Programme

  • 10:00-10:05 == Bienvenue
  • 10:05-10:25 == Nadia Lafrenière
  • 10:25-10:45 == Megan Roda
  • 10:45-11:00 == Pause
  • 11:00-11:20 == Sarah Mathieu-Soucy
  • 11:20-11:40 == Crystel Bujold
  • 11:40-12:30 == Lunch, PK-5675
  • 12:30-1:00 == Table ronde avec K. Majetic, A. Shohoudi et P. Sorya
  • 1:00-1:30 == Conférencière plénière donnée par Alina Stancu
  • 1:30 == Photo de groupe

Résumés des exposés courts

Nadia Lafrenière, A counter-intuitive mechanics and traffic flow problem solved by mathematics

I will present a paradox that can be seen in many real-life circumstances and I will try to convince you, while using mathematics, that the systems we study through it behave in the way we should naturally expect.

Megan Roda, An introduction to cryptography

My talk will consist of an introduction to mathematical cryptography. We shall discuss some of the basic tools required to understand basic examples of cryptosystems and complete a fun activity! Time willing, we will hopefully have the opportunity to discuss ‘’post-quantum cryptography’’ a very modern field of research devoted to cryptography in the age of the quantum computer!

Sarah Mathieu-Soucy, Don’t get your connections crossed!

Have you ever tried to connect three houses to three utilities… without the connections crossing? We will attempt to do so, and tackle questions such as: Why? Why not? and What if?

Crystel Bujold, The beauty and chaos of prime numbers

There is something very fascinating in trying to understand the world we evolve in; the nature, humans, the planets, the universe… And at the core of all this are these simple, yet elusive abstract objects we would like to understand: numbers. In this workshop, we will explore some extraordinary properties of the building blocks of numbers, the prime numbers. Between chaos and order, they stand there in the infinite expanse of numbers, hard to detect and yet giving rise to interesting patterns. We will try to see how one can find prime numbers and see if we can identify mysterious patterns in their distribution amongst numbers.

Résumé de la conférence plénière

Alina Stancu, A Life as Mathematician

I have agonized a few days over the title of my talk and I have settled for this one with the hope that it does not sound pompous. I am a mathematician, so is my husband, so is my brother, and so are many of my friends. Yet, I hardly find myself entitled to lecture on what being a mathematician means. Instead, I hope to share a few experiences, challenges and joys, that can prompt you and others to reflect on what you or they want their own career path to be, and, if math is one of the things that you think about, to consider making it an essential part of your own life.