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The Ottawa Mathematics Conference is a 2 day student-organized conference to be held May 1–2, 2008 at the University of Ottawa. Its purpose is to provide a venue for local graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and undergraduate summer researchers to showcase their original research in all areas of mathematics in a 20-25 minute presentation. There will also be two invited speakers from local Ottawa universities.

Conference poster

Contributed talks

The conference will feature talks by graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and undergraduate student researchers on their original research. All talks should be 20-25 minutes in length.

Registration is now closed. Confirmed speakers only should send final title and abstract to sgoss053@uottawa.ca by Thursday, April 17.

Invited speakers

• Dr. Monica Nevins, University of Ottawa. Title: Representation theory and applications. Abstract

• Dr. Brett Stevens, Carleton University. Title: Locating and avoiding errors in software testing. Abstract

Schedule

Registration and breaks will be held in FTX (Fauteux Hall), room 136 (map). Talks will be held in FTX 135 (Room A) and FTX 136 (Room B).

List of participants

• Tayeb Aissiou, McGill University (analysis, knot theory, eigenfunctions of Laplacian)

• Mo'tassem Al-arydah, University of Ottawa (applied math, analysis, partial differential equations)

• Jamal Hussain Al-smail, University of Ottawa (shape optimization)

• Karin Arikushi, Carleton University (finite fields)

• Robert Bailey, Carleton University (algebraic combinatorics)

• Samina Bashir, University of Ottawa (Jordan algebras)

• Andrea Burgess, University of Ottawa (graph theory)

• Amy Cameron, University of Ottawa (combinatorial optimization)

• Verne Cazaubon, University of Ottawa (graph theory/functional analysis)

• Alan Chan, Carleton University (statistics)

• Laura Dumitrescu, University of Ottawa (statistics)

• Emilie Dufresne, Queen's University (invariant theory)

• Abdekrim El-Basraoui, University of Ottawa (number theory)

• Shonda Gosselin, University of Ottawa (algebraic graph theory)

• Alexis Guigue, Carleton University (robotics)

• Maryam Haghighi, University of Ottawa (combinatorial optimization)

• Jane He, Carleton University (finite fields)

• Ratnadha Kolhatkar, University of Ottawa (affine algebraic geometry)

• Fok-Shuen Leung, University of Waterloo (algebraic geometry/number theory)

• Marie-Angélique Massie, University of Guelph (model searches using graphical models)

• Jeffrey Morton, University of Western Ontario (category theory and quantum gravity)

• Monica Nevins, University of Ottawa (representation theory of p-adic Lie groups, coding theory)

• Patrick Niesink, University of Ottawa (graph theory)

• Lidia Nikitina, Carleton University (applied math, fluid dynamics)

• Mehmetcik Pamuk, McMaster University (algebraic topology)

• Emily Redelmeier, Queen's University (free probability)

• Patrick Reynolds, Queen's University (Hamiltonian systems of PDEs)

• Noushin Sabetghadam, Concordia University (number theory, computational algebra)

• Andrew Sirjoosingh, University of Ottawa

• Charles Starling, University of Ottawa (dynamics/operator theory)

• Brett Stevens, Carleton University (combinatorics: design theory, Gray codes, graphs, matroids)

• Colin Weir, Carleton University (hyperelliptic function fields)

• Angelika Welte, University of Ottawa (Lie agebras)

• Enxin Wu, University of Western Ontario (algebraic topology, category theory, homological algebra)

• Ximing Xu, University of Ottawa (mathematical genomics)

• Zhenyu Yang, University of Ottawa (mathematical genomics)

Abstracts

Individual abstracts are linked to speakers' names in the schedule above.

A complete list of abstracts may be found here.

Local Information

The Canadian Tulip Festival will be held May 2-18, 2008.

Getting to / from Ottawa:

• by bus

• by train

• by air

The bus terminal, train station and airport are all conveniently located near public transit. For more information, see the OCTranspo website.

Local links:

• Maps of University of Ottawa campus

• OC Transpo (Ottawa public transit)

For your convenience, here is a list of some nearby accommodations. Please note that presence on this list does not imply an endorsement of an establishment by the organizers.

• University of Ottawa residence (on campus)

• Ottawa Jail Hostel (75 Nicholas St.)

• Quality Hotel (290 Rideau St.)

• Days Inn (319 Rideau St.)

• Holiday Inn (111 Cooper St.)

• Gasthaus Switzerland Inn (89 Daly Ave.)

• Auberge 'The King Edward' (525 King Edward Ave.)

For other accommodation options, you can find listings of hotels and bed and breakfasts at the City of Ottawa webpage.

Contact Information

Organizers: Andrea Burgess (aburg018@uottawa.ca), Shonda Gosselin (sgoss053@uottawa.ca), Maryam Haghighi (mhagh051@uottawa.ca), Ratnadha Kolhatkar (rkolh090@uottawa.ca)

Phone: (613) 562-5800, ext. 3508

Sponsors

• Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa

• Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, University of Ottawa