CUNY Graduate Center, New York March 6 and 7 2009

Friday, January 16, 2009, Dr. Victor Vinnikov, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Friday, November 21, 2008, Dr. Shaun Fallat, Professor and PIMS Site Director, University of Regina

Friday, November 14, 2008, Roland Speicher, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

Thursday, November 13, 2008, Agnieszka Kalamajska. University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

Friday, October 17, 2008, Alexandru Nica, University of Waterloo, A survey ofcombinatorial methods in free probability

Friday, October 10, 2008, Hun Hee Lee, University of Waterloo, q-Chaos (Homogeneous polynomials of non-commutative gaussian variables)

Friday & Saturday, October 3 & 4, 2008 - Seventh ColloquiumFest, organized by F. V. Kuhlmann

Friday, October 3, 2008, Victor Vinnikov, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, Linear matrix inequality representations of a convex set

Friday, September 26, 2008, Benoit Collins, University of Ottawa, CNRS- Quantum groups and quantum probability

Friday, September 19, 2008, Kenneth Davidson, University of Waterloo, Topological stable rank of Banach algebras

Friday, September 12, 2008, Marina Tvalavadze, University of Western Ontario, Group gradings on algebras

Thursday, September 11, 2008, G. Misiolek, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, The exponential map on the group of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms

Friday, September 5, 2008, Yuanan Diao, UNC Charlotte, USA, Geometric Problems of Physical Knots

Friday, August 29, 2008, Hans Lundmark, Linkoping University, Peakons and shockpeakons: an introduction to the world on nonsmooth solitons

Wednesday, August 6, 2008 - Andrew Douglas, City University of New York- Nonassociative algebra structures on indecomposable representations of the Euclidean Algebra

Monday, July 14, 2008 - Youcheng Zhou, Suzhou University, On the geometric entropy of group actions on continua

Monday, March 3, 2008 - Guohua Yan, University of British Columbia - A likelihood approach to linear clustering

Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - Ebrahim Samei, University of Waterloo - Cohomology of group algebras and Fourier algebras

Friday, March 7, 2008 - Mihai Popa, Indiana University at Bloomington - Combinatorics of some non-commutative types of independence

Monday, March 10, 2008 - Allen Tesdall, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas - Modeling the von Neumann triple point paradox

Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - Juxin Liu, Dept. of Medicine, University of Alberta - Average effects for regression models with misspecification

Friday, March 14, 2008 - Alexei Cheviakov, University of British Columbia - Modern Symmetry Methods for Partial Differential Equations Applications to Mathematical Modeling and Analysis

Friday, February 29, 2008 - David Hu, Courant Institute, New York - Snakes on a plane

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - Dilian Yang - University of Waterloo - Dilation Theory for Rank 2 Graph Algebras

Monday, February 25, 2008 - Mohua Podder - University of British Columbia - Robust dynamic variable selection for SNP genotype classification

Monday, January 21, 2008 - Dr. Chamaine Dean - Simon Fraser University - Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Rates

Friday January 11, 2008 - Prof. Danielle Gondard, Universite Paris 7 - From Artin-Schreier to Valuation Fans

Friday October 12 , 2007 - Dr. Dusan Repovs, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia - The Recognition Problem for Topological Manifolds

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - Vladislav Panferov, McMaster University - On the Boltzmann equation: global solutions in one spatial dimension.

Thursday, March 15, 2007 - Andrei Biryuk, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON and Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal - Particle flows and turbulence

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - Ariel Blanco, Queen's University Belfast - On the amenability and weak amenability of algebras of operators

Friday, March 9, 2007 - Longhai Li, University of Toronto - Avoiding Bias From Feature Selection

POSTPONED - Thursday, March 8, 2007 - Rajesh Pereira, University of Saskatchewan - Majorization, Matrices and the Roots of Polynomials

Friday, March 2, 2007 - Artur Sowa, Mesoscopia, Inc. - Geometric Concepts for Explorations in Nanoelectronics

Thursday, March 1, 2007 - Xu (Sunny) Wang, University of Waterloo. - Statistical Learning in Drug Discovery

Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - Dr. Habiba Kadiri, University of Montreal - Zero free regions of L-functions

CANCELLED - Monday February 26, 2007 - Dr. Dusan Repovs, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia - The Recognition Problem for Topological Manifolds

Friday, February 23 , 2007 - Jiguo Cao, Yale University - The Parameter Cascade Method and its Applications in Estimating Air Pollution Models, Fitting HIV Dynamical Models, and Constructing Gene Regulation Network.

Tuesday, February 20 , 2007 - Serban Belinschi, University of Waterloo - Analytic aspects of free probability.

Friday, October 20, 2006 - Ron Brown - The lengths of 4-games

Wednesday May 3, 2006 - Michel Vaqui'e - Local Uniformization

Monday, April 24, 2006 - Dr. Andreas Fischer, Singularities of Tame Peano Differentiable Functions.

NOTE Date change: Thursday, March 2 , 2006 - Dr. Peter Hoffman, Dept of Pure Mathematics, U. of Waterloo - Logic and Programming Languages

Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - Michael Gekhtman, Dept of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame - Combinatorics of Total Positivity

Monday, May 16, 2005 - Luiz A. Peresi, Institute of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil - Central and Nuclear Elements in the Free Alternative Algebra

Friday, March 18, 2005 - Dr. M.H. Anvari, Shahid Rajaei University, Tehran, Iran, Observational Modelling in Biology

Friday, March 11, 2005 - Prof. Josef Dormeister, Tu-Muenchen, Zentrum Mathematik, Germany, Harmonic Maps and Loop Groups

Friday, December 10, 2004 - Raymond Spiteri, Dept. of Computer Science, U of S, Stiffness Detection in Initial-Value ODEs

Friday, November 5, 2004 - Jonathan Borwein, Dalhousie University - On Maximizing Surprise

Friday, November 12, 2004 - Sara Faridi, University of Ottawa - Studying monomial ideals using combinatorial techniques

Friday, September 17, 2004 - Dr. Gregory Akulov, Kieve National Taras Shevchenko University

Friday, April 30, 2004 - David Cowan, University of Saskatchewan

Friday, April 23, 2004 -Rajesh Pereira, University of Saskatchewan

Thursday, April 8, 2004 - Professor Ryuichi ASHINO, Osaka Kyoiku University, Japan

Friday, April 2, 2004 - David Cowan, University of Saskatchewan CANCELLED

Friday, March 26, 2004 - Dr. Shigeru Arimoto, Department of Chemistry, University of Saskatchewan

Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - Dr. Shigeru Arimoto, Department of Chemistry, University of Saskatchewan

Friday, February 27, 2004 - Dr. Alexi Zenkov, PDF, Mathematical Sciences Group, University of Saskatchew

Friday, February 13, 2004 - Murray Bremner, Research Unit in Algebra and Logic , Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan

Friday, February 6, 2004 - Mik Bickis, Mathematical Sciences Group, University of Saskatchewan

Friday, January 30, 2004 - Dr. Bruce Watson, School of Math, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Friday, January 16, 2004 - Dr. Andriy Zahorodnyuk, PDF, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan

Friday, November 28, 2003 - Mark Daley, Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan

Friday, November 21, 2003 - Mohamed El Bachraoui, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan

Friday, November 14, 2003 - Yoji Yoshii, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan

Friday, November 7, 2003 - Trevor Green, Mathematical Sciences Group, University of Saskatchewan

Friday ,October 31, 2003 - Jonathan Borwein, FRSC, Centre for Experimental & Constructive Mathematics, Simon Fraser University

Friday ,October 17, 2003 - Rajesh Pereira, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan

Friday ,October 10, 2003 - Charles Cuell, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan

Friday, October 3, 2003 - Dr. Murray Marshall, Mathematical Sciences Group, Dept of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan

Friday, September 19, 2003 - Dr.Murray Bremner, Research Unit"Algebra & Logic", University of Saskatchewan

Tuesday, September 9, 2003 - Prof. Dr. Helmut Strade, Mathematisches Seminar der Universitat Hamburg

Friday, September 5, 2003 - Prof. Dr. Georgia Benkart, Dept of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin (Madison)

Wednesday, March 19, 2003 - Professor Haisheng Li, Rutgers University, New Jersey

Friday, March 14, 2003 - Professor Marcelo Pereira De Oliveira, University of Toronto

Friday February 7, 2003 - Dr. Lance Littlejohn, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Utah State U, Logan, Utah

Friday November 22, 2002 - Alan Paterson, Department of Mathematics, University of Mississippi

Friday November 15, 2002 - David C. Brydges, University of British Columbia and University of Virginia

Friday November 08, 2002 - Professor Mahmood Khoshkam, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, UofS - CANCELLED

Friday November 01, 2002 - Professor Peter Gibson, University of Calgary

Friday October 25, 2002 - Professor Stanley Gudder, University of Denver

Friday October 4, 2002 - Professor Yuri Bahturin, University of Newfoundland, Moscow State University

Tuesday August 13, 2002 - Professor Brian Parshall, University of Virginia

Tuesday August 13, 2002 - Professor Karen Parshall, University of Virginia

Friday April 5, 2002 - Professor John Faulkner, University of Virginia

Friday March 22, 2002 - Dr. Edward Doolittle, Saskatchewan Indian Federated College

Friday March 15, 2002 - Professor Massoud Amini, University of Saskatchewan

Friday March 8, 2002 - Professor Murray Bremner, University of Saskatchewan

Friday March 1, 2002 - Professor Nantel Bergeron, York University

Friday, January 18, 2002 - Professor Yanan Lin; Xiamen University, China