Positions:

Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Concordia University
Director, Mathematical Physics Group, Centre de recherches mathématiques

Research interests:

• Mathematical physics, integrable systems, random matrices, random processes, gauge theory, relativity
• Group theory, differential equations, differential geometry

Other J.H. links:

• J.H. home page (CRM)

Publications

• Publications: 1993-2008, with links to files retrievable from the arXiv data base (Type in password: "pubs" for access)
• Complete list of scientific publications (PDF file)

Courses

• Introduction to tau functions and their applications (outline)
• MAST219/4 (2008)
• MATH264 (2008)
• MATH366 (2008)
• MATH466_MAST655 (2010)

Lectures at conferences, workshops, summer schools:

Current academic year (2007-2008)

• September 11 - 15, 2007, Brussels, Belgian Academy of Science,
  Random and integrable models in mathematics and physics
• June 22 - 28, 2008, Ste. Adèle, Québec
  SIDE 8 International conference
• June 30 - July 5, 2008, CRM, Université de Montréal
  Integrable Quantum Systems and Sovable Statistical Models
• August 18 - 23, 2008, CRM, Université de Montréal
  Laplacian Growth and Related Topics
• August 26 - 30, 2008, CRM, Université de Montréal
  Random Matrices, Related Topics and Applications
• October 5 - 10, 2008, Banff International Research Station, Banff, Alberta
  Random Matrices, Inverse Spectral Methods and Asymptotics

Recent (2006-2007)

• Aug. 6 - 13, 2006. IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, International Congress on Mathematical Physics
• Sept. 4 - 29, 2006. Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, U.K.
  The Painlevé Equations and Monodromy Problems
• Oct. 30 - Nov. 3, 2006, Centre International de Recherches Mathématiques (CIRM), Luminy
  Luminy conference on random matrices
• Nov. 20 - Dec. 15, 2006. Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, U. C. Santa Barbara,
  Stochastic Geometry and Field Theory: From Growth Phenomena to Disordered Systems
• February 19-23, 2007. University of Havana
  X International Workshop on Differential Equations, Number Theory, Data Analysis Methods and Geometry
• April 27-29, 2007. Centre de recherches mathématiques, Montréal
  Groups and Symmetries: from the Neolithic Scots to John McKay
• June 4-15, 2007. Centre de recherches mathématiques, Montréal
  Moduli Spaces of Riemann Surfaces and Related Topics

Older events

• Conferences, workshops, summer schools (1997-2006)

Videos and MP3's of lectures

• "Two-matrix models, duality and the Riemann-Hilbert problem associated to biorthogonal polynomials"
  MSRI, Berkeley. Sept. 30, 2002
  Program: Recent Progress in Random Matrix Theory and Its Applications
• "Hamiltonian theory of the general rational isomonodromic deformation problem"
  Fields institute, Toronto, May. 20, 2004
  Program: Workshop on Integrable and Near-Integrable Hamiltonian PDE
• "Matrix integrals as isomonodromic tau functions"
  Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, Sept. 21, 2006
  Program: Painlevé Equations and Monodromy Problems: Recent Developments
• "Tau Functions, Random Matrices, and Random Processes"
  Kavli Institute for Theoretcial Physics, Santa Barbara, Nov. 29, 2006
  Program: Stochastic Geometry and Field Theory: From Growth Phenomena to Disordered Systems
• "Tau Functions, Integrable Systems and Random Processes"
  97th Statistical Mechanics Conference, Rutgers University May 6-8, 2007
• "Tau Functions, Integrable Systems, Random Matrices and Random Processes"
  Workshop on Quadrature Domains and Laplacian Growth in Modern Physics
  BIRS, Banf, July 15-20, 2007

Other links:

• Centre de recherches mathématiques, Université de Montréal
• Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Concordia University
• Mathematical Physics Laboratory, Centre de recherches mathématiques
• Institut des sciences mathématiques