Title: GARCH copulas, v-transforms and D-vines.
Abstract:
Stationary models from the GARCH class have proved to be extremely useful for forecasting volatility and measuring risk in financial time series. However, the nature of their implied copulas is opaque.
McGill University DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
PhD Oral Defence of Mr. Mattieu CadiotDATE: Monday, June 2, 2025
TIME / PLACE: Pre-Defence 10:15 a.m. (BURN 717)
Defence 10:30 a.m. (BURN 717)
TITLE: Computer-Assisted Analysis for Partial Differential
Equations and Nonlocal Equations on Euclidean Spaces
CHAIR: Prof. Rustum Choksi
SUPERVISOR: Prof. Jean-Phillipe Lessard
McGill University DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
PhD Oral Defence of Mr. Seth TaylorDATE: Tuesday, June 10, 2025
TIME / PLACE: Pre-Defence 2:15 p.m. (BURN 1234)
Defence 2:30 p.m. (BURN 1025)
TITLE: On the analysis and applications of a class of functional Lie group integrators
CHAIR: Prof. John Toth
SUPERVISOR: Prof. Jean-Christophe Nave
INTERNAL MEMBER: Prof. Brent Pym
McGill University DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
PhD Oral Defence of Mr. Bartosz SyrokaDATE: Wednesday, June 11, 2025
TIME / PLACE: Pre-Defence 1:15 p.m. (BURN 1234)
Defence 1:30 p.m. (BURN 1025)
TITLE: Integrable Harmonic 𝑆𝑈(3)-Structures in Cohomogeneity One
CHAIR: Prof. Joel Kamnitzer
SUPERVISOR: Prof. Pengfei Guan
SUPERVISOR: Prof. Niky Kamran
Dear colleagues,
On this International Women in Mathematics Day, I'd like to take this opportunity to invite you and your students, on behalf of the organizing committee, to the annual International Conference of Women in Mathematics and Interaction.
The conference will take place on June 12 at the Centre de recherches mathématiques. You'll find the detailed program here.
McGill University DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
PhD Oral Defence of Mr. Antoine Giard
DATE: Friday, June 27, 2025
TIME / PLACE: Pre-Defence 9:30 a.m. (BURN 1120) Defence 9:45 a.m. (BURN 1025)
TITLE: Rigid meromorphic cocycles for congruence subgroups
CHAIR: Prof. Jerome Vetois
SUPERVISOR: Prof. Henri Darmon
INTERNAL MEMBER: Prof. Dmitry Jakobson
Established in 1935, the Hughlings Jackson Lecture is The Neuro’s premier scientific lecture. It honours the legacy of British neurologist John Hughlings Jackson (1835-1911) who pioneered the development of neurology as a medical specialty. A reception will follow.
To register: coming soon
To view virtually: https://vimeo.com/event/5008767
Talk: The Basal Ganglia and the Motivation to Act