Special Session on Algebraic Groups and Related Topics CMS Summer Meeting 2018, UNB, Fredericton, NB We view this as an opportunity to follow up on a workshop we helped organize in 2016 at Herstmonceux Castle in England. The topic at that time was algebraic combinatorics and group actions. The event was co-sponsered by the Fields Institute, the Heilbronn Institute, the Tutte Institute and the London Mathematical Society. It brought together an unusually broad collection of mathematicians who do not normally…

This is a special session within the 2018 CMS Summer Meeting, that will be held in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Any topics in representation theory of algebras, or in connection with representation theory of algebras are welcome.

Our special session on "Dynamical Systems and Spatial Models in Ecology" at the Canadian Mathematics Society meeting in Fredericton will feature 12 researchers from Atlantic Canada (including Dalhousie University, Memorial University, the University of New Brunswick and the University of Prince Edward Island) alongside researchers from other parts of Canada and the United States. The special session will explore recent theoretical advances and novel applications of ecological theory, with an emphasis on integrodifference equations, analyses to characterize threshold conditions for…

Noncommutative geometry is a generalization of classical geometry that provides new mathematical tools for both mathematical problems and physical models by allowing for geometric spaces and spacetimes whose coordinates no longer necessarily commute. For example, the functional-analytic approach to noncommutative geometry, as championed most famously by Alain Connes, has been successfully applied both to solve major problems in foliation theory and to obtain a complete mathematical model of the integer quantum Hall effect in condensed matter physics. This session aims…

The purpose of this session is to bring together researchers from category theory and various branches of topology. This includes categorical aspects and approaches to homotopy theory, such as Quillen Model Categories, higher-dimensional categories and (higher) topos theory, homotopy type theory, as well as categorical approaches to differential geometry, such as tangent categories. In Canada, there are several research groups involved in these lines of scientific inquiry, several of which include researchers in Atlantic Canada, and we believe that a…

As part of the CMS Summer Meeting, an Education Session on the subject of Active Learning in Undergraduate Mathematics Classrooms will feature a variety of talks from invited regional speakers. Talks will be scheduled in 30-minute slots on Saturday June 2 and Sunday June 3, addressing the theory of active learning as well as various ideas and techniques in early-year and upper-year undergraduate math courses.

I will be organizing a special session on PDEs at the CMS Summer Meeting which is to be held at UNB, Fredericton this June. I plan to invite several postdocs and graduate students (some are from Atlantic Canadian Universities) to give talks and participate in the session as well as as relevant sessions in the meeting. AARMS funding will help these graduate students and postdocs (several are from Atlantic universities) to cover some of the local and travel expenses. Students…

The CMS session at Fredericton will focus on nonlinear problems related to the study of phase transitions in condensed matter, and of dynamical systems arising in biological applications. The analysis of the models presented will be based on calculus of variations methods, geometric analysis of nonlocal problems, and dimension-reduction methods in nonlinear evolution equations. The session will provide a forum for junior scientists, who have already shown an ability to make significant contributions to the area, to present and discuss…