Conferences and Workshops

Recent Conferences and Workshops

Conference Archive

The complete list of conferences held since 2012 can be found below.

2025 Workshop on Matrices and Operators (MAO)

Dates:  August 19-21, 2024

The purpose of this international workshop is to promote research and collaboration among researchers with an interest in matrix theory, operator theory, operator algebra, quantum information theory, and related topics. Participants are encouraged to present their latest findings and discoveries, and share their experiences and research problems, while fostering an atmosphere of collaboration and mutual learning. Through dialogue and knowledge exchange, the workshop aims to enhance the collective growth and development of the research community involved in matrix theory, operator theory, operator algebra, quantum information theory, and related fields. This series of workshop started in 2007 and ran annually until 2019. Because of COVID-19, the workshop was put to a halt, and just resumed in 2024.

Organizing Committee:
Shaun Fallat, Douglas Farenick, Sushil Singla (Regina) and Chi-Kwong Li (William and Mary)

Western Canadian Linear Algebra Meeting (WCLAM) 2023

Dates:  May 27-28, 2023

The Western Canada Linear Algebra Meeting (WCLAM) provides an opportunity for mathematicians working in linear algebra and related fields to meet present accounts of their recent research, and to have informal discussions. While the meeting has a regional base, it also attracts people from outside the geographical area.

Featured Lecturers:

• Jane Breen, Ontario Tech University
• Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University

Organizing Committee:
Shaun Fallat, Hadi Kharaghani, Steve Kirkland, Peter Lancaster, Sarah Plosker, Michael Tsatsomeros, Pauline van den Driessche

Local Organizers:
Shaun Fallat, Seyed Ahmad Mojallal, and Prateek Kumar Vishwakarma

Canadian Mathematical Society Summer Meeting 2019

Dates:  June 7-10, 2019

The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) hosted the mathematical community at the 2019 CMS Summer Meeting in Regina, Saskatchewan from June 7-10.

Four days of awards, mini courses, prize lectures, plenary speakers, and scientific sessions.

Topology Mini-Conference

Date: June 6, 2019
Location: University of Regina
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Preceding the CMS Summer Meeting in Regina, there will be a short conference on topology, featuring research in algebraic topology, geometric topology, and homotopy theory.

Speakers:

Alejandro Adem (University of British Columbia)
Anthony Bahri (Rider University)
Kristine Bauer (University of Calgary)
Marzieh Bayeh (Dalhousie University)
Robin Koytcheff (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)

SCHEDULE AND ABSTRACTS  All talks are in room ED 114 (Education Building).

Registration:

There is no registration fee, but we ask that you register to help us with the logistics and coffee breaks.

REGISTRATION FORM

Funding:

Thanks to the support of PIMS, there is funding available to students and postdocs to cover local expenses. Please apply for funding via the registration form, by May 6, 2019.  After that deadline, requests will be considered if funding is still available.

Organizers:

Martin Frankland
Paul Arnaud Songhafouo Tsopméné
Don Stanley

47th Canadian Operator Syposium (COSy)

Dates: June 3-7, 2019
Location: University of Regina

Plenary Speakers:

Ken Davidson, University of Waterloo
George Elliott, University of Toronto
Masoud Khalkhali, Western University
Marcelo Laca, University of Victoria
Vern Paulsen, University of Waterloo
Sarah Plosker, Brandon University
Ian Putnam, University of Victoria
Volker Runde, University of Alberta
Martin Mathieu, Queen's University Belfast
Dilian Yang, University of Windsor

Local Organizers:

Martín Argerami
Daniel Drimbe
Remus Floricel

Graph Searching in Canada (GRASCan) Workshop 2018

Dates: August 6-7, 2018
Location: University of Regina

The Graph Searching in Canada (GRASCan) 2018 Workshop will be held August 6-7, 2018 at the University of Regina, Saskatechewan. The purpose of this ongoing, invitation-only workshop is to bring together graph searchers working in any and all aspects of vertex pursuit games games on graphs and their variants, such as Cops and Robbers, edge searching, firefighting, burning, and graph cleaning.

Confirmed plenary speakers: Shannon Fitzpatrick (UPEI) and Bill Kinnersley (U Rhode Island).

Chairs:  Anthony Bonato, Shaun Fallat, Boting Yang

The Prairie Discrete Math Workshop 2017

Dates: June 2-5, 2017
Location: Living Skies Conference Centre Lumsden, Saskatchewan (near Regina)

Confirmed plenary speakers:

Sarah Plosker, Brandon University
Petra Berenbrink, Simon Fraser University
Stephen Kirkland, University of Manitoba
Vaclav Linek, University of Winnipeg
Mohammad Adm, University of Regina
Ferdinand Ihringer, University of Regina

Western Canada Linear Algebra Meeting

Dates: May 10-11, 2014
Location: University of Regina

Saskatchewan Analysis Day

Dates: March 16, 2013
Location: University of Regina

The Saskatchewan Analysis Day is a one day conference held once/twice a year with the goal to get people in analysis from Regina and Saskatoon together. In this ocassion, the conference with feature Dr. Ami Viselter, from the University of Alberta.

Organizing Committee:  Martin Argerami, Ebrahim Samei

Canadian Mathematical Society Summer Meeting 2012

Dates:  June 1-4, 2012

Locations:  Regina Inn and Ramada Hotel, Regina

The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) hosted the mathematical community at the 2012 CMS Summer Meeting in Regina, Saskatchewan from June 1-4.

Public Lecture:  John Fyfe (Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis; Victoria)

Plenary Speakers:

Dror Bar-Natan (Toronto)
Lisa Jeffrey (Toronto)
Marius Junge (Illinois-Urbana Champaign)
Ulrike Tillmann (Oxford)
Margaret Walshaw (CERME; Massey, NZ)

Workshop on Representation Theory of Groups, Lie Algebras, And Hopf Algebras

Dates: May 31 - June 1, 2012
Location: University of Regina

Workshop on Connections Between Algebra and Geometry

Dates: May 29 - June 1, 2012
Location: University of Regina

The focus of this workshop was the two-way traffic between Geometry and Commutative Algebra. It consisted of three courses, each on foundations, current research, and open problems in Commutative Algebra and Geometry:

1. Differential Graded Commutative Algebra,
2. Secant Varieties, and
3. Fat Points and Symbolic Powers.

Organizing Committee:
Susan Cooper, Central Michigan University
Sean Sather-Wagstaff, North Dakota State University
Donald Stanley, University of Regina