The Blundon Seminar is an annual (since 1982) three-day math camp for senior high school students from Newfoundland who are interested in mathematics and demonstrate consistently good performance in mathematics competitions such as Blundon, COMC, Euclid, Fermat, and Cayley contests. Each year we invite about 35-50 students. During the seminar the students attend two one-hour talks given by professors from MUN on various mathematical topics and applications in science and engineering. There are several problem solving sessions as well as…

The camp is  scheduled for May 18-20, 2018 and will be residential in nature. The camp is planned for 28 students in grade 10 and 11 and 3 university students who will serve as chaperones. Invitations will be sent to high schools in Nova Scotia for nominations of maximum per school of two students. The students will be expected to be academically strong and enthusiastic, with strong aptitude for mathematics. In addition to the criteria listed above, selection of the…

Every year in July the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Dalhousie University organizes and hosts the math camp whose goals are to identify, stimulate and encourage mathematical talent among Nova Scotia high school students. The camp is normally jointly sponsored by the AARMS, Dalhousie University and the Canadian Mathematical Society. It consists of lectures and problem-solving sessions conducted by faculty and graduate students from Dalhousie, Mount Saint Vincent and Acadia Universities and also includes extracurricular activities which are held…

What is a smart village? Using mathematics for rural prosperity V. Kumar Murty (University of Toronto) We conceive of a smart community as one in which static social inequality is minimized. Modelling this mathematically and translating it into a development strategy is one of the big global challenges of our time. When implemented, it will affect 3 billion people, or about half the world's population. About the speaker: Kumar Murty received his BSc from Carleton University and his PhD in…

The integration challenge, modelled on an annual version at MIT, is a one-night event where first-year calculus students sign up to compete head-to-head solving integrals. The competition will run like a tournament in single-knockout format, and integration problems increase in difficulty through each round. Information about mathematics as a choice of major, and research opportunities are also planned at the event. Prizes and certificates are awarded to the top 3 finishers.

The Integration Challenge is a competition for solving integrals. Two participants compete head-to-head on an integration question, with the first correct response declared the winner of the round; the opponent is knocked out. With each successive round, the competitors are narrowed down by a factor of 2 until only two remain (plus one consolation round to determine 3rd and 4th place). The event is designed to encourage increased engagement in first-year calculus, and also to provide an avenue to promote…

The third annual New Brunswick Math League is an all-day high school mathematics competition hosted by the UNB Math Society at the University of New Brunswick. On April 5th, students from high schools across the province will participate, in groups of 4, in three rounds of competition: the pairs relay, the individual relay, and the team event. Teams can either enter in the junior or senior category based on their age group, however the contest papers are identical for both.…