Canadian Mathematical Community News

SMS 2012

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:00 EDT

The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) is pleased to announce their financial support of the Séminaire de mathématiques supérieures (SMS) –a summer school in applied mathematics that has been taking place for over 50 years.

56th Congress of the Mathematical Association of Quebec

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:00 EDT

The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) is proud to support the 56th annual Congress of the Mathematical Association of Quebec (AMQ). This year’s Congress will be held at Cégep de Ste-Foy from October 12-13, 2012.

Canadian Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (CUMC) 2012

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:00 EDT

Join us at Canada's premier undergraduate mathematics conference! Students are invited to give a talk, but are also welcome to simply attend and learn from others. There is the opportunity to network with other students from across the country and have fun at special social events. Online registration is now open.

Canadian Professor Receives Prestigious International Award

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00 EDT

The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) has announced that Luis Radford of Laurentian University is the recipient of the 2011 Hans Freudenthal Medal. The award recognizes outstanding achievement in mathematics education research, and in particular a major cumulative research program.

AARMS Summer School 2012

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00 EDT

The 11th annual Summer School of the Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences (AARMS) will take place at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, from July 16 to August 10, 2012. The school, which offers courses in the mathematical sciences and their applications, is intended for graduate students from all parts of the world.

Séminaire de Mathématiques Supérieures (SMS)

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00 EDT

The CMS is proud to support the Séminaire de Mathématiques Supérieures (SMS), an annual summer school in pure and applied mathematics that takes place on the campus of the University of Montreal. The theme of the 2012 school is Probabilistic Combinatorics. The deadline for student applications is March 1, 2012.

MCA Call for Prize Nominations

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00 EDT

The Mathematical Congress of the Americas Awards Committee welcomes nominations for three prizes to be awarded at the MCA 2013.

MCA Call for Session Proposals

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00 EDT

The Mathematical Congress of the Americas steering committee welcomes proposals to organize a special session at the MCA2013.

PIMS Announces Memorial Lecture Series

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:00 EDT

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) has announced the PIMS Marsden Memorial Lecture Series in honour of Jerrold Marsden (1942-2010), a world-renowned Canadian applied mathematician. Jerrold was the recipient of the 1981 CMS Jeffery-Williams Prize.

MPE2013 Announces Competition for Virtual Modules

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:00 EDT

The Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 (MPE2013) initiative is seeking submissions for virtual modules for an open source exhibition on the theme of Mathematics and Planet Earth.

New National High School Math Competition Partnership Expands

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00 EDT

The Canadian Mathematical Society has added two new partners, University of Ottawa and Carleton University, to a unique partnership with the University of Toronto and Université Laval to stage the 2011 Sun Life Financial Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge (COMC).

First Mathematical Congress of the Americas

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:00 EDT

As a founding working group member, the CMS is pleased to announce that the inaugural congress will take place on August 5-9, 2013 at Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (CIMAT) in Guanajuato, Mexico. Special session proposals are being solicited.

NSERC Response to Math Community Concerns

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00 EDT

NSERC President Suzanne Fortier has replied to the Canadian Mathematics Community Statement about NSERC Discovery Grants.

CMS to 'Talk the Talk' at CUMC 2011

Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00 EDT

A CMS talk on 'How to Give a Talk' will be presented by a number of Université Laval professors at the Canadian Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (CUMC) 2011 being held at Laval University from June 15-19. The CUMC is Canada's premier conference for undergraduate students interested in mathematics and is supported by the CMS.

CMS Honours Kangaroo Competition Champs

Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00 EDT

The CMS and the Canadian Math Kangaroo Contest presented achievement certificates to 85 Ottawa students from grades 3 to 11 at a May 6 ceremony.

Science Rendezvous

Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00 EDT

On Saturday, May 7, 2011, the Fields Institute in partnership with the Department of Mathematics at the University of Toronto, will be taking part in Science Rendezvous, a nation-wide science event that aims to bring science and its practitioners face-to-face with the community.

Canadian Mathematics Community Statement about NSERC Discovery Grants

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:00 EDT

A large number of mathematicians from across Canada have issued a public statement to the Minister of Industry Canada and the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) expressing serious concerns for how the NSERC Discovery Grants review system is being administered.

CMS Member Receives Prestigious PIMS Prize

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:00 EDT

The Pacific Institution for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) has announced that Dr. Veselin Jungic (Simon Fraser University) is the recipient of the 2011 Pims Education Prize.

New home for BIRS

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:00 EDT

The Banff International Research Station (BIRS) is moving to a new location at the Banff Centre. The new building will enable BIRS to provide live streaming of its lectures around the world.

New Director of the CRM

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00 EDT

Mr. Joseph Hubert (Vice-recteur à la recherche, Université de Montréal) has announced the nomination of M. François Lalonde as Director of the Centre de recherches mathématiques. His mandate will begin June 1, 2011.

Fibonacci Quarterly Goes Electronic

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00 EDT

With technical support from the CMS and Dalhousie University, the Fibonacci Quarterly has now an electronic presence, going back to Vol. 1 (1963).

CMS Education Committee Chair receives Prestigious Award

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00 EDT

Peter Taylor has received the T. Geoffrey Flynn Advancement Champion Award from Queen's University in recognition of his fundraising efforts both at the department level and university-wide.

CaMUS Launched

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00 EDT

The University of Sherbrooke, Department of Mathematics has launched a new student research publication.

Mathematics Congress of the Americas

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00 EDT

At a meeting during the recent joint AMS/MAA meeting in New Orleans, the CMS joined with the American, Brazilian, and Mexican societies, along with UMALCA to establish an interim council to develop a North and South American mathematics Congress of the Americas expected to take place in 2013. Canada was well represented at the meeting with Christiane Rousseau (CRM), Edward Bierstone (Fields), Alejandro Adem (PIMS), and Johan Rudnick (CMS) in attendance. "This remarkable initiative was strongly endorsed and the CMS is honoured to have been invited to be part of the group that will actually make it happen" noted Jacques Hurtubise, CMS President. Alejandro Adem (PIMS) will represent the CMS on the council at the follow-up meeting expected to be in Rio in May.

Google donates 1 million euros to the IMO

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:00 EDT

Google has given the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) organization one million euros to support the next five IMOs (2011-2015). The IMO is the world championship mathematics competition for high school students.