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THE FIELDS INSTITUTE
ANNUAL REPORT
2013-2014
“But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.”
René Descartes, 1596–1650
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COVER IMAGE BY MEREDITH SADLER
CONTENTS
About Fields
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Message from the Chair
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Message from the Director
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Our Activities
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Thematic and Focus Programs
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General Scientific Activities and Seminar Series
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Seminar Series
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Outreach
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Special Lectures
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Commercial and Industrial Mathematics Program
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Mathematics Education
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Fields Institute Fellows
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Publications
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Donors
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Administration
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Governance
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Financial Statements
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ABOUT FIELDS
The Fields Institute was founded in 1992
in Waterloo, and in 1995 moved to Toronto, where it is housed on the University of
Toronto campus in a building designed
for scientific communication. The Institute is named after Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields (1863-1932),
who established the premier international
prize in mathematics, now known as the
Fields Medal.
The mandate of the Fields Institute is to advance research, training and communication in all areas of the mathematical sciences,
including pure and applied mathematics, statistics and theoretical
computer science, on a global scale. It supports collaboration with
researchers and users of mathematics in the physical, biological and
earth sciences, engineering, medicine, economics and finance, telecommunications and information systems. It has a highly successful
incubation program for start-up companies that is unique among
mathematical sciences research institutions world-wide.
Every year, the Fields Institute’s programs and activities attract more
than 4000 participants from around the world. The primary activities of the Fields Institute are Thematic and Focus Programs, ranging
from one to six months in length. These involve long- and short-term
visitors, postdoctoral fellows and students, and include workshops
and seminars, distinguished lectures, and graduate courses. In addition, the Institute supports a wide range of programs of shorter duration such as workshops and conferences, mini-courses, summer
schools, seminar series, and public lectures.
The Fields Institute bridges basic and directed research. Its programs
cut across traditional discipline or university boundaries. They bring
together leading scientists and students, educators and users of
mathematics in commerce and industry. The Institute runs well-es-
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tablished commercial and industrial programs with corporate affiliates, including Industrial Problem Solving Workshops. The Institute’s
Centre for Mathematical Medicine is rapidly expanding its activities
in collaboration with Canada’s outstanding medical research community.
The Fields Institute has a large and diverse educational program,
including the Fields Mathematics Education Forum, the Fields Undergraduate Network (FUN), the Fields Undergraduate Summer
Research Program, and the Math Circles program for high school
students. The Institute publishes two book series, Fields Institute
Communications and Monographs, with Springer, as well as two peerreviewed electronic journals, Fields Mathematics Education Journal
and Mathematics-In-Industry Case Studies.
The Institute’s major sources of funding are the Ontario Ministry
of Training, Colleges, and Universities (MTCU), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the
National Science Foundation (NSF), and eight principal sponsoring
universities — Carleton, McMaster, Ottawa, Queen’s, Toronto, Waterloo, Western, and York. There are also sixteen Affiliate Universities in Canada, the US and Europe — Brock, Guelph, Houston, Iowa
State, Lakehead, Université Lille 1, Manitoba, Maryland, Nipissing,
Ontario Institute of Technology, Royal Military College, Ryerson,
Saskatchewan, Trent, Wilfrid Laurier, and Windsor. Current Corporate Affiliates are IBM Canada, CANNEX., S&P Capital IQ, Sigma
Analysis and Management, Synchrony Consulting Services Inc., and
Waterfront International Ltd.
MESSAGE
from the
CHAIR
During this past year the Institute continued to solidify its reputation as one of the
world’s leading mathematics research centres. Thematic programs remain its flagship vehicle,
while focus programs and problem solving workshops expand the range of ways in which the
Institute supports the mathematical community. The Fields Medal Symposium, as indicated
in last year’s message, continues to flourish and gain increasing recognition and is now an
established event in the international calendar of the mathematical sciences.
This past year has seen a strengthening and expansion of the Institute’s relationships with its
funding agencies. The renewal of grants from the Ontario Ministry of Trades, Colleges and
Universities and from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council provides stability that underpins the forward planning of the Institute’s activity. Inclusion in a new multiinstitute NSERC initiative focused on industrial partnerships expands the range and scope of
what the Institute offers the research community. Enhancement of the Institute’s standing in
the priorities of the United States’ National Science Foundation provides valuable encouragement to all involved with Fields.
Not all news is rosy. Last year in this report I welcomed Walter Craig as the Institute’s Director and Chief Executive Officer. Walter stepped in quickly and firmly, setting underway
a number of initiatives. His ability to reach out to the world’s mathematical community was
proving especially beneficial to the Institute’s activity. With great regret I must inform you
that for reasons of his health Walter has decided he must step down as Director at the end of June, 2015. The Institute is about to initiate
at this moment the search process for Walter’s successor.
In last year’s report I commented on the importance to the Institute and its work the dedication and endless effort of its staff. This year
Alison Conway, Manager of Scientific Programs, will be retiring. Alison’s smile and cheery greeting has been the face of Institute for
many, many of the four thousand visitors who pass through our doors each year. We are grateful for her service at the Institute and wish
her well in the year’s ahead.
I would like to thank all those whose attention to the direction and operation of the Fields Institute makes it successful. In addition to
our Directorate and staff, there those who devise and run programs, workshops and other activities; members of our Scientific Advisory
Panel who ensure the quality of the Institute’s science; the board of directors who are ultimately responsible for governing the Institute;
and our members, especially our university members, whose support is critical.
John R. Gardner
January 2015
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MESSAGE
from the
DIRECTOR
During the academic year 2013-2014 the Fields Institute was able to expand its scientific and training programs renewing (and increasing to a certain extent) our grant support
for these activities. We have been able to increase our modes of contact with research scientists in industry, through a collaborative platform with the other Canadian mathematical sciences institutes. And as well we have been able to perform some much needed updates to our
infrastructure, both physical and to our website and computer system. Through the scientific
activities we host and support, and through our publicity and media presence, the Institute
has an increasing recognition in the public sphere as a source of knowledge and a resource
for information on and about the mathematical sciences in Canada and in the world.
I have now been the Director for a year and a half, which has been a very busy, however inspiring, time for me. As well as being a period of serious grantsmanship for myself and for
the staff, it has been gratifying to contribute to and participate in the mathematical events
that take place at the Institute. During this year Fields has hosted a broad variety of scientific programs and activities, including a major thematic program on Calabi - Yau varieties:
Arithmetic, geometry and physics (July - December 2013, with lead organizer Noriko Yui
(Queen’s University)) and a second major thematic program on Abstract harmonic analysis,
Banach and operator algebras (January - June 2014, with lead organizers Anthony To-Ming
Lau (Alberta) and Matthias Neufang (Carleton)). The second Fields Medal Symposium took
place at the Institute on September 30 to October 3, 2013, in honour of Elon Lindenstrauss
(Fields Medal 2010). These events are growing to be major dates on the international mathematical sciences schedule. In addition to these
programs, we have hosted and supported numerous events and workshops across the broad spectrum of the mathematical sciences. It is
our mandate to bring internationally prominent mathematical scientists to collaborate and communicate with their Canadian counterparts, as well as to showcase Canadian contributions on the international scene.
The major grants competition in 2013 was the competition in the new NSERC program Collaborative and Thematic Resources Support
in Mathematics and Statistics Program (CTRMS). The Fields Institute performed very well in this competition, with the outcome being
that the Institute received a CTRMS program award of $1.2 million annually for five years (2014 - 2019). This will be applied to support
scientific activities at the Fields Institute. This award continues the funding that was previously granted under the Major Resources Support Program which was phased out earlier in 2013.
A second major source for Institute support comes from the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (MTCU). We are
grateful for the strong continuing support from this Ministry for all aspects of the Institute’s activities, from mathematics education and
advanced training, to mathematical sciences outreach, to the highest level of internationally prominent mathematics research.
A third major NSERC grant is the result of a collaboration between the three principal Canadian mathematical sciences institutes, the
Centre de Recherches Mathematiques (CRM), the Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) and the Fields Institute. We have
named this initiative the Institutes Innovation Platform, its purpose is to develop programs and activities that stimulate interaction
between academic and industrial researchers working in the mathematical sciences. The Fields Institute is using the resources of this
initiative to build an Industry Liaison office, and has named Dr. Huaxiong Huang as the new Associate Director for Industry Liaison, and
Tyler Wilson as our Industry Liaison Officer. In this role, Dr. Huang will facilitate connections between academic research mathematicians and their counterparts in industry. Dr. Huang will also be developing events that will be aimed at advancing a scientific environment within the Institute that nurtures connections and collaborations between academic researchers and scientists in industry.
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A fourth resource for scientific activities at the Institute is its recent National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, which awards the Institute direct NSF funding for the purpose of supporting US-based researchers and trainees to participate in the Institute’s programs and
activities. This NSF grant will be administered by the Institute. It serves to simplify the process of garnering NSF funding for US-based
participants in Fields Institute activities, for which previously participants had to apply and report on individually and separately.
There have been many changes at the Institute over the past year, both scientifically and in our staff. We are currently re-evaluating our
fund-raising efforts and expanding them in terms of their sources and their purposes. There are several initiatives to improve our computer infrastructure and our specially developed FieldsLive video-streaming system. We are working to build connections with our sister
mathematical sciences institutes internationally, and to establish collaborative agreements with them over conferences, young scientist
exchanges, and other potentially valuable joint activities.
It is gratifying that the Fields Institute has taken its place among the top handful of the world’s major mathematics institutes. It is able
to do so because of the financial support that it receives from both public and private sources. But the real key to the Institute’s past successes and its current momentum is that the members of the Canadian mathematical sciences community are steadfast contributors to
the intellectual content and depth of the Institute’s programs. The Fields Institute is therefore both a contributor and resource for the
mathematical sciences community, as well as a grateful recipient of intellectual investment from this community. One role of the Director is to keep it moving in this way, which I find to be an inspiring thought.
Respectfully,
Walter Craig
January 2015
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OUR ACTIVITIES
THEMATIC AND FOCUS PROGRAMS
The principal purpose of our Thematic and Focus Programs is to draw together researchers with
common interests for collaboration. Regular workshops, conferences and advanced graduate
courses are arranged by the program organizers to support these goals.
A Program generally consists of one to six months of concentrated activity in a specific area of
current research interest in the mathematical sciences. Among the components are short- and
long-term visitors, post-doctoral fellows, graduate courses and lecture series, seminars, workshops and conferences.
JULY 2013
FOCUS PROGRAM ON NONCOMMUTATIVE
DISTRIBUTIONS IN FREE PROBABILITY THEORY
Organizers: R. Speicher (Saarland and Queen’s), D. V. Voiculescu
(UC Berkeley), S. Belinschi (Queen’s), B. Collins (Ottawa), J. Mingo
(Queen’s), A. Nica (Waterloo)
This program focused on the distributions of the noncommutative
variables. Such variables, like the quantum mechanical observables,
are operators and the distributions are expectations associated with
them. In the case of one variable, the noncommutative distributions
are expectations of spectral measures and are classical probability
measures. For several variables, such distributions are expectation
values of noncommutative monomials (there are many more of these
than commutative ones). The program emphasized the distributions
aspect in all parts of free probability: explicit determinations of distributions if possible, methods of computing distributions, uses of
facts about distributions in applications. This is a timely topic since
recent developments in a variety of directions in free probability are
also advances in the distributions aspect, ranging from new noncommutative analysis tools, new combinatorial and discrete mathematics
aspects, the appearance of new quantum symmetries and new types
of distributions.
JULY 2 – 6 Workshop on Combinatorial and Random Matrix Aspects of
Noncommutative Distributions and Free Probability
JULY 8 – 18 Inter-Workshop Program
JULY 22 – 26 Workshop on Analytic, Stochastic, and Operator Algebraic
Aspects of Noncommutative Distributions and Free Probability
JULY/DECEMBER 2013
THEMATIC PROGRAM ON CALABI-YAU VARIETIES:
ARITHMETIC, GEOMETRY AND PHYSICS
Organizers: M. Gross (UC San Diego), S. Gukov (UC Santa Barbara),
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R. Laza (Stony Brook), M. Schütt (Hannover), J. Walcher (McGill),
S-T. Yau (Harvard), N. Yui, (Queen’s University, Lead Organizer)
The rise of mirror symmetry some 20 years ago has established Calabi-Yau varieties as one of the most versatile subjects in mathematics
and physics. Ever since, there has been an unmistakable research focus on Calabi-Yau varieties. This research has culminated in spectacular results in many different areas such as arithmetic, algebraic, differential and symplectic geometry, and physics (string theory). There
are numerous examples in which Calabi-Yau manifolds are encountered at the junction of two (or more) different fields of research. For
example, the list of relations with physics starts with the unexpected
relevance of algebraic varieties as compactification manifolds for
string theory, continues with the even less expected enumerative predictions resulting from mirror symmetry, and can be extended all the
way to present day discoveries. This major Thematic Program covered arithmetic, geometry and physics of Calabi-Yau varieties. The
Program started with an introductory summer school and centred
around four workshops. Each workshop was preceded by one week
of introductory lectures.
JULY 2 – AUGUST 30 Introductory Summer School on Calabi-Yau varieties; Arithmetic, Geometry and Physics
SEPTEMBER 9 – 13 Concentrated Graduate Course preceeding the Workshop 1 on Modular Forms around String Theory
SEPTEMBER 16 – 20 Workshop on Modular Forms Around String Theory
OCTOBER 7 – 11 Concentrated Graduate Course preceeding the Workshop 2 on Enumerative Geometry and Calabi–Yau varieties
OCTOBER 15 Distinguished Lecture Series: Maxim Kontsevich (IHES),
What is Tropical Mathematics?
OCTOBER 15 – 19 Workshop on Enumerative Geometry and Calabi-Yau
Varieties
OCTOBER 16 Quivers, Cluster Varieties and Integrable Systems
OCTOBER 17 Fukaya Category Meets Bridgeland Stability
OCTOBER 21 – 25 Workshop on Physics around Mirror Symmetry
NOVEMBER 11 – 15 Concentrated Graduate Course on Hodge Theory
in String Theory
NOVEMBER 13, 14 & 18 Coxeter Lecture Series: Claire Voisin (École
Polytechnique)
NOVEMBER 18 – 22 Workshop on Hodge Theory in String Theory
AUGUST 2013
FOCUS PROGRAM ON COMMODITIES, ENERGY AND
ENVIRONMENTAL FINANCE
Organizers: R. Aid (EDF), R. Carmona (Princeton), M. Davison
(Western), I. Ekeland (Paris- Dauphine) M. Ludkovski (UC Santa
Barbara), R. Sircar (Princeton)
The central objective of the program was to gather researchers in
stochastic analysis, mathematical finance, financial economics, and
insurance mathematics to exchange ideas on the current state-ofthe-art in commodities and environmental finance, and forge new
directions of research. This was accomplished by three five-lecture
Short Courses given by leading researchers, as well as two Research
Workshops in the theme of the program. Stochastic optimal control,
stochastic differential games, dynamic risk transfer and backward
stochastic differential equations are the main probabilistic foundations of financial mathematics that were the focus of this program.
AUGUST 6 – 27 Summer School
AUGUST 14 – 16 Workshop on Electricity, Energy and Commodities Risk
Management
AUGUST 27 – 29 Workshop on Stochastic Games, Equilibrium, and Applications to Energy and Commodities Markets
JANUARY – JUNE 2013
THEMATIC PROGRAM ON ABSTRACT HARMONIC
ANALYSIS, BANACH AND OPERATOR ALGEBRAS
Organizers: H. G. Dales (Lancaster), G. Elliott (Toronto), T. Giordano
(Ottawa), E. Kaniuth (Paderborn), D. Kerr (Texas A&M), A. T.
Lau (Alberta - lead organizer), M. Neufang (Carleton and Lille 1,
lead organizer), Z-J. Ruan (UIUC), A. Toms (Purdue), G. Willis
(Newcastle, Australia)
Description: Groups belong to the most fundamental objects in
mathematics. In abstract harmonic analysis, one studies groups that
are equipped with a topology making the group operations continuous, and various spaces and algebras associated with those groups,
such as the group algebra, the measure algebra, the Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes algebras, the group C*-algebra, the group von Neumann
algebra, etc. The last two examples play a central role in C*- and von
Neumann algebra theory, respectively, and thus establish a link between abstract harmonic analysis and the theory of Banach and operator algebras.
ACTIVITIES:
JANUARY 6 – APRIL 4 Graduate course on Crossed products of
C*-algebras and Banach algebras.
Instructor: N. Christopher Phillips (Oregon), Dean’s Distingished
Visiting Professor.
JANUARY 6 – 17 Concentration Period: Winter School
February 10 – 20 Concentration Period: Group Structure, Group
Actions and Ergodic Theory
MARCH 26 – 28 von Neumann Lecture Series: Uffe Haagerup,
University of Copenhagen, Approximation Properties for Groups
and von Neumann Algebras
MARCH, JUNE Concentration Period: C*-Algebras and Dynamical Systems
MARCH – APRIL Concentration Period: Banach and Operator
Algebras over Groups
MAY 27 – 29 Coxeter Lecture Series: Sorin Popa (University of
California, Los Angeles), On II1 factors arising from free groups
acting on spaces
May Concentration Period: Operator Spaces, Locally Compact
Quantum Groups and Amenability
MAY 26 – 30 Workshop on Operator Spaces, Locally Compact
Quantum Groups and Amenability
JUNE 16 – 20 Workshop on C*-Algebras and Dynamical Systems
JUNE 23 – 27 42nd Canadian Annual Symposium on Operator Algebras and Their Applications
ONGOING
THEMATIC PROGRAM ON OPERATOR ALGEBRAS
Organizer: George Elliott (University of Toronto)
Description and Activities: The Operator Algebras Thematic Program began in 1996, after a two- year major program in the same
subject, and has continued since then (with external funding). During the 2013-2014 year, nine postdoctoral fellows participated in the
program, for an average of nine months each. Many of these were
supported by the six-month Fields Institute Thematic Program Harmonic Analysis, Banach, and Operator Algebras, which also meant
that, for that six months, the present program was immersed in a
much larger one. Also, eight graduate students participated in the
program, including one visiting student, a long-term participant
of the six-month major program. Two faculty members of nearby
universities, Ilijas Farah (York) and Maria Grazia Viola (Lakehead,
Orillia Campus), continued their long-term active participation
in the program. A regular working seminar was held, in which everyone associated with the program reported on his work. Subjects
discussed included structure and classification theory for amenable
C*-algebras, dynamical systems based on such C*-algebras, and noncommutative geometry.
The purpose of this Thematic Program was twofold. On the one
hand, numerous exciting developments have taken place in the last
ten years in the area of Banach algebras and abstract harmonic analysis, which are currently reshaping the field. These advancements include the heavy use of operator space theory in abstract harmonic
analysis, the rapid development of Fourier analysis on locally compact quantum groups (a concept which was introduced in 2000) and
deep links with topological dynamics and ergodic theory.
The second goal of this Program was to bring together researchers
from disciplines which often interact little, but can benefit tremendously from exchanging their ideas. Striking examples of such instances occur between topological semigroups and bidual Banach
algebras, topological dynamics and operator algebras - for instance
through the recently solved Kadison-Singer Conjecture - as well as
between operator spaces and quantum groups.
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GENERAL SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY
Fields-supported General Scientific Activity (GSA) consists of one-day to one-month of concentrated activity in a specific area of current research interest in the mathematical sciences. These
activities can be in the form of workshops, seminars, conferences, and/or summer schools. GSA
incorporate opportunities for the involvement of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. A
large number of GSA are scheduled for each academic year. Supported topics are often newly
emerging areas in Canadian mathematical sciences, adding breadth to the range of research
supported by the Fields Institute.
Activities held at the Fields Institute unless otherwise indicated
(includes locations at the University of Toronto campus). Organizers
are from the institute where the activity were held, unless otherwise
indicated.
July 7 – 12, 2013
Conference on Analysis and Partial Differential Equations
Scientific Committee: K.C. Chang (Peking), Ivar Ekeland
(Paris), Joel Feldman (UBC), Changfeng Gui (Connecticut),
Bill Johnson (Texas), Louis Nirenberg (NYU), Gabriella
Tarantello (Rome), Nicole Tomczak-Yaegermann (Alberta)
Local Organizers: Stephen Gustafson (UBC), Young-Heon
Kim (UBC), Dong Li (UBC), Abbas Moameni (Lethbridge),
Tai-Peng Tsai (UBC), Juncheng Wei (UBC), Meijun Zhu
(Oklahoma)
Held at University of British Columbia
July 22 – 24, 2013
Workshop Celebrating 40 Years of Nested Dissection
Organized by Esmond G.Ng (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory),
Justin W.L. Wan
Held at University of Waterloo
July 22 – 25, 2013
15th Workshop on Descriptional Complexity of Formal
Systems (DCFS 2013)
Organized by Helmut Jürgensen
Held at Western University
July 23 – 26, 2013
28th Summer Conference on Topology and Its Applications
Organizing Committee: Logan Hoehn, Alexandre Karassev,
Ihor Stasyuk, Murat Tuncali, Vesko Valov
Scientific Advisory Committee: Krystyna Kuperberg (Auburn),
John C. Mayer (Alabama at Birmingham), Jan van Mill
(Amsterdam), Lex Oversteegen (Alabama at Birmingham),
Juris Steprans (York), E.D. Tymchatyn (Saskatchewan)
Held at Nipissing University, North Bay
July 29 – August 2, 2013
3rd International Summer School on Information Security
in a Quantum World (QKD)
Organized by Oleg Gittsovich (Vienna), Thomas Jennewein,
Norbert Lütkenhaus, Vadim Makarov, Michele Mosca
Held at Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of
Waterloo
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of Michigan), Richard Lockhart (Simon Fraser), Bruno
Rémillard (HEC Montréal)
Held at the University of Waterloo
July 29 – August 2, 2013
3rd International Summer School on Information Security
in a Quantum World (QKD)
Organized by Oleg Gittsovich (Waterloo),Thomas Jennewein
(Waterloo), Norbert Lütkenhaus (Waterloo), Vadim Makarov
(Waterloo), Michele Mosca (Waterloo)
Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo
August 2 – 3, 2013
Emerging Issues, Statistics Methods and Applications:
A Workshop of Celebrating the Birth of ICSA – CANADA
Chapter and the International Statistics Year
Organized by Wendy Lou (Toronto), Grace Yi (Waterloo)
Held at the Westin Harbour Castle Toronto Hotel
August 8 – 10, 2013
25th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry
Organized by Therese Biedl (co-chair), Timothy Chan,
Francisco Claude, Hella Hoffmann, Shahin Kamali, Alejandro
López-Ortiz (co-chair), Anna Lubiw (co-chair), Daniela
Maftuleac, Patrick Nicholson, Venkatesh Raman, Alejandro
Salinger, Hamideh Vosoughpour, Gelin Zhou
Held at the University of Waterloo
August 12 – 15, 2013
22nd International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics
Organized by S. Ejaz Ahmed, Chair (Canada), Augustyn
Markiewicz (Poland), George P. H. Styan (Honorary Chair)
(Canada), Goetz Trenkler (Germany), Jeffrey J. Hunter (New
Zealand), Simo Puntanen (Vice Chair) (Finland), Dietrich
von Rosen (Sweden), Julia Volaufova (USA), Hans Joachim
Werner (Germany)
August 12 – 16, 2013
Conference on Quantum Information and Quantum
Control V
Organized by Amr S. Helmy (CQIQC, Toronto), David G.
Cory (Waterloo), Paul Brumer (Toronto), Aephraim Steinberg
(Toronto), Li Qian (Toronto)
July 29 – August 2, 2013
Workshop on Flexible Network Design
Organizers: by Anupam Gupta, R. Ravi, (Carnegie Mellon),
Stefano Leonardi (Sapienza, University of Rome), Joseph
Cheriyan (Waterloo), Jochen Könemann (Waterloo), Laura
Sanita (Waterloo), Chaitanya Swamy (Waterloo)
August 15 – 16, 2013
Conference on Space Efficient Data Structures, Streams
and Algorithms: a conference dedicated to Ian Munro
Organized by Andrej Brodnik (University of Ljubljana),
Alejandro López-Ortiz, Venkatesh Raman (Institute of
Mathematical Sciences, Chennai),Alfredo Viola (Universidad
de la Republica, Uruguay)
Held at the University of Waterloo
July 31 – August 2, 2013
Statistical Science in Society: A conference to celebrate
the International Year of Statistics and the launch of the
Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute
Scientific Advisory Committee: Hugh Chipman (Acadia),
José Garrido (Concordia), Jack Kalbfleisch (University
August 15 – 18, 2013
CAM Conference, joint meeting of the Canadian,
American and Mexican Physical Societies
Organized by Gordon Drake (Canadian Association of
Physicists, CAP), Erin O’Sullivan, (Queen’s, CAP)
Held at the University of Waterloo
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August 19 – 22, 2013
Workshop on Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics
Organized by David Amundsen, Lucy Campbell, Emmanuel
Lorin
Held at Carleton University
August 23 – 24, 2013
CanQueue 2013, 15th Annual Conference for Canadian
Queueing Theorists and Practitioners
Organized by Elizabeth Jewkes, Qi-Ming He
Held at the University of Waterloo
August 24 – 26, 2013
MAGE – Methods and Algorithms for Genome Evolution
Organized by Cedric Chauve (Simon Fraser), Nadia ElMabrouk (Montréal), Eric Tannier (Claude Bernard Lyon 1)
Held at the Hotel Chateau-Bromont, Eastern Townships,
Quebec
August 26 – 30, 2013
International Conference on Applied Mathematics,
Modeling & Computational Science (AMMCS – 2013)
Organized by Monica G. Cojocaru (Guelph), Manuele
Santoprete (Wilfrid Laurier), Hasan Shodiev (Wilfrid Laurier),
Robert Jerrard (Toronto), Herb Kunze (Guelph), Roman
Makarov, Brian West, Ilias Kotsireas, Roderick Melnik (SIAM)
Held at the University of Waterloo
September 23 – 24, 2013,
Industrial – Academic Workshop on Optimization in
Finance and Risk Management
Organized by Oleksandr Romanko (Risk Analytics, IBM),
Jonathan Y. Li (Ottawa), Antoine Deza (McMaster), Elkafi
Hassini (McMaster), Kai Huang (McMaster),Thomas R. Hurd
(McMaster), Roy H. Kwon (Toronto), Chi-Guhn Lee (Toronto)
September 30 – October 3, 2013
Fields Medal Symposium: Honouring Elon Lindenstrauss
(Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Fields Medal 2010)
Organized by Dmitry Jakobson (McGill), Peter Sarnak
(Institute for Advanced Studies), Alex Eskin (Chicago),
Marina Ratner (University of California, Berkeley), Ralf
Spatzier (Michigan)
October 15 – 17, 2013 at 3:30 p.m.
Distinguished Lecture Series: Maxim Kontsevich, Institut
des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques
October 15 – 17, 2013
SCHOLAR: A Scientific Celebration Highlighting Open
Lines of Arithmetic Research
Organized by Alina Carmen Cojocaru (Illinois at Chicago),
Chantal David (Concordia), Hershy Kisilevsky (Concordia),
Francesco Pappalardi (Università degli Studi Roma Tre)
Held at the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Montreal
October 19 – 20, 2013
The 15th Midwest Optimization Meeting
Organized by Hristo Sendov (Western)
Held at Western University
October 21 – 22, 2013
Sojourns in Nonlinear Economics 2013: Neil Lancaster,
University of Leicester
Organized by Matheus Grasselli (Fields)
October 24, 2013
Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
Book Launch: Edward Frenkel, University of California, Berkeley
Organized by Matheus Graselli
October 27 – 30, 2013
Quantitative Finance Retrospective Workshop
Organized by Marco Frittelli (Milan), Matheus Grasselli
(McMaster), Lane Hughston (Brunel University and
University College London), Thomas R. Hurd (McMaster),
Catherine Lubochinsky (Global Risk Institute), Mathieu
Rosenbaum (University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris 6)
October 28-31, 2013
Congres de Mathematique Nord-Pas de Calais/Belgique
Organized by E. Creusé (Lille 1), C. De Coster (Valenciennes),
A. Gloria (Bruxelles), S. Nicaise (Valenciennes), C. Troestler
(Mons)
Held in Valenciennes (France) and Mons (Belgique)
October 31 – November 2, 2013
Mathematics for New Economic Thinking: An INET
Workshop at the Fields Institute
Organized by Matheus Grasselli (Fields), Marshall Auerback
(INET)
November 4 – 8, 2013
BIOMAT 2013, International Symposium on Mathematical
and Computational Biology
Organized by Jianhong Wu (York), Eduardo Massad (Sao
Paulo), Seyed Moghadas (York), Rubem P. Mondaini (Rio de
Janeiro), Dorothy Wallace (Dartmouth), Leonardo Mondaini
(Rio de Janeiro), Sivabal Sivaloganathan (Centre for
Mathematical Medicine), Huaiping Zhu (York)
November 11, 2013
2013 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize Lecture: Bruce Reed
(McGill)
How I learned to do mathematics
November 12 – 15, 2013
CEMPI Conference on Statistical Mechanics and
Nonlinear Physics
Organized by S. De Bièvre, C. Drutu, B. Fresse, M. Lefranc, D.
Markouchevich, M. Neufang, A. Taki
Held at the Université Lille 1, Villeneuve D’Ascq, France
November 13, 14, 18, 2013 at 3:30 p.m.
Coxeter Lecture Series: Claire Voisin, Institute de
Mathématiques de Jussieu
November 14 – 15, 2013
Distinguished Lecture Series in Statistical Science:
Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University
November 23 – 24, 2013
Montreal – Toronto Workshop in Number Theory:
Progress and Prospects in Number Theory
Organized by Eyal Goren (McGill), Stephen Kudla (Toronto)
November 25 – 29, 2013
Retrospective Workshop on Discrete Geometry,
Optimization, and Symmetry
Organized by Károly Bezdek (Calgary), Asia Ivic Weiss
(York), Antoine Deza (McMaster), Yinyu Ye (Stanford)
December 9 – 13, 2013
Focused Workshop on Exterior Differential Systems and
Lie Theory
Organized by Rui Loja Fernandes, (UIUC), Niky Kamran
(McGill), Peter J. Olver (Minnesota)
January 3 – 4, 2014
Meeting on Noncommutative Geometry and Quantum
Groups: Compact Quantum Principal Bundles
Organized by George Elliott (Toronto), Piotr M. Hajac
(Warsaw), Jonathan Rosenberg (Maryland)
January 10 – 12, 2014
Conference
on
Hamiltonian
PDEs:
Analysis,
Computations and Applications
Organized by Philippe Guyenne (Delaware), David Nicholls
(University of Illinois at Chicago), Catherine Sulem (Toronto)
January 24 – 26, 2014
Combinatorial Algebra meets Algebraic Combinatorics
Organized by Sara Faridi (Dalhousie), Hugh Thomas (New
Brunswick), Mike Zabrocki (York)
Held at Dalhousie University
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February 2, 2014, Sundays at 3 pm
Royal Canadian Institute Lecture: Stan Wagon,
Mathematics and Computer Science, Macalester College,
St Paul Minnesota
Algorithmic Thinking in Mathematics
Held at the MacLeod Auditorium, Medical Sciences Building,
University of Toronto
February 3, 2014 at 2 p.m.
Public Lecture: Stan Wagon, Mathematics and Computer
Science, Macalester College, St Paul Minnesota
March 15 – 16, 2014
Workshop on Algebraic Varieties
Organized by James D. Lewis (Alberta) and Noriko Yui
(Queen’s)
March 19, 2014
Public Lecture: Dine Ousmane Samary (Benin’s
University of Abomey – Calavi)
Fields-Perimeter Africa Postdoctoral Fellow Lecture
Master equation of correlation functions for tensorial
group field theory
March 24 – 26, 2014
CMM Workshop on Diabetes Systems Biology
Organized by Anmar Khadra (McGill), Santiago Schnell
(Michigan), Sivabal Sivaloganathan (Waterloo, CMM)
March 27 – 29, 2014
CMM Workshop on Mathematical Oncology V:
Heterogeneity and Plasticity in Cancer
Organized by Siv Sivaloganathan (Waterloo, CMM), Phillip
Maini (Oxford, CMB), Vito Quaranta (Vanderbilt, VICBC),
Mohammad Kohandel (Waterloo, CMM)
April 4, 2014
Fields-Carleton Distinguished Lecture Series: Uffe
Haagerup, University of Copenhagen
Held at Carleton University
April 5, 2014
Math in Motion...Girls in Gear
Organized by Judy Shanks,
Chrysostomou, Carol Miron
Lise
Groen,
Sophie
April 8 – 9, 2014
YSI Workshop @ 2014 Annual Plenary Conference
Organized by Enno Schröder (INET)
April 28, 2014
Symposium on Mathematical Biology in the
Undergraduate Curriculum
Organized by Sue Ann Campbell (Waterloo), Troy Day
(Queen’s), Louis Gross (Tennessee), James Stewart
(McMaster)
May 1-2, 2014
Ottawa-Carleton Discrete Mathematics Days
Organized by Vida Dujmovic (Ottawa), Daniel Panario
Held at Carleton University
May 1-2, 2014
Biomath Days, Conference on Mathematical Modelling
in the Biological Sciences
Organized by Robert Smith? and Frithjof Lutscher
Held at University of Ottawa
May 1 – 4, 2014
Canadian Mathematics Education Forum
Organized by Ann Arden (Osgoode Township District
High School and University of Ottawa), Richard Hoshino
(Quest University), Kathleen Pineau (École de technologie
supérieure), Peter Taylor (Queen’s), Sarah Watson (Canadian
Mathematical Society)
Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa
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May 2, 2014
Guelph Biomathematics and Biostatistics Symposium:
The Mathematics and Statistics of Food Safety
Organized by Allan Willms (Guelph), Julie Horrocks (Guelph)
Held at University of Guelph
May 5 – 6, 2014
Graphs and Algorithms Workshop
Organized by Jason Brown (Dalhousie) and Lorna Stewart
(Alberta)
Fields Institute
May 16 – 17, 2014
22nd Ontario Combinatorics Workshop
Organized by Ada Chan (York), Mike Zabrocki (York)
Held at York University
May 16 – 18, 2014
XVIIth colloque pan – québécois des étudiants de l’institut
des Sciences Mathématiques
University of Laval
May 20 – 21, 2014
2nd Annual Southwestern Ontario Graduate Mathematics
and Statistics Conference
Held at the University of Guelph
May 19 – 23, 2014
Workshop on Lie Theory and Mathematical Physics
Organized by Terry Gannon (Alberta), Michael Lau (Laval),
Erhard Neher (Ottawa), Masato Okado (Osaka)
Hosted by the University of Ottawa, and held at Centre de
Recherches Mathematiques, Montreal
May 21 – 23, 2014
15th Canadian Conference on General Relativity and
Relativistic Astrophysics
Organized by Andrew Frey, Gabor Kunstatter, Dwight Vincent
Held at the University of Winnipeg
May 22 – 23, 2014
CANSSI-SAMSI Workshop on Geometric Topological and
Graphical Model Methods in Statistics
Organized by Peter Kim (Guelph), Hélène Massam (York),
Ezra Miller (Duke)
May 24, 2014
2014 Statistics Society of Canada Student Conference
Organized by Patrick Brown, Jamie Stafford, Jon Lee,
Eleanor Pullenayegum (University of Toronto & Hospital for
Sick Children), Stacie Bellemare
May 23 – 26, 2014
Workshop on Algebraic and Geometric Invariants of
Linear Algebraic Groups and Homogeneous Spaces
Organized by Vladimir Chernousov (Alberta) and Kirill
Zainoulline
Held at the University of Ottawa
May 28 – 30, 2014
Advancements to State-Space Models for Fisheries
Science: CANSSI Collaborative Research Team Project
Team Leader: Joanna Mills Flemming (Dalhousie)
May 27 – 29, 2014 at 3:30 p.m.
Coxeter Lecture Series: Sorin Popa, University of
California, Los Angeles
On II1 factors arising from free groups acting on spaces
June 1 – 3, 2014
27th Biennial Queen’s Symposium on Communications
(QBSC 2014)
Organized by Francois Chan (Royal Military College), Melike
Erol-Kantarci (University of Ottawa), Jun Li (Communications
Research Centre), Behnaz Ghoraani (Rochester Institute
of Technology), Semra Gulder (Communications Research
Centre Canada), David Kidston (Communications Research
Centre Canada), Sreeraman Rajan (Defence Research
and Development Canada), Hossam Hassanein, Mohamed
Ibnkahla, Bahman Gharesifard, Bernice Ison
Queen’s University (Held at Holiday Inn Waterfront, Kingston,
Ontario)
June 2 – 3, 2014
Time Series Methods and Applications: the A. Ian
McLeod Festschrift
Organized by David A. Stanford, Reginald J. Kulperger, Hao
Yu
Held at Western University
June 4, 2014
CMM Workshop on Taking Advantage of Theory and Analysis
in Neuroscience: A Hippocampal Microcircuit focus
Organized by Frances K. Skinner (Toronto Western Research
Institute / University Health Network)
June 6, 2014
Avner Magen Memorial Lecture: Konstantinos Georgiou
Lift-and-project systems for combinatorial optimization
problems: More than a decade of fascinating positive
and negative results
June 9 – 13, 2014
Mini-workshop on automorphic forms and geometric
Langlands program
Organized by Chung Pang Mok (McMaster), Kam Fai Tam
(McMaster), Patrick Walls (McMaster)
June 12 – 15, 2014
Theory Canada 9 (TC 9) Conference
Organized by Arundhati Dasgupta (Lethbridge) (Chair,
CAP Division of Theoretical Physics), Svetlana Barkanova
(Acadia) (Vice-Chair, CAP Division of Theoretical Physics),
Shohini Ghose (Wilfrid Laurier) (Conference Co-Chair),
Marek Wartak (Wilfrid Laurier) (Conference Co-Chair), Hasan
Shodiev (Wilfrid Laurier) (Conference Co-ordinator)
Held at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo
Held at the Universite Lille 1
June 23 – 27, 2014
Conference on Algebraic Combinatorics: Spectral Graph
Theory, Erdös – Ko – Rado Theorems and Quantum
Information Theory (In Honour of Professor Chris
Godsil’s Mathematical Contributions)
Organized by Ada Chan (York), Bill Martin (Worcester
Polytechnic), Aleksandar Jurišić (Ljubljana), Karen Meagher
(Regina), Mike Newman (Ottawa)
Held at the University of Waterloo
June 23 – 27, 2014
42nd Canadian Annual Symposium on Operator Algebras
and Their Applications (COSy)
Organized by Man-Duen Choi (Toronto), George Elliott
(Toronto), Anthony To-Ming Lau (Alberta), Matthias Neufang
(Carleton and Lille 1)
June 23 – July 4, 2014
Séminaire de Mathématiques Supérieures – Counting
Arithmetic Objects
Organized by Henri Darmon (McGill), Chantal David
(Concordia), Andrew Granville (Montréal)
Held at Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Montreal
June 29 – July 3, 2014
26th International Conference on Formal Power Series
and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2014)
Organized by Elizabeth Beazley (Haverford College),
Benjamin Braun (University of Kentucky), Susanna
Fishel (Arizona State University), Caroline Klivans (Brown
University), Aaron Lauve (Loyola University), Jeremy Martin
(University of Kansas),Kathryn Nyman (Willamette University),
Kyle Petersen, Mark Skandera (Lehigh University), Bridget
Tenner (Chair), Jennifer Wagner (Washburn University), Mike
Zabrocki (York University)
Held at DePaul University, Chicago
June 16–20, 2014
13th Conference of the Canadian Number Theory
Association (CNTA XIII)
Organized by Ayse Alaca, Saban Alaca (main organizer), Paul
Mezo (Carleton), Damien Roy (Ottawa), Abdellah Sebbar
(Ottawa), Gary Walsh (Ottawa), Hugh Williams (Calgary/
Carleton), Kenneth Williams
Held at Carleton University
June 18 – 21, 2014
IEEE North American School of Information Theory
Organized by Stark C. Draper (Toronto), Warren Gross
(McGill), Ashish Khisti (Toronto), Patrick Mitran (Waterloo),
Serdar Yüksel (Queen’s)
June 20 – 21, 2014
Conference on Graph Theory, Matrix Theory and
Interactions: a Conference to celebrate the scholarship
of David Gregory
Organized by Sebastian Cioaba, Bryan Shader, Ram Murty,
Claude Tardif, Kevin Vander Meulen, David Wehlau
Held at Queen’s University
June 16 – 20, 2014
14th Canadian Quantum Information Summer School
and
June 23 – 27, 2014
11th Canadian Quantum Information Student Conference
Organized by Jianxin Chen (IQC, University of Waterloo),
David Kribs (Chair), Nengkun Yu (IQC, University of Waterloo),
Bei Zeng (Co-chair)
Held at the University of Guelph
June 23 – 27, 2014
Number Theory Days
Organized by Gautami Bhowmik, Niels Borne, Baptiste
Calmès (Artois), Pierre Dèbes, Mladen Dimitrov, Ahmed
Laghribi (Artois), André Leroy (Artois)
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SEMINAR SERIES
Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar
Organizer: Nantel Bergeron and Tom Denton (York University)
Terlaky (Lehigh), H. Tuenter (Ontario Power Generation), H.
Wolkowicz (Waterloo), M.H. Wright (NYU), D. Zyngier (McMaster)
The purpose of this seminar is to cover exposition on topics of algebraic combinatorics which are of interest to the people attending,
so please feel free to come and participate. Every year we pick a
new topic to explore. We will be selecting the seminar topic for this
year shortly, so attend the first few talks if you want to influence the
decision.
The inaugural meeting of the Fields Industrial Optimization Seminar took place on November 2, 2004. The seminar meets in the early evening of the first Tuesday of each month. Each meeting is comprised of two related lectures on a topic in optimization; typically,
one speaker is a university-based researcher and the other is from
the private or government sector. The series welcomes the participation of everyone in the academic or industrial community with
an interest in optimization – theory or practice, expert or student.
Applied Mathematics Colloquium/Seminar
Organizing Committee: Jim Colliander (Toronto), Walter Craig
(McMaster), Catherine Sulem (Toronto), Robert McCann
(Toronto), Adrian Nachman (Toronto) , Mary Pugh (Toronto),
Huaxiong Huang (York)
The Fields Institute Colloquium/Seminar in Applied Mathematics
is a monthly colloquium series for mathematicians in the areas of
applied mathematics and analysis. The series alternates between
colloquium talks by internationally recognized experts in the
field, and less formal, more specialized seminars. In recent years,
the series has featured applications to diverse areas of science and
technology; examples include super-conductivity, nonlinear wave
propagation, optical fiber communications, and financial modeling. The intent of the series is to bring together the applied mathematics community on a regular basis, to present current results in
the field, and to strengthen the potential for communication and
collaboration between researchers with common interests.
Art/Science Salon
Organizers: Stephen Morris (Toronto), Roberta Buiani (York)
ArtSci Salon consists of a series of semi-informal gatherings facilitating discussion and cross-pollination between science, technology and the arts. ArtSci Salon started in 2010 as a spin-off of
Subtle Technologies Festival (http://www.subtletechnologies.com)
to satisfy increasing demands by the audience attending the Festival to have a more frequent (monthly or bi-monthly) outlet for
debate and information sharing across disciplines. In addition, it
responds to the recent expansion in the GTA area of a community
of scientists and artists increasingly seeking collaborations across
disciplines to successfully accomplish their research projects and
inquiries.
Automorphic Forms Seminar Series
Organizer: Chung Pang Mok
Centre for Mathematical Medicine Seminar Series
Organizer: Siv Sivaloganathan
Fields-Origins Institute Seminar
Organizing Committee: Walter Craig (Fields Institute & McMaster) and Jon Stone (McMaster)
Fields Industrial Optimization Seminar
Organizing Committee: N. Alexandrov (NASA), M. Anjos
(Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal), B. Chachuat (Imperial
College London), A.R. Conn (IBM Watson), A. Deza (McMaster), F. Kafyeke (Bombardier Aerospace), S. Karisch (Carmen
Systems), J. Martins (Michigan), B. Protas (McMaster), T.
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Fields Quantitative Finance Seminar
Organizing Committee: Ron Dembo (Zerofootprint), Matheus
Grasselli (McMaster, Fields), John Hull (Toronto), Tom Hurd
(McMaster), Moshe Milevsky (York), Rosen (R2 Financial
Technologies)
The Quantitative Finance Seminar has been a centerpiece of the
Commercial/Industrial program at the Fields Institute since 1995.
Its mandate is to arrange talks on current research in quantitative
finance that will be of interest to those who work on the border
of industry and academia. Wide participation has been the norm
with representation from mathematics, statistics, computer science, economics, econometrics, finance and operations research.
Topics have included derivatives valuation, credit risk, insurance
and portfolio optimization. Talks occur on the last Wednesday of
every month throughout the academic year and start at 5 pm. Each
seminar is organized around a single theme with two 45-minute
talks and a half hour reception.
Fields Geometric Analysis Colloquium
Organizing Committee: Spyros Alexakis (Toronto), Walter
Craig (Fields & McMaster), Spiro Karigiannis (Waterloo),
McKenzie Wang (McMaster)
Geometric Representation Theory Seminar
Organizing Committee: Joel Kamnitzer (Toronto), Peter Samuelson (Toronto), Oded Yacobi (Toronto)
These seminars focus on research in representation theory and algebraic geometry.
Geometric Structures Laboratory
Organizing Committee: Marco Gualtieri & Steven Rayan (Toronto)
The Geometric Structures Laboratory is a general scientific activity
based in Toronto at the Fields Institute. Senior researchers, postdoctoral fellows, postgraduate students, and undergraduate summer research assistants meet regularly to deepen their understanding of problems at the frontier of geometry, and at the interface of
geometry with physics. They host frequent mini-courses on exciting new topics in geometry and related mathematics.
Geometry and Model Theory Seminar
Organizers: Ed Bierstone, Patrick Speissegger
The idea of the seminar was to bring together people from the
group in geometry and singularities at the University of Toronto
(including Ed Bierstone, Askold Khovanskii, Grisha Mihalkin and
Pierre Milman) and the model theory group at McMaster University (Bradd Hart, Deirdre Haskell, Patrick Speissegger and Matt
Valeriote).
As we discovered during the programs in Algebraic Model Theory
Program and the Singularity Theory and Geometry Program at the
Fields Institute in 1996-97, geometers and model theorists have
many common interests. The goal of this seminar is to further explore interactions between the areas. It served as the main seminar
for the program on O-minimal structures and real analytic geometry, which focussed on such interactions arising around Hilbert’s
16th problem.
Inverse Problems and Image Analysis Seminar
Organizers: Abdol-Reza Mansouri (Queen’s), Adrian Nachman (Toronto)
Number Theory Seminar
Organizing Committee: Leo Goldmakher, Jing-Jing Huang
Operator Algebras Seminar
Organizer: George Elliot
Physics/Fields Colloquium
Organizing Committee: Mary Pugh (Toronto), Stephen Morris
(Toronto)
The goal of the Physics/Fields Colloquium is to feature scientists
whose work is of interest to both the physics and the mathematical
science community. The series has been running since the Spring
of 2007.
Usually there is one speaker per semester. Each speaker gives a
primary, general talk in the regular physics colloquium venue and,
whenever possible, a second, more specialized talk at the Fields Institute.
Quantum Algebra Seminar
Organizers: David Penneys, Peter Samuelson
Set Theory Seminar Series
Organizing Committee: Miguel Angel Mota, Ilijas Farah, Juris
Steprans, Paul Szeptycki (York)
Toronto Probability Seminar
Organizers: Bálint Virág, Janosch Ortmann (Toronto)
Toronto Quantum Information Seminars
The Toronto Quantum Information Seminar is held roughly every
two weeks to discuss ongoing work and ideas about quantum computation, cryptography, teleportation, et cetera. We hope to bring
together interested parties from a variety of different backgrounds,
including math, computer science, physics, chemistry, and engineering, to share ideas as well as open questions.
OUTREACH
The Fields Institute provides support for projects whose goal is to promote mathematical culture
at all levels and bring mathematics to a wider audience. Our current outreach programs target
students from middle and secondary school, as well as undergraduates studying mathematics.
Caribou Mathematics Competition at Brock
Organized by Thomas Wolf (Brock)
The Caribou Mathematics Competition is a Canada wide free
online contest that is held over six days during a school year. It has
had many positive effects at participating schools so far, and these
positive impacts are expected to be reproduced at other schools as
the contest’s reach grows.
In participating elementary schools, feedback from teachers has
noted that students’ understanding of mathematics has become
richer, as they demonstrate a greater facility with problem solving,
patterns, symmetries, and logic. Most importantly, and beyond any
content knowledge, students’ image of mathematics has changed:
they now look upon mathematics as an area they wish to compete in
and to be good at. This image-building is expected to have a profound
long-term effect.
The most direct effect of the contests is the additional practice that
students get. With six contests per year in each age group, and practice
at home and in new math clubs, students improve their abilities, and
with improved abilities comes greater interest. Currently the number
of practice tests taken is about 2.5 times higher than the number
of contests taken; this speaks to the effectiveness of the contest in
stimulating regular student practice.
Math Performance Festival
Organized by George Gadanidis (Western)
The Math Performance Festival has completed its sixth year, with
over 100 entries from Canada and Brazil, judged by Tracy Bone
(Juno Award Nominated Musician), J.C. Campbell (Award Winning Musician), Jay Ingram (Award winning producer of the Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet), and Penn Kemp (Western University’s Poet-in-Residence). It offers students of all ages an opportunity
to share their mathematical experiences in a creative fashion. Students shared their learning with parents, and feedback from parents was used to create the lyrics for their songs. The Festival has
also added a Science category.
September 2013 – June 2014
Fields Math Circles
Organized by Luke Chang (Fields)
Every Saturday afternoon, from mid-September until mid-June,
high school students from across the GTA get together at the
Fields Institute to work on challenging mathematics questions.
Fields Math Circles is an extra-curricular high school enrichedlevel mathematics program, where students can broaden their
mathematical knowledge and improve their problem-solving
skills, for personal interest and also to prepare for mathematics
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competitions. The meetings provide mathematically talented high
school students with interesting mathematics challenges outside
of their regular school experience, in an environment in which
students experience mathematics as a friendly and social activity.
knowledge, improve their skills, increase their confidence and
develop an appreciation for mathematics. The classes are intended
to be an extended version of a math club that Professors Anna and
Ross Stokke ran out of their home for three years.
April 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014
Archimedes Math Schools
Organized by Anna Stokke (Winnipeg), Ross Stokke
(Winnipeg), Darja Kalajdzievska (Manitoba), Robert Craigen
(Manitoba), Kingsley Bowles (United Way)
The Fields Institute is proud to continue our support of the
Archimedes Math Schools. They are a non-profit organization
that was founded by math professors in Winnipeg who recognized
the need for a low cost after-school math program for elementary
school children. With the exception of their university student
teachers, all individuals involved with the day-to-day operation of
Archimedes Math Schools are unpaid volunteers.
A total of 61 children completed the program in the 2012-2013
school year, most of whom returned to complete another year with
in September, 2013. They had over 90 children registered for the
2013-2014 school year.
Archimedes Math Schools run after-school math classes for
children in Grades 4, 5 and 6. All lessons are planned by university
math professors, who volunteer with the program, and are delivered
by university math students. Their goal is to provide a structured
and comfortable environment where children may expand their
September 2013 – May 2014
SCM School Competitive Math
Dragos Calitoiu (Carleton)
SCM School Competitive Math Ottawa provides a competitive
environment to learn advanced math concepts, running since 2010.
The program contains around 110 students registered in three
levels: grades 7-8, grade 9 and grade 10.
Classes are organized on campus at Carleton University, Ottawa.
The program is free of charge. Fields Institute supported last year
the expenses related to the web hosting of their website www.
competitivemath.org.
SPECIAL LECTURES
The Fields Institute’s Distinguished and Coxeter Lecture Series bring a leading mathematician to
the Institute to deliver a series of three talks. The first of these lectures is intended for a general
audience of mathematicians and the other two highlight recent important developments in the
speaker’s area of study. The Institute also hosts public lectures, meant for a general audience. These
are free events, intended to engage the public in mathematics research happening at Fields.
September 30, 2013
FIELDS MEDAL SYMPOSIUM PUBLIC OPENING LECTURES
Peter Sarnak (Princeton)
Lecture Topic: Randomness in Number Theory
Elon Lindenstrauss (Hebrew University)
Lecture Topic: Information, Entropy, and Numbers
October 15-17, 2013
DISTINGUISHED LECTURES
Maxim Konsevich (Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques)
Thematic Program on Calabi-Yau Varieties: Arithmetic, Geometry and
Physics
Lecture Topic: Oct. 15 What is tropical mathematics?
Oct. 16 Quivers, cluster varieties and integrable systems
Oct. 17 Fukaya category meets Bridgeland stability
October 24, 2013
PUBLIC LECTURE
Edward Frenkel (UC Berkeley)
Lecture Topic: Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
November 11, 2013
2013 CRM-FIELDS-PIMS PRIZE LECTURE
Bruce Reed (McGill)
Lecture Topic: How I Learned to do Mathematics
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COXETER LECTURES
Claire Voisin (Institute de Mathématiques de Jussieu)
Thematic Program on Calabi-Yau Varieties: Arithmetic, Geometry and
Physics
Lecture Topics: Nov. 13 The canonical 0-cycle of a K3 surface
Nov. 14 On the Chow ring of Calabi-Yau manifolds
Nov. 18 Decomposition of the small diagonal and the topology of
families
November 14 - 15, 2013
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES IN STATISTICAL
SCIENCE
Xiao-Li Meng (Harvard University)
Lecture Topic (November 14): Trivial Mathematics but Deep Statistics:
Simpson’s Paradox and Its Impact on Your Life
Lecture Topic (November 15): Who is crazier: Bayes or Fisher?
February 2, 2014
ROYAL CANADIAN INSTITUTE LECTURE
Stan Wagon (Macalester College)
Lecture Topic: Algorithmic Thinking in Mathematics
February 3, 2014
PUBLIC LECTURE
Stan Wagon (Macalester College)
Lecture Topic: Some Shocking Results in Mathematics
March 19, 2014
PUBLIC LECTURE
Dine Ousmane Samary (University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin
and Perimeter Institute)
Fields-Perimeter Africa Postdoctoral Fellowship Lecture
Lecture Topic: Master equation of correlation functions for tensorial
group field theory
June 6, 2014
AVNER MAGEN MEMORIAL LECTURE
Konstantinos Georgiou (University of Waterloo)
Lecture Topic: Lift-and- project systems for combinatorial optimization
problems; More than a decade of fascinating positive and negative
results
May 27-29, 2014
COXETER LECTURES
Sorin Popa (University of California, Los Angeles)
Thematic Program on Abstract Harmonic Analysis, Banach and
Operator Algebras
Lecture Topic: On II1 factors arising from free groups acting on spaces
COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL MATH. PROGRAM
The Institute’s Commercial and Industrial Mathematics (CIM) Program acts as a bridge between
the mathematics community and businesses that benefit from research in the mathematical sciences. In this way, the CIM program seeks to communicate results in mathematics to the business
community.
Program activities include seminars and workshops in mathematical areas of direct interest to
industry, networking activities, and assisting mathematicians in connecting with industry, or in
initiating their own commercial ventures. Activities take place across a broad spectrum of areas, of
which financial mathematics forms one part. The program is coordinated by the Fields Institute’s
Industrial Advisory Panel.
September 2013 – April 2014
Quantitative Finance Seminar
Organized by Phelim Boyle (Waterloo), Ron Dembo (Zerofootprint),
Matheus Grasselli (McMaster), John Hull (Toronto), Tom Hurd
(McMaster), Moshe Milevsky (York) • Held at the Fields Institute
The Quantitative Finance Seminar has been a centerpiece of the
Commercial/Industrial program at the Fields Institute since 1995.
Its mandate is to arrange talks on current research in quantitative
finance that will be of interest to those who work on the border
of industry and academia. Wide participation has been the norm
with representation from mathematics, statistics, computer science, economics, econometrics, finance and operations research.
Topics have included derivatives valuation, credit risk, insurance
and portfolio optimization. Talks occur on the last Wednesday of
every month throughout the academic year and start at 5 pm. Each
seminar is organized around a single theme with two 45-minute
talks and a half hour reception. There is no cost to attend these
seminars and everyone is welcome.
September 2013 – April 2014
Industrial Optimization Seminar
Organizing and Advisory Committees: Antoine Deza (McMaster),
Bartosz Protas (McMaster), Danielle Zyngier (McMaster), Tamás
Terlaky (Lehigh), Natalia Alexandrov (NASA), Miguel Anjos
(École Polytechnique de Montréal), Benoit Chachuat (Imperial
College London), Andrew R. Conn (IBM Watson), Fassi Kafyeke
(Bombardier Aerospace), Stefan Karisch (Carmen Systems),
Joaquim Martins (Michigan), Hans Tuenter (Ontario Power
Generation), Henry Wolkowicz (Waterloo), Margaret H. Wright
(NYU) • Held at the Fields Institute
The inaugural meeting of the Fields Industrial Optimization Seminar took place in November 2004. Since then, the seminar has met
on the first Tuesday of each month. Each meeting is comprised of
two related lectures on a topic in optimization; typically, one speaker is a university-based researcher and the other is from the private
or government sector. The series welcomes the participation of everyone in the academic or industrial community with an interest in
optimization — theory or practice, expert or student.
MICS Electronic Journal
Editors-in-Chief: Alistair Fitt (University of Southampton) and Hilary
Ockendon (Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics);
Managing Editor: Huaxiong Huang (York)
Mathematics-in-Industry Case Studies (MICS) is a Fields electronic journal launched in January 2008. The central theme of MICS is
the stimulation of innovative mathematics by the modelling and
analysis of such problems across the physical, biological and social
sciences. Topics have ranged over a variety of interesting subjects,
including wireless networks, fluid bearings in hard disk drives, drying concrete, and optical networks.
To facilitate rapid publication and support public knowledge dissemination, MICS is entirely electronic. The Open Journal System
of the Public Knowledge Project is used to handle manuscript submission and online publication.
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The Individual Finance and Insurance Decisions (IFID)
Centre
TThe IFID Centre is a non-profit corporation that is currently
housed at the Fields Institute and is closely associated with the
Schulich School of Business and the Department of Mathematics
and Statistics at York University in Toronto.
The IFID Centre was launched over a decade ago, with broad objectives and a mandate to conduct and disseminate applied research
in the field of financial risk management for individuals. The IFID
Centre supports a wide network of researchers interested in the
topic of consumer finance and personal insurance by sponsoring
conferences, generating research reports and giving targeted seminars and keynote presentations to audiences in the U.S. and Canada. The IFID Centre’s operating revenues and sponsorship grants
are contributed by corporations in the financial services sector who
are interested in directing research attention towards this field of
growing importance and influence.
rate conferences, generated and published over 27 research reports
(available at www.ifid.ca), and worked with over 40 different financial services companies and organizations around the world. They
offer an annual award for the best Ph.D. dissertation related to “individual wealth management,” we have given individual grants to
researchers at various Universities. In addition to its academic influence and presence, the financial media and press now view The
IFID Centre as an accessible source of research on insurance, investments and retirement income planning. Our most recent event
took place on November 27, 2014, with a conference devoted to the
determinants and models of extreme longevity. Speakers included
Leonid Gavrilov, Natalia Gavrilova, and George Graziani.
The IFID Centre’s organizational structure consists of an Executive
Director (currently M. A. Milevsky), a governing board of directors
(currently N. Charupat and D.S. Promislow), and office manager
who handles all day-to-day activities (A. Brand), as well as a number of research associates.
To date, The IFID Centre has sponsored and organized ten sepaMATHEMATICS EDUCATION
Ontario Mathematics Education (MathEd) Forum
Co-chairs: Matheus Grasselli (Fields Institute), Dragana Martinovic
(University of Windsor)
Steering Committee: C. Anifowose (Vretta), I. Brodie (Toronto
District School Board), B. Brown (Eipiphiny Society) C. Carruthers
(Seneca College), G. Doctorow (Nova Southeastern University),
J. Gardner (Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board), J. Kezys
(Mohawk College), M. Lovric (McMaster University), A. Mamolo
(UOIT), J. Mgombelo (Brock University), C. Suurtamm (University
of Ottawa), D. Talbot (Eipiphiny Society)
The Fields Mathematics Education (MathEd) Forum offers a platform for discussion of issues in mathematics education at all levels,
with special emphasis on education in Ontario. Monthly meetings,
held either at the Institute or at one of its partner Universities, bring
together teachers, curriculum consul- tants, graduate students,
mathematics education researchers, mathematicians, ministry and
policy consultants, and members of the general public with an interest in mathematics education. Activities of the Forum are coordinated with OAME (Ontario Association for Mathematics Education), OMCA (Ontario Mathematics Coordinators Association),
OCMA (Ontario Colleges Mathematics Association), CMESG
(Canadian Math Education Forum) and other mathematics education organizations. Among the guest speakers in 2013-14 were
P. Bengo (OISE), M. Mavor (Western and LKDSB), R. Milburn
(Humber College), K. Lawrence (Mohawk College), C. Suurtamm
(Ottawa) and A. Kajander (Lakehead).
In the fall of 2011, the Forum launched the new online Fields Mathematics Education Journal. This international peer-reviewed journal provides open access to the range of themes that attract attention of the mathematics education community in Ontario, Canada
and internationally. The focus of the periodical is to stimulate discussions, reflections, research, and commentaries about mathematics education within and between different interest groups. The
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FMEJ particularly encourages submissions of manuscripts related
to presentations at the Fields Mathematics Education Forum. The
Journal is intended for anyone interested in mathematics education, including researchers and practitioners. It has an international editorial board and is published biannually.
September 2013 – June 2014
Fields Math Circles
Organized by Luke Chang (Fields)
Every Saturday afternoon, from mid-September until mid-June,
high school students from across the GTA get together at the Fields
Institute to work on challenging mathematics questions. Fields
Math Circles is an extra-curricular high school enriched-level
mathematics program, where students can broaden their mathematical knowledge and improve their problem-solving skills, for
personal interest and also to prepare for mathematics competitions. The meetings provide mathematically talented high school
students with interesting mathematics challenges outside of their
regular school experience, in an environment in which students experience mathematics as a friendly and social activity.
Margaret Sinclair Memorial Award
This $5000 annual award recognizing Innovation and Excellence
in Mathematics Education was established in 2012 in honour of
Margaret Sinclair, who passed away on February 21, 2012, after a
brave struggle with a rare form of cancer. The award is sponsored
by her family and friends. Margaret Sinclair was a Professor in the
Faculty of Education, York University, and a pioneer of the Fields
Mathematics Education Forum.
The 2013 Award recipient was Ms. Kathryn M. Kubota-Zarivnij
(OAME) and the 2014 Award recipient was Ann Kajander (Lakehead).
FIELDS INSTITUTE
FELLOWS
The honour of being named a Fields Institute Fellow was established as a part of the Fields tenth
anniversary celebration in 2002. It is a lifetime appointment for individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the Fields Institute and to the Canadian mathematical community. Listed below are the names of all Fields Fellows, and the organizations that they were affiliated with at
the time that the honour was bestowed. The 2014 recipients are in bold.
James G. Arthur University of Toronto
Martin Barlow University of Toronto
Nantel Bergeron York University
Edward Bierstone University of Toronto
Allan Borodin University of Toronto
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
David Boyd University of British Columbia
David R. Brillinger University of California–Berkeley
Hermann Brunner Memorial University of Newfoundland
Arthur Carty National Science Advisor, Government of Canada
John Chadam University of Pittsburgh
Jennifer Chayes Microsoft
Stephen A. Cook University of Toronto
Derek Corneil University of Toronto
H.S.M. Coxeter University of Toronto
Walter Craig McMaster University
Donald Dawson Carleton University & McGill University
Kenneth R. Davidson University of Waterloo
Ron Dembo Zerofootprint
Radford de Peiza University of Toronto Schools (retired)
Antoine Deza McMaster University
George Elliott University of Toronto
Joel Feldman University of British Columbia
Peter Fillmore Dalhousie University
John B. Friedlander University of Toronto
George Gadanidis Western University
Alan George University of Waterloo
Mark Goresky Institute for Advanced Study
Stephen Halperin University of Maryland
Gila Hanna OISE–University of Toronto
Bradd Hart McMaster University
Huaxiong Huang York University
Tom Hurd McMaster University
Rick Jardine Western University
Lisa Jeffrey University of Toronto
Vaughan Jones University of California–Berkeley
Nicky Kamran McGill University
Richard Kane Western University
Manfred Kolster McMaster University
Stephen Kudla University of Toronto
Izabella Laba University of British Columbia
François Lalonde Université de Montreal
Peter Lancaster University of Calgary
William Langford University of Guelph
Anna Lawniczak University of Guelph
Barbara Lee Keyfitz Ohio State University
Mark Lewis University of Alberta
Angus MacIntyre Queen Mary University of London
Jerrold E. Marsden California Institute of Technology
Gregory Margulis Yale University
Dragana Martinovic University of Windsor
John McKay Concordia University
John Mighton JUMP
Moshe A. Milevsky IFID Centre and Schulich School of Business
Robert V. Moody University of Alberta
Eric Muller Brock University
Ram Murty Queen’s University
V. Kumar Murty University of Toronto
Adrian Nachman University of Toronto
Matthias Neufang Université Lille 1
Peter J. Nicholson OECD–Paris
George O’Brien York University
Amit Oza Princess Margeret Hospital
Josef Paldus University of Waterloo
Edwin Perkins University of British Columbia
Nicholas Pippenger Princeton University
William R. Pulleyblank IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Centre
Bruce Reed McGill University
Nancy Reid University of Toronto
Larry Rice University of Toronto Schools (retired)
Carl Riehm McMaster University
Elaine Riehm Author
Dan Rosen R2 Financial Technologies Inc.
David Rudd Sigma Analysis and Management
Thomas Salisbury York University
Luis A. Seco University of Toronto
William F. Shadwick Finance Development Centre, London
Michael Shub University of Toronto
Michael Sigal University of Toronto
Claudine Simson LSI Corporation
Margaret Sinclair York University
Siv Sivaloganathan University of Waterloo
Gordon Slade University of British Columbia
Victor Snaith University of Southampton
Patrick Speissegger McGill University
Juris Steprans York University
Cameron Stewart University of Waterloo
James Stewart McMaster University
Catherine Sulem University of Toronto
Éva Tardos Cornell University
Peter Taylor Queen’s University
Tamás Terlaky McMaster University
Mary Thompson University of Waterloo
Stevo Todorcevic University of Toronto
Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann University of Alberta
Karen Uhlenbeck University of Texas
Matt Valeriote McMaster University
James S. Wong Chinney Holding Company Ltd.
Stephen Watt Western University
Jianhong Wu York University
Noriko Yui Queen’s University
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PUBLICATIONS
MONOGRAPH SERIES
The Fields Institute Monographs Series (Series Code: FIM) features high-quality research monographs growing out of various
activities at the Fields Institute, including graduate course lectures
and seminars.
Volumes 1 to 28 are available for purchase from the American
Mathematical Society Online Bookstore, and later volumes (29 to
31) are available on the Springer website. The Institute also has a
limited number available at our front desk.
2013–2014 PUBLICATIONS
29 Optimal Stochastic Control, Stochastic Target Problems, and
Backward SDE by Nizar Touzi, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, Springer
2013, 214 pp.
30 Uniform Spaces and Measures by Jan Pachl, Springer 2013, 205 pp.
31 Derivatives of Inner Functions by Javad Mashreghi, Laval University, Springer 2013, 169 pp.
32 Lectures on Sphere Arrangements, Karoly Bezdek, University of
Calgary, Springer 2013, 175 pp.
33 k-Schur Functions and Affine Schubert Calculus, Anne Schilling,
University of California, Davis, and Mike Zabrocki, York University, Springer 2014, 219 pp.
FORTHCOMING IN THE FIELDS INSTITUTE MONOGRAPH SERIES
Introduction to Calabi-Yau Varieties Arithmetic, Geometry and Physics: Lecture Notes on Concentrated Graduate Courses, Radu Laza, Matthias Schutt,
Noriko Yui
COMMUNICATIONS SERIES
The Fields Institute Communications Series features proceedings
and lecture notes growing out of the various activities at The Fields
Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences. Many of the publications evolve from each year’s main thematic programs. Interdisciplinary titles also emerge from programs and workshops focusing
on applications of mathematics in science, engineering, industry,
and business. Volumes 1 to 61 are available for purchase from the
American Mathematical Society Online Bookstore, and volumes
62 and 63 are available on the Springer website. The Institute also
has a limited number available at our front desk.
2013–2014 PUBLICATIONS
64 Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems, John Mallet-Paret, Brown
University, Jianhong Wu, York University, and Huaiping Zhu, York
University, Editors, Springer 2013, 496 pp.
65 Blaschke Products and Their Applications, Javad Mashreghi, Laval University, and Emmanuel Fricain, Université Lyons I, Editors,
Springer 2013, 322 pp.
66
Advances in Applied Mathematics, Modeling, and Computational
Science, Roderick Melnik, Wilfrid Laurier University, and Ilias Kot-
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sireas, Wilfrid Laurier University, Editors, Springer 2013, 242 pp.
67 Arithmetic and Geometry of K3 Surfaces and Calabi-Yau Threefolds,
Noriko Yui, Queen’s University, Editor, 2013, 602 pp.
68 Asymptotic Geometric Analysis, Vladimir Pestov, University of
Ottawa, Vitali Milman, Tel Aviv University, Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann, University of Alberta, Monika Ludwig, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Editors, 2013, 395 pp.
69 Discrete Geometry and Optimization, Antoine Deza, McMaster University, and Karoly Bezdek, University of Calgary, Editors, 2013,
336 pp.
70 Rigidity and Symmetry Robert Connelly, Asia Ivić Weiss, Walter Whiteley (Eds.), 2014, 374 pp.
71 Algebraic Monoids, Group Embeddings, and Algebraic Combinatorics Mahir Can (Tulane), Zhenheng Li (University Of South
Carolina), Benjamin Steinberg (Carleton), Qiang Wang (Carleton),
2014, 354 pp.
72 The Corona Problem: Connections Between Operator Theory,
Function Theory, and Geometry Ron Douglas, Steven G. Krantz,
Eric T. Sawyer, Sergei Treil, Brett D. Wick, 2014, 231 pp.
tiu, 2015, 368 pp.
FORTHCOMING IN THE FIELDS INSTITUTE
COMMUNICATIONS SERIES
Asymptotic Laws and Methods in Stochastics: A Volume in Honour
of Miklos Csorgo, Don Dawson, Rafal Kulik, Mohamedou Ould
Haye, Barbara Szyszkowicz and Yiqiang Zhao
73 Geometry, Mechanics, and Dynamics: The Legacy of Jerry Marsden Dong Eui Chang, Darryl Holm, George W. Patrick, Tudor Ra-
PUBLICATIONS EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS
Carl R. Riehm (Managing Editor)
Walter Craig (Director)
Matheus Grasselli (Deputy Director)
James Arthur (Toronto)
Kenneth R. Davidson (Waterloo)
Lisa R. Jeffrey (Toronto)
Tom Salisbury (York)
Juris Steprans (York)
Noriko Yui (Queen’s)
Publications Manager: Debbie Iscoe
FIELDS NOTES
The Fields Institute publishes its newsletter, Fields Notes, three
times a year. Over 3500 copies of each issue are distributed free
of charge in mailings to a wide range of universities throughout
Canada, the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Managing Editor: Andrea MacLeod & Adam Zarboni
Scientific Editor: Carl Riehm
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DONORS
The Fields Institute conducts an annual giving campaign each year to raise funds in support of
our scientific and educational programs. The management and Board of Directors of the Institute
wish to express their profound thanks to the following, whose generous donations in the period
April 2013–March 2014 are helping to support the work of the Institute.
ANNUAL GIVING CAMPAIGN
$1,000 to $10,000
Carl Riehm
Elaine Riehm
George Elliott
Janet E. Halliwell Associates Inc.
John R. Gardner
Matheus Grasselli
Moshe Arye Milevsky
Noriko Yui
Philip Siller
In Honour of Ed Bierstone
Sheila Embleton
Walter Craig
Deirdre Haskell
$500 to $999
Anthony To Ming Lau
$200 to $499
Gordon Simons
Hans Tuenter
In Honour of Professor Raymond A.
Cuninghame-Green
Ian Ainsworth
Kenneth R. Davidson
Mary E. Thompson
W. Michael Roche
Up to $199
Abdo Alfakih
F. Leslie Thompson
Hugh R. Wilson
Hugh Thomas
Jan Minac
Jan Pachl
Jean Hu
In Honour of Cornell University’s and
the University of Queensland’s Statistics
Faculty past and present
Ken Jackson
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Peter Fillmore
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(4 Anonymous donors)
FIELDS MEDAL SYMPOSIUM MAJOR SPONSORS
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Silver Level Sponsor ($100,000 to $199,000*)
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Bronze Level Sponsors ($25,000 to $99,000*)
Edward Bierstone, Fields Institute & the University of Toronto
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John R. Gardner
Dan Rosen, R2 Financial Technologies
Philip Siller, BroadRiver Asset Management, L.P.
One-time Donations (Up to $499)
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(1 Anonymous Donation)
ADMINISTRATION
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DIRECTORATE
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Associate Director for Industrial Liaison
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Administrative Coordinator
Adam Zarboni
Manager of Operations
Communications Officer
Tyler Wilson
Josephine Kavanagh
Industry Liaison Officer
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PROGRAMS
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Mimi Hao (From September 2014)
Lauren Pelc-McArthur (From April 2014)
Meredith Sadler (From September 2014)
Manager of Scientific Programs
Program Coordinator
Thematic Program Coordinator
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Program Assistant
ACCOUNTING
Uma Gupta
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Paolo Scattarelli
Sabrina Sousa
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Philip Spencer
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PUBLICATIONS
Carl Riehm
Debbie Iscoe
Managing Editor for Publications
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GOVERNANCE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Chair
John Gardner
C. James CooperMaplesoft
Sheila Embleton
York University
Charles Fefferman
Princeton University
Andrew Granville
Université de Montréal
Janet Halliwell
JEH Associates Inc.
Jason Marks
Fiera Quantum Limited Partnership
Kim McAuley
Queen’s University
Moshe Milevsky
York University and IFID Centre
Bob Roberts
University of Ottawa Heart Institute
Dan Rosen
S&P Capital IQ
Philip Siller
BroadRiver Asset Management. L.P. and Fields Institute
Vice Chair
Janet Mason
Fields Institute
Director Walter Craig
Fields Institute
Deputy Director
Matheus Grasselli
Fields Institute
Claude A. Accum
Ian Ainsworth
Edward Bierstone
Sun Life
Mackenzie Financial
University of Toronto
Hexagram
Anne Swift
Young Inventors International
SRS (Raghu) VaradhanNYU
SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY PANEL
Gérard Ben Arous
Helen Byrne
Isabelle Gallagher
Walter Craig Bill Goldman
Matheus Grasselli
Susan Holmes
Stephen Kudla
Rachel Kuske
Courant Institute of Mathematical Science
University of Oxford
Université Paris-Diderot
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University of Maryland
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Stanford University
University of Toronto
University of British Columbia
William Minicozzi
Assaf Naor
Duong Phong
Moshe Vardi
Claire Voisin
Nick Wormald
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Columbia University
Rice University
University of Paris VI
Monash University
INDUSTRIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Walter Craig Fields Institute
Ron Dembo Zerofootprint
Matheus Grasselli Fields Institute
Bradd Hart McMaster University
Huaxiong Huang York University
Alex Kreinin Algorithmics Inc.
Moshe Milevsky York University–Schulich School of
Business & The IFID Centre
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Kumar Murty University of Toronto
Kruno Perkovic Synchrony Consulting Services Inc.
Dan Rosen R2 Financial Technologies Inc.
Thomas Salisbury York University
Luis Seco Sigma Analysis and Management
Tamás Terlaky Lehigh University
MEMBERS OF THE CORPORATION
PRINCIPAL SPONSORING UNIVERSITY MEMBERS
Jason Zhicheng Gao
Carleton University
Barbara Szyszkowicz
Carleton University
Yiqiang Zhao
Carleton University
Hans Boden
McMaster University
Ram Murty
Queen’s University
Mayer Alvo
University of Ottawa
Philip Scott
University of Ottawa
Kirill Zaynullin
University of Ottawa
Ray Carlberg
University of Toronto
Brendan Frey
University of Toronto
Paul Young
University of Toronto
Tom Coleman
University of Waterloo
Richard Cook
University of Waterloo
Sivabal Sivaloganathan University of Waterloo
Rick Jardine
Western University
David Jeffrey
Western University
Stephen Watt
Western University
Xin Gao
York University
Eric Ruppert
York University
Juris Steprans
York University
DIRECTORATE MEMBERS
Walter Craig
The Fields Institute
Matheus Grasselli
The Fields Institute
CORPORATE AFFILIATE MEMBERS
Alex Kreinin
IBM Algorithmics Inc.
Moshe Milevsky
York University and IFID Centre
Kruno Perkovic
Synchrony Consulting Services Inc.
Dan Rosen
S&P Capital IQ
David Rudd
Sigma Analysis and Management
Bob Suriwka
Waterfront International, Ltd.
AFFILIATE UNIVERSITY MEMBERS
Thomas Wolf
Brock University
Clifford Bergman
Iowas State University
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Lille 1 University
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Nipissing University
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Royal Military College
Dejan Delic
Ryerson University
Kenzu Abdella
Trent University
Anna Lawniczak
University of Guelph
Matthew Nicol
University of Houston
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University of Manitoba
Scott Wolpert
University of Maryland
Raj Srinivasan
University of Saskatchewan
Sudhir Paul
University of Windsor
Greg Lewis
UOIT
Marc Kilgour
Wilfrid Laurier University
MEMBERS AT LARGE
Claude A. Accum
Sun Life
Ian Ainsworth
Mackenzie Financial Corporation
C. James Cooper
Maplesoft
John Crow
Lawrence and Company Inc.
Ron Dembo
Zerofootprint
Sheila Embleton
York University
Charles Fefferman
Princeton University
John R. Gardner
The Fields Institute
Peter Godsoe
Sobeys Inc.
Andrew Granville
Université de Montréal
Janet E. Halliwell
JEH Associates Inc.
Hon. Roy MacLaren
Jason Marks
Fiera Quantum Limited Partnership
Janet Mason
The Fields Institute
Kim McAuley
Queen’s University
Peter J. Nicholson
Wealth Creation Preservation & Donation (WCPD)
J. Robert Prichard
Metrolinx
Robert Roberts
University of Ottawa Heart Institute
Philip Siller
BroadRiver Asset Management LLC
Anne Swift
Young Investors International
SRS (Raghu) Varadhan NYU
MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES SOCIETIES MEMBERS
Ken Barker
University of Calgary & CACS
Ian Frigaard
University of British Columbia & CAIMS
Keith Taylor
Dalhousie University & CMS
Corinne McDonald
Dalhousie University & CORS
Michael Evans
University of Toronto & SSC
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