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.

CMS Special Session: Combinatorial Game Theory
2018-06-01 - 2018-06-04 | University of New Brunswick (Fredericton Campus), Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Placement games are a class of combinatorial games (two-player, perfect information) that have received renewed attention recently. Well known examples are Hex, Domineering, and Snort. Work on placement games can be divided into two main streams – studies focusing on a specific game and those looking at properties of the entire class. The latter approach is in particular new. Placement games have connections to many other areas, for example graph theory, set theory, and commutative algebra. It is often feasible to count exactly the number of legal positions in a placement game, but this is not generally the case for combinatorial games.
This session at the 2018 CMS summer meeting is intended for researchers working in this area to exchange ideas and approaches; our goal is to expand the toolbox available for studying games in this class and to better understand the class itself.
Co-organizers: Svenja Huntemann (Dalhousie University), Rebecca Milley (Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland)

CMS Special Session: Geometric Potential Theory
2018-06-01 - 2018-06-04 | University of New Brunswick (Fredericton Campus), Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
In this AARMS-workshop/CMS-session the researchers will especially present their recent results and discuss further developments of the frontier study exploring Geometric Potential Theory

CMS Special Session: Ergodic Theory, Dynamical Systems, Fractals and Applications
2018-06-01 - 2018-06-04 | University of New Brunswick (Fredericton Campus), Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
We will be organizing the session ” Ergodic Theory, Dynamical Systems, Fractals and Applications” at 2018 CMS Summer Meeting at UNB. Dynamical systems are mathematical models of many real-world problems and they provide a useful framework for analyzing various physical, engineering, health science, social and economic phenomena. Ergodic theory and Fractals play important roles for the theoretical development in discrete time dynamical systems. Invariant measures of dynamical systems reflect their longterm behaviour and play an important role in understanding their chaotic nature. The main focus and the purpose of this session is to bring researchers in dynamical systems, ergodic theory, fractals and related areas together and discuss the recent developments and open problems in these areas. Particular emphasis will be given researchers in the Atlantic region of Canada. Our intention is to invite emerging researchers, post-docs and senior graduate students in Dynamical Systems, Ergodic Theory, Fractals and related topics.

2018 CMS Summer Meeting
2018-06-01 - 2018-06-04 | University of New Brunswick (Fredericton Campus), Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) welcomes and invites session proposals for the 2018 CMS Summer Meeting in Fredericton from June 1 to 4, 2018. Proposals should include a brief description of the focus and purpose of the session, the expected number of speakers, as well as the organizer’s name, complete address, telephone number, e-mail address, etc. Sessions will be advertised in the CMS Notes, on the web site and in the AMS Notices. Speakers will be requested to submit abstracts, which will be published on the web site and in the meeting program. Those wishing to organize a session should send a proposal to the Scientific Directors.
Special sessions with strong links to Atlantic Canada (e.g. organizers or a large number of speakers from the region) are encouraged to apply for workshop funding directly to AARMS (aarms.math.ca) at https://aarms.math.ca/onlinesystemnotice/. Proposals should be submitted to both CMS and AARMS by January 15, 2018.

26th Foundational Methods in Computer Science Workshop
2018-05-31 - 2018-06-02 | Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
Foundational Methods in Computer Science is an annual workshop that brings together researchers in theoretical computer science and category theory. Past workshops have had discussions on areas such as quantum programming languages, restriction categories, database design, and the differential and resource logics. They have been held at Colgate, Dalhousie, Kananaskis (U of Calgary), Mount Allison, Ottawa, UBC, Spokane, and Portland. The 2018 workshop is informal and interdisciplinary. The scientific program consists of research tutorials and contributed talks. We particularly encourage graduate students to attend FMCS and to present their work.
Confirmed tutorial speakers:

Kristine Bauer (Calgary)
Ernie Manes (Massachusetts)
Robert Pare (Dalhousie)
Peter Selinger (Dalhousie)

AARMS CRG Annual Meeting: Dynamical Systems and Spatial Models in Ecology
2018-05-31 - 2018-06-01 | University of New Brunswick (Fredericton Campus), Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
The annual meeting for the AARMS CRG on Dynamical systems and spatial models in ecology will take place on May 31, 2018, at the University of New Brunswick, just prior to the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) summer meeting (June 1-4). The CRG workshop will support continued collaboration in areas related to integrodifference equations, partial differential equations, population dynamics and will consider specific applications to bacterial aggregation, sea lice, and green crab. Confirmed participants include graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty from Memorial University, the University of New Brunswick and the University of Prince Edward Island, as well as invited guests from other parts of Canada and beyond.

Calculus Instruction in Atlantic Canada
2018-05-29 - 2018-05-30 | Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada
This two-day workshop is an opportunity for calculus instructors from across Atlantic Canada to come together and discuss evidence-based pedagogy and innovative instructional methodologies used in introductory calculus courses. Following a morning of contributed research talks each day, participants will have the opportunity to attend an afternoon of workshops to discuss the morning’s talks and collaborate on creating a common framework of calculus concepts and course materials to address the needs of students in our region.

StFX Math Camp
2018-05-18 - 2018-05-20 | St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
The camp is scheduled for May 18-20, 2018 and will be residential in nature. The camp is planned for 28 students in grade 10 and 11 and 3 university students who will serve as chaperones. Invitations will be sent to high schools in Nova Scotia for nominations of maximum per school of two students. The students will be expected to be academically strong and enthusiastic, with strong aptitude for mathematics. In addition to the criteria listed above, selection of the participants is mostly on a first come-first served basis. However, gender and regional balance, recommendation letters and grades will also be considered. The camp will be a two and half days weekend camp to begin at 9:00 am on the Friday and end by 11:30 am on Sunday. There will be about seven sessions that will be presented by faculty to expose the participants to exciting topics and applications in the mathematical sciences. In addition there will be 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 camps will develop “new friends, new ideas, and a new outlook on mathematics” (http://cms.math.ca/MathCamps/).

Blundon Seminar Math Camp
2018-05-16 - 2018-05-18 | Memorial University (St. John’s Campus), St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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 such as Blundon, COMC, Euclid, Fermat, and Cayley contests. Each year we invite about 35-50 students. 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 problem solving sessions as well as other activities such as Mathletics and Papers Chase. The winner of Blundon Contest is presented with the Blundon Shield, and the winners of other contests are also presented with money and book prizes at the banquet. According to students’ responses collected after each camp this event is enjoyable, informative, and memorable for the majority of them.

AARMS-Girl Guides STEM Camp
2018-05-12 - 2018-05-13 | University of New Brunswick (Fredericton Campus), Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
The Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences (AARMS) is hosting a camp for the Girl Guides, Pathfinders and Rangers of New Brunswick and PEI on the University of New Brunswick’s Fredericton (UNBF) campus on May 12-13, 2018. During this event, approximately 525 girls aged 9-17 will participate in mini-workshop sessions aimed at increasing awareness and engagement in Science – Technology – Engineering – Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. This is the first in a series of planned events spanning Atlantic Canada.

East Coast Combinatorics Conference
2018-05-07 - 2018-05-09 | Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
The 13th ECCC (East Coast Combinatorics Conference) will be held May 7-9, 2018 at Dalhousie University. There will be two plenary speakers, Gary Gordon and Elizabeth McMahon (Lafayette College) both are highly esteemed researchers in areas of combinatorics Dr. Gordon will give the plenary talk, Dr. McMahon will give a public lecture on recreational mathematics. The conference will feature contributed talks by faculty, graduate students, and post-docs. The talks are expected to fill two and a half full days, with approximately 35-50 attendees. One new aspect this year will be two afternoon sessions where the conference participants will break into small groups to work on open problems. Open problems will be solicited in advance and disseminated at the start of the conference.

CMS/UPEI Math Camp
2018-05-04 - 2018-05-06 | University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
UPEI Math Camp is held in early May each year, bringing together some of PEI’s top high school students for a weekend of mathematically-oriented education and entertainment. Students participate in group problem solving, math relays, math trivia, a career information session, and sessions with faculty. Hopefully, students leave with a broader view of mathematics, in both its intrinsic beauty and its practical utility, and with motivation to continue their math studies in the future.

NB Math League
2018-03-28 | University of New Brunswick (Fredericton Campus), Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
We will seek to bring the best and brightest math minds from New Brunswick to UNB.This competition is open to high school students from grades 9-12. Each team will consist of 4 participants. Each team will be labeled as Junior (grades 9-10) or Senior (grades 10-11) categories. In the case that a team has a mixture of grades from 9-12, they will automatically be considered in the category of the most senior member (i.e. a team with three Grade 9 participants and one Grade 12 participant will compete in the Senior category).
