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November 2019
Surface Braid Groups and Mapping Class Groups
Mini course by Professor Paolo Bellingeri Université de Caen Surface braid groups are a natural generalization of classical braid groups and of fundamental groups of surfaces. They were first defined by Zariski during the 1930's (although braid groups on the sphere had been considered much earlier by Hurwitz), and they were re-discovered during the 1960's in the study of mapping class groups and configuration spaces. These groups, introduced as an "algebraic" tool, turned out to be very difficult to understand.…
Find out more »Data Visualization Competition
The objective of the Data Visualization Competition is to highlight the community-wide benefits of open data, including identifying potential improvements to government services and procedures, and recognizing potential business opportunities. The event is designed to help educate and communicate the benefits and growth opportunities from visualization your data. All levels of government, academia and industry have large amounts of data available to the public through open data portals and this event promotes the use of this resource. Competitors will analyze,…
Find out more »Discovery Days: Beyond Puzzling
The second installment of AARMS collaboration with the Discovery Centre in Halifax took place on Sunday, November 24. The activities included an enhanced experience of the exhibit "Beyond the Rubik's cube"; a selection of puzzles to be completed by the visitors; polyhedral nets to construct 3D objects by folding paper; coloring tessellations; a library of books with puzzles and riddles for all ages.
Find out more »January 2020
Mini-course on GAP
Leandro Vendramin of the University of Buenos Aires will give a special minicourse from January 13-17. The course will be on the computer algebra system GAP. It will take place in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Dalhousie, and will also be live-streamed. It will be suitable for undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and everyone interested in symbolic computation. The first lecture of the minicourse will also work as a colloquium. Please see below for the precise dates and…
Find out more »Combinatorial Algebra meets Algebraic Combinatorics 2020
Combinatorics Algebra meets Algebraic Combinatorics" (CAAC) is a series of annual workshops that has been meeting since 2004. The main achievement of these meetings is the establishment of an ongoing dialogue between two separate research groups who had previously been using di erent techniques to study similar mathematical problems. The two groups are algebraic combinatorialists working on the representation theory of symmetric groups, and commutative algebraists studying minimal free resolutions and inverse systems. Since the initial meeting, the focus of…
Find out more »February 2020
Open quantum systems
This course is concerned with the behaviour quantum systems under the influence of external noise. The theory describes generic noise induced features, such as decoherence, entanglement, thermalization. They are of core interest in applications in various branches of science: in quantum information and computation, chemistry, material sciences and even in biology. Basic familiarity with this theory is a good (and necessary) foundation for a more advanced understanding of most modern quantum sciences. The course will be taught by Marco Merkli…
Find out more »May 2020
AARMS COVID-19 Seminar: JC Loredo-Osti (MUN)
Simulating a SARS-CoV-2 model as a branching process JC Loredo-Osti (MUN) We will discuss some of the advantages of using branching processes to model an outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in a small population where other approaches may not be as optimal. We use the NZ Aotearola model as a basis to illustrate how a 'brute force' simulation procedure can be easily implemented. This is a virtual zoom seminar. If you would like to attend, please email the organizers for connection details.
Find out more »StFX-AARMS-CMS Math Camp – CANCELLED
The StFX-CMS Math Camp is a two and a half day camp which begins at 9:00 am on a Friday and end by 11:30 am on Sunday. There are several presentations by professors to expose the participants to exciting topics and applications in the mathematical sciences. In addition there are several sessions on math trivia, math relays, and team problem solving to help inspire the participants about the breadth and applicability of the mathematical sciences. It is anticipated that students…
Find out more »Atlantic General Relativity Meeting 2020 – CANCELLED
The annual Atlantic General Relativity Conference (AGR2020) is scheduled to be hosted at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Québec during May 25-29, 2020. The Atlantic General Relativity Conference series of meetings has been a regular and annual feature of the Atlantic general relativity community for nearly three decades, and has recently developed to include more international participation. This series of meetings focuses on recent developments in all aspects of classical, quantum, and mathematical gravity and its goals include the dissemination of…
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