Mini-course "Representations of simple finite dimensional and affine Lie algebras"
2019-01-21 - 2019-01-25 | Memorial University (St. John’s Campus), St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
This mini-course will focus on Representation Theory of simple complex finite dimensional and affine Lie algebras. We will start with the introduction to the theory of infinite dimensional weight representations. Though the classification of irreducible representations is still open beyond the sl(2) case in general, in some subcategories this problem can be managed successfully. In particular, we will discuss the theory of Gelfand-Tsetlin modules and their generalizations in the finite dimensional case. A comparison will be given with the representations of affine Kac-Moody algebras. We will conclude with the construction of free field realizations of these algebras and discuss open problems.

Canadian Mathematics Society Winter Meeting 2018
2018-12-07 - 2018-12-10 | Vancouver
The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) invites the mathematical community to the 2018 CMS Winter Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia from December 7-10. All meeting activities are taking place at the Sheraton, Vancouver Wall Centre (1088 Burrard St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 2R9). Four days of awards, prize lectures, plenary speakers, and scientific sessions.

Annual AARMS Outreach Meeting
2018-10-20 | Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
This year’s annual Outreach Meeting will take place on Saturday, October 20 from 10:00-14:30 at the Learning Center of Dalhousie Mathematics and Statistics Department, located at the first floor of the Chase Building at the main Dalhousie campus. As in previous years, the goal of the meeting is to assemble university faculty, postdocs, graduate students and preschool-Grade 12 teachers who have an interest in mathematical outreach activities. Participants will get a chance to let each other know about what kind of outreach they have attempted in the past, and what they hope to accomplish in the future.

Science Atlantic Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science Conference
2018-10-12 - 2018-10-13 | Université de Moncton, 18 Antonine-Maillet Ave, Moncton, New Brunswick, NB E1A 3E9, Canada
The annual Science Atlantic, Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science Conference, will be hosted by Université de Moncton (UdeM) on October 12-13, 2018. This annual gathering provides an opportunity for promising undergraduate students to attend what is often their first academic conference, participate in a competition (mathematics or programming), present on a research topic, attend talks by fellow undergraduate and graduate students, and learn about graduate school opportunities. The conference features three plenary speakers, awards, and a banquet. It is also an opportunity for graduate students and faculty members to network and present their research.

The Ken Ireland Public Lecture: What is a Smart Village?
2018-09-26 | University of New Brunswick (Fredericton Campus), Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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 Mathematics from Harvard University. He has been a faculty member at the University of Toronto since 1987. His research is in the fields of number theory, algebraic geometry and their applications to Information Technology. He has published more than 100 papers and 8 books in these areas. He holds two patents and has been involved with a number of startups. His research has been recognized with the prestigious Steacie Fellowship and election to the Royal Society of Canada. During the last nine years, Kumar served as the Chair of the Department of Mathematics and helped create the Centre for Applied Mathematics, to drive mathematical innovation. This year he was awarded the Connaught Global Challenge Award (together with Mariana Prado of the Faculty of Law and Joseph Wong of the Munk School) to study a scalable architecture for smart villages.
About the Ireland Lecture: Hosted by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Fredericton, the Kenneth Ireland Memorial Lecture Series honours the late Dr Kenneth F Ireland, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics. Dr Ireland is fondly remembered as a great colleague, a fine writer, and a skilled musician, with a profound interest in the history of mathematics; his graduate-level textbook on number theory, written with Dr Michael Rosen at Brown University, remains an internationally highly-regarded standard text.

AAC minicourse by Professor Matej Bresar
2018-09-09 - 2018-09-15 | Memorial University (St. John’s Campus), St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
During the week of September 9 to September 15, 2018, Atlantic Algebra Centre organizes a mini course “Functional Identities and Zero Product Determined Algebras” by Prof. Matej Bresar. Functional identities are an important combinatorial tool applicable to problems in noncommutative and nonassociative algebra, linear algebra, and operator theory. They have been used in an essential way for the solution of the well-known Herstein’s Lie map conjectures, which remained open for three decades. Matej Brešar was one of the authors of the solution. Dr Brešar is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Ljubljana and the University of Maribor. He gave plenary talks at a number of conferences and workshops, including some organized by Atlantic Algebra Centre. He has published over 150 research papers, is a co-author of the books “Functional Identities” (Birkhäuser, 2007) and “Introduction to Noncommutative Algebra” (Springer, 2014). Member of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Diversity in Mathematics
2018-08-07 - 2018-08-17 | Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Vancouver, Earth Sciences Building, 2207 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada
We propose a multi-year, multi-level approach to promoting diversity and inclusivity in STEM. The annual two-week program will include a summer school for top undergraduate women from across Canada and the northwest United States, currently specializing in mathematics or a closely related STEM field, such as computer science, physics and statistics. The program will show them the many possibilities of math and science as a career, and encourage them to consider graduate studies, an arena where women are seriously under-represented. 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. We hope to encourage these gifted young women to continue on to graduate school, an arena where women are seriously under-represented.

23rd International Conference on Implementation and Applications of Automata (CIAA)
2018-07-30 - 2018-08-08 | University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
The CIAA conference series was started in 1996 as the Workshop on Implementation and Application of Automata, in London, Ontario, Canada, and became Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata four years later, in 2000, when was celebrated half century of automata theory during HCAT 2000, in London, Ontario, Canada. The conference brings together researchers from both computing theory and practice, and the contributions to this conference cover all practical and theoretical aspects in automata theory and related structures. Topics of interest include but is not limited to automata implementations and applications in areas like software, mathematics, programming, DNA or other bio-inspired computations, and others.
A more inclusive list is on the general CIAA Conference website (http://www.informatik.uni-giessen.de/ciaa/ciaa_welcome.html). We must emphasize that the area of the conference includes both classical and non-classical automata theory. The conference is traditionally held every year alternatively in Europe or North America.

20th International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems (DCFS)
2018-07-25 - 2018-07-28 | St. Mary’s University, 923 Robie Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3C3, Canada
DCFS, the International Workshop on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems is an annual academic conference in the field of theoretical computer science. Beginning with the 2011 edition, the proceedings of the workshop appear in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Already since the very beginning, extended versions of selected papers are published as special issues of the International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, the Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics, Theoretical Computer Science, and Information and Computation.
This year’s DCFS will be the 20th in the series. Topics of interest include: automata, grammars, succinctness of description of objects, circuit complexity, Kolmogorov complexity, frontiers between decidability and undecidability, nature-motivated (bio-inspired) architectures and unconventional models of computing.

25th International Domain Decomposition Conference
2018-07-22 - 2018-07-27 | Memorial University (St. John’s Campus), St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Memorial University of Newfoundland is pleased to host the 25th International Domain Decomposition Conference, DD XXV, in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, July 23-27, 2018.
A tutorial style short-course, providing both theory and practical computing, is tentatively scheduled for July 21-22, 2018. More details to come. If you think the short-course is of interest then hold off making travel arrangement until the schedule matures.
The purpose of the meeting is to discuss recent developments in various aspects of domain decomposition methods bringing together mathematicians, computational scientists, and engineers who are working on numerical analysis, scientific computing, and computational science with industrial applications.

Dalhousie Math Camp for High School Students
2018-07-15 - 2018-07-20 | Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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 at Dalhousie and Acadia Universities.

Canadian Undergraduate Math Conference 2018
2018-07-11 - 2018-07-15 | University of Saskatchewan, 105 Administration Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 5A2, Canada
The CUMC is a national mathematics conference designed to introduce research topics and skills to undergraduates. Students are encouraged to present their mathematical topic of interest in a relaxed and friendly environment, and are at the same time exposed to areas of mathematics that they may not have seen before. By placing an emphasis on bilingualism, regional diversity, and non-competitiveness, the CUMC motivates young researchers to further their knowledge and continue in their pursuit of mathematics. The CUMC provides an opportunity for undergraduates to meet and share ideas with their peers from across the country and gives an introduction to the research process and to new and exciting topics in mathematics. Presentations by established keynotes will give attendees a glimpse into mathematics as it is practiced in both academia and industry, while those by emerging young researchers will motivate undergraduates to explore for themselves mathematics beyond the curriculum.

AARMS Industrial Problem Solving Workshop 2018
2018-07-03 - 2018-07-06 | Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
The Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences (AARMS) will host its first Industrial Problem Solving Workshop (IPSW) from July 3 to 6 at Dalhousie University. At this event, representatives from Atlantic Canadian companies 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.

18th International Conference on Fibonacci Numbers and Applications
2018-07-01 - 2018-07-07 | Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
The purpose of the conference is to bring together people from all branches of mathematics and, to a lesser extent, from other sciences with interests in recurrence sequences, their applications and generalizations, and other special sequences of numbers and functions. Since 1984, these biennial conferences have alternated between both sides of the Atlantic, and this year it is hosted in Canada for the first time.
The Fibonacci Conference series is unusual among mathematics conferences in that there are no invited talks, and every participant, from student to senior researcher, will get the same amount of time for their talks (typically 20 minutes). The only exception is the “Lucas Lecture”, a public talk which this year will be delivered Hugh C. Williams of the University of Calgary.
Title: Mersenne, Fibonacci and Lucas: The Mersenne Prime Story and Beyond.

Theory Canada 13
2018-06-07 - 2018-06-09 | St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
The Theory Canada conference is organized annually immediately ahead of the meeting of the Canadian Association of Physics. This year, TC13 will be held at St-Francis Xavier University as a satellite to the CAP meeting hosted by Dalhousie University. Once again Theory Canada will bring together professional researchers from across the country to exchange ideas on broad themes in theoretical and mathematical physics: (i) Condensed Matter Theory (ii) Mathematical Physics (iii) Particles and Fields (iv) Quantum Information (v) Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology, (vi) Strings and Quantum Gravity.
Each session has two invited 30-minute talks and up to five contributed 20-minute talks. All speakers are asked to present at the level where interdisciplinary research is encouraged. Every talk is accessible to all participants as there are no parallel sessions. The expected number of participants is 100.

Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics
2018-06-06 - 2018-06-09 | Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
The 34th Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS 2018) will take place at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, from June 6–9, 2018.
MFPS conferences are dedicated to the areas of mathematics, logic, and computer science that are related to models of computation in general, and to semantics of programming languages in particular. This is a forum where researchers in mathematics and computer science can meet and exchange ideas. The participation of researchers in neighbouring areas is strongly encouraged.

Atlantic General Relativity Workshop and Conference
2018-06-05 - 2018-06-07 | St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
The 2018 Atlantic General Relativity Conference will be held from June 6th to 7th at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. On June 5th, there will be a one day workshop which will be aimed at the level of intermediate to advanced graduate students. The format will include ample time for discussion and collaboration. As in previous years, the theme of Atlantic GR Conference will be all aspects of classical and quantum gravity. The format will consist of an invited talk from an invited speaker and contributed talks by anyone who wishes to speak. The time allotted to the contributed talks will be determined by the total number of speakers.
Directly following the Atlantic General Relativity Workshop and Conference, StFX is also host to Theory Canada 13.
There will be no registration fee for either the workshop or the conference. The local organizing committee consists of Robert van den Hoogen, Viraj Sanghai and Alan Coley; the scientific organizing committee consists of Ivan Booth, Alan Coley, Viqar Husain, Hari Kunduri, Sanjeev Seahra, Robert van den Hoogen and Edward Wilson-Ewing.
Both the conference and workshop are financially supported by AARMS, the Perimeter Institute and StFX University.

AARMS Summer School 2018: Data Analytics
2018-06-04 - 2018-06-29 | 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. Each course consists of three hours lecture sessions per day for two weeks. These are graduate courses approved by University of Prince Edward Island and we will facilitate transfer credit to the extent possible.

Quantum Physics and Logic
2018-06-03 - 2018-06-07 | Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
The 15th International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL 2018) will take place at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, from June 3–7, 2018.
QPL is an annual conference that brings together researchers working on mathematical foundations of quantum physics, quantum computing, and related areas, with a focus on structural perspectives and the use of logical tools, ordered algebraic and category-theoretic structures, formal languages, semantical methods, and other computer science techniques applied to the study of physical behaviour in general. Work that applies structures and methods inspired by quantum theory to other fields (including computer science) is also welcome.

CMS Special Session: Mathematical Aspects of Quantum Information Theory
2018-06-01 - 2018-06-04 | University of New Brunswick (Fredericton Campus), Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
This session at the Summer 2018 Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society will span all aspects of the mathematics behind quantum information theory. The session will foster interaction between researchers working in a variety of fields, including matrix analysis,operator theory, and mathematical physics. The session will allow for the exchange of ideas and
dissemination of recent results. It will take place over two of the three days of the Meeting, with an estimated 16 speakers.

CMS Special Session: Computational and Diophantine Number Theory
2018-06-01 - 2018-06-04 | University of New Brunswick (Fredericton Campus), Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
The purpose of this special session is to discuss and report on new developments in computational number theory in general, but also with specific attention to those problems arising from the classical area of Diophantine Equations.

CMS Special Session: Singularities and Phase transitions in Nonlinear PDEs
2018-06-01 - 2018-06-04 | University of New Brunswick (Fredericton Campus), Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
The CMS session at Fredericton will focus on nonlinear problems related to the study of phase transitions in condensed matter, and of dynamical systems arising in biological applications. The analysis of the models presented will be based on calculus of variations methods, geometric analysis of nonlocal problems, and dimension-reduction methods in nonlinear evolution equations. The session will provide a forum for junior scientists, who have already shown an ability to make significant contributions to the area, to present and discuss their most recent results. About half of the participants will be coming from the Atlantic region and represent an important part of the contribution to our session. From the Atlantic region, the participants would be: Mohammad El Smaily (UNB Fredericton), Scott Rodney (Cape Breton), Shaohua Chen (Cape Breton), Holger Teismann (Acadia), and the others will be coming from Canada and the US so that there will be important exchange.

CMS Special Session: Partial Differential Equations and Variational Problems
2018-06-01 - 2018-06-04 | University of New Brunswick (Fredericton Campus), Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
I will be organizing a special session on PDEs at the CMS Summer Meeting which is to be held at UNB, Fredericton this June. I plan to invite several postdocs and graduate students (some are from Atlantic Canadian Universities) to give talks and participate in the session as well as as relevant sessions in the meeting. AARMS funding will help these graduate students and postdocs (several are from Atlantic universities) to cover some of the local and travel expenses. Students will be asked to apply for this funding, if approved by AARMS. The session will host experts from Canadian and American universities (Univ. of Toronto, UBC, McGill, UC Riverside…). It will bring together grad. students and professors with expertise in deterministic, numerical and applied analysis. The talks will be in the areas of elliptic/parabolic PDE, thin film equations and variational calculus.

CMS Special Session: Active Learning in Undergraduate Mathematics Classrooms
2018-06-01 - 2018-06-04 | University of New Brunswick (Fredericton Campus), Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
As part of the CMS Summer Meeting, an Education Session on the subject of Active Learning in Undergraduate Mathematics Classrooms will feature a variety of talks from invited regional speakers. Talks will be scheduled in 30-minute slots on Saturday June 2 and Sunday June 3, addressing the theory of active learning as well as various ideas and techniques in early-year and upper-year undergraduate math courses.

CMS Special Session: Categories and Topology
2018-06-01 - 2018-06-04 | University of New Brunswick (Fredericton Campus), Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
The purpose of this session is to bring together researchers from category theory and various branches of topology. This includes categorical aspects and approaches to homotopy theory, such as
Quillen Model Categories, higher-dimensional categories and (higher) topos theory, homotopy type theory, as well as categorical approaches to differential geometry, such as tangent categories.
In Canada, there are several research groups involved in these lines of scientific inquiry, several of which include researchers in Atlantic Canada, and we believe that a CMS session would be an excellent opportunity for these researchers to learn more about each other’s methods, and to make further strides towards the goal of better understanding the connections between the various aspects of this research. This will also be an opportunity for doctoral students in Atlantic Canada to meet other researchers working in these areas.

CMS Special Session: Noncommutative Geometry and Topology
2018-06-01 - 2018-06-04 | University of New Brunswick (Fredericton Campus), Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Noncommutative geometry is a generalization of classical geometry that provides new mathematical tools for both mathematical problems and physical models by allowing for geometric spaces and spacetimes whose coordinates no longer necessarily commute. For example, the functional-analytic approach to noncommutative geometry, as championed most famously by Alain Connes, has been successfully applied both to solve major problems in foliation theory and to obtain a complete mathematical model of the integer quantum Hall effect in condensed matter physics. This session aims to represent a broad cross-section of current research in noncommutative geometry and topology—the Elliott classification programme, noncommutative index theory, noncommutative differential and Riemannian geometry—with a particular emphasis on the work of graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and early career researchers.

CMS Special Session: Dynamical systems and spatial models in ecology
2018-06-01 - 2018-06-04 | University of New Brunswick (Fredericton Campus), Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Our special session on “Dynamical Systems and Spatial Models in Ecology” at the Canadian Mathematics Society meeting in Fredericton will feature 12 researchers from Atlantic Canada (including Dalhousie University, Memorial University, the University of New Brunswick and the University of Prince Edward Island) alongside researchers from other parts of Canada and the United States. The special session will explore recent theoretical advances and novel applications of ecological theory, with an emphasis on integrodifference equations, analyses to characterize threshold conditions for ecological persistence, and the calculation of spreading speeds. With a combination of biologically and mathematically motivated talks, the goal of this session is to inspire new applications of theory and to highlight the broad applicability and relevance of analyses at the forefront of applied mathematics.

CMS Special Session: Representation Theory of Algebras and Related Topics
2018-06-01 - 2018-06-04 | University of New Brunswick (Fredericton Campus), Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
This is a special session within the 2018 CMS Summer Meeting, that will be held in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Any topics in representation theory of algebras, or in connection with representation theory of algebras are welcome.

CMS Special Session: Algebraic Groups and Related Topics
2018-06-01 - 2018-06-04 | University of New Brunswick (Fredericton Campus), Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Special Session on Algebraic Groups and Related Topics
CMS Summer Meeting 2018, UNB, Fredericton, NB
We view this as an opportunity to follow up on a workshop we helped organize in 2016 at Herstmonceux Castle in England. The topic at that time was algebraic combinatorics and group actions.
The event was co-sponsered by the Fields Institute, the Heilbronn Institute, the Tutte Institute and the London Mathematical Society.
It brought together an unusually broad collection of mathematicians who do not normally interact. We received much positive feedback on this aspect of the conference.

CMS Special Session: Mathematical Epidemiology
2018-06-01 - 2018-06-04 | University of New Brunswick (Fredericton Campus), Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
The purpose of this CMS session is to showcase recent advances in mathematical modelling of disease-transmission in human and animal populations. The focal point for this session is the stability analysis of dynamical systems with structures relevant to disease-transmission, including extending previous results to models for Zika virus, cross-immunity, and tick-borne infections. In addition to the mathematical results, presentations will include a discussion of implications of the analysis for control and prevention of the spread of infectious diseases.
