Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences
On May 24-25, 2019 at Mount Saint Vincent University 59 high school teachers, university professors, instructors and graduate students from across Atlantic Canada attended the 2nd Annual Calculus Instruction in Atlantic Canada Conference. The focus of the conference was to
Circles and spheres are essential objects in geometry, but measuring them is impossible without the right tools: circle constants. Mathematicians tend to take these numbers for granted, but historically the quest for precision in computing these constants has been a
On May 11-12, 2019, AARMS hosted the second annual All SySTEMs Go event in collaboration with the Girl Guides of Nova Scotia. This year’s event involved nearly 500 girls aged 9-17 and almost 200 adult volunteers from the Guiding community.
A workshop entitled “Statistical analysis and machine learning with applications in medicine, biology, environmental sciences”, organized by Dr. Hong Gu, was held on May 9th and 10th at Dalhousie University. The workshop was co-sponsored by the CANSSI Maritime Statistical and
On Saturday October 20th, professors and educators from Atlantic Canada got together for the AARMS annual outreach meeting, where they shared their experiences with mathematical outreach in the Atlantic regions and beyond. The participants shared their resources and contacts to
AARMS held its first Industrial Problem Solving Workshop (IPSW) during the first week of July at Dalhousie University. The four-day workshop was a great success with over 45 participants (6 industry reps, 28 students, 11 faculty) from across Atlantic Canada
Connecting Math to Our Lives and Communities is an AARMS supported outreach initiative focussed on Mi’kmaw and African youth in Nova Scotia. In this article, Dr. Lisa Lunney Borden (St. Francis Xavier) summarizes the 2017-18 edition of the program. On
On May 12-13, 2018, AARMS hosted a camp for over 500 Girl Guides from New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island at the University of New Brunswick’s Fredericton campus. The goal of the camp was to expose girls aged 9-17 to
The following article is about the AARMS-supported conference Symposium for South Asian Women in Mathematics. It was written by Sara Faridi (Dalhousie University) and is re-printed with permission from CMS Notes (Volume 50, No. 2, March-April 2018) What unites us as
AARMS is pleased to announce the formation of a new Collaborative Research Group (CRG): Dynamical Systems and Spatial Models in Ecology under the administration of Amy Hurford from the Memorial University of Newfoundland. This group will use their expertise to