The Alberta Mathematics Dialogue (AMD) 2016 will be held April 28-29 (Thurs-Fri) 2016 at Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta. This event, formerly held jointly as the North-South Dialogue in Mathematics (which began in 2001 as a research meeting involving the math departments at University of Alberta, University of Calgary, and University of Lethbridge) and the Alberta Colleges Mathematics Conference (a meeting mostly about pedagogy involving math faculty at Alberta colleges), has been renamed in 2014 to reflect the fact that it has long been held as a single meeting in which dialogue about both research and teaching occurs in an integrated way.
We invite attendees to contribute, if they wish, mathematical talks of any kind. We particularly encourage talks in the areas of DEs & applications, Financial Mathematics, Combinatorics & Discrete Mathematics, Operator Theory, Mathematics Teaching & Pedagogy, Algebra & Number theory and Statistics. AMD 2016 will have parallel sessions in each of these areas (in addition to a session for undergraduate students, and possibly other sessions also).
| Invited Plenary Speakers |
Terry Gannon, University of Alberta
Title: Moonshine: Old and New
Abstract: Almost 40 years ago John Mckay noticed that 196884=196883+1, and Monstrous Moonshine was born. In 1998 Borcherds won a Fields Medal primarily for his work explaining McKay’s equation. 5 years ago string theorists Eguchi, Ooguri and Tachikawa observed that 90=45+45, 462=231+231 and 1540=770+770, and Mathieu Moonshine was born. These new equations have still not been explained. My talk will introduce you to these two moonshines.
Richard Guy, University of Calgary
Title: The Leaning Tower of Pingala
Abstract: Starting with zero and one, we can generate a sequence
of polynomials whose coefficients form a leaning tower, usually
associated with Pascal, though going back to Pingala, more than
two thouand years ago. The polynomials give us an infinity of
divisibility sequences, including the natural numbers, the
Mersenne numbers, the Fibonacci numbers, the Bramahgupta-Pell
numbers (which we believe were known to the Babylonians four
thousand years ago), the Jacobsthal numbers, and the Chebyshev
polynomials.
Peter Lancaster, University of Calgary
Anatoliy Swishchuk, University of Calgary
Title: What is Financial Mathematics?
Abstract: This talk is devoted to the history of financial mathematics, description of basic ideas, methods and some remarkable results, association it with financial industry, and emerged new directions.
Vaclav Zizler, University of Alberta
Title: The Prague School of Analysis from B. Bolzano to D. Preiss
Abstract: We review some results obtained at the Prague School in differentiation in Banach spaces, ranging from the Bolzano’s example of everywhere continuous nowhere differentiable function, through the Kurzweil-Whitfield result on differentiable bump functions on the space of the continuous functions, to Preiss’ result on differentiation of Lipschitz functions on Hilbert spaces. We finish with the result on the smooth variational principle. Some personal memories of the speaker will be included as well.
| Program |
| Sessions |
| Session | Contact |
| Teaching and Pedagogy | Pamini Thangarajah pthangarajah@mtroyal.ca |
| Financial Mathematics | Alexander Melnikov melnikov@ualberta.ca |
| Combinatorics & Discrete mathematics | Michael Cavers mcavers@ucalgary.ca |
| Operator theory | Brady Killough bkillough@mtroyal.ca |
| Algebra & Number theory | Eric Roettger eroettger@mtroyal.ca |
| Statistics | Ashok Krishnamurthy akrishnamurthy@mtroyal.ca |
| Differential Equations and Applications | Ion Bica bicai@macewan.ca |
| Undergraduate student presentations | Pamini Thangarajah pthangarajah@mtroyal.ca |
| Registration |
If you are interested in attending AMD 2016, please sign up for it at the PIMS web page below (please note that signup is FREE):
http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/160428-amd
To sign up, simply click the LOGIN button at the bottom of this web page, which will take you to a page where you can login to your PIMS account (if you do not have a PIMS account, simply click the Create new account tab on this page to create quickly); after logging in to your PIMS account, return to the PIMS event page with the LOGIN button, which should now be a SIGNUP button.
| Registration and Abstract Submission |
Please register and/or submit your abstract
Alberta Mathematics Dialogue (AMD) 2016 Registration.
There is no registration fee, but your registration will help us ordering food, reserving lecture halls, and other related issues. Participants who are giving a talk may also submit their abstract here. Thank you very much for your early registration.
| Accommodation |
Mount Royal University Residence Services offers very good rates on fully furnished excellent apartment and town house suites situated on the campus and only minutes from the meeting facilities. For details please see http://www.mtroyal.ca/CampusServices/LivingonCampus/GuestAccommodations/index.htm,
For off-campus accommodation, University visitors frequently stay at the Grey Eagle Resort and Casino. This hotel is located near Mount Royal, a few minutes drive from the University. The Hotel also offers free shuttle service to Mount Royal. For information please see http://www.greyeagleresortandcasino.ca
There are many other hotels and motels available, such as in the Days Inn or the Holiday Inn Express downtown. Public transit is available to and from the University, but service is limited on weekends especially on Sunday.
| Parking |
Conference attendees can park in Lot 2, East Gate Parkade, Lot A or Lot B. The parking map can be found at Parking. The rate information for visitor parking can be found at Parking rates.
| Organizers |
Pamini Thangarajah, Mount Royal University pthangarajah@mtroyal.ca
Petr Zizler, Mount Royal University pzizler@mtroyal.ca
| Planning Committee |
Amir Akbary, University of Lethbridge
Hadi Kharaghani, University of Lethbridge
Thomas Hillen, University of Alberta
Eric Woolgar, University of Alberta
Hassan Safouhi, Campus Saint Jean, University of Alberta
Peter Zvengrowski, University of Calgary
Bill Hackborn, Augustana Campus, University of Alberta
Manny Estabrooks, Red Deer College
Karen Buro, MacEwan University
Jim Stallard, University of Calgary
| Sponsors and Acknowledgements |
AMD 2016 is deeply grateful to the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), and the Mount Royal University for their generous support.