We were saddened to hear news of the passing of AARMS Board Member Kai Liu. Dr Liu was an Assistant Professor in the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the University of Prince Edward Island, an Adjunct Assistant Professor
Winners of the new AARMS Graduate Scholarship
Following a competitive process, AARMS has awarded two $5,000 graduate student scholarships to recognize the brightest young mathematical scientists in the region. This year’s winners are Shivam Arora, PhD student at Memorial University supervised by Eduardo Martinez-Pedroza, and Deni Salj,
Call for 2021-22 AARMS Advanced Courses
AARMS is seeking expressions of interest from mathematical scientists in Atlantic Canada and beyond in participating in the Advanced Course program in Fall 2021 and Winter 2022. Advanced course instructors allow students from AARMS member universities to fully participate in
Major new funding from NSERC
AARMS is pleased to announce major new funding from NSERC (the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) through the Discovery Institutes Support bridging program. Through this program, AARMS will receive approximately $278,000 in 2021-22 to support fundamental and
Call for Collaborative Research Group letters of intent
AARMS is inviting the Atlantic Canadian mathematical sciences community to submit Letters of Intent for its 2021 Collaborative Research Group (CRG) competition (deadline July 2). For the 2021 competition, we are pleased to announce that successful CRG applicants will receive
Open Quantum Systems at AIMS Cameroon
The following is an activity report written by Marco Merkli (Memorial University of Newfoundland) about his AARMS-sponsored visit to the African Institute for the Mathematical Sciences. The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, AIMS, is a pan-African network of centres of
AARMS receives funding to combat COVID-19
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has recently awarded a consortium of Canada’s mathematical sciences Institutes $666,667 to fight the global coronavirus pandemic. The successful application to the Government of Canada’s 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Rapid Research Funding call was
Enhancing math appreciation through community outreach
The following article features the AARMS-supported mathematics outreach in New Brunswick. It was written by John McLoughlin (UNB) and is reprinted with permission from the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS Notes, Volume 52, No. 1, February 2020). This issue marks the
AARMS Summer School 2019
From June 17 to July 12, 2019, the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI), in collaboration with the Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences (AARMS), hosted the AARMS Summer School
Groups, Rings, Lie and Hopf Algebras
[reprinted from: MUN Gazette] If you’re a mathematician, the above-named collaborative research group at Memorial should catch your interest. The group, which was announced recently by the Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences (AARMS) and is administered by