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February 2025
2025 Integration Competition
The Integration Competition is a fun, head-to-head competition among first-year calculus students to solve integrals, with the winners of each matchup progressing to further rounds until a winner emerges. Participants challenge themselves to solve integral problems on-the-spot, and in addition to generating interest and excitement in mastering this mathematical skill, the event is used to promote mathematics more broadly to potential majors.
Find out more »Atlantic Graph Theory Seminar
Speaker: Karen Meagher, University of Regina Title: Derangement graphs and the intersection density of permutation groups Abstract: Two permutations are intersecting if they both map some $i$ to the same point, equivalently, permutations $\sigma$ and $\pi$ are intersecting if and only if $\pi^{-1}\sigma$ has a fixed point. A set of permutations is called intersecting if any two permutations in the set are intersecting. For any transitive group the stabilizer of a point is an intersecting set. The intersection density of a permutation…
Find out more »March 2025
Integration Tournament for UPEI students 2025
Competition among UPEI Calculus Students to evaluate integrals the fastest.
Find out more »Mini course “Vertex operator algebras and their representations”
Vertex operator algebras have been a topic of interest in mathematical physics for several decades, as they constitute one possible approach to formalize physical concepts from conformal field theory. They have relations to several other areas of mathematics, most notably to the theory of finite simple groups. This specific relation lead in fact to the award of the Fields Medal to Professor Richard Borcherds at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin in 1998. Professor Gannon is the author of…
Find out more »May 2025
20th CMS-UPEI-AARMS Regional Math Camp
For more than 20 years, the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences (SMCS), UPEI has hosted a Math Camp for students in grades 10 and 11 from PEI high schools. The Math Camp is the SMCS’s primary outreach effort. Its goals are to give some of PEI’s best students an opportunity to broaden their mathematical horizons beyond what they see in their course work, and to encourage them to continue their math studies at university.
Find out more »Thematic Program “Mathematical Foundations of Data Science”
The rise of big data has caused a tectonic shift in the field of data science, opening up new possibilities but also coming with new challenges, such as the curse of dimensionality. These changes have revived old ideas and inspired new approaches in many areas of applied mathematics. Some of the most fascinating and impactful developments are now taking place at the interface of optimization, probability theory, numerical analysis, approximation theory and their interplay with machine and statistical learning. Motivated…
Find out more »Numerical modelling of layered complex fluids
Layered complex fluids, such as smectic liquid crystals, possess remarkable properties because of the geometric and topological consequences of layering: external forces lead to deformations of the fluid that are incompatible with the layering, leading to geometric frustration and the spontaneous assembly of a wide variety of textures. There has been a recent explosion of interest in exploiting the ability of smectics, as a paradigmatic example of a layered fluid, to repeatedly self-assemble over device length-scales. As we advance our…
Find out more »40th Annual New Brunswick Mathematics Competition
40th Annual New Brunswick Mathematics Competition for Grades 7, 8 and 9 The provincial New Brunswick Math Competition is a bilingual math competition that takes place in May each year. Students in grades 7-9 from across the province (approximately 1,300 students) attend one of five university locations to simultaneously write the one-hour math competition. There are three competition papers according to grade; each available in both English and French. Following the competition in the morning, students attend enrichment activities held…
Find out more »Calculus Instruction in Atlantic Canada Workshop 2025
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together high school and university instructors from across the Atlantic region to discuss evidence-based pedagogy and innovative instructional methodologies used in introductory math courses. From these discussions, we aim to better understand the needs of students in our region, and develop course structures and resources which address these needs in our universities and high schools. This year the focus topic is "Developing numeracy in students while moving forward in the era of…
Find out more »UNB-CMS Math Camp
With support from the Canadian Mathematical Society and the Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton) hosts a three-day, two-night Math Camp. The camp gives a select number of Grade 10 students who are keenly interested in mathematics the opportunity to come stay on the Fredericton Campus, meet fellow students from across the province who share a love of mathematics, and enjoy solving challenging problems together,…
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