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April 2021
AARMS COVID-19 Seminar: Ahmed Saif (Dalhousie)
A Simulation-Optimization Framework for Optimizing Response Strategies to Epidemics Epidemics require dynamic response strategies that encompass a multitude of policy alternatives and that balance health, economic and societal considerations. We propose a simulation-optimization framework to aid policymakers select closure, protection and travel policies to minimize the total number of infections under a limited budget. The proposed framework combines a modified, age-stratified SEIR compartmental model to evaluate the health impact of response strategies and a Genetic Algorithm to effectively search for…
Find out more »May 2021
Groups acting on Trees: minicourse by Olga Kharlampovich
From May 3, 2021 to May 7, 2021, Professor O. Kharlampovich from City University of New York will teach a mini course on Groups acting on Trees. Due to the current situation caused by the corona virus disease, the mini course will take place virtually. Bass-Serre theory relates group actions on trees with decomposing groups as iterated applications of the operations of amalgamated product and HNN extension, via the notion of the fundamental group of a graph of groups. One…
Find out more »Canadian Student and Postdoc Conference on Gravity
The Canadian Student and Postdoc Conference on Gravity (CSPCG) will provide a forum for both Canadian and international graduate students and postdocs to gather and present their research. It invites submissions for talks covering all aspects of gravitational research, including mathematical and numerical relativity, quantum gravity, string-theoretic approaches to gravity, gravitational waves, relativistic astrophysics, and cosmology. It will run as a virtual event from May 4-6, 2021, creating an accessible platform for students and postdocs who do not necessarily have…
Find out more »AARMS COVID-19 Seminar: Madeleine Gorman-Asal (University of New Brunswick Fredericton)
Using a Mathematical Model to Investigate the Efficacy of Asymptomatic Testing to Detect SARS-CoV-2 A mathematical model was constructed to investigate the efficacy of asymptomatic testing for SARS-CoV-2 detection. Preliminary data suggests that the stage of disease at the time of testing impacts its efficacy. The probability of being detected by the asymptomatic test was compared by the number of days waited until taking the test since arrival given the unknown state of disease at arrival, the variability of the…
Find out more »Blundon Seminar Math Camp
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. Participation in the math camp is by invitation only based on the results of preceding Blundon, COMC, Euclid, Fermat, and Cayley contests. 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…
Find out more »AARMS COVID-19 Seminar: Tom Hurd (McMaster)
From Agent Based Infectious Disease Models to Compartment Models There are lots of potential agent based approaches to COVID modelling, and it is of interest to try to connect them to more standard compartment ODE models. To what extent can any ODE model capture the properties of a given ABM? The Inhomogeneous Random Social Network (IRSN) framework I have developed recently provides an explicit setting where such questions can be explored mathematically. The IRSN approach starts with a finite number…
Find out more »June 2021
Connecting Women in Mathematics Across Canada (CWiMAC)
Connecting Women in Mathematics Across Canada (CWiMAC) workshop will be held online on Wednesday, June 2 and Thursday, June 3, 2021, preceding the 75th+1 Anniversary Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society. workshops are organized in coordination with the CMS Womenin Mathematics Committee. The purpose of the workshop is to support the career development of junior female-identified academics in the Canadian mathematics community. The 2021 CWiMAC workshop will include invited presentations, panels, and networking events aimed at advancing the careers of junior participants.…
Find out more »Aiden Bruen 80th Birthday Geometry Conference
This conference is in celebration of Professor Aiden Bruen's 80th birthday, to acknowledge and honour his contributions to finite geometry, design theory, coding theory, and combinatorics in general. Professor Bruen has had a tremendous impact in these areas, publishing dozens of highly cited articles. including but certainly not limited to Inventiones Mathematicae, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, Journal of Combinatorial Designs, and Designs, Codes and Cryptography. Professor Bruen is also an author of Cryptography, Information Theory, and Error Correction:…
Find out more »July 2021
Junior Math and Computer Science Camp
This week-long day camp is an opportunity for students entering grade 5 or 6 in the Annapolis Valley to participate in fun and enriching science-based activities with Acadia faculty and students to develop their curiosity and enjoyment of math and computer science. It represents an important piece of a multi-year plan to develop the mathematical skills of students in the Annapolis Valley by bringing young students into the Acadia University outreach program. This will begin the process of positively engaging…
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