Date and Time	Speaker	Title
January 14: 3.30	CECM	Show and Tell(3.30) and Coffee House (2.30)
January 21: 3.30	MRG	Peter Borwein On Littlewood Problems
January 22: 3.30	MRG	Niky Kamran (McGill) on Some geometrical aspects of the Euler-Lagrange operator
January 28: 3.30	CAG	George Labahn (Waterloo) When are two numeric polynomials relatively prime?
February 4: 3.30	CECM		Jonathan Borwein on The MathResource: bringing a product to market.
February 6: 2.30	CECM	Ian Putnam (Victoria): Tilings, Dynamics and C*algebras
February 11: 3.30	CAG	Edgardo Cheb-Terrab: Symmetries, Integrating Factors and ODE Patterns
February 18: 3.30-5.30	MRG (Mekler Lecture)	Reinhard Diestel (Chemnitz) on Dominating arithmetic functions, and the growth of infinite graphs
February 25: 3.30	MRG	Veselin Jungic on Arithmetic Progressions: Are they large or chromatically intersective?
March 5: 3.30	CECM	Stephen Choi on On Cyclotomic Polynomials with Coefficients +1 or -1
March 11: 3.30	CAG	Luis Goddyn on Visualization of Combinatorial Algorithms
March 18: 2.30	MRG	Peter Borwein on The Proof
March 25:	CAG (No Colloquium)	Maple-Matlab Shortcourse
April 1: 3.30	PDG	Stephen Braham on Collaborative Technologies and Satellite Communication
April 8: 3.30	MRG	Jafar Zafarani (Isfahan) On containment of c_0 in the space of operators
April 24: 2.30 (Friday)	MRG	Kenneth O. Kortanek (University of Iowa) Using linear semi-infinite programming for pricing options
May 19: 10.30 (Tuesday)	MRG and PIms	David Bailey (Berkeley) Discovering New Formulas of Math and Physics Using High Precision Integer Relation Computations
May 29: 11.30 (Friday)	MRG	Ram Murty (Queens) Cryptography and Sieve Methods
July 8: 3.30	CAG	Erich Kaltofen (NC State) Challenges of Symbolic Computation: My Favorite Open Problems
July 10: 2.30 (Friday)	CAG	Erich Kaltofen (NC State) Efficient Algorithms for Computing the Nearest Polynomial with Constrained Roots
July 14: 3.30 (K9509 or AQ3153) (Tuesday)	CECM	Gert Almkvist (Lund) Asymptotic Estimates (Distinguished Lecturer and Reception)
July 15: 3.30	MRG	David Broadhurst (Open University) Polylogs of Sixth Roots of Unity in Quantum Field Theory
July 21: 2.30 (Tuesday)	CAG	Thomas Wolf (University of London) The CRACK package
July 22: 3.30	MRG	Igor Pritsker (Case Western) Products of Polynomials in Uniform Norms
July 24: 2.30 (Friday)	CAG	David Broadhurst (Open University) Computer-aided discovery in quantum field theory

CECM Colloquia take place in K9509 Shrum Science Building at 3.30 pm on Wednesdays unless otherwise indicated

The "Fall back Time" for CECM Colloquia is 11.30 Friday

See also CECM's Event List

Date and Time	Place	Activity
Thursday	CECM/UBC	Optimization Seminar (MRG) January 15, 1.00-2.00: P. Marechal and J. Borwein on "Stability of MaxEnt approaches to NMR" (at SFU, K9509) and 2.00-3.00: Statistics Colloquium on Entropy Principles and their Applications to the Probabilistic Systems, Pranesh Kumar, Department of Statistics, University of Transkei
Tuesdays	VHHSC	Medical Imaging Seminar (MRG): Dec 11, 12.00-2.00: Potluck at Vancouver Hospital. Jan 13, 27, etc. at 4.00: Biweekly Meeting in Nuclear Medicine Library at Vancouver Hospital.
Wednesday	CECM/UBC	Jan 20-April 30: A reading course Convexity and Nonlinear Optimization will meet each Wednesday (or Tuesday) in K9509. Upcoming dates: April 15, 21 (Tuesday), 29 and May 6, 13 (all at 3.30 pm). April-June A Functional Analysis Seminar will meet Wednesdays at 10.00 in K9509. April 8: J. Borwein (mean values) April 15: Mar Jimenez (porosity). April 22-29: Pepe Moreno (best approximation. May 7: Moreno - best approximation (2.30-4.30, Thursday). May 12: Jon Borwein (Options and Futures) (2.00-4.00 Tuesday). May 13: Jon Borwein (Introduction to Cuscology). May 20: Wang Xianfu (Rockafellar Functions). May 27: Simon Fitzpatrick (Conjugates of Max Functions). June 17-24, July 8: Keith Promislow (Applications of Degree Theory). July 8: Yves Lucet (Proximal point algorithms). August 19 (10.30): Jon Vanderwerff (Holder one-sided norms). August 28 (2.30): Adrian Lewis (Ill conditioned inequality systems).
Thursday	CECM/UBC	Number Theory Seminar (MRG) Nov 27, 3:30--5:00 in K9509, SFU. Ping Zhou and Peter Borwein [1] Irrationality of some Multivariate Functions [2] Littlewood Type Problems on Subarcs Thursday Jan. 8 at 1:30 in Math Annex 1102 at UBC. David McKinnon (Berkeley) on "Counting Rational Points on Kummer Surfaces." Spring Semester: bi-weekly Number Theory Seminar in K9509 at 3.30: Feb. 5: Kevin Hare. Feb. 19 Richard Lockhart. UBC on January 29th: 2PM - 3:30 in Math 1118 E. Granirer: ``Some subsets of the reals and the integers which occur in harmonic analysis''
Monday 2.30	CECM Seminar Room: P8495A	CECM Management Meeting
Daily 11.00	P8495A	PDG Status & Strategy Meeting
Tuesday 4.00		P8495A	PDG Educational Vision Meeting
Thursday 4.00		P8495A	PolyMath General Meeting
Monday	TLX 10547	CAG Meeting

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Friday September 19: 6.00pm	Potluck (7324 Braeside)
Thursday Oct 2: 3.30pm (AQ3181)	Andrew Odlyzko Internet Commerce, Cryptography, and Mathematics (CSS Distinguished Speakers Series)
Saturday October 18, Seattle	Pacific North West Numerical Analysis Day
November 14-15, Seattle	West Coast Optimization Meeting ( Postscript) and (Acrobat) List of people needing or providing rides
November 15, Kelowna	First West Coast Computer Algebra Day
Thursday Nov 20: 3.30pm (AQ3181)	Frank Moon Control of Chaos in Mechanical Systems (CSS Distinguished Speakers Series)
Friday Dec 12: 6.00pm	Potluck (7324 Braeside)
Dec 14-16:	CMS Winter Meeting (Victoria)
Dec 19: 7.30pm	DEPT XMAS PARTY IN AQ LOUNGE and then WINTER BREAK
Thursday Jan. 15: 3.30pm (AQ3181)	Gabriel Silberman Deep Blue: IBM's Massively Parallel Chess Machine (CSS Distinguished Speakers Series)
February 13:	North American Open Math Initiative (NAOMI) First Workshop -- at Harbour Centre
February 18: 3.30-5.30	Annual Alan Mekler Lecture (3.30, K9500) and Reception (4.30, K9509)
March 20 and March 25:	Two Day Maple-Matlab Short Course (SFU)
April 25:	West Coast Optimization Meeting (WCOM) (Harbour Centre, SFU)
May 2:	Pacific North West Number Theory Conference (Harbour Centre, SFU)