The Canadian Centre for Disease Modeling (CDM) together with the Chinese Society for Mathematical Biology (CSMB) has launched a weekly distinguished lecture series, “Mathematics and COVID-19”, which is co-organized by faculty at AARMS member universities. The series includes 16 distinguished
Open Quantum Systems at AIMS Cameroon
The following is an activity report written by Marco Merkli (Memorial University of Newfoundland) about his AARMS-sponsored visit to the African Institute for the Mathematical Sciences. The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, AIMS, is a pan-African network of centres of
COVID-19 impacts on AARMS activities
Like every other institute in the world, COVID-19 will play a huge role in AARMS’s 2020 activities. All of the AARMS-organized signature events for the summer have been cancelled, including the 2020 AARMS Summer School; the 2020 AARMS Industrial Problem
AARMS receives funding to combat COVID-19
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has recently awarded a consortium of Canada’s mathematical sciences Institutes $666,667 to fight the global coronavirus pandemic. The successful application to the Government of Canada’s 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Rapid Research Funding call was
Enhancing math appreciation through community outreach
The following article features the AARMS-supported mathematics outreach in New Brunswick. It was written by John McLoughlin (UNB) and is reprinted with permission from the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS Notes, Volume 52, No. 1, February 2020). This issue marks the
AARMS Summer School 2019
From June 17 to July 12, 2019, the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI), in collaboration with the Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences (AARMS), hosted the AARMS Summer School
Groups, Rings, Lie and Hopf Algebras
[reprinted from: MUN Gazette] If you’re a mathematician, the above-named collaborative research group at Memorial should catch your interest. The group, which was announced recently by the Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences (AARMS) and is administered by
AARMS Outreach Meeting 2019
On Saturday November 23rd, professors and educators from Atlantic Canada got together for the AARMS annual outreach meeting. They shared their expertise and the latest news concerning the outreach activities that are held within their communities. A discussion about the
Discovery Days: Beyond Puzzling
The Discovery Centre in Halifax has recently inaugurated the exhibition “Beyond the Rubik’s Cube“, a whole floor of interactive games, puzzles and riddles revolving around Rubik’s magic cube. We didn’t resist the temptation: on Sunday November 24, AARMS joined the
AARMS Industrial Problem Solving Workshop 2019
AARMS held its second ever Industrial Problem Solving Workshop (IPSW) from July 15-19, 2019 at the University of New Brunswick‘s Fredericton campus. This year’s workshop was attended by 64 participants including nearly 40 students, 12 faculty mentors and problem presenters