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Canada, postdoctoral fellows from Canada, Switzerland and Sweden, PhD and MSc students from Quebec, Nova Scotia and Ontario, and some undergraduate students from Ottawa and Nova Scotia. Participants were drawn from mathematics, statistics, management, and government. The workshop provided ample time for interaction, and each session was accompanied by numerous – sometimes heated – discussions on approaches and methods for particular problems. In particular, the entire group participated in contributing ideas towards a potential research program in this area. The organizers will be pursuing this line of research and will collect the comments of workshop participants and present progress a webpage. Researchers interested in joining this group are asked to contact the organizers. Speakers: Peter Bubenik (Lausanne) for Gunnar Carlsson (Stanford) Persistent homology and directional statistics André Dabrowski (Ottawa) Aspects of statistics Ulrich Fahrenberg (Aalborg) Parallel composition of automata Alexander Gorban (Leicester) How to discover a geometry and topology in a finite dataset by means of elastic nets Peter Kim (Guelph) Nonparametrics in high dimensions Maia Lesosky (Guelph) Introduction to quantum computing Paul-Eugène Parent and Barry Jessup (Ottawa) Elements of topology Workshop on Computational Biology in the Post Genomics Era – a collaborative workshop between universities, NRC and industry March 19–20, 2005 Held at CRM in Montreal - see the Joint Institutes Initiatives section for a description of this event 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 Carleton Functional Analysis Day 2005 April 12, 2005 Held at Carleton University Organizers: C.K. Fong, Wojciech Jaworski and Matthias Neufang (Carleton) This successful meeting, sponsored by the Fields Institute brought together world-class specialists in various areas of modern analysis where quantum methods play a crucial role. It consisted of four hour-long lectures that surveyed and described recent developments in non-commutative geometry, operator spaces and quantum field theory. The event attracted many young Canadian researchers representing diverse areas of mathematics, including graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. The talks produced lively discussions and research collaboration among the participants. Speakers: David Blecher (Houston) On the necessity of operator space methods Masoud Khalkhali (UWO) Locally compact quantum groups, non-commutative geometry, and cyclic cohomology Zhong-Jin Ruan (Urbana-Champaign) Operator spaces and their applications to harmonic analysis Israel Michael Sigal (Toronto) Spectral and dynamical problems arising in quantum field theory Ontario Combinatorics Workshop April 15–16, 2005 Held at the Fields Insstitute Organizers: Chris Godsil and Bruce Richter (Waterloo) This workshop brought together graduate students studying Combinatorics from (southern) Ontario so that they could get an idea of the scope and depth of their subject. In addition, it provided students with an opportunity to meet faculty from other institutions at which they might wish to pursue their studies or careers. It was also a useful opportunity for the faculty to maintain contact with each other. The conference included twelve 25-minute student pre- Fields Institute 2005 ANNUAL REPORT 72
Combinatorics workshop participants sentations and three invited talks from Robin Thomas (Georgia Institute of Technology), Claude Tardif (Royal Military College) and Jim Geelen (Waterloo). Since 2003, the Peter Rodney Memorial Book Prize has been awarded to the best student presentation. This year’s winner was Lap Chi (Toronto) for his talk “Packing Steiner Trees and Forests”. There were approximately 40 participants at the workshop. Speakers: Karel Casteels (Waterloo) Universal cycles Lap Chi (Toronto) Packing Steiner trees and forests Harold Connamacher (Toronto) Algorithmic behavior of DPLL on random XOR-SAT and a NP complete generalization of XOR-SAT Babak Farzad (Toronto) Planar graphs and the discharging method Jim Geelen (Waterloo) Universal cycles Hamad Hatami (Toronto) Fourier analysis and large independent sets in powers of complete graphs Danny Heap (Toronto) Improved sampling of Steiner triple systems Graeme Kemkes (Waterloo) 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 Long cycles in supercritical random graphs Andrew King (McGill) An upper bound on the chromatic number of line graphs Richard Krueger (Toronto) The graph search hierarchy: a characterizing view of vertex orderings Karen Meagher (Ottawa) Eigenvalues of the uniform qualitative independence graphs Shengjun Pan (Waterloo) Rectilinear crossing number Aidan Roy (Waterloo) Complex lines with restricted angles Claude Tardif (Royal Military College) Hedetniemi’s conjecture Robin Thomas (Georgia Inst. of Tech.) Matching MITACS/Fields Aeronautics Workshop April 28-29, 2005 Held at the Fields Institute - see the Commercial/Industrial Mathematics section for a description of this event The 2005 Great Lakes Geometry Conference April 30–May 1, 2005 Held at Perimeter Institute Organizers: Hans U. Boden (McMaster), Finnur Lárusson (UWO), B. Doug Park (UWO) and Mainak Poddar (Waterloo) Scientific Committee: Ronald Fintushel (Michigan State), Robert Myers (Perimeter), and Yongbin Ruan (Wisconsin) The Great Lakes Geometry Conference (GLGC) began in 1999 at the University of Wisconsin under the leadership of Yongbin Ruan. Since then, the conference has met at several major universities in the Great Lakes region, including Northwestern, Notre Dame, Michigan, and Michigan State. This year, the conference came to Canada for the first time and was hosted at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario. Fields Institute 2005 ANNUAL REPORT 73
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