Planning for Covid-19: Government’s informational needs in a time of uncertainty Mathieu Chalifoux (Government of New Brunswick) In this presentation, we will go over three questions that have recently been posed to the mathematical sciences community in Fredericton, New Brunswick

Pokemon in the City Danny Dyer (Memorial University of Newfoundland)  When playing Pokemon Go, trying to catch all the Pokemon in a big, grid like city is difficult, but can be discussed in terms of the watchman number of grid

The Euler’s method and the Gillespie algorithm to simulate a stochastic SIR model (part 2) JC Loredo-Osti (MUN) The second part of this presentation will be used to talk about some example of extensions to the stochastic SIR model. We

Source Sink Diffusion Danielle Cox (MSVU) We will introduce the diffusion process on graphs with the addition of sources and sinks. In particular, we will provide some results regarding the periodicity of the process. This is joint work with Todd

The Oberwolfach Problem Andrea Burgess (UNB Saint John) The Oberwolfach Problem was posed by Ringel as a seating problem: $n$ people attend a conference in Oberwolfach, where the dining room has round tables of sizes $k_1, k_2, \ldots, k_t$ (with

Scenario-based modeling of healthcare demand and PPE usage during the COVID-19 pandemic One of the big risks during the current pandemic is stress and overburdening of the healthcare system, and a possible scarcity of resources. We will present a three

Number Theory in Quantum Mechanics Suresh Eswarathasan (Dalhousie | 8:00-8:20) In this lecture, I will discuss some concrete connections between two seemingly disparate fields: number theory and quantum mechanics. The first 10 minutes will be spent giving some “standard” facts