CanaDAM 2019
2019-05-28 - 2019-05-31 | Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada
The CanaDAM conference series is devoted to all aspects of discrete and algorithmic mathematics. A meeting has been held in each odd-numbered year since 2007. The intent of these conferences is to provide a strong conference to fill the years in which the SIAM conference in Discrete Mathematics does not take place, and to showcase Canadian research in this area of mathematics. The conference enjoys representation and plenary talks on a wide variety of topics in discrete and algorithmic mathematics, a public lecture, and strong participation from graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.

Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group Conference
2019-05-31 - 2019-06-04 | Saint Francis Xavier University, 4130 University Avenue, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, B2G 2W5, Canada
CMESG is not a typical academic conference, for it is not organized around presentations and audiences. Instead, it is a conference based on conferring, bringing mathematicians and mathematics educators into conversation on topics of importance to the CMES community. Its main feature is the working group. Each working group will meet for three full mornings to interact around a particular topic. There are two plenary speaker sessions which will each address the whole conference. Two other types of sessions provide more traditional forms of presentation: invited topic sessions and the new PhD sessions. There is also a gallery walk intended to provide a forum for members to contribute to our meeting and in doing so enhance our awareness of each other’s work. Ad hoc session time is available for members of the community to discuss ideas emerging from the conference sessions. See http://www.cmesg.org/ for more information.

Special Session: Categorical Approaches to Geometry and Topology (2019 CMS Summer meeting)
2019-06-07 - 2019-06-10 | Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
This session will highlight research that uses category theory to make progress in various areas of geometry and topology. Particularly, we plan to have speakers on topological data analysis, homotopy type theory, topological complexity and robotics, synthetic differential geometry, and orbifolds and groupoids.

Assessment in Mathematics Education Session as part of the Canadian Mathematical Society Summer Meeting
2019-06-07 - 2019-06-10 | University of Regina, 3737 Wascana Pkwy, Regina, SK S, Saskatchewan, 4S 0A2, Canada
This Education session Assessment in Mathematics as part of the Canadian Mathematical Society Summer meeting will provide an opportunity for instructors to share such pedagogical knowledge as their innovative and meaningful approaches to assessment and the outcomes of these approaches, especially in the age of ease of access to both pedagogical resources and assignment solutions online. Through discussions at the last CMS Summer meeting, it was discovered that many undergraduate mathematics instructors struggle with assigning meaningful assessment, given that extensive introductory level proofs, solution manuals, and solutions are easily available online. We hope this session will increase mathematics instructors’ assessment toolkit and open a needed discussion about this critically important part of every mathematics course.

AARMS Summer School 2019: Dynamical Systems, DEs, and Special Functions
2019-06-17 - 2019-07-12 | University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
The summer school is intended for graduate students and promising undergraduate students from all parts of the world. Each participant is expected to register for at least two of the four courses.
These courses are certified to be graduate level courses by both the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences (SMCS) at University of Prince Edward Island and by the Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences (AARMS). Upon successful completion of a course, SMCS and AARMS will award a certificate confirming this, which students can then take back to their home institutions if they plan to receive credit for these courses towards their degree. Students hoping to receive academic credit for summer school courses are strongly encouraged to consult with their home institution about this process before the school begins.
For student attendees, the AARMS Summer School will pay the tuition and the accommodation expenses, but will not cover the cost of travel. Note that the accommodation is provided only when a student is taking a course (the night before the first lecture of a course is covered). If a student arrives early or leaves late, the extra accommodation is not covered. Note that those who will finish their bachelor/master degree in the spring/summer term of 2019 and will enter the graduate school in the fall term of 2019 are considered to be students.
To apply for AARMS Summer School 2019, please complete the online application form before April 15, 2019.
Please note that the evaluation committee of the summer school will review all applications shortly after April 15, 2019 and thereafter notify the applicants whose applications are approved by email. Please do not book your air tickets before receiving the approval email.

Valley Math and Computer Science Camp
2019-07-08 - 2019-07-12 | Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada
In July of 2019, Acadia University plans to launch the first junior math and computer science camp in Nova Scotia. This is an opportunity for young students in the Annapolis Valley to participate in a week of fun and enriching science-based activities, and develop their curiosity and enjoyment of math and computer science.

AARMS-CMS-Dal math camp for high school students
2019-07-14 - 2019-07-19 | Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
During the second (or third) week of July, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Dalhousie University hosts the annual math camp for high school students, whose goals were to identify, stimulate and encourage mathematical talent among Nova Scotia high school students. To select the participants we sent invitations to all of the schools in the province asking to nominate two best students from each school, then we have selected 20 best students from this pool of qualified nominees, based on the letters of recommendations from their respective math teachers, math competitions scores and results, as well as their school grades. The camp is jointly sponsored by Dalhousie University, the Canadian Mathematical Society and AARMS. It consisted of lectures and problem-solving sessions conducted by faculty members and graduate students from Dalhousie, Mount Saint Vincent and Acadia Universities and also included extracurricular activities. Normally, the camp attracts 20 students (10F,10M)

AARMS Industrial Problem Solving Workshop 2019
2019-07-15 - 2019-07-19 | University of New Brunswick (Fredericton Campus), Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
The Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences (AARMS) will host its second Industrial Problem Solving Workshop (IPSW) from July 15 to 19 at the University of New Brunswick. At this event, representatives from companies and non-profits from Atlantic Canada and elsewhere will present academically interesting and industrial relevant problems to graduate students and faculty mentors. The mentors and students work intensively on the problems for a few days and then present their solutions back to the industrial representatives.

Minisymposium for the annual meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology
2019-07-21 - 2019-07-26 | McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Since the pioneer work of Fisher and KPP, Wave Propagation in Biological Media has been widely studied in various mathematical models establishing the movement or invasion of species in heterogenous media or the spread of infectious disease among species. Recently, there have been tremendous advancements in the theory of traveling wavefronts itself, with considerable applications to competition or predation models in the biological field
The purpose of this minisymposium is to invite mathematical researchers with biological backgrounds to work together and contribute to the study of biological waves. It will serve as a platform to report new breakthroughs, exchange research ideas and extend academic networks. New collaborations are also expected during and after the meeting. Speakers and talks are carefully selected to make the session attractive to a diverse audience. Especially, PhD students or post-doctoral fellows are encouraged to attend this session for getting research insight in their recent study.

Diversity in Mathematics: an undergraduate summer school for women in mathematics
2019-07-22 - 2019-08-08 | PIMS at UBC and SFU, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
This is a multi-year, multi-level approach to promoting diversity and inclusivity in STEM. The annual two-week program will encompass two concurrent, partially overlapping events targeting two distinct groups:
1. A summer school for top undergraduate women from across Canada and the northwest US, currently specializing in mathematics or a closely related STEM field, such as computer science, physics and statistics. The program will expose them to the many facets of mathematical sciences as a career in an intense two week immersion. Career opportunities in academia and industry will be given equal emphasis.
2. An interactive math camp that runs as a companion program to the undergraduate summer school. The target demographic here involves high school students in grades 10 and 11 in western Canada, irrespective of gender, with an aptitude for science and mathematics but exclusively from under-privileged minority groups.

Nonassociative algebras and geometry
2019-08-12 - 2019-08-16 | Bonne Bay Marine Station, MUN, 1 Clarke's Rd, Norris Point, NL, A0K 3V0, Canada
The workshop is dedicated to recent developments in the theory of nonassociative algebras with emphasis on applications and relations with associated geometries (e.g. simple non-associative algebras, gradings and identities on Lie algebras, algebraic cycles and Schubert calculus on the associated homogeneous spaces).
This is a joint event of the Atlantic Algebra Center (AAC) together with the Network of Ontario Lie Theorists (NOLT), which continues the successful collaboration between AAC and NOLT. It will include several introductory mini-courses and talks given by senior researchers and short communications by young researchers. The major purpose of the workshop is to bring together leading experts and young researchers, thus providing a unique opportunity for the latter to advertise their results and to learn from the experts.

East Coast Combinatorics Conference
2019-08-13 - 2019-08-14 | Saint Francis Xavier University, 4130 University Avenue, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, B2G 2W5, Canada
The ECCC is an annual conference designed to support and bring together researchers in mathematics and computer science interested in all aspects of combinatorics. A unique feature is the workshop like atmosphere which encourages active collaboration and participation of faculty and students while highlighting major theoretical advances and applications in the area. In addition to plenary talks, the conference will features contributed talks presented by faculty, students, and post-docs.

Workshop: Agent based Models and the mathematical equations that describe them
2019-08-19 | Fredericton Convention Centre, 670 Queen Street, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 1C2, Canada
This workshop will clarify the relationship between Agent Based Models (ABMs) and familiar equations from mathematical ecology. This is a hands-on workshop where participants will run and analyze computer code. Mathematical approximations to ABMs are valuable because they (1) reduce computational time to facilitate a more thorough model investigation, (2) eliminate some complexity from the model description to yield clearer results, and (3) reveal parallels with the existing mathematical ecology literature. The workshop is open to all interested registrants, with no prerequisite knowledge of coding or mathematics assumed; graduate students eager to add new tools to their mathematical toolboxes are especially welcome.

Symposium: The Future of Evolutionary Game Theory
2019-08-20 | Fredericton Convention Centre, 670 Queen Street, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 1C2, Canada
This symposium will explore the analysis and application of game theoretical models to problems in evolutionary ecology. Special emphasis is placed on the dynamics of strategy change, as in evolutionary systems payoffs to players change the distribution of strategies in future generations and (under ecological constraints) payoff matrices may change in response. The properties of evolutionary game-theoretic models will be discussed, with applications to questions in eco-evolutionary dynamics, coevolution, sexual selection, parental care, and other areas. Speakers are drawn from across Canada, the US, and Europe.

CANSSI National Case Study Competition 2019
2019-09-09 | University of New Brunswick (Fredericton Campus), Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Judging for the Atlantic regional participants in the 2019 CANSSI National Case Study Competition will take place at UNB Fredericton on Wednesday, October 9 from 4-7pm.
This datathon gives opportunities for students to undertake creative modelling in a real-world problem involving the analysis of big data. Participants in the two teams that can come up with best prediction models for delays on BC Ferries can win prizes of $300/team, and a trip to Simon Fraser University for the national competition. Award-winning participants are also given a job interview with Statistics Canada.

Borders in public health and mathematical epidemiology
2019-10-21 - 2019-10-25 | Fields Institute, 222 College St., Toronto, Ontario, M5T 3J1, Canada
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 will provide an important platform for knowledge translation and discussion, enabling the identification of the key questions in public health policy that involve borders, and the mathematical models and methods that can be utilized to address these key questions and advance public health policy. The workshop will bring together Canadian and international mathematical epidemiologists and public health decision-makers who work at the forefront of infectious disease research.

Surface Braid Groups and Mapping Class Groups
2019-11-04 - 2019-11-08 | Memorial University (St. John’s Campus), St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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. It is now common to use
mapping class techniques to study the properties of surface braid groups.
In the last decade the interest in these groups grew notably, in
particular due to their relations with knot theory and mapping class
groups and, quite astonishingly, with robotics. The mini course will
start with different definitions and group presentations for these
groups; this first part will allow us to present several combinatorial
properties, such as residual properties, central series, and related
quotients, which will lead to some applications to finite type invariant
theory as well as linear and “symmetric” representations for surface
braid groups. We will then discuss the relation between surface braid
groups and mapping class groups. We will end with an overview on classic
and more recent applications to knot theory in 3-manifolds. Here and
there we will present some open questions.
The lecturer of the mini course, Paolo Bellingeri, is a professor at the
University of Caen and the director of the Federation of Normandy
Laboratories of Mathematics. He also serves as the lead scientist of the
research group “Algèbre Représentations et Topologie pour l’Informatique
Quantique et Classique” (ARTIQ). He has published widely on the topic of
the mini course and is one of the organizers of the conference series
“WinterBraids” on this research area.

Data Visualization Competition
2019-11-21 | Fredericton, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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, interpret, and compile the existing data and present a recommendation or solution on subjects ranging from social, environmental, and economic. The challenge is to convert complex data into an easy to understand presentation and communicate it to the audience.
This event will bring together citizens, students, academics, entrepreneurs, business professionals and members of government throughout providing several networking opportunities to strengthen these connections.

AARMS annual outreach meeting
2019-11-23 | Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Discovery Days: Beyond Puzzling
2019-11-27 | Discovery Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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.

Mini-course on GAP
2020-01-13 - 2020-01-17 | Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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 times.
Monday, January 13: 3:30-5, Chase 319
Tuesday, January 14: 11:30-1, Chase 319
Wednesday, January 15: 12:30-2:30, Chase 227
Thursday, January 16: 11:30-1, Chase 319
Friday, January 17: 12:30-2:30, Chase 227
Speaker: Leandro Vendramin
Title: Algebra with GAP
Abstract: We will give a brief introduction to the software GAP,
designed for calculations related to group theory. The course will be
mainly based on examples, exercises and application problems. We will
discuss several different introductory mathematical topics such as
permutations, matrices, groups, rings, and fields. More advanced
topics such as characters and representation of groups, algebras, and
other algebraic structures, will also be studied. GAP is freely
available at https://www.gap-system.org/
The minicourse is organized by the Atlantic Algebra Centre at Memorial
University and by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at
Dalhousie University, under the auspices of the AARMS Collaborative
Research Group on “Groups, Rings and Hopf Algebras”.

Combinatorial Algebra meets Algebraic Combinatorics 2020
2020-01-24 - 2020-01-26 | Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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 the conference has broadened to include other areas of overlap. These include, among others: (1) the representation theory of quivers (also known as directed graphs); (2) combinatorial Hopf Algebras, which refers to a Hopf algebraic structure related to (quasi)symmetric functions, permutations, trees, and other combinatorial objects; and (3) edge ideals of graphs and their algebraic invariants.

Open quantum systems
2020-02-24 - 2020-03-13 | AIMS Centre of Excellence, Limbe, Cameroon
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 (Memorial University) at the African Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Centre of Excellence in Limbe, Cameroon. AARMS support for Atlantic Canadian participation in AIMS graduate courses is an important component of the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the two institutes in 2015.

AARMS COVID-19 Seminar: JC Loredo-Osti (MUN)
2020-05-20 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Halifax) | Zoom seminar
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.

StFX-AARMS-CMS Math Camp - CANCELLED
2020-05-22 - 2020-05-24 | Saint Francis Xavier University, 4130 University Avenue, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, B2G 2W5, Canada
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 who attend the camp will develop new friends, new ideas, and a new outlook on mathematics.

Atlantic General Relativity Meeting 2020 - CANCELLED
2020-05-25 - 2020-05-29 | Bishops University, 2600 College St, Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1M 1Z7, Canada
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 recent results, the circulation of ideas and methods, as well as the training of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.

Calculus Instruction in Atlantic Canada Symposium 2020 - CANCELLED
2020-05-29 - 2020-05-30 | Saint Francis Xavier University, 4130 University Avenue, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, B2G 2W5, Canada
Calculus Instruction in Atlantic Canada Symposium 2020 will have the theme of Helping High School and University students to Deepen Their Understanding of Calculus. It will be held at STFX on May 29-30, 2020 and Atlantic Canadian high school educators, as well as university educators will be invited. The goal of this symposium is to give participants the opportunity to hear from experts and engage in discussions regarding ways to help students with conceptual understanding of calculus through specific examples and applications. We will also address feedback from students. The structure of the symposium will include plenary talks and a panel of university and high school educators. There will be small group discussions, as well as contributed talks.

Connecting Women in Mathematics Across Canada - CANCELLED
2020-06-03 - 2020-06-04 | Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Dr., Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6, Canada
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 of Ottawa on the evening of Wednesday, June 3 and all day on Thursday, June 4, 2020, immediately preceding the 75th Anniversary Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society in Ottawa. The goal of this event is to provide female-identified researchers in mathematics skills to help them succeed, to ensure their continued success and retention in mathematics.

AARMS COVID-19 Seminar: JC Loredo-Osti (MUN)
2020-06-03 15:00 - 16:30 | Zoom seminar
The Euler’s method and the Gillespie algorithm to simulate a stochastic SIR model (part 1)
JC Loredo-Osti (MUN)
In this presentation, we will discuss the implementation of the two more common procedures to simulate a stochastic compartmentalised epidemic model, the Euler’s method and the Gillespie algorithm. We will also talk about extensions to the stochastic SIR model, as for example, the two ways to include a compartment for asymptomatic cases as well as extensions to account for a non-homogeneous process to accommodate for a non-exponential serial time distribution.
This is a virtual zoom seminar. If you would like to attend, please email the organizers for connection details.

CMS Special Session: Numerical Analysis and Computational Geophysics
2020-06-05 - 2020-06-08 | University of Ottawa, 75 Laurier Ave E, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
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) and their applications to geophysics
-Mimetic finite difference discretization methods and their application to gravity and magnetotelluric methods in geophysics
-Mathematical and statistical methods for seismic wavefield inversion
-Computational software for simulation and parameter estimation in geophysics
