To view a participant's abstract, please click on the underlined talk title. Any student who has submitted a conference paper for the CUMC / CCÉM 2005 Proceedings will have a "PAPER" link after his or her talk title.
(Unless otherwise specified, each talk was given in the language in which its abstract was written.)
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Dr. François Bergeron, Université du Québec à Montréal
Why is Algebraic Combinatorics So Hot?
Pourquoi tant d'intérêt pour la combinatoire algébrique?
(bilingual presentation)
Sponsored by CRM
Abstract / résumé, bio: .pdf
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Richard Hoshino, Dalhousie University
Life as an Academic: Running a Different Race
Sponsored by MITACS
Abstract / résumé, bio: .pdf
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Dr. Ram Murty, Queen's University at Kingston
Prime Numbers and Irreducible Polynomials
Abstract / résumé, bio: .pdf
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Dr. Peter Taylor, Queen's University at Kingston
Opening Address
Bio: .pdf
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PARTICIPANTS |
University of Alberta |
| Michelle Ashburner |
Arcada Polytechnic University |
| Adu-Tutu Emmanuel Bofah |
University of British Columbia |
| Ahmad Alanani |
The Valuation of Financial Options |
Carleton University |
| Jordan Bell |
The n-queens Problem |
| Scott Bush |
Beating the Stock Market:
A Simple Introduction to the Black-Scholes Stock Option Pricing Formula |
| Darren Coughtrey |
Immanuel Kant and the Foundations of Geometry
PAPER |
Darcy Dunne |
The Deaths of Famous Mathematicians and Famous Mathematican Deaths |
| Gene Foxwell |
Self-organizing Maps and Topology Preservation |
| Ahmed Ismail |
Chiara Mingarelli |
The Mathematics of Black Hole Mechanics |
| Adrian Moscher |
Synchronizable Codes |
| Wayne Tetreault |
Lynne Wolfson |
Decision Problems and Rational Subsets of Monoids |
Dalhousie University |
| Garrett MacLean |
The Inverse Problem of Electrocardiographic Imaging |
Micah Blake McCurdy |
Introduction to the Black Art of Category Theory
&
Trivialities |
| Sable McKeil |
Sowing Games in Game Theory |
| Heulwen Rankin |
Algebras and Coalgebras |
University of Guelph |
| Matthew Partridge |
Laval University |
| François Bolduc |
Geometrical Construction and Its Famous Problems |
| Dominique Brunet |
Sur la continuité des dimensions des IFS infinis |
| Julie Drouin |
Introduction aux codes correcteurs d'erreurs |
| Julie Dube |
| Edith Laliberté |
Modélisation de motifs
par des équations de réaction-diffusion |
| Julie Langlois |
| Denis Poulin |
L'équation de Cauchy, une nouvelle approche
PAPER |
| Patrice Rivard |
Les transformations de Möbius généraliséees |
McGill University |
| Tayeb Aissiou |
Shor's Quantum Factorization Algorithm |
| Alexandre Bouchard |
Domaines et langages |
| Anne-Sophie Charest |
Lenstra's Algorithm for Factoring with Elliptic Curves |
| Leonid Chindelevitch |
Cryptography |
| Claude-André Faucher-Giguère |
An Introduction to Algebraic Topology |
David Goodman |
Properties of the Gamma Function |
| Mathieu Guay-Paquet |
The Long Lost Art of Square-Rooting |
| Ilya Krouglikov |
Looking for Fractals Inside the Snowflake |
| Zhentao Li |
Universal Traversal Sequences |
| Yuedan Liu |
The Infinite Monkey Theorem |
| Owen Martin |
| David Nataf |
| Mireille Schnitzer |
Euler's Equality and the Infinitude of Primes |
| "Finn" Heather Upham |
Metaphorical Mathematics: a Cognitive Construction of the Real line |
| Christelle Vincent |
McMaster University |
| Marianne Snider |
Memorial University |
| Andrew James Critch |
Two balls for the price of one:
The Banach-Tarski Paradox |
| Shauna C. Gammon |
| Colin Kennedy |
| Derrick Lee |
| Neil McKay |
Orthogonal Diagonal Latin Squares |
Justin Rowsell |
| Rebecca White |
Blow-up in Reaction-Diffusion Equations
PAPER |
University of Montréal |
| Isabelle Ascah-Coallier |
Quelques resultats sur les fonctions entières |
| François Charette |
Le groupe fondamental des surfaces |
| Raphael Clouatre |
| Daniel Fiorilli |
Le degré d'une application (de variétés) |
| Katja Hutschenreuter |
| Clarence Simard |
Mount Allison University |
| Matthew Chiasson |
Exploring Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem |
| Josh Manzer |
Designing Cryptographically-Strong Substitution Boxes:
Building Tricky Maps Is Tough |
| Vera Ranieri |
Nipissing University |
| Kaitlyn Church |
| Natasha May |
| Melanie McKay |
University of Ottawa |
| Sonya Witzman |
| Hemza Yagoub |
Je n'ai p-a di que les maths étaient s-adiques |
University of Québec at Montréal |
| Yannick Assénat |
| Simon Belzile |
Les surfaces et le Morse ou comment joindre l'utile à l'agréable |
| Ariane Garon |
| Yannick Gingras |
| Marie-Eve Harvie |
Réseaux planaire et graphes toroïdaux |
| Jerome Pare |
Bases de Gröbner et applications amusantes /
Gröbner Bases and Amusing Applications |
| Nancy Tremblay |
La classification des surfaces compacts |
Queen's University at Kingston |
| Amjed Al-Rikabi |
| Rachel Barden |
Erica Blom,
President |
Not-so-sporadic p-adics: Completions of Q |
Adina Bogert-O'Brien |
| Michael Brannan |
Internal Solitary Waves in the Ocean: A Look at Exact Solutions to the Fully Nonlinear Equations of Motion |
| Wesley Burr |
Application of Statistical Signal Processing
to Spatially-Separated Climate Data
PAPER |
Brendan Cordy |
Recursive and Recursively-Enumerable Sets |
| Greg Costain |
Cameron Franc,
Conference amenities |
Gray codes |
| Eric Hart |
An Unanswered Coin-toss Problem and Solutions Using the Catalan Numbers |
| Breanne Irwin |
| Rob Kamal |
| Mike Kennedy |
| Karim Khairallah |
| Timothy Kusalik |
What Is a Number? Set Theory and the Philosophical Foundations of Mathematics |
| Michael LeBlanc |
Honeycombs and Horn's Conjecture |
| Fok-Jee Leung |
| Christine Lewis |
| Kris Marble |
| Sarah McArthur |
| Andrew Portolesi |
Algebraic Topology: Lost in Triangulation --
An Introduction into a Crazy Abstraction on Geometry
&
Dude, Where's my Public Key?
An Exploration into the Workings of Modern-Day Cryptography |
| Jenna Rajchgot |
Some Time-Frequency Analysis and a Medical Application |
Steven Rayan,
Deputy Director |
Fermat's Last Theorem: Back in the Day |
| Christopher Seewald |
| Aaron Smith |
| Lindsay Smith |
| Tomas Sollund |
| Tyler Stephen |
| Mat Stevenson |
| Andrea Sweny |
Nithum Thain,
Speaker liaison |
Quadratic Reciprocity |
Benjamin Turnbull |
Polygon Gluing: An Introduction to Random Matrices |
| Michael Wand |
| Shu Wang |
Chester Weatherby |
Producing Pythagorean Triples |
University of Sherbrooke |
| Carlos de la Mora |
University of Toronto |
| Zavosh Amir-Khosravi |
Overview of Tate's Thesis |
| Branimir Cacic |
A Crash Course in Differential Forms |
| Oliver Cheng |
Alexander Duncan,
Webmaster |
Dissections of Rectangles into Squares |
Nir Friedman |
Numerical Methods in Condensed Matter Physics |
| Ashleigh Ingle |
| Zoë Misiewicz |
| Roger Mong |
Geometric Mapping -- Making the Most Out of Your Picture |
| Emily Redelmeier |
The Knot Group, the Wirtinger Presentation,
and the Peripheral System |
| David Shirokoff |
Infinite Sums: Barely and Almost Convergent |
| Jacob Tsimerman |
Grid Graphs: Almost Topology |
| Hao Zhang |
University of Victoria |
| Marsha Minchenko |
Fullerenes and FUIGUI, an Automated Visualization Tool |
University of Waterloo |
| Chris Almost |
A Quick Introduction to Representation Theory |
| Scott Bathurst |
| Rob Blom |
| Maurice Cheung |
| Diana Chisholm |
| Cameron Christou |
Lino Demasi |
| Jon Dietrich |
| Eugene Eisenstein |
Applications of Sieving Techniques in Not-so-basic Number Theory |
| Lloyd Elliott |
What is K-theory? Why Would I Want It? How Do I Get It? |
| Adam Felix |
Sieve Theory and Applications |
| Ralph Furmaniak |
Combinatorial Strings: A Knotty Affair |
| Ryan Holm |
A Prime Number Between n and 2n:
Erdos Betters Chebycheff and Ramanujan |
| Lalit Jain |
The Irrationality of zeta(3) |
| Wojciech Kosnik |
Differential Cryptanalysis |
| Julie Lavoie |
| Michael Lipnowski |
Evaluating zeta(2k)
PAPER |
| Priya Sara Mathews |
| Jennifer Mecking |
The Motion of Randomly-Perturbed Particles Due to Large Amplitude
Internal Solitary Waves in the Ocean |
| Avery Miller |
Online Colouring Without Crayons or Internet
PAPER |
| Mohamed Omar |
| Marcus Shea |
| Stef Simmons |
| Benjamin Smith |
| Akshay Sury |
| Carol Tam |
| Aaron Tikuisis |
A Class of Examples of Haar Measures |
| Paul Vet |
| Alex Wright |
Sperner's Lemma and Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
PAPER |
| Cameron Zwarich |
An Introduction to Forcing |
University of Western Ontario |
| Bruce Fontaine |
Prime Alternating Link Enumeration: A High Performance Computing Journey |
Ashley B. Pitcher |
Quasipolynomial Root-Finding:
A Numerical Homotopy Method |
| Courtney Pitcher |
Arbitrage and Collateralized Debt Obligations |
Wilfrid Laurier University |
| Adley Au |
York University |
| Zhou Qi |
The Application of Time Series Analysis on Environmental Data |
