Welcome to the seminar listing of the CRM Applied Mathematics Laboratory and McGill University's Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Please note that the CRM seminars usually take place at 4pm on Mondays in McGill's Burnside building, room 1104 (the new seminar room).

Time and Date	Speaker	Title and Abstract	Location
4pm Jan 21, 2019	Jan Bouwe van den Berg VU Amsterdam	Computational Morse-Floer homology	McGill Burnside Hall 1104
4pm Feb 4, 2019	Courtney Paquette Waterloo	Algorithms for stochastic nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization	McGill Burnside Hall 1104
Thursday 4pm Feb 14, 2019	Warren Hare UBC	Model-based methods in derivative-free nonsmooth optimization	McGill Burnside Hall 1205
4pm Feb 18, 2019	Chad Topaz Williams College	Topological data analysis of collective dynamics	McGill Burnside Hall 1104
4pm Feb 25, 2019	Raghav Venkatraman Carnegie Mellon University	Defects and Phase Transitions in highly anisotropic liquid crystals	McGill Burnside Hall 1104
Mar 4, 2019	~	Study Break	~
4pm Mar 11, 2019	Saeed Farjami McGill	Global (Local) Invariant Manifolds as Organizing Centers for Excitability	McGill Burnside Hall 1104
4pm Mar 18, 2019	Morgan Craig UdeM	Predictive and reconstructive modelling for rare disease etiology: demystifying disordered hemato-immune interactions during cyclic thrombocytopenia	McGill Burnside Hall 1104
4pm Mar 25, 2019	Frithjof Lutscher Ottawa	How does landscape heterogeneity affect population dynamics?	McGill Burnside Hall 1104
4pm Apr 1, 2019	~	TBA	McGill Burnside Hall 1104
4pm Apr 8, 2019	Renato Calleja IIMAS-UNAM	TBA	McGill Burnside Hall 1104
3pm Apr 16, 2019	Warren Hare UBC	Model-based methods in derivative-free nonsmooth optimization	McGill Burnside Hall 1205
Apr 22, 2019	~	Summer Break	~

Time and Date	Speaker	Title and Abstract	Location
Tuesday 4pm Sep 4, 2018	Bernd Krauskopf Auckland	Why be afraid of state-dependent delays?	McGill Burnside Hall 1214
4pm Sep 17, 2018	Hinke Osinga Auckland	A codimension-four singularity with potential	McGill Burnside Hall 1104
Oct 8, 2018	~	Thanksgiving	~
4pm Oct 15, 2018	Eric Cytrynbaum UBC	An invariant winding number for the FiztHugh-Nagumo system	McGill Burnside Hall 1104
4pm Oct 22, 2018	Jason Mireles James Florida Atlantic University	Blue skies in the four body problem	McGill Burnside Hall 1104
4pm Oct 29, 2018	Jingyu Li Northeast Normal University	Stationary solutions to the hydrodynamic model of semiconductors	McGill Burnside Hall 1104
4pm Nov 12, 2018	Alessandro Pugliese University of Bari	Coalescence of eigenvalues for symmetric and Hermitian matrix functions	McGill Burnside Hall 1104
4pm Nov 19, 2018	Hadrien Montanelli Columbia	Fast algorithms for solving local and nonlocal differential equations with periodicity	McGill Burnside Hall 1104
4pm Nov 26, 2018	Ralf Wittenberg Simon Fraser	Spatiotemporal chaos and coarsening in pattern formation with Galilean invariance	McGill Burnside Hall 1104
4pm Dec 3, 2018	Volkan Cevher École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Storage optimal semidefinite programming	McGill Burnside Hall 1104
4pm Dec 10, 2018	Roumen Anguelov University of Pretoria	Smart strategies based on population control models with bi-stable dynamics	McGill Burnside Hall 1104
Dec 17, 2018	~	Winter Break	~