Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Statistical Privacy, Differential Privacy and an Application to Model Selection

Speaker:  Anne-Sophie Charest,  Professeure adjointe Département de mathématiques et de statistique Université Laval Title: Statistical Privacy, Differential Privacy and an Application to Model Selection Date:  Tuesday, March 7, 2017 Time:  4:00 - 5:30 p.m. Room:  HP 4351 (Macphail Room), Carleton University While statistical agencies... More

Thursday, February 2, 2017

PhD Thesis Examination – John Talboom

Successfully defended.  Congratulations John and your Supervisor Yuly Billig. Candidate: John Talboom Title: Representation theory of the Lie algebras of divergence zero and Hamiltonian vector fields on a torus When: Friday, March 31, 2017 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: Southam Hall Room: 617 CANDIDATE: John Talboom, Master of Science, Wilfred Laurier... More

Thursday, February 2, 2017

Actuarial Science Presentation – February 16th

Nicole Johnson, who is University Liaison-Actuarial Science, CAS will be making a presentation about Actuarial Science to students in Mathematics and Statistics at Carleton University next week on Thursday, February 16th at 11:30a.m.-12:30 p.m. in 4351 Herzberg Bldg. The School will be providing a pizza lunch to attendees. NOTE: RSVP to... More

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Joint Colloquium: Carleton University – University of Ottawa

Speaker: Zenghu Li (Beijing Normal University) Title:  Stochastic equations for branching processes Date:  Friday, February 10, 2017 Time: 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Place:  HP 4351 (MacPhail Room), Carleton University ABSTRACT: continuous-state branching process is the mathematical model for the evolution of a large population of small individuals. The... More

Monday, November 28, 2016

Joint Colloquium: Carleton University – University of Ottawa – **Cancelled**

**Please note that this Colloquium has been cancelled** Speaker: Peter Glynn (Stanford University) Title: Limit Theorems for Queues in the Presence of Non-renewal Traffic Date: Friday, December 9, 2016 Time: 3:30-4:30 p.m. Place: HP 4351 (MacPhail Room), Carleton University ABSTRACT: Much of the mathematical theory for queues has been developed... More

Monday, November 28, 2016

Combinatorics and Optimization Seminar

Speaker: Daniel Panario (Carleton University) Title: Periods of Iterations of Mappings over Finite Fields with Indegrees Restricted to {0, k} Date: Friday, December 2, 2016 Time: 11:30 a.m. Room: HP 4351 (Macphail Room), Carleton University ABSTRACT: Let [n]= {1,...,n} and let \Omega_n be the set of all mappings from [n] to itself. Let f... More

Monday, November 21, 2016

Joint Colloquium: Carleton University – University of Ottawa

Speaker:  Rita Gitik (University of Michigan) Title:  On Intersection of Conjugate Subgroups Date:  Friday, December 2, 2016 Time:  3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Place:  HP 4351 (MacPhail Room), Carleton University ABSTRACT:  We present an algorithm deciding if the intersection of a quasiconvex subgroup of a negatively curved group with a conjugate is... More

Friday, October 28, 2016

Joint Colloquium: Carleton University – University of Ottawa

Speaker: Konstantina Trivisa (University of Maryland) Title: On mechanical models for tumor growth: modeling, analysis and simulations Date: Friday, November 4, 2016 Time: 4:00 p.m. Place: University of Ottawa, KED B005 ABSTRACT: Tumor growth modeling is the investigation of the complex dynamics of cancer progression using a mathematical... More

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Joint Colloquium: Carleton University – University of Ottawa

Speaker: Dr. Hsien-Kuei Hwang, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Title: Maxima in multivariate samples and related structures Date: Friday, October 21, 2016 Time: 3:30-4:30 p.m. Place:  HP 4351 (MacPhail Room) Carleton University ABSTRACT:  Dominance-based maxima of multidimensional samples have been intorduced in many... More

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

PhD Thesis Examination – Graeme Turner

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Graeme and his supervisor Saban Alaca. Candidate:  Graeme Turner Title: The Discriminant and Conductor of Bicyclic Quartic Fields When:  Friday, November, 04, 2016 Time:  2:00 p.m. Location:  Southam Hall Room:  617 CANDIDATE: Graeme Turner, Master of Science, Univ of Waterloo, 2010, Bachelor of... More

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

PhD Thesis Examination – Zafer Selcuk Aygin

Successfully defended. Congratulations Zafer and your Supervisor Saban Alaca and Co-Supervisor Ayse Alaca. Candidate:  Zafer Selcuk Aygin Title: Elsenstein Series, Eta Quotients and Their Applications in Number Theory When:  Friday, September 16, 2016 Time:  3:00 p.m. Location:  Tory Building Room:  502 CANDIDATE: Zafer Selcuk Aygin, Bachelor... More

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

MSc Thesis Examination – Moritz Hof

Successfully defended. Congratulations Moritz and your Supervisor Emmanuel Lorin. Candidate:  Moritz Hof Title: Analysis of the Schwarz Waveform Relaxation Domain Decomposition Method for the Linear Schr\”odinger Equation When:  Tuesday, September 20, 2016 Time:  10:30 a.m. Location:  Herzberg Building Room:  4302 CANDIDATE: Moritz Hof, Bac... More

Friday, September 9, 2016

NSERC & OGS – Tuesday, September 13, 2016

NSERC/OGS Graduate Scholarship Workshop for Science Students 1:30pm Tuesday Sept 13 in Macphail Room (4351 HP) NSERC Graduate Scholarships (for both master's and Ph.D. students) and OGS are two major external scholarships for graduate students in Science. A good application is very often the key for success. As a supplementary to... More

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

First Colloquium 2016/17

Speaker: Elena Fimmel (Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Germany) Title:   Error-Detecting Genetic Codes Date:  Friday, September 16, 2016 Time: 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Place:   HP 4351 (MacPhail Room), Carleton University ABSTRACT: The genetic code is the major tool that nature uses for the transmission of information. Several approaches... More

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Ottawa-Carleton Discrete Math Days 2016

Ottawa-Carleton Discrete Math Days 2016 May 26-27, 2016, Carleton University http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/activities/15-16/Discrete-Math-Days  ... More

Thursday, May 5, 2016

Number Theory Seminar

Speaker: Karl Dilcher, Dalhousie University Title: Gauss Factorials, Jacobi Primes, and Generalized Fermat Numbers Date: May 9, 2016 Time: 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. Location: 4351 HP (Macphail room), Carleton University ABSTRACT: This talk is about various aspects of the Gauss factorial $N_n!$ which is defined as the product of all positive integers up... More

Friday, April 22, 2016

MSc Thesis Examination – Daniel Hockey

Candidate: Daniel Hockey Title: Network Kriging – Predicting the Attributes of Nodes in a Network Date: May 4, 2016 Time: 9:30 a.m. Location: Carleton University, River Building Room: 1200 CANDIDATE: Daniel Hockey, B. Math. (Hon) Major in Statistics, Carleton University 2014... More

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

MSc Thesis Examination – David Wilson

Candidate: David Wilson Title: Mining NHL Draft Data and A New Value Pick Chart Date: May 2, 2016 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: Carleton University, River Building Room: 1200 CANDIDATE: David Wilson, B. Ed., Brock University, 2006, B. Math (Hon), co-op with distinction, University of Waterloo, 2003... More

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

MSc Thesis Examination – Michel St-Louis

Candidate: Michel St-Louis Title: Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces with applications to time series Date: May 11, 2016 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: Carleton University, Herzberg Building Room: 4351 CANDIDATE: Michel St-Louis... More

Thursday, April 14, 2016

MSc Thesis Examination – Yibo Wang

Candidate: Yibo Wang Title: Estimation of the Amount of Sparsity in Normal Mixture Models Date: May 9, 2016 Time: 10:30 a.m. Location: Carleton University, Herzberg Building Room: 4351 CANDIDATE: Yibo Wang, B. Sc. (Appl. Mathematics), Wuhan University, 2014... More

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

PhD Thesis Examination – Gregory Doyle

Candidate: Gregory Doyle Title: Quadratic Form Gauss Sums Date: May 10, 2016 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: Carleton University, Herzberg Building Room: 4351 CANDIDATE: Gregory Doyle, M.Sc. (Mathematics), Carleton University, 2011, B. Math. (Hon), Carleton University, 2004 EXAMINATION  ... More

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

MSc Thesis Examination – Yanjiang Yu

Candidate: Yanjiang Yu Title: Associations between long term exposure to air pollution and the incidence of dementia and cognitive impairment in a Canadian prospective cohort study Date: April 27, 2016 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: Carleton University, Herzberg Building Room: 4351 CANDIDATE: Yanjiang Yu, Bmath (Hon) – Combined Major in Statistics... More

Monday, April 4, 2016

Colloquium Talk

Speaker: Dr.  Jean-Francois Plante  (Associate Professor,  Department of Decision Sciences HEC, Montreal) Title: Challenges, Tools and Examples for Big Data Inference Date: Friday, April 15, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Time: 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Place: HP 4351 (MacPhail Room), Carleton University Abstract: The Opening Conference and Boot Camp of the Thematic... More

Thursday, March 31, 2016

**Special** Algebra Seminar

Title: Differential algebraic groups and their applications Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2016 Time: 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Room: HP 4325 Carleton University Speaker: Andrei Minchenko ABSTRACT: At the most basic level, differential algebraic geometry studies solution spaces of systems of differential polynomial equations. If a matrix group is defined by a set... More

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Colloquium Talk

Speaker: by Mike Hidiroglou, (Adjunct Professor, Carleton University, Former Director, Survey Research and Innovation Division Statistics Canada) Title: Theoretical and Practical Issues for Stratifying Skewed Populations Date: Friday, March 11, 2016 Time: 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Place: HP 4351 (Macphail room) Carleton University Abstract: Skewed... More

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Algebra Seminar

Title: Morse geodesics in lacunary hyperbolic groups Date: Friday February 26, 2016 Time: 2:30 p.m. Room: HP 4369 Carleton University Speaker: Elisabeth Fink ABSTRACT: A geodesic is Morse if quasi-geodesics connecting points on it stay uniformly close. If the embedding of the cyclic subgroup generated by an element is a Morse geodesic, then that... More

Monday, February 8, 2016

Colloquium Talk

Speaker: Cristina Stoica, Wilfrid Laurier University Title: Applications of Geometric Normal Forms in Mechanics Date: Friday, February 26, 2016 Time: 3:30-4:30 p.m. Place: HP 4351 (MacPhail Room), Carleton University ABSTRACT: Symmetry is a key property of mechanical systems. For instance, Lie symmetries are responsible for foliations of the phase... More

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Graduate Student Recruitment Event

Recruitment Event for 3rd and 4th Year Math/Stats Undergraduates to Attend Graduate School at Carleton Ottawa-Carleton Institute of Mathematics and Statistics (OCIMS) Friday February 5, 2016 Room 4351HP (Macphail Room), Carleton University 12:00-12:30 Pizza lunch 12:30-12:45 (Y.Q. Zhao, Director of OCIMS) Welcome, graduate Math/Stats programs at... More

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Colloquium Talk

Speaker:  Dr. Jason Loeppky (Associate Professor of Statistics at UBC-Okanagan) Title:        A Different Perspective on Statistical Invariance Date:       Tuesday, January 19, 2016 Time:      10:30-11:30 a.m. Place:      HP 4351 (MacPhail Room), Carleton University ABSTRACT: It is well know that maximum likelihood... More

Monday, January 11, 2016

2016 International Hockey Analytics Conference in Ottawa

The 2016 Ottawa Hockey Analytics Conference (co-organized by Shirley Mills (Carleton) and Michael Schuckers (St.Lawrence U.) will be held Saturday January 16, 2016 from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. at Carleton University in Porter Hall (University Centre 231). Doors open at 8 a.m. for registration and coffee. The conference is sponsored by the Faculty... More

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Combinatorics and Optimization Seminar

Speaker:  Dmitri Truhachev (Dalhousie University) Title:  Coupling Information Transmission Date:  Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015 Time:  2:00 p.m. Room:  HP 4351, Carleton University Abstract:  Message passing algorithms on graphs are now frequently utilized in many areas of engineering and science. While such algorithms provide an efficient way... More

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

MSc Thesis Examination – Ommkaltoum Omas

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Ommkaltou and her supervisor Dr. Steven Wang. Candidate: Ommkaltou Omas Title: Deficiency and Ambiguity of Low Degrees Permutation Polynomials Date: January 8, 2016 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: Herzberg Building Room: 4351 CANDIDATE: Ommkaltoum Omas, B. of Education, Al Ghabal Al Garbi Univ, 2008... More

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Algebra Seminar

Title: Optimal control on SO(3) Date: Friday, November 20, 2015 Time: 2:30 p.m. Room: HP 4369 Carleton University Abstract: Euler proved in 1776 that every rotation of a 3-dimensional body can be realized as a sequence of three rotations around two given axes. If we allow sequences of an arbitrary length, such a decomposition... More

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Combinatorics and Optimization Seminar

Speaker: Ming Su (Nankai University) Title: Decomposing Approach for Error Vectors of k-Error Linear Complexity of Certain Periodic Sequences Date: Friday, Nov. 6, 2015 Time: 11:00 a.m. Room: HP 4369 Carleton University Abstract: The k-error linear complexity of periodic sequences is an important index for stability. By using an interesting... More

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Combinatorics and Optimization Seminar

Speaker: David Thomson (Army Cyber Institute) Title: Multidimensional Sudoku-inspired combinatorial arrays Date: Monday, Oct. 26, 2015 Time: 11:00 a.m. Room: HP 4351, Carleton University ABSTRACT: (Joint work with Melissa Huggan, Gary Mullen and Brett Stevens) This talk deals with various constructions of combinatorial hypercubes inspired by... More

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