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
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
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
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
[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
On Saturday November 23rd, professors and educators from Atlantic Canada got together for the AARMS annual outreach meeting. They shared their expertise and the latest news concerning the outreach activities that are held within their communities. A discussion about the
The Discovery Centre in Halifax has recently inaugurated the exhibition “Beyond the Rubik’s Cube“, a whole floor of interactive games, puzzles and riddles revolving around Rubik’s magic cube. We didn’t resist the temptation: on Sunday November 24, AARMS joined the
AARMS held its second ever Industrial Problem Solving Workshop (IPSW) from July 15-19, 2019 at the University of New Brunswick‘s Fredericton campus. This year’s workshop was attended by 64 participants including nearly 40 students, 12 faculty mentors and problem presenters
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
