Annual Report 2005 - Fields Institute - University of Toronto

Winter 2004 Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical
Society
December 11–13, 2004
Held at Hilton Bonaventure Hotel, Montreal
Meeting Director: Olga Kharlampovich (McGill)
The Meeting welcomed 450 participants. Following the
usual format of the CMS Winter Meeting, the program
included a wide variety of sessions, a contributed paper
session, plenary and prize lectures, and a public lecture.
Most activities and all scientific talks were held at the
Hilton Bonaventure Hotel. The meeting began with Alexei
G. Myasnikov (McGill) delivering a public lecture entitled
Complexity of computations and cryptography. The event,
held at the Best Western Hotel Europa, drew a large audience
and was followed by a welcoming reception.
Plenary Speakers:
Michael Bennett (UBC)
Classical Diophantine equations via modern and not-so-modern
methods
Persi Diaconis (Stanford)
A mathematician flips a coin
Rostislav Grigorchuk (Texas A&M)
Algebraic, algorithmic, and spectral properties of automata
groups
François Lalonde (Montréal)
How pure mathematical aspects of String theory can solve
deep problems of geometric group theory
Rainer Steinwandt (Karlsruhe)
Non-abelian groups in public key cryptography
CMS Coxeter-James Prize Lecture
Izabella Laba (UBC)
Harmonic analysis and combinatorics: Are we there yet?
CMS Doctoral Prize Lecture
Nicolaas Spronk (Waterloo)
Operator spaces and abstract harmonic analysis
CMS Adrien Pouliot Prize Lecture
Jean-Marie De Koninck (Laval)
Mathematics and the media
G e n e r a l S c i e n t i f i c A c t i v i t i e s
Special sessions and their organizers:
Algebraic combinatorics; François Bergeron, Riccardo Biagioli,
Peter McNamara, and Christophe Reutenauer (UQAM)
Approximation theory; Richard Fournier and Paul Gauthier
(Montreal)
Arithmetic geometry; Eyal Goren (McGill) and Adrian
Iovita (Concordia)
Combinatorial and geometric group theory; Inna Bumagin
(Carleton) and Dani Wise (McGill)
Commutative algebra; Sara Faridi (Ottawa), Sindi Sabourin
(York), Will Traves (US Naval Academy) and Adam van
Tuyl (Lakehead)
Discrete geometry; Karoly Bezdek (Calgary), Rob Calderbank
(Princeton), Robert Connelly (Cornell) and Bob
Erdahl (Queen’s)
Dynamical systems and applications; Michael A. Radin
(RIT)
Groups, equations, non-commutative algebraic geometry;
Olga Kharlampovich and Alexei G. Myasnikov (McGill)
Harmonic analysis; Galia Dafni (Concordia)
History of mathematics; Thomas Archibald (Acadia, Dibner
Institute MA), Rich O’Lander (St. John’s), Ron Sklar, (St.
John’s) and Alexei Volkov (UQAM)
Interactions between algebra and computer science; Olga
Kharlampovich (McGill), Alexei G. Myasnikov (McGill)
and Vladimir Shpilrain (CUNY)
Mathematical methods in statistics; Russell Steele, Alain
Vandal and David Wolfson (McGill)
Mathematics for future teachers; Leo Jonker (Queen’s)
Number theory; Chantal David (Concordia) and Andrew
Granville (Montreal)
Special structures in differential geometry; Gordon Craig
(Bishop’s) and Spiro Karigiannis (McMaster)
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