Most research in Mathematical Epidemiology focuses on infectious disease characteristics within local, isolated populations and geographic regions. However, infectious diseases are not confined to small regions. They cross borders, affecting multiple populations, jurisdictions, and governments. This workshop aims to foster mathematical models of infectious diseases across borders and at the intersection of mathematics and public health. An important component of this workshop is the inclusion of infectious disease modellers that work in local, federal, and global health organizations. The workshop…

The CWiMAC workshops are developed and organized in coordination with the CMS Women in Mathematics Committee. The purpose of these workshops is to support the career development of junior women academics in the Canadian mathematics community. These events have been highly successful in the past. The goal is to hold this workshop roughly every two years. The last CWiMAC workshop was held in 2014, and it is timely to organize another one. This workshop will be held at the University…

Modelling the composition and the dynamic of the Earth subsurface is a difficult problem, which requires the implementation of efficient numerical methods for partial differential equations and of advanced statistical methods for analyzing experimental data as well as comparing them with synthetic data produced by mathematical models. In this session we will bring together mathematicians and geophysicists to present and discuss some trends in geophysical modelling and computational geophysics. Topics will include the following: -Domain decomposition methods (optimized Schwarz methods)…

Decomposition of graphs, particularly decomposition into cycles, is a vibrant area of research in the intersection of graph theory and the theory of combinatorial designs. For almost two centuries, professional as well as amateur mathematicians have been intrigued by problems that are easy to state yet extremely difficult to solve. In the last couple of decades, we have witnessed an explosion of new results, including new techniques and solutions to many long-outstanding problems; however, many fundamental problems remain unsolved. The…

Designs and codes are very active areas of research in combinatorics. There have been numerous breakthroughs in recent years, such as the existence proof for Steiner systems for arbitrary values of t. Research in designs, codes and their interaction includes both mathematical and algorithmic questions. Proofs encompass both constructions and probabilistic methods, and employ diverse mathematical techniques from algebra, number theory, graph theory, etc. In addition, there are numerous applications, in areas such as cryptography, in which designs and codes…

The Queer and Trans Mathematicians in Combinatorics conference (QTMC) is a first-ever event in combinatorics specifically aimed at queer and trans mathematicians. It aims to bring together and support queer and trans combinatorists. The conference promotes a supportive and active collaborative environment for the participants and aims to bring about visibility to an otherwise underrepresented invisible minority in the combinatorics community. The QTMCis heavily geared toward students, postdocs and early career mathematicians who are queer and/or trans.

The conference “Quantum Gravity 2020“ has a deliberately broad scope. We aim to include participants from all current approaches to quantum gravity, as well as researchers working on the phenomenology of quantum gravity. The main goal of the meeting is to assess the progress made and to constructively and openly discuss open questions in our understanding of quantum gravity. A second goal is to work towards combining the insights gained in the various approaches. In its overall goal as well…