From peter.taylor at queensu.ca Sun Jan 4 16:24:24 2009 From: peter.taylor at queensu.ca (Peter Taylor) Date: Sun Jan 4 16:25:08 2009 Subject: [cmath] Fwd: [ICMI-News] ICMI News 7: December 2008 Message-ID: <0KCY004LRU4YDT70@mta02.its.queensu.ca> greetings everyone and the very best for what will no doubt be another eventful year. I am forwarding the Dec. 08 issue of the ICMI newsletter, partly to tempt those who do not get it and might find it of interest, to subscribe. Instructions for how to do this appear at the end. In the Editorial at the beginning, the president, Mich?le Artigue, asserts that "ICMI can and must play a major role for addressing the challenges faced today by mathematics education worldwide." History has shown that this is a non-trivial task, but it is in effect accomplished by what we all do, day by day, in our own classrooms. Certainly world-wide interest in mathematics education has never been greater. So perhaps, some real progress can be made over the next few years. peter Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:08:44 +0000 From: J Carvalho e Silva Subject: [ICMI-News] ICMI News 7: December 2008 Sender: icmi-news-bounces@mathunion.org To: icmi-news@mathunion.org Delivered-to: icmi-news@mathunion.org List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Help: List-Id: Original-recipient: rfc822;peter.taylor@queensu.ca ICMI News 7: December 2008 A Bimonthly Email Newsletter from the ICMI-International Commission on Mathematical Instruction Editor: Jaime Carvalho e Silva, Dep. Matematica, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal CONTENTS 1. Editorial: ICMI News - first anniversary 2. In memoriam --- Andr? Revuz 3. Two new ICMI Study volumes now available 4. Purchasing the NISS volumes: how to obtain the ICMI discount 5. Latest news about PME Newsletters 6. Announcement of New Journal and Call for Papers 7. Second Announcement and Call for Papers for Dresden 2009 Conference 8. Journal of Urban Mathematics Education: inaugural issue 9. Calendar of Events of Interest to the ICMI Community 10. Subscribing to ICMI News ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Editorial: ICMI News - first anniversary ICMI News was launched in December 2007 and its Editor, Jaime Carvalho e Silva, then asked me to write the first editorial. Since that time, ICMI News has appeared regularly every two months, disseminating information about current activities of ICMI and of its Affiliated Study Groups, about events of interest to the mathematics education community, providing also some snapshots on the history of ICMI. The number of subscriptions regularly increased, being now of 1042, and for extending the outreach of ICMI News beyond the sole audience of English speakers, non-English versions are progressively being made accessible, in the image of the Portuguese version launched by the Portuguese ICMI Sub-Commission. Today, one year after the publication of the first issue, additional efforts must be made in order to have ICMI News reach all those potentially interested in ICMI activities, but a significant step has already been achieved, and I would like to thank all those who have contributed in making this project of the ICMI Executive Committee become reality. The year 2008 has been for ICMI an exceptional year, with the celebration of its centennial at the Academia dei Lincei in Roma in March; the ICME-11 congress taking place for the first time in Latin-America in Monterrey (Mexico) in July; the satellite conferences of two of its Affiliated Study Groups, PME and HPM, in Morelia and Mexico City; the completion of ICMI Studies 15 and 16 (on teacher education and development and on challenging mathematics) through the publication of the Study volumes; the conference of the joint ICMI-IASE Study 18 on statistics education; the launching of the joint ICMI-ICIAM Study 20 on educational interfaces between mathematics and industry and of ICMI Study 21 on the teaching and learning of mathematics in multilingual contexts; the design of the joint ICMI-IMU Klein project whose ambition is to revisit Felix Klein's seminal reflection on mathematical knowledge for teaching in the light of mathematical, technological and educational advances; and for the first time in ICMI history the election of the next ICMI Executive by the General Assembly of ICMI. But nothing would have been possible without the thousands of members of the ICMI community who have engaged in these activities and ensured their success, and I would like to express here the deepest gratitude of the ICMI Executive to all those who have contributed to the recent actions of ICMI. At the time when ICMI is entering the second century of its life, I am deeply convinced that, thanks to the commitment, expertise and diversity of the community it gathers, thanks to the values of collaboration and exchange it relies on, ICMI can and must play a major role for addressing the challenges faced today by mathematics education worldwide. In 2009, within the ICMI EC, we will go on trying to do our best for progressing in that direction and for making our vision for mathematics education become reality. With my best wishes for the New Year, Mich?le Artigue, President of ICMI, artigue@math.jussieu.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. In memoriam --- Andr? Revuz Andr? Revuz, who has been a member of the Executive Committee of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) at the time of the Presidency of Hans Freudenthal (1967-1970), and certainly one of his closest collaborators in that EC, passed away on October 27th. Beyond his role in ICMI at a crucial time of its history --- when the necessity of considering mathematics education as a genuine field of research and practice emerged, when the first ICME Congress in Lyon in 1969 was organized and the journal "Educational Studies in Mathematics" created --- Andr? Revuz has played a major role in mathematics education in France. All along his life, he has put his remarkable energy and talent at the service of mathematics education, deeply convinced that mathematics could be and had to be made accessible to all students. Strongly engaged in the New Math movement, member of the "Commission Lichnerowicz" in charge of curricular reform, he became soon convinced of the crucial role played by teacher preparation and continuous professional development. He was thus one of the builders of the IREMs (Institutes of Research in Mathematics Education) from 1969, an original university structure in France where professional mathematicians, teachers, mathematics educators and historians work together, and where from the beginning research and practice, as well as research and teacher training, have been tightly connected. He became the first director of the IREM Paris 7 in 1969 and made this IREM a leading institution in the national network. In 1975, he was also one of the builders of the first master and doctorate programs in the didactics of mathematics in France, and strongly supported the institutional acknowledgement of research and researchers in that area at a time most university mathematicians were reluctant to do so. And, even after retiring, he never stopped to be the tireless militant of the cause of mathematics education that he had been all along his career, he never lost his capability of rebelling against positions or curricular decisions that he considered damaging for mathematics education. In 2002, nearly 90, he engaged himself in the creation of a collective called "ActionSciences", grouping teacher associations and academic societies representing the different scientific domains, and acting for mathematics and science education of high quality for all students. I personally met Andr? Revuz for the first time when I entered the Ecole Normale Sup?rieure where he was teaching Analysis and Topology. Some years later, as I had been recruited at the mathematics department at the University Paris 7, he proposed me to join the IREM team on a part time basis, and then to organize with two other colleagues the teaching of mathematics in a new experimental elementary school attached to the IREM. This was how I began to engage in research in mathematics education. From that time, he has always supported my research work in that area, encouraged me to prepare a Doctorat d'Etat, and smoothed the way to it. He will remain for me my father in the field, and a person to whom I vow the greatest admiration. I have interviewed him last year on the occasion of the centennial of ICMI and those who understand French can access this interview on the historical website about ICMI (http://www.icmihistory.unito.it/). Mich?le Artigue, President of ICMI, artigue@math.jussieu.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. Two new ICMI Study volumes now available Two volumes resulting from recent ICMI studies have just become available. -- New ICMI Study Series Vol. 11 "The Professional Education and Development of Teachers of Mathematics: The 15th ICMI Study." Ruhama Even and Deborah Loewenberg Ball (Eds.) 2009. ISBN: 978-0-387-09600-1 Table of contents: The preparation of teachers.- Student teachers' experiences and early years of teaching.- Mathematics educators' activities and knowledge.- Development of teaching in and from practice.- Processes of learning in and from practice.- Models, tools, and strategies to support learning in and from practice.- Balance of mathematical content and pedagogy.- Key issues for research in the education and professional development of teachers of mathematics. -- New ICMI Study Series Vol. 12 "Challenging Mathematics In and Beyond the Classroom: The 16th ICMI Study." Edward J. Barbeau and Peter J. Taylor (Eds.) 2009. ISBN: 978-0-387-09602-5 Table of contents: Challenging problems: Mathematical content and sources.- Presentation of Challenges Beyond the Classroom: Organizational issues.- Challenging Mathematics Beyond the Classroom Enhanced by Technological Environments.- Challenging Tasks and Mathematical Learning: Role of the student.- Mathematics in Context: Focusing on students in challenging environments.- Teacher Development and Mathematical Challenge.- Challenging Mathematics Classroom Practices.- Curriculum and Assessment: Use of Challenges. More information is available on the NISS homepage http://www.springeronline.com/series/6351. Individual members of the ICMI community can obtain a substantial discount when purchasing these books for personal use --- see below. Bernard R. Hodgson, Secretary-General of ICMI, bhodgson@mat.ulaval.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. Purchasing the NISS volumes: how to obtain the ICMI discount Since the 1990s, the volumes resulting from the ICMI Studies appear in the "New ICMI Study Series" (NISS), now published by Springer (formerly Kluwer) under the general editorship of the President and Secretary-General of ICMI. According to the contract between ICMI and Springer, "members of the ICMI community" are entitled to the ICMI Society Discount, namely -- a discount of 60% from the list price on each NISS series hardbound volume, and -- a 25% discount on each softbound volume in the series. The contract wording has been coined so to be as inclusive as possible, but it is understood that the books thus ordered are for personal use only. The procedure for obtaining the ICMI society discount is as follows. i) Orders must be placed personally, on the Springer website, through the NISS series homepage http://www.springeronline.com/series/6351 ii) In order to obtain the society discount granted to ICMI, individuals should enter the respective tokens when asked to during the ordering process, under "SpringerToken / promocode". iii) The following Token Numbers have been issued by Springer for use by the members of the ICMI community: Token for Hardbound: zqwqqJQFWzQ8WqY Token for Softbound: hAjkrckgWFaEYQA This discount is not available to institutions or when ordering the NISS volumes through a bookstore. Bernard R. Hodgson, Secretary-General of ICMI, bhodgson@mat.ulaval.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. Latest news about PME Newsletters A year and a half after the last issue, the International Committee [IC] of PME is pleased to report the revival of PME Newsletters. There will be a special issue in January, and there will be a return to regular issues in May and November. At their meetings at PME 32 in Morelia (Mexico), the PME IC agreed that the role of PME Newsletters is to respond to the immediate needs of the membership and the organisation. In this respect the new editors will do their best to offer the PME community a dynamic and innovative Newsletter. Each issue of the PME Newsletter will be no more than eight pages in length and should be prepared in accessible language. The contents of Newsletters might include: * The following types of articles from the annual conference: - summaries of the numbers of: papers received, papers accepted, participants, and countries represented - reactions to plenary sessions - reflections on activities of Discussion Groups and Working Sessions - reports from other activities taking place * Reports of the impact or outcomes of the PME conference (e.g., books, Special issues of journals, workshops etc.). * Contributions from experts in the PME community about their research and developments in their fields (e.g., short summaries, interviews, etc.). * Photos etc. of members and/or happenings related to PME activities * Announcements of what information can be found on the PME website. [It should be noted that the information found on the PME website should not be duplicated in the newsletter] These topics will be represented together with the main focus of each issue: January issue: Post conference issue which will include short reports from each PME Portfolio Group (President, Vice-president, Treasury and Secretary) of what has been done in the (past) year. May issue: Final notification and announcements related to the forthcoming annual conference. November issue: Brief report from the recently held annual conference On behalf of the PME IC the editors of the PME Newsletter encourage members of the mathematics education community to contribute to the Newsletters, submitting articles (brief reports, short summaries, news, books, events, etc) of interest to the mathematics education community and/or to PME as an organisation. Contributions should be submitted to both editors by email : frade.cristina@gmail.com and zwu@nu.edu not later than: December 28th for the January issue April 28th for the May issue October 28th for the November issue Cristina Frade and Zhonghe Wu, Editors, PME Newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6. Announcement of New Journal and Call for Papers RIPEM - International Journal for Research in Mathematics Education / RIPEM -Revista Internacional de Pesquisa em Educa??o Matem?tica is a new international journal on mathematics education. The goal of RIPEM is to provide a new forum to publish and access high-quality research reports. The papers are expected to report findings from empirical research and literature-based scholarly articles that advance theories and scholarship of Mathematics Education. The journal has an acknowledged Editorial Board, ensuring high academic standards and broad international coverage. RIPEM is a journal published by the Brazilian Society for Mathematics Education, and it will be published online and free of charge. Both emerging and established researchers are invited to submit manuscripts to inaugural and future issues. All manuscripts should only be submitted in English. They will be refereed anonymously by at least two referees. Manuscripts presented in previous conferences could be extended and submitted, as long as the submission provides a clear contribution beyond the conference paper, and the overlap is carefully described in the RIPEM submission. The website of the journal and its web-based submission system is already open. In order to learn more about the editorial policy and submission guidelines, all researchers are invited to visit this address: http://www.sbem.com.br/ojs/index.php/ripem/index Although we welcome papers at any time, the deadline to submit a manuscript for consideration in the inaugural issue is 5th February 2009. All efforts will be made to ensure that the refereeing and publication processes will be fast in order to launch the inaugural issue before the end of first semester of 2009. Jonei Cerqueira Barbosa, joneicb@uol.com.br ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7. Second Announcement and Call for Papers for Dresden 2009 Conference The Mathematics Education into the 21st Century Project & The University of Applied Sciences (FH), Dresden (Germany) announce the 10th (Anniversary!) International Conference: "Models in Developing Mathematics Education" to be held Sep 11-17, 2009 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany in full cooperation with the Saxony Ministry of Education. International Organisers: Dr. Alan Rogerson, Coordinator of the Mathematics in Society Project (Poland) & Prof. Fayez Mina, Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University (Egypt). Chair of the Local Organising Committee: Prof. Dr. Ludwig Paditz of the Dresden University of Applied Sciences. You are warmly invited to attend and present a paper at the conference in the heart of the historic & beautiful city of Dresden. The Second Announcement can now be downloaded from http://www.informatik.htw-dresden.de/~paditz/SecondAnnouncementDresden2009.doc For ALL further conference details and updates please email alan@rogerson.pol.pl . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8. Journal of Urban Mathematics Education: inaugural issue The Editorial Team of the Journal of Urban Mathematics Education (JUME) would like to announce the launching of its inaugural issue. To gain free access to the articles in this issue, just register at http://education.gsu.edu/jume and you can choose to become a part of the JUME community as a reader, author, or reviewer. We look forward to you joining our new family as we explore the bounds of the urban domain in mathematics education. JUME Editorial Team In the first Issue: EDITORIAL Illuminating Urban Excellence: A Movement of Change within Mathematics Education, Lou Edward Matthews COMMENTARY Putting the "Urban" in Mathematics Education Scholarship, William F. Tate ARTICLES Racism, Assessment, and Instructional Practices: Implications for Mathematics Teachers of African American Students, Julius Davis, Danny Bernard Martin Learning Mathematics in a Borderland Position: Students' Foregrounds and Intentionality in a Brazilian Favela, Ole Skovsmose, Pedro Paulo Scandiuzzi, Paola Valero, Helle Alro Math Links: Building Learning Communities in Urban Settings, Jacqueline Leonard, Brian R. Evans Practices Worthy of Attention: A Search For Existence Proofs of Promising Practitioner Work in Secondary Mathematics, Pamela L. Paek http://education.gsu.edu/jume ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9. Calendar of Events of Interest to the ICMI Community 3rd international conference to review research on Science, Technology and Mathematics Education Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (TIFR), Mumbai, India, January 5-9, 2009 http://web.gnowledge.org/episteme3/ CERME 6: Sixth Conference organised by the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education University Lyon 1, France, January 27 - February 1, 2009 http://ermeweb.free.fr/cerme6.php 3rd International Symposium on Mathematics and its Connections to the Arts and Sciences Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, 21st-23rd of May, 2009 http://www.umoncton.ca/freimanv/macas3/index.htm 5th Asian Mathematical Conference Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 22 - 26, 2009 http://math.usm.my/amc2009/ ICTMT-9 - 9th Int Conf on Technology in Mathematics Teaching Metz, France, July 6-9, 2009 http://www.ictmt9.org CIEAEM61 - Commission internationale pour l'?tude et l'am?lioration de l'enseignement des math?matiques Universit? de MONTR?AL, Montr?al, Qu?bec, Canada, July 26-31, 2009 http://www.cieaem.net/ ICTMA 14 - 14th International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematical Modelling and Applications University of Hamburg, Germany, July 27-31, 2009 http://www.ictma14.de/ SEMT '09 - 10th bi-annual conference on Elementary Mathematics Teaching, "The development of mathematical understanding" Prague, August 23-28, 2009 http://kmdm.pedf.cuni.cz "Models in Developing Mathematics Education" The Mathematics Education into the 21st Century Project Dresden, Saxony, Germany, September 11-17, 2009 alan@rogerson.pol.pl SRD'09 - Southern Right Delta'09 7th Southern Hemisphere Conference on the Teaching and Learning of Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics Gordons Bay, South Africa, 29 November-4 December 2009 http://www.delta2009.co.za ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10. 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Previous issues can be seen at: http://www.mathunion.org/pipermail/icmi-news ===================================================================== _______________________________________________ ICMI-News mailing list ICMI-News@mathunion.org http://www.mathunion.org/mailman/listinfo/icmi-news Peter Taylor Dept Math&Stats Queen's University Kingston ON K7L 3N6 613 533-2434 http://www.mast.queensu.ca/~peter/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090104/f3a4a339/attachment.htm From Eric.GOUBAULT at cea.fr Sun Jan 11 09:29:39 2009 From: Eric.GOUBAULT at cea.fr (GOUBAULT Eric 167129) Date: Mon Jan 12 10:15:43 2009 Subject: [cmath] NSV II CFP Message-ID: <5EFD4D7AC6265F4D9D3A849CEA921919D424F7@LAXA.intra.cea.fr> 1st Call for Papers NSV-II: Second International Workshop on Numerical Software Verification. Verification of Cyber-Physical Software Systems April 16th, 2009. Part of CPSWeek'09 Venue: Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco CA. The second workshop on Numerical Software Verification (NSV) will be held San Francisco, CA on April 16th, 2009 . The focus of the workshop for 2009 will be on the verification of software for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). It will be part of the Cyber-Physical Systems Week CPSWeek and will be affiliated with the conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control. This workshop will continue along the lines of NSV-I (2008) that was held in July 2008 along with CAV 2008 at Princeton, NJ. Proceedings of this workshop appeared as a special issue in the journal Formal Methods in Systems Design. Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) refers to the class of systems that integrate (engineered) physical systems with computational and communication systems. Examples of CPS range from small scale systems, such as implanted medical devices or autonomous robots, to medium scale, such as automobiles and aircrafts, to large scale systems, for example, a power grid. A key component of every CPS is the underlying (distributed heterogeneous) software that controls a system or a system of systems. Numerical and logical errors in the software can have catastrophic results on the physical system. For over a decade, the hybrid systems community has been actively looking for solutions to the verification problem of CPSs by targeting mainly the interaction between the physical system and the software at the abstract logical level. However, this is not enough. Many well-known CPSs failures have been attributed to the existence of numerical errors and bugs in the software. This workshop aims to initiate and catalyze work along such research directions by bringing together people from the hybrid systems, control and software verification communities. A secondary goal of NSV-II will be to create a benchmark problems library. In the past, similar benchmark libraries have been beneficial in accelerating the development of new theories and toolboxes in specific research areas, for example, SAT solvers. Topics of Interest We invite leading researchers to talk about the current development and future prospects on applying logical and mathematical techniques for reasoning about numerical aspects of software. The scope of the workshop includes, but is not restricted to, the following topics: * Numerical properties of control software, * Models and Abstraction Techniques, * Real-Time Verification, * Reasoning about Automatically Generated Software, * Hardware-Software Interaction, * Validation for avionics, automotive and real-time applications. Submissions that target different aspects of verification and testing in the context of CPS software are especially welcome. Submission The workshop submissions will consist of an extended abstract. Authors of extended abstracts selected by the program committee to appear as a special edition of a leading journal in the area of embedded systems. All submissions (extended abstracts as well as post-conference) will be subjected to stringent review process for technical merit and suitability to the theme by the program committee. Submission Details will be appear shortly at http://theory.stanford.edu/~srirams/nsv2/ Important Dates Abstract Submission Deadline: 8th Feb, 2009 (earlier submissions appreciated). Decision Date: 25th Feb, 2009. Format of the Workshop This is a one-day pre-conference workshop consisting of presentations based on submissions as well as from invited speakers. Each speaker will be expected to deliver a 25 minute talk. This will be followed by 5 minutes of audience interaction. Program Committee * Thao Dang, VERIMAG, France. * Eric Feron, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. * Stephane Gaubert, INRIA Saclay and Ecole Polytechnique, France. * Nicholas Halbwachs, VERIMAG, France. * Franjo Ivancic, NEC Laboratories America, USA. * Bruce Krogh, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. * Sylvie Putot, CEA LIST, France. * Andre Platzer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. * Henny B. Sipma, Kestrel Technologies LLC, USA. * Gera Weiss, University of Pennsylvania, USA. * Hakan Yazarel, Toyota, USA. Organizers Eric Goubault (CEA LIST, France), Eric.Goubault@cea.fr Georgios Fainekos and Sriram Sankaranarayanan (NEC Laboratories America), fainekos@grasp.upenn.edu and srirams@gmail.com. Contact For questions related to this workshop and abstract submission for talks please contact the organizers. From bennettr at mast.queensu.ca Tue Jan 13 20:11:46 2009 From: bennettr at mast.queensu.ca (bennettr@mast.queensu.ca) Date: Wed Jan 14 11:23:36 2009 Subject: [cmath] BIRS Summer School on The Mathematics of Invasions in Ecology and Epidemiology Message-ID: <61907.70.53.118.156.1231895506.squirrel@www.mast.queensu.ca> Date: May 10-17, 2009 Location: Banff International Research Station Website: www.mast.queensu.ca/~summerschool/index.htm The summer school is aimed at graduate students in applied mathematics, biology and epidemiology, who wish to learn important mathematical techniques for modelling biological invasions. The emphasis will be on practical, hands-on experience for building and analyzing models, coupled with lectures on key techniques. Examples will be drawn from a variety of areas including ecological invasions of so-called `pest' species, and the emergence of novel pathogens like SARS and avian influenza. A major focus will be on techniques for incorporating evolutionary change in the mathematical models. Each student will be expected to develop and analyze a model of their choosing during the period of the summer school, in collaboration with a small group of other students. Organizers: Dr Troy Day (Queen's), Dr Fred Brauer (UBC), Dr James Watmough (New Brunswick), Dr Jianhong Wu (York), Dr Rachel Bennett (Queen's). Please visit the course website for more information and to complete an application. From akelm at cms.math.ca Fri Jan 16 16:13:12 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Fri Jan 16 16:13:14 2009 Subject: [cmath] Canada Research Chair (Tier II) - Modeling - University of Saskatchewan, College of Arts & Science Message-ID: Canada Research Chair (Tier II) - Modeling College of Arts & Science University of Saskatchewan The College of Arts & Science at the University of Saskatchewan has a unique opportunity for a Tier II Canada Research Chair in the area of Mathematical Modeling. A Canada Research Chair appointment is one of the most prestigious opportunities of its kind in Canada. Applications or nominations are encouraged from individuals who would provide vision and leadership in one or more of the following areas: Image Analysis, Complex Simulations, High Performance Computing, Nuclear Science, and Climate Change. A successful candidate will have an excellent research track record in Applied Mathematics contributing to one or more application areas. The selected candidate will be nominated for the Tier II Canada Research Chair and appointed to a tenure-track faculty position (the nature of the appointment will be determined at the time of hire). The candidate will be expected to establish an internationally leading research program, secure externally funded research, supervise postdoctoral fellows and graduate students, mentor junior faculty, and participate in graduate and undergraduate level teaching. It is also expected that the candidate will take advantage of the extraordinary opportunities that exist at the University of Saskatchewan for multi-disciplinary interactions and groundbreaking collaborative research partnerships. The University of Saskatchewan is home to the Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron, the most ambitious science project in Canada in a generation. This new research tool, the Innovation Place Research Park, stimulating industrial/government partnerships, as well as the opportunity for innovative collaborative prospects at the twelve University Colleges, are unique in North America. Located in the beautiful 'river city' of Saskatoon in Canada's high-growth province, and next door to a great untouched wilderness, the University of Saskatchewan and the College of Arts and Science is poised for unprecedented growth and transformation. Commitments to the growth of the graduate student and post-doctoral population are embedded in our Strategic Plan. The University forms a dynamic partnership of scholars dedicated to challenging old notions and creating new ideas to share with our students. We offer a thriving intellectual climate, countless opportunities for partnerships and collaboration in the heart of one of the world's most charming campuses. To learn more about the College of Arts and Science visit: http://artsandscience.usask.ca. Interested candidates should submit curriculum vitae, a research plan, a teaching dossier and the name, mailing address, email address and phone number of at least four references to: Attn: Kaelee Corcoran CRC Search Committee (Mathematical Modeling) College of Arts and Science University of Saskatchewan 9 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5A5, Canada Email: kaelee.corcoran@artsandscience.usask.ca or phone: 306-966-8624. Considerations of applications will begin March 2, 2009. The starting date is anticipated to be July 1, 2009. The University is committed to Employment Equity. Members of Designated Groups (women, Aboriginal people, people with disabilities and visible minorities) are encouraged to self-identify on their applications. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: usask-ad.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 32488 bytes Desc: Url : https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090116/6aece216/usask-ad.pdf From gpwright at cms.math.ca Mon Jan 19 10:25:32 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Mon Jan 19 10:25:07 2009 Subject: [cmath] Call for nominations - 2009 DOCTORAL PRIZE/APPEL DE MISES EN CANDIDATURE - PRIX DE DOCTORAT 2009 Message-ID: [Fran?ais ? suivre] ********************* Call for nominations - 2009 DOCTORAL PRIZE The CMS Doctoral Prize recognizes outstanding performance by a doctoral student. The prize is awarded to the person who received a Ph.D. from a Canadian university in the preceding year (January 1st to December 31st) and whose overall performance in graduate school is judged to be the most outstanding. Although the dissertation will be the most important criterion (the impact of the results, the creativity of the work, the quality of exposition, etc.) it will not be the only one. Other publications, activities in support of students and other accomplishments will also be considered. Nominations that were not successful in the first competition, will be kept active for a further year (with no possibility of updating the file) and will be considered by the Doctoral Prize Selection Committee in the following year?s competition. The CMS Doctoral Prize will consist of an award of $500, a two-year complimentary membership in the CMS, a framed Doctoral Prize certificate and a stipend for travel expenses to attend the CMS meeting to receive the award and present a plenary lecture. Nominations Candidates must be nominated by their university and the nominator is responsible for preparing the documentation described below, and submitting the nomination to the address below. No university may nominate more than one candidate and the deadline for the receipt of nominations is January 31, 2009. The documentation shall consist of: ? A curriculum vitae prepared by the student. ? A resum? of the student?s work written by the student and which must not exceed ten pages. The resum? should include a brief description of the thesis and why it is important, as well as of any other contributions made by the student while a doctoral student. ? Three letters of recommendation of which one should be from the thesis advisor and one from an external reviewer. A copy of the external examiner?s report may be substituted for the latter. More than three letters of recommendation are not accepted. ********************* APPEL DE MISES EN CANDIDATURE - PRIX DE DOCTORAT 2009 La SMC a cr?? ce Prix de doctorat pour r?compenser le travail exceptionnel d?un ?tudiant au doctorat. Le prix sera d?cern? ? une personne qui aura re?u son dip?me de troisi?me cycle d?une universit? canadienne l?ann?e pr?c?dente (entre le 1er janvier et le 31 d?cembre) et dont les r?sultats pour l?ensemble des ?tudes sup?rieures seront jug?s les meilleurs. La dissertation constituera le principal crit?re de s?lection (impact des r?sultats, cr?ativit?, qualit? de l?exposition, etc.), mais ne sera pas le seul aspect ?valu?. On tiendra ?galement compte des publications de l??tudiant, de son engagement dans la vie ?tudiante et de ses autres r?alisations. Les mises en candidature qui ne seront pas choisies dans leur premi?re comp?tition seront consid?r?es pour une ann?e additionelle (sans possibilit? de mise ? jour du dossier), et seront r?vis?es par le comit? de s?lection du Prix de doctorat l?an prochain. Le laur?at du Prix de doctorat de la SMC aura droit ? une bourse de 500 $. De plus, la SMC lui offrira l?adh?sion gratuite ? la Soci?t? pendant deux ans et lui remettra un certificat encadr? et une subvention pour frais de d?placements lui permettant d?assister ? la r?union de la SMC o? il recevra son prix et pr?sentera une conf?rence. Candidatures Les candidats doivent ?tre nomm?s par leur universit?; la personne qui propose un candidat doit se charger de regrouper les documents d?crits aux paragraphes suivants et de faire parvenir la candidature ? l?adresse ci-dessous. Aucune universit? ne peut nommer plus d?un candidat. Les candidatures doivent parvenir ? la SMC au plus tard le 31 janvier 2009. Le dossier sera constitu? des documents suivants : ? Un curriculum vitae r?dig? par l??tudiant. ? Un r?sum? du travail du candidat d?au plus dix pages, r?dig? par l??tudiant, o? celui-ci d?crira bri?vement sa th?se et en expliquera l?importance, et ?num?rera toutes ses autres r?alisations pendant ses ?tudes de doctorat. ? Trois lettres de recommandation, dont une du directeur de th?se et une d?un examinateur de l?ext?rieur (une copie de son rapport serait aussi acceptable). Le comit? n?acceptera pas plus de trois lettres de recommandation. Pr?sident du Comit? de s?lection du Prix de doctorat Chair, Doctoral Prize Selection Committee Soci?t? math?matique du Canada / Canadian Mathematical Society 1785 Alta Vista Drive, Suite 105 Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1G 3Y6 From matchair at uottawa.ca Mon Jan 19 10:58:14 2009 From: matchair at uottawa.ca (MATCHAIR) Date: Mon Jan 19 10:51:50 2009 Subject: [cmath] For distribution to cmath list Message-ID: <35141BE6A60459488367EDBFED55F4FB0349ABA3@MSMAIL2.uottawa.o.univ> 3rd COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE SUMMER SCHOOL CENTER FOR NEURAL DYNAMICS UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA JUNE 7-20, 2009 SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the 3rd summer School in Computational Neuroscience, which will be held from Sunday June 7, 2009 until Saturday June 20, 2009 inclusively. It is organized by the Center for Neural Dynamics at the University of Ottawa. The highly pedagogical course is directed at graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from the physical sciences (e.g. physics, applied mathematics, engineering, computer science) and the life sciences (e.g. neuroscience, biology, physiology, human kinetics) who wish to develop their skills in neural data analysis and in mathematical modeling of neural activity. The topics will range from cellular to systems neuroscience, with a focus on sensory and motor systems. The course will consist of 3 hours of lectures in the mornings, followed by 3-hour MATLAB-based computer laboratories in the afternoons. Participants will pair up for these laboratories, and an effort will be made to pair someone from the life sciences with someone from the physical sciences. All classes and laboratories will be held on the main downtown campus of the University of Ottawa. The School will be held in English, although many of the lecturers also speak French. The course can be taken for credit, since it is a University of Ottawa three-credit graduate course (NSC8104). The mark will be based on work done in the computer laboratories and on the presentation of a research project by the end of the course, with write-up to follow within a week. The first day of the school (Sunday June 7th) will be a mathematics refresher open to all participants, which will include some introduction to differential equations. Enrollment in the course will be limited to 40 participants. MATH PRE-REQUISITES: Calculus I and II, first-year university level Linear Algebra and Probability and Statistics. LIFE SCIENCES PRE-REQUISITES: first-year university level life science courses for students in the physical sciences. FACULTY Prof. Ramesh Balasubramaniam, School of Human Kinetics, McMaster University Prof. Maurice Chacron, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, Dept. Physiology, McGill Prof. Victor LeBlanc, Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa Prof. John Lewis, Biology, University of Ottawa Prof. Tim Lewis, Mathematics, University of California at Davis Prof. Andr? Longtin, Physics, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa Prof. Len Maler, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa TUITION see the application form at: http://www.neurodynamic.uottawa.ca/summer.html ACCOMMODATION Accommodation will be available at the Stanton Residence of the University of Ottawa, a few minutes walk away from the Biosciences Complex, cafeterias and downtown Ottawa with its restaurants, museums etc... Accommodation consists of a single or double room (with respectively one or two single beds, desks and internet access), with communal kitchen and living area and shared bathroom. The cost is approximately $40 CAN per night per person, taxes included. FINANCIAL SUPPORT Partial financial support is available for those demonstrating the need. IMPORTANT DATES February 1st , 2009: Application, including a letter of recommendation sent to compneuro09@uottawa.ca February 15, 2009: Notification of acceptance and level of financial support. March 1st, 2009: Notification of acceptance by the participant. Accommodation: as soon as possible after notification of acceptance, participants can reserve their accommodation online at reserve@uottawa.ca or by phoning 1-888-564-4545. REGISTER AT: www.neurodynamic.uottawa.ca/summer.html CONTACT US: compneuro09@uottawa.ca SYLLABUS 1) Introduction to Linear and Nonlinear Dynamical Systems -solutions of linear differential equations -qualitative analysis of nonlinear differential equations 2) Single Neuron Models -ionic models -simplified deterministic models -stochastic models 3) Neural Spike Train Analysis and Modeling -basic statistics -autocorrelation, spectrum -information theory toolbox 4) Sensory Coding -artificial and naturalistic stimuli -modeling activity along the afferent pathways -modeling feedback -population coding and information theory 5) Computational and Dynamical Approaches to Motor Control -posture control and equilibrium point approaches -movement adaptation to force fields -timing and rhythmic movements -computational approaches to movement pathologies 6) Synaptic Plasticity -short term depression and facilitation -long term plasticity -implications for information processing 7) Coupled Neurons -gap junction -excitatory and inhibitory synaptic coupling -effect of coupling on neural population behavior 8) Waves of Activity in Neural Networks -neural field models -traveling waves -spiral waves Victor G. LeBlanc, Ph.D. Directeur, Chair Math?matiques et statistique, Mathematics and Statistics matchair@uottawa.ca T?l. | Tel.: 613-562-5788 T?l?c | Fax: 613-562-5776 University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON Canada K1N 6N5 www.uOttawa.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090119/dee47715/attachment.htm From ikotsire at UWATERLOO.CA Sat Jan 17 13:07:07 2009 From: ikotsire at UWATERLOO.CA (Ilias Kotsireas) Date: Wed Jan 21 11:58:43 2009 Subject: [cmath] [ISSAC-ANNOUNCE] Ninth International Conference on MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT Message-ID: Ninth International Conference on MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT 10-12 July 2009 Grand Bend, Ontario (CANADA) http://www.orcca.on.ca/conferences/cicm09/mkm09 CALL FOR PAPERS Mathematical Knowledge Management is the field at the intersection of mathematics, computer science, library science and scientific publishing. Its development is driven by on the one hand new technological possibilities which computer science, the Internet, and intelligent knowledge processing offer, and on the other hand the increasing demand by engineers and scientists for new techniques for producing, transmitting, consuming, and managing sophisticated mathematical knowledge. The conference is concerned with all aspects of mathematical knowledge management. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: * Representations of mathematical knowledge * Repositories of formalized mathematics * Mathematical digital libraries * Diagrammatic representations * Multi-modal representations * Mathematical OCR * Mathematical search and retrieval * Deduction systems * Math assistants, tutoring and assessment systems * Authoring languages and tools * MathML, OpenMath, and other mathematical content standards * Web presentation of mathematics * Data mining, discovery, theory exploration * Computer Algebra Systems * Collaboration tools for mathematics * Challenges and Solutions for Mathematical workflows Paper Submission Papers may be submitted in either of two categories: as full papers or as short communications. All papers submitted to the conference will be reviewed. Submission is electronic in Postscript or PDF format via the EasyChair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mkm09 . Submitted papers must conform to the Springer LNCS style, preferably using LaTeX2e and the Springer llncs class files available at http://www.springer.com/lncs . Full papers should not exceed 15 pages, must be original and not be submitted for consideration elsewhere. A submission not accepted as full paper will automatically be considered as a short communication, unless requested otherwise in the submission. Short communications are of a less formal nature to provide a forum for the presentation of works in progress. They may be up to 5 pages in LNCS style. Depending on the number of short communications accepted, presentation may be as a short talk or as a poster. By submitting a paper the authors agree that if it is accepted at least one of the authors will attend the conference to present it. Important Dates March 3, 2009 Full paper abstract submission March 10, 2009 Full paper submission March 20, 2009 Short communication submission March 31, 2009 Acceptance notification April 29, 2009 Camera ready files due July 10-12, 2009 Conference Proceedings Past proceedings of the MKM conferences have been published in the Springer-Verlag series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) and this conference intends to continue that tradition. Workshops The following workshops take place in conjunction with MKM 2009: * The "Mathematical User-Interfaces" Workshop 2009 (MathUI09), organized by Paul Libbrecht. * The workshop "Towards Future Digital Mathematics Libraries", organized by Petr Sojka. * The Workshop "Compact Computer Algebra" 2009 (CCA09), co-organized by Elena Smirnova. * The "Pen-Based Mathematical Computation" Workshop 2009 (PenMath P09), co-organized by George Labahn. Venue The conference will be held in Grand Bend, Ontario. This is a favourite Canadian vacation spot in a natural setting on the shore of Lake Huron. Grand Bend can be reached most conveniently from the London (Ontario), Toronto, Buffalo or Detroit international airports. Program Committee Laurent Bernardin (Maplesoft, Canada) Olga Caprotti (U Helsinki, Finland) Simon Colton (Imperial College, UK) Tetsuo Ida (Tsukuba U, Japan) Mateja Jamnik (U Cambridge, UK) Tudor Jebelean (RISC Linz, Austria) Alejandro Jofre (U Chile, Chile) Michael Kohlhase (Jakobs U, Germany) Azzeddine Lazrek (U Marakech, Morocco) Paul Libbrecht (DFKI, Germany) Bruce Miller (NIST, USA) Robert Miner (Design Science, USA) Laurence Rideau (INRIA, France) Claudio Sacerdoti Cohen (Co-Chair) (U Bologna, Italy) Elena Smirnova (Texas Instruments, USA) Volker Sorge (U Birmingham, UK) Masakazu Suzuki (U Kyushu, Japan) Joseph Urban (Charles U, Czech Republic) Stephen Watt (Co-chair) (U Western Ontario, Canada) Freek Wiedijk (Rabdoub U, NL) Related Links MKM 2009 Submissions: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mkm09 MKM Interest Group: http://www.mkm-ig.org Calculemus'09: http://www.calculemus.net/meetings/ontario09 CICM'09: http://www.orcca.on.ca/conferences/cicm09 From adem at math.ubc.ca Wed Jan 21 12:30:08 2009 From: adem at math.ubc.ca (Alejandro Adem) Date: Wed Jan 21 13:18:00 2009 Subject: [cmath] 2009 PIMS Education Prize Message-ID: ***Call for Nominations for the 2009 PIMS Education Prize*** The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences is now accepting nominations for the 2009 PIMS Education Prize. The prize is $1,000. The prize will be awarded to a member of the PIMS community who has made a significant contribution to education in the mathematical sciences. This prize is intended to recognize individuals from the PIMS universities, or other educational institutions in Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan who have played a major role in encouraging activities which have enhanced public awareness and appreciation of mathematics, as well as fostering communication among various groups and organizations concerned with mathematical training at all levels. Sponsors are to provide a cover letter explaining the nominee's contribution, impact and relevance for the prize. The nomination should also include a CV of the nominee, including publications, a brief summary of major accomplishments, and relevant samples of the nominee's work, such as reprints or educational materials. Nominations received last year will automatically be considered for this year's prize. Nominations should be sent via email to reception@pims.math.ca or mailed to Attention: PIMS Prizes PIMS Central Office 200 - 1933 West Mall University of British Columbia Vancouver BC V6T 1Z2 Canada The deadline for nominations is March 1, 2009. The prize will be selected by the PIMS Executive Committee which is composed of the PIMS Site Directors. The results will be announced in April, 2009. Previous winners of the PIMS Education Prize are Harley Weston (U.Regina), Virginia Warfield (U.Washington), Sharon Friesen (U.Calgary), Malgorzata Dubiel (SFU), Bill Sands (U.Calgary), George Bluman (UBC), Wieslaw Krawcewicz (U.Alberta), Klaus Hoechsmann (UBC), Ted Lewis (U.Alberta), David Leeming (U.Victoria) and Jim Morrow (U.Washington). From akelm at cms.math.ca Fri Jan 23 15:14:55 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Fri Jan 23 15:14:57 2009 Subject: [cmath] Instructor, Mathematics - College of the North Atlantic - Qatar Message-ID: ?Come Join Our Team! Instructor, Mathematics Are you looking for an international assignment with a great Canadian College and an opportunity that offers: Competitive Compensation * Furnished Accommodation * Single or Family Status Contract * Relocation Allowances * Annual Travel * K-12 Education for Children * Living Allowance (Canadian Residents) * Pension (Canadian Residents) * Comprehensive Medical Insurance * Family-Centered Environment ***************************************************************************** Then join us for an exciting and rewarding career at our world-class technology college in the Middle East. College of the North Atlantic ? Qatar is a comprehensive technical college with a growing international reputation. We are seeking dynamic, adventurous people who are excellent teachers, culturally-sensitive and student-oriented and excited about working in the State of Qatar. DUTIES: The instructor will plan, develop, and deliver instruction in Mathematics to students enrolled in a variety of College and academic preparatory programs. S/he will evaluate student progress and manage the resources of the learning environment. Instructors will keep course portfolio documents required for accreditation processes and engage in instructional development/improvement plans. All employees are expected to contribute to professional and community life within the College and beyond. QUALIFICATIONS: The successful candidate must have teaching experience and a thorough knowledge of Mathematics. S/he must have a Bachelor of Education Degree with post-secondary or high school methods courses and an undergraduate degree with a major in Mathematics, combined with recent teaching experience. S/he will have exemplary communication skills and expert fluency in English is essential. All instructors work in a learning environment where English language is taught through and across disciplines. The ability to develop effective working relationships and a strong commitment to working in a team and student-centered learning environment are required. COMPETITION NUMBER: CNA-Q.PPD.MATH.09.03CMS (quote when applying). DEADLINE: February 6, 2009 NOTE: Employment is contingent upon successful completion of the State of Qatar visa process. If you are a Canadian citizen with excellent English language skills and are ready for a professional and personal adventure in the Middle East, we?d like to hear from you. Successful candidates will be required to provide a recent Certificate of Conduct. Quoting the specific competition number, please forward via e-mail your resume and contact information for three current references to the e-mail address below using Microsoft Word. If called for an interview, you must provide original transcripts. College of the North Atlantic - Qatar Project P. O. Box 1693 St. John?s, NL A1C 5P7 Tel: 709-758-7347 e-mail: qatarjobs@cna.nl.ca Visit our websites www.cna-qatar.com & www.cna.nl.ca/qatar for all the information you?ll need to know about our employment opportunities, employment contracts, the immigration process, our campus, programs of study, employee life and so much more at CNA-Qatar. CREATE THE FUTURE YOU WANT! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: mathematics-Qatar.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 192712 bytes Desc: Url : https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090123/3c3e66d4/mathematics-Qatar.pdf From gpwright at cms.math.ca Mon Jan 26 08:37:01 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Mon Jan 26 08:35:44 2009 Subject: [cmath] Call - Executive Director and Secretary Message-ID: Executive Director and Secretary The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS), one of the leading mathematics organizations in Canada, seeks applications for the position of Executive Director and Secretary.?This position offers a unique and exciting opportunity for an individual with energy, drive, initiative and enthusiasm to make a difference on the national stage. The CMS works to enhance Canada?s capacity to innovate and compete globally by promoting the discovery, learning and application of mathematics in Canada. With approximately 900 members from across Canada and beyond, the CMS supports efforts that identify and develop young mathematicians through its math competitions, math camps and other educational activities. The CMS enhances the practice of mathematics in Canada through national conferences and by publishing research journals, books, and newsletters in both print and electronic formats. The work of the CMS is carried out by a large number of dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers, together with a small experienced staff of seven at the Executive Office in Ottawa. Responsibilities: The Executive Director and Secretary must be an effective and experienced administrator, able to address different points of view with the tact and courtesy appropriate to a largely volunteer organization. The position is full-time and requires judgment, independence, travel, and flexibility in the scheduling of working hours. The Executive Director and Secretary is appointed by the Board of Directors of the CMS, reports to the CMS President and represents the CMS to universities, governments, the corporate sector, institutes, and to other scholarly societies and officials.?The Executive Director is responsible to the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors of the CMS for the operations of the CMS Executive Office and for the other administrative office throughout Canada. He/she works in close contact with the CMS President and has the responsibility for aspects of the Society?s publications, meetings, fundraising, web site, projects, and operations.?Some restructuring of the current duties in the position is possible, to align them with the skills of an outstanding applicant.?The starting date is negotiable, but in any case no later than July 1, 2009.?The ability to assume some duties on a part-time basis prior to July 2009 is an asset. Qualifications: Experience in an academic and research environment or a doctoral degree in mathematics is preferable. The candidate should have: prior administrative or managerial experience; excellent organizational and interpersonal skills; very strong analytical and problem-solving skills; and superior and proven communication skills (preferably in both English and French); experience in setting and managing budgets; and the ability to develop and implement program support and promote the work and programs of the CMS. Experience in fundraising and promotion is a valuable asset. The candidate will work principally out of the CMS Executive Office in Ottawa. The deadline for applications is February 27, 2009 at 4pm. Please submit applications, including a resume, cover letter and names of at least three references by fax, email or mail to: Executive Director Search Canadian Mathematical Society 1785 Alta Vista Drive, Suite 105 Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1G 3Y6 Attn: Dr Tony Lau, CMS President Tel: 613-733-2662 FAX: 613-733-8994 e-mail: president@cms.math.ca From gpwright at cms.math.ca Mon Jan 26 08:39:12 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Mon Jan 26 08:37:53 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-15?q?Directeur_administratif_et_secr=E9taire?= Message-ID: Directeur administratif et secr?taire La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC), l?un des principaux regroupements math?matiques du pays, cherche ? pourvoir le poste de directeur administratif et secr?taire. C?est un poste unique et stimulant, id?al pour une personne ?nergique, dynamique, enthousiaste et ayant l?esprit d?initiative qui souhaite se distinguer sur la sc?ne nationale. La SMC a pour mission de rehausser la capacit? du Canada d?innover et d??tre concurrentiel ? l??chelle mondiale en favorisant la d?couverte et l?apprentissage des math?matiques, et les applications qui en d?coulent, au Canada. Forte de ses quelque 900 membres du Canada et d?ailleurs, la SMC encourage les initiatives visant ? d?pister et ? former de jeunes math?maticiens par l?entremise de concours, de camps et d?autres activit?s math?matiques ?ducatives. La SMC rehausse l?activit? math?matique au pays par l?organisation de congr?s nationaux et la publication de revues, de livres et de bulletins, en format papier et ?lectronique. Les activit?s de la SMC sont men?es par un grand nombre de b?n?voles d?vou?s et enthousiastes, appuy?s par un personnel comp?tent de sept personnes au bureau administratif d?Ottawa. Responsabilit?s?: Le directeur administratif et secr?taire doit ?tre une personne efficace et exp?riment?e, capable de g?rer des points de vue diversifi?s avec le doigt? et la courtoisie n?cessaire dans un organisme en grande partie b?n?vole. Le ou la titulaire de ce poste ? plein temps doit poss?der un bon jugement, ?tre autonome, pouvoir se d?placer fr?quemment et ?tre souple quant ? son horaire de travail. Le directeur administratif et secr?taire est nomm? par le conseil d?administration de la SMC, rel?ve du pr?sident de la SMC et repr?sente la SMC aupr?s des universit?s, des gouvernements, du secteur priv?, des instituts et d?autres soci?t?s professionnelles et leurs dirigeants. Cette personne est redevable au comit? ex?cutif et au conseil d?administration de la SMC pour ce qui est du fonctionnement du bureau administratif d?Ottawa et des autres bureaux de la SMC au Canada. Elle travaille en ?troite collaboration avec le pr?sident de la SMC, et s?occupe de divers aspects des publications, des congr?s, des activit?s de financement, du site internet, des projets et du fonctionnement. Une certaine restructuration des t?ches actuelles du titulaire du poste est possible, de mani?re ? tenir compte des comp?tences d?un candidat ou d?une candidate remarquable. La date d?entr?e en fonction est n?gociable, mais ne doit pas d?passer le 1er juillet 2009. La possibilit? d?assumer certaines t?ches ? temps partiel avant cette date est toutefois un atout. Qualifications: La pr?f?rence sera accord?e ? une personne qui poss?de de l?exp?rience en milieu universitaire et en recherche, ou un doctorat en math?matiques. Cette personne poss?dera : de l?exp?rience en gestion; un sens aigu de l?organisation et un excellent sens des relations humaines; une tr?s bonne capacit? d?analyse et de r?solution de probl?mes; des comp?tences linguistiques exceptionnelles et ?prouv?es (pr?f?rablement en anglais et en fran?ais); de l?exp?rience en planification et en gestion budg?taire; des aptitudes pour l??laboration et l?application de programmes qui soutiennent et stimulent les activit?s de la SMC. Une bonne connaissance des campagnes de financement et de promotion sera consid?r?e comme un atout. Le bureau administratif de la SMC ? Ottawa est le lieu de travail principal. Les personnes int?ress?es ont jusqu?au 27 f?vrier 2009 ? 16 h pour poser leur candidature. Veuillez faire parvenir votre demande, accompagn?e d?un curriculum vitae, d?une lettre de pr?sentation et d?au moins trois r?f?rences, par fax, par courriel ou par la poste ??: Concours pour le poste de directeur administratif Soci?t? math?matique du Canada 1785, chemin Alta Vista, bureau 105 Ottawa (Ontario) Canada K1G 3Y6 A/s de : Tony Lau, pr?sident de la SMC T?l. : 613-733-2662 - Fax : 613-733-8994 - Courriel : president@smc.math.ca From gpwright at cms.math.ca Mon Jan 26 09:05:35 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Mon Jan 26 09:04:16 2009 Subject: [cmath] DAVID POOLE TO RECEIVE THE 2009 CMS EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AWARD Message-ID: Ottawa Ontario - The Canadian Mathematical Society is pleased to award the 2009 CMS Excellence in Teaching Award to Professor David Poole, Department of Mathematics, Trent University. The Award will be presented at the Society's 2009 Summer Meeting in St. John?s, Newfoundland. The award recognizes sustained and distinguished contributions in teaching at the post-secondary undergraduate level at a Canadian institution. Nelson Education Ltd., a well-known Canadian publisher, is a supporter of this Award. "David?s success as a teacher reflects his love of teaching, as does the fact that he did not take a teaching reduction while he was chair of our Department from 1996 to 2001. He is an exemplary academic citizen: diligent, inclusive, keen, sanguine, serious and modest?, said Reem Yassawi, the Department's Chair. His students describe him as a gifted mathematician whose love and passion for the subject shine through all of his interactions with his classes and as a multi-talented professional, working diligently and with considerable creativity and notable success to enrich the lives of his students. His depth of knowledge allows him great flexibility in the range of examples and applications that he brings to the teaching of almost any mathematical concept. They also praise the way he prepares his assignments in a way that the understanding of the material increases significantly at the end of the assignment due to careful choice and ordering of the questions. David?s development of the course MATH 2080 (Mathematics for the contemporary classroom) was crucial in serving the needs of prospective elementary school teachers and it reflects his conviction that a mathematician has a responsibility to educate, and educate effectively. ?David is a gifted Teacher, both inside the classroom and out, who truly cares about his students. His teaching is the model on which I try to base my own. He has been a strong and positive influence on the lives of students at Trent for many years, and his influence has now been extended to many more students through his text book?, said Joy Morris, a former student of David and an associate professor at the University of Lethbridge. Professor Poole's excellence in teaching has been recognized through his numerous teaching awards: Trent University?s Symons Award for Excellence in Teaching (1995), an Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations Teaching Award (2002), a 3M Teaching Fellowship (2003), a Leadership in Faculty Teaching Award (Ontario, 2007), and several merit awards for excellence in teaching. He has given many invited talks related to mathematics education, notably the John F. Randolph Lecture to the Seaway Section of the Mathematical Association of America in 2005. David Poole completed his undergraduate studies at Acadia University and his graduate studies at McMaster University, where he received a Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1984. He has taught at Trent University since then and is currently Professor of Mathematics. He chaired Trent?s Mathematics Department from 1996?2000 and from 2001?03. From 2002?2007, he was Associate Dean of Arts and Science (Teaching and Learning) with responsibility for Trent?s Instructional Development Centre, Academic Skills Centre, Trent Centre for Community-Based Education, classroom technologies, and the university?s academic integrity policy. Professor Poole?s research interests are in ring theory, discrete mathematics, and mathematics education. He is the author of the textbook Linear Algebra: A Modern Introduction (Brooks/Cole), currently in its second edition and used in universities and colleges worldwide. For more information, contact: Dr. Graham P. Wright Executive Director Canadian Mathematical Society Tel: (613) 733-2662 director@cms.math.ca Dr. Joseph Khoury Excellence in Teaching Award Selection Committee Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Ottawa Tel: 613-562-5800 ext 3487 jkhoury@uottawa.ca From gpwright at cms.math.ca Mon Jan 26 09:08:42 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Mon Jan 26 09:07:23 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?utf-8?q?DAVID_POOLE=2C_LAUR=C3=89AT_DU_PRIX_D=E2=80=99?= =?utf-8?q?EXCELLENCE_EN_ENSEIGNEMENT_2009_DE_LA_SMC?= Message-ID: DAVID POOLE, LAUR?AT DU PRIX D?EXCELLENCE EN ENSEIGNEMENT 2009 DE LA SMC Ottawa (Ontario) ? La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC) est fi?re de d?cerner son Prix d?excellence en enseignement 2009 au professeur David Poole, du d?partement de math?matiques de l?Universit? Trent. Il recevra son prix ? la R?union d??t? 2009 de la Soci?t?, qui se tiendra ? St. John?s (T.-N.-L.). Ce prix r?compense des contributions exceptionnelles et soutenues en enseignement au coll?gial et au premier cycle universitaire dans un ?tablissement canadien. Nelson Education Ltd., maison d??dition canadienne de renom, commandite notamment ce prix. ? L?excellence de David en tant que professeur t?moigne de sa passion pour l?enseignement, tout comme son refus de r?duire sa charge d?enseignement durant son mandat ? la direction de notre d?partement de 1996 ? 2001, souligne Reem Yassawi, directeur actuel du d?partement. C?est un universitaire exemplaire : il est consciencieux, ouvert, enthousiaste, passionn?, s?rieux et modeste. ? Ses ?tudiants le d?crivent comme un math?maticien surdou?, dont la passion pour ce qu?il fait transpara?t dans ses rapports avec ses ?tudiants, et un professionnel aux nombreux talents qui, par sa diligence et sa grande cr?ativit?, parvient avec brio ? enrichir la vie de ses ?tudiants. Sa connaissance approfondie de la mati?re lui donne acc?s ? un immense bassin d?exemples et d?applications dans lequel il peut puiser pour enseigner ? peu pr?s n?importe quel concept math?matique. Ses ?tudiants vantent ?galement la qualit? des travaux et devoirs qu?il leur confie, dont l?organisation et le choix minutieux des questions a n?cessairement pour effet d?approfondir leur compr?hension de la mati?re. On doit en outre ? David l??laboration du cours MATH 2080 (Math?matiques pour les ?coles primaires d?aujourd?hui), qui a combl? une grande lacune dans la formation des futurs enseignants du primaire, et qui illustre sa conviction qu?un math?maticien a le devoir d??duquer, et de le faire avec efficacit?. ? David est un enseignant exceptionnel, tant dans une classe qu?? l?ext?rieur, et qui a ses ?tudiants ? c?ur. En tant qu?enseignante, je m?efforce de suivre son mod?le. Il a une influence immense et positive sur la vie des ?tudiants de Trent depuis de nombreuses ann?es, et cette influence s??tend d?sormais ? de nombreux autres ?tudiants gr?ce ? son manuel ?, t?moigne Joy Morris, ancienne ?tudiante de David devenue professeure agr?g?e ? l?Universit? de Lethbridge. L?excellence en enseignement du professeur Poole lui a valu de nombreuses r?compenses : le prix Symons de l?Universit? Trent (1995); un prix de l?Union des associations des professeurs des universit?s de l?Ontario (2002); un prix 3M (2003); le Prix de leadership professoral (Ontario, 2007) ainsi que plusieurs autres prix d?excellence en enseignement. Il a prononc? de nombreuses conf?rences sur l?enseignement des math?matiques, notamment la conf?rence John F. Randolph ? la section Seaway de l?AAM (Mathematical Association of America) en 2005. David Poole a fait ses ?tudes de premier cycle ? l?Universit? Acadia, et ses ?tudes sup?rieures ? l?Universit? McMaster, o? il a obtenu son doctorat en math?matiques en 1984. Il enseigne ? l?Universit? Trent depuis, o? il est maintenant professeur de math?matiques. Il a ?t? directeur du d?partement de math?matiques de 1996 ? 2000, et de 2001 ? 2003. De 2002 ? 2007, ? titre de vice-doyen des arts et des sciences (? l?enseignement et ? l?apprentissage), il ?tait charg? de nombreux centres (Instructional Development Centre, Academic Skills Centre, Trent Centre for Community-Based Education), des technologies d?aide ? l?enseignement et de la politique d?int?grit? de l?Universit?. En recherche, le professeur Poole s?int?resse ? la th?orie des anneaux, aux math?matiques discr?tes et ? l?enseignement des math?matiques. Il est l?auteur du manuel Linear algebra: A Modern Introduction (Brooks/Cole), qui en est ? sa deuxi?me ?dition et qui est utilis? dans des universit?s et coll?ges du monde entier. Renseignements : Graham P. Wright Directeur administratif Soci?t? math?matique du Canada T?l. : 613-733-2662 directeur@smc.math.ca Joseph Khoury Prix d?excellence en enseignement Comit? de s?lection D?partement de math?matiques et de statistique Universit? d?Ottawa T?l. : 613-562-5800 poste 3487 jkhoury@uottawa.ca From lchang at fields.utoronto.ca Tue Jan 27 12:10:19 2009 From: lchang at fields.utoronto.ca (Luke Chang) Date: Tue Jan 27 12:10:29 2009 Subject: [cmath] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR FIELDS INSTITUTE FELLOWS Message-ID: Fields Institute Fellows - Call for Nominations In 2002, the Fields Institute designated a number of people as Fields Institute Fellows in recognition of outstanding contributions to the Fields Institute and its activities. It is a lifetime appointment. Each year, new appointments may be made to recognize others who have contributed in a significant way to activities at the Fields Institute and within the Canadian mathematical community. This is a call for nominations for 2009 Fields Institute Fellows. To nominate someone, please send a CV plus a letter briefly outlining why your candidate is a worthy nominee, to: The Director Fields Institute 222 College Street, 2nd floor Toronto, Ontario M5T 3J1, CANADA or to proposals@fields.utoronto.ca The deadline is February 15, 2009. Winners of the CRM-Fields-PIMS prize are automatically recommended for fellowship. No member of the current Fields Institute Board of Directors nor any continuing member of the Fields Institute Scientific Advisory Panel will be eligible. Nominations are encouraged from all qualified individuals, including women, members of visible minorities, and persons with disabilities. FIF selection committee members for 2009: Barbara Keyfitz (Chair) - Fields Juris Steprans - Fields Gila Hanna - Toronto Cam Stewart - Waterloo Tom Hurd - McMaster From akelm at cms.math.ca Tue Jan 27 12:36:32 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Tue Jan 27 12:36:35 2009 Subject: [cmath] Tenure-Track Positions in Mathematics and Statistics - St. Francis Xavier University Message-ID: Tenure-Track Position in Mathematics and Statistics St. Francis Xavier University Applications are invited for two tenure-track appointments in Mathematics and Statistics at St. Francis Xavier University to commence July 1, 2009, subject to budgetary approval. Applicants should hold a Ph.D. in Mathematics, Statistics, or closely related field. Salary and rank are commensurate with qualifications and experience. Applicants from all areas will be considered, but we are particularly interested in individuals specializing in Probability, Applied Mathematics, and Algebra, and candidates who exhibit a commitment to excellence in both teaching and research. The successful candidates will be willing to teach some introductory statistics courses. The selection process will commence February 23, 2009 and continue until the position is filled. Applicants should send curriculum vitae, teaching and research statements, and the contact information for at least three references to: Dr. Martin van Bommel, Chair Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science St. Francis Xavier University PO Box 5000 Antigonish, NS B2G 2W5, Canada Submissions via email to mvanbomm@stfx.ca are encouraged. Math - 2009-01 All qualified candidates, especially women and members of minority groups, are encouraged to apply; however, in accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority. St. Francis Xavier University is committed to the principle of employment equity. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Applicants should send curriculum vitae, teaching and research statements, and the contact information for at least three references to: Dr. Martin van Bommel, Chair Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science St. Francis Xavier University PO Box 5000 Antigonish, NS B2G 2W5 Canada Submissions via email to mvanbomm@stfx.ca are encouraged. Math - 2009-02 All qualified candidates, especially women and members of minority groups, are encouraged to apply; however, in accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority. St. Francis Xavier University is committed to the principle of employment equity. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: stfx-stats.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 144147 bytes Desc: Url : https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090127/8093bda4/stfx-stats-0001.pdf From gpwright at cms.math.ca Wed Jan 28 10:07:02 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Wed Jan 28 10:04:47 2009 Subject: [cmath] Call for nominations - 2009 DOCTORAL PRIZE/APPEL DE MISES EN CANDIDATURE - PRIX DE DOCTORAT 2009 Message-ID: Deadliine January 31 - Date limite le 31 janvier [Fran?ais ? suivre] ********************* Call for nominations - 2009 DOCTORAL PRIZE The CMS Doctoral Prize recognizes outstanding performance by a doctoral student. The prize is awarded to the person who received a Ph.D. from a Canadian university in the preceding year (January 1st to December 31st) and whose overall performance in graduate school is judged to be the most outstanding. Although the dissertation will be the most important criterion (the impact of the results, the creativity of the work, the quality of exposition, etc.) it will not be the only one. Other publications, activities in support of students and other accomplishments will also be considered. Nominations that were not successful in the first competition, will be kept active for a further year (with no possibility of updating the file) and will be considered by the Doctoral Prize Selection Committee in the following year?s competition. The CMS Doctoral Prize will consist of an award of $500, a two-year complimentary membership in the CMS, a framed Doctoral Prize certificate and a stipend for travel expenses to attend the CMS meeting to receive the award and present a plenary lecture. Nominations Candidates must be nominated by their university and the nominator is responsible for preparing the documentation described below, and submitting the nomination to the address below. No university may nominate more than one candidate and the deadline for the receipt of nominations is January 31, 2009. The documentation shall consist of: ? A curriculum vitae prepared by the student. ? A resum? of the student?s work written by the student and which must not exceed ten pages. The resum? should include a brief description of the thesis and why it is important, as well as of any other contributions made by the student while a doctoral student. ? Three letters of recommendation of which one should be from the thesis advisor and one from an external reviewer. A copy of the external examiner?s report may be substituted for the latter. More than three letters of recommendation are not accepted. ********************* APPEL DE MISES EN CANDIDATURE - PRIX DE DOCTORAT 2009 La SMC a cr?? ce Prix de doctorat pour r?compenser le travail exceptionnel d?un ?tudiant au doctorat. Le prix sera d?cern? ? une personne qui aura re?u son dip?me de troisi?me cycle d?une universit? canadienne l?ann?e pr?c?dente (entre le 1er janvier et le 31 d?cembre) et dont les r?sultats pour l?ensemble des ?tudes sup?rieures seront jug?s les meilleurs. La dissertation constituera le principal crit?re de s?lection (impact des r?sultats, cr?ativit?, qualit? de l?exposition, etc.), mais ne sera pas le seul aspect ?valu?. On tiendra ?galement compte des publications de l??tudiant, de son engagement dans la vie ?tudiante et de ses autres r?alisations. Les mises en candidature qui ne seront pas choisies dans leur premi?re comp?tition seront consid?r?es pour une ann?e additionelle (sans possibilit? de mise ? jour du dossier), et seront r?vis?es par le comit? de s?lection du Prix de doctorat l?an prochain. Le laur?at du Prix de doctorat de la SMC aura droit ? une bourse de 500 $. De plus, la SMC lui offrira l?adh?sion gratuite ? la Soci?t? pendant deux ans et lui remettra un certificat encadr? et une subvention pour frais de d?placements lui permettant d?assister ? la r?union de la SMC o? il recevra son prix et pr?sentera une conf?rence. Candidatures Les candidats doivent ?tre nomm?s par leur universit?; la personne qui propose un candidat doit se charger de regrouper les documents d?crits aux paragraphes suivants et de faire parvenir la candidature ? l?adresse ci-dessous. Aucune universit? ne peut nommer plus d?un candidat. Les candidatures doivent parvenir ? la SMC au plus tard le 31 janvier 2009. Le dossier sera constitu? des documents suivants : ? Un curriculum vitae r?dig? par l??tudiant. ? Un r?sum? du travail du candidat d?au plus dix pages, r?dig? par l??tudiant, o? celui-ci d?crira bri?vement sa th?se et en expliquera l?importance, et ?num?rera toutes ses autres r?alisations pendant ses ?tudes de doctorat. ? Trois lettres de recommandation, dont une du directeur de th?se et une d?un examinateur de l?ext?rieur (une copie de son rapport serait aussi acceptable). Le comit? n?acceptera pas plus de trois lettres de recommandation. Pr?sident du Comit? de s?lection du Prix de doctorat Chair, Doctoral Prize Selection Committee Soci?t? math?matique du Canada / Canadian Mathematical Society 1785 Alta Vista Drive, Suite 105 Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1G 3Y6 From nassif at math.ubc.ca Wed Jan 28 14:35:42 2009 From: nassif at math.ubc.ca (Nassif Ghoussoub) Date: Wed Jan 28 14:37:43 2009 Subject: [cmath] "Stimulus Budget" cuts granting councils Message-ID: <86ECD1F2-3A81-4516-B2F7-7C8324699BE0@math.ubc.ca> Please read this analysis on how the new budget affects higher education? note that the granting councils were cut and the money put into graduate scholarships. It is mind-boggling. The following document highlights key items announced in today?s federal budget. A more comprehensive survey of all budget measures related to higher education and university research will follow tomorrow. Introduction Finance Minister Jim Flaherty today presented his fourth budget since the government took office in January 2006. With the country in a recession, Budget 2009 proposes a major economic stimulus package, with more than $40 billion in support of the Canadian economy over the next two years. Most of this spending is for economic stimulus measures that are ?timely, targeted and temporary?. Advantage Canada and the government?s Science and Technology Strategy remain important documents of reference for the government as it looks to spend money on projects that ?protect the jobs of today, while readying our economy to create the jobs of tomorrow?. In this context, AUCC strongly welcomes the investments in higher education and university research infrastructure announced in the budget, specifically the knowledge infrastructure investment that relates to our pre-budget submission to Minister Flaherty. Industry Canada will manage a $2 billion infrastructure fund to support deferred maintenance, repair projects and construction at postsecondary institutions. A number of other significant announcements related to infrastructure have a university link, notably $750 million for current and future activities of the Canada Foundation for Innovation, including the launch of one or more new competitions by December 2010. Mr. Flaherty's budget plan predicts a significant deficit of $33.7 billion for the 2009-10 fiscal year and $29.8 billion the following year. Against this backdrop, 21 federal departments and agencies were asked to undertake a strategic review of their expenditures. The reviews identified savings of $586 million a year that are being redirected to fund new initiatives. This exercise resulted in reductions in the granting agencies? budgets of $17.7 million in 2009-10, followed by a decrease to $43 million in 2010-11, and to $87.2 million in 2011-12. No additional support for the Indirect Costs Program was announced. However, additional funding of $87.5 million was announced for the Canada Graduate Scholarship program. The budget will require the support of newly-appointed Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff to pass in the House of Commons, as the Bloc Qu?b?cois and New Democratic Party have already indicated that they would oppose the budget. Mr. Ignatieff is holding a special Liberal caucus meeting tonight and will inform the House of Commons tomorrow whether Liberal party members will support the budget. University infrastructure AUCC?s pre-budget brief recommended including a targeted university infrastructure initiative to address the $2.4 billion in universities? urgent accumulated deferred maintenance backlog as part of an effective economic stimulus package. Budget 2009 provides up to $2 billion over two years for accelerating repairs, maintenance and construction at postsecondary institutions. The funds under this initiative will be managed by Industry Canada, with 70 percent of the funding dedicated to university infrastructure and the remaining 30 percent for infrastructure at colleges. While many details have yet to be worked out, the budget proposes that allocation will be based on project merit and readiness and the funds will pay for up to half of project costs, leveraging an equivalent amount from other partners. Preference will be given to projects at universities that can improve the quality of research and development at the institution. Projects at colleges will strengthen their ability to deliver advanced knowledge and skills training. In view of the partnership funding and project readiness requirements, having projects that are vetted by the provinces will help to expedite project approval. Canada Foundation for Innovation Additional funding for the Canada Foundation for Innovation is a major component of the government's infrastructure package. Budget 2009 provides $750 million for CFI, including $150 million in additional funding for the competition currently under way, the results of which are scheduled to be announced in June. The CFI funding also includes $600 million for future activities of the foundation, including the launch of one or more new competitions by December 2010 in support of priority areas identified by the Minister of Industry in consultation with CFI and guided by the foundation's strategic plan, which is to be developed by CFI in collaboration with the Minister of Industry. Budget 2009 sends a strong message that the government is committed to CFI for the longer term, stating that the government will ?continue providing support for leading-edge research infrastructure through the Canada Foundation for Innovation.? Federal granting agencies Budget 2009 indicates that the base budget of the three granting agencies will be reduced over the next three years, as part of the government?s strategic review process. The combined budgets of the granting agencies will decrease by $17.7 million in 2009-10, followed by a decrease to $43 million in 2010-11, and to $87.2 million in 2011-12. By 2011-12, the decrease represents a five percent cut from the current levels of approximately $1.7 billion. This decrease means that the combined level of funding in 2011-12 of the three granting agencies will be the same as in 2007-08, not taking into account inflation. The granting agencies undertook the strategic review process in 2008, along with 18 other departments and agencies, in order to identify low- priority areas where savings could be achieved, so that funding could be redirected within the organization or to other government priorities. The budget states that the resulting savings are being redirected to fund new initiatives, including funding for a temporary increase in the Canada Graduate Scholarships program (see separate item). Details regarding which of the granting agencies? programs and /or expenditures will be affected by these cuts will be known only as of February 3. Institutional costs of research No new investment in the Indirect Costs Program was announced in Budget 2009. Consequently, we anticipate the budget of the program will remain at its current level of $330 million for the year 2009-10, although we will need to await confirmation of this funding level on February 3 (as per the granting agency item above). Should funding remain at the current level of $330 million in 2009-10, the overall reimbursement rate of the program will fall from its current level of 25 percent to approximately 23.5 percent in 2009-10, given that the direct costs funding base on which the allocation is made (a three- year average of granting agency funding received between 2005-06 and 2007-08) has increased. The overall reimbursement rate in 2009-10 will be the lowest since the permanent program was established in 2003. In its pre-budget submission to Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, AUCC called for a minimum additional investment of $21 million in the Indirect Costs Program, in order to maintain the current overall reimbursement rate at 25 percent in 2009-10. Graduate student support As part of its effort to develop the highly skilled workforce of tomorrow, the federal government has committed to providing an additional $87.5 million over three years, starting in 2009-10, to the three federal granting agencies to expand temporarily the Canada Graduate Scholarship program. NSERC and CIHR will each receive $35 million while SSHRC will receive $17.5 million, to be focused on business-related degrees. The new funds will provide for an additional 500 doctoral scholarships, valued at $35,000 each per year for three years beginning in 2009?10, and an additional 1,000 master?s scholarships, valued at $17,500 each for one year, in both 2009?10 and 2010?11. The CGS program was created in Budget 2003 and currently supports 2,500 master?s and 2,500 doctoral students. Budget 2009 also provides an additional $3.5 million over the next two years to the Industrial Research and Development Internship program. This will enable the program to offer an additional 600 graduate internships in science and business. The program was first announced in Budget 2007 and received $8.6 million worth of funding over two years to support 1,200 graduate and post-doctoral students in businesses across Canada. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090128/4570c704/attachment.htm From akelm at cms.math.ca Mon Feb 2 15:07:29 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Mon Feb 2 15:07:31 2009 Subject: [cmath] Quantitative Analyst - D. E. Shaw group Message-ID: Quantitative Analyst The D. E. Shaw group, a global investment and technology development firm with approximately US $30 billion in aggregate investment capital, is looking for exceptionally talented quantitative analysts.? "Quants" at the D. E. Shaw group apply mathematical techniques and write software to develop and analyze statistical models for our computerized financial trading strategies.? Specific responsibilities range from examining trading data in an effort to increase profitability, decrease risk, and reduce transaction costs to conceiving new trading ideas and devising the simulations needed to test them.? Successful quant candidates have traditionally been the top students in their respective math, physics, engineering, and computer science programs; a considerable number have also competed successfully in the United States and International Math Olympiads as well as the Putnam Competition.? To apply, e-mail your resume and a cover letter to CanMS-Quant@career.deshaw.com. Members of the D. E. Shaw group do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment From wanda at mun.ca Tue Feb 3 07:07:36 2009 From: wanda at mun.ca (Wanda Heath) Date: Tue Feb 3 09:50:52 2009 Subject: [cmath] AAC Mini Course Message-ID: <49883388.3090407@mun.ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: lopez.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 170244 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090203/9f33e485/lopez.pdf From bert.juettler at jku.at Wed Feb 4 06:16:59 2009 From: bert.juettler at jku.at (Bert Juettler) Date: Thu Feb 5 13:57:33 2009 Subject: [cmath] PhD student position / early postdoc positions at Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria Message-ID: <200902041216.59146.bert.juettler@jku.at> Dear Madam / Sir, please post the advtersiment below in your mailing list. Thanks a lot! Best regards Bert Juettler ************************************************************************** Positions for PhD students, early post docs and visiting scientists at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria The EU-funded Initial Training Network SAGA (www.saga-network.eu) is looking for promising candidates to fill its available positions. In particular, the following positions are available at the Institute of Applied Geometry, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, (www.ag.jku.at): * 1 individual 3-year PhD student position for an "early stage researcher" * 1 position or several positions for initial training of "experienced researchers" (typically postdocs) for a duration of at least three and at most 15 months * 1 or 2 positions for "visiting scientists" for a duration of up to two months. The successful candidates will contribute to workpackages 1 (Change of Representation) and 3 (Algebraic Geometry for CAD Applications) of SAGA. For all positions, the time of employment must end not later than October 31, 2012. All candidates must satisfy the eligibility criteria as described in Section III.3(2) of Annex III: Specific Provisions, Marie Curie Initial training networks, which is available at ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/fp7-mga-annex3intramulti_en.pdf The closing date for applications is March 31, 2009. Female candidates are encouraged to apply. In order to apply for these positions, please send your CV and an application letter to Bert Juettler Institute of Applied Geometry, Johannes Kepler University Altenberger Str. 69, 4040 Linz, Austria For more information on the SAGA positions at the Johannes Kepler Universit?t , and to submit applications for a position, contact Professor Bert J?ttler: Bert.Juettler@jku.at ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bert J?ttler ----> bert.juettler@jku.at Institute of Applied Geometry, Johannes Kepler University Altenberger Str. 69, 4040 Linz, Austria Phone | Fax: +43/0 732 2468 9178 | 29162 Secretary: Monika Bayer ----> monika.bayer@jku.at Phone: +43/0 732 2468 9162 http://www.ag.jku.at ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference on Geometry - Theory and Applications Plzen, Czech Republic, June 29 - July 2, 2009 www.kma.zcu.cz/cgta2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From gpwright at cms.math.ca Fri Feb 6 08:46:47 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Fri Feb 6 08:44:01 2009 Subject: [cmath] SUN LIFE FINANCIAL CANADIAN OPEN MATHEMATICS CHALLENGE CHAMPIONS Message-ID: SUN LIFE FINANCIAL CANADIAN OPEN MATHEMATICS CHALLENGE CHAMPIONS OTTAWA, Ontario ? Eight students earn top honours and nineteen students named provincial winners in the 2008 Sun Life Financial Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge (COMC). ?The COMC is organized and administered by the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) in collaboration with the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (University of Waterloo).?Over 8200 students from all across Canada wrote the thirteenth Open on November 19, 2008, an increase of 12.4% from 2007.?Students had to solve 12 questions during the two and one-half hour time limit. ?Sun Life Financial has been supporting the Canadian Mathematical Society for over 60 years, and we are pleased to continue the tradition of promoting excellence in mathematics," said Dean Connor, President, Sun Life Financial Canada. "Congratulations to the Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge champions on a tremendous achievement." Subscriptions to the Canadian Mathematical Society?s internationally recognized problem solving journal ?CRUX with MAYHEM? are awarded to the schools of those students invited to write the 2009 CMO. The top eight contestants in the 2008 Open are: Frank Ban, Vincent Massey Secondary School, Windsor, On; Robin Cheng , Pinetree Secondary School, Coquitlam, BC; Neil Gurram, Indus Center for Academic Excellence (ICAE),Troy, MI; Jonathan Schneider, University of Toronto Schools, Toronto, ON; Danny Shi, Sir Winston Churchill High School, Calgary, AB; Chen Sun, A.B. Lucas Secondary School, London, On; ?Jarno Sun, Western Canada High School, Calgary, AB; Jonathan Zhou, Pinetree Secondary School, Coquitlam, BC. For outstanding performance in the COMC, the 2008 Open Provincial Winners are: Alberta ? Jarno Sun, Western Canada High School, Calgary; ?British Columbia ? Robin Cheng and Jonathan Zhou, Pinetree Secondary School, Coquitlam; Manitoba ? Hyung Muk Youn, Shaftesbury High School, Winnipeg;?New Brunswick ? Xi Zhang, Saint John High School, Saint John; ?Newfoundland and Labrador ? Jordan Anstey, New World Island Academy, Summerford; Matthew Sullivan, Corner Brook Regional High School, Corner Brook; ?Nova Scotia ? Ji Duk Bae and Maria Tao, Halifax West High School, Halifax; ?Ontario Central ? Daniel Yoo, Thornhill Secondary School,?Thornhill; ?Ontario East ? James Rickards, Colonel By Secondary School, Gloucester; Xiaoye Yin, O?Neill Collegiate Vocational Institute, Oshawa; ?Ontario Metro ? Jonathan Schneider, University of Toronto Schools, Toronto; ?Ontario North ? Yuhan Chen, Sir Winston Churchill Collegiate Vocational Institute, Thunder Bay; ?Ontario West ? Chen Sun, A.B. Lucas Secondary School, London; ?Prince Edward Island ? Shengyi Shi, Charlottetown Rural High School, Charlottetown;?Qu?bec ? Da Qi Chen, Centennial Regional High School, Greenfield Park; Saskatchewan ? Hao Sun, Centennial Collegiate, Saskatoon;?International ?? Neil Gurram, Indus Center for Academic Excellence (ICAE), troy, Michigan. ?All the winners have done extremely well on a very challenging competition and have demonstrated analytical and creative problem-solving skills that are so essential for a wide range of career options," said Dr. Neal Madras, York University and Chair of the CMS Mathematical Competitions Committee. Approximately 75 of the top students from the 200 Sun Life Financial Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge have been invited to write the 2009 Canadian Mathematical Olympiad (CMO).?The CMO is Canada's premier mathematics competition organized and administered by the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS).??These top students will be busy honing their problem solving skills as they prepare for the 2009 CMO and try to be one of six students who will be chosen to represent Canada at the 2009 International Mathematical Olympiad in Bremen, Germany from 10 to 22 July 2009?, said Dr. Graham Wright, CMS Executive Director. ?These valuable enrichment activities are only possible because of the voluntary help received from many school, college and university teachers.? The 2008 Open results, questions and solutions are available at: www.cms.math.ca/Competitions/COMC/ For more information, contact: Dr. Graham P. Wright Executive Director Canadian Mathematical Society (613) 733-2662 director@cms.math.ca or Mr. Ian VanderBurgh Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing University of Waterloo (519) 888-4567, ext 32358 chair-comcc@cms.math.ca From gpwright at cms.math.ca Fri Feb 6 08:49:22 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Fri Feb 6 08:46:35 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-15?q?CHAMPIONS_DU_D=C9FI_OUVERT_CANADIEN_DE_M?= =?iso-8859-15?q?ATH=C9MATIQUES_FINANCI=C8RE_SUN_LIFE?= Message-ID: CHAMPIONS DU D?FI OUVERT CANADIEN DE MATH?MATIQUES FINANCI?RE SUN LIFE OTTAWA (Ontario) - Huit ?l?ves ressortent grands gagnants et dix-neuf autres sont d?clar?s champions provinciaux ? la suite du D?fi ouvert canadien de math?matiques Financi?re Sun Life 2008 (DOCM), organis? et g?r? par la Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC), en collaboration avec le Centre d??ducation en math?matiques et en informatique (CEMI) de l'Universit? de Waterloo. Plus de 8 200 ?l?ves des quatre coins du Canada ont pass? l?examen du treizi?me DOCM le 19 novembre 2008, soit une augmentation de 12.4% de l?an dernier. ?Les concurrents devaient r?pondre ? douze questions en deux heures et demie. ? La Financi?re Sun?Life soutient la Soci?t? math?matique du Canada depuis plus de 60?ans, et nous sommes heureux de poursuivre cette tradition qui consiste ? promouvoir l?excellence dans le domaine des math?matiques, a indiqu? Dean Connor, pr?sident, Financi?re Sun?Life Canada. F?licitations aux gagnants du D?fi ouvert canadien de math?matiques pour leur r?alisation remarquable. ? ??Le DOCM est une activit? parascolaire de math?matiques offerte pendant la session d?automne. Il est ? la fois accessible ? un grand nombre d'?l?ves tout en ?tant stimulant m?me pour les meilleurs ?l?ves du pays, souligne M.?Ian VanderBurgh, directeur du CEMI et pr?sident du Comit? du DOCM de la SMC. Le DOCM constitue en outre une ?preuve de qualification ? l'Olympiade math?matique du Canada, qui aura lieu le 25 mars 2009.?? Les ?coles des ?l?ves invit?s ? l?OMC 2009 re?oivent un abonnement gratuit ? CRUX with MAYHEM, le journal de r?solution de probl?mes de renomm?e internationale de la SMC. Voici les huit premi?res positions au DOCM 2008 : Frank Ban, Vincent Massey Secondary School, Windsor, On; Robin Cheng , Pinetree Secondary School, Coquitlam, CB; Neil Gurram, Indus Center for Academic Excellence (ICAE),Troy, MI; Jonathan Schneider, University of Toronto Schools, Toronto, ON; Danny Shi, Sir Winston Churchill High School, Calgary, AB; Chen Sun, A.B. Lucas Secondary School, London, On; ?Jarno Sun, Western Canada High School, Calgary, AB; Jonathan Zhou, Pinetree Secondary School, Coquitlam, CB. Pour leur excellent r?sultat, les meilleurs concurrents d'une r?gion sont d?clar?s champions provinciaux du DOCM 2008?: Alberta ? Jarno Sun, Western Canada High School, Calgary; Colombie-Britannique ? Robin Cheng et Jonathan Zhou, Pinetree Secondary School, Coquitlam; Manitoba ? Hyung Muk Youn, Shaftesbury High School, Winnipeg;?Nouveau-Brunswick ? Xi Zhang, Saint John High School, Saint John; ?Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador ? Jordan Anstey, New World Island Academy, Summerford; Matthew Sullivan, Corner Brook Regional High School, Corner Brook; ?Nouvelle-?cosse ? Ji Duk Bae et Maria Tao, Halifax West High School, Halifax; ?Ontario Centre ? Daniel Yoo, Thornhill Secondary School,?Thornhill; ?Ontario Est ? James Rickards, Colonel By Secondary School, Gloucester; Xiaoye Yin, O?Neill Collegiate Vocational Institute, Oshawa; ?Ontario M?tro ? Jonathan Schneider, University of Toronto Schools, Toronto; ?Ontario Nord ? Yuhan Chen, Sir Winston Churchill Collegiate Vocational Institute, Thunder Bay; ?Ontario Ouest ? Chen Sun, A.B. Lucas Secondary School, London; ??le-du-Prince-?douard ? Shengyi Shi, Charlottetown Rural High School, Charlottetown;?Qu?bec ? Da Qi Chen, Centennial Regional High School, Greenfield Park; Saskatchewan ? Hao Sun, Centennial Collegiate, Saskatoon;?International ?? Neil Gurram, Indus Center for Academic Excellence (ICAE), troy, Michigan. ??Ces gagnants ont tous obtenu d?excellents r?sultats ? un concours tr?s exigeant. Ils ont fait preuve de cr?ativit? et ont manifest? des comp?tences en r?solution de probl?mes dont le Canada a absolument besoin pour demeurer concurrentiel dans l??conomie mondiale??, affirme Neal Madras, de l'Universit? York, pr?sident du Comit? des concours math?matiques de la SMC. Environ 75 des meilleurs concurrents au D?fi ouvert canadien de math?matiques Financi?re Sun Life 2008 ont ?t? invit?s ? participer ? l'Olympiade math?matique du Canada (OMC) 2009. Organis? et g?r? par la SMC, l'OMC est le plus important concours de math?matiques au pays. ??Ces ?l?ves exceptionnels s?affaireront ? perfectionner leurs comp?tences en r?solution de probl?mes pour se pr?parer ? l?OMC 2009 et tenter de se tailler une place au sein de l??quipe de six jeunes qui repr?senteront le Canada ? l?Olympiade internationale de math?matiques 2009, qui se tiendra du 10 au 22 juillet prochain ? Bremen, en Allemagne, explique Graham Wright, directeur administratif de la SMC. Ces excellentes activit?s de perfectionnement ne pourraient jamais avoir lieu si ce n'?tait de la participation b?n?vole de nombreux enseignants du secondaire, des coll?ges et des universit?s du pays.?? Les r?sultats, les questions et les solutions du DOCM 2008 sont publi?s sur le Web au?: www.smc.math.ca/Concours/DOCM/ Renseignements?: Graham P. Wright Directeur administratif Soci?t? math?matique du Canada 613-733-2662 directeur@smc.math.ca ou M. Ian VanderBurgh Centre d'?ducation en math?matiques et en informatique Universit? de Waterloo 519-888-4567, poste 32358 pres-comcc@smc.math.ca From aamirasl at ucalgary.ca Fri Feb 6 11:53:21 2009 From: aamirasl at ucalgary.ca (Amir Amiraslani) Date: Fri Feb 6 13:24:21 2009 Subject: [cmath] 2009 PIMS-MITACS GIMMC/IPSW Events Message-ID: <2299.199.126.246.171.1233939201.squirrel@199.126.246.171> The 2009 Graduate Industrial Mathematics Modelling Camp (GIMMC) and Industrial Problem Solving Workshop (IPSW) will be held from May 19 to May 29, 2009 at the University of Calgary. Both events are being organized under the auspices of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences and the MITACS Network of Centres of Excellence. Registration will begin on February 11, 2009 and end on April 9, 2009. For more information, please check http://www.pims.math.ca/industrial/workshops/2009-pims-industrial-problem-solving-workshop-and-graduate-industrial-mathemati. -- Amir Amiraslani (PhD) PIMS Industrial Coordinator Dept of Mathematics and Statistics University of Calgary Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada From gpwright at cms.math.ca Mon Feb 9 10:23:24 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Mon Feb 9 10:20:37 2009 Subject: [cmath] Call for nominations: Research Prizes Message-ID: The CMS Research Committee is inviting nominations for three prize lectureships. These prize lectureships are intended to recognize members of the Canadian mathematical community. Coxeter-James Prize Lectureship 2010 The Coxeter-James Prize Lectureship recognizes young mathematicians who have made outstanding contributions to mathematical research. The selected candidate will deliver the prize lecture at the Winter Meeting. The recipient shall be a member of the Canadian mathematical community. Nominations may be made up to ten years from the candidate?s Ph.D: researchers having their PhD degrees conferred in 1999 or later will be eligible for nomination in 2009 for the 2010 Coxeter-James prize. A nomination can be updated and will remain active for a second year unless the original nomination is made in the tenth year from the candidate?s Ph.D. Jeffrey-Wiliiams Prize Lectureship 2011 The Jeffery-Williams Prize Lectureship recognizes mathematicians who have made outstanding contributions to mathematical research. The prize lecture will be delivered at the Summer Meeting. The recipient shall be a member of the Canadian mathematical community. A nomination can be updated and will remain active for three years. Krieger-Nelson Prize Lectureship 2011 The Krieger-Nelson Prize Lectureship recognizes outstanding research by a female mathematician. The prize lecture will be delivered at the Summer Meeting. The recipient shall be a member of the Canadian mathematical community. A nomination can be updated and will remain active for two years. The deadline for nominations is June 30, 2009. Nominations and reference letters should be submitted electronically, preferably in PDF format, by the appropriate deadline, to research-prizes@cms.math.ca. Nominators should ask at least three referees to submit letters directly to the Chair of the CMS Research Committee by September 30, 2009. Some arms length referees are strongly encouraged. Nomination letters should list the chosen referees, and should include a recent curriculum vitae for the nominee, if available. Dr. Edward Bierstone Chair, Research Committee CMS Prize Lectureships Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto 40 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario M5S 2E4 From gpwright at cms.math.ca Mon Feb 9 10:32:21 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Mon Feb 9 10:29:33 2009 Subject: [cmath] Appel de mises en candidatures - prix de recherches Message-ID: Le Comit? de recherche de la SMC lance un appel de mises en candidatures pour trois de ses prix de conf?rence. Ces prix ont tous pour objectif de souligner l?excellence de membres de la communaut? math?matique canadienne. Prix Coxeter-James 2010 Le prix Coxeter-James rend hommage aux jeunes math?maticiens qui se sont distingu?s par l?excellence de leur contribution ? la recherche math?matique. La personne choisie prononcera sa conf?rence ? la R?union d?hiver. Cette personne doit ?tre membre de la communaut? math?matique canadienne. Les candidats sont admissibles jusqu?? dix ans apr?s l?obtention de leur doctorat : ceux qui ont obtenu leur doctorat en 1999 ou apr?s seront admissibles en 2009 pour le prix Coxeter-James 2010. Toute mise en candidature est modifiable et demeurera active l?ann?e suivante, ? moins que la mise en candidature originale ait ?t? faite la 10e ann?e suivant l?obtention du doctorat. Prix Jeffrey-Wiliiams 2011 Le prix Jeffery-Williams rend hommage aux math?maticiens ayant fait une contribution exceptionnelle ? la recherche math?matique. La personne choisie prononcera sa conf?rence ? la R?union d??t?. Cette personne doit ?tre membre de la communaut? math?matique canadienne. Toute mise en candidature est modifiable et demeurera active pendant trois ans. Prix Krieger-Nelson 2011 Le prix Krieger-Nelson rend hommage aux math?maticiennes qui se sont distingu?es par l?excellence de leur contribution ? la recherche math?matique. La laur?ate prononcera sa conf?rence ? la R?union d??t?. La laur?ate doit ?tre membre de la communaut? math?matique canadienne. Toute mise en candidature est modifiable et demeurera active pendant deux ans. La date limite de mises en candidature est le 30 juin 2009. Veuillez faire parvenir les mises en candidature et lettres de r?f?rence par voie ?lectronique, de pr?f?rence en format PDF, avant la date limite ? : prix-recherche@smc.math.ca Les proposants doivent faire parvenir trois lettres de r?f?rence au pr?sident du Comit? de recherche de la SMC au plus tard le 30 septembre 2009. Nous vous incitons fortement ? fournir des r?f?rences ind?pendantes. Le dossier de candidature doit comprendre le nom des personnes donn?es ? titre de r?f?rence ainsi qu?un curriculum vitae r?cent du candidat ou de la candidate, dans la mesure du possible. Dr. Edward Bierstone Pr?sident, comit? de recherches Prix de conf?rence de la SMC Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto 40 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario M5S 2E4 From gpwright at cms.math.ca Mon Feb 9 10:57:40 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Mon Feb 9 10:54:52 2009 Subject: [cmath] Adrien-Pouliot Award 2009 Message-ID: Adrien-Pouliot Award 2009 Nominations of individuals or teams of individuals who have made significant and sustained contributions to mathematics education in Canada are solicited. Such contributions are to be interpreted in the broadest possible sense and might include: community outreach programs, the development of a new program in either an academic or industrial setting, publicizing mathematics so as to make mathematics accessible to the general public, developing mathematics displays, establishing and supporting mathematics conferences and competitions for students, etc. Nominations must be submitted using the Nomination Form available from the CMS Web site at: www.cms.math.ca/Prizes/info/ap. To assure uniformity in the selection process, please follow the instructions precisely. Documentation exceeding the prescribed limits will not be considered by the Selection Committee. Individuals who made a nomination last year can renew this nomination by simply indicating their wish to do so by the deadline date. In this case, only updating materials need be provided as the original has been retained. Nominations must be received by the CMS Office no later April 30, 2009. Please send six copies of each nomination to the address given below. The Adrien Pouliot Award Canadian Mathematical Society 1785 Alta Vista Drive, Suite 105 Ottawa, ON K1G 3Y6 Canada Adrien-Pouliot Award The 2009 Adrien-Pouliot Award will be presented at the CMS Winter 2009 Meeting in Windsor, ON, December 5 to 7. From gpwright at cms.math.ca Mon Feb 9 10:58:12 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Mon Feb 9 10:55:24 2009 Subject: [cmath] Prix Adrien-Pouliot 2009 Message-ID: Prix Adrien-Pouliot 2009 Nous sollicitons la candidature de personnes ou de groupe de personnes ayant contribu? d?une fa?on importante et soutenue ? des activit?s math?matiques ?ducatives au Canada. Le terme ? contributions ? s?emploie ici au sens large; les candidats pourront ?tre associ?s ? une activit? de sensibilisation, un nouveau programme adapt? au milieu scolaire ou ? l?industrie, des activit?s promotionnelles de vulgarisation des math?matiques, des initiatives, sp?ciales, des conf?rences ou des concours ? l?intention des ?tudiants, etc. Les candidatures doivent nous ?tre transmises via le ? Formulaire de mise en candidature ? disponible au site Web de la SMC : www.cms.math.ca/Prix/info/ap. Pour garantir l?uniformit? du processus de s?lection, veuillez suivre les instructions ? la lettre. Toute documentation exc?dant les limites prescrites ne sera pas consid?r?e par le comit? de s?lection. Il est possible de renouveler une mise en candidature pr?sent?e l?an dernier, pourvu que l?on en manifeste le d?sir avant la date limite. Dans ce cas, le pr?sentateur n?a qu?? soumettre des documents de mise ? jour puisque le dossier original a ?t? conserv?. Les mises en candidature doivent parvenir au bureau de la SMC avant le 30 avril 2009. Veuillez faire parvenir vos mises en candidature en six exemplaires ? l?adresse ci-dessous : Le Prix Adrien-Pouliot Soci?t? math?matique du Canada 1785 Alta Vista Drive, Suite 105 Ottawa, ON K1G 3Y6 Canada Le prix Adrien-Pouliot seront pr?sent?s ? la R?union d?hiver 2009 de la SMC ? Windsor (Ontario), du 5 au 7 d?cembre. From gpwright at cms.math.ca Tue Feb 10 17:13:26 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Tue Feb 10 17:11:05 2009 Subject: [cmath] Graham Wright Award for Distinguished Service 2009 Message-ID: Graham Wright Award for Distinguished Service 2009 In 1995, the Society established this award to recognize individuals who have made sustained and significant contributions to the Canadian mathematical community and, in particular, to the Canadian Mathematical Society. The award was renamed in 2008, in recognition of Graham Wright's 30 years of service to the Society as the Executive Director and Secretary. Nominations should include a reasonably detailed rationale and be submitted by March 31, 2009, to the address below. Selection Committee Graham Wright Award for Distinguished Service Canadian Mathematical Society 1785 Alta Vista Drive, Suite 105 Ottawa, ON K1G 3Y6 Canada From gpwright at cms.math.ca Tue Feb 10 17:14:45 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Tue Feb 10 17:12:23 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-15?q?Prix_Graham-Wright_pour_service_m=E9rito?= =?iso-8859-15?q?ire_2009?= Message-ID: Prix Graham-Wright pour service m?ritoire 2008 En 1995, la Soci?t? math?matique du Canada a cr?? un prix pour r?compenser les personnes qui contribuent de fa?on importante et soutenue ? la communaut? math?matique canadienne et, notamment, ? la SMC. Ce prix ?tait renomm? ? compter de 2008 en hommage de Graham Wright pour ses 30 ans de service comme directeur administratif et secr?taire de la SMC. Pour les mises en candidature pri?re de pr?senter des dossiers avec une argumentation convaincante et de les faire parvenir, le 31 mars 2009 au plus tard, ? l'adresse ci-dessous : Comit? de s?lection Prix Graham-Wright pour service m?ritoire Soci?t? math?matique du Canada 1785 Alta Vista Drive, Suite 105 Ottawa, ON K1G 3Y6 Canada From gpwright at cms.math.ca Tue Feb 10 17:16:07 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Tue Feb 10 17:13:48 2009 Subject: [cmath] Call for nominations CJM/CMB - Associate Editors Message-ID: Call for nominations CJM/CMB - Associate Editors The Publications Committee of the CMS solicits nominations for Associate Editors for the Canadian Journal of Mathematics (CJM) and the Canadian Mathematical Bulletin (CMB). The appointment will be for five years beginning January 1, 2009. The continuing members (with their end of term) are below. The deadline for the submission of nominations is April 15, 2009. Nominations, containing a curriculum vitae and the candidate's agreement to serve, should be sent to the address below. Address for Nominations / Addresse de mise en candidatures: Matthias Neufang, Chair / Pr?sident CMS Publications Committee / Comit? des publications de la SMC School of Mathematics & Statistics The Fields Institute 222 College Street, 2nd Floor Toronto, ON M5T 3J1 mneufang@fields.utoronto.ca CURRENT MEMBERS CJM Editors-in-Chief H. Kim (Toronto) 12/2011; R. McCann (Toronto) 12/2011. CMB Editors-in-Chief Nantel Bergeron (York) 12/2010; Jianhong Wu (York) 12/2010. Associate Editors K. Bezdek (Calgary) 12/2011; J. Colliander 2/2011; Luc Devroye (McGill) 12/2009; Alan Dow (York) 12/2010; George Elliott (Toronto) 12/2010; K. Hare (Waterloo) 12/2011; Stephen Kudla(Toronto) 12/2013; Vladimir Pestov (Ottawa) 12/2013; Thomas Ransford (Laval) 12/2009; Gordon Slade (UBC) 12/2013; Roland Speicher (Queen's) 12/2013; Ravi Vakil (Stanford University) 12/2009; Vinayak Vatsal (UBC) 12/2013; Jie Xiao (Memorial) 12/2013. From gpwright at cms.math.ca Tue Feb 10 17:16:46 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Tue Feb 10 17:14:25 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-15?q?APPEL_DE_mises_en_candidature_JCM/BCM_-_?= =?iso-8859-15?q?R=E9dacteurs_associ=E9s?= Message-ID: APPEL DE mises en candidature JCM/BCM - R?dacteurs associ?s Le comit? des publications de la SMC sollicite des mises en candidatures pour des r?dacteurs associ?s du Journal canadien de math?matiques (JCM) et Bulletin canadien de math?matiques (BCM). Le mandat sera de cinq ans et d?butera le 1 janvier 2009. La liste des ?diteurs qui sont en cours de mandat se trouve ci-dessous.. L'?ch?ance pour proposer des candidats est le 15 avril 2009. Les mises en candidature, accompagn?es d'un curriculum vitae ainsi que du consentement du candidat(e), devrait ?tre envoy?es ? l'adresse ci-dessous. Address for Nominations / Addresse de mise en candidatures: Matthias Neufang, Chair / Pr?sident CMS Publications Committee / Comit? des publications de la SMC School of Mathematics & Statistics The Fields Institute 222 College Street, 2nd Floor Toronto, ON M5T 3J1 mneufang@fields.utoronto.ca MEMBRES ACTUELS R?dacteurs-en-chef du JCM : H. Kim (Toronto) 12/2011; R. McCann (Toronto) 12/2011. R?dacteurs-en-chef du BCM : Nantel Bergeron (York) 12/2010; Jianhong Wu (York) 12/2010. R?dacteurs associ?s : K. Bezdek (Calgary) 12/2011; J. Colliander 12/2011; Luc Devroye (McGill) 12/2009; Alan Dow (York) 12/2010; George Elliott (Toronto) 12/2010; K. Hare (Waterloo) 12/2011; Stephen Kudla (Toronto) 12/2013; Vladimir Pestov (Ottawa) 12/2013; Thomas Ransford (Laval) 12/2009; Gordon Slade (UBC) 12/2013; Roland Speicher (Queen's) 12/2013; Ravi Vakil (Stanford University) 12/2009; Vinayak Vatsal (UBC) 12/2013; Jie Xiao (Memorial) 12/2013. -- Solange Hup? Assistant to the Executive Director Canadian Mathematical Society Adjointe au directeur Soci?t? math?matique du Canada Tel: 613.733.2662 x 728 From jochen.kuttler at ualberta.ca Thu Feb 12 12:04:19 2009 From: jochen.kuttler at ualberta.ca (Jochen Kuttler) Date: Thu Feb 12 12:13:13 2009 Subject: [cmath] PIMS Undergraduate Algebra Summer School 2009 Message-ID: <1234458259.7166.1.camel@smeagol.office.local> This is a call for applications to the PIMS Undergraduate Algebra Summer School taking place May 25 to June 4, 2009 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. The summer school is targeted at *undergraduate* students in pure mathematics, in particular those in their second or third year. Please forward this information to anyone who you think might be interested. The aim of the school is to expose undergraduate students at an early stage in their academic life to advanced concepts in algebra, the focus being on select topics in algebraic geometry, Lie theory, and number theory. The school features special lectures by Georgia Benkart (U of Wisconsin). Other lectures will be given by local faculty in our algebra group (see the web page below for a complete list of speakers). The event is sponsored by the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences. There is funding available for participants. Details on the summer school and instructions on how to apply may be found at http://www.math.ualberta.ca/~pass2009 Please send any questions to pass2009@math.ualberta.ca. For the organizing team, Gerald Cliff and Jochen Kuttler From akelm at cms.math.ca Fri Feb 13 11:53:46 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Fri Feb 13 11:53:49 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-15?q?Professeur_rempla=E7ant_en_Math=E9matiqu?= =?iso-8859-15?q?es_-_Coll=E8ge_Universitaire_de_Saint-Boniface?= Message-ID: LE COLL?GE UNIVERSITAIRE DE SAINT-BONIFACE fait appel de candidatures pour Une professeure ou un professeur rempla?ant (ann?e universitaire 2009-2010) en Math?matiques pour l'enseignement des cours de premier cycle en math?matiques et math?matiques appliqu?es (calcul ? plusieurs variables, alg?bre lin?aire, m?thodes num?riques, ?quations diff?rentielles...) Exigences : - Un doctorat en math?matiques (un doctorat en math?matiques, en r?daction de th?se, sera consid?r?). - Une comp?tence en enseignement de cours et travaux dirig?s en math?matiques au premier cycle universitaire. - Une comp?tence en enseignement de cours de premier cycle universitaire en informatique sera un atout. R?mun?ration: selon la convention collective. Entr?e en fonction: le 1er ao?t 2009 Pri?re d'envoyer votre curriculum vit? et de demander ? trois r?pondants de faire parvenir une lettre de recommandation au plus tard le 15 avril 2009 ? : Madame Maha Naman Bureau du doyen Facult? des arts et d'administration des affaires et Facult? des sciences Coll?ge universitaire de Saint-Boniface 200, avenue de la Cath?drale Winnipeg (Manitoba) R2H 0H7 T?l?phone: (204) 233-0210 T?l?copieur: (204) 233-0217 www.cusb.ca mnaman@ustboniface.mb.ca Le CUSB souscrit au principe de l'?quit? en mati?re d'emploi et encourage la candidature de toute personne qualifi?e, femme ou homme, y compris les Autochtones, les personnes handicap?es et les membres des minorit?s visibles. Conform?ment aux exigences prescrites en mati?re d'immigration au Canada, toutes les personnes qualifi?es sont invit?es ? postuler, la priorit? est toutefois accord?e aux personnes ayant la citoyennet? canadienne ou la r?sidence permanente. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: stboniface.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 110752 bytes Desc: Url : https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090213/e53b46e3/stboniface.pdf From akelm at cms.math.ca Tue Feb 17 18:18:35 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Tue Feb 17 18:18:37 2009 Subject: [cmath] Assistant Professor, Mathematics - Cape Breton University Message-ID: CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, MATHEMATICS Please quote reference number Math0901 on all correspondence. Cape Breton University (CBU) is located on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia's tourism centrepiece and home to rich Celtic, Mi'kmaq, and Acadian culture. CBU has a reputation for small class sizes, strong community involvement, and strong internal support for faculty research. CBU invites applications for a tenure-track position in Mathematics at the rank of Assistant Professor to commence July 2009, subject to budget approval. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in Mathematics. Related postdoctoral research and teaching experience is desirable. The successful candidate will contribute to teaching upper level undergraduate courses in such areas as real analysis, complex analysis and set theory. The research specialization should be relevant to at least one of these areas. The teaching load may include some service courses (including elementary financial mathematics and fundamentals of Mathematics). The successful applicant will be expected to establish a vigorous externally funded research program and teach Mathematics at the undergraduate level. Applicants are expected to engage in course updating and development, and to demonstrate potential and commitment with regard to undergraduate teaching, research/creative/scholarly activities and service to Cape Breton University, community and profession. The union affiliation of this position is with the Cape Breton University Faculty Association. Qualified candidates should send a letter of application quoting the reference number, a complete dossier including curriculum vitae, copy of academic transcripts, evidence of teaching effectiveness, a writing sample and three current letters of reference (sent directly to CBU) to the Human Resources Department. Applications must be received by 4:00 p.m. April 3, 2009. Email applicants will receive a return email confirming receipt. Cape Breton University is an equal opportunities/affirmative action employer. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Cape Breton University encourages applications from qualified Aboriginal People, African Canadians or other persons from a visible minority group, persons with disabilities and women. Applicants who wish to be considered for this initiative should self-identify in their cover letter. We share the air! CBU promotes a smoke and scent-free workplace. Cape Breton University P.O. Box 5300, 1250 Grand Lake Road Sydney, NS B1P 6L2 Website: www.cbu.ca Human Resources Dept. (902)563-1158 tel. (902)563-1458 fax email: humanresources@ns.aliantzinc.ca --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: cape-breton.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 119337 bytes Desc: Url : https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090217/1c03f7f7/cape-breton.pdf From gpwright at cms.math.ca Thu Feb 19 12:18:52 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Thu Feb 19 12:16:55 2009 Subject: [cmath] Call - Executive Director and Secretary - Deadline Februrary 27 Message-ID: Executive Director and Secretary The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS), one of the leading mathematics organizations in Canada, seeks applications for the position of Executive Director and Secretary.?This position offers a unique and exciting opportunity for an individual with energy, drive, initiative and enthusiasm to make a difference on the national stage. The CMS works to enhance Canada?s capacity to innovate and compete globally by promoting the discovery, learning and application of mathematics in Canada. With approximately 900 members from across Canada and beyond, the CMS supports efforts that identify and develop young mathematicians through its math competitions, math camps and other educational activities. The CMS enhances the practice of mathematics in Canada through national conferences and by publishing research journals, books, and newsletters in both print and electronic formats. The work of the CMS is carried out by a large number of dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers, together with a small experienced staff of seven at the Executive Office in Ottawa. Responsibilities: The Executive Director and Secretary must be an effective and experienced administrator, able to address different points of view with the tact and courtesy appropriate to a largely volunteer organization. The position is full-time and requires judgment, independence, travel, and flexibility in the scheduling of working hours. The Executive Director and Secretary is appointed by the Board of Directors of the CMS, reports to the CMS President and represents the CMS to universities, governments, the corporate sector, institutes, and to other scholarly societies and officials.?The Executive Director is responsible to the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors of the CMS for the operations of the CMS Executive Office and for the other administrative office throughout Canada. He/she works in close contact with the CMS President and has the responsibility for aspects of the Society?s publications, meetings, fundraising, web site, projects, and operations.?Some restructuring of the current duties in the position is possible, to align them with the skills of an outstanding applicant.?The starting date is negotiable, but in any case no later than July 1, 2009.?The ability to assume some duties on a part-time basis prior to July 2009 is an asset. Qualifications: Experience in an academic and research environment or a doctoral degree in mathematics is preferable. The candidate should have: prior administrative or managerial experience; excellent organizational and interpersonal skills; very strong analytical and problem-solving skills; and superior and proven communication skills (preferably in both English and French); experience in setting and managing budgets; and the ability to develop and implement program support and promote the work and programs of the CMS. Experience in fundraising and promotion is a valuable asset. The candidate will work principally out of the CMS Executive Office in Ottawa. The deadline for applications is February 27, 2009 at 4pm. Please submit applications, including a resume, cover letter and names of at least three references by fax, email or mail to: Executive Director Search Canadian Mathematical Society 1785 Alta Vista Drive, Suite 105 Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1G 3Y6 Attn: Dr Tony Lau, CMS President Tel: 613-733-2662 FAX: 613-733-8994 e-mail: president@cms.math.ca From gpwright at cms.math.ca Thu Feb 19 12:20:27 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Thu Feb 19 12:18:20 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-15?q?Directeur_administratif_et_secr=E9taire_?= =?iso-8859-15?q?-_la_date_limite_27_fevrier?= Message-ID: Directeur administratif et secr?taire La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC), l?un des principaux regroupements math?matiques du pays, cherche ? pourvoir le poste de directeur administratif et secr?taire. C?est un poste unique et stimulant, id?al pour une personne ?nergique, dynamique, enthousiaste et ayant l?esprit d?initiative qui souhaite se distinguer sur la sc?ne nationale. La SMC a pour mission de rehausser la capacit? du Canada d?innover et d??tre concurrentiel ? l??chelle mondiale en favorisant la d?couverte et l?apprentissage des math?matiques, et les applications qui en d?coulent, au Canada. Forte de ses quelque 900 membres du Canada et d?ailleurs, la SMC encourage les initiatives visant ? d?pister et ? former de jeunes math?maticiens par l?entremise de concours, de camps et d?autres activit?s math?matiques ?ducatives. La SMC rehausse l?activit? math?matique au pays par l?organisation de congr?s nationaux et la publication de revues, de livres et de bulletins, en format papier et ?lectronique. Les activit?s de la SMC sont men?es par un grand nombre de b?n?voles d?vou?s et enthousiastes, appuy?s par un personnel comp?tent de sept personnes au bureau administratif d?Ottawa. Responsabilit?s?: Le directeur administratif et secr?taire doit ?tre une personne efficace et exp?riment?e, capable de g?rer des points de vue diversifi?s avec le doigt? et la courtoisie n?cessaire dans un organisme en grande partie b?n?vole. Le ou la titulaire de ce poste ? plein temps doit poss?der un bon jugement, ?tre autonome, pouvoir se d?placer fr?quemment et ?tre souple quant ? son horaire de travail. Le directeur administratif et secr?taire est nomm? par le conseil d?administration de la SMC, rel?ve du pr?sident de la SMC et repr?sente la SMC aupr?s des universit?s, des gouvernements, du secteur priv?, des instituts et d?autres soci?t?s professionnelles et leurs dirigeants. Cette personne est redevable au comit? ex?cutif et au conseil d?administration de la SMC pour ce qui est du fonctionnement du bureau administratif d?Ottawa et des autres bureaux de la SMC au Canada. Elle travaille en ?troite collaboration avec le pr?sident de la SMC, et s?occupe de divers aspects des publications, des congr?s, des activit?s de financement, du site internet, des projets et du fonctionnement. Une certaine restructuration des t?ches actuelles du titulaire du poste est possible, de mani?re ? tenir compte des comp?tences d?un candidat ou d?une candidate remarquable. La date d?entr?e en fonction est n?gociable, mais ne doit pas d?passer le 1er juillet 2009. La possibilit? d?assumer certaines t?ches ? temps partiel avant cette date est toutefois un atout. Qualifications: La pr?f?rence sera accord?e ? une personne qui poss?de de l?exp?rience en milieu universitaire et en recherche, ou un doctorat en math?matiques. Cette personne poss?dera : de l?exp?rience en gestion; un sens aigu de l?organisation et un excellent sens des relations humaines; une tr?s bonne capacit? d?analyse et de r?solution de probl?mes; des comp?tences linguistiques exceptionnelles et ?prouv?es (pr?f?rablement en anglais et en fran?ais); de l?exp?rience en planification et en gestion budg?taire; des aptitudes pour l??laboration et l?application de programmes qui soutiennent et stimulent les activit?s de la SMC. Une bonne connaissance des campagnes de financement et de promotion sera consid?r?e comme un atout. Le bureau administratif de la SMC ? Ottawa est le lieu de travail principal. Les personnes int?ress?es ont jusqu?au 27 f?vrier 2009 ? 16 h pour poser leur candidature. Veuillez faire parvenir votre demande, accompagn?e d?un curriculum vitae, d?une lettre de pr?sentation et d?au moins trois r?f?rences, par fax, par courriel ou par la poste ??: Concours pour le poste de directeur administratif Soci?t? math?matique du Canada 1785, chemin Alta Vista, bureau 105 Ottawa (Ontario) Canada K1G 3Y6 A/s de : Tony Lau, pr?sident de la SMC T?l. : 613-733-2662 - Fax : 613-733-8994 - Courriel : president@smc.math.ca From gpwright at cms.math.ca Thu Feb 19 12:24:48 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Thu Feb 19 12:22:40 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?utf-8?q?Call_for_Sesions_=E2=80=93_CMS_Winter_Meeting_?= =?utf-8?q?2009?= Message-ID: Call for Sesions ? CMS Winter Meeting 2009 Self-supported sessions play an important role in the success of our meetings. We welcome and invite proposals for self-supported sessions for this meeting (December 5-7, 2009) in Windsor, Ontario. Proposals should include a brief description of the focus and purpose of the session, the expected number of the talks, as well as the organizer?s name, complete address, telephone number, e-mail address, etc. All sessions will be advertised in the CMS Notes, on the web site and, if possible, in the Notices of the AMS and in publications of other societies. 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 Meeting Director by the deadline below. Deadline: March 31, 2009 Meeting Director: Dr. Daniel Britten Mathematics & Statistics Lambton Tower, 10th Floor Windsor, ON N9B 3P4 Tel: (519) 253-3000 Ext. 3013 britten@uwindsor.ca The following sessions have been confirmed for this conference: Banach Algebras and Abstract Harmonic Analysis Org: Zhiguo Hu, Mehdi Monfared (Windsor) Convex and Variational Analysis Org: Heinz Bauschke, Shawn Wang (UBC Kelowna) Lie Algebras and Representation Theory Org: Nicolas Guay (Alberta), Michael Lau (Windsor) Lie Groups and Automorphic Forms Org: Hadi Salmasian, Wai Ling Yee (Windsor) Mathematical Models in Environmental Sciences Org: Rick Caron (Windsor) Mathematical Statistics Org: Chi Song Wong (Windsor) Matrix Theory and Statistics Org: Ejaz Ahmed, Abdul Hussein (Windsor) Measure, Probability, and Stochastic Processes Org: Severien Nkurunziza, Tim Traynor (Windsor) Non-Linear Control Theory Org: Andrew Lewis, Abdol-Reza Mansouri (Queen?s) Operator Algebras Org: Mitja Mastnak (Saint Mary?s), Dilian Yang (Windsor) From gpwright at cms.math.ca Thu Feb 19 12:25:46 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Thu Feb 19 12:23:45 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?utf-8?q?Appel_de_sesions_=E2=80=93_R=C3=A9union_d?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=99hiver_2009_de_la_SMC?= Message-ID: Appel de sesions ? R?union d?hiver 2009 de la SMC Les sessions autonomes jouent un r?le important dans le succ?s de nos r?unions. Nous vous invitons ? proposer des sessions autonomes pour la r?union qui se tiendra ? Windsor (Ontario), du 5 au 7 d?cembre 2009. Votre proposition doit inclure une br?ve description de l?orientation et des objectifs de la session, le nombre de communications pr?vues et leur dur?e, ainsi que le nom, l?adresse compl?te, le num?ro de t?l?phone, l?adresse courriel et les autres coordonn?es de l?organisateur. Toutes les sessions seront annonc?es dans les Notes de la SMC, sur le site web et, si possible, dans le Notices de l?AMS et les publications d?autres soci?t?s. Les conf?renciers devront pr?senter un r?sum? qui sera publi? sur le site web et dans le programme de la R?union. Toute personne qui souhaiterait organiser une session est pri?e de faire parvenir une proposition au directeur de la R?union avant la date limite indiqu?e ci-dessous. Date limite : 31 mars 2009 Directeur de la R?union : Dr. Daniel Britten Mathematics & Statistics Lambton Tower, 10th Floor Windsor, ON N9B 3P4 Tel: (519) 253-3000 Ext. 3013 britten@uwindsor.ca Les sessions suivantes ont ?t? confirm?es : Alg?bres de Banach et analyse harmonique abstraite Org: Zhiguo Hu, Mehdi Monfared (Windsor) Analyse convexe et variationnelle Org: Heinz Bauschke, Shawn Wang (UBC Kelowna) Alg?bres de Lie et th?orie des repr?sentations Org: Nicolas Guay (Alberta), Michael Lau (Windsor) Groupes de Lie et formes automorphiques Org: Hadi Salmasian, Wai Ling Yee (Windsor) Mod?les math?matiques en sciences environnementales Org: Rick Caron (Windsor) Statistiques math?matiques Org: Chi Song Wong (Windsor) Th?orie matricielle et les statistiques Org: Ejaz Ahmed, Abdul Hussein (Windsor) Mesure, probabilit? et processus stochastique Org: Severien Nkurunziza, Tim Traynor (Windsor) Th?orie de contr?le non-lin?aire Org: Andrew Lewis, Abdol-Reza Mansouri (Queen?s) Alg?bres d?op?rateurs Org: Mitja Mastnak (Saint Mary?s), Dilian Yang (Windsor) From jkhoury at uottawa.ca Thu Feb 26 08:36:11 2009 From: jkhoury at uottawa.ca (Joseph Khoury) Date: Thu Feb 26 08:34:01 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-1?q?SMC_-_PRIX_GRAHAM-WRIGHT_POUR_SERVICE_M?= =?iso-8859-1?q?=C9RITOIRE_2008?= References: Message-ID: <35141BE6A60459488367EDBFED55F4FB030020A0@MSMAIL2.uottawa.o.univ> PRIX GRAHAM-WRIGHT POUR SERVICE M?RITOIRE 2008 OTTAWA (Ontario) -- La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC) d?cerne son Prix Graham-Wright pour service m?ritoire 2008 ? Bill Sands de l'Universit? de Calgary. La SMC a cr?? le Prix pour service m?ritoire en 1995 pour r?compenser les personnes qui contribuent de fa?on importante et soutenue ? la communaut? math?matique canadienne, et en particulier ? la SMC. En 2008, la Soci?t? a renomm? cette r?compense ? Prix Graham-Wright pour service m?ritoire ? en l'honneur du professeur Graham Wright, de l'Universit? d'Ottawa, qui occupe avec d?vouement depuis plus de 30 ans le poste de directeur administratif et secr?taire de la Soci?t?. On doit ? Bill Sands l'orientation et l'?volution du programme de l'Olympiade internationale de math?matiques (OIM) de la SMC. L'OIM est le championnat mondial de math?matiques pour ?l?ves du secondaire, sommet d'une pyramide de concours math?matiques r?gionaux et nationaux. Tous les ?t?s, apr?s un processus de s?lection et un entra?nement d'?quipe rigoureux, la SMC parraine six ?l?ves qui repr?sentent le Canada ? l'OIM, o? ils se mesurent ? des jeunes d'une centaine de pays. La s?lection et l'entra?nement encadr?s par la SMC reposent sur le soutien des commanditaires de la SMC et le b?n?volat de membres de la communaut? math?matique canadienne. L'?volution et le succ?s de ce programme n'auraient jamais ?t? possibles sans la coordination et la direction de Bill Sands. Bill Sands a pr?sid? le Comit? de l'OIM de la SMC de 1998 ? 2008. Au cours de cette p?riode, il a form? ? peu pr?s tous les ? mathl?tes ? du Canada, directement en tant qu'entra?neur et indirectement en participant ? l'organisation des camps d'entra?nement d'?t? et d'hiver que la SMC organise pour les ?l?ves du calibre de l'OIM. Si de nombreux b?n?voles appuient le programme des concours math?matiques de la SMC, Bill Sands est celui qui en assure la continuit?, derni?re la sc?ne, et veille ? ce que chaque ?quipe que le Canada envoie ? l'?tranger re?oive une pr?paration et un entra?nement exceptionnels. En 2007, il ?tait le chef de la d?l?gation canadienne lors de la 48e OIM, tenue ? Hano?, o? le Canada s'est class? 27e sur 93 pays. Il a de plus coordonn? la participation du Canada ? l'Olympiade math?matique Asie-Pacifique, activit? qui joue un r?le important dans le processus de s?lection de l'?quipe du Canada ? l'OIM. Il a occup? de nombreuses autres fonctions ? la SMC, notamment comme organisateur des camps math?matiques ? l'Universit? de Calgary et collaborateur de longue date ? la revue de r?solution de probl?mes de la SMC, CRUX with MAYHEM, dont il a ?t? r?dacteur en chef de 1986 ? 1995. Sur la sc?ne locale, Bill Sands est membre du comit? responsable des concours math?matiques de niveau secondaire en Alberta depuis 1983 et, depuis 1984, il organise des activit?s d'enrichissement en r?solution de probl?mes le mercredi soir ? l'intention des ?l?ves du secondaire, en compagnie de Robert Woodrow. Son d?vouement envers la formation des jeunes esprits n'a cess? de cro?tre au fil des ans. Depuis 1982, il participe aussi ? l'organisation d'un concours math?matique junior ? Calgary. Bill Sands a ?galement travaill? ? l'organisation du Tournament of the Towns Contest et il a re?u, en 2001, le prix d'excellence pour service ? la communaut? de la Facult? des sciences de l'Universit? de Calgary. Bill a obtenu son baccalaur?at en sciences, sa ma?trise et son doctorat ? l'Universit? du Manitoba, puis s'est joint au D?partement de math?matiques et de statistique de l'Universit? de Calgary en 1979. Ses int?r?ts de recherche sont les domaines de combinatoires, la th?orie des graphes et les ordres partiels. Bill Sands a re?u le Prix Graham-Wright pour service m?ritoire 2008 ? la R?union d'hiver de la SMC, tenue ? Ottawa le 6 d?cembre 2008. Renseignements : Graham P. Wright Directeur administratif Soci?t? math?matique du Canada directeur@smc.math.ca 613-733-2662, poste 713 Anthony To-Ming Lau Pr?sident Soci?t? math?matique du Canada president@smc.math.ca 780-492-0398 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090226/bbecb040/attachment.htm From jkhoury at uottawa.ca Thu Feb 26 08:40:43 2009 From: jkhoury at uottawa.ca (Joseph Khoury) Date: Thu Feb 26 08:35:58 2009 Subject: [cmath] CMS - 2008 GRAHAM WRIGHT AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE References: Message-ID: <35141BE6A60459488367EDBFED55F4FB030020A1@MSMAIL2.uottawa.o.univ> 2008 GRAHAM WRIGHT AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE OTTAWA, Ontario -- Dr. Bill Sands, of the University of Calgary, is the recipient of the Canadian Mathematical Society's 2008 Graham Wright Award for Distinguished Service. The CMS created a Distinguished Service Award in 1995 to recognize individuals who have made sustained and significant contributions to the Canadian mathematical community, and in particular, to the Canadian Mathematical Society. In 2008, the award was renamed the Graham Wright Award for Distinguished Service in honour of Dr. Graham Wright of the University of Ottawa, who for over 30 years has served with distinction as the Society's Executive Director and Secretary. Dr. Bill Sands has helped guide and nurture the CMS's International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) program. The IMO is the world championship of high school mathematics competitions, standing at the pinnacle of a pyramid of regional and national mathematics competitions. Each summer, following a rigorous training and selection process, the CMS sponsors a team of 6 students to travel abroad to the IMO, where they compete with students from nearly 100 other countries. The CMS's training and selection process relies on the support of the CMS's sponsors and on the work of volunteers from across the Canadian mathematical community. But the development and success of this program would not have been possible without the coordination and leadership of Dr. Sands. Dr. Sands chaired the Society's IMO Committee from 1998 to 2008. During that time he has trained virtually all of Canada's "Mathletes", both directly as a coach and by helping organize both the summer and winter training session the CMS mounts for IMO-level students. Many volunteers support the competitions program at the CMS, but Dr. Sands has been the consistent figure behind the scenes, ensuring that each team Canada sends abroad receives outstanding preparation and training. In 2007, he headed up the Canadian delegation as Team Leader at the 48th IMO in Hanoi, where Canada finished 27th out of 93 countries. He has also coordinated Canadian participation in the Asia-Pacific Mathematics Olympiad, an event important in the selection process of the Canadian IMO team. He has served the CMS in numerous other capacities, including the regular organization of Math Camps at the University of Calgary, and as a long-time contributor to the CMS's mathematical problem-solving journal CRUX with MAYHEM. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of this journal from 1986 to 1995. On the local level, Dr. Sands has been a member of the Committee for the Alberta High School Mathematics Contests since 1983, and since 1984, he and Dr. Robert Woodrow have been conducting Wednesday evening enrichment problem sessions for high school students. Dr. Sands' commitment to the nurturing of young minds has constantly increased. Since 1982 he has helped run the Calgary Junior Mathematics Contest. Dr. Sands has also been involved in the Tournament of the Towns Contest and, in 2001 he received the University of Calgary, Faculty of Science Award for Excellence (Community Outreach). Dr. Sands received his B.Sc., Master and Doctorate degrees from the University of Manitoba, and he joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Calgary in 1979. Dr. Sands conducts research in combinatorial mathematics, studying graphs and partial orders. The 2008 Graham Wright Award for Distinguished Service was awarded to Dr. Sands at the CMS Winter Meeting in Ottawa on December 6, 2008. For more information, contact: Dr. Graham P. Wright Executive Director Canadian Mathematical Society director@cms.math.ca (613) 733-2662 ext. 713 Dr. Anthony To-Ming Lau President Canadian Mathematical Society president@cms.math.ca (780) 492-0398 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090226/0f5f6da1/attachment.htm From meetings at cms.math.ca Thu Feb 26 14:51:10 2009 From: meetings at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Thu Feb 26 14:46:52 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?utf-8?b?UsOpdW5pb24gZOKAmcOpdMOpIGRlIGxhIFNNQyBldCBk?= =?utf-8?q?e_la_SCHPM?= Message-ID: <49A6F2AE.7030909@cms.math.ca> *R?union d??t? de la SMC et de la SCHPM* *du 6 au 8 juin, St. John?s (Terre-Neuve)* www.smc.math.ca La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC), la Soci?t? canadienne d'histoire et de philosophie des math?matiques (SCHPM) et l'Universit? Memorial invitent la communaut? math?matique ? la R?union d'?t? 2009 de la SMC et de la SCHPM. Au programme : dix conf?rences (pl?ni?res, publique et de laur?ats) ainsi qu'une grande diversit? de sessions, y compris une session de communications libres. Toutes les activit?s scientifiques et sociales, sauf le banquet, se d?rouleront ? l'Universit? Memorial (carte ); le kiosque d'inscription principal sera situ? dans l'entr?e du pavillon 'Innovation'. La r?ception d'accueil se tiendra dans la salle Gushue sur le campus, et le banquet se tiendra au restaurant Woodstock Colonial ? Paradise. Consultez notre site web pour de plus amples renseignements sur la R?union et sur trois autres ?v?nements qui se tiendront en m?me temps que les sessions en /?ducation math?matique, /sur les/ groupes et alg?bres de Hopf /et en/ th?orie de Nielsen et ses applications*.*/ Pr?inscription Pour avoir droit au tarif r?duit de pr?inscription, le formulaire d?inscription accompagn? du paiement doivent nous parvenir au plus tard ? la date limite. Apr?s cette date, les droits d?inscription seront major?s d?environ 30 %. H?bergement Nous avons n?goci? des chambres ? tarif r?duit ? l?h?tel Quality, l?h?tel Extended Stay et les r?sidences de l?Universit? Memorial de Terre-Neuve. D?placements Le code de l'a?roport international de St. John's (Terre-Neuve) est YYT. Carte de St. John?s ; Destination St. John?s Aide financi?re aux ?tudiants - Nous encourageons la participation des ?tudiants ? la conf?rence. ? cet effet, nous assignons des fonds pour aider ? d?frayer le co?t de voyage et de logement pour les ?tudiants des cycles sup?rieurs et les chercheurs post-doctoraux. Au plaisir de vous accueillir ? St. John?s! -- =============================== Dr. Graham P. Wright CMS Executive Director e-mail: gpwright@cms.math.ca 105-1785 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1G 3Y6 Tel: 613-733-2662, ext 713, F: 613 733-8994 =============================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The Welcome reception will take place at Gushue Dining Hall on campus, and the banquet will take place at the Woodstock Colonial Restaurant in Paradise, NL. Please visit the web site for details about the meeting as well as three events that are taking place in conjunction with the sessions in /Mathematics Education/, /Groups and Hopf Algebras/, and /Nielsen Theory and its Applications*.*/ Early Bird Registration To qualify for the discounted Early Bird registration fee, the registration form and payment have to be received by the deadline. After this date, the registration fees increase by approximately 30%. Accommodation We have secured discounted rates at Quality Hotel Harbourview, the Extended Stay Hotel and the Residences of Memorial University of Newfoundland. Travel Please note that the code for the International Airport of St. John's , Newfoundland, is YYT. Map of St. John?s ; Destination St. John?s Student Subsidies We encourage the participation of students at the Meeting. Towards this, we are allocating funds to help defray the cost of travel and accommodation for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. We look forward to welcoming you in St. John?s! -- =============================== Dr. Graham P. Wright CMS Executive Director e-mail: gpwright@cms.math.ca 105-1785 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1G 3Y6 Tel: 613-733-2662, ext 713, F: 613 733-8994 =============================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090226/c723d800/attachment.htm From hfuks at brocku.ca Fri Feb 27 16:06:33 2009 From: hfuks at brocku.ca (Henryk Fuks) Date: Fri Feb 27 15:56:03 2009 Subject: [cmath] Call for papers: Symposium on Engineered & Natural Complex Systems Message-ID: <200902271606.33770.hfuks@brocku.ca> ?Symposium on Engineered & Natural Complex Systems: Modeling, Simulation & Analysis? http://toronto.ieee.ca/tic-sth2009/cfps/IEEE_TIC-STH09_CFP-ENS.pdf To be held at 2009 IEEE Toronto International Conference ?Science and Technology for Humanity TIC-STH 2009 September 27-29, 2009 Toronto Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre Toronto, Ontario, Canada http://toronto.ieee.ca/tic-sth2009/ CALL FOR PAPERS We cordially invite prospective authors to submit papers to the ?Symposium on Engineered & Natural Complex Systems: Modeling, Simulation & Analysis? to be held at the TIC-STH 2009 conference in Toronto. This interdisciplinary Symposium provides forum to discuss the state-of-the-art research across a broad spectrum of the IEEE science and technology fields of interest and is not limited to the traditional IEEE areas. The Symposium topics include, but are not limited, to the following: Structure, function and dynamics of complex systems, i.e. data communication networks, cyberspace, transportation networks, organizational networks, power grids, biological, physical, social, ecological, epidemiological and other complex systems & networks Emergence, multiscale phenomena, self-organization, self-similarity, long range dependence, phase transition, pattern formation, synchronization, robustness, reliability, fragility, interdependence, cooperation, adaptation, evolution, clustering, small world, degree distribution, diameter, motifs, etc.., Analysis & control techniques of dynamics & performance, mean field & information theory of complex systems & networks Cellular automata, agent based & individually based and other models of complex systems & networks and their simulations IMPORTANT DATES Paper Proposals Submission (Title/Abstract) Friday, March 6, 2009 Submission of Full Length Papers for Review Friday, May 1, 2009 Notification of Acceptance Friday, June 26, 2009 Final Paper Submission Deadline Friday, July 31, 2009 Author's Registration Deadline Friday, July 31, 2009 Advance Registration Deadline Friday, August 28, 2009 The accepted papers will be published in the IEEE TIC-STH 2009 Proceedings indexed by IEEE Xplore ? Most Respected Scientific Full-Text Database. All paper submissions will be peer reviewed, must conform to the IEEE TIC-STH 2009 submission policy and should be in English language: http://toronto.ieee.ca/tic-sth2009/#call http://toronto.ieee.ca/tic-sth2009/author/submission.php The Symposium provides an opportunity to Publish Lengthier Papers ? Up to 6 (six) Pages With No Extra Fee. Additionally, high-value tutorials are included with registration. Symposium Chair: Anna T. Lawniczak (University of Guelph) Symposium Co-Chairs: Bruno N. Di Stefano (Nuptek Systems Ltd.), Henryk Fuks (Brock University) Technical Program Committee Members, Partial List (confirmed members only): Anna Carbone (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Mieso Denko (University of Guelph, Canada) P?ter ?rdi (Kalamazoo College, USA) Santo Fortunato (ISI, Italy) Niloy Ganguly (Indian Institute of Technology, India) Pietro Lio (University of Cambridge, UK) Xiao (Kevin) Gaoxi (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Danuta Makowiec (University of Gdansk, Poland) Giuseppe Mangioni (University of Catania, Italy) Jose Mendes (Universidade De Aveiro, Portugal) Eric?Miller (University of Toronto, Canada) Takashi Nishikawa (Clarkson University, USA) Ferdinand Peper (NICT & University of Hyogo, Japan) Jian Yuan (Tsinghuan University, China) From directrice at CRM.UMontreal.CA Wed Mar 4 09:57:03 2009 From: directrice at CRM.UMontreal.CA (Christiane Rousseau) Date: Wed Mar 4 09:57:14 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-1?q?Death_of_Keith_Worsley_-_D=E9c=E8s_de_Kei?= =?iso-8859-1?q?th_Worsley?= Message-ID: <9A82B5A5-CDD0-467E-8DE2-DF27E55B3781@crm.umontreal.ca> (La version francaise suit) Keith John Worsley (1951--2009) Professor Keith Worsley died on 27 February 2009 in Chicago: he was 57. In November 2008 he was diagnosed with cancer. At the time of his death, Keith was Professor of Statistics at the University of Chicago and James McGill Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at McGill University. He was regular member of CRM and member of the CRM PhysNum laboratory. Keith Worsley was a world leader in research on the geometry of random images in astrophysics and brain mapping. He was recognized with the Gold Medal of the Statistical Society of Canada (2004), Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada (2003), and Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Society of New Zealand (2008). George P. H. Styan and David B. Wolfson, McGill University, Montr?al ---------------------------------------------- Keith John Worsley (1951--2009) Le professeur Keith Worsley est d?c?d? le 27 f?vrier 2009 ? Chicago ; il avait 57 ans. Il se savait atteint d'un cancer depuis novembre 2008. ? son d?c?s, Keith ?tait simultan?ment professeur de statistique ? l'Universit? de Chicago et professeur James McGill au D?partement de math?matiques et de statistique de l'Universit? McGill. Il ?tait membre r?gulier du CRM et membre du laboratoire PhysNum du CRM. Keith Worsley ?tait un des chercheurs les plus r?put?s au monde dans le domaine de l'imagerie c?r?brale et de la g?om?trie des images al?atoires en astrophysique. Ses travaux lui avaient valu la M?daille d'or de la Soci?t? statistique du Canada (2004) ; il ?tait membre de la Soci?t? royale du Canada (2003) et membre honoraire de la Soci?t? royale de Nouvelle-Z?lande (2008). George P. H. Styan et David B. Wolfson, Universit? McGill, Montr?al (Traducteur : Christian Genest) Christiane Rousseau, directrice Centre de recherches math?matiques Universit? de Montr?al C.P. 6128, succ. 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In addition to substantial experience in scientific computing, an ideal candidate would also have background in Computational / Theoretical Fluid Dynamics and Optimization / Control Theory. This position will also involve some teaching responsibilities. The fellowship is open to candidates of any nationality and selection will be based upon the candidate's research potential. Pending approval of funding, the tentative start date of the position is September 1, 2009 and the anticipated duration of the position will be two years with an annual salary of $42,000. Candidates are required to apply for this fellowship by using the MathJobs website; see our advertisement at www.mathjobs.org. We will begin to review applications on April 10, 2009, however, applications will continue to be accepted until the position is filled. Applicants should provide at least three letters of recommendation. Preferably these letters will be submitted through the MathJobs website (see above); they may also be sent directly to: Dr. Bartosz Protas Department of Mathematics & Statistics McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, CANADA L8S 4K1 Phone: +1 (905) 525 9140 ext. 24116 Fax: +1 (905) 522 0935 Email: bprotas@mcmaster.ca URL: www.math.mcmaster.ca/~bprotas http://modelmath.mcmaster.ca We appreciate all replies to this advertisement, but applications will not be acknowledged. McMaster is committed to Employment Equity and encourages applications from all qualified candidates, including aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities and women. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment From jrockwood at mitacs.ca Fri Mar 6 17:17:03 2009 From: jrockwood at mitacs.ca (Jo-Anne Rockwood) Date: Fri Mar 6 17:15:55 2009 Subject: [cmath] MITACS Annual Conference registration open Message-ID: MITACS 2009 Annual Conference - Celebrating 10 Years of Making Research Count May 31 - June 5, 2009 Wu Conference Centre, University of New Brunswick Fredericton, NB Join us in Fredericton for the 2009 MITACS Annual Conference, to be held at the University of New Brunswick. The top academics in the mathematical sciences community will come together to explore advances and share research results. This event aims to bring together partner organizations in the academic, public, private and not-for-profit sectors with university researchers to generate solutions. This Annual Conference is your opportunity to participate with others in the mathematical community by listening to top speakers, network with the mathematical community, showcase your research by presenting a poster, and socialize with your peers at a national level. Plenary Speakers The five thematic areas of MITACS research will be featured : Anne Condon, University of British Columbia - Biomedical & Health Peter Glynn, Stanford - Communication, Networks & Security Chris Jones, University of North Carolina - Environment & Natural Resources Pedro Domingos, University of Washington Information Processing Tom Salisbury, York University, Risk & Finance. Check back often for updates on speakers and sessions. New this year: Grad Student Skill Enhancement Workshops! MITACS is proud to showcase the enormously popular Skills Enhancement Program by offering two workshops designed to complement your skill set and maximize your conference experience. Your mathematical skills have gotten you this far, it's time to fine-tune your abilities to effectively communicate and make the right connections, bringing your talents to the forefront of the academic and industrial communities. ******************************************************************************************* Conf?rence annuelle 2009 de MITACS - C?l?brons 10 ann?es de ? La recherche, ?a compte! ? Du 31 mai au 5 juin 2009 Centre de conf?rences Wu, Universit? du Nouveau-Brunswick, Fredericton, N.-B. Soyez des n?tres ? Fredericton ? l'occasion de la conf?rence annuelle 2009 de MITACS qui se tiendra ? l'Universit? du Nouveau-Brunswick. Les plus brillants universitaires en sciences math?matiques s'y r?uniront afin d'explorer les derni?res avanc?es et de partager les r?sultats de leurs recherches. Cet ?v?nement vise ? rassembler les repr?sentants des organismes partenaires des secteurs universitaire, public, priv? et ? but non lucratif et les chercheurs universitaires en vue de produire des solutions. Cette ?dition de la conf?rence annuelle vous permettra de participer ? la vie de la communaut? math?matique en venant ?couter des conf?renciers de premi?re classe, faire du r?seautage, mettre l'accent sur votre recherche en pr?sentant une affiche et vous entretenir avec plusieurs de vos homologues et ce, ? l'?chelle nationale. Conf?renciers pl?niers Les cinq th?mes de recherche de MITACS seront examin?s - Anne Condon, University of British Columbia Secteur Biom?decal et Sant? Peter Glynn, Stanford - R?seaux de Communication et S?curit? Chris Jones, University of North Carolina - Environnement et ressources naturelles Pedro Domingos, University of Washington - Traitement de l'information Tom Salisbury, York University Risque et finance. 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TASC 2, Room 9904 Simon Fraser University 8888 University Drive Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Ph: 778.782.3711 Fax: 778.782.6657 Email: jrockwood@mitacs.ca Web: www.mitacs.ca Web: www.acceleratecanada.ca Making research count / La recherche, ?a compte -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090306/036ca2b7/attachment.htm From adem at math.ubc.ca Mon Mar 9 13:30:51 2009 From: adem at math.ubc.ca (Alejandro Adem) Date: Mon Mar 9 13:30:59 2009 Subject: [cmath] 2009 PIMS Education Prize Message-ID: 2009 PIMS Education Prize Awarded to Gerda de Vries from the University of Alberta The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) is delighted to inform the mathematical community that the winner of the 2009 PIMS Education Prize is Gerda de Vries from the University of Alberta. This prize is intended to recognize individuals from the PIMS universities, or other educational institutions in Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan who have played a major role in encouraging activities which have enhanced public awareness and appreciation of mathematics, as well as fostering communication among various groups and organizations concerned with mathematical training at all levels. Gerda de Vries is an outstanding and dynamic teacher who has made remarkable contributions to education in the mathematical sciences. Her accomplishments include her tireless promotion of education in math biology as an organizer of the PIMS Math Biology undergraduate summer workshops; her leadership role in the NSERC funded CRYSTAL-Alberta for promoting science in schools; her leadership role in providing support for women in mathematics across Canada; her involvement in developing Science 100, a new interdisciplinary science program at the University of Alberta; and by her outstanding success teaching undergraduate mathematics, for which she received the 2006 Rutherford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at the University of Alberta. The 2009 PIMS Education Prize will be awarded at a special event during the annual Changing the Culture conference at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver) on April 30. PIMS is grateful to CGG Veritas/Hampson Russell for sponsoring this award. For more information about PIMS and its activities please see http://www.pims.math.ca From peter.taylor at queensu.ca Wed Mar 11 08:57:11 2009 From: peter.taylor at queensu.ca (Peter Taylor) Date: Wed Mar 11 08:57:58 2009 Subject: [cmath] Fwd: [ICMI-News] ICMI News 8: February 2009 Message-ID: <0KGC0019SENICWA0@mta01.its.queensu.ca> I forward the February newsletter from ICMI. I note that of the 11 "events of interest" in 5., two are in Canada: An International Symposium on Mathematics and its Connections to the Arts and Sciences held in Moncton in May, and the Bridges Banff - Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture meeting in July. best, Peter Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:52:59 +0000 From: J Carvalho e Silva Subject: [ICMI-News] ICMI News 8: February 2009 Sender: icmi-news-bounces@mathunion.org To: icmi-news@mathunion.org Delivered-to: icmi-news@mathunion.org List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Help: List-Id: Original-recipient: rfc822;peter.taylor@queensu.ca ICMI News 8: February 2009 A Bimonthly Email Newsletter from the ICMI-International Commission on Mathematical Instruction Editor: Jaime Carvalho e Silva, Dep. Matematica, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal CONTENTS 1. Editorial: Resources and technology throughout the history of ICMI 2. The ICME-12 International Programme Committee 3. A new contract for the NISS series 4. Special Issue on the History of ICMI published by IJHME 5. Calendar of Events of Interest to the ICMI Community 6. Historical vignettes: Greenhill, the first vice-president of ICMI 7. Subscribing to ICMI News ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Editorial: Resources and technology throughout the history of ICMI Besides the ICMI studies which have been presented in a former issues of the Newsletter, from time to time publications appear as milestones in the history of ICMI. In the second half of 2008 two rich volumes have been published: - The proceedings of ICME10 (Copenhagen, Denmark, 2004), - The proceedings of the Symposium on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of ICMI. They have been already mentioned in this Newsletter. The former in ICMI News 5; the latter in ICMI News 6. As happens more and more often today, both volumes are accompanied by rich websites, that are exceptional tools for researchers and can be accessed free from everywhere. Yet, for my generation, the emotion of flipping the pages of a paper book is still worthy. I shall focus this short note on one particular theme only, well represented in both volumes: resources and technology in mathematics education. In the proceedings of Symposium, one of the working groups was devoted to this issue. In the historical reconstruction, what emerged clearly was that the emphasis on active involvement of students in laboratory activities was one of the leading forces towards the constitution of ICMI. The first president of ICMI, Felix Klein, can be credited with being a pioneer in proposing the use of technology in school. At the time of Klein, 'ancient' technology were the sole available (e. g. mechanical calculating machines and curve drawing devices, and, even, squared paper to plot experimental data). Today it is more common to refer to Information and Communication Technologies. In the working group, however, both voices were represented, in nearly equal relationship. In the proceedings of ICME10 (and obviously in the forthcoming ICMI Study 17 on Mathematics Education and Technology-Rethinking the Terrain) the latter voice (ICT) plays the major or the sole role. In both cases what appeared clearly is that no resource or technology, by itself, can make students learn mathematics, as a cultural product of mankind, without the irreplaceable guide of a well prepared teacher. As always, hence, the professional education of teachers of mathematics comes in the foreground. Main references: Niss. M. & Emborg E. (eds.), (2008), Proceedings of the 10th International Congress on Mathematical Education, Roskilde (Dk): IMFUFA. An electronic version is dowloadable from: http://www.icme10.dk/proceedings/pages/side01main.htm. The printed version (together with a CDrom with all the regular lectures) costs 50 euros (including shipment). The ordering form is available at the same address. Menghini M., Furinghetti F., Giacardi L., Arzarello F. (eds.), (2008), The First Century of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (1908-2008): Reflecting and Shaping the World of Mathematics Education, Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. The book costs 60 euros (reduced price for ICMI people 40 euros, including shipment). The ordering form is available at http://www.unige.ch/math/EnsMath/Rome2008/. The rich website with the History of ICMI is at http://www.icmihistory.unito.it/. Mariolina Bartolini Bussi, Member-at-large EC ICMI, mariagiuseppina.bartolini@unimore.it ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. The ICME-12 International Programme Committee The Executive Committee of ICMI is pleased to announce that it has now completed the appointment of the International Programme Committee (IPC) for ICME-12. The Committee is composed as follows: Mich?le ARTIGUE (France), ex officio, President of ICMI ?velyne BARBIN (France) Morten BLOMHOEJ (Denmark) Gail BURRILL (USA), Sung Je CHO (Korea), Chair of the IPC Johann ENGELBRECHT (South Africa) Bernard R. HODGSON (Canada), ex officio, Secretary-General of ICMI Gabriele KAISER (Germany) Mercy KAZIMA (Malawi) Petar KENDEROV (Bulgaria) Masataka KOYAMA (Japan) Oh Nam KWON (Korea) Frederick Koon-shing LEUNG (Hong Kong SAR) Hee-chan LEW (Korea) Shiqi LI (China) Cheryl PRAEGER (Australia) Marcela SANTILL?N (M?xico) Hyun Yong SHIN (Korea), Chair of the Local Organising Committee Ravi SUBRAMANIAN (India) Yuriko YAMAMOTO BALDIN (Brasil) The ICME-12 IPC will have its first meeting on June 14-17 of this year. Any comment or suggestion about the format of the programme of ICME-12 or its content is most welcome and should be sent to the Chair of the IPC, Sung Je Cho (sungjcho@snu.ac.kr), no later than May 15. The ICME-12 congress will be held in Seoul, Korea, on July 8-15, 2012. Bernard R. Hodgson, Secretary-General of ICMI, bhodgson@mat.ulaval.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. A new contract for the NISS series The Executive Committee of ICMI is pleased to announce that it has recently signed a new contract with Springer for the publication of the ICMI Study volumes in the "New ICMI Study Series" (NISS). A major improvement of the new contract, which has been the object of intense negotiations with Springer for a number of years, is that ICMI is now entitled to post on its website a pre-publication open access version of the Study volumes, three years after they have appeared as books in the NISS series. This clause applies both to volumes already published in the NISS series and to future books. We hope to see in a near future some concrete outcome of this new clause on the ICMI website. ICMI has been able to keep some major clauses of the previous contracts, including the fact that the copyright on the Study volumes for any other language than English belongs to ICMI --- the only restriction being that an edition in another language should not appear until one year after the publication of the original book. Members of the ICMI community interested in preparing a translation of (parts of) any book in the NISS series should contact me at their earliest convenience. Moreover the 60% discount for individual orders of the NISS volumes is still valid --- see ICMI News 7 (December 2008) for instructions on how to order the NISS volumes with the ICMI discount. Also some free copies of each book in the NISS series are made available to ICMI for various purposes (including providing copies to the editors and main authors of the books). Just as I had received for the ICMI archives, very recently, the final copy of the new NISS contract duly signed by all parties, it was announced that Marie M. Sheldon, Senior Editor for the Social Sciences with Springer and in charge of the NISS series, was moving to another position in the publication world. I wish to use this opportunity to thank Marie for her superb collaboration over the years and to express her my very best wishes in her new responsibilities. Information on the books published in the NISS series is available on the Springer website, through the series homepage: http://www.springeronline.com/series/6351 Bernard R. Hodgson, Secretary-General of ICMI, bhodgson@mat.ulaval.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. Special Issue on the History of ICMI published by IJHME IJHME, the International Journal for the History of Mathematics Education, published as its issue vol. 3 (2008), no. 2, a special issue on the History of IMUK and ICMI. In March 2008, ICMI, the International Commission on Mathematics Instruction, organized a Symposium to commemorate the Centennial of the founding of IMUK, of this first body to establish international cooperation in mathematics education, in Rome-the very same site where that founding had occurred. In the wake of the Centennial, IJHME had already published several papers about the reform movements around 1908 in an earlier issue-vol. 2, no. 2 (2007). In this new issue, those contributions to this Congress are presented, which highlight its historical dimension in particular. In fact, the ICMI Centennial had two major aims: firstly, studying the history of this first international body itself, and secondly to investigate how key and perennial issues of mathematics education have developed during the existence of ICMI as shaped and/or reflected by ICMI activities. This was accomplished by plenary lectures, special talks, and by the working groups, which were dedicated specifically to such key issues. The Proceedings of the Centennial, which are published by now, contain reports about the working groups by their co-chairs, and abridged versions of the plenaries and special talks. Regarding the historical dimension, the special issue of IJHME publishes three papers: the complete version of one of the plenary lectures, by Gert Schubring, who gave the first thorough analysis of the history of IMUK under the presidency of Felix Klein; the complete version of one of the special talks, by Eileen Donoghue, who details D. E. Smith's role in creating this institution; and the paper by Fulvia Furinghetti, whose focus is on the development after the re-founding in 1952 as ICMI and the role of international communication, be it by journals, or by other international organizations. Among the perennial issues, a major concern has always been modernization of syllabi and of teacher training, and this is represented in the issue by three papers: Luciana Zuccheri and Verena Zudini study the approach, implemented in the (then) Austrian region of Trieste, to introduce the elements of the calculus in the upper grades of secondary schools, a key issue of Felix Klein's reform agenda not implemented, however, in Italy. Arlete de Jesus Brito's paper is devoted to the role of international agencies in implementing the "modern mathematics" or the "New Math" in a particularly industrialized region of Brazil. And Kirst?n Bjarnadottir gives a long-term view of reforms in Iceland, which kept pace with the international developments. The transformation of mathematics education and its emergence as a scientific discipline since the 1960s/70s is discussed by Rolf Biehler and Andrea Peter-Koop. The use of teaching aids-in modern terms, "the use of technology"-has been a primordial concern for all reformers since the early twentieth century and is studied by Kenneth Ruthven. The use of history of mathematics in its teaching is a long-standing issue of reform initiatives, too, and Michael Fried discusses here the status of this issue and its perspectives, especially as promoted by international organizations like ICMI. The website of the journal is http://www.comap.com/historyjournal/index.html and the special issue is to be found at: http://www.comap.com/historyjournal/journals/vol3no2.html Gert Schubring, Bielefeld University, Germany, gert.schubring@uni-bielefeld.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. Calendar of Events of Interest to the ICMI Community 3rd International Symposium on Mathematics and its Connections to the Arts and Sciences Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, 21st-23rd of May, 2009 http://www.umoncton.ca/freimanv/macas3/index.htm The 3rd International Symposium on the History and Pedagogy of Mathematics in China Beijing Normal University , Beijing, China, May 22-25, 2009 Xichi Wang, College of Mathematics & Natural Sciences, Beijing Normal University 19 Xinjeikouwai St., Beijing, 100875., P. R. of China, xiciwang@mail.bnu.edu.cn http://www.shuxueshi.cn 5th Asian Mathematical Conference Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 22 - 26, 2009 http://math.usm.my/amc2009/ ICTMT-9 - 9th Int Conf on Technology in Mathematics Teaching Metz, France, July 6-9, 2009 http://www.ictmt9.org PME33 - 33rd Annual Meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education Thessaloniki, Greece, July 19-24, 2009 http://www.pme33.eu Bridges Banff - Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 26-29, 2009 http://bridgesmathart.org/bridges-2009/ CIEAEM61 - Commission internationale pour l'?tude et l'am?lioration de l'enseignement des math?matiques Universit? de MONTR?AL, Montr?al, Qu?bec, Canada, July 26-31, 2009 http://www.cieaem.net/ ICTMA 14 - 14th International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematical Modelling and Applications University of Hamburg, Germany, July 27-31, 2009 http://www.ictma14.de/ SEMT '09 - 10th bi-annual conference on Elementary Mathematics Teaching, "The development of mathematical understanding" Prague, August 23-28, 2009 http://kmdm.pedf.cuni.cz "Models in Developing Mathematics Education" The Mathematics Education into the 21st Century Project Dresden, Saxony, Germany, September 11-17, 2009 alan@rogerson.pol.pl SRD'09 - Southern Right Delta'09 7th Southern Hemisphere Conference on the Teaching and Learning of Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics Gordons Bay, South Africa, 29 November-4 December 2009 http://www.delta2009.co.za ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6. Historical vignettes: Greenhill, the first vice-president of ICMI Alfred George Greenhill (1847-1927) was born in London on 29 November 1847. He entered St. John's College, Cambridge in 1866, graduating as second wrangler in 1870. He taught briefly at the Royal Indian Engineering College at Cowper's Hill, before returning to Cambridge in 1873 as a fellow and lecturer at Emmanuel College. Finally in 1876, he was appointed professor of mathematics at the Artillery College in Woolwich, where he stayed for over thirty years. The majority of Greenhill's research was concerned with elliptic functions, or, more specifically, their applications in applied mathematics. To this end, he investigated the uses of elliptic functions in dynamics, hydrodynamics, electrostatics and elasticity theory, using them to treat problems such as the motion of a symmetrical top, various kinds of fluid motion, and the distortion of a circular wire under pressure. In the theory of elasticity, Greenhill's most important work was probably a paper from 1883 concerning the maximum length possible for an upright cylinder before it is bent under its own weight. Once he had solved the problem, Greenhill applied it to the computation of the greatest height to which a tree can grow, collecting data on the heights of particular trees to evaluate his result. In his later years, Greenhill's style of applied mathematics became increasingly unfashionable when compared to the new rigorous approach to pure mathematics, as practiced by such early 20th-century British mathematicians as Hardy and Littlewood, which he disparagingly referred to as "the morbid pathology of the mathematical function". His old-fashioned views were accentuated by such a high admiration of Newton's Principia, that, he said, "I should prefer to see the whole three books prescribed in the Cambridge course, to be studied in the original Latin". However, it is thought that "in making such assertions he was not more than half serious". But despite his unconventionality, Greenhill was apparently a successful and highly respected teacher. Indeed, as one of his former students reports, "Greenhill was loved by his old pupils to a degree which few Professors can have enjoyed". Throughout his long scientific career, Greenhill received many honours. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, a member of the London Mathematical Society, a corresponding member of the Acad?mie des Sciences and an honorary foreign member of the Academia dei Lincei. Finally, when he retired from his Woolwich professorship in 1908, he was knighted by King Edward VII. In his retirement Greenhill devoted his mathematical activities more explicitly to matters concerning pedagogy. At the 1908 International Congress of Mathematicians in Rome, he was appointed one of the three members of the founding committee of ICMI, the other two being Felix Klein and Henri Fehr. He served as vice-president of the Commission until 1920. He continued to work on mathematics during his retirement, but his health gradually declined throughout the 1920s, and he died on 10 February 1927. References A. E. H. Love, George Greenhill, Journal of the London Mathematical Society, 3, 1928, 27-32. J. W. Nicholson, George Greenhill, The Mathematical Gazette, 14, 1928-29, 417-420. Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College, Virginia, USA, arice4@rmc.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7. SUBSCRIBING TO ICMI News There are two ways of subscribing to ICMI News: 1. Click on http://www.mathunion.org/ICMI/Mailinglist with a Web browser and go to the "Subscribe" button to subscribe to ICMI News online. 2. 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Guelph is centrally located in southern Ontario, and the candidate will have the opportunity to participate in activities at the nearby Institute for Quantum Computing and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, and the Fields Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Toronto. Minimum qualifications are a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline, outstanding promise in research, and evidence of strong teaching potential. The successful candidate will be expected to actively participate in our graduate programs emphasizing applied mathematics and statistics. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. A review of applications will begin April 3, 2009 and continue until the position is filled. Candidates should submit curriculum vitae, research statement and teaching statement and arrange for three letters of reference to be sent directly to Professor David W. Kribs QIS Appointments Committee Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Guelph Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1. Fax (519)837-0221. E-mail: qispos@uoguelph.ca All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply. Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Guelph is committed to an employment equity program that includes special measures to achieve diversity among its faculty and staff. We therefore particularly encourage applications from qualified aboriginal Canadians, persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and women. The position is subject to final budgetary confirmation. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Proposals should include a brief description of the focus and purpose of the session, the expected number of the talks, as well as the organizer?s name, complete address, telephone number, e-mail address, etc. All sessions will be advertised in the CMS Notes, on the web sites and, if possible, in the Notices of the AMS and in publications of other societies. 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 Meeting Director by the deadline below. Deadline: March 31, 2009 Meeting Director Dr. Daniel Britten Mathematics & Statistics Lambton Tower, 10th Floor Windsor, ON N9B 3P4 Tel: (519) 253-3000 Ext. 3013 britten@uwindsor.ca The following sessions have been confirmed for this conference: Algebraic Geometry Org: Mike Roth (Queen?s) Banach Algebras and Abstract Harmonic Analysis Org: Zhiguo Hu, Mehdi Monfared (Windsor) Convex and Variational Analysis Org: Heinz Bauschke, Shawn Wang (UBC Okanagan) Exact and Approximate Methods for Nonlinear Differential Equations Org: Alexei F. Cheviakov, George W. Patrick (Saskatchewan) History and Philosophy of Mathematics Org: Tom Archibald (SFU) Lie Algebras and Representation Theory Org: Nicolas Guay (Alberta), Michael Lau (Windsor) Lie Groups and Automorphic Forms Org: Hadi Salmasian, Wai Ling Yee (Windsor) Mathematical Models in Environmental Sciences Org: Rick Caron (Windsor) Mathematical Statistics Org: Jiahua Chen (UBC), Chi Song Wong (Windsor) Mathematics Education Org: Dragana Martinovic (Windsor) Matrix Theory and Statistics Org: Ejaz Ahmed, Abdul Hussein (Windsor) Measure, Probability, and Stochastic Processes Org; Severien Nkurunziza, Tim Traynor (Windsor) Non-Linear Control Theory Org: Andrew Lewis, Abdol-Reza Mansouri (Queen?s) Number Theory Org: Kevin Hare (Waterloo), Soroosh Yazdani (McMaster) Operator Algebras Org: Mitja Mastnak (Saint Mary's), Dilian Yang (Windsor) Real and Complex Singularities Org: Janusz A. Adamus (Western) From gpwright at cms.math.ca Thu Mar 12 12:40:32 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Thu Mar 12 12:35:12 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?utf-8?q?Appel_de_sessions_=E2=80=93_R=C3=A9union_d?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=99hiver_de_la_SMC_2009_-_Date_limite_31_mars_2009?= Message-ID: Appel de sessions ? R?union d?hiver de la SMC 2009 Les sessions autonomes jouent un r?le important dans le succ?s de nos r?unions. Nous vous invitons ? proposer des sessions autonomes pour la r?union qui se tiendra ? Windsor (Ontario), du 5 au 7 d?cembre 2009. Votre proposition doit inclure une br?ve description de l?orientation et des objectifs de la session, le nombre de communications pr?vues et leur dur?e, ainsi que le nom, l?adresse compl?te, le num?ro de t?l?phone, l?adresse courriel et les autres coordonn?es de l?organisateur. Toutes les sessions seront annonc?es dans les Notes de la SMC, sur le site web et, si possible, dans le Notices de l?AMS et les publications d?autres soci?t?s. Les conf?renciers devront pr?senter un r?sum? qui sera publi? sur le site web et dans le programme de la R?union. Toute personne qui souhaiterait organiser une session est pri?e de faire parvenir une proposition au directeur de la R?union avant la date limite indiqu?e ci-dessous. Date limite : 31 mars 2009 Directeur de la R?union : Dr. Daniel Britten Mathematics & Statistics Lambton Tower, 10th Floor Windsor, ON N9B 3P4 Tel: (519) 253-3000 Ext. 3013 britten@uwindsor.ca Les sessions suivantes ont ?t? confirm?es : G?om?trie alg?brique Org: Mike Roth (Queen?s) Alg?bres de Banach et analyse harmonique abstraite Org: Zhiguo Hu, Mehdi Monfared (Windsor) Analyse convexe et variationnelle Org: Heinz Bauschke, Shawn Wang (UBC Okanagan) Alg?bres de Lie et th?orie des repr?sentations Org: Nicolas Guay (Alberta), Michael Lau (Windsor) M?thodes exactes et approximatives pour la r?solution des ?quations diff?rentielles non-lin?aires Org: Alexei F. Cheviakov, George W. Patrick (Saskatchewan) Histoire et philosophie des math?matiques Org: Tom Archibald (SFU) Groupes de Lie et formes automorphiques Org: Hadi Salmasian, Wai Ling Yee (Windsor) Mod?les math?matiques en sciences environnementales Org: Rick Caron (Windsor) Statistiques math?matiques Org: Jiahua Chen (UBC), Chi Song Wong (Windsor) ?ducation mathematique Org: Dragana Martinovic (Windsor) Th?orie matricielle et les statistiques Org: Ejaz Ahmed, Abdul Hussein (Windsor) Mesure, probabilit? et processus stochastique Org; Severien Nkurunziza, Tim Traynor (Windsor) Th?orie de contr?le non-lin?aire Org: Andrew Lewis, Abdol-Reza Mansouri (Queen?s) Th?orie des nombres Org: Kevin Hare (Waterloo), Soroosh Yazdani (McMaster) Alg?bres d'op?rateurs Org: Mitja Mastnak (Saint Mary's), Dilian Yang (Windsor) Singularit?s en analyse r?elle et complexe Org: Janusz A. Adamus (Western) From ism at uqam.ca Thu Mar 12 15:38:30 2009 From: ism at uqam.ca (ISM) Date: Thu Mar 12 15:47:00 2009 Subject: [cmath] Colloque =?iso-8859-1?q?panqu=E9b=E9cois?= des =?iso-8859-1?q?=E9tudiants?= - 2009 / ISM Quebec Student Conference - 2009 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: ***Merci de diffuser l?information aupr?s de vos ?tudiants de cycles sup?rieurs en math?matiques. ***Thank you for forwarding this message to all your graduate students in mathematics. (English follows) Bonjour ? tous, Le 12-i?me Colloque Panqu?b?cois des ?tudiants aux cycles sup?rieurs en math?matiques organis? par l'ISM aura lieu cette ann?e ? l'UQ?M du 29 au 31 mai. Ce colloque a pour but de rapprocher les ?tudiants aux cycles sup?rieurs de math?matiques en leur donnant la chance de donner un expos? sur un sujet de leur choix, ou simplement d'assister ? des expos?s de leurs pairs. Ce colloque s'adresse ? tous les ?tudiants de cycles sup?rieurs de math?matiques, quelque soit leur sp?cialit? (alg?bre, analyse, g?om?trie, probabilit?s, statistique etc.) et quelque soit leur provenance. Les conf?rences se donneront en fran?ais ou en anglais. La dur?e des expos?s sera de 25 minutes. De plus, il y aura quatre conf?rences pl?ni?res de 55 minutes. Les conf?renciers pl?niers seront: ? Thomas Ransford, professeur de l'Universit? Laval (Qu?bec) ? Fabrice Larribe, professeur de l'UQ?M (Montr?al) ? Damien Calaque, ma?tre de conf?rence de l'Universit? Claude Bernard (Lyon, France) ? Nantel Bergeron, professeur de l'Universit? York (Toronto) Vous pouvez vous inscrire ? l'adresse suivante: http://lacim.uqam.ca/~cpq2009/ Pour tout autre renseignement, n'h?sitez pas ? nous contacter (voir adresses e-mail plus bas) ou ? consulter le site Internet: http://lacim.uqam.ca/~cpq2009/ En esp?rant vous voir en tr?s grand nombre, Jean-Phillipe Labb?, (mailto:jeanphilippelabbe@gmail.com) Jonathan Lortie, (mailto:lortie.jonathan@courrier.uqam.ca) Hello everyone, The 12th ISM Quebec Student Conference of the graduate students in mathematic organised by the ISM will occurs this year at UQ?M between May 29 and May 31. The goal of this conference is to bring closer the graduate students in mathematics by giving them the chance to give a talk on the subject of their choice or simply by attending talks given by their peers. This conference is for every graduate students in mathematic whatever their specialisation (algelbra, analysis, geometry, probability, statistic, etc.) and whatever their provenance. The talks will be given in french or in english. The duration of each talk will be of 25 minutes. Moreover, their will be four planery talks of 55 minutes. The planery speakers will be: ? Thomas Ransford, professor of University Laval (Qu?bec) ? Fabrice Larribe, professor of UQ?M (Montr?al) ? Damien Calaque, master of conference of University Claude Bernard (Lyon, France) ? Nantel Bergeron, professor of University York (Toronto) You can subscribe at: http://lacim.uqam.ca/~cpq2009/ For any further questions, do not hesitate to contact us (see the e-mail adress below) or consult the website: http://lacim.uqam.ca/~cpq2009/ We hope to see you all, Jean-Phillipe Labb?, (mailto:jeanphilippelabbe@gmail.com) Jonathan Lortie, (mailto:lortie.jonathan@courrier.uqam.ca ) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Math in Moscow Program www.mccme.ru/mathinmoscow/ Application details www.cms.math.ca/Scholarships/Moscow/ For additional information please see your department or call the CMS at 613-733-2662 Deadline March 31, 2009 to attend the Fall 2009 semester. ******************************************** Bourse CRSNG/SMC Math ? Moscou Le Conseil de Recherches en Sciences Naturelles et en G?nie du Canada (CRSNG) et la Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC) offrent des bourses de 9,000 $ chacune. Les ?tudiantes ou ?tudiants du Canada inscrit(e)s ? un programme de math?matiques ou d'informatique sont ?ligibles. Les bourses servent ? financer un trimestre d'?tudes ? la petite universit? d'?lite Moscow Independent University. Programme Math ? Moscou www.mccme.ru/mathinmoscow/ D?tails de soumission www.smc.math.ca/Bourses/Moscou/ Pour plus de renseignements veuillez communiquer avec votre d?partement ou la SMC au 613-733-2662 Date limite le 31 marse 2009 pour le trimestre d'automne 2009. From jkhoury at uottawa.ca Fri Mar 13 10:05:58 2009 From: jkhoury at uottawa.ca (Joseph Khoury) Date: Fri Mar 13 09:59:04 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-1?q?Appel_de_candidatures-Prix_Graham-Wright_?= =?iso-8859-1?q?pour_service_m=E9ritoire_2009?= References: Message-ID: <35141BE6A60459488367EDBFED55F4FB0300217B@MSMAIL2.uottawa.o.univ> Prix Graham-Wright pour service m?ritoire 2008 En 1995, la Soci?t? math?matique du Canada a cr?? un prix pour r?compenser les personnes qui contribuent de fa?on importante et soutenue ? la communaut? math?matique canadienne et, notamment, ? la SMC. Ce prix ?tait renomm? ? compter de 2008 en hommage de Graham Wright pour ses 30 ans de service comme directeur administratif et secr?taire de la SMC. Pour les mises en candidature pri?re de pr?senter des dossiers avec une argumentation convaincante et de les faire parvenir, le 31 mars 2009 au plus tard, ? l'adresse ci-dessous : Comit? de s?lection Prix Graham-Wright pour service m?ritoire Soci?t? math?matique du Canada 1785 Alta Vista Drive, Suite 105 Ottawa, ON K1G 3Y6 Canada ================================================================================================ Dr. Joseph Khoury jkhoury@uottawa.ca Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa Tel. (613) 562-5800, ext. 3487 D?partement de math?matiques et de statistique, Universit? d'Ottawa T?l. (613) 562-5800, poste. 3487 CMS Associate Executive Director jkhoury@cms.math.ca Directeur administratif adjoint de la SMC ================================================================================================= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Selection Committee Graham Wright Award for Distinguished Service Canadian Mathematical Society 1785 Alta Vista Drive, Suite 105 Ottawa, ON K1G 3Y6 Canada ================================================================================================ Dr. Joseph Khoury jkhoury@uottawa.ca Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa Tel. (613) 562-5800, ext. 3487 D?partement de math?matiques et de statistique, Universit? d'Ottawa T?l. (613) 562-5800, poste. 3487 CMS Associate Executive Director jkhoury@cms.math.ca Directeur administratif adjoint de la SMC ================================================================================================= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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There is partial financial support available for the travel and lodging of grad students and post-docs from out of town; those who submit an abstract will be given priority. OCW welcomes their 2009 invited speakers Nick Harvey (Microsoft Research & University of Waterloo), Claire Mathieu (Brown University), and Mike Molloy (University of Toronto). For more information or to submit an abstract, visit http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~ocw2009/ From peter.taylor at queensu.ca Fri Mar 13 22:34:49 2009 From: peter.taylor at queensu.ca (Peter Taylor) Date: Fri Mar 13 22:34:53 2009 Subject: [cmath] FW: Sharing Mathematics 2nd Announcement Message-ID: <0KGH00J0A5TT7990@mta02.its.queensu.ca> forwarded as received from john grant mcloughlin. >------ Forwarded Message >From: Richard Brewster >Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:12:05 -0700 > >Subject: Sharing Mathematics 2nd Announcement > >Second announcement of Sharing Mathematics: A Tribute to Jim Totten > >In March 2008 the mathematical community lost >our dear colleague Dr. James Totten. Jim's work >in research, outreach, teaching and problem >solving spanned over 30 years. A conference >celebrating Jim?s spirit will be held May 13-15, >2009 at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC. > >The conference themes are outreach, enrichment, >and innovation in mathematics education. > >Plenary speakers: >? Dr. John Grant McLoughlin, >University of New Brunswick (Public Lecture) > >? Dr. Harley Weston, University of Regina > >? Dr. Jennifer Hyndman, University of Northern British Columbia > > >Call for Contributions > >The conference committee is soliciting talks on >a broad range of topics. We also wish to >encourage participation from the many >communities that Jim reached by providing >opportunities for written contributions other >than formal presentations. We therefore invite >submissions of anecdotes, essays or other items >that illustrate Jim?s influence and efforts in >the area of enrichment and outreach. > >Possible topics include but are not limited to: >? teaching methods for problem solving > >? teaching practices to enhance student engagement > >? enrichment activities and strategies > >? outreach activities > > >Contributed Talk Deadlines: >? Submission of Abstract (1 page maximum): Tuesday, March 31, 2009 > >? Acceptance notification no later than Friday April 3, 2009 > >? Submit to: SharingMath2009@tru.ca. > > >Publication >Plans are in place to prepare a publication >entitled: Sharing Mathematics - A Tribute to Jim Totten > >This publication will include anecdotes, essays, >and other items illustrating Jim's outreach into >the mathematical community, in addition to some >record of the May 2009 conference sharing the >same title. People planning to submit such >materials should contact one of the editors for >details concerning submissions. All presenters >at the conference are encouraged (but not >required) to submit a paper from their >presentation for inclusion in this >publication. The deadline for receipt of materials is June 30, 2009. > >Further details are on the website. >Contact Us: >E-mail: SharingMath2009@tru.ca >Web: http://www.tru.ca/sharingmath > >Jim Bailey, College of the Rockies >Rick Brewster, Thompson Rivers University (rbrewster@tru.ca) >Fae DeBeck, Thompson Rivers University (fdebeck@tru.ca) >Robb Fry, Thompson Rivers University >John Grant McLoughlin, University of New Brunswick >Shane Rollans, Thompson Rivers University >Mohamed Tawhid, Thompson Rivers University > > > >------ End of Forwarded Message Peter Taylor, Professor Dept. Math&Stats Queen's University Kingston ON 613-533-2434 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Minisymposium in Mathematical Finance -Functional Differential Equations -Non-linear Analysis and Differential Equations -Modern Thermodynamics -Mathematical Neuroscience Registration for CAIMS 2009 closes May 26.? Early-bird discounts are only available until April 30.? Contributed talks or posters need not fit a particular theme.? Submission of abstracts for both posters and talks closes May 15.? Proposals for minisymposia will be accepted until April 30. More information - as well as electronic registration and abstract submission ? can be found on the conference website, http://www.apmaths.uwo.ca/CAIMS2009 From nassif at math.ubc.ca Wed Mar 18 11:57:57 2009 From: nassif at math.ubc.ca (Nassif Ghoussoub) Date: Wed Mar 18 11:58:54 2009 Subject: [cmath] VANCOUVER SUN editorial Message-ID: This is the Vancouver Sun's editorial in today's edition of the paper...It is worth framing. ---- There is no escaping the influence, and the virtues, of math VANCOUVER SUN MARCH 18, 2009 In an effort to illustrate what he described as the "unreasonable effectiveness" of mathematics, the late Nobel laureate physicist Eugene Wigner used to tell a story. The tale concerned two former high school friends, one of whom had become a statistician working on population trends. The statistician was explaining the meanings of various symbols he used when his friend asked about the meaning of pi. When the statistician explained that pi was the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, his friend responded, incredulously, that "surely the population has nothing to do with the circumference of the circle." The friend's incredulity is understandable, since it's reasonable to wonder what a relatively abstract matter like the circumference of a circle has to do with a population. But that is the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics -- math seems to insinuate itself into everything, even things where it appears not to belong. For example, everyone knows that math is absolutely essential to physics and, to a lesser extent, to the other natural sciences. But what many people don't know, and others choose to forget, is that math is crucial to the study of just about everything, including ecosystems, financial markets and sports scores. Truly, everything is number, as the Pythagoreans said. And that is why everyone needs a decent understanding of mathematics. The problem, of course, is that most people, particularly when they're in school, don't see how math is relevant to their lives. In an ironic way, this may be a direct result of its unreasonable effectiveness. Although math historically grew out of practical needs, such as the need to measure land or to calculate financial transactions, it soon reached an impressive level of abstraction, a level that seemed to divorce it from the real world. This abstraction makes math a difficult study, and also leads many students to wonder why they must study such formal fare. But abstraction is also math's virtue, for by refusing to restrict itself to any particular study, it becomes applicable to everything. As positive as that is, it still leaves us with the problem of making math exciting and engaging. Indeed, as mathematician John Allen Paulos once observed, many people seem to wear their (putative) inability to do math as something of a badge of distinction. Fortunately, though, some teachers have recognized that ignorance of math isn't something to be proud of -- in fact, it's fatal. And these teachers have taken it upon themselves to improve the teaching, and the learning, of this uniquely versatile subject. One such teacher is Simon Fraser University mathematician and scientific director of MITACS (Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems) Arvind Gupta, who is writing a continuing series for The Vancouver Sun on the importance and beauty of mathematics. Other teachers have been involved in reworking the way math is taught in British Columbia and elsewhere, by emphasizing the very real world applications of this seemingly other worldly subject. This is a hopeful development, as it will help students to understand why they're doing math rather than simply how to do it. And in the process, it could help more students -- and ultimately, the rest of us -- to better understand the world. From laufest at math.ualberta.ca Wed Mar 18 20:41:23 2009 From: laufest at math.ualberta.ca (Laufest) Date: Thu Mar 19 09:32:12 2009 Subject: [cmath] CAHAS 2009 (Laufest) - registration to close soon Message-ID: <20090318180606.P10577@sirius2.math.ualberta.ca> Canadian Abstract Harmonic Analysis Symposium 2009 (Laufest) Edmonton, Alberta - May 11-15, 2009 An International Conference Honoring Anthony To-Ming Lau on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday !!! REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE ON MARCH 31, 2009 !!! To register, go to http://www.math.ualberta.ca/~laufest/registration.html From directrice at CRM.UMontreal.CA Thu Mar 19 15:17:52 2009 From: directrice at CRM.UMontreal.CA (Christiane Rousseau) Date: Thu Mar 19 15:18:04 2009 Subject: [cmath] Prix CRM-SSC 2009/ CRM-SSC 2009 Prize Message-ID: <85188F13-EDBD-4AE6-A757-75F832E7AAA1@CRM.UMontreal.CA> [ English follows ] Le Centre de recherches math?matiques et la Soci?t? Statistique du Canada sont fiers de d?cerner le Prix CRM-SSC 2009 ? Hugh Chipman du D?partement de Math?matiques et de Statistique de l?Universit? Acadia ? Wolfville en Nouvelle ?cosse. Monsieur Chipman a fait des contributions exceptionnelles ? l?application de l?inf?rence statistique bay?sienne en analyse des donn?es. Ses travaux sur la s?lection bay?sienne de variables en planification d?exp?riences, sur le paradigme bay?sien pour la r?gression non param?trique par ondelettes, et sur une approche bay?sienne pour la mod?lisation CART (arbre de classification et de r?gression) sont fondamentaux. Ses articles sont largement cit?s et ont un impact significatif sur le d?veloppement de l?analyse non param?trique de donn?es utilisant massivement l?ordinateur. En 2006, ses travaux ont ?t? choisis pour une pr?sentation orale compl?te ? la r?union annuelle du NIPS, le Neural Information and Processing Systems. Ce prix vise ? souligner l?excellence, au plan de la recherche en sciences statistiques, d?un scientifique dont les travaux de recherche ont ?t? effectu?s avant tout au Canada. Pour ?tre admissible au Prix CRM-SSC, un/une candidat/candidate doit avoir obtenu son doctorat (ou un dipl?me ?quivalent) depuis au plus 15 ans. Le Comit? du Prix 2009 CRM-SSC a ?t? pr?sid? par Louis-Paul Rivest (Universit? Laval). Les autres membres ?taient Richard J. Cook (University of Waterloo), Sorana Froda (Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al), Paul Gustafson (UBC) et Bruce Smith (Dalhousie University). Pour plus de d?tails, veuillez consulter le rapport du comit?, disponible ? : http://www.ssc.ca/main/about/awards/awards2009_f.html#CRM-SSC F?licitations ? Hugh Chipman! Christiane Rousseau, Directrice, Centre de recherches math?matiques Rom?n Viveros-Aguilera, Pr?sident, Soci?t? Statistique du Canada ************************************************************************ *** The Centre de recherches math?matiques and the Statistical Society of Canada are pleased to award the 2009 CRM-SSC Prize to Professor Hugh Chipman, Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Acadia University, Wolfville, NS. Professor Chipman has made outstanding contributions to the application of Bayesian statistical inference for data analysis. His work on Bayesian variable selection in experimental design, on a Bayesian paradigm for nonparametric wavelet regression, and on a Bayesian approach to CART (Classification and Regression Tree) modeling is seminal. His papers are widely cited and have a profound impact on the development of computer intensive nonparametric data analysis. In 2006 his work was selected for a full oral presentation at the Neural Information and Processing Systems (NIPS) meeting. The award is designed to recognize the excellence in research of a statistical scientist whose work was carried out primarily in Canada. Eligibility is limited to Canadian citizens and Permanent Residents of Canada. To be eligible for the CRM-SSC Prize, a candidate must have earned her/his Ph.D. (or equivalent degree) within the last 15 years of receiving the award. The 2009 CRM-SSC Prize Committee was chaired by Louis-Paul Rivest (Universit? Laval) and had Richard J. Cook (University of Waterloo), Sorana Froda (Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al), Paul Gustafson (UBC) and Bruce Smith (Dalhousie University) as members. For more details, check the Committee?s report available at: http://www.ssc.ca/main/about/awards/awards2009_e.html#CRM-SSC Christiane Rousseau, Director, Centre de recherches math?matiques Rom?n Viveros-Aguilera, President, Statistical Society of Canada -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090319/731ac580/attachment.htm From akelm at cms.math.ca Thu Mar 19 17:13:46 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Thu Mar 19 17:13:48 2009 Subject: [cmath] William O. J. Moser, 1927 - 2009 Message-ID: <49C2B58A.5060403@cms.math.ca> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090319/e4e8dbd0/attachment.htm From peter.taylor at queensu.ca Fri Mar 20 10:19:12 2009 From: peter.taylor at queensu.ca (Peter Taylor) Date: Fri Mar 20 10:19:24 2009 Subject: [cmath] Fwd: Mathematics Support Centres at Universities across Canada Message-ID: <0KGT00A6O6G17P30@mta01.its.queensu.ca> I forward an interesting call for information and collaboration from a colleague in Ireland. The subject is Mathematics Support Centres. I know that since we opened ours at Queen's a few years ago (staffed by undergrads and grads) it has transformed the work life of many of our students and we have also seen the same "social and friendly atmosphere" arise. peter >From: Florence Glanfield <glanfiel@ualberta.ca> >Date: March 19, 2009 10:01:27 AM MDT (CA) >To: CMESG listserve ><cmesg-l@lists.nipissingu.ca> >Cc: Ciar?n MacanBhaird ><ciaranmacanbhaird@gmail.com> >Subject: [Cmesg-l] Mathematics Support Centres at Universities across Canada > >Colleagues, > >We recently received the following email from >Dr. Ciar?n Mac an Bhaird, Math lecturer and >Manager of the Math Support Centre in the >National University of Ireland, Maynooth: > >"My principle area of work is in Math Support >and education. In Ireland, and Europe in >general there is a big problem with service Math >students coming to third level with severe >weaknesses in their basic Math abilities and >indeed with a very negative attitude towards the subject. >Setting up Math Support Centres in Universities >is one of the responses we have taken. Our >centre had 2493 visits in 20 weeks during the >last academic year, and this year we are already >past 3500 visits. There is a very social and >friendly atmosphere generated in the centre and >students are beginning to enjoy their Math. The >popularity is not evidence of success but we >have conducted research and submitted papers >which points out that the support significantly >changes students' attitudes towards Maths, their >studying habits and their mathematical >abilities. Students, particularly weaker >students, perform significantly better in exams than students who don't attend. > >Anyway, finally to my point. I am very >interested in innovations in Math support and >education. I am involved in collaborations with >SIGMA (The UK Centre of Excellence in Maths and >Stats Support) and I have set up and been >elected to the committee of the Irish Maths Support Network. > >There is an Irish-Canadian scholarship which >encourages and promotes co-operation between our >two countries and I would also like to apply for >that, if it is feasible, to help with any possible work that we can do." > >If you are able to share the work that is >happening at your university with respect to >Mathematics Support Centres, or if you are able >to send the name of a contact, to our colleague >in Ireland, then please correspond directly with >Dr. Ciar?n Mac an Bhaird. Dr. Ciar?n Mac an >Bhaird's email address is >ciaranmacanbhaird@gmail.com. > >Sincerely, > >Florence Glanfield PhD >President CMESG/GCEDM >Department of Secondary Education >341 Education South >University of Alberta >Edmonton AB T6G 2G5 >780 492 3673 (phone) >780 492 9402 (fax) Peter Taylor Professor Dept Math&Stats Queen's University Kingston ON K7L 3N6 613 533-2434 http://www.mast.queensu.ca/~peter/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090320/03bbaf9b/attachment.htm From akelm at cms.math.ca Fri Mar 20 11:46:26 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Fri Mar 20 11:46:27 2009 Subject: [cmath] Limited Term Appointment - Trent University Message-ID: The Department of Mathematics at Trent University invites applications for a nine-month limited term appointment at the assistant professor level commencing September 1st, 2009. This position is subject to budgetary approval. Candidates should have a Ph.D. in Mathematics, with preference being given to those with research experience in applied mathematics. Teaching duties will include advanced courses in applied mathematics. Trent University is a small university with a commitment to high quality teaching and research located in Peterborough, Ontario, approximately 1.5 hours northeast of Toronto. More information about the university and the mathematics department can be found on our website at http://euclid.trentu.ca/math/ . Applications will be considered starting April 6th 2009, until the position is filled. Applicants should include a current curriculum vitae and a teaching dossier, and arrange for three letters of reference to be sent to: Professor R. Yassawi Chair, Department of Mathematics, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada K9J 7B8. Telephone: (705) 748-1011 Ext. 7531 FAX: (705) 748-1155 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment From akelm at cms.math.ca Mon Mar 23 11:51:44 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Mon Mar 23 11:51:46 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-15?q?Poste_de_carri=E8re_/_Tenure-Track_Posit?= =?iso-8859-15?q?ion_-_Universit=E9_Laval?= Message-ID: [an English version follows] UNIVERSITE LAVAL, Qu?bec, Qc D?partement de math?matiques et de statistique http://www.mat.ulaval.ca/ Le D?partement de math?matiques et de statistique de l'Universit? Laval sollicite des candidatures pour un poste de carri?re en math?matiques qui sera disponible le premier septembre 2009. Nous cherchons un candidat qui pourra, ? tr?s court terme, venir renforcer l'?quipe p?dagogique responsable de nos cours destin?s ? la client?le du g?nie et des sciences appliqu?es. En cons?quence, la composante enseignement de ce poste est tr?s importante. Cette annonce s'adresse donc aux candidats qui d?tiennent, ou sont sur le point de d?tenir, un PhD en math?matiques et qui pourront remplir les exigences suivantes. 1) Le candidat devra faire la preuve de capacit?s p?dagogiques exceptionnelles aussi bien pour l'enseignement ? des grands groupes d'?tudiants inscrits dans les programmes de g?nie que pour l'enseignement sp?cialis? en math?matiques. (Les candidats non francophones devront s'engager ? acqu?rir une bonne ma?trise du fran?ais en un court laps de temps.) 2) Le candidat devra proposer un programme de recherche autonome pour lequel il pourra rapidement obtenir un financement ad?quat. Le domaine de recherche privil?gi? est celui de l'alg?bre. L'Universit? Laval applique un programme d'acc?s ? l'?galit? qui consacre la moiti? des postes vacants ? l'engagement des femmes. Conform?ment aux exigences prescrites en mati?re d'immigration au Canada, la priorit? sera accord?e aux citoyens canadiens et aux r?sidents permanents du Canada. Le salaire est d?termin? par la convention collective suivant l'anciennet? et le rang universitaire accord?s. Les personnes int?ress?es sont pri?es de faire parvenir, ? l'adresse ci-dessous, un dossier de candidature comprenant une copie de leur curriculum vit?, des tir?s-?-part de quelques publications r?centes, un r?sum?, d'au plus deux pages, de leur programme de recherche ainsi que trois lettres de recommandation t?moignant de leurs aptitudes professionnelles. La liste des nom et adresse (incluant num?ros de t?l?phone et de t?l?copieur ainsi qu'adresse courriel) des r?pondants devra ?tre incluse dans le dossier de candidature, mais les candidats devront solliciter eux-m?mes leurs r?pondants. Le concours se terminera le 12 juin 2009. Roger Pierre, directeur D?partement de math?matiques et de statistique Universit? Laval Qu?bec QC Canada G1K 7P4 rpierre@mat.ulaval.ca www.mat.ulaval.ca ----------------------------- UNIVERSITE LAVAL, Qu?bec, Qc D?partement de math?matiques et de statistique http://www.mat.ulaval.ca/ The Department of Mathematics and Statistics invites applications for a tenure-track position. The appointment will normally, but not strictly, be at the rank of Assistant Professor. The anticipated starting date is September 1, 2009. The teaching component of this position is extremely important as the successful candidate is expected to rapidly join the pedagogical team in charge of the many service courses offered to students registered in the various engineering and applied science programs of the Faculty. This invitation extends to candidates holding a PhD in mathematics or to those near completion. Responsabilities and selection criteria 1) The candidate should demonstrate exceptional pedagogical abilities and a strong interest for teaching service courses to large groups of engineering students, as well as teaching specialized courses to mathematics students. (Universit? Laval is a French-speaking university, thus the non-francophone candidates should be willing to acquire fluency in French in a short period.) 2) The candidate should be able to initiate an autonomous research program for which he or she will be able to obtain NSERC funding. Preference will be given to candidates in the field of algebra. All candidates fulfilling the above criteria are encouraged to apply. However, it should be noted that, according to canadian immigration requirements, Canadians and permanent residents must be given priority. The salary and rank will be determined in accordance to the collective agreement. According to its equal opportunity program, Universit? Laval reserves half the vacant positions for the appointment of women. Applications should include a full curriculum vitae, some reprints of a few recent publications and a summary, no longer than two pages, describing the research program. Applicants should also ask three referees to send letters of reference to the address below. The name and address (including phone and fax numbers and e-mail address) of the referees should be listed in the application but the applicants are expected to sollicit the referees themselves. Applications should be sent to the following address, before June 12, 2009. Roger Pierre, directeur D?partement de math?matiques et de statistique Universit? 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Name: laval-en.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 34753 bytes Desc: Url : https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090323/1841b48e/laval-en.pdf From concerned.researchers at gmail.com Mon Mar 23 14:27:39 2009 From: concerned.researchers at gmail.com (Concerned Researchers) Date: Mon Mar 23 14:55:05 2009 Subject: [cmath] Don't leave Canada behind Campaign Message-ID: Dear colleague, The following open letter to the Prime minister and the Leader of the Opposition was already signed by hundreds of your colleagues across Canada. The french version follows the list of signatures below. Please let us know by answering this email whether you would like to sign it. You are also encouraged to send your thoughts on the "DON'T LEAVE CANADA BEHIND CAMPAIGN" to the Prime Minister at or/and to the Leader of the Opposition at March 16, 2009 The Right Honourable Stephen Harper Prime Minister of Canada The Right Honourable Michael Ignatieff, Leader of the Opposition Ottawa Subject: Don't leave Canada behind Dear Prime Minister, Dear Leader of the Opposition U.S. President Barack Obama is taking advantage of the current financial crisis to push his country forward in new directions by greatly boosting funding to scientific research and education as a means to jump start innovation in a new economy. The scope of his vision is stunning, including an increase of more than $15 billion in scientific research, and a promise to double the funding for education in the next 10 years. For more details, see http://www.sciencedebate2008.com/www/index.php?id=62 Our government has also tried to stimulate the research / university sector in Canada, wishing to take important initiatives. At the heart of the plan is a $2 billion dollars infrastructure fund for shovel-ready renovation projects in post-secondary institutions, a fund that was actively solicited by university presidents. There is also an additional $750 million for the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), and $87.5 million over three years for doctoral scholarships. While these funding announcements are surely welcome, we would like to share our concerns as to the potential effect of some of these decisions, in particular in view of the bold and visionary course taken by the Obama administration south of the border. 1. When the U.S. government is proposing to boost the funding of the National Science Foundation (NSF) by 40% ($3 billion on top of its current $6.9 billion), we see Canada?s "stimulus budget" cutting NSERC's by 5%. When the U.S. administration is proposing to boost the funding of the National Institute of Health (NIH) by 30% ($8.5 billion in addition to its current $29 billion), our "stimulus budget" is cutting CIHR's by 5%, while essentially ignoring the needs of Genome Canada. When US researchers are being actively approached for ideas to use the stimulus money to think big and to hire and retain their researchers, their Canadian counterparts are now scrambling to identify budget cuts for their Labs, while worrying about the future of their graduating students. Recent Tri-council grants competitions, which were post stimulus budget, are already pointing towards sharply lower success rates (by more than 20% in some disciplines), lower start-up grants for young researchers, and negligible research funding for smaller institutions and provinces. These cuts are huge steps backward for Canadian Science and we ask the government to immediately develop a multi-year plan to significantly increase this country?s R&D investment through our granting councils. 2. The infrastructure support for Canada's post-secondary institutions is surely beneficial for their depleted budgets for deferred maintenance. However, the federal support requires 50% in matching funds which few institutions currently have. The net effect of this decision will be to dictate priorities for universities and provincial governments too eager to get the federal funds, and as such to divert further funds from teaching, training and research. We therefore ask government to drop the requirement of matching funds. 3. The CFI has provided a tremendous boost to certain aspects of Canada's research infrastructure over the last 10 years. However, the constraints of the program have left many important research disciplines out of its potential beneficial impact. Moreover, similar matching rules continue to apply to CFI projects, and as a consequence of the present lack of available support from the private sector and from provincial governments, even some of the already approved projects are being postponed and cancelled. At this point in time, we believe that removing the matching requirements for current and future CFI projects would be extremely beneficial for Canada and its research infrastructure. 4. The funding of an additional 500 doctoral scholarships is great news for a country that is committed to have ``the best educated, most skilled and most flexible workforce in the world". However, it seems this funding is coming at the expense of the highly qualified personnel (HQP?s) that could have been recruited more efficiently by our senior researchers through their Tri-Council grants. We believe that a more efficient strategy for ensuring a successful HQP policy is to give our leading researchers the flexibility to manage the selection, recruitment, and support of their own graduate students through their peer-reviewed research grants, and via well-established leveraging procedures with the universities and the private sector. We also regret that the $17.5-million assigned to SSHRC for graduate scholarships have been earmarked towards students in business and finance. As Alain Dubuc writes in La Presse: ``En boudant certains domaines de recherche, nos universit?s vont perdre leur pouvoir d'attraction. Et bien des jeunes talentueux iront ailleurs. (See http://www.cyberpresse.ca/opinions/chroniqueurs/alain-dubuc/200903/06/01-833827-apres-les-artistes-les-chercheurs.php) 5. President Obama is proposing to double federal funding for education over the next 10 years, and pledging to ?restore science to its rightful place? with billions in new investments. To advise his government, he has appointed leading scientists to his cabinet and as his advisors (including a Nobel laureate as energy Secretary). The Obama administration has also involved the directors of NIH and NSF in federal budget discussions about the future of research. We need a similar approach in Canada, where top research scientists and humanists can help shape directions in Ottawa for research funding. A new economy is coming out of this crisis and research and development will be the lifeblood to that new economy. We call upon you not to let Canada be left behind. Sincerely, Margaret Ann Armour, Chemistry, Order of Canada (University of Alberta) Tom Archibald, Chair of Mathematics (Simon Fraser University) Alejandro Adem, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) Ali Arya, Information Technology (Carleton University) Peter Abrams, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (University of Toronto) Jim Arthur, Mathematics (University of Toronto) Marshall Agueh, Mathematics (University of Victoria) John Beamish, Chair, Physics (University of Alberta) Jason Barton, Medecine (University of British Columbia) Robert Benkoczi, Math and CS (University of Lethbridge) Edward Bierstone, Mathematics (University of Toronto) Xiaotao Bi, Chemical and Biological Engineering (University of British Columbia) Yaacov Ben-David, Biophysics (University of Toronto) Herman Brunner, Mathematics (Memorial University) Margaret Beattie, Mathematics (Mount Allison University) Peter Borwein, Mathematics (Simon Fraser University) Anne Bourlioux, Mathematics (Universite de Montreal) Hans U. Boden, Chair, Math and Statistics (McMaster University) David Brydges, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) Martin Barlow, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) Michael Bennett, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) Kai Behrendt, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) Mark Bauer (University of Calgary) Vijay Bhargava, Electrical Engineering (University of British Columbia) Hichem Ben-El-Mechaiekh,Chair, Mathematics (Brock University) Sydney Bulman-Fleming, Chair, Mathematics (Wilfred Laurier University) Sandra Barr, Acting Head, Earth and Environmental Science (Acadia University) W. Kendal Bushe, Mechanical Engineering (University of British Columbia) Sherryl Bisgrove, Biological Sciences (Simon Fraser University) Mary Berbee, Botany, (University of British Columbia) Jeff Babb, Chair, Mathematics and Statistics (University of Winnipeg) Charlyn Black, Health Services and Policy Research (University of British Columbia) Maxim R. Burke, Chair, Mathematics and Statistics (University of PEI) Susan Baldwin (University of British Columbia) Chris Bose, Mathematics (University of Victoria) Patrick Brosnan, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) Michelle Boue (Trent University) Fred Bunnell Forest Sciences (University of British Columbia) John Bowman, Mathematics (University of Alberta) Walter Craig, Mathematics (McMaster University) John Carter, Applied Science and Engineering (University of Toronto) James R. Cordy, School of Computing, Queen's University Rustum Choksi, Mathematics (Simon Fraser University) Dan Coombs, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) Clifton Cunningham, Mathematics (University of Calgary) Mohamed Cheriet, Engineering (?cole de technologie sup?rieure, Montreal) Marilyn Chapman (University of British Columbia) Eric Cytrynbaum, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) Jingyi Chen, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) K. Carriere Cough, Statistics, (University of Alberta) Richard Craster, Mathematics (University of Alberta) Vladimir Chernousov, Mathematics (University of Alberta) James Colliander, Mathematics (University of Toronto) Christina C. Christara, Computer Science (University of Toronto) John Clague, Earth Sciences (Simon Fraser University) Laura Cowen, Mathematics (University of Victoria) Paul Deguire directeur, math?matiques et de statistique (Universit? de Moncton) Karl Dilcher, Chair, Math. and Stats. (Dalhousie) Lawrence M. Dill (Simon Fraser University) Martin Davy, Mechanical Engineering (University of British Columbia) Henri Darmon, Mathematics (McGill University) Rob DeWreede, Botany (University of British Columbia) Gregory Dudek, Chair, Computer Science (McGill University) Carl J. Douglas, Botany (University of British Columbia) Dan Dumont, Director, Molecular and Cellular Biology (University of Toronto) Guy Dumont (Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia) David Dunlop, Physics (University of Toronto) Juergen Dingel (School of Computing, Queen's) Mauricio Drelichman, Economics (University of British Columbia) Ivar Ekeland, Math Economics (University of British Columbia) George Elliott, Mathematics (University of Toronto) Kadriye Ercikan, Education (University of British Columbia) Yousry Elsabrouty (The University of Calgary) Yousry A. El-Kassaby, Forestry (The University of British Columbia) Neil Emery, Director, Environmental & Life Sciences (Trent University) Robert Evans, Economics, Order of Canada (University of British Columbia) Roderick Edwards (University of Victoria) Ian Frigaard, Math and Mech. Engineering (University of British Columbia) Don Fraser, Statistics (University of Toronto) Sylvia Fuller, Sociology (University of British Columbia) Richard Froese, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) Don Fisher (University of British Columbia) Eugene Fiume, Computer Science (University of Toronto) James J. Feng, Chemical & Biological Engineering (University of British Columbia) John Friedlander, Mathematics (University of Toronto) Jorge Filmus, Molecular and Cellular Biology (University of Toronto) Nassif Ghoussoub, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) Randy Goebel, Computing Science (University of Alberta) Dan Gibson, Earth Sciences (Simon Fraser University) Andrew Granville, Mathematics (Universite de Montreal) Pengfei Guan, Mathematics (McGill University) Sunny Gupta (Queen's University) Ling Guan, Electrical Engineering (Ryerson) Sean Graham, Botany (University of British Columbia) Dmitri Goussev (Gusev), Chair, Chemistry (Wilfrid Laurier University) Stephen Gustafson, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) Terry Gannon, Mathematics (University of Alberta) Dana Grecov, Mechanical Engineering (University of British Columbia) Veronique Godin, Mathematics (University of Calgary) J. Scott Goble, Education (University of British Columbia) Maria E. Gallego, Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University Charles Gale, Chair, Physics (McGill University) Ed Grant, Head,Chemistry (University of British Columbia) Ian Graham, Mathematics (University of Toronto) Jacques Hurtubise, Chair, Mathematics & Statistics (McGill University) Hedley David, Medecine (University of Toronto) Viqar Husain, Chair, Mathematics (U.New Brunswick) Stephen B. Heard Chair, Biology (University of New Brunswick, Fredericton) Fran?ois Huard, Head, Mathematics (Bishop's University) Steven Heine, Department of Psychology (University of British Columbia) Nicola J Hodges, School of Human Kinetics (University of British Columbia) Felix Herrmann, Earth and Ocean Science (University of British Columbia) Dr. Holger Hintelmann, Chair, Department of Chemistry (Trent University) Craig Heinke, Physics (University of Alberta) Shahadat Hossain, (Math and CS, U of Lethbridge) Anita Hubley, Education (The University of British Columbia) Alexander Holroyd, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) Yoram Halevy, Economics (University of British Columbia) Reinhard Illner, Mathematics (University of Victoria) John Innes, Forestry (University of British Columbia) Victor Ivrii, Mathematics (University of Toronto) Andrew Irvine (University of British Columbia) Slim Ibrahim (University of Victoria) Sebastian Jaimungal, Statistics (University of Toronto) Lisa Jeffrey, Mathematics (University of Toronto) Daniel James, Physics (University of Toronto) Robert Jerrard, Mathematics (University of Toronto) Ramesh Krishnamurti: School of Computing Science, SFU. Rachel Kuske, Head, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) Young-June Kim, Physics (University of Toronto) Young-Heon Kim, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) Niky Kamran, Mathematics (McGill University) Kalpdrum Passi, Chair, Mathematics & Computer Science (Laurentian University) Boualem Khouider, Mathematics ( University of Victoria) Kalle Karu, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) Maria Klawe, Computer Science (President of Harvey Mudd) Patrick Keeling, Botany, (University of British Columbia) Jennifer Klenz, Botany, (University of British Columbia) Leslie R. Kerr, Biology/Psychology (Trent University) Faqir Khanna, Physics (University of Alberta) David Kaminski (Math and CS, U of Lethbridge) Don Krug, Education (University of British Columbia) Raymond Kapral, Chemistry (University of Toronto) Anthony Lau, Mathematics (University of Alberta) Robert K. Logan, Physics (University of Toronto) Michael Lamoureux, Mathematics (University of Calgary) Yue Xian Li, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) Victor Leung, Electrical Engineering (University of British Columbia) Victor G. LeBlanc, Directeur, Chair, Mathematics (University of Ottawa) Wenyuan Liao (University of Calgary) Mark Lewis, Mathematics (University of Alberta) James Lewis, Mathematics (University of Alberta) Anthony Lau (University of British Columbia) Aaron Levin (University of Alberta) Alexander Litvak, Mathematics (University of Alberta) Paul Lasko, Chair, Biology (McGill University) Sheldon Lin, Statistics (University of Toronto) Hoi-Kwong Lo, Electrical and Computer Engineering (University of Toronto) Wendy Lou, Biostatistics (University of Toronto) Ben Liang, Electrical and Computer Engineering (University of Toronto) Bill Langford, Mathematics (Guelph University) Marcelo Laca (University of Victoria) Alan Mackworth, Computer Science (University of British Columbia) Bojan Mohar, Mathematics (Simon Fraser University) John Meech, Mining Engineering and Director of CERM3 (University of British Columbia) Richard G. Miller, Biophysics and Immunology (University of Toronto) Greg Martin, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) Robert McCann, Mathematics (University of Toronto) Andre Marziali, Director, Engineering Physics (University of British Columbia) Franklin Mendivil (Acadia University) Akos Magyar, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) Brian Marcus, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) Barrie McCullough (University of British Columbia, Okanagan) Robert Moody, Mathematics (University of Alberta) Orson Moritz, Ophthalmology (University of British Columbia) Patrick Martone, Botany, (University of British Columbia) Peter Minev, Mathematics (University of Alberta) Amy Metcalfe, Education (University of British Columbia) Jim Mattsson (Simon Fraser University) Bill Milsom, Head, Zoology (University of British Columbia) Eckhard Meinrenken, Mathematics (University of Toronto) Sharon Morsink, Physics (University of Alberta) Bonny Norton, Education (University of British Columbia) Asish Mukhopadhyay: School of Computer Science, University of Windsor Raymond Ng, Computer sc. (University of British Columbia) Adrian Nachman, Electrical and Computer Engineering (University of Toronto) Carl Ollivier-Gooch, P.Eng. (University of British Columbia) Fergal O'Hagan (Trent University) Peter Ottensmeyer, Medical Biophysics (University of Toronto) Don Page, Physics (University of Alberta) Anthony Peirce, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) Ed Perkins, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) Marion Porath (University of British Columbia) Roger Pierre, Directeur, Mathematiques et de statistique (Universite Laval) Cindy Prescott, Forestry (University of British Columbia) Arturo Pianzola, Mathematics (University of Alberta) Royann Petrell (University of British Columbia) Peter Pivovarov (University of Alberta) Daniel D. 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Werker, Psychology (University of British Columbia) Shelly Wismath (Board of Governors' Chair in Teaching, Math and CS, U of Lethbridge) Shoshana Wodak, Biochemistry, and Molecular Genetics (University of Toronto) Margaret Wyeth (University of Victoria) Glyn Williams-Jones, Earth Sciences (Simon Fraser University) Konrad Walus, Electrical and Computer Engineering (University of British Columbia) Reem Yassawi, Head, Math (Trent University) Vlad Yaskin (university of Alberta) Janet Ye, Mathematics (University of Victoria) Nora Znotinas, Chair, Physics & Computer Science (Wilfrid Laurier University) Richard Zemel, Computer Science (University of Toronto) Julie Zhou, Mathematics (University of Victoria) Cher Premier Ministre, Cher chef de l?opposition Le pr?sident des ?tats-Unis Barack Obama a profit? de la crise financi?re actuelle pour aiguiller son pays dans de nouvelles voies en augmentant de fa?on significative son financement de la recherche scientifique et de l??ducation, afin de relancer l?innovation dans un contexte ?conomique nouveau. L'?tendue de sa vision est formidable, y compris l?augmentation de plus de $15 milliards pour la recherche scientifique, et la promesse de doubler le budget consacr? ? l??ducation dans les 10 prochaines ann?es. Voir la page web de Nancy Pelosi: http://www.sciencedebate2008.com/www/index.php?id=62 Notre gouvernement a formul? son propre plan pour tenter de stimuler la recherche et tout le secteur universitaire au Canada. Au coeur de ce plan est un fonds de $2 milliards destin? aux institutions d'enseignement post-secondaire pour des projets pr?ts ? la mise en chantier, un fonds qui avait ?t? r?clam? par les pr?sidents des universit?s. Il y a aussi un suppl?ment de $750 millions pour la Fondation Canadienne pour l?Innovation (FCI), et $87.5 millions r?partis sur trois ans pour des bourses doctorales. Alors que ces annonces de financement sont certainement les bienvenues, nous aimerions partager nos pr?occupations en ce qui concerne l?effet potentiel de certaines de ces d?cisions, en particulier ? la lumi?re de l?approche audacieuse et ?clair?e qu?a choisie l?administration Obama aux ?tats-Unis. 1. Pendant que le gouvernement US propose d?augmenter le financement de la National Science Foundation (NSF) de 40% ($3 milliards en plus de son budget courant de $6.9 milliards), nous constatons que le ?budget de stimulation ?conomique? du Canada ampute de 5% le budget du CRSNG. Pendant que le gouvernement U.S. propose d?augmenter le financement du National Institute of Health (NIH) de 30% (soit $8.5 milliards en plus de son budget courant de $29 milliards), notre ?budget de stimulation ?conomique? coupe le IRSC de 5%, tout en ignorant ? toute fin pratique les besoins de G?n?me Canada. Pendant qu'on invite les chercheurs scientifiques aux ?tats-Unis ? viser haut et loin dans leurs propositions pour utiliser ces nouveaux fonds, notamment pour recruter et retenir dans leurs ?quipes de recherche des chercheurs de calibre international, leurs coll?gues canadiens doivent s'atteler ? la p?nible t?che de g?rer les coupures de budget dans leurs laboratoires, tout en se pr?occupant de l?avenir de leurs ?tudiants aux cycles sup?rieurs. Les r?sultats r?cents (c'est-?-dire apr?s l'annonce du budget de stimulation) des concours de subventions des trois grands conseils de la recherche du Canada pointent d?j? vers des taux de succ?s plus faibles (par plus de 20% dans certaines disciplines), des fonds de d?marrage r?duits pour les jeunes chercheurs, et un financement n?gligeable pour les plus petites institutions et provinces. Ces coupures constituent un regrettable pas en arri?re pour la science au Canada et nous demandons au gouvernement de se pencher imm?diatement sur un plan couvrant plusieurs ann?es qui augmente de fa?on significative l?investissement en recherche et d?veloppement par les trois grands conseils. 2. Le support aux infrastructures pour les institutions post-secondaires du Canada est s?rement une tr?s bonne nouvelle vu le manque de fonds criant pour l?entretien de ces infrastructures. Cependant, le support f?d?ral requiert un cofinancement de 50% dont personne ne dispose en ce moment. L?effet net du principe de cofinancement sera de dicter les priorit?s aux universit?s et aux gouvernements provinciaux, trop impatients d?utiliser ces fonds f?d?raux, et donc oblig?s de divertir ? ces fins une partie des fonds normalement destin?s ? l?enseignement, ? la formation et ? la recherche. Nous demandons donc au gouvernement de retirer la clause de cofinancement. 3. La FCI a jou? un r?le extraordinaire dans certains aspects du d?veloppement de l?infrastructure de recherche du Canada lors de ces 10 derni?res ann?es. Cependant, les contraintes du programme ont emp?ch? ? toutes fins pratiques un nombre important de disciplines d'en b?n?ficier. De plus, des r?gles de cofinancement similaires ? celles mentionn?es ci-dessus continuent de s?appliquer aux projets FCI. ?tant donn? le manque pr?sent de fonds disponibles du secteur priv? et des gouvernements provinciaux, il y a m?me des projets qui avaient ?t? approuv?s qui sont maintenant report?s ou bien carr?ment annul?s. Vu le contexte ?conomique actuel, nous croyons que la suppression des clauses de cofinancement pour tous les projets FCI pr?sents et futurs serait extr?mement b?n?fique pour le Canada et pour son infrastructure de recherche. 4. Le financement de 500 bourses de doctorat suppl?mentaires est une excellente nouvelle pour un pays qui s?est engag? ? disposer de ?la main- d?oeuvre la mieux ?duqu?e, la plus comp?tente et la plus flexible au monde?. Cependant, il semble que l?argent pour ces bourses a ?t? en fait obtenu au d?triment des fonds pour la formation de personnel hautement qualifi?, un personnel qui aurait pu ?tre recrut? de fa?on beaucoup plus efficace par nos chercheurs seniors en utilisant leurs fonds de recherche des trois grands conseils. Nous croyons qu?une strat?gie plus fructueuse en terme de formation de personnel hautement qualitfi? est de donner ? nos meilleurs chercheurs la flexibilit? de g?rer la s?lection, le recrutement et le support de leurs ?tudiants aux cycles sup?rieurs en utilisant ? ces fins leurs fonds de recherche arbitr?s par leurs pairs, et attribu?s suivant des proc?dures bien ?tablies de cofinancement entre les universit?s et le secteur priv?. Nous regrettons ?galement que les $17.5 millions que le SSHRC r?serve pour les bourses aux cycles sup?rieurs aient ?t? cibl?s pour les ?tudiants en affaire et en finance. Comme l?a ?crit Alain Dubuc dans la Presse: ``En boudant certains domaines de recherche, nos universit?s vont perdre leur pouvoir d'attraction. Et bien des jeunes talentueux iront ailleurs." (See http://www.cyberpresse.ca/opinions/chroniqueurs/alain- dubuc/200903/06/01-833827-apres-les-artistes-les-chercheurs.php ) 5. Le pr?sident Obama propose de doubler le financement f?d?ral pour l??ducation lors des 10 prochaines ann?es, et il s?est engag? ? redonner ? la science la place qui lui revient avec des milliards en nouveaux investissements. Pour conseiller son gouvernement, il a nomm? des chercheurs du plus haut calibre comme membres de son cabinet ou ? titre de conseillers (y compris la nomination d'un laur?at du prix Nobel en tant que Secr?taire ? l??nergie). L?administration Obama a ?galement impliqu? les directeurs de la NIH et de la NSF dans les discussions du budget federal en ce qui concerne le futur de la recherche. Nous avons besoin d?une approche similaire au Canada, qui implique les meilleurs scientifiques et humanistes dans la formulation des nouvelles orientations pour le financement de la recherche. Nous r?clamons du gouvernement de ne pas laisser le Canada ? la tra?ne. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090323/7d293099/attachment.htm From rmarsh at mitacs.ca Wed Mar 25 16:18:06 2009 From: rmarsh at mitacs.ca (Rebeccah Marsh) Date: Thu Mar 26 09:40:59 2009 Subject: [cmath] Call for MITACS Seed Project Proposals Message-ID: Dear Colleague, MITACS is soliciting proposals for new seed projects. Seed projects are expected to span 18 months. Typically, seed projects involve 2-6 faculty members at one or more Canadian universities, 1-3 partner organizations, and total annual budgets of $45K-$75K (of which $30K-$50K is provided by MITACS and the remaining 33% is provided by the partner organization(s)). These projects must show potential to grow into full-scale large projects and are expected to apply for full-scale status at their conclusion. All projects must obtain non-NCE partner funds before MITACS funds are released. MITACS is primarily interested in projects within its current theme areas. However the overall merit of the project carries the highest priority and projects in potentially new application areas are also encouraged. Submissions should be sent by email to mitacs@mitacs.ca and arrive by May 1, 2009 to be eligible in this competition. New projects will be selected from these on the recommendation of the Research Management Committee, with an announcement of the selection and funding levels planned for October 2009, after approval of the MITACS Board of Directors. Projects chosen by the MITACS Research Management Committee (RMC) are expected to start on October 1, 2009. You are strongly encouraged to discuss your project ideas with MITACS before submitting your final proposal so that it best reflects the priorities of the MITACS Research Management Committee. Inquiries regarding this competition can be directed to MITACS at mitacs@mitacs.ca For detailed submission instructions, guidelines, and a template for your submission please visit the MITACS web page at http://www.mitacs.ca/goto/callsEN. **************************************************************** MITACS sollicite actuellement des propositions de nouveaux projets de d?marrage. Les projets de d?marrage doivent s'?tendre sur 18 mois. En r?gle g?n?rale, chaque projet regroupe entre deux et six professeurs en provenance d'une ou plusieurs universit?s canadiennes, en collaboration avec un ? trois organismes partenaires, pour un budget annuel total de 45 000 $ ? 75 000 $ (dont 30 000 $ ? 50 000 $ sont financ?s par MITACS, le tiers restant provenant du ou des organismes partenaires). Il est imp?ratif que ces projets aient le potentiel de devenir des projets majeurs. ? la fin du cycle de d?marrage de ces projets, il est attendu qu'une demande en vue de passer ? la cat?gorie des projets majeurs soit d?pos?e. Tous les projets doivent obtenir des fonds aupr?s de partenaires ext?rieurs aux RCE avant que les fonds MITACS ne soient vers?s. MITACS s'int?resse avant tout aux projets qui entretiennent un lien avec ses th?mes actuels. Toutefois, nous accordons la plus grande importance au m?rite global de chaque projet et invitons donc ?galement les propositions de projets li?s ? de nouveaux domaines d'application. Les soumissions doivent ?tre envoy?es par courrier ?lectronique ? mitacs@mitacs.ca et la date limite d'admissibilit? au concours est le 1er mai 2009. Les nouveaux projets seront s?lectionn?s en fonction des recommandations du Comit? de gestion de la recherche et l'annonce des r?sultats du concours ainsi que des niveaux de financement projet?s pour octobre 2009 sera faite apr?s que le Conseil d'administration de MITACS aura donn? son approbation. Les projets retenus par le Comit? de gestion de la recherche de MITACS devront d?buter le 1er octobre 2009. Nous vous conseillons fortement de discuter de vos id?es de projet avec le personnel de MITACS avant de soumettre votre proposition finale afin que cette derni?re refl?te le mieux possible les priorit?s ?tablies par le Comit? de gestion de la recherche de MITACS. Les demandes de renseignements relatives ? ce concours peuvent ?tre adress?es au personnel de MITACS ? l'adresse mitacs@mitacs.ca Pour obtenir des instructions et des directives d?taill?es sur les soumissions ou pour vous procurer un gabarit, veuillez visiter le site Web de MITACS ? http://www.mitacs.ca/goto/callsFR. Rebeccah Marsh PhD Director of Programs MITACS Inc. TASC 2, Room 9904 Simon Fraser University 8888 University Drive Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Ph: 778.782.6902 Fax: 778.782.6657 Email: rmarsh@mitacs.ca Web: www.mitacs.ca Web: www.acceleratecanada.ca Making research count / La recherche, ?a compte -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090325/92ddd53d/attachment.htm From directrice at CRM.UMontreal.CA Mon Mar 30 13:32:47 2009 From: directrice at CRM.UMontreal.CA (Christiane Rousseau) Date: Mon Mar 30 13:33:01 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-1?q?Le_Prix_ACP-CRM_2009_=E0_Hong_Guo_-_CAP-C?= =?iso-8859-1?q?RM_2009_Prize_to_Hong_Guo?= Message-ID: [ English follows ] L'Association canadienne des physiciens et physiciennes (ACP) et le Centre de recherches math?matiques (CRM) sont fiers d'annoncer que le Prix ACP-CRM de physique th?orique et math?matique 2009 est d?cern? ? Hong Guo de l'Universit? McGill pour ses travaux novateurs sur la th?orie ab initio du transport dans les syst?mes de taille nanom?trique, en particulier pour la th?orie des circuits o? le courant passe par des mol?cules individuelles. Le Prix ACP-CRM de physique th?orique et math?matique 2009 sera octroy? ? Hong Guo ? l'occasion du banquet de remise des prix de l'ACP, qui aura lieu ? l?Universit? de Moncton, ? Moncton (Nouveau- Brunswick), le 9 juin 2009. Hong Guo est l?auteur de nombreux travaux originaux sur une foule de sujets touchant la th?orie du transport quantique, le formalisme de la fonction de Green hors-?quilibre, la th?orie de la diffusion d??lectrons dans les nanostructures de semi-conducteurs, la th?orie du transport quantique r?solu en temps et ? haute fr?quence, les corr?lations dans les points quantiques, les concepts et principes de fonctionnement des nouveaux nano-dispositifs quantiques et l?application des techniques atomistiques de la th?orie de la fonctionnelle de la densit? pour comprendre le transport de charge et de spin. Pour scruter les nano-dispositifs ?lectroniques, Hong Guo a mis au point un nouveau formalisme th?orique et les outils de mod?lisation associ?s, qui impliquent une association ?troite entre la physique quantique, la physique statistique hors-?quilibre, la physique des mat?riaux et les m?thodes fond?es sur les principes de base de la physique de l'atome. Hong Guo a r?solu le probl?me th?orique crucial de la pr?diction quantitative du transport quantique hors-?quilibre dans les dispositifs ? l??chelle atomique/mol?culaire en ?laborant une toute nouvelle th?orie de la structure ?lectronique qui va au-del? des syst?mes isol?s en ?quilibre ou p?riodiques qu?on trouve traditionnellement en chimie quantique et en physique de l??tat solide. Les travaux de Guo am?liorent qualitativement la th?orie du transport quantique et de la structure ?lectronique qui est devenue ? la fine pointe de la th?orie des nano-dispositifs ?lectroniques maintenant utilis?e par une foule de chercheurs, dont certains travaillent sur les dispositifs en milieu industriel. Guo a aussi abondamment contribu? ? d?autres questions importantes du transport quantique. Il a men? des travaux remarquables pour r?soudre le probl?me du courant de d?placement dans les dispositifs par l?approche de la fonction de Green hors-?quilibre. Ses travaux ont fourni des id?es cruciales sur le transport quantique ? haute fr?quence des syst?mes nanom?triques, la capacit? quantique non lin?aire, la vitesse de fonctionnement des nano-dispositifs et les circuits quantiques RLC. Guo a con?u un programme de recherche unique au Canada qui a acquis une notori?t? internationale. Ses travaux ont une port?e internationale qui a non seulement une valeur scientifique, mais qui s'av?re aussi pertinente pour les applications pratiques. ************************************* The Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) and the le Centre de recherches math?matiques (CRM) are pleased to announce that the 2009 CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics is awarded to Hong Guo, McGill University, for his pioneering work on the ab initio theory of transport in nanoscale systems, including the theory of circuits in which current flows through molecules. Hong Guo will receive the 2009 CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics during the CAP's awards banquet to be held at the Universit? de Moncton in Moncton, New Brunswick, on June 9th, 2009. Hong Guo produced many original works covering a wide-range of topics in quantum transport theory, non-equilibrium Green?s function formalism, electron scattering theory in semiconductor nanostructures, time-dependent and high frequency quantum transport theory, strongly correlated phenomena in quantum dots, new nano-scale quantum device concepts and operation principles, and application of density functional theory atomistic techniques to understand charge/ spin transport. Hong Guo has developed new theoretical formalism and associated modeling tools that involves a close coupling of quantum physics, non-equilibrium statistical physics, materials physics and atomistic first principles methods, for investigating nano-electronic devices. Hong Guo has solved the crucial theoretical problem of quantitative prediction of non-equilibrium quantum transport in atomic/molecular scale devices, by developing an entirely new electronic structure theory which goes beyond the equilibrium closed/isolated or periodic systems conventionally seen in quantum chemistry and solid state physics. Guo?s work represents a qualitative advance of quantum transport as well as electronic structure theory that has become the state-of-the-art in nanoelectronic device theory now used by a wide range of researchers including industrial device researchers. Guo has also contributed extensively on other important issues of quantum transport. Very notable was his work on solving the alternating current partition problem using the non-equilibrium Green's function approach. His work provided very important insight concerning high frequency quantum transport in nano-scale systems, nonlinear quantum capacitance, operational speed of nano-scale devices, and quantum RLC circuits. He has built a unique research program in Canada with top international reputation. The impact of his work is international with not only scientific value but also direct relevance to practical application. Christiane Rousseau, directrice Centre de recherches math?matiques Universit? de Montr?al C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville Montr?al, Qc H3C 3J7 T?l: 514 343 7502 Fax: 514 343 2254 directrice@crm.umontreal.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This event aims to bring together partner organizations in the academic, public, private and not-for-profit sectors with university researchers to generate solutions. This Annual Conference is your opportunity to participate with others in the mathematical community by listening to top speakers, network with the mathematical community, showcase your research by presenting a poster, and socialize with your peers at a national level. Plenary Speakers The five thematic areas of MITACS research will be featured : Anne Condon, University of British Columbia - Biomedical & Health Peter Glynn, Stanford - Communication, Networks & Security Chris Jones, University of North Carolina - Environment & Natural Resources Pedro Domingos, University of Washington Information Processing Tom Salisbury, York University, Risk & Finance. Scientific Sessions * Advances in Optimization Applied to Aircraft Design * Analysis and Simulation of Transport Phenomena * Complex Adaptive Networks for Computing and Communication (CANCCOM) * Development of In Silico Approaches for Improvement of the Evaluation and Predictability of Drug Performance * Disease Dynamics * From individual to continuous approaches in biological modeling * Fusion and Inference in Surveillance Networks * High Performance Algebraic Computation and its Impact on Science and Engineering * Mathematical and Statistical Modeling of Forest Fires * Mathematical Modeling of Chemical Processes * Mathematics of Portfolio Optimization * Mesoscale Hydrological Ensemble Forecasting for Water Resources Management * Mission Route Planning for Search and Rescue in Hazardous Environments * Modeling and Mining of Networked Information Spaces * Numerical Methods in Imaging and Inverse Problems * Options Pricing in High Dimension * Quantum Information Processing * Software and Network Security * Spatial Problems in Mathematical Ecology Check back often for updates on speakers and sessions. Early Bird Registration - Deadline: April 15 To qualify for the discounted Early Bird registration fee, the registration form and payment have to be received by the deadline. Register now! Student Subsidies - We strongly encourage the participation of students at the MITACS Annual Conference. Towards this, we are allocating significant funds to help defray the cost of poster preparation, travel and accommodation for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. See the event web site for more details. New this year: Grad Student Skill Enhancement Workshops! MITACS is proud to showcase the enormously popular Skills Enhancement Program by offering two workshops designed to complement your skill set and maximize your conference experience. Your mathematical skills have gotten you this far, it's time to fine-tune your abilities to effectively communicate and make the right connections, bringing your talents to the forefront of the academic and industrial communities. We look forward to welcoming you in Fredericton! Congr?s annuel 2009 de MITACS - C?l?brons 10 ann?es de ? La recherche, ?a compte! ? Du 31 mai au 5 juin 2009 Centre de conf?rences Wu, Universit? du Nouveau-Brunswick, Fredericton, N.-B. La date limite pour la r?servation anticip?e est le 15 avril. Les frais d'enregistrement augmentent apr?s cette date. Les ?tudiants souhaitant pr?senter une affiche ou qualifier pour des subventions de voyage doivent s'enregistrer et payer avant le 15 avril. Soyez des n?tres ? Fredericton ? l'occasion du congr?s annuel 2009 de MITACS qui se tiendra ? l'Universit? du Nouveau-Brunswick. Les plus brillants universitaires en sciences math?matiques s'y r?uniront afin d'explorer les derni?res avanc?es et de partager les r?sultats de leurs recherches. Cet ?v?nement vise ? rassembler les repr?sentants des organismes partenaires des secteurs universitaire, public, priv? et ? but non lucratif et les chercheurs universitaires en vue de produire des solutions. 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URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090401/111ebcea/attachment.htm From collin.olivier at uqam.ca Wed Apr 1 11:19:27 2009 From: collin.olivier at uqam.ca (Collin, Olivier) Date: Wed Apr 1 11:35:26 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-1?q?TR=A0=3A_Don=27t_leave_Canada_behind_Camp?= =?iso-8859-1?q?aign?= References: <27023492-BAFC-4F03-BBA7-4C01CE7531EA@crm.umontreal.ca> Message-ID: Please add my name to the list of signatures: Olivier Collin, professeur D?partement de Math?matiques Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al Thank you! > De : Concerned Researchers > Date : 23 mars 2009 14:27:39 HAE > ? : cmath@cms.math.ca > Objet : [cmath] Don't leave Canada behind Campaign > > Dear colleague, > > The following open letter to the Prime minister and the Leader of > the Opposition was already signed by hundreds of your colleagues > across Canada. The french version follows the list of signatures > below. Please let us know by answering this email whether you would > like to sign it. You are also encouraged to send your thoughts on > the "DON'T LEAVE CANADA BEHIND CAMPAIGN" to the Prime Minister at > or/and to the Leader of the Opposition at > > > > > March 16, 2009 > The Right Honourable Stephen Harper Prime Minister of Canada > The Right Honourable Michael Ignatieff, Leader of the Opposition > Ottawa > Subject: Don't leave Canada behind > > > Dear Prime Minister, Dear Leader of the Opposition > > U.S. President Barack Obama is taking advantage of the current > financial crisis to push his country forward in new directions by > greatly boosting funding to scientific research and education as a > means to jump start innovation in a new economy. The scope of his > vision is stunning, including an increase of more than $15 billion > in scientific research, and a promise to double the funding for > education in the next 10 years. For more details, see > http://www.sciencedebate2008.com/www/index.php?id=62 > > Our government has also tried to stimulate the research / > university sector in Canada, wishing to take important initiatives. > At the heart of the plan is a $2 billion dollars infrastructure > fund for shovel-ready renovation projects in post-secondary > institutions, a fund that was actively solicited by university > presidents. There is also an additional $750 million for the > Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), and $87.5 million over > three years for doctoral scholarships. While these funding > announcements are surely welcome, we would like to share our > concerns as to the potential effect of some of these decisions, in > particular in view of the bold and visionary course taken by the > Obama administration south of the border. > > 1. When the U.S. government is proposing to boost the funding of > the National Science Foundation (NSF) by 40% ($3 billion on top of > its current $6.9 billion), we see Canada's "stimulus budget" > cutting NSERC's by 5%. When the U.S. administration is proposing to > boost the funding of the National Institute of Health (NIH) by 30% > ($8.5 billion in addition to its current $29 billion), our > "stimulus budget" is cutting CIHR's by 5%, while essentially > ignoring the needs of Genome Canada. When US researchers are being > actively approached for ideas to use the stimulus money to think > big and to hire and retain their researchers, their Canadian > counterparts are now scrambling to identify budget cuts for their > Labs, while worrying about the future of their graduating students. > Recent Tri-council grants competitions, which were post stimulus > budget, are already pointing towards sharply lower success rates > (by more than 20% in some disciplines), lower start-up grants for > young researchers, and negligible research funding for smaller > institutions and provinces. These cuts are huge steps backward for > Canadian Science and we ask the government to immediately develop a > multi-year plan to significantly increase this country's R&D > investment through our granting councils. > > 2. The infrastructure support for Canada's post-secondary > institutions is surely beneficial for their depleted budgets for > deferred maintenance. However, the federal support requires 50% in > matching funds which few institutions currently have. The net > effect of this decision will be to dictate priorities for > universities and provincial governments too eager to get the > federal funds, and as such to divert further funds from teaching, > training and research. We therefore ask government to drop the > requirement of matching funds. > > 3. The CFI has provided a tremendous boost to certain aspects of > Canada's research infrastructure over the last 10 years. However, > the constraints of the program have left many important research > disciplines out of its potential beneficial impact. Moreover, > similar matching rules continue to apply to CFI projects, and as a > consequence of the present lack of available support from the > private sector and from provincial governments, even some of the > already approved projects are being postponed and cancelled. At > this point in time, we believe that removing the matching > requirements for current and future CFI projects would be extremely > beneficial for Canada and its research infrastructure. > > 4. The funding of an additional 500 doctoral scholarships is great > news for a country that is committed to have ``the best educated, > most skilled and most flexible workforce in the world". However, it > seems this funding is coming at the expense of the highly qualified > personnel (HQP's) that could have been recruited more efficiently > by our senior researchers through their Tri-Council grants. We > believe that a more efficient strategy for ensuring a successful > HQP policy is to give our leading researchers the flexibility to > manage the selection, recruitment, and support of their own > graduate students through their peer-reviewed research grants, and > via well-established leveraging procedures with the universities > and the private sector. We also regret that the $17.5-million > assigned to SSHRC for graduate scholarships have been earmarked > towards students in business and finance. As Alain Dubuc writes in > La Presse: ``En boudant certains domaines de recherche, nos > universit?s vont perdre leur pouvoir d'attraction. Et bien des > jeunes talentueux iront ailleurs. > (See http://www.cyberpresse.ca/opinions/chroniqueurs/alain-dubuc/ > 200903/06/01-833827-apres-les-artistes-les-chercheurs.php ) > > 5. President Obama is proposing to double federal funding for > education over the next 10 years, and pledging to "restore science > to its rightful place" with billions in new investments. To advise > his government, he has appointed leading scientists to his cabinet > and as his advisors (including a Nobel laureate as energy > Secretary). The Obama administration has also involved the > directors of NIH and NSF in federal budget discussions about the > future of research. We need a similar approach in Canada, where top > research scientists and humanists can help shape directions in > Ottawa for research funding. > > A new economy is coming out of this crisis and research and > development will be the lifeblood to that new economy. We call upon > you not to let Canada be left behind. > > Sincerely, > > Margaret Ann Armour, Chemistry, Order of Canada (University of > Alberta) > Tom Archibald, Chair of Mathematics (Simon Fraser University) > Alejandro Adem, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > Ali Arya, Information Technology (Carleton University) > Peter Abrams, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (University of Toronto) > Jim Arthur, Mathematics (University of Toronto) > Marshall Agueh, Mathematics (University of Victoria) > John Beamish, Chair, Physics (University of Alberta) > Jason Barton, Medecine (University of British Columbia) > Robert Benkoczi, Math and CS (University of Lethbridge) > Edward Bierstone, Mathematics (University of Toronto) > Xiaotao Bi, Chemical and Biological Engineering (University of > British Columbia) > Yaacov Ben-David, Biophysics (University of Toronto) > Herman Brunner, Mathematics (Memorial University) > Margaret Beattie, Mathematics (Mount Allison University) > Peter Borwein, Mathematics (Simon Fraser University) > Anne Bourlioux, Mathematics (Universite de Montreal) > Hans U. Boden, Chair, Math and Statistics (McMaster University) > David Brydges, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > Martin Barlow, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > Michael Bennett, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > Kai Behrendt, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > Mark Bauer (University of Calgary) > Vijay Bhargava, Electrical Engineering (University of British > Columbia) > Hichem Ben-El-Mechaiekh,Chair, Mathematics (Brock University) > Sydney Bulman-Fleming, Chair, Mathematics (Wilfred Laurier University) > Sandra Barr, Acting Head, Earth and Environmental Science (Acadia > University) > W. Kendal Bushe, Mechanical Engineering (University of British > Columbia) > Sherryl Bisgrove, Biological Sciences (Simon Fraser University) > Mary Berbee, Botany, (University of British Columbia) > Jeff Babb, Chair, Mathematics and Statistics (University of Winnipeg) > Charlyn Black, Health Services and Policy Research (University of > British Columbia) > Maxim R. Burke, Chair, Mathematics and Statistics (University of PEI) > Susan Baldwin (University of British Columbia) > Chris Bose, Mathematics (University of Victoria) > Patrick Brosnan, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > Michelle Boue (Trent University) > Fred Bunnell Forest Sciences (University of British Columbia) > John Bowman, Mathematics (University of Alberta) > Walter Craig, Mathematics (McMaster University) > John Carter, Applied Science and Engineering (University of Toronto) > James R. Cordy, School of Computing, Queen's University > Rustum Choksi, Mathematics (Simon Fraser University) > Dan Coombs, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > Clifton Cunningham, Mathematics (University of Calgary) > Mohamed Cheriet, Engineering (?cole de technologie sup?rieure, > Montreal) > Marilyn Chapman (University of British Columbia) > Eric Cytrynbaum, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > Jingyi Chen, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > K. Carriere Cough, Statistics, (University of Alberta) > Richard Craster, Mathematics (University of Alberta) > Vladimir Chernousov, Mathematics (University of Alberta) > James Colliander, Mathematics (University of Toronto) > Christina C. Christara, Computer Science (University of Toronto) > John Clague, Earth Sciences (Simon Fraser University) > Laura Cowen, Mathematics (University of Victoria) > Paul Deguire directeur, math?matiques et de statistique > (Universit? de Moncton) > Karl Dilcher, Chair, Math. and Stats. (Dalhousie) > Lawrence M. Dill (Simon Fraser University) > Martin Davy, Mechanical Engineering (University of British Columbia) > Henri Darmon, Mathematics (McGill University) > Rob DeWreede, Botany (University of British Columbia) > Gregory Dudek, Chair, Computer Science (McGill University) > Carl J. Douglas, Botany (University of British Columbia) > Dan Dumont, Director, Molecular and Cellular Biology (University of > Toronto) > Guy Dumont (Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of > British Columbia) > David Dunlop, Physics (University of Toronto) > Juergen Dingel (School of Computing, Queen's) > Mauricio Drelichman, Economics (University of British Columbia) > Ivar Ekeland, Math Economics (University of British Columbia) > George Elliott, Mathematics (University of Toronto) > Kadriye Ercikan, Education (University of British Columbia) > Yousry Elsabrouty (The University of Calgary) > Yousry A. El-Kassaby, Forestry (The University of British Columbia) > Neil Emery, Director, Environmental & Life Sciences (Trent University) > Robert Evans, Economics, Order of Canada (University of British > Columbia) > Roderick Edwards (University of Victoria) > Ian Frigaard, Math and Mech. Engineering (University of British > Columbia) > Don Fraser, Statistics (University of Toronto) > Sylvia Fuller, Sociology (University of British Columbia) > Richard Froese, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > Don Fisher (University of British Columbia) > Eugene Fiume, Computer Science (University of Toronto) > James J. Feng, Chemical & Biological Engineering (University of > British Columbia) > John Friedlander, Mathematics (University of Toronto) > Jorge Filmus, Molecular and Cellular Biology (University of Toronto) > Nassif Ghoussoub, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > Randy Goebel, Computing Science (University of Alberta) > Dan Gibson, Earth Sciences (Simon Fraser University) > Andrew Granville, Mathematics (Universite de Montreal) > Pengfei Guan, Mathematics (McGill University) > Sunny Gupta (Queen's University) > Ling Guan, Electrical Engineering (Ryerson) > Sean Graham, Botany (University of British Columbia) > Dmitri Goussev (Gusev), Chair, Chemistry (Wilfrid Laurier University) > Stephen Gustafson, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > Terry Gannon, Mathematics (University of Alberta) > Dana Grecov, Mechanical Engineering (University of British Columbia) > Veronique Godin, Mathematics (University of Calgary) > J. Scott Goble, Education (University of British Columbia) > Maria E. Gallego, Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University > Charles Gale, Chair, Physics (McGill University) > Ed Grant, Head,Chemistry (University of British Columbia) > Ian Graham, Mathematics (University of Toronto) > Jacques Hurtubise, Chair, Mathematics & Statistics (McGill > University) > Hedley David, Medecine (University of Toronto) > Viqar Husain, Chair, Mathematics (U.New Brunswick) > Stephen B. Heard Chair, Biology (University of New Brunswick, > Fredericton) > Fran?ois Huard, Head, Mathematics (Bishop's University) > Steven Heine, Department of Psychology (University of British > Columbia) > Nicola J Hodges, School of Human Kinetics (University of British > Columbia) > Felix Herrmann, Earth and Ocean Science (University of British > Columbia) > Dr. Holger Hintelmann, Chair, Department of Chemistry (Trent > University) > Craig Heinke, Physics (University of Alberta) > Shahadat Hossain, (Math and CS, U of Lethbridge) > Anita Hubley, Education (The University of British Columbia) > Alexander Holroyd, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > Yoram Halevy, Economics (University of British Columbia) > Reinhard Illner, Mathematics (University of Victoria) > John Innes, Forestry (University of British Columbia) > Victor Ivrii, Mathematics (University of Toronto) > Andrew Irvine (University of British Columbia) > Slim Ibrahim (University of Victoria) > Sebastian Jaimungal, Statistics (University of Toronto) > Lisa Jeffrey, Mathematics (University of Toronto) > Daniel James, Physics (University of Toronto) > Robert Jerrard, Mathematics (University of Toronto) > Ramesh Krishnamurti: School of Computing Science, SFU. > Rachel Kuske, Head, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > Young-June Kim, Physics (University of Toronto) > Young-Heon Kim, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > Niky Kamran, Mathematics (McGill University) > Kalpdrum Passi, Chair, Mathematics & Computer Science (Laurentian > University) > Boualem Khouider, Mathematics ( University of Victoria) > Kalle Karu, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > Maria Klawe, Computer Science (President of Harvey Mudd) > Patrick Keeling, Botany, (University of British Columbia) > Jennifer Klenz, Botany, (University of British Columbia) > Leslie R. Kerr, Biology/Psychology (Trent University) > Faqir Khanna, Physics (University of Alberta) > David Kaminski (Math and CS, U of Lethbridge) > Don Krug, Education (University of British Columbia) > Raymond Kapral, Chemistry (University of Toronto) > Anthony Lau, Mathematics (University of Alberta) > Robert K. Logan, Physics (University of Toronto) > Michael Lamoureux, Mathematics (University of Calgary) > Yue Xian Li, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > Victor Leung, Electrical Engineering (University of British Columbia) > Victor G. LeBlanc, Directeur, Chair, Mathematics (University of > Ottawa) > Wenyuan Liao (University of Calgary) > Mark Lewis, Mathematics (University of Alberta) > James Lewis, Mathematics (University of Alberta) > Anthony Lau (University of British Columbia) > Aaron Levin (University of Alberta) > Alexander Litvak, Mathematics (University of Alberta) > Paul Lasko, Chair, Biology (McGill University) > Sheldon Lin, Statistics (University of Toronto) > Hoi-Kwong Lo, Electrical and Computer Engineering (University of > Toronto) > Wendy Lou, Biostatistics (University of Toronto) > Ben Liang, Electrical and Computer Engineering (University of Toronto) > Bill Langford, Mathematics (Guelph University) > Marcelo Laca (University of Victoria) > Alan Mackworth, Computer Science (University of British Columbia) > Bojan Mohar, Mathematics (Simon Fraser University) > John Meech, Mining Engineering and Director of CERM3 (University of > British Columbia) > Richard G. Miller, Biophysics and Immunology (University of Toronto) > Greg Martin, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > Robert McCann, Mathematics (University of Toronto) > Andre Marziali, Director, Engineering Physics (University of > British Columbia) > Franklin Mendivil (Acadia University) > Akos Magyar, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > Brian Marcus, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > Barrie McCullough (University of British Columbia, Okanagan) > Robert Moody, Mathematics (University of Alberta) > Orson Moritz, Ophthalmology (University of British Columbia) > Patrick Martone, Botany, (University of British Columbia) > Peter Minev, Mathematics (University of Alberta) > Amy Metcalfe, Education (University of British Columbia) > Jim Mattsson (Simon Fraser University) > Bill Milsom, Head, Zoology (University of British Columbia) > Eckhard Meinrenken, Mathematics (University of Toronto) > Sharon Morsink, Physics (University of Alberta) > Bonny Norton, Education (University of British Columbia) > Asish Mukhopadhyay: School of Computer Science, University of Windsor > Raymond Ng, Computer sc. (University of British Columbia) > Adrian Nachman, Electrical and Computer Engineering (University of > Toronto) > Carl Ollivier-Gooch, P.Eng. (University of British Columbia) > Fergal O'Hagan (Trent University) > Peter Ottensmeyer, Medical Biophysics (University of Toronto) > Don Page, Physics (University of Alberta) > Anthony Peirce, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > Ed Perkins, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > Marion Porath (University of British Columbia) > Roger Pierre, Directeur, Mathematiques et de statistique > (Universite Laval) > Cindy Prescott, Forestry (University of British Columbia) > Arturo Pianzola, Mathematics (University of Alberta) > Royann Petrell (University of British Columbia) > Peter Pivovarov (University of Alberta) > Daniel D. Pratt, Education (University of British Columbia) > Erich Poppitz, Physics (University of Toronto) > Ue-Li Pen, Astrophysics (University of Toronto) > Toniann Pitassi, Computer Science (University of Toronto) > Ian Putnam, Mathematics (University of Victoria) > Jeremy Quastel, Mathematics and Statistics (University of Toronto) > Christiane Rousseau (Universite de Montreal) > David J. Rowe, Physics (University of Toronto) > Daya Ram Gaur: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, > University of Lethbridge. > Andrew Rechnitzer, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > Dr. Jacqueline Rice (Math and CS, U of Lethbridge) > Cristian Rios, Mathematics (University of Calgary) > Catharine Rankin, Psychology (University of British Columbia) > Chris Radford, Head Mathematics and Statistics (Memorial University) > Loren Rieseberg, Botany (University of British Columbia) > Dale Rolfsen, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > Wendy Roth (University of British Columbia) > Reinhard Jetter, Botany (University of British Columbia) > Volker Runde, Mathematics (University of Alberta) > Omar Rivasplata (University of Alberta) > Peter C. Ruben, Director Kinesiology (Simon Fraser University) > Steven Rogak, Mech. Eng. (University of British Columbia) > Jeffrey Rosenthal, Mathematics (University of Toronto) > Jonathan Rose, Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering > (University of Toronto) > Nancy Reid, Statistics (University of Toronto) > Joe Repka, Mathematics (University of Toronto) > William Reed, Mathematics (University of Victoria) > Gordon Slade, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > Stephen Strother, Medical Biophysics (University of Toronto) > Gordon Semenoff, Physics (University of British Columbia) > Mohamad Sawan, Engineering (Polytechnique, University of Montreal) > Viena Stastna (University of Calgary) > Fred Sack, Head of Botany (University of British Columbia) > Paul Stephenson, Head, Mathematics and Statistics (Acadia University) > Raj Srinivasan, Chair, Mathematics (University of Saskatchewan) > Brian Seymour, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > Anne Scholefield, Education (University of British Columbia) > Jedrzej Sniatycki, Mathematics (University of Calgary) > K D Srivastava, Engineering (University of British Columbia) > Philip Stamp, Physics (University of British Columbia) > Dominik Schoetzau, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > Paul L. Smith, Head, Earth and Ocean Sciences (University of > British Columbia) > Sudarshan Sehgal, Mathematics (University of Alberta) > Catherine Sulem, Mathematics (University of Toronto) > Theodore Shepherd, Physics (University of Toronto) > Rashid Sumaila, Fisheries (University of British Columbia) > Vuk Stambolic, Medical Biophysics (University of Toronto) > Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann (University of Alberta) > Peter Tiidus, Acting Dean, Science (Wilfrid Laurier University) > Phillippe Tortell, Botany, (University of British Columbia) > John R. Topic (Trent University) > Samy Torbey (Queen's University) > Allison Tom (University of British Columbia) > Elisabeth Tillier, Genomics (University of Toronto) > Tai-Peng Tsai, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > Derek J. Thorkelson, Chair, Earth Sciences (Simon Fraser University) > Mak Trifkovic (University of Victoria) > Bill Unruh, Physics (University of British Columbia) > Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur, Education (University of British Columbia) > Stephanie van Willigenburg, , Mathematics (University of British > Columbia) > Andrew Vreugdenhil, Director, Materials Science (Trent University) > Frank Weichman, Physics (University of Alberta) > Rabab Ward, Electrical Engineering (University of British Columbia) > Brent Ward, Earth Sciences (Simon Fraser University) > Michael Ward, Mathematics (University of British Columbia) > Jason Waywitka (University of Alberta) > Doug Wiens (University of Alberta) > Eric Woolgar, Physics (University of Alberta) > Tony Ware, Mathematics (University of Calgary) > Janet F. Werker, Psychology (University of British Columbia) > Shelly Wismath (Board of Governors' Chair in Teaching, Math and CS, > U of Lethbridge) > Shoshana Wodak, Biochemistry, and Molecular Genetics (University of > Toronto) > Margaret Wyeth (University of Victoria) > Glyn Williams-Jones, Earth Sciences (Simon Fraser University) > Konrad Walus, Electrical and Computer Engineering (University of > British Columbia) > Reem Yassawi, Head, Math (Trent University) > Vlad Yaskin (university of Alberta) > Janet Ye, Mathematics (University of Victoria) > Nora Znotinas, Chair, Physics & Computer Science (Wilfrid Laurier > University) > Richard Zemel, Computer Science (University of Toronto) > Julie Zhou, Mathematics (University of Victoria) > > > Cher Premier Ministre, Cher chef de l'opposition > > Le pr?sident des ?tats-Unis Barack Obama a profit? de la crise > financi?re > actuelle pour aiguiller son pays dans de nouvelles voies en > augmentant de fa?on > significative son financement de la recherche scientifique et de > l'?ducation, afin > de relancer l'innovation dans un contexte ?conomique nouveau. > L'?tendue de sa vision est formidable, y compris l'augmentation de > plus de $15 > milliards pour la recherche scientifique, et la promesse de doubler > le budget > consacr? ? l'?ducation dans les 10 prochaines ann?es. Voir la > page web de > Nancy Pelosi: > > http://www.sciencedebate2008.com/www/index.php?id=62 > > Notre gouvernement a formul? son propre plan pour tenter de > stimuler la > recherche et tout le secteur universitaire au Canada. Au coeur de > ce plan est un > fonds de $2 milliards destin? aux institutions d'enseignement post- > secondaire > pour des projets pr?ts ? la mise en chantier, un fonds qui avait > ?t? r?clam? par > les pr?sidents des universit?s. Il y a aussi un suppl?ment de > $750 millions pour > la Fondation Canadienne pour l'Innovation (FCI), et $87.5 millions > r?partis sur > trois ans pour des bourses doctorales. > > Alors que ces annonces de financement sont certainement les > bienvenues, nous > aimerions partager nos pr?occupations en ce qui concerne l'effet > potentiel de > certaines de ces d?cisions, en particulier ? la lumi?re de > l'approche audacieuse > et ?clair?e qu'a choisie l'administration Obama aux ?tats-Unis. > > 1. Pendant que le gouvernement US propose d'augmenter le > financement de la > National Science Foundation (NSF) de 40% ($3 milliards en plus de > son budget > courant de $6.9 milliards), nous constatons que le "budget de > stimulation > ?conomique" du Canada ampute de 5% le budget du CRSNG. Pendant > que le > gouvernement U.S. propose d'augmenter le financement du National > Institute of > Health (NIH) de 30% (soit $8.5 milliards en plus de son budget > courant de $29 > milliards), notre "budget de stimulation ?conomique" coupe le > IRSC de 5%, tout > en ignorant ? toute fin pratique les besoins de G?n?me Canada. > Pendant qu'on > invite les chercheurs scientifiques aux ?tats-Unis ? viser haut et > loin dans leurs > propositions pour utiliser ces nouveaux fonds, notamment pour > recruter et retenir > dans leurs ?quipes de recherche des chercheurs de calibre > international, leurs > coll?gues canadiens doivent s'atteler ? la p?nible t?che de > g?rer les coupures de > budget dans leurs laboratoires, tout en se pr?occupant de l'avenir > de leurs > ?tudiants aux cycles sup?rieurs. > > Les r?sultats r?cents (c'est-?-dire apr?s l'annonce du budget de > stimulation) des > concours de subventions des trois grands conseils de la recherche > du Canada > pointent d?j? vers des taux de succ?s plus faibles (par plus de > 20% dans > certaines disciplines), des fonds de d?marrage r?duits pour les > jeunes > chercheurs, et un financement n?gligeable pour les plus petites > institutions et > provinces. Ces coupures constituent un regrettable pas en arri?re > pour la science > au Canada et nous demandons au gouvernement de se pencher > imm?diatement > sur un plan couvrant plusieurs ann?es qui augmente de fa?on > significative > l'investissement en recherche et d?veloppement par les trois > grands conseils. > > 2. Le support aux infrastructures pour les institutions post- > secondaires du > Canada est s?rement une tr?s bonne nouvelle vu le manque de fonds > criant pour > l'entretien de ces infrastructures. Cependant, le support f?d?ral > requiert un > cofinancement de 50% dont personne ne dispose en ce moment. L'effet > net du > principe de cofinancement sera de dicter les priorit?s aux > universit?s et aux > gouvernements provinciaux, trop impatients d'utiliser ces fonds > f?d?raux, et > donc oblig?s de divertir ? ces fins une partie des fonds > normalement destin?s ? > l'enseignement, ? la formation et ? la recherche. Nous demandons > donc au > gouvernement de retirer la clause de cofinancement. > > > 3. La FCI a jou? un r?le extraordinaire dans certains aspects du > d?veloppement > de l'infrastructure de recherche du Canada lors de ces 10 > derni?res ann?es. > Cependant, les contraintes du programme ont emp?ch? ? toutes fins > pratiques > un nombre important de disciplines d'en b?n?ficier. De plus, des > r?gles de > cofinancement similaires ? celles mentionn?es ci-dessus continuent > de > s'appliquer aux projets FCI. ?tant donn? le manque pr?sent de > fonds disponibles > du secteur priv? et des gouvernements provinciaux, il y a m?me des > projets qui > avaient ?t? approuv?s qui sont maintenant report?s ou bien > carr?ment annul?s. > Vu le contexte ?conomique actuel, nous croyons que la suppression > des clauses > de cofinancement pour tous les projets FCI pr?sents et futurs > serait extr?mement > b?n?fique pour le Canada et pour son infrastructure de recherche. > > 4. Le financement de 500 bourses de doctorat suppl?mentaires est une > excellente nouvelle pour un pays qui s'est engag? ? disposer de > "la main- > d'oeuvre la mieux ?duqu?e, la plus comp?tente et la plus > flexible au monde". > Cependant, il semble que l'argent pour ces bourses a ?t? en fait > obtenu au > d?triment des fonds pour la formation de personnel hautement > qualifi?, un > personnel qui aurait pu ?tre recrut? de fa?on beaucoup plus > efficace par nos > chercheurs seniors en utilisant leurs fonds de recherche des trois > grands > conseils. Nous croyons qu'une strat?gie plus fructueuse en terme > de formation > de personnel hautement qualitfi? est de donner ? nos meilleurs > chercheurs la > flexibilit? de g?rer la s?lection, le recrutement et le support > de leurs ?tudiants aux > cycles sup?rieurs en utilisant ? ces fins leurs fonds de recherche > arbitr?s par > leurs pairs, et attribu?s suivant des proc?dures bien ?tablies de > cofinancement > entre les universit?s et le secteur priv?. Nous regrettons > ?galement que les $17.5 > millions que le SSHRC r?serve pour les bourses aux cycles > sup?rieurs aient ?t? > cibl?s pour les ?tudiants en affaire et en finance. Comme l'a > ?crit Alain Dubuc > dans la Presse: > ``En boudant certains domaines de recherche, nos universit?s vont > perdre leur > pouvoir d'attraction. Et bien des jeunes talentueux iront ailleurs." > (See http://www.cyberpresse.ca/opinions/chroniqueurs/alain- > dubuc/200903/06/01-833827-apres-les-artistes-les-chercheurs.php ) > > 5. Le pr?sident Obama propose de doubler le financement f?d?ral > pour > l'?ducation lors des 10 prochaines ann?es, et il s'est engag? > ? redonner ? la > science la place qui lui revient avec des milliards en nouveaux > investissements. > Pour conseiller son gouvernement, il a nomm? des chercheurs du plus > haut > calibre comme membres de son cabinet ou ? titre de conseillers (y > compris la > nomination d'un laur?at du prix Nobel en tant que Secr?taire ? > l'?nergie). > L'administration Obama a ?galement impliqu? les directeurs de la > NIH et de la > NSF dans les discussions du budget federal en ce qui concerne le > futur de la > recherche. Nous avons besoin d'une approche similaire au Canada, > qui implique > les meilleurs scientifiques et humanistes dans la formulation des > nouvelles > orientations pour le financement de la recherche. > > Nous r?clamons du gouvernement de ne pas laisser le Canada ? la > tra?ne. > > Christiane Rousseau, directrice Centre de recherches math?matiques Universit? de Montr?al C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville Montr?al, Qc H3C 3J7 T?l: 514 343 7502 Fax: 514 343 2254 directrice@crm.umontreal.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090401/80bc2351/attachment.htm From concerned.researchers at gmail.com Thu Apr 2 09:47:14 2009 From: concerned.researchers at gmail.com (Concerned Researchers) Date: Thu Apr 2 15:49:00 2009 Subject: [cmath] Follow-up on "Don't leave Canada behind" campaign Message-ID: Dear colleagues More than 1750 of you, Canada's researchers, have agreed to sign the open letter to the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, in support of the "Don't leave Canada behind" campaign. The overwhelming and positive response to this initiative took us by surprise. Many of you called for a more sustained grass-root effort to constructively engage government, policy makers and post-secondary institutions. We have since included the leaders of the Bloc Quebecois and of the NDP in the discussion. We have also received a response from the leader of the Opposition. You can find all these documents, an up-to-date list of signatories, and any potential response from the Prime Minister and other officials on the blog http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/ This initiative was launched in response to the most recent decisions by the Canadian government in regard to research, development, and academic pursuits, in particular those formulated in its "stimulus budget". Billions of dollars were committed to post-secondary institutions, yet Canada's research community was left with a sinking feeling. Canada's media was vigorous in articulating some but not all the issues. The trigger was however the March 2 issue of the Globe and Mail where one could read: "Mr. Goodyear said he has met university presidents, deans of research, and researchers themselves and believes government critics are few. "You're going to see that one person who didn't get what they wanted," he said. But "eight out of 10 folks I talk to get it... They are very positive"." It was therefore high time for the people at the heart of this country's research enterprise to be heard. We are therefore creating a forum for direct discussions between Canada's researchers, post-secondary institutions, granting councils, and government. This webpage/blog will serve as an open repository for such exchanges. Let the debate begin and let it be constructive! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090402/32aacb8a/attachment.htm From gpwright at cms.math.ca Fri Apr 3 06:32:18 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Fri Apr 3 06:32:07 2009 Subject: [cmath] THREE HONOURED FOR OUSTANDING RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS Message-ID: THREE HONOURED FOR OUSTANDING RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) has selected Lia Bronsard as the recipient of the 2010 Krieger-Nelson Prize, Mikhail Lyubich as the recipient of the 2010 Jeffery-Williams Prize, and Patrick Brosnan as the winner of the 2009 Coxeter-James Prize. *********************************************************************K CMS 2010 Krieger-Nelson Prize: Dr. Lia Bronsard (McMaster University) *********************************************************************K The Krieger-Nelson Prize recognizes outstanding research by a female mathematician. Lia Bronsard is one of Canada's leading mathematical analysts, whose interests lie in the field of partial differential equations and the calculus of variations. She specializes in the study of singular limits of solutions of partial differential equations. Her research brings rigorous methods of analysis to bear on problems arising in the physical sciences, and in particular those involving singular geometrical structures such as vortices, phase transition layers, and grain boundaries. Bronsard was born in Qu?bec in 1963 and received her Baccalaur?at ?s Sciences, in mathematiques from the Universit? de Montr?al in 1983. She received her Ph.D. in 1988 from the Courant institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, working with R. V. Kohn on the De Giorgi conjecture connecting singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion equations and mean curvature flow. After her degree, she held positions at Brown University, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the Center for Nonlinear Analysis at Carnegie - Mellon University. In 1992, she moved to McMaster University, where she is now a Professor of Mathematics. During the period after her thesis, Bronsard worked on energy driven pattern formation in collaboration with B. Stoth and others. Her paper with F. Reitich on the structure of triple-junction layers in grain boundaries, from her period at CMU, was the first mathematical analysis of these multiphase singular structures and has been highly influential. In her current research, Bronsard studies the detailed structures of vortices in the phenomenon of Bose - Einstein condensation and in the Ginzburg - Landau models of superconductivity. In this area, her work, in collaboration with S. Alama, T. Giorgi, P. Mironescu, E. Sandier and colleague J. Berlinsky from Physics at McMaster University, sets a very high standard of quality, and is a model of interdisciplinary research. *********************************************************************K CMS 2010 Jeffery-Williams Prize: Dr. Mikhail Lyubich (State University of New York at Stony Brook and the University of Toronto) *********************************************************************K The Jeffery-Williams Prize recognizes mathematicians who have made outstanding contributions to mathematical research. Mikhail Lyubich is a leader in the field of dynamical systems. He is one of the founders of modern real and complex one-dimensional dynamics, having in many ways shaped the development of the field. Lyubich was born in 1959 in Kharkov, Ukraine, then a part of the Soviet Union. His interest in dynamics was influenced by his father Yuri Lyubich, who was a professor at Kharkov State University where Mikhail studied in the period 1975-80. Soviet political realities (in particular, tacit anti-Semitic policies) influenced Lyubich's early career. He was admitted to graduate school only in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where he worked on holomorphic dynamics on his own. In his 1984 Ph.D. thesis, he proved fundamental results on ergodic theory and structural stability of rational maps; in particular, the existence of the measure of maximal entropy of a rational map, now known as Lyubich measure. In 1989 Lyubich was able to leave the Soviet Union together with his family. He was invited by John Milnor to join the Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Stony Brook, founded at that time. Lyubich received a Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto in 2002, holding a joint appointment with Stony Brook. In 2007 he became Director of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Stony Brook). Lyubich is a sought-after speaker. He gave an invited address at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich in 1994, as well as plenary talks at the Joint AMS Meeting in 2000 and the first CMS-SMF Mathematics Congress in 2003. He was awarded a Sloan Fellowship in 1991 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002. Among Lyubich's fundamental results in one-dimensional dynamics is his proof in the 1990s of hyperbolicity of renormalization for unimodal maps (conjectured by Feigenbaum and by Coullet and Tresser in the 1970s). Renormalization has been one of the main themes in low-dimensional dynamics for the past 40 years. Sullivan and later McMullen proved parts of the renormalization picture for unimodal maps, and Lyubich completed the proof of universality for bounded combinatorics. He later constructed a ``full hyperbolic horseshoe'' for the renormalization operator acting on real quadratic-like maps. In earlier work on rigidity of quadratic polynomials, Lyubich resolved perhaps the most famous problem in dynamics on the real line by showing that hyperbolicity is dense in the real quadratic family. (This result was independently obtained by J. Graczyk and G. ?wi?tek.) One of the most fundamental problems in dynamics, for a parameterized family of maps, is to understand the asymptotic behaviour of almost every orbit for almost every value of the parameter. Even for the family of quadratic interval maps, this question had eluded experts for years. Lyubich's construction of the full renormalization horseshoe, together with his joint work with M. Martens and T. Nowicki, allowed him to obtain the definitive answer: almost every quadratic map is either regular or stochastic. Lyubich's work was a major step towards the celebrated MLC (Mandelbrot set is locally connected) conjecture. A series of new breakthroughs has come in his recent results with J. Kahn, using the Kahn-Lyubich quasi-additivity law in conformal geometry. *********************************************************************K CMS 2009 Coxeter-James Prize: Dr Patrick Brosnan (University of British Columbia) *********************************************************************K The Coxeter-James Prize recognizes young mathematicians who have made outstanding contributions to mathematical research. Patrick Brosnan is a young mathematician of unusual breadth, depth and scope; his work has had significant impact in several areas of mathematics, including motives, algebraic cycles, Hodge theory, algebraic groups, algebraic combinatorics, analytic number theory and mathematical physics. Brosnan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1968 and grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in 1991 and a Ph.D. from The University of Chicago in 1998, studying algebraic cycles under the supervision of Spencer Bloch. Prior to joining the University of British Columbia, he held positions at Northwestern University, Max-Planck-Institut f?r Mathematik in Bonn, the University of California Irvine, the University of California Los Angeles, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In a 2003 Duke Mathematical Journal paper with P. Belkale, Brosnan disproved the so-called ?spanning tree? conjecture of the 1998 Fields medalist M. Kontsevich. The conjecture, which was motivated by research by the physicists D. Broadhurst and D. Kreimer into the number theoretical properties of Feynman amplitudes, was supported by a substantial body of empirical evidence. The work of Belkale and Brosnan was, consequently, entirely unexpected; and it has had a strong impact on the field. Recently Brosnan has made important contributions to the theory of essential dimension. Brosnan's idea to extend the notion of essential dimension to the setting of algebraic stacks paved the way for wide-ranging applications of stack-theoretic methods which ultimately led to a number of striking developments. One of the applications, to appear in a joint Annals of Mathematics paper with Z. Reichstein and A. Vistoli, is an unexpectedly strong lower bound on the Pfister number of a quadratic form with trivial discriminant and Hasse-Witt invariant. In a different direction, Brosnan and G. Pearlstein have recently made important contributions to Hodge theory. In another paper that will appear in the Annals, they show that a non-trivial admissible normal function on a curve can have only finitely many zeros. Normal functions are part of a conjectured program to prove the Hodge conjecture, one of the outstanding open problems in mathematics. For more information, contact: Dr. Athony Lau or Dr. Graham P. Wright President Executive Director Canadian Mathematical Society Canadian Mathematical Society 780-492-0398 613-733-2662 ext 713 president@cms.math.ca director@cms.math.ca From gpwright at cms.math.ca Fri Apr 3 06:36:20 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Fri Apr 3 06:36:06 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-15?q?TROIS_SOMMIT=C9S_MATH=C9MATIQUES_R=C9COM?= =?iso-8859-15?q?PENS=C9ES_POUR_LA_QUALIT=C9_EXCEPTIONNELLE_DE_LEUR?= =?iso-8859-15?q?S_RECHERCHES?= Message-ID: TROIS SOMMIT?S MATH?MATIQUES R?COMPENS?ES POUR LA QUALIT? EXCEPTIONNELLE DE LEURS RECHERCHES La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC) d?cerne le prix Krieger-Nelson 2010 ? Lia Bronsard, le prix Jeffery-Williams 2010 ? Mikhail Lyubich, et le prix Coxeter-James 2009 ? Patrick Brosnan. ********************************************************************** Prix Krieger-Nelson 2010 de la SMC : Mme Lia Bronsard (Universit? McMaster) ********************************************************************** Le prix Krieger-Nelson rend hommage aux math?maticiennes qui se sont distingu?es par l'excellence de leur contribution ? la recherche math?matique. Lia Bronsard fait nettement partie de l'?lite canadienne en analyse math?matique. Elle travaille dans le domaine des ?quations aux d?riv?es partielles et du calcul variationnel. Elle s'int?resse particuli?rement aux limites de solutions singuli?res des ?quations aux d?riv?es partielles. Ses travaux apportent la rigueur de l'approche analytique ? des questions soulev?es en sciences physiques, en particulier aux questions concernant des structures g?om?triques singuli?res, telles que les vortex, les interfaces dans les mat?riaux, et les joints de grains. Lia Bronsard est n?e ? Qu?bec en 1963 et elle a obtenu son Baccalaur?at ?s Science (B. Sc.) en math?matique ? l'Universit? de Montr?al en 1983. Elle a obtenu son doctorat en 1988 au ? Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences ?, ? l?Universit? de New York, sous la direction de R. V. Kohn. Sa th?se porte sur la conjecture de De Giorgi reliant les ?quations de type r?action-diffusion avec perturbation singuli?res ? l'?volution par courbure moyenne. Apr?s son doctorat, elle a compl?t? des stages post-doctoraux ? l'Universit? de Brown, ? l' ? Institute for Advanced Study ?, et au ? Centre for Nonlinear Analysis ? de l'Universit? de Carnegie-Mellon. En 1992, elle est devenue membre du d?partement de math?matiques de l'Universit? de McMaster, o? elle est pr?sentement professeur. Apr?s sa th?se, Lia Bronsard a travaill?, en collaboration entre autres avec B.Stoth, sur la formation et ?volution des structures induites par l??nergie. Son article avec F. Reitich sur les interfaces avec jonctions triples pour un mod?le de grains dans les mat?riaux a eu une grande influence en proposant une premi?re analyse math?matique de ces structures singuli?res ? phases multiples. Lia Bronsard travaille actuellement sur les structures fines de vortex li?es au ph?nom?ne de condensation de Bose-Einstein et aux mod?les de supraconductivit? de Ginzburg-Landau. Son travail dans ce domaine, en collaboration avec S. Alama, T. Giorgi, P. Mironescu, E. Sandier et son coll?gue J. Berlinsky du d?partement de physique ? McMaster, fixe les normes de qualit?s, et constitue un mod?le de recherche interdisciplinaire. ********************************************************************** Le prix 2010 Jeffery-Williams: M. Mikhail Lyubich (l?Universit? de l??tat de New York ? Stony Brook et l?Universit? de Toronto) ********************************************************************** Le prix Jeffery-Williams rend hommage aux math?maticiens ayant fait une contribution exceptionnelle ? la recherche math?matique. Mikhail Lyubich est un leader dans le domaine des syst?mes dynamiques. Il est l'un des fondateurs de la dynamique r?elle et complexe moderne de dimension 1, ayant de plusieurs mani?res fa?onn? le d?veloppement de cette branche des math?matiques. Lyubich est n? en 1959 ? Kharkiv en Ukraine faisant alors parti de l'Union Sovi?tique. Son int?r?t pour la dynamique a ?t? influenc? par son p?re Yuri Lyubich, qui ?tait professeur ? l'Universit? nationale de Kharkiv o? Mikhail a ?tudi? de 1975 ? 1980. La r?alit? des politiques sovi?tiques (en particulier, les politiques antis?mites tacites) ont influenc? Lyubich au d?but de sa carri?re. Il a seulement ?t? admis aux ?tudes sup?rieures ? Tashkent en Ouzb?kistan, o? il a travaill? tout seul sur la dynamique holomorphique. Dans sa th?se de doctorat de 1984, il prouve des r?sultats fondamentaux de la th?orie ergodique et de la stabilit? structurelle des applications rationnelles, en particulier, l'existence de la mesure d'entropie maximale d'une application rationnelle, maintenant connue sous le nom de la mesure de Lyubich. En 1989, Lyubich a pu quitter l'Union Sovi?tique en compagnie de sa famille. Il a ?t? invit? par John Milnor ? joindre l'Institute for Mathematical Sciences ? Stony Brook fond? ? cette ?poque. Lyubich a re?u en 2002 une Chaire de recherche du Canada ? l'Universit? de Toronto, o? il est titulaire d'une nomination conjointe avec Stony Brook. En 2007, il est devenu directeur de l'Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Stony Brook). Lyubich est un conf?rencier recherch?. Il a donn? une conf?rence invit?e au Congr?s international des math?maticiens ? Zurich en 1994, tout comme des conf?rences pl?ni?res ? la Joint AMS Meeting en 2000 et au premier Congr?s de math?matiques de la SMC-SMF en 2003. Il a ?t? r?compens? par la bourse Sloan en 1991 et la bourse Guggenheim en 2002. Parmi les principaux r?sultats de Lyubich en dynamique de dimension 1 se trouve sa preuve des ann?es 90 sur l'hyperbolicit? de la renormalisation des applications unimodales (conjectur?e par Feigenbaum et par Coullet et Tresser dans les ann?es 70). Pour les 40 derni?res ann?es, la renormalisation a ?t? l'un des principaux th?mes de la dynamique de dimension faible. Sullivan et plus tard McMullen ont prouv? des parties de l'image de renormalisation pour les applications unimodales et Lyubich a compl?t? la preuve d'universalit? pour les combinatoires limit?es. Il a plus tard construit une application fer ? cheval hyperbolique compl?te pour l'op?rateur de renormalisation agissant sur les applications r?elles de type quadratique. Au d?but de ses travaux sur la rigidit? des polyn?mes quadratiques, Lyubich a r?solu ce qui est peut-?tre le probl?me le plus c?l?bre de la dynamique sur la droite r?elle en montrant que l'hyperbolicit? est dense dans une famille quadratique r?elle. (Ce r?sultat a ?t? obtenu ind?pendamment par J. Graczyk et G. ?wi?ek.) Un des probl?mes les plus fondamentaux de la dynamique, pour une famille param?tris?e d'applications, est de comprendre le comportement asymptotique de presque toutes les orbites et ce pour presque chaque valeur de param?tre. M?me pour la famille d'applications quadratiques sur l'intervalle, cette question a ?chapp? aux experts pendant des ann?es. La construction de Lyubich pour le fer ? cheval de renormalisation compl?te, avec le travail conjoint de M. Martens et T. Nowicki, lui a permis d'obtenir une r?ponse d?finitive: presque chaque application quadratique est soit r?guli?re ou bien stochastique. Le travail de Lyubich a ?t? un avancement majeur vers la c?l?bre conjecture MLC (l'ensemble de Mandelbrot est localement connexe). Une s?rie de nouvelles perc?es est survenue dans ses r?cents r?sultats avec J.Kahn, en utilisant la loi de quasi-additivit? de Kahn-Lyubich en g?om?trie conforme. ********************************************************************** Le prix Coxeter-James 2009 de la SMC: M. Patrick Brosnan (Universit? de la Colombie- Britannique) ********************************************************************** Le prix Coxeter-James rend hommage aux jeunes math?maticiens qui se sont distingu?s par l'excellence de leur contribution ? la recherche math?matique. Patrick Brosnan est un jeune math?maticien dont l?unicit? se d?marque par ses vastes et profondes connaissances dans plus d?un champ d?application. Sa recherche a eu un impact majeur notamment dans les domaines tels que la th?orie des motifs, les cycles alg?briques, la th?orie de Hodge, les groupes alg?briques, la combinatoire alg?brique, la th?orie analytique des nombres et la physique math?matique. Brosnan est n? ? Philadelphie (Pennsylvanie) en 1968 et a grandi ? Corpus Christi (Texas). Il a obtenu un baccalaur?at ?s arts de l?Universit? de Princeton en 1991 et son doctorat de l'Universit? de Chicago en 1998, ?tudiant les cycles alg?briques sous la supervision de Spencer Bloch. Avant de joindre l'Universit? de la Colombie-Britannique, il a occup? des postes ? l'Universit? Northwestern, Max-Planck-Institut f?r Mathematik ? Bonn, l'Universit? de Californie ? Irvine, l'Universit? de Californie ? Los Angeles, l'Universit? de l'?tat de New York ? Buffalo, et l?Institut pour l'?tude avanc?e (IAS) de Princeton. Dans un article publi? dans le Duke Mathematical Journal en 2003 et ?labor? conjointement avec P. Belkale, Brosnan a r?fut? la conjecture ?spanning tree ? de M. Kontsevich, un laur?at de la m?daille Fields 1998. La conjecture, qui fut motiv?e par la recherche des physiciens D. Broadhurst et D. Kreimer dans les propri?t?s analytiques des nombres des amplitudes de Feynman, ?tait soutenue par des preuves empiriques consid?rables. Le travail de Belkale et Brosnan fut, par cons?quent, enti?rement inattendu et a un impact majeur dans ce domaine de recherche. R?cemment, Brosnan a fait des contributions importantes ? la th?orie de la dimension essentielle. L?id?e de Brosnan d??laborer une extension de la notion de la dimension essentielle aux champs alg?briques a pr?par? le terrain pour des applications vari?es ? la th?orie des champs alg?briques qui ont men? ? plusieurs d?veloppements int?ressants. Une des applications, dans un article ? para?tre dans les Annals of Mathematics, ?labor? conjointement avec Z. Reichstein et A. Vistoli, est une limite inf?rieure inopin?ment forte sur le nombre de Pfister d?une forme quadratique avec un discriminant d?g?n?r? et un invariant de Hasse-Witt. Dans une autre veine, Brosnan et G. Pearlstein ont r?cemment apport? des contributions importantes ? la th?orie de Hodge. Dans un autre article qui para?tra dans les Annals of Mathematics, ils montrent qu?une fonction non triviale, normale et admissible sur une courbe admet un nombre fini de z?ros. Les fonctions normales font partie d'une d?marche conjectur?e pour d?montrer la conjecture de Hodge, un des grands probl?mes non r?solus en math?matiques. Pour de plus amples renseignements, communiquez avec : M. Athony Lau ou M. Graham P. Wright Pr?sident Directeur administratif Soci?t? math?matique du Canada Soci?t? math?matique du Canada T?l: 780-492-0398 T?l: (613) 733-2662 poste 713 president@smc.math.ca directeur@smc.math.ca From akelm at cms.math.ca Fri Apr 3 11:53:59 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Fri Apr 3 11:54:01 2009 Subject: [cmath] Postdoctoral Position in Category Theory - Dalhousie University Message-ID: Dalhousie University Postdoctoral Position in Category Theory Applications are invited for a postdoctoral fellowship position in mathematics starting in January 2010 (but a later starting date can be negotiated). A PhD in mathematics is required. Candidates in category theory with an interest and ability to work in higher dimensional category theory and homotopy theory (and localization of categories) or in applications of category theory to geometry will be given preference. This position is for two years with a review after one year. Aside from the research component, the candidate is also required to teach one course per semester at the undergraduate level. Applications should include a curriculum vitae, a research statement, and four letters of reference, one of which addresses the candidate's teaching effectiveness. The deadline for applications is September 30, 2009. Applications and letters of reference should be sent to Karl Dilcher, Chair Department of Mathematics and Statistics Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3J5 Canada E-mail: chair@mathstat.dal.ca http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment From nassif at math.ubc.ca Mon Apr 6 10:18:53 2009 From: nassif at math.ubc.ca (Nassif Ghoussoub) Date: Mon Apr 6 10:20:18 2009 Subject: [cmath] Another prominent OP Ed on math in Vancouver Sun appears today Message-ID: <3321F7B4-AC82-4B8B-A16D-801FCC0AC60F@math.ubc.ca> It's time to take a new approach to math When many otherwise successful students need to hire tutors for a subject, something is wrong BY STEPHEN HUME, VANCOUVER SUNAPRIL 6, 2009 3:02 AM Everybody seems to be weighing into the great mathematics discussion, so permit me my two-bits worth. For the most part, it's not about the math, or the kids -- it's about our collective obsession with treating miscalculations as failures rather than embracing them as the true learning opportunity that every error should become. In science, business, sports, the arts, it's always the mistakes that teach us the most. Knowledge and skill advance by trial and error. I sense that getting it wrong is an essential part of learning. Sometimes, it takes many wrong answers to discover a way to the right one. Yet when we teach math, we obsess slavishly about wrong answers. In the classroom, on examinations, for entrance to university, true success means getting all the answers precisely right. Failure means having wrong answers exceed some arbitrarily predetermined threshold. It's not necessarily even about wrong answers. I know kids who have been marked down for having arrived at the right answer but by some unorthodox method instead of what's prescribed. In other words, thinking laterally and outside the box is wrong, too. Provincial and national statistics demonstrate convincingly that kids like and enjoy math in the elementary grades. It's only as they progress through high school that interest wanes and many come to fear, loathe and detest math. So we have a system which takes students who enjoy math and then, in a few short years, grinds the pleasure and sense of creative play out of most of them. But the kids' responses are not innate; they come from somewhere else. If it's not from them, it must be from the system and its propensity to humiliate and marginalize. I empathize. As a kid, I, too, went through the agonies of trudging to the blackboard to get my long division wrong. Was public shame an incentive to improve? Not at 13. I developed an elephant-sized case of math anxiety. I fled math at the first opportunity; took the minimum required to matriculate; did the minimum amount of work to scrape through with the minimum grade that permitted me to go on; joined my classmates in self-fulfilling ridicule of what we feared; never took another math course and, in university, avoided courses with math components. So I was shocked when, holding down a management job responsible for budgets in the tens of millions, the standard psychological evaluation required of senior executives reported that my math aptitude was on the high end of the bell curve rather than the low. Recently, I watched my daughter go through the same process in high school. Let me say that this is not a young woman who shies from challenge. At university she takes on difficult subjects she's never before studied and does well at them. In Grade 7, she'd ranked near the top of the national math test she'd taken for fun; by high school she'd walked out of her math class never to return, preferring to complete her university entrance requirements by correspondence -- and I watched in astonishment as her grades suddenly shot up by 25 per cent when she was left to work on problems by herself. When I interrupted an animated discussion with her mother over some fine points of Latin syntax to ask her what had happened, this is the gist of what she said: If math is ultimately the language of relationships, we never seem to get beyond the grammar and basic punctuation in the classroom. We reward students with innate aptitudes and marginalize those without at a time when adolescents are most self-conscious and their self-esteem is most vulnerable to a sense of public humiliation. Imagine teaching English literature, she said, by requiring students to memorize the Oxford Unabridged Dictionary, grading them only on their ability to correctly spell the words they are required to memorize and on whether they can parse the sentences. Imagine teaching Romeo and Juliet by counting Shakespeare's use of bilabial fricatives and ignoring the big themes of passion, pride, love, jealousy and betrayal with which teenage readers most identify. Some time ago, writing a short piece I'd been asked to contribute to the Victoria-based magazine Island Parent on the subject of math anxiety, I called a dozen friends and acquaintances who either have teenagers now in high school or whose kids have just passed out of the system. I had one question: Did your kids require the help of an outside tutor to get through the final few years of math in high school? Every parent I called said yes, they had, indeed, felt compelled to hire a tutor to help otherwise academically proficient teenagers get through math. The response was corroborated by a 2007 report from the Canadian Council on Learning, which found that about 30 per cent of Canadian parents had hired tutors to assist their kids with math. Those students averaged B or higher in their general academic performance. According to a 2004 report from the B.C. College of Teachers, almost half of secondary school math classes were being taught by teachers without a background in mathematics. It seems that even the teaching profession is affected by the compounding uninterest that afflicts the subject. Perhaps, however, there are significant lessons to be learned from the fact that somewhere near a third of our brightest high school students need outside help in math. The first lesson is that once they begin studying the subject one-on- one outside the classroom, most math students do well enough to meet post-secondary requirements. The second is that the system as it now exists unfairly penalizes students whose families can't afford to hire a tutor. The mantra of technologically advanced society is math skills. If that's the case, why do we persist in an educational model that doesn't appear to work? Should we be completely reinventing the classroom environment when it comes to math? Should we be training, hiring and providing financial incentives to more teachers while moving to much smaller math classes where there's a sense of collegiality and one-on-one instruction is genuinely possible? Should we be teaching math in shorter periods but teaching it every day and in a gaming atmosphere? Should we be looking at greater use of online resources where kids can progress at their own rate without constant comparison to those who are more advanced in their skills? I don't pretend to know the answers here, but I do know that one classic definition of stupidity is to keep repeating the same mistake. shume@islandnet.com (c) Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun From dcampbell at mta.ca Thu Apr 2 21:21:44 2009 From: dcampbell at mta.ca (Douglas Campbell) Date: Mon Apr 6 10:51:09 2009 Subject: [cmath] Don't leave Canada behind Campaign Message-ID: I endorse the letter to Prime Minister Harper and to Mr. Ignatieff. Douglas A. Campbell, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Environmental Processes Mount Allison University dcampbell@mta.ca www.mta.ca/~dcampbel 122 Flemington/101 Barclay 63B York St., Sackville, NB, E4L 3G7, Canada Treoraigh, Lean n? F?g an Bealach From directrice at CRM.UMontreal.CA Tue Apr 14 11:09:37 2009 From: directrice at CRM.UMontreal.CA (Christiane Rousseau) Date: Tue Apr 14 11:09:50 2009 Subject: [cmath] New CRM Director - Nouveau directeur du CRM Message-ID: <1778A2FF-C622-4C97-89AF-1EDFE2AC5DAA@crm.umontreal.ca> [English follows] Un message de M. Joseph Hubert : ? tous les membres du CRM, ? toute la communaut? math?matique du Canada, J'ai le plaisir d'annoncer la nomination du professeur Peter Russell de l'Universit? McGill en tant que directeur du Centre de recherches math?matiques, et ce, pour un mandat de deux ans ? compter du 1er juin prochain. Peter Russell est un sp?cialiste de la g?om?trie alg?brique. Ses int?r?ts de recherche portent sur la g?om?trie des vari?t?s alg?briques non compl?tes, en particulier les vari?t?s affines et les actions de groupes sur ces vari?t?s. Il a accompli sa carri?re ? l'Universit? McGill o? il a dirig? le D?partement de math?matiques et statistique de 1988 ? 1994. Au cours de ces six ann?es, son d?partement a connu un important essor. Il a aussi dirig? l'Institut des Sciences math?matiques (ISM) de 2000 ? 2003. Le professeur Russell prendra sa retraite prochainement apr?s une fructueuse carri?re de recherche. En endossant ses nouvelles responsabilit?s de directeur du CRM, il continuera ? servir la communaut? locale et canadienne. Nous lui en sommes reconnaissants et lui souhaitons un excellent mandat ? la t?te du CRM. Acceptez mes meilleures salutations. Joseph Hubert Vice-recteur ? la recherche Universit? de Montr?al * * * To all CRM members, to the Canadian mathematical community, It is my pleasure to announce the nomination of Professor Peter Russell (McGill University) as Director of CRM for a two-year period starting June 1st 2009. Peter Russell is a specialist of algebraic geometry. His research interests focus on the geometry of non complete algebraic varieties, in particular the affine varieties, and the group actions on these. He spent his career at McGill University and chaired the Department of Mathematics and Statistics from 1988 to 1994, a period of great development for the department. He also directed the Institut des Sciences math?matiques (ISM) from 2000 to 2003. Professor Russell will retire soon after a fruitful research career. By accepting to be Director of CRM, he will continue to serve the Canadian and local community. We are very grateful to him and wish him a fruitful mandate as CRM Director. Sincerely yours, Joseph Hubert Vice-rector research Universit? de Montr?al -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Reference letters should be sent to: Dr. Ron Beattie Chair of the Search Committee Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science Mount Allison University 67 York Street Sackville, NB E4L 1E6 email: math@mta.ca The closing date for applications is April 24, 2009, or until the position is filled. Mount Allison University welcomes diversity in the workplace and encourages applications from all qualified women and men, including aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, and members of visible minorities. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Canadian and permanent residents should indicate their citizenship status in their application. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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PIMS is a consortium established by eight universities in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Washington State serving the Canadian and international mathematical communities, with close ties to the Pacific Rim. The agreement provides travel funds for faculty members at IMA member institutions to participate in programs offered by PIMS, and vice versa. "This agreement makes a lot of sense because of the similar missions of IMA and PIMS. We hope that it will increase collaboration between mathematical scientists in Canada and the US, and lead to further future cooperation between the two institutes," said Fadil Santosa, IMA director. The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) was founded at the University of Minnesota in 1982 as a result of a competitive national process. It fosters interdisciplinary research between mathematics, other science disciplines, and industry in order to find solutions to important scientific and technological problems. The IMA is funded primarily by the U.S. National Science Foundation. IMA: http://www.ima.umn.edu PIMS: http://www.pims.math.ca For more information on this or other PIMS programs please contact reception@pims.math.ca. From jrockwood at mitacs.ca Sun Apr 19 11:46:51 2009 From: jrockwood at mitacs.ca (Jo-Anne Rockwood) Date: Sun Apr 19 11:45:45 2009 Subject: [cmath] MITACS Call for Networking Proposals - deadline April 30 Message-ID: (fran?ais ci-dessous) The MITACS Network of Centres of Excellence hereby solicits proposals for scientific events in areas of significant industrial, economic or social impact on Canada. MITACS has funding available for the following scientific events: 1. Hot Topic Events: networking or training events in any academic discipline that: * Target a provincial priority area; and/or * Provide opportunities for academics to interact with the non-academic sector or with other disciplines with whom they do not normally interact. Since they are subject to the availability of provincial funding, Hot Topic Events must take place in BC, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Newfoundland, or PEI. 1. Mathematical Sciences Networking Events: workshops, conferences, roundtables or other similar events that have a significant connection with MITACS-NCE theme areas or projects and * Involve applications of mathematical sciences to problems with major economic or societal impact; * Leverage significant participation from non-academic organizations. 2. Mathematical Sciences Student Training Events: summer schools, tutorials, workshops, short courses or other similar events that provide graduate students and postdoctoral fellows with technical training that augment their normal program of study. We are particularly interested in events with significant graduate student participation. Joint funding applications with other organizations are welcome, although the proposal must indicate clearly all confirmed or potential sponsors and their level of financial support. Proposals should be submitted to MITACS at the same time as to other organizations. DEADLINES MITACS accepts networking proposals three times annually, on January 15, April 30, and September 10. Proposers are *strongly* encouraged to discuss their ideas with the MITACS Director of Programs (programs@mitacs.ca) as early as possible, preferably at least three weeks prior to submitting a proposal. MITACS may also consider proposals submitted outside these deadlines, as funding permits. Applicants are also encouraged to allow sufficient time between proposal submission and the date of the event. Note that the decision process typically takes 6-8 weeks following the deadline. PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS Proposals can be submitted by e-mail to events@mitacs.ca in plain text, Microsoft Word, or PDF format. A confirmation of proposal submission will be sent within one week of the original submission. Please note that applicants must be faculty members eligible to hold Tri-Council funding at Canadian institutions. EVALUATION PROCEDURE All proposals are initially reviewed by the MITACS Head Office to ensure that they satisfy submission format guidelines (see below) and lie within the MITACS mandate. Applicants may be contacted at this point for further information or clarification. Proposals which meet these guidelines will undergo external scientific review. Final decisions will be communicated within two months. PROPOSAL FORMAT All of sections 1-14 below are required. Incomplete proposals will be returned. Please consult the Guide for Applicants and Organizers of MITACS Scientific Events for allowable costs. 1. Title of event 2. Theme (required for events related to MITACS-NCE) * Biomedical & Health * Communication, Networks & Security * Environment & Natural Resources * Information Processing * Risk & Finance * Other 3. Proposed dates (start date and end date0 4. Location (city and province) 5. Type of activity (conference & workshop, seminar series, student training, industry event). Applicant can list two types per event. 6. Organizing Committee (names, affiliations, complete contact information). Identify the primary contact 7. Executive summary of scientific and other objectives in lay terms (max. 100 words) which may appear in public announcements 8. Other details of the scientific objectives, including: * intended audience * history or background of the proposed topic * recent progress * objectives for networking, training or outreach * involvement of the non-academic community, if relevant * possible future directions 9. Relevance to MITACS and/or provincial priorities 10. Participants (tentative list of invited speakers and participants including affiliations) 11. Budget, itemizing * Income statement that lists all funding either requested or already obtained * Expense statement listing major anticipated expenses * Total amount being requested of MITACS 12. Other sources of financial support, including the amount requested or committed 13. Organizational services being requested of MITACS (see below) 14. Letters of support from the home institution and/or partner organizations (strongly encouraged) ORGANIZATIONAL SERVICES Applicants are also encouraged to request in-kind organizational support from MITACS. Available services include: * Design and maintenance of the event website, including an on-line speaker abstract submission system; * Access to the MITACS event registration system. This system allows for the creation and maintenance of a registration database, credit card processing, issuing of registration receipts, production of delegate badges, and generation of event statistics; * Budget management, including review of suppliers and venue charges, monitoring of incoming invoices, and processing of travel claims; and * Event promotion as appropriate. If any such services are being requested of MITACS, then this should be clearly indicated in the proposal under item 13. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Le R?seau de centres d'excellence MITACS sollicite par la pr?sente des propositions d'?v?nements scientifiques dans des secteurs pr?sentant d'importantes retomb?es industrielles, ?conomiques ou sociales pour le Canada. MITACS propose du financement pour les activit?s scientifiques suivantes : 1. ?v?nements d'actualit? : activit?s de r?seautage ou de formation, toutes disciplines universitaires confondues, qui : * ciblent un domaine provincial prioritaire; et/ou * offrent la possibilit? aux membres de milieu universitaire d'interagir avec les intervenants extrascolaires ou d'autres disciplines avec qui ils ne dialoguent pas habituellement. ?tant assujettis ? la disponibilit? du financement provincial, les ?v?nements d'actualit? doivent se d?rouler en Colombie-Britannique, en Saskatchewan, au Manitoba, en Ontario, ? Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador ou ? l'?le-du-Prince-?douard. 1. Activit?s de r?seautage en sciences math?matiques : ateliers, conf?rences, tables rondes ou autres activit?s similaires pr?sentant un lien important avec les projets ou domaines th?matiques du RCE MITACS et qui : * comportent l'application des sciences math?matiques aux probl?mes ayant des retomb?es majeures sur les plans ?conomique ou social; ou * tirent parti de la participation inestimable des organismes extrascolaires. 2. Activit?s de formation des ?tudiants en sciences math?matiques : cours d'?t?, didacticiels, ateliers, cours abr?g?s ou autres activit?s similaires qui offrent aux ?tudiants dipl?m?s et aux boursiers postdoctoraux une formation technique s'ajoutant ? leur programme d'?tudes normal. Nous nous int?ressons particuli?rement aux activit?s qui demandent la participation de nombreux ?tudiants dipl?m?s. Nous acceptons les demandes de financement conjoint avec d'autres organismes. La proposition doit alors indiquer clairement tous les commanditaires ?ventuels et confirm?s et le niveau de soutien financier. Les propositions doivent ?tre soumises a MITACS en m?me temps que les autres organismes. DATES D'?CH?ANCE MITACS accepte les propositions de r?seautage trois fois par an, le 15 janvier, le 30 avril et le 10 septembre. Nous encourageons *vivement* les candidats ? discuter de leurs id?es avec le directeur des programmes de MITACS (programs@mitacs.ca) le plus t?t possible, de pr?f?rence au moins trois semaines avec de soumettre leur proposition. MITACS peut aussi ?tudier les propositions soumises en dehors de ces dates d'?ch?ance si le financement le permet. Les candidats sont ?galement invit?s ? pr?voir un d?lai suffisant entre la soumission de la proposition et la date de l'?v?nement. Le processus d?cisionnel prend habituellement de six ? huit semaines suivant la date d'?ch?ance. SOUMISSIONS DES PROPOSITIONS Les propositions peuvent ?tre soumises par courriel events@mitacs.ca en format texte brut, Microsoft Word ou PDF. Nous envoyons une confirmation de la soumission de la proposition dans un d?lai d'une semaine suivant sa r?ception. Les candidats doivent faire partie du corps enseignant et ?tre admissibles ? d?tenir le financement des trois conseils dans les ?tablissements canadiens. PROC?DURE D'?VALUATION Toutes les propositions font l'objet d'un premier examen par les employ?s du si?ge social de MITACS pour v?rifier si elles respectent bien les directives sur le format (voir ci-dessous) et entrent dans le cadre du mandat de MITACS. ? cette ?tape, les candidats peuvent ?tre contact?s pour obtenir des clarifications ou de plus amples renseignements. Les propositions qui respectent ces directives sont ensuite soumises ? un examen scientifique externe. Les d?cisions d?finitives sont communiqu?es aux candidats dans un d?lai de deux mois. FORMAT DE LA PROPOSITION Toutes les sections 1 ? 14 ci-dessous sont obligatoires. Les propositions incompl?tes seront renvoy?es ? l'exp?diteur. Veuillez consulter les Directives pour les candidats et les organisateurs d'?v?nements scientifiques de MITACS pour conna?tre les co?ts admissibles. 1. Intitul? de l'activit? 2. Th?me (obligatoire pour les activit?s se rapportant au RCE MITACS) * Secteur biom?dical et sant? * R?seaux de communication et s?curit? * Environnement et ressources naturelles * Traitement de l'information * Risque et finance * Autre 3. Dates propos?es (date de d?but et date de fin) 4. Lieu de l'?v?nement (ville et province) 5. Type d'activit? (le candidat peut indiquer deux types d'activit? par ?v?nement) 6. Comit? organisateur (noms, affiliations, coordonn?es compl?tes). Indiquer la personne ressource principale 7. Sommaire des objectifs scientifiques et autres en langage profane (pas plus de 100 mots) susceptible d'appara?tre dans des annonces publiques 8. Autres renseignements sur les objectifs scientifiques, notamment : * public vis? * histoire ou contexte du sujet propos? * progr?s r?cents * objectifs de r?seautage, de formation ou d'acc?s * participation de la communaut? extrascolaire, le cas ?ch?ant * orientations futures possible 9. Pertinence pour MITACS et/ou domaine provincial prioritaire 10. Participants (liste provisoire de conf?renciers et de participants en pr?cisant leurs affiliations) 11. Budget, en d?taillant : * l'?tat des revenus indiquant tous les financements faisant l'objet d'une demande ou d?j? obtenus * l'?tat des d?penses ?num?rant les principales d?penses pr?vues * le montant total demand? ? MITACS 12. Autres sources de soutien financier, y compris le montant demand? ou engag? 13. Services organisationnels demand?s ? MITACS (voir ci-dessous) 14. Lettres d'appui provenant de l'?tablissement d'attache ou des organismes partenaires, ou des deux (fortement recommand?) SERVICES ORGANISATIONNELS Les candidats sont ?galement invit?s ? demander un soutien organisationnel en nature ? MITACS, parmi les services suivants : * conception et maintenance du site Web de l'?v?nement, dont un syst?me de soumission en ligne des r?sum?s des conf?renciers; * acc?s au syst?me d'inscription aux ?v?nements de MITACS. Ce syst?me permet la cr?ation et la maintenance d'une base de donn?es des inscriptions, le traitement des cartes de cr?dit, l'?mission des re?us d'inscription, la production d'insignes de d?l?gu?s, et la g?n?ration des statistiques de l'?v?nement; * gestion du budget, notamment l'examen des fournisseurs et des frais inh?rents au lieu, le contr?le des factures re?ues, le traitement des demandes de remboursement des frais de d?placement; et * promotion de l'?v?nement, au besoin. Si vous demandez l'un de ces services ? MITACS, vous devez l'indiquer clairement dans la proposition ? la section 13. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Jo-Anne Rockwood Manager, Events MITACS Inc. TASC 2, Room 9904 Simon Fraser University 8888 University Drive Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Ph: 778.782.3711 Fax: 778.782.6657 Email: jrockwood@mitacs.ca Web: www.mitacs.ca Web: www.mitacsaccelerate.ca Making research count / La recherche, ?a compte -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090419/820b11ba/attachment.htm From nkamran at math.mcgill.ca Mon Apr 20 11:22:59 2009 From: nkamran at math.mcgill.ca (Niky Kamran) Date: Mon Apr 20 11:23:02 2009 Subject: [cmath] Nominations to the IMU Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Chers Collegues, The International Mathematical Union (IMU) Nominating Committee has issued a call for nominations for the offices of President and Secretary of IMU. The International Affairs Commitee (IAC) of the CMS has the mandate of submitting names for these high profile positions on behalf of the CMS. The International Affairs Commitee of the CMS welcomes suggestions from the membership of the CMS of names of Canadian Colleagues who could be nominated for these positions. Suggestions should be sent to the IAC at iac@cms.math.ca, preferably by Monday May 11, 2009. Thank you very much. Niky Kamran, on behalf of the IAC. From directrice at CRM.UMontreal.CA Mon Apr 20 11:02:13 2009 From: directrice at CRM.UMontreal.CA (Christiane Rousseau) Date: Mon Apr 20 12:32:37 2009 Subject: [cmath] Unsuccessful Canadian bid for ICM 2014 Message-ID: At its executive meeting last Saturday, the Executive of the International Mathematical Union decided not to support the Canadian bid for ICM 2014. After long deliberations, the EC decided to support the bid of Korea. Let me cite Laszlo Lovasz, the president of the IMU: "We received three excellent applications, and the decision process was difficult, in which many criteria were weighed. If you wish to know more about the main issues influencing the decision, Marting Groetschel or I are ready to give you more information. We thank you very much for your offer to host the Congress and for putting together such an excellent bid." Indeed, the community made an excellent bid. The Site Committee has been very impressed by our community, the way we work together, and also our creativity for the congress itself. The following two links will show you that the step was high: http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/ 2009/04/21/200904210017.asp http://www.kms.or.kr/eng/contents/news_list.asp#22 This bid could only help increase the international image of Canadian mathematics at the internationl level. We are very thankful to all of you for your help and/or support in the preparation of this bid. Christiane Rousseau, directrice Centre de recherches math?matiques Universit? de Montr?al C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville Montr?al, Qc H3C 3J7 T?l: 514 343 7502 Fax: 514 343 2254 directrice@crm.umontreal.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090420/9a2e808d/attachment.htm From marc.frappier at usherbrooke.ca Mon Apr 20 21:53:36 2009 From: marc.frappier at usherbrooke.ca (Marc Frappier) Date: Tue Apr 21 09:51:29 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-1?q?Recrutement_d=27une_doyenne_ou_d=27un_doy?= =?iso-8859-1?q?en_pour_la_Facult=E9_des_sciences_de_l=27Universit=E9_de_S?= =?iso-8859-1?q?herbrooke?= Message-ID: <49ED2720.6020704@usherbrooke.ca> Ch?re coll?gue/Cher coll?gue Nous vous saurions gr? de bien vouloir faire circuler cette annonce de poste de doyenne/doyen de la Facult? des sciences de l'Universit? de Sherbrooke. Cordialement ++++++++++++++++ Dear colleague We would be grateful if you could circulate this position announcement for Dean of the Faculty of Science at the Universit? de Sherbrooke. Best regards -- Marc Frappier, Ph.D. professeur titulaire D?partement d'informatique Universit? de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke (Qu?bec) Canada J1K 2R1 t?l: +1 819-821-8000 poste 62096 fax: +1 819-821-8200 marc.frappier@usherbrooke.ca http://www.dmi.usherb.ca/~frappier ABZ 2010 - ASM, Alloy, B and Z Orford, Qu?bec, Canada February 23-25, 2010 http://abzconference.org/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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You can find the details and much more at http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/ Nassif From gpwright at cms.math.ca Thu Apr 23 12:17:01 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Thu Apr 23 12:17:04 2009 Subject: [cmath] Prix Adrien-Pouliot 2009 - Date limite 30 avril 2009 Message-ID: Prix Adrien-Pouliot 2009 Nous sollicitons la candidature de personnes ou de groupe de personnes ayant contribu? d?une fa?on importante et soutenue ? des activit?s math?matiques ?ducatives au Canada. Le terme ? contributions ? s?emploie ici au sens large; les candidats pourront ?tre associ?s ? une activit? de sensibilisation, un nouveau programme adapt? au milieu scolaire ou ? l?industrie, des activit?s promotionnelles de vulgarisation des math?matiques, des initiatives, sp?ciales, des conf?rences ou des concours ? l?intention des ?tudiants, etc. Les candidatures doivent nous ?tre transmises via le ? Formulaire de mise en candidature ? disponible au site Web de la SMC : www.cms.math.ca/Prix/info/ap. Pour garantir l?uniformit? du processus de s?lection, veuillez suivre les instructions ? la lettre. Toute documentation exc?dant les limites prescrites ne sera pas consid?r?e par le comit? de s?lection. Il est possible de renouveler une mise en candidature pr?sent?e l?an dernier, pourvu que l?on en manifeste le d?sir avant la date limite. Dans ce cas, le pr?sentateur n?a qu?? soumettre des documents de mise ? jour puisque le dossier original a ?t? conserv?. Les mises en candidature doivent parvenir au bureau de la SMC avant le 30 avril 2009. Veuillez faire parvenir vos mises en candidature en six exemplaires ? l?adresse ci-dessous : Le Prix Adrien-Pouliot Soci?t? math?matique du Canada 1785 Alta Vista Drive, Suite 105 Ottawa, ON K1G 3Y6 Canada Le prix Adrien-Pouliot seront pr?sent?s ? la R?union d?hiver 2009 de la SMC ? Windsor (Ontario), du 5 au 7 d?cembre. From gpwright at cms.math.ca Thu Apr 23 12:17:53 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Thu Apr 23 12:17:56 2009 Subject: [cmath] Adrien-Pouliot Award 2009 - Deadline April 30, 2009 Message-ID: Adrien-Pouliot Award 2009 Nominations of individuals or teams of individuals who have made significant and sustained contributions to mathematics education in Canada are solicited. Such contributions are to be interpreted in the broadest possible sense and might include: community outreach programs, the development of a new program in either an academic or industrial setting, publicizing mathematics so as to make mathematics accessible to the general public, developing mathematics displays, establishing and supporting mathematics conferences and competitions for students, etc. Nominations must be submitted using the Nomination Form available from the CMS Web site at: www.cms.math.ca/Prizes/info/ap. To assure uniformity in the selection process, please follow the instructions precisely. Documentation exceeding the prescribed limits will not be considered by the Selection Committee. Individuals who made a nomination last year can renew this nomination by simply indicating their wish to do so by the deadline date. In this case, only updating materials need be provided as the original has been retained. Nominations must be received by the CMS Office no later April 30, 2009. Please send six copies of each nomination to the address given below. The Adrien Pouliot Award Canadian Mathematical Society 1785 Alta Vista Drive, Suite 105 Ottawa, ON K1G 3Y6 Canada Adrien-Pouliot Award The 2009 Adrien-Pouliot Award will be presented at the CMS Winter 2009 Meeting in Windsor, ON, December 5 to 7. From akelm at cms.math.ca Fri Apr 24 11:16:52 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Fri Apr 24 11:16:56 2009 Subject: [cmath] Nine-Month Limited Term Position - Cape Breton University Message-ID: CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, MATHEMATICS Cape Breton University (CBU) is located on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia's tourism centrepiece and home to rich Celtic, Mi'kmaq, and Acadian culture. CBU has a reputation for small class sizes, strong community involvement, and generous internal support for faculty research. More information about the university and the mathematics department can be found on our website at http://www.cbu.ca. CBU invites applications for a nine-month limited term appointment in Mathematics at the rank of Assistant Professor commencing August 1, 2009, subject to budgetary approval. The union affiliation of this position is with the Cape Breton University Faculty Association. Candidates should have a Ph.D. in Mathematics, with preference being given to those with research and teaching experience in such areas as real analysis, complex analysis and set theory. The teaching load may include some service courses (including introductory statistics and calculus). Applicants are expected to engage in course updating and development, and to demonstrate potential and commitment with regard to undergraduate teaching, research/creative/scholarly activities and service to Cape Breton University, community and profession. Qualified candidates should send a letter of application quoting the reference number (MATH0904), with an up-to-date curriculum vitae, evidence of teaching effectiveness, a sample publication and three current letters of reference (sent directly to CBU) to the Human Resources Department. Review of applications will commence May 25, 2009. The position will remain open until it is filled. Email applicants will receive a return email confirming receipt. Cape Breton University is an equal opportunities/affirmative action employer. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Cape Breton University encourages applications from qualified Aboriginal People, African Canadians or other persons from a visible minority group, persons with disabilities and women. Applicants who wish to be considered for this initiative should self-identify in their cover letter. We share the air! CBU promotes a smoke and scent-free workplace. Cape Breton University Human Resources Dept. P.O. Box 5300, 1250 Grand Lake Road Sydney, NS B1P 6L2 Website: www.cbu.ca (902)563-1158 tel. (902)563-1458 fax email: humanresources@ns.aliantzinc.ca --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: cbu.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 91575 bytes Desc: Url : https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090424/96dc83a6/cbu.pdf From gpwright at cms.math.ca Tue Apr 28 13:40:45 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Tue Apr 28 13:40:48 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-15?q?R=C9CIPIENDAIRE_DU_PRIX_DE_DOCTORAT_2009?= =?iso-8859-15?q?_DE_LA_SOCI=C9T=C9_MATH=C9MATIQUE_DU_CANADA?= Message-ID: COMMUNIQU? Pour diffusion le 27 avril, 2009 La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC) est heureuse de d?cerner le Prix de doctorat 2009 ? M. Mark Braverman (Toronto). Il recevra son prix ? la r?union d'hiver de la SMC ? Windsor, Ontario (d?cembre 2009). Le travail de Mark Braverman est motiv? par les questions sur l?impact de la th?orie de la calculabilit? et de la complexit? sur notre compr?hension des ph?nom?nes de la vie r?elle. La partie principale de sa th?se constitue une perc?e dans la compr?hension de la calculabilit? et de la complexit? des ensembles de Julia. Une version pr?liminaire de certains de ses r?sultats est apparue dans le journal de l'AMS (avec Michael Yampolsky). Il a travaill? sur des projets qui couvrent une grande vari?t? de domaines en math?matiques et en informatique comme les processus stochastiques, les algorithmes, la th?orie des jeux, l?apprentissage automatique, la v?rification informatique et l?imagerie automatis?e. Plus r?cemment, il a travaill? aussi sur la d?randomisation, le pseudo-hasard et les applications de la th?orie de l?information ? la complexit? de la communication. Le travail de Braverman a ouvert de nouveaux horizons de recherche dans les syst?mes dynamiques et en informatique et aura une importance durable dans ces deux domaines. Mark Braverman a gagn? une m?daille d'or ? l'Olympiade Internationale de Math?matiques. Il a re?u son Baccalaur?at en math?matiques et informatique ? Technion, en Isra?l. Apr?s l'?tude des math?matiques ? Yale, il a compl?t? son doctorat en informatique ? l'Universit? de Toronto sous la direction de Stephen Cook. Apr?s un stage postdoctoral ? Microsoft Research, New England, Braverman occupera un poste permanent en math?matiques et informatique ? l'Universit? de Toronto en juillet 2010. Pour plus d'information, communiquez avec: M. Graham P. Wright Directeur administratif Soci?t? math?matique du Canada directeur@smc.math.ca T?l : (613) 733-2662 M. Edward Bierstone Comit? de la recherche de la SMC D?partement de math?matiques Universit? de Toronto, chair-resc@cms.math.ca (416) 978-4347 From gpwright at cms.math.ca Tue Apr 28 13:41:48 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Tue Apr 28 13:41:50 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-7?q?CANADIAN_MATHEMATICAL_SOCIETY=A2S_2009_DO?= =?iso-8859-7?q?CTORAL_PRIZE_WINNER?= Message-ID: NEWS RELEASE CANADIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY?S 2009 DOCTORAL PRIZE WINNER The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) is pleased to award the 2009 CMS Doctoral Prize to Dr. Mark Braverman (Toronto). The award will be presented at the Society?s Winter Meeting in Windsor, Ontario (December 2009). Mark Braverman?s work is motivated by questions on how computability and complexity theory affects our understanding of real-world phenomena. The main part of his thesis contains ground-breaking work on the computability and complexity of Julia sets. An early version of some of his results appeared in the Journal of the AMS (joint with Michael Yampolsky). He has worked on projects in a wide range of areas of mathematics and computer science including stochastic processes, algorithms, game theory, machine learning, computer-aided verification and automated image processing. More recently, he has also worked on derandomization, pseudorandomness, and applications of information theory to communication complexity. Braverman?s work has opened up new avenues of research in dynamical systems and computer science, and will be of lasting significance to both fields. Mark Braverman won a gold medal at the 2000 International Mathematical Olympiad. He received his B.A. in Mathematics with Computer Science at Technion, in Israel. After studying mathematics at Yale, he completed a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Stephen Cook. After postdoctoral work at Microsoft Research, New England, Braverman will take up a tenure line position at the University of Toronto in July 2010, jointly in mathematics and computer science. For more information, contact: Dr. Graham P. Wright Executive Director Canadian Mathematical Society director@cms.math.ca (613) 733-2662 Dr. Edward Bierstone Chair, CMS Research Committee Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto chair-resc@cms.math.ca (416) 978-4347 ===================================================================== = Dr. Graham P. Wright e-mail: gpwright@cms.math.ca = = CMS Executive Director Tel: (Office) 613-733-2662 ext 713 = = 1785 Alta Vista Drive Tel: (CMS Office) 613-733-2662 = = Suite 105 (CMS Fax) 613-733-8994 = = Ottawa, (Cell) 613-290-3046 = = Ontario (Home) 613-727-3878 = = K1G 3Y6 (Home Fax) 613-727-6139 = ===================================================================== From gpwright at cms.math.ca Thu Apr 30 01:05:33 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Thu Apr 30 01:05:02 2009 Subject: [cmath] *Educational Interfaces between Mathematics and the Industry* (EIMI). Message-ID: The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) and the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) are pleased to announce the launching, as part of the series of ICMI Studies, of a joint Study on the theme *Educational Interfaces between Mathematics and the Industry* (EIMI). A recent OECD Global Science Forum on "Mathematics in Industry" has recognized the intimate connections between innovation, science and mathematics. In view of these connections, there is a need for a fundamental analysis and reflection on strategies for the education and training of students and maybe the development of new ones. The EIMI Study (ICMI Study no. 20) will seek to better understand these connections and to offer ideas and suggestions on how education and training can contribute to enhancing both individual and societal developments. It will examine the implications for education at the intersection of these two communities of practice - industrialists and mathematicians. The EIMI Study will aim at maintaining a balance between the perceived needs of industry for relevant mathematics education and the needs of learners for lifelong and broad education in a globalised environment. The two co-chairs for this Study are Alain Damlamian (damla@univ-paris12.fr), Universit? de Paris-Est, France, and Rudolf Str??er ( Rudolf.Straesser@math.uni-giessen.de), Justus-Liebig-Universit?t Gie?en, Germany. Jos? Francisco Rodrigues (rodrigue@ptmat.fc.ul.pt), Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, is the Local Organiser. The Discussion Document for the joint ICMI/ICIAM Study, making a call for contributions, is available on the study website: *http://eimi.mathdir.org/* *The DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS is September 15, 2009.* The Study Conference of the Study will be held in Lisbon on April 19-23, 2010. Members of the International Programme Committee: Alain Damlamian (France, co-chair), Rudolf Str??er (Germany, co-chair) Jos? Francisco Rodriguesv(Portugal, host country) Marta Anaya (Argentina) Helmer Aslaksen (Singapore) Gail FitzSimons (Australia) Jos? Gambi (Spain) Solomon Garfunkel (USA) Alejandro Jofr? (Chile) Henk van der Kooij (Netherlands) Li Ta-tsien (China) Brigitte Lutz-Westphal (Germany) Taketomo Mitsui (Japan) Nilima Nigam (Canada) Fadil Santosa (USA) Bernard R. Hodgson (Ex officio, ICMI) Rolf Jeltsch (Ex officio, ICIAM). From dan at math.unb.ca Wed Apr 29 09:59:49 2009 From: dan at math.unb.ca (Dan Kucerovsky) Date: Thu Apr 30 09:48:38 2009 Subject: [cmath] Bimonthly Canadian Noncommutative Geometry workshop, May 16 Message-ID: <200904291359.n3TDxnrT011636@weisner.math.unb.ca> This bimonthly workshop aims to cover new developments in Noncommutative Geometry. Please forward this announcement to any graduate students or colleagues who might be interested. The main speaker for the forthcoming meeting, 10:30am, Saturday, May 16, 2009, is Markus J. Pflaum, U.C. Boulder Higher index theorems on orbifolds. Given a symplectic orbifold and a deformation quantization on it, we prove an algebraic higher index theorem on orbifolds by computing the pairing between cyclic cocycles and the K-theory of the formal deformation quantization. As an application, we obtain the analytic higher index theorem by Connes-Moscovici and its extension to orbifolds. Support for graduate students is available, please enquire, ncgworkshop@unb.ca. Masoud Khalkhali Dan Kucerovsky Bahram Rangipour This workshop is associated with the Center for Noncommutative Geometry and Topology at the University of New Brunswick, www.math.unb.ca/~dan/copal/Centre_main.htm, and with the NCG group at UWO. We thank the Fields Instutute for financial support. From akelm at cms.math.ca Thu Apr 30 12:24:27 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Thu Apr 30 12:24:29 2009 Subject: [cmath] Managing Editor, Mathematics - Pearson Canada Message-ID: Pearson is an international media company with world-leading businesses in education, consumer publishing and business information, focusing on education in the broadest sense of the word. It has more than 29,000 employees based in 60 countries, including 650 people in three locations across Canada. Pearson is home to many of the most respected and renowned publishing brands, including Penguin, Viking, Prentice Hall, Addison Wesley, Allyn & Bacon, and Longman. Our imprints have earned the trust of professionals, educators, students, and general readers alike for our commitment to quality, integrity and independence of thought. Through our Higher Education, School, and Penguin divisions, Pearson Canada distributes and publishes acclaimed fiction and nonfiction as well as leading educational resources in print and digital formats across the full Canadian curriculum. We are proud to publish bestselling and renowned Canadian authors in literature and children's books, computers and business, as well as elementary, secondary and postsecondary education. Our innovative digital products, ranging from multimedia learning applications to interactive media, have made us leaders in value-added technology. www.pearsoncanada.ca The School Division is recruiting for a Managing Editor, Mathematics. This position reports to the Mathematics Publisher, and is based in the Don Mills Office. Responsibilities: - Direct and monitor editorial development plans, schedules and budgets within specified disciplines. - Work with development houses, authors, consultants, editors (freelance and in-house) and designers to create instructional materials that reflect the cutting edge of understanding the subject area and publishing technologies. - Stay abreast of and understand emerging classroom and publishing technologies. - Work with a network of contacts to identify, analyze and articulate product components and features. - Anticipate curriculum and pedagogical trends in market and in competitors' products, proposing product responses. - Understand program development and how to create innovative, well-differentiated products that meet customers' perceived and unarticulated needs. - Hire and manage freelance editors, consultants, contributing authors etc., establishing work-for-hire agreements, overseeing payments and monitoring quality of work. - Work with the Publisher, Creative Services and Business Manager to ensure accurate operating costs, P&Ls and business plans. - Oversee the administrative requirements of the publishing plan, including project budgets, payments of materials and services, and issues related to rights. Qualifications: - University degree, preferably in mathematics and/or education. - Knowledge of history, people, trends, issues that define the publishing program in K-12 Mathematics. - Ability to manage people and projects and to provide leadership in a team environment. - Exceptional organizational skills and ability to multitask. - Superior communication skills including writing, facilitation and presenting. - 7-10 years publishing or product development experience, including hands-on editing. - Understanding of curriculum-based resource development. - Knowledge of current publishing and classroom technologies, as well as the ability to understand emerging technologies. Candidates are asked to submit a resume and cover letter by May 26, 2009 to: Jo Ann D'Souza, Human Resources Consultant Pearson Canada 26 Prince Andrew Place Don Mills, Ontario M3C 2T8 Fax: (416) 447-0598 Email: joann.dsouza@pearsoncanada.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Pearson_Math_Editor.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 97182 bytes Desc: Url : https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090430/49f0996b/Pearson_Math_Editor.pdf From akelm at cms.math.ca Fri May 1 11:21:40 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Fri May 1 11:21:42 2009 Subject: [cmath] Ph.D. Position in Mathematical Modeling - University of Ottawa and UOIT Message-ID: University of Ottawa and UOIT PhD position Title: Mathematical modeling, analysis and computation of interfaces between two porous domains. Description: Introduction: This research project will focus on the mathematical modeling of interfaces between two porous domains, namely between proton exhange membranes (PEM) and catalyst layers (CL) of PEM fuel cells. The membrane and catalyst layers are porous media consisting of pores of random size which facilitates mass and charge transport. The CL contains carbon particles and ionomer fibres, with gas pores embedded in these two phases. The diffusive transport processes are largely affected by heterogeneities of the porous medium and by the interface between two porous domains. Mathematical objectives: The research will deal with the mathematical modeling and analysis, and computation of interfaces between two porous domains. The model invloves a system of nonlinear PDEs (conservation laws). A typical domain consists of one or two cylinders, representing PEM and CL pores. The way the two cylinders meet minimizes a certain energy and therefore some shape optimization will be inviolved. Based on results from micro-scale models, using multi-scale methods or statistical analysis, a macro-scale model for PEM-CL interface will be derived. This position is part of a research collaboration between University of Ottawa, UOIT and Toyota Motor Corporation. Eligibility Requirements: A MSc (or equivalent) in Applied Mathematics is required. Applicants should have a strong background in Analysis. Any knowledge/experience with PDEs, computational methods, optimization and modeling is an asset. Location: University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (with visits to UOIT) Salary: $34 000 CAD for year 1, 2 and $22 000 CAD for year 3, 4. Starting date: September 1st, 2009, or until it is filled. How to apply: Interested applicants should submit (i) an AMS standard cover sheet , (ii) a CV with a publication list, (iii) a description of current research interests, and (iv) at least two letters of recommendation, by mail or email to Arian Novruzi (with cc to Peter Berg) at the addresses given below. Deadline: Open until position is filled. Contact: Peter Berg Faculty of Science University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) 2000 Simcoe Street N Oshawa, ON, L1H 7K4, Canada tel: +1 905 721 8668 ext 2457 e-mail: peter.berg@uoit.ca web: faculty.uoit.ca/pberg/ Arian Novruzi Department of Mathematics and Statistics, office 305E University of Ottawa 585 King Edward (KED) Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5 Canada tel: +1 613 562 5800 ext 3530 e-mail: novruzi@uottawa.ca web: www.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~novruzi --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment From gumelab at cc.umanitoba.ca Fri May 8 12:19:15 2009 From: gumelab at cc.umanitoba.ca (Abba Gumel) Date: Fri May 8 13:34:15 2009 Subject: [cmath] ICIAM 2011 Satellite Meeting Message-ID: <20090508111915.8y40on5mowk484ow@webware.cc.umanitoba.ca> Dear Colleagues, Greetings from the "Satellite and Embedded Meetings Committee" for the upcoming International Congress on Applied and Industrial Mathematics (http://www.iciam2011.com/) happening in Vancouver, Canada (June 18-22, 2011). Like the ICM, this is a large, exciting, and international congress that happens every four years. We are seeking proposals for affiliated meetings (see below for further detail). Such meetings can be beneficial for all concerned because a participant can attend more than one meeting for less than double the travel cost. This results in higher participation levels for both ICIAM and for the affiliated meetings. If you have questions, please contact one of us. Sincerely, Jim Crowley, SIAM, crowley@siam.org Abba Gumel, University of Manitoba, gumelab@cc.umanitoba.ca Randy LeVeque, University of Washington, rjl@washington.edu Mary Pugh, University of Toronto, mpugh@math.utoronto.ca ========================================================= A *satellite* meeting is a meeting that takes place within a few weeks of ICIAM 2011 on a topic of interest to ICIAM attendees in a location that may make it convenient for ICIAM participants to combine the events into a single trip. Satellite meetings have no official connection to ICIAM beyond a cross listing on the ICIAM 2011 webpages. ICIAM does not provide any financial or other support for satellite meetings. Satellite meetings are organized and run by independent organizations or groups. For example, around the time of the ICIAM 2007 Conference in Zurich, there were more than two dozen satellite meetings, listed at http://www.iciam07.ch/satellite_conferences An *embedded* meeting is a meeting of some other organization that takes place during the week of the ICIAM Conference and that may share some resources with the main ICIAM Conference. For example, during the ICIAM 2007 Conference in Zurich, there were four embedded meetings listed at http://www.iciam07.ch/embedded_meetings For ICIAM 2011, we expect few if any embedded meetings. As a service to the community, the ICIAM Steering Committee has appointed a Satellite and Embedded Meetings Committee with the following goals: to encourage groups to consider organizing satellite meetings; to consider other meetings and approve listing them on the ICIAM webpages as satellite meetings of ICIAM; to create and maintain a webpage of these meetings, as a resource for participants and for those organizing other meetings; and to consider any requests for embedded meetings. If you are organizing or considering organizing a meeting that would qualify as a satellite meeting, please contact Mary Pugh (mpugh@math.utoronto.ca) as soon as possible with the following information: Name of meeting Estimated number of participants Location Dates Conference webpage (if available) Other relevant information, such as scope or content of meeting, organizing society or affiliate, etc Feel free to contact us with tentative information for meetings that are not fully planned. This information may be useful to others planning related meetings. If you're interested in organizing an embedded meeting, please contact Randy LeVeque (rjl@washington.edu) -- ****************************************************************************** Abba Gumel Professor, Department of Mathematics, Director, Inst. of Industrial Mathematical Sciences, Tel: 204-4747486 University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2, Fax: 204-4747602 CANADA. Website: http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~gumelab ***************************************************************************** From peter.taylor at queensu.ca Sat May 9 20:45:33 2009 From: peter.taylor at queensu.ca (Peter Taylor) Date: Sat May 9 20:45:54 2009 Subject: [cmath] Fwd: A new website for ICMI Message-ID: <20090510004537.12FCB1E5E@fep1.cogeco.net> colleagues: I forward an announcement from Bernard on the new ICMI website. A casual tour made it clear to me that this will be a great resource to look something up or to see what is current in the ever changing world of mathematics education. It's well designed with a clean professional look. See for yourselves. best, peter >Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 17:57:31 -0400 >From: "Bernard R. Hodgson" >Subject: A new website for ICMI > >Dear ICMI Representatives and Chairs of ICMI Affiliated Study Groups, > >I am pleased to inform you that enough progress >has been made on the process of renovation of >ICMI website so to now allow the public opening of the new site. > >As was the case for the "old" version, the ICMI >website is located on the server of the >International Mathematical Union, at >Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum in Berlin, and can be accessed via both url > >http://www.mathunion.org/ICMI/ or http://www.mathunion.org/icmi/ > >Your comments and suggestions about the content >and format of the site, and how to make it a >better tool for the ICMI community, are highly >welcome. We expect to open new pages of the site in a near future. > >Besides the information given in ICMI New 9 >(April 2009), I wish to bring your attention to >two aspects of future development regarding the site. > >-- The site will house the ICMI Digital >Library, where various documents related to >ICMI, including the ICMI Study volumes and ICME >Proceedings, will be freely downloadable. More >information will come at a later stage on this project. > >-- The ICMI Executive Committee also wishes the >site to serve as a portal to various sources of >information on the teaching and learning of >mathematics in all parts of the world. The >thinking of the EC on this matter is still at an >early stage, but obviously your suggestions and >contributions will be essential so that the site >can serve to reflect and support the reflections >and actions in math education in your countries and regions. > >Best wishes, > >Bernard > >-- >____________________________________________ >Bernard R. Hodgson >Secretary-General of ICMI -- Secr?taire g?n?ral de la CIEM >(International Commission on Mathematical Instruction / >Commission internationale de l'enseignement math?matique) >D?partement de math?matiques et de statistique >Facult? des sciences et de g?nie >1045, avenue de la M?decine >Universit? Laval >Qu?bec (Qu?bec) G1V 0A6 CANADA >T?l?phone : +1 418 656 2131, poste 2975 >T?l?copie : +1 418 656 2817 >Courriel : bhodgson@mat.ulaval.ca >Site personnel : http://www.mat.ulaval.ca/pages/hodgson/ >Site CIEM / ICMI website : http://www.mathunion.org/ICMI/ > >Avis relatif ? la confidentialit? / Notice of >Confidentiality / Advertencia de >confidencialidad http://www.rec.ulaval.ca/lce/securite/confidentialite.htm >____________________________________________ Peter Taylor Professor Math&Stats Queen's University Kingston ON K7L 3N6 613 533-2434 From peter.taylor at queensu.ca Fri May 8 08:59:33 2009 From: peter.taylor at queensu.ca (Peter Taylor) Date: Mon May 11 09:58:36 2009 Subject: [cmath] Fwd: [ICMI-News] ICMI News 9: April 2009 Message-ID: <0KJB0077HTC06Z30@mta01.its.queensu.ca> I forward the April ICMI Newsletter (for those who do not subscribe). Of particular note is the new ICMI study on Educational Interfaces between Mathematics and the Industry. It is also worth scrolling down to see the rich collection of International Math Education meetings held around the world. peter Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 11:26:07 +0100 From: J Carvalho e Silva Subject: [ICMI-News] ICMI News 9: April 2009 Sender: icmi-news-bounces@mathunion.org To: icmi-news@mathunion.org Delivered-to: icmi-news@mathunion.org List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Help: List-Id: Original-recipient: rfc822;peter.taylor@queensu.ca ICMI News 9: April 2009 A Bimonthly Email Newsletter from the ICMI-International Commission on Mathematical Instruction Editor: Jaime Carvalho e Silva, Dep. Matematica, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal CONTENTS 1. Editorial: The Relevance of Mathematics Education in India 2. ICMI Study 20: Educational Interfaces between Mathematics and the Industry (EIMI) 3. ICMI Study 20: Discussion document (short version) 4. ICMI has a new website! 5. Exhibition "Experiencing Mathematics" in southern countries 6. Calendar of Events of Interest to the ICMI Community 7. Historical vignettes: David Eugene Smith, the proponent of ICMI 8. Subscribing to ICMI News ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Editorial: The Relevance of Mathematics Education in India I am from India, a country of more than one billion people. It is a country which exhibits all shades - from substandard to sublime - in any given field. I consider myself as a teacher of mathematics at the Univerity level and I shall confine myself with some of the achievements and woes faced by us in the field of teaching mathematics. As the reader may know, India has produced some very brilliant mathematicians and has a very large pool of mathematicians. In spite of this, most of us (in India) in the educational field feel that there is an acute shortage of qualified competent teachers especially at undergraduate and graduate level. The problem starts perhaps at the undergraduate level. There are about 5000+ undergraduate colleges in India. All of them are affiliated to 300+ universities and follow the curriculum laid down by the University. The examinations are conducted by the universities to award the degrees. The sad fact is that the teaching at the undergraduate level is the weakest link in higher education. Most of the teachers are masters' degree holders who passed their examination by learning by rote. When they join undergraduate colleges as faculties, they are given teaching duties which, at the least, are 16 hours per week along with innumerable other duties which their employers expect from them as part of their duties. So even those who want to spend time to learn well so that their teaching is effective are left with hardly any time to improve their knowledge. To remedy this situation, the Universities Grants Commision, the statutory body, has introduced the so-called Refresher Courses for College/University teachers. While some results are being seen, a lot needs to be done. At primary and secondary school level, there is the Homi Bhabha Center for Science Education, an arm of Tata Institute, Mumbai, which is carrying out impressive studies in the field of science (including Mathematics) education. Based on their research and studies, they have brought out textbooks at school level. However, these books are not adopted by the statutory bodies and most of the teachers are not even aware of their existence. The nation has not realized the importance of Mathematics Education as a discipline. So, I think the main challenges that face us are to look for answers on how Mathematics Education as a discipline (i) can help develop a good curriculum, (ii) what are the issues taken up for study of various problems faced by teachers of mathematics especially in developing countries and the recommendations or solutions offered for these (iii) at which places these recommendations were implemented and what was the outcome and more directly (iv) how mathematics education can have a direct impact on the quality of mathematics teaching. At present, the general feeling in India, as in many places, is that we need a lot of teachers whose background knowledge is sound so that they can do a competent job in teaching, but some are skeptical about the ways mathematics education research can help improve the situation. The ICMI Executive Committee hopes that ICMI Study 15 Volume on the professional education and development of teachers of mathematics, just coming out, may contribute to change such views and really help improve the quality of teacher preparation all over the world. S. Kumaresan, Member-at-large, ICMI-EC, University of Hyderabad, Hyderbad, India, kumaresa@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. ICMI Study 20: Educational Interfaces between Mathematics and the Industry (EIMI) The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) and the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) are pleased to announce the launching, as part of the series of ICMI Studies, of a joint Study on the theme Educational Interfaces between Mathematics and the Industry (EIMI). A recent OECD Global Science Forum on "Mathematics in Industry" has recognized the intimate connections between innovation, science and mathematics. In view of these connections, there is a need for a fundamental analysis and reflection on strategies for the education and training of students and maybe the development of new ones. The EIMI Study (ICMI Study no. 20) will seek to better understand these connections and to offer ideas and suggestions on how education and training can contribute to enhancing both individual and societal developments. It will examine the implications for education at the intersection of these two communities of practice - industrialists and mathematicians. The EIMI Study will aim at maintaining a balance between the perceived needs of industry for relevant mathematics education and the needs of learners for lifelong and broad education in a globalised environment. The two co-chairs for this Study are Alain Damlamian (damla@univ-paris12.fr), Universit? de Paris-Est, France, and Rudolf Str??er (Rudolf.Straesser@math.uni-giessen.de), Justus-Liebig-Universit?t Gie?en, Germany. Jos? Francisco Rodrigues (rodrigue@ptmat.fc.ul.pt), Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, is the Local Organiser. The Discussion Document for the joint ICMI/ICIAM Study, making a call for contributions, is available on the study website: http://eimi.mathdir.org/ The DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS is September 15, 2009. The Study Conference of the Study will be held in Lisbon on April 19-23, 2010. Members of the International Programme Committee: Alain Damlamian (France, co-chair), Rudolf Str??er (Germany, co-chair), Jos? Francisco Rodrigues (Portugal, host country), Marta Anaya (Argentina), Helmer Aslaksen (Singapore), Gail FitzSimons (Australia), Jos? Gambi (Spain), Solomon Garfunkel (USA), Alejandro Jofr? (Chile), Henk van der Kooij (Netherlands), Li Ta-tsien (China), Brigitte Lutz-Westphal (Germany), Taketomo Mitsui (Japan), Nilima Nigam (Canada), Fadil Santosa (USA), Bernard R. Hodgson (Ex officio, ICMI), Rolf Jeltsch (Ex officio, ICIAM). Bernard R. Hodgson, Secretary-General of ICMI, bhodgson@mat.ulaval.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. ICMI Study 20: Discussion document (short version) EIMI STUDY: EDUCATIONAL INTERFACES BETWEEN MATHEMATICS AND INDUSTRY The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) and the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) are jointly launching the EIMI Study as part of the series of ICMI Studies. It will seek to better understand the connections between innovation, science and mathematics and to offer ideas and suggestions on how education and training can contribute to enhancing both individual and societal developments. The Study will examine the implications for education at the intersection of these two communities of practice - industrialists and mathematicians. We wish to emphasise that there should be a balance between the perceived needs of industry for relevant mathematics education and the needs of learners for lifelong and broad education in a globalised environment. The Study aims at broadening the awareness: of the integral role of mathematics in society; of industry with respect to what mathematics can and cannot realistically achieve; of industry with respect to what school and university graduates can and cannot do realistically in terms of mathematics; and of mathematics teachers and educators with regard to industrial practices and needs with respect to education. The Study also aims: to enhance the appropriate usage of mathematics in society and industry; to attract and retain more students, encouraging them to continue their mathematical education at all levels; and to improve mathematics curricula at all levels of education. To achieve these aims, ten content areas, each one with several questions, are suggested: 1. The Role of Mathematics - Visibility & Black Boxes People are rarely aware of the importance of mathematics in modern technologies. The use of mathematics in modern society should be more visible questioning: How can mathematics, especially industrial mathematics, be made more visible to the public at large? How can mathematics be made more appealing and exciting to students and the professionals in industry? How can mathematics serve a progressive rather than a restrictive role in education and training for the workplace? To what extent is it necessary or desirable to describe the inner workings of black boxes? What are the social implications of not explaining the inner workings of black boxes? 2. Examples of Use of Technology and Mathematics Modern workplaces are characterised by the use of different types of technology including Mathematics in fields as diverse as the chemical industry, oil exploration, medical imaging, micro- and nano-electronics, logistics & transportation, finance, information security, and communications and entertainment. What are insightful examples of the role of technology in showing and/or hiding mathematics in the workplace? Does the existence of special types of technology and the hiding of mathematics from the view of the user imply a change in the mathematical demands on the user? How? Do old competencies like estimation of results and reading of different scales become obsolete when using modern technology? Or, do they become more important? What are the social and political consequences of the 'crystallising' and 'hiding' of mathematics in black boxes? 3. Communication and Collaboration In the workplace, mathematics is seldom undertaken as an individual activity. Mathematical work, mostly on modelling and problem solving, is almost always a group activity and frequently the groups involved are made up of individuals with diverse expertise and expectations: How to identify which societal and/or industrial problems should be worked on? How to better communicate within multi-disciplinary working groups? How to communicate the underlying mathematics to the problem owners and/or general public? How to achieve greater quantitative literacy among school leavers, workers, and the general population? 4. The teaching and learning of Industrial Mathematics - Making Industrial Mathematics more visible. Who decides what will be explained and to whom? How to decide the level of explanation for various groups? How to organise teaching and learning in order to make industrial mathematics visible - if this is wanted/necessary? How much is it appropriate to explain for educational purposes in order to generate interest and excitement without overwhelming the learner? 5. Using Technology and Learning with Technology: Modelling & Simulation Using a new technology usually requires special efforts to become acquainted with it, to develop routines and practice. This can be an obstacle to switching to a more modern technology as long as the older one still "does the job". On the other hand, change and innovation are necessary in industry. How should one decide on the level of detailed mathematics expected to be taught/learned in a given vocational black box situation? How can mathematics help the transfer of technological procedures and/or solutions between different fields of industry? What criteria should be used to judge the appropriateness of simulation in the teaching & learning of industry related practice? How can one compensate for the "standardising effects" of any technology that is in widespread use? 6. Teaching and Learning for Communication and Collaboration Communication and collaboration form an integral and important part of the industrial use of mathematics. Because of their importance in industry, it is desirable to have these skills taught and learned in all parts of education and training, questioning: What communication skills are specific to mathematics? Are there specific skills for use in relation to industrial mathematics? How do we teach mathematics as a second language? 7. Curriculum and Syllabus Issues A partnership between mathematics and industry requires adjustments of the mathematics curriculum. This can also impact the teaching of mathematics in general, questioning: What are the (dis)advantages of identifying a core curriculum of mathematics for industry within the general mathematical curriculum at various levels and for various professions? What are useful ways to introduce mathematics for industry into vocational education? What are the (dis)advantages of creating specific courses on mathematics for industry vs. including the topic in the standard mathematical courses at various levels? What are the (dis)advantages of treating mathematics for industry as an interdisciplinary activity or as part of the traditional mathematics syllabus? 8. Teacher Training Teachers must be trained in new mathematical content, pedagogy and assessment and to recognise the presence of mathematics in society and industry. What level of understanding of this new content in relation to EIMI is appropriate for each grade level? What are good practices that support this new direction in teacher training? How to implement these changes in an efficient way? 9. Good Practices & Lessons to be Learned In all sectors of education there are examples of good practice in relation to the Study. This Study would like to collect good examples of how to integrate industry into the educational process. Lessons to be learned from failures are of the same interest as those from successes. 10. Research and Documentation National and trans-national documentation is widely missing in the field of mathematics and industry. Suggestions and contributions describing existing and future research and documentation of activities in the field of Educational Interfaces between Mathematics and Industry will be most welcome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. ICMI has a new website! The Executive Committee of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction is pleased to announce the opening of the new ICMI website. This site is located on the server of the International Mathematical Union, at Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum in Berlin, and can be accessed via both url http://www.mathunion.org/ICMI/ or http://www.mathunion.org/icmi/ The renewal of the ICMI website has been long overdue. The original site had been launched in 1995 and, besides periodical updates of information, had undergone rather limited changes over the years. A total revamping of the site, both in design and in content, was thus highly necessary and an action in that direction was undertaken already by the previous Executive Committee of ICMI. Unfortunately the whole process took longer than expected and it is only now that the new site can be made accessible to the public. During the process of preparation of the new site, IMU decided to introduce for the maintenance of its own website the use of TYPO3, a free Open Source Web Content Management System. In the final steps of its preparation, the new site of ICMI has been transferred to the TYPO3 environment, which will make its maintenance and updating easier for the ICMI EC. This has also allowed for a redesign of the site, in particular as regards the format of the window in which the site is accessed. The site as it now exists is not yet in a final form, as some pages are still to be introduced or completed. Nonetheless we believe that the site is now mature enough to serve as a useful tool for the community. As part of our development goals, we want to have the site become the entry point to the ICMI Digital Library, a project of making available in freely downloadable versions various ICMI publications, including the ICMI Study volumes and the Proceedings of ICME congresses. We would also wish to have the ICMI site become a portal to various sources of information on the teaching and learning of mathematics in all parts of the world. It is thus the hope of the ICMI Executive Committee that the ICMI site will serve as a useful channel of communication, not only about ICMI and its activities, but also more generally as regards various issues related to mathematics education considered from an international perspective. The ICMI EC welcomes comments and suggestions not only about the current format and content of the site, but also about its evolution in order to better play such a role. Bernard R. Hodgson, Secretary-General of ICMI, bhodgson@mat.ulaval.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. Exhibition "Experiencing Mathematics" in southern countries After 5 years the exhibition was presented in more than 100 cities of 35 countries, of which 30 from southern countries. In 2008, it was presented in 6 countries of Latin America, in Turkey and Asia (from India to Korea) See http://www.MathEx.org . Since ICME10 more than 600 000 visitors, 20 000 teachers and class students have visited it. Since one year, we have added, with the support of UNESCO, a virtual exhibition, mainly for the secondary teachers of southern countries (http://www.ExperiencingMaths.org). In 2009-2010, it will be presented in Brazil (10 cities in 7 months), in Korea for one year and in West Africa in 4 countries. Michel Darche, Centre.Sciences, mldarche@free.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6. Calendar of Events of Interest to the ICMI Community 10th conference Teaching Mathematics: Retrospectives and Perspectives Institute of Mathematics and Sciences, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia, May 14-16, 2009 http://www.tlu.ee/bcmath2009/ 3rd International Symposium on Mathematics and its Connections to the Arts and Sciences Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, 21st-23rd of May, 2009 http://www.umoncton.ca/freimanv/macas3/index.htm The 3rd International Symposium on the History and Pedagogy of Mathematics in China Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, May 22-25, 2009 Xichi Wang, College of Mathematics & Natural Sciences, Beijing Normal University 19 Xinjeikouwai St., Beijing, 100875., P. R. of China, xiciwang@mail.bnu.edu.cn http://www.shuxueshi.cn 5th ICMSA (International Conference on Mathematics, Statistics and Their Applications) Department of Mathematics, FMIPA, Andalas University, Indonesia, June 9 - 11, 2009 http://www.math-unand.org/icmsa/ 5th Asian Mathematical Conference Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 22-26, 2009 http://math.usm.my/amc2009/ ICTMT-9 - 9th Int Conf on Technology in Mathematics Teaching Metz, France, July 6-9, 2009 http://www.ictmt9.org Towards a Digital Mathematics Library (DML 2009) Ontario, Canada, July 8-9th, 2009 http://www.fi.muni.cz/~sojka/dml-2009.html Computer Algebra and Dynamic Geometry Systems in Mathematics Education RISC, Castle of Hagenberg, Austria, July 11-13, 2009 http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/about/conferences/cadgme2009/ First International GeoGebra Conference 2009 RISC, Castle of Hagenberg, Austria , July 14-15, 2009 http://www.geogebra.org/en/wiki/index.php/GeoGebra_Conference_2009 PME33 - 33rd Annual Meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education Thessaloniki, Greece, July 19-24, 2009 http://www.pme33.eu Bridges Banff - Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 26-29, 2009 http://bridgesmathart.org/bridges-2009/ CIEAEM61 - Commission internationale pour l'?tude et l'am?lioration de l'enseignement des math?matiques Universit? de MONTR?AL, Montr?al, Qu?bec, Canada, July 26-31, 2009 http://www.cieaem.net/ ICTMA 14 - 14th International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematical Modelling and Applications University of Hamburg, Germany, July 27-31, 2009 http://www.ictma14.de/ SEMT '09 - 10th bi-annual conference on Elementary Mathematics Teaching, "The development of mathematical understanding" Prague, August 23-28, 2009 http://kmdm.pedf.cuni.cz 4th general meeting of European Women in Mathematics (EWM) University of Novi Sad, Serbia, August 25-28, 2009 http://ewm2009.wordpress.com/ "Models in Developing Mathematics Education" The Mathematics Education into the 21st Century Project Dresden, Saxony, Germany, September 11-17, 2009 alan@rogerson.pol.pl ICREM4 - The 4th International Conference on Research and Education in Mathematics 2009 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 21-23, 2009 http://einspem.upm.edu.my/icrem4/ CoSMEd -Third International Conference on Science and Mathematics Education Improving Science and Mathematics Literacy: Theory, Innovation and Practice Penang, Malaysia, November 10-12, 2009 http://www.recsam.edu.my/cosmed/ SRD'09 - Southern Right Delta'09 7th Southern Hemisphere Conference on the Teaching and Learning of Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics Gordons Bay, South Africa, 29 November-4 December 2009 http://www.delta2009.co.za "Numeracy: Historical, philosophical and educational perspectives" St Anne's College, Oxford, England, December 16-18, 2009 benjamin.wardhaugh@all-souls.ox.ac.uk 10th Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical Sciences (ICCSS-10) Cairo, Egypt, December 20-23, 2009 http://www.iccs-x.org.eg/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7. Historical vignettes: David Eugene Smith, the proponent of ICMI David Eugene Smith, born on 21 January 1860 in Cortland, New York, and educated at normal schools, studied from 1877 on at Syracuse University. During his undergraduate years there, his interests were marked by travelling, collecting objects and presenting his ideas. In the summer of 1879, he undertook a two-month trip to Europe - the first of his overseas travels. Smith was still far from mathematics education: after receiving a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in July 1881, he entered his father's second profession: he apprenticed in his father's law office. He also continued his academic studies, by travelling twice a week to Syracuse and being advised there in graduate work in the disciplines of history, modern languages and mathematics. Eventually, in 1884, he was admitted to the bar and awarded a Master of Philosophy degree. A promising career as a lawyer seemed to be open for him. In that same year, however, an event changed his life entirely. He began to teach mathematics at the Cortland Normal School, at first by chance, in order to 'help out' by substituting a missing teacher. Since he had studied enough mathematics at Syracuse to be effective as a teacher, the principal asked him to accept the position. Finding the law profession not especially agreeable, Smith accepted and began thus his pioneering work for mathematics education in the USA. During the next three years, he continued not only his engagements as a lawyer, but also his academic studies. Eventually, in 1887, he was granted the Ph.D. degree by Syracuse University in history of fine arts. While the courses he taught at Cortland had been standard - arithmetic, algebra, plane and solid geometry, and trigonometry -, from 1887 on he introduced courses on history of mathematics. After seven years of teaching as a mathematics professor at Cortland Normal School, he obtained the offer of the position of mathematics professor at the Michigan State Normal School, at Ypsilanti. At Ypsilanti, from 1891 on, Smith developed the kernel of his program for mathematics education. The normal school there, affiliated with Michigan University, had expanded to provide teacher education for all types of public schools - not only common schools, but also secondary schools. Smith, becoming head of the mathematics department, assured the academic level of teacher education, balancing the professional and the academic sides of the formation. Wishing to exert an administrative position, Smith moved in 1898 to Brockport, in the state of New York, as principal of the Normal School. While not teaching mathematics there, he published his first seminal contribution to mathematics education: the book The Teaching of Elementary Mathematics (1900), a methodology for mathematics teachers. After three years, in 1901, he returned to training mathematics teachers himself: at Teachers College, New York, the most prestigious institution in the United States, rivalled only by the school of Education at the University of Chicago. Originally just somewhat associated to Columbia University, Teachers College had evolved to be a professional school of university rank. Its students had to be college graduates or experienced teachers. By 1910, Teachers College had raised its status even more, and constituted a graduate college for professional education within Columbia University. Smith had been called to Teachers College in order to raise in particular the mathematics department to this level of quality. In fact, in 1906, the first Ph.D. degrees in mathematics education were conferred on two of Smith's students. Upon the proposal of Smith, the Fourth International Congress of Mathematicians, Rome 1908, decided to establish an international committee, the Internationale Mathematische Unterrichtskommission, to study the situation of mathematics instruction internationally. Also upon his proposal, Felix Klein, Sir George Greenhill, and Henri Fehr were elected as the core of this committee, later named its Comit? Central. Evidently, he was also the dynamic element in the work of the US national subcommittee, constituted in 1909. His merits were acknowledged in 1912, when the next ICM in Cambridge elected him to join the Comit? Central; later on, the Comit? appointed him to act as an additional vice-president of IMUK. During World War I, Henri Fehr, committed to the Allied Powers, tried to eliminate Klein as president and urged Smith to assume this function. Smith did not accept these offers and remained vice-president until the dissolution of IMUK, in 1920. When it was re-established, in 1928, Smith was elected its president. In 1932, he retired from IMUK activities. Due to his good relations with the mathematical community in the States, he served as an effective link between the demands of mathematicians and the needs of professional teacher training. From 1902 to 1920, Smith served as an associate editor of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. He also served as an associate editor of the journal of the Mathematical Association of America, The American Mathematical Monthly, from 1916 on. He was elected president of the MAA for the term 1920 to 1921. He helped to organize the Association of Teachers of Mathematics and was elected its first president. His publications were decisive in shaping mathematics education in the United States. His handbook of 1900 was followed by The Teaching of Arithmetic in 1909 and by The Teaching of Geometry in 1911. His textbooks in arithmetic, algebra, and geometry and accompanying handbooks, published since 1904, were dominant during the 1910s. From his academic activities, Smith had retired already in 1926. He died at his home in New York City on July 29, 1944, after a long illness. References EILEEN F. DONOGHUE 1987, The origins of a professional mathematics education program at Teachers College, Ed.D. Thesis, Columbia University New York, Teachers College LAO GENEVRA L.G. SIMONS 1945, "David Eugene Smith - In Memoriam", Bulletin of the AMS, 51, 40-50 Gert Schubring, Bielefeld University, Germany, gert.schubring@uni-bielefeld.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8. SUBSCRIBING TO ICMI News There are two ways of subscribing to ICMI News: 1. Click on http://www.mathunion.org/ICMI/Mailinglist with a Web browser and go to the "Subscribe" button to subscribe to ICMI News online. 2. 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URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090508/af6e336b/attachment.htm From gpwright at cms.math.ca Thu May 14 09:36:31 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Thu May 14 09:36:34 2009 Subject: [cmath] 41ST CANADIAN MATHEMATICAL OLYMPIAD WINNERS Message-ID: NEWS RELEASE - May 14, 2009 41ST CANADIAN MATHEMATICAL OLYMPIAD WINNERS OTTAWA, Ontario ? Eight students receive top honours in the 41st Canadian Mathematical Olympiad (CMO). The CMO, Canada?s premier mathematics competition, is organized and administered by the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS). A total of 81 students from 52 different schools (47 Canadian schools and 5 from outside Canada) wrote the 2009 CMO, selected on the basis of their performance in the 2008 Sun Life Financial Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge (COMC) (November 19, 2008), the CMS Correspondence Training Programme and other mathematics competitions. Students had to solve five difficult questions during the three-hour 2009 CMO examination held on March 25, 2009. ?The Canadian Mathematics Olympiad is a very important venue through which selected students from all across Canada have the opportunity to enhance and develop their problem solving skills and to significantly increase their mathematical knowledge. Preparing for this competition takes a lot of dedication and hard work, I am very proud of all the students who have been part of this unique and wonderful experience, and I congratulate the winners of the 2009 Olympiad." said Dr. Kalle Karu, University of British Columbia, and Chair of the CMS Canadian Mathematical Olympiad Committee. 2009 Prize Winners: The top winners in the 41st Canadian Mathematical Olympiad are: FIRST PRIZE and the Sun Life Financial Cup ? Jonathan Schneider, University of Toronto Schools, Toronto, ON; SECOND PRIZE ? Danny Shi, Sir Winston Churchill High School, Calgary, AB; THIRD PRIZE ? Jarno Sun, Western Canada High School, Calgary, AB; HONOURABLE MENTIONS were awarded to: Ahmad Abdi, Sabouhi Academy of Art & Design, Toronto, ON; Robin Cheng, Pinetree Secondary School, Coquitlam, BC; Nikita Lvov, Marianopolis College, Westmount, QC; Hunter Spink, Western Canada High School, Calgary, AB; Chen Sun, A.B. Lucas Secondary School, London, ON. Over 8,200 students wrote the 2008 Sun Life Financial Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge (the Open) and the winners of the 2008 Open and the 2009 CMO will be honoured at the CMS Awards Banquet which will take place in the Festival Ballroom, South Campus Hall, University of Waterloo, on Thursday, June 11, 2009, from 5:15 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ?All of these winners have done extremely well in an extremely challenging competition. The students who participate in these competitions develop the creative problem-solving skills so valuable in today's competitive workplace.? said Dr. Graham Wright, Executive Director, Canadian Mathematical Society. The Society is very grateful for the support received from Sun Life Financial; Alberta Learning; Department of Education (Manitoba), Department of Education (New Brunswick); the Department of Education (Newfoundland and Labrador); the Department of Education (Northwest Territories); the Department of Education (Nova Scotia); the Ministry of Education (Ontario); the Department of Education (Saskatchewan); Nelson Thomson Learning; John Wiley and Sons Canada Ltd.; A.K. Peters Ltd.; Maplesoft; the Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia; the Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto; the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa; the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary; the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Regina; the Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University; the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing, University of Waterloo; and the Department of Mathematics, Wilfrid Laurier University. Problems, solutions and other contest information are available at: www.cms.math.ca/Competitions/CMO/ For more information, contact: Dr. Graham P. Wright Canadian Mathematical Society Executive Director director@cms.math.ca (613) 733-2662, Ext. 713 or Dr. Kalle Karu Chair, CMS Canadian Mathematical Olympiad Committee Department of Mathematics University of British Columbia karu@math.ubc.ca (604) 822-4787 From gpwright at cms.math.ca Thu May 14 09:39:20 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Thu May 14 09:39:22 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-15?q?GAGNANTS_DE_LA_41E_OLYMPIADE_MATH=C9MATI?= =?iso-8859-15?q?QUE_DU_CANADA?= Message-ID: COMMUNIQU? - 14 mai 2009 OTTAWA (Ontario) -- Huit ?l?ves ont remport? des prix ? la 41e Olympiade math?matique du Canada (OMC). Premier concours de math?matiques en importance au pays, l'OMC est organis?e par la Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC). Quelque 81 ?l?ves repr?sentant 52 ?coles diff?rentes (47 ?coles canadiennes et 5 de l?ext?rieure du Canada) ont ?t? invit?s ? l?OMC 2009 d?apr?s leurs r?sultats au dernier D?fi ouvert canadien de math?matiques Financi?re Sun Life (19 novembre 2008), au programme de formation par correspondance de la SMC et ? d?autres concours math?matiques. Les ?l?ves devaient r?pondre ? cinq questions difficiles pendant les trois heures de l'examen, tenu le 25 mars 2009. ? L'olympiade math?matique du Canada offre ? un groupe s?lectionn? d??tudiants de toutes les r?gions du Canada une excellente occasion de rehausser et d?velopper leurs comp?tences en r?solution des probl?mes et d'augmenter de mani?re significative leur connaissance math?matique. La pr?paration ? ce concours prend beaucoup de d?vouement et du travail, je suis tr?s fier de tous les ?tudiants qui ont fait partie de cette exp?rience unique et exceptionnelle, et je tiens ? f?liciter les gagnants de l'olympiade 2009 ?, dit Kalle Karu, de l?Universit? de la Colombie Britannique, pr?sident du Comit? de l?OMC de la SMC. Laur?ats 2009 - Voici les grands gagnants de la 41e Olympiade math?matique du Canada : PREMIER PRIX et coupe Financi?re Sun Life ? Jonathan Schneider, University of Toronto Schools, Toronto, ON; DEUXI?ME PRIX ? Danny Shi, Sir Winston Churchill High School, Calgary, AB; TROISI?ME PRIX ? Jarno Sun, Western Canada High School, Calgary, AB; MENTIONS HONORABLES : Ahmad Abdi, Sabouhi Academy of Art & Design, Toronto, ON; Robin Cheng, Pinetree Secondary School, Coquitlam, CB; Nikita Lvov, Marianopolis College, Westmount, QC; Hunter Spink, Western Canada High School, Calgary, AB; Chen Sun, A.B. Lucas Secondary School, London, ON. Plus de 8 200 ?l?ves ont particip? au D?fi ouvert canadien de math?matiques Financi?re Sun Life 2008. Ceux et celles qui y ont obtenu les meilleurs r?sultats ou qui ont remport? des prix ? l?OMC 2009 seront invit?s au Banquet des laur?ats de la SMC, qui se tiendra ? la salle Festival (South Campus Hall) de l?Universit? de Waterloo le jeudi 11 juin 2009, de 17 h 15 ? 20 h. ? Ces gagnants ont tous obtenu d'excellents r?sultats ? un concours tr?s exigeant. Les ?l?ves qui participent ? de telles ?preuves d?veloppent leur cr?ativit? ainsi que les comp?tences en r?solution de probl?mes indispensables au march? du travail tr?s comp?titif actuel ?, mentionne Graham Wright, directeur administratif de la Soci?t? math?matique du Canada. La Soci?t? remercie chaleureusement la Financi?re Sun Life; les minist?res de l??ducation de l?Alberta, de Manitoba, du Nouveau-Brunswick, de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador, des Territoires du Nord-Ouest, de la Nouvelle-?cosse, de l?Ontario et de la Saskatchewan; Nelson Thomson Learning; John Wiley and Sons Canada Ltd.; A.K. Peters Ltd.; Maplesoft; le D?partement de math?matiques de l?Universit? de la Colombie Britannique; le D?partement de math?matiques de l?Universit? de Toronto; le D?partement de math?matiques et de statistique de l?Universit? d?Ottawa; le D?partement de math?matiques et de statistique de l?Universit? de Calgary; le D?partement de math?matiques et de statistique de l?Universit? de Regina; le D?partement de math?matiques et de statistique de l?Universit? Simon Fraser; le D?partement de math?matiques et de statistique de l?Universit? York; le Centre d??ducation en math?matiques et en informatique de l?Universit? de Waterloo et le D?partement de math?matiques de l?Universit? Wilfrid Laurier. On trouvera la liste des probl?mes et des solutions ainsi que d?autres renseignements sur les concours au : http://www.smc.math.ca/Concours/OMC/ Renseignements : Graham P. Wright Directeur administratif de la Soci?t? math?matique du Canada directeur@smc.math.ca (613) 733-2662, poste 713 ou Kalle Karu Pr?sident du Comit? de l?Olympiade math?matique du Canada de la SMC D?partement de math?matiques Universit? de la Colombie Britannique karu@math.ubc.ca (604) 822-4787 From akelm at cms.math.ca Thu May 14 16:53:47 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Thu May 14 16:53:50 2009 Subject: [cmath] Tenure Track Position in Statistics - Memorial University Message-ID: MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS Tenure Track Position in Statistics The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Memorial University is undergoing a process of faculty renewal and will be making a number of appointments in Mathematics and Statistics, subject to budgetary approval. The department invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor position in Statistics. Applicants must have an earned doctorate and an excellent record of publications in Statistics. Candidates should have some teaching experience and the skills required to become an excellent teacher. Duties for the position include: graduate teaching and supervision, undergraduate teaching and the development of a vigorous research program. Applications in all areas of Statistics will be considered. The closing date for applications to the university is September 14, 2009. Candidates should submit a Curriculum Vitae, a description of research interests; and the names and addresses (include e-mail) of at least three referees. Applications should be sent to: Head of Department VPA-MAST-2007-004 Department of Mathematics & Statistics Memorial University St. John's, NL, A1C 5S7 Canada E-mail: mathstat@mun.ca Internet: www.mun.ca/math You MUST use the code VPA-MAST-2007-004 on all correspondence. Memorial University is the largest university in Atlantic Canada. As the province's only university, Memorial plays an integral role in the educational and cultural life of Newfoundland and Labrador. Offering diverse undergraduate and graduate programs to almost 18,000 students, Memorial provides a distinctive and stimulating environment for learning in St. John's, a very safe, friendly city with great historic charm, a vibrant cultural life, and easy access to a wide range of outdoor activities. Memorial University is committed to employment equity and encourages applications from qualified women and men, visible minorities, aboriginal people and persons with disabilities. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority. 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From peter.taylor at queensu.ca Tue May 19 08:30:12 2009 From: peter.taylor at queensu.ca (Peter Taylor) Date: Tue May 19 08:28:33 2009 Subject: [cmath] Fwd: ICME-12 IPC meeting Message-ID: <0KJW009WZ5B7B030@mta02.its.queensu.ca> Note from Bernard Hodgson on the upcoming meeting of the program committee for ICME-12. This is really the last chance to make significant input on the structure or general theme of the meeting. peter This note is a reminder that the International Programme Committee (IPC) for ICME-12 will have its first meeting next month in Seoul, on June 14-17. (This information was already announced in ICMI News no 8 (February 2009), where the composition of the IPC is given.) I wish to stress that it is at this meeting that the IPC will finalise decisions about the general structure of the scientific programme. (The IPC meet have its second meeting in February 2011, but it will then be too late to introduce major changes about the framework of the programme.) You are thus invited to send your comments and suggestions on the programme of the congress. Please provide feedback from your own experience at the last ICMEs, and that of your colleagues, and comment on elements of the programme that in your opinion went fine and should be kept, others that maybe went not so fine and would need modifications, or new ingredients to be added to the programme. Of course you are welcome to provide suggestions on any aspect of the scientific programme, including specific themes to be addressed, and also names of individuals that may contribute. Comments or suggestions about the programme of ICME-12 should be sent to the Chair of the IPC, Sung Je Cho (sungjcho@snu.ac.kr), NO LATER THAN JUNE 1. Thanks in advance, and best wishes, Bernard PS: I use this opportunity to invite those of you who have not yet done so to subscribe to ICMI News, the electronic newsletter of ICMI and an important tool for communication. Subscription can be made via the page "ICMI News" under the "Publications" section of the ICMI website. -- ____________________________________________ Bernard R. Hodgson Secretary-General of ICMI -- Secr?taire g?n?ral de la CIEM (International Commission on Mathematical Instruction / Commission internationale de l'enseignement math?matique) D?partement de math?matiques et de statistique Facult? des sciences et de g?nie 1045, avenue de la M?decine Universit? Laval Qu?bec (Qu?bec) G1V 0A6 CANADA T?l?phone : +1 418 656 2131, poste 2975 T?l?copie : +1 418 656 2817 Courriel : bhodgson@mat.ulaval.ca Site personnel : http://www.mat.ulaval.ca/pages/hodgson/ Site CIEM / ICMI website : http://www.mathunion.org/ICMI/ Avis relatif ? la confidentialit? / Notice of Confidentiality / Advertencia de confidencialidad http://www.rec.ulaval.ca/lce/securite/confidentialite.htm ____________________________________________ Peter Taylor Professor Dept Math&Stats Queen's University Kingston ON K7L 3N6 613 533-2434 http://www.mast.queensu.ca/~peter/ From aroche at maplesoft.com Tue May 19 09:26:36 2009 From: aroche at maplesoft.com (Austin Roche) Date: Tue May 19 09:43:37 2009 Subject: [cmath] Session on symbolic and numeric approaches to dynamical modeling and simulation at ACA 2009 Message-ID: (Apologies for cross-postings) Session on symbolic and numeric approaches to dynamical modeling and simulation =============================================================================== Applications of Computer Algebra (ACA 2009) June 25-28, Montr?al, Canada ?cole de Technologie Sup?rieure (?TS) http://aca2009.etsmtl.ca ************************** * CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * ************************** Overview -------- There are a few software packages such as "Dymola" and "MapleSim" that support high-level physics-based modeling and simulation of large-scale continuous and hybrid discrete-continuous dynamical systems. Internally these models are represented by so-called lumped parameter models or differential-algebraic equations (DAEs), and significant parts of the software perform symbolic manipulations of the equations before sending them to a numerical integrator, in order to reduce simulation time or even to enable the numerical integrator to handle the problem. In this session, we will consider such symbolic and symbolic-numeric techniques for purely continuous DAEs and hybrid discrete-continuous models, including the following topics: * index reduction and causalization * graph-theory based modeling and simplification * model order reduction * multi- and cross-domain modeling * finding consistent initial conditions for hybrid systems * solvers for higher index DAEs * nonlinear model reduction * reducing the number of static parameters * differential elimination * reducing the number of discrete modes for hybrid systems * model size reduction * straight-line program techniques * optimized code generation * singular perturbation methods * parallel algorithms for dynamical simulation * multi-body dynamics Another question that could be considered is related to "real world models". Many of the symbolic methods prevalent in dynamical modeling were designed specifically for a certain class of "nice" models, such as, e.g., polynomials with integer coefficients. However, in practice many models contain components that are not easily accessible to purely symbolic manipulations, such as floating point coefficients and exponents, lookup tables, or piecewise defined functions. The challenge is to apply symbolic techniques to such models appropriately and effectively. Submissions ----------- If you are interested in giving a presentation at this session, please email an abstract to one of the organizers. Presentations will be up to 30 min in length, including time for discussion. The tentative deadline for submissions is May 29th, 2009. Session Organizers ------------------ J?rgen Gerhard jgerhard@maplesoft.com Austin Roche aroche@maplesoft.com Elena Shmoylova eshmoylova@maplesoft.com Maplesoft, Canada http://www.maplesoft.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090519/71cca4a2/attachment.htm From morawetz at courant.nyu.edu Wed May 20 15:57:21 2009 From: morawetz at courant.nyu.edu (Cathleen Morawetz) Date: Wed May 20 16:17:07 2009 Subject: [cmath] Nominations to the IMU Executive In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Has Jim Arthur ever served? He would be a great representative of Canadian mathematics in the IMU. Cathleen Synge Morawetz On Sun, 17 May 2009, Niky Kamran wrote: > > Dear Colleagues, Chers Collegues, > > The International Affairs Committee welcomes suggestions from the Canadian > mathematical community of names of Canadian colleagues who could be nominated > to serve on the Executive of the International Mathematical Union. > > Thank you for sending your suggestions to the IAC at iac@cms.math.ca. > > Niky Kamran, on behalf of the IAC. > From jon.borwein at gmail.com Wed May 20 16:29:16 2009 From: jon.borwein at gmail.com (Jon Borwein) Date: Wed May 20 16:29:23 2009 Subject: [cmath] Nominations to the IMU Executive In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Cathleen: Yes, he has been a VP, Cheers, Jon p.s. Note that I have floated to Australia 2009/5/21 Cathleen Morawetz > > Has Jim Arthur ever served? He would be a great representative of Canadian > mathematics in the IMU. > > Cathleen Synge Morawetz > > > > > On Sun, 17 May 2009, Niky Kamran wrote: > > >> Dear Colleagues, Chers Collegues, >> >> The International Affairs Committee welcomes suggestions from the Canadian >> mathematical community of names of Canadian colleagues who could be >> nominated to serve on the Executive of the International Mathematical Union. >> >> Thank you for sending your suggestions to the IAC at iac@cms.math.ca. >> >> Niky Kamran, on behalf of the IAC. >> >> > -- "Old questions are solved by disappearing, evaporating, while new questions corresponding to the changed attitude of endeavor and preference take their place." (John Dewey) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Borwein, FRSC Professor Laureate, School of Mathematical & Physical Sciences University of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW 2308, Australia Jonathan.Borwein@newcastle.edu.au Phone: +61 2 4921 5535 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-6082-2009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090521/41ee6828/attachment.htm From akelm at cms.math.ca Mon May 25 10:39:11 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Mon May 25 10:39:18 2009 Subject: [cmath] Associate Professor/ Professor in Mathematical Science - Charles Sturt University, Australia Message-ID: Charles Sturt University is seeking to make a professorial appointment to lead the Mathematical Sciences Discipline within the University The following position is open to applicants with either a mathematics or statistics background. Associate Professor/ Professor in Mathematical Science Charles Sturt University, Australia Full Time, Continuing HEW Academic Level D/E ? AUD $121,860-$156,973 (Including 17% Superannuation) Closing Date: 28 June 2009 Please note: applications will be accepted until the position has been filled. The School of Computing and Mathematics offers a wide-range of on-campus and distance education courses for undergraduate and postgraduate students. The teaching and research focus of the school is on the practical applications of IT, mathematics and statistics to the global challenges faced by industry and business. The school supports both undergraduate and graduate programs in the mathematical sciences as well as a research masters in computational modelling in association with the International Centre for Water. Our graduates are very successful in obtaining employment. The mathematical sciences are also engaged in collaborative research with a range of disciplines and faculties. The school also provides a statistical consultancy service through the Quantitative Consulting Unit (QCU). The Assoc. Professor/ Professor of Mathematical Science will be responsible for the overall academic leadership of the mathematical sciences disciplines, including leadership of the QCU, and will oversee the development of innovative programs in mathematics & statistics that will complement a wide range of academic programs in the business, science, education and arts faculties across the University. The Assoc. Professor/ Professor of Mathematical Science will also be expected to maintain a strong core discipline presence in the mathematical sciences, develop high quality research programs, facilitate collaborative research linkages with other research groups, attract research funding and supervise postgraduate students. More details at? http://www.csu.edu.au/jobs/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The successful applicant will develop and analyze mathematical models for the regulation of task allocation in honeybee colonies. The work will involve models for bee physiology and development as well as models for colonly regulation via tactile and chemical communication. Applicants should have a doctoral degree in Biology, Chemistry, Physics or Mathematics and some experience with mathematical or computational modelling. Work will be carried out at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, under the supervision of James Watmough, and will involve collaboration with other reserachers in Mathematics, Chemistry and Biology. The start date is November, 2009. However, an earlier start may be possible. Interested students should submit their CV including a brief description of their research interests, copies of transcripts (can be unofficial) and contact information for 3 references to: James Watmough Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of New Brunswick Fredericton, NB Canada E3B 5A3 http: www.math.unb.ca/~watmough email: watmough@unb.ca tel: (506) 453-4768 fax: (506) 453-4705 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment From peter.taylor at queensu.ca Tue May 26 00:06:06 2009 From: peter.taylor at queensu.ca (Peter Taylor) Date: Tue May 26 00:06:20 2009 Subject: [cmath] Fwd: The Klein Project Message-ID: <20090526040606.3CE021FAE@fep5.cogeco.net> I forward an invitation from Bernard to contribute ideas to the Klein Project. http://www.mathunion.org/index.php?id=805 This indeed seems like an interesting (and challenging!) project. They propose to produce a book, a DVD and a wiki to which all can contribute on an ongoing basis--all of this focused on helping teachers make connections between the mathematics they teach and the field of mathematics. The first meeting of the design team is less than a week away, but they are asking for our input. Many of us will know a few members of the 8-person team. First of all it includes Christiane Rousseau! The Chair Bill Barton has often visited Canada and at least once (if my memory serves) CMESG. Bill McCallum I know from work with calculus reform. One thing I liked about the description is their aim to produce a book to "stimulate" math teachers. A worthy ambition. peter >Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 18:57:08 -0400 >From: "Bernard R. Hodgson" >Subject: The Klein Project > >Dear ICMI Representatives and Chairs of ICMI Affiliated Study Groups, > >ICMI and its mother organisation, the IMU, have >launched jointly last year the so called "Klein >Project", whose purpose is to revisit the >seminal reflection of Felix Klein on >mathematical knowledge related to teaching. It >is inspired by Klein's famous book "Elementary >Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint", >published a century ago, and the aim is to >produce documents helping mathematics teachers >to make connections between the mathematics they >teach, or can be asked to teach, and the field >of mathematics, while taking into account the >evolution of this field over the last century. > >A Design Team has been appointed by ICMI and IMU >with the duty of managing the project and >defining it in practical terms. The first >meeting of the Design Team will start next >Saturday, May 30. Your comments or suggestions >are most welcome and should be sent to the Chair >of the Design Team, Bill Barton (b.barton@auckland.ac.nz). > >It is already planned that this project will >result in a book published in several languages, >a resource DVD and a wiki-based website. > >The composition of the Design Team can be found >the Klein Project page on the ICMI website, under "Other Activities". > >Best wishes, > >Bernard > > >-- >____________________________________________ >Bernard R. Hodgson >Secretary-General of ICMI -- Secr?taire g?n?ral de la CIEM >(International Commission on Mathematical Instruction / >Commission internationale de l'enseignement math?matique) >D?partement de math?matiques et de statistique >Facult? des sciences et de g?nie >1045, avenue de la M?decine >Universit? Laval >Qu?bec (Qu?bec) G1V 0A6 CANADA >T?l?phone : +1 418 656 2131, poste 2975 >T?l?copie : +1 418 656 2817 >Courriel : bhodgson@mat.ulaval.ca >Site personnel : http://www.mat.ulaval.ca/pages/hodgson/ >Site CIEM / ICMI website : http://www.mathunion.org/ICMI/ > >Avis relatif ? la confidentialit? / Notice of >Confidentiality / Advertencia de >confidencialidad http://www.rec.ulaval.ca/lce/securite/confidentialite.htm >____________________________________________ Peter Taylor Professor Math&Stats Queen's University Kingston ON K7L 3N6 613 533-2434 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090526/267fd306/attachment.htm From gpwright at cms.math.ca Fri May 29 10:21:55 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Fri May 29 10:21:58 2009 Subject: [cmath] 50TH INTERNATIONAL MATHEMATICAL OLYMPIAD TEAM Message-ID: 50TH INTERNATIONAL MATHEMATICAL OLYMPIAD TEAM SIX STUDENTS SELECTED TO REPRESENT CANADA AT THE 2009 INTERNATIONAL MATHEMATICAL OLYMPIAD IN BREMEN, GERMANY. OTTAWA, Ontario - Six of Canada's best high school mathematics students have been chosen to represent their country at the 50th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). The IMO is the world championship mathematics competition for high school students and is being held this year in Bremen, Germany from July 10 to July 22, 2009. "The six students have demonstrated the exceptional problem solving skills, understanding and imagination that is so vital to compete against the very best at the international level," said Dr. Graham Wright, Executive Director of the Canadian Mathematical Society, the organization responsible for the selection and training of Canada's IMO team. "They represent the best of our students and will be excellent representatives for Canada". The six students ? Yu (Robin) Cheng, Pinetree Secondary School, Coquitlam (British Columbia); Jonathan Schneider, University of Toronto Schools, Toronto (Ontario); XiaoLin (Danny) Shi, Sir Winston Churchill High School, Calgary (Alberta); Hunter Spink, Western Canada High School, Calgary (Alberta); Chen Sun, A.B. Lucas Secondary School, London (Ontario); and Chengyue (Jarno) Sun, Western Canada High School, Calgary (Alberta) - were selected from among more than 200,000 students in grades 7 to 12 (plus CEGEP) who participated in local, provincial and national mathematics contests. The Canadian team members, who must be less than 20 years old when they write the IMO competition, will be pitting their skills against more than 500 of the world's best students from over 100 countries. The IMO competition paper, which is set by an international jury of mathematicians, will be written on Wednesday, July 15 and Thursday, July 16 and the medals awarded on Tuesday, July 21. The contest is written over two days, each day consisting of three questions to be solved within four and one-half hours. "It is a highly challenging mathematical "hexathlon" and these are our Canadian mathletes," commented Wright. The team will be accompanied by the Team Leader, Dr. Dorette Pronk (Dalhousie University), the Deputy Team Leader, Mr. David Arthur (Stanford University) and the Deputy Team Leader Observer, Mr. Jacob Tsimerman (Princeton University). Canada first sent a team to an IMO competition in 1981 (Washington, USA). Since then, Canadian students have done very well, receiving a total of 16 gold, 37 silver, and 65 bronze medals. At last year's IMO in Madrid, Spain, the Canadian team placed 22nd out of the 97 competing countries and won six medals. "These competitions allow Canadian high school students to compete with the best from the many other countries," said Dr. Neal Madras, York University, Chair of the CMS Mathematical Competitions Committee. "It should be noted that Canadian students do very well even though in many countries high school finishes at age 19." The six students will be attending a special IMO Training Camp at the University of Calgary and at the Banff International Research Station (BIRS) in Banff, Alberta from June 26 to July 12, 2009 and the IMO Team Send-off Luncheon will be held on Monday, June 29th at 12:00 PM. The media can meet the team at 11:00 AM on June 29th in the Rozsa Centre, University of Calgary. The team will leave for Germany on July 12 and will return to Canada on July 22, 2009. The Imperial Oil Foundation (IOF) is the Major Sponsor of the Canadian IMO team. In addition to the IOF and the Canadian Mathematical Society, sponsors of the 2009 Canadian IMO team include: Sun Life Financial; NSERC PromoScience; the Banff International Research Station; the Samuel Beatty Fund; Maplesoft; Nelson Thomson Learning; John Wiley and Sons Canada Ltd; A.K. Peters Ltd; the Ontario Ministry of Education; Alberta Learning; Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth; Nova Scotia Department of Education; the Newfoundland and Labrador Ministry of Education; the Northwest Territories Ministry of Education; the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education; Centre de recherches math?matiques; the Fields Institute; the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences; the Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia; the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary; the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University; the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa; the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Regina; the Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto; the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing, University of Waterloo; the Department of Statistics, University of Waterloo; and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University. For more information, contact: Dr. Graham P. Wright or Dr. Neal Madras Executive Director Chair - MCC Committee Canadian Mathematical Society Department of Mathematics and Statistics Tel: (613) 733-2662, Ext. 713 York University Cel: (613) 290-3046 Tel: (416)-736-5250 director@cms.math.ca madras@mathstat.yorku.ca From gpwright at cms.math.ca Fri May 29 10:31:18 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Fri May 29 10:31:20 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-15?q?L=27=C9QUIPE_DU_CANADA_=C0_LA_50E_OLYMPI?= =?iso-8859-15?q?ADE_INTERNATIONALE_DE_MATH=C9MATIQUES?= Message-ID: L'?QUIPE DU CANADA ? LA 50E OLYMPIADE INTERNATIONALE DE MATH?MATIQUES SIX ?L?VES REPR?SENTERONT LE CANADA ? L'OLYMPIADE INTERNATIONALE DE MATH?MATIQUES 2009 ? BREMEN, EN ALLEMAGNE. OTTAWA (Ontario) - Six des meilleurs ?l?ves du secondaire en math?matiques ont ?t? choisis pour repr?senter le Canada ? la 50e Olympiade internationale de math?matiques (OIM). L'OIM, championnat mondial de math?matiques pour ?l?ves du secondaire, sera tenue cette ann?e ? Bremen, en Allemagne, du 10 au 22 juillet 2009. ? Ces six ?l?ves ont montr? qu'ils poss?daient les comp?tences en r?solution de probl?mes, la compr?hension et l'imagination indispensables pour se mesurer aux plus brillants ?l?ves sur la sc?ne internationale ?, d?clare Graham Wright, directeur administratif de la Soci?t? math?matique du Canada, l'organisme responsable de la s?lection et de la formation de l'?quipe canadienne ? l'OIM. ? Ils sont l'?lite du pays et repr?senteront admirablement bien le Canada. ? Les six ?l?ves ? Yu (Robin) Cheng, Pinetree Secondary School, Coquitlam (Colombie britannique); Jonathan Schneider, University of Toronto Schools, Toronto (Ontario); XiaoLin (Danny) Shi, Sir Winston Churchill High School, Calgary (Alberta); Hunter Spink, Western Canada High School, Calgary (Alberta); Chen Sun, A.B. Lucas Secondary School, London (Ontario) ; et Chengyue (Jarno) Sun, Western Canada High School, Calgary (Alberta) - ont ?t? choisis parmi plus de 200 000 jeunes de la septi?me ? la douzi?me ann?e (ou du c?gep) qui ont particip? ? des concours de math?matiques locaux, provinciaux et nationaux. Les membres de l'?quipe canadienne, qui doivent ?tre ?g?s de moins de 20 ans au moment de l'?preuve, se mesureront ? plus de 500 des meilleurs ?l?ves au monde provenant de plus de 100 pays. Pr?par? par un jury international compos? de math?maticiens, l'examen de l'OIM aura lieu le mercredi 15 et le jeudi 16 juillet. Quant aux m?dailles, elles seront remises le mardi 21 juillet. Le concours comprend deux examens de trois questions, d'une dur?e de quatre heures et demie chacun. ? C'est un "hexathlon" math?matique extr?mement exigeant, fait remarquer Graham Wright, et ces six ?l?ves sont nos "mathl?tes" canadiens. ? L'?quipe sera accompagn?e d'une chef d'?quipe, Mme. Dorette Pronk (Universit? Dalhousie), d'un chef d'?quipe adjoint, M. David Arthur (Universit? Stanford), et d'un chef d'?quipe adjoint observateur, M. Jacob Tsimerman (Universit? Princeton). Le Canada a envoy? sa premi?re d?l?gation ? l'OIM en 1981 (Washington). Depuis, les Canadiens ont obtenu d'excellents r?sultats : ils ont amass? un total de 16 m?dailles d'or, 37 d'argent et 65 de bronze. ? l'OIM de l'an dernier, ? Madrid, Espagne, l'?quipe canadienne s'est class?e 22e sur 97 pays et a r?colt? six m?dailles. ? Ces concours permettent aux jeunes Canadiens de se mesurer aux meilleurs ?l?ves de la plan?te ?, souligne Neal Madras de l'Universit? York, pr?sident de Comit? des concours math?matiques de la SMC. ? Il importe de pr?ciser que nos ?l?ves obtiennent des r?sultats remarquables ?tant donn? que dans bien des pays, les ?l?ves fr?quentent l'?cole secondaire jusqu'? 19 ans. ? En pr?vision de l'OIM, les six ?l?ves participeront ? un camp d'entra?nement sp?cial ? l'Universit? de Calgary et ? la Station de recherche internationale de Banff (SRIB), Alberta, du 26 juin au 12 juillet 2009. Un go?ter l?ger pour souligner le d?part de l'?quipe sera offert le lundi, 29 juin ? 12 h. Les m?dias pourront rencontrer l'?quipe d?s 11 h au centre Rozsa ? l'Universit? de Calgary. L'?quipe s'envolera pour l'Allemagne le 12 juillet et reviendra au Canada le 22 juillet 2009. La Fondation l?Imp?riale (FI) est le commanditaire principal de l'?quipe canadienne ? l'OIM. En plus de la Soci?t? math?matique du Canada et la FI, les commanditaires de l'?quipe canadienne ? l'OIM 2009 sont : la Financi?re Sun Life; PromoScience (CRSNG); la Station de recherche internationale de Banff ; le fonds Samuel-Beatty; Maplesoft; Nelson Thomson Learning ; John Wiley and Sons Canada Ltd ; A.K. Peters Ltd ; les minist?res de l'?ducation de l'Ontario, de l'Alberta, du Manitoba, de la Nouvelle-?cosse, de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador, des Territoires du Nord-Ouest et de la Saskatchewan; le Centre de recherches math?matiques; l'Institut Fields de recherche en sciences math?matiques; l'Institut du Pacifique en sciences math?matiques; le d?partement de math?matiques de l'Universit? de la Colombie britannique ; le d?partement de math?matiques et de statistique de l'Universit? de Calgary; le d?partement de math?matiques et de statistique de l'Universit? Dalhousie; le d?partement de math?matiques et de statistique de l'Universit? d'Ottawa; le d?partement de math?matiques et de statistique de l'Universit? de Regina; le d?partement de math?matiques de l'Universit? de Toronto; le Centre d'?ducation en math?matiques et en informatique de l'Universit? de Waterloo; le d?partement de statistique de l'Universit? de Waterloo et le d?partement de math?matiques et de statistique de l'Universit? York. Renseignements : M. Graham P. Wright Directeur administratif Soci?t? math?matique du Canada T?l?phone : 613-733-2662 Cellulaire : 613-290-3046 directeur@smc.math.ca M. Neal Madras Pr?sident du Comit? des concours de la SMC D?partement de math?matiques et de statistique Universit? York T?l. : 416-736-5250 madras@mathstat.yorku.ca From peter.taylor at queensu.ca Tue Jun 2 16:58:41 2009 From: peter.taylor at queensu.ca (Peter Taylor) Date: Tue Jun 2 16:57:04 2009 Subject: [cmath] Fwd: Re: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Student Scholarship Program - Deadline for Submissions: July 15th, 2009 Message-ID: <0KKM004Z6Q6YZU50@mta01.its.queensu.ca> This is a great program now in its third year. Past winner come from many disciplines in different Canadian universities/colleges. It's well worth nominating students who are outstanding in terms of outreach in the student community. We had such a student at Queen's who has been running a program in which senior students teach special problem-solving modules to first-year students. I made a mental note last year to nominate her. Alas I now discover that the student must be an undergraduate in the coming academic year to qualify. Don't wait. submission deadline is July 15. peter >Please join us in recognizing those students who enhance the >teaching and learning environment in Canada. > >If you have students who demonstrate initiative, leadership, >integrity, and engagement in and out of the classroom, we encourage >you to recognize them by nominating them for our 2009 scholarship. > >Please visit the following website for more information on the >McGraw-Hill Ryerson Student Scholarship Program and to access the >submission form: > >www.mcgrawhill.ca/scholarships/ > >Should you have questions about the Scholarship Program, please >contact your local iLearning Specialist, Jeremy Guimond, at >jeremyg@mcgrawhill.ca. > >Let us celebrate student learning and success together! > >We look forward to receiving your nominations before July 15th, 2009. > >Sincerely, > >Marlene S. 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URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090602/c7380a85/attachment.htm From e-smirnova at TI.COM Sun Jun 7 14:06:52 2009 From: e-smirnova at TI.COM (Smirnova, Elena) Date: Mon Jun 8 09:01:36 2009 Subject: [cmath] [SIGSAM] Compact Computer Algebra Workshop -- Final call for contributions Message-ID: Second Workshop on Compact Computer Algebra CICM 2009 July 10-11, 2009. Grand Bend, ON, Canada In the 1970s and 80s the developers of CAS had to know how implement highly efficient systems. To deploy computer algebra in today's personal devices or to make computer algebra available as component in larger software systems we must continue to use and extend this knowledge. As high end hardware configuration grow, the CA systems can be used to handle ever larger problems. However, as low end configurations become more powerful, we can move to ever smaller devices. In the same way, when CAS is used as a component to a larger systems, it needs to provide only those capabilities that are required by the component. Whether running on a Smartphone, or as support of a client-side web application, certain applications of computer algebra require compact data representation, space-efficient algorithms and effective memory management. Worshop Scope: -------------- After the success of the first session on Compact Computer Algebra (http://orcca.on.ca/conferences/cca2008) at ACA 2008, this workshop continues the series of events dedicated to the whole spectrum of issues of compact CA including, but not limited to: * math education tools * portable and Internet-accessible symbolic calculators * CAS for personal digital assistants * "spell checkers" for math content in document processing software * validators for online and offline mathematical recognizers * backend engines to pen-computing interfaces * math editing components for 2D expression Invited Speaker ---------------- John Fitch University of Bath (UK) "CAMAL 40 Years On -- Is Small Still Beautiful?" Submissions ----------- 1) Contributed Papers: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Authors are invited to send a one- or two-page abstract by e-mail to by June 15, 2009. Submissions will be reviewed based on relevance to the session, originality and scientific interest. Authors will be notified by E-mail before June 20, 2009. 2) System Demonstrations: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Participants with CCA-related software they wish to demonstrate, should submit a one page abstract describing their system and what they wish to present by June 15, 2009. Demonstrators are expected to run their software on their own computers/devices. Local-area network access and additional displays may be provided, up on request. Please indicate any specific requirements in the abstract submitted. How to submit ------------- All abstracts are to be submitted by E-mail to by June 15. The subject line must contain the string "CCA abstract". Please ensure your abstract is clearly marked as being for a contributed paper or software demonstration. Publication of the Proceedings ------------------------------ The full-length papers and the abstracts will be published electronically at the Compact Computer Algebra session web site maintained by the Ontario Research Centre for Computer Algebra. Selected papers will be considered for publishing in a journal special issue. Important Dates --------------- * June 15 - Deadline for submitting paper and demo abstracts. * June 17 - Notification of acceptance * July 1 - Full-length papers due * July 10-11 - CCA Workshop * July 6-12 - CICM 2009 -- see you in Grand Bend! Session organizers ------------------ * Elena Smirnova Texas Instruments, Education Technology, Canada e-mail: * Stephen M. Watt Ontario Research Centre for Computer Algebra, University of Western Ontario, Canada e-mail: Web resources ------------- * CICM 2009 home page http://www.orcca.on.ca/conferences/cicm09/cicm09/index.html * 2nd Workshop on Compact Computer Algebra web site http://www.orcca.on.ca/conferences/cca2009 * Call for Papers and Software demos for Compact Computer Algebra page http://www.orcca.on.ca/conferences/cca2009/submissions.html Best regards Elena Smirnova, Ph.D. Mathematics, Ph.D. Computer Science Associate Member Ontario Research Centre for Computer Algebra The University of Western Ontario Math Systems Software Engineer Education Technology Texas Instruments Inc. E-Mail: e-smirnova@ti.com Web: http://www.orcca.on.ca/MathML/elena.html ***** You may leave the SIGSAM-FRIENDS list at any time by sending a "SIGNOFF SIGSAM-FRIENDS" command to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG or by visiting http://listserv.acm.org/archives/SIGSAM-FRIENDS.html. From jhd at CS.BATH.AC.UK Wed Jun 3 17:33:25 2009 From: jhd at CS.BATH.AC.UK (Professor James Davenport) Date: Mon Jun 8 09:02:09 2009 Subject: [cmath] [SIGSAM] Jean Della Dora Message-ID: It is with great sadness that his family and colleagues announce the sudden death of Jean Della Dora on 31 May 2009. A longer piece will appear in Communications in Computer Algebra. See also http://jdd.hautetfort.com/ (in French). James Davenport Visiting Full Professor, University of Waterloo Otherwise: Hebron & Medlock Professor of Information Technology and Chairman, Powerful Computing WP, University of Bath OpenMath Content Dictionary Editor and Programme Chair, OpenMath 2009 IMU Committee on Electronic Information and Communication ***** You may leave the SIGSAM-FRIENDS list at any time by sending a "SIGNOFF SIGSAM-FRIENDS" command to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG or by visiting http://listserv.acm.org/archives/SIGSAM-FRIENDS.html. From peter.taylor at queensu.ca Tue Jun 9 08:31:45 2009 From: peter.taylor at queensu.ca (Peter Taylor) Date: Tue Jun 9 08:31:56 2009 Subject: [cmath] Fwd: Call --- ICMI Awards Message-ID: <0KKZ00ADT1GXL220@mta01.its.queensu.ca> Call for nominations for two major ICMI awards. peter ICMI -- The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction THE ICMI AWARDS COMMITTEE Announcement: Call for Nominations As is probably well known to most mathematics educators around the world, the Executive Committee of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) a number of years ago created two awards, each in the form of a diploma and a medal, to recognise outstanding accomplishments in mathematics education research: -- the Hans Freudenthal Award, for a major programme of research on mathematics education, -- the Felix Klein Award, for lifelong achievement in mathematics education research. An ICMI Awards Committee has been appointed for selecting the awardees. The President of ICMI has appointed Professor Mogens Niss to chair this committee, the other members of which are anonymous until their terms have come to an end. The first recipients of these two awards, Professor Guy Brousseau (France) for the Felix Klein Award and Professor Celia Hoyles (UK) for the Hans Freudenthal Award, formally received these at the opening ceremonies of ICME-10 in Copenhagen, in July 2004. The two 2005 awards went to Professors Ubiratan D'Ambrosio (Brazil) (the Klein Award) and Paul Cobb (USA) (the Freudenthal Award), and for 2007, Professors Jeremy Kilpatrick (USA) and Anna Sfard (Israel/UK/USA) received the Klein and the Freudenthal Awards, respectively. The awards for 2005 and 2007 were formally presented to the recipients at the opening ceremony of ICME-11 in Monterrey, M?xico, in July 2008. The ICMI Awards Committee is now entering a fourth cycle of selecting awardees for 2009. The result of this process will be known by the end of 2009. The 2009 Awards will be presented to the recipients at ICME-12 in Seoul, Korea in 2012. As was the case with the previous cycles, the ICMI Awards Committee welcomes suggestions coming from the mathematics education community, hence this call for nominations. A nomination of a candidate for the Felix Klein or the Hans Freudenthal Award has to be accompanied by a summary presenting the vita and the achievements of person nominated, as well as the reasons for the nomination. Moreover, nominations also have to include the names and coordinates of two or three persons from whom the committee may seek further information. All proposals must be sent by e-mail (mn@ruc.dk) to the Chair of the Committee no later than 15 September 2009. Mogens Niss Chair of the ICMI Awards Committee IMFUFA, NSM, Building 27 Roskilde University P.O.Box 260 DK-4000 Roskilde DENMARK ******************************************* Peter Taylor Professor Dept Math&Stats Queen's University Kingston ON K7L 3N6 613 533-2434 http://www.mast.queensu.ca/~peter/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090609/875f4835/attachment.htm From akelm at cms.math.ca Tue Jun 23 10:33:02 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Tue Jun 23 10:33:05 2009 Subject: [cmath] Tenure-Track Position in Algebraic Geometry / Number Theory - McMaster University Message-ID: The Department of Mathematics & Statistics, McMaster University, would like to hire a tenure-track faculty member at the level of Assistant or Associate Professor in the areas of Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory. Suitable applicants may be nominated for a Junior (Tier II) Canada Research Chair. The anticipated start date for this position is July 1, 2010. Candidates should have a PhD and clear evidence of a strong research programme in a major area of Algebraic Geometry or Number Theory. In order to be nominated for the Canada Research Chair, the successful applicant will need to establish that he or she is an excellent emerging researcher capable of creating research excellence and with the potential to achieve international recognition in their field in the next five to ten years. Candidates are required to apply for this position by using the MathJobs website. See our advertisement at www.mathjobs.org. In order to ensure full consideration, all application materials should be sent by November 15, 2009. Applicants should arrange for at least three letters of recommendation. At least one of these letters should report on the candidate's teaching abilities. Preferably these letters will be submitted through the MathJobs website (see above); they may also be sent directly to: Dr Hans U Boden, Chair Department of Mathematics & Statistics McMaster University Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1 Canada We appreciate all replies to this advertisement, but only short-listed applicants will be contacted. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority. McMaster University is strongly committed to employment equity within its community, and to recruiting a diverse faculty and staff. The University encourages applications from all qualified candidates, including women, members of visible minorities, Aboriginal persons, members of sexual minorities, and persons with disabilities. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment From adem at pims.math.ca Wed Jun 24 20:01:13 2009 From: adem at pims.math.ca (Alejandro Adem) Date: Wed Jun 24 20:01:20 2009 Subject: [cmath] announcement of next PIMS Deputy Director Message-ID: Next PIMS Deputy Director Announced The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences is pleased to announce that on June 19, 2009 its Board of Directors approved the appointment of George M. Homsy as Deputy Director of PIMS for a five-year period, starting on January 1, 2010. Professor Homsy will also assume a faculty position at the University of British Columbia. George Homsy is currently a faculty member at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His field of research is fluid mechanics and hydrodynamic stability and he has published over 150 papers in the leading journals of the field. Professor Homsy has held many positions, including Vice-Chair and Chair of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics, two terms as Department Chair at Stanford, Chairman of the Board of the Universities Space Research Association, one term as Department Chair at UC Santa Barbara, and the Associate Editorships of both SIAM J. Applied Math and Physics of Fluids. He is a Fellow of the APS, a Bing Fellow at Stanford University, and has been the Midwest Mechanics speaker, the Talbot Lecturer at UIUC, and the Bachelor Visitor at DAMTP, Cambridge in addition to many visiting professorships in the US and Europe. He was the Principal Investigator for the production of "Multimedia Fluid Mechanics" (Cambridge 2001), and its second edition (2008). He is the recipient of the APS Fluid Dynamics Prize for 2004 and was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2006. From peter.taylor at queensu.ca Wed Jul 1 20:52:41 2009 From: peter.taylor at queensu.ca (Peter Taylor) Date: Wed Jul 1 20:53:01 2009 Subject: [cmath] Fwd: ICMI Digital Library--from Bernard Message-ID: <7uhmjv$35kco@fipsb01.cogeco.net> >Dear ICMI Representatives and Chairs of ICMI Affiliated Study Groups, > >I am pleased to inform you that ICMI is >inaugurating today its Digital Library. > >The project of an ICMI Digital Library, where >eventually "all" publications related to ICMI >and its activities will be made available freely >online, has been under discussion for a long >time. Thanks to the support received from the >International Mathematical Union, and especially >the IMU Committee on Electronic Information and >Communication (CEIC), much progress has been >made recently as regards this project, and in >particular the digitisation of past ICMI material. > >Today ICMI is celebrating this opening with the >posting online of the Proceedings of the >symposium organised in 2000 on the occasion of >the centennial of L'Enseignement Math?matique, >the official organ of ICMI. The ICMI Executive >Committee wishes to express its gratitude to the >editors of L'EM for generously granting >permission to post the book on the ICMI website. > >More material will be made accessible >progressively, including all the issues of the >ICMI Bulletin, the volumes resulting from the >ICMI Studies or the Proceedings of the ICME >congresses. It is also our intent to include in >the Digital Library other documents related to >activities organised under the auspices of ICMI, >such as the proceedings of ICMI regional conferences. > >Comment and suggestions about the ICMI Digital >Library Project and how to make it a useful tool >for the community are most welcome. > >The Digital Library can be directly accessed via the ICMI website > >http://www.mathunion.org/ICMI/ > >Best wishes, > >Bernard > > >-- >____________________________________________ >Bernard R. Hodgson >Secretary-General of ICMI -- Secr?taire g?n?ral de la CIEM >(International Commission on Mathematical Instruction / >Commission internationale de l'enseignement math?matique) >D?partement de math?matiques et de statistique >Facult? des sciences et de g?nie >1045, avenue de la M?decine >Universit? Laval >Qu?bec (Qu?bec) G1V 0A6 CANADA >T?l?phone : +1 418 656 2131, poste 2975 >T?l?copie : +1 418 656 2817 >Courriel : bhodgson@mat.ulaval.ca >Site personnel : http://www.mat.ulaval.ca/pages/hodgson/ >Site CIEM / ICMI website : http://www.mathunion.org/ICMI/ > >Avis relatif ? la confidentialit? / Notice of >Confidentiality / Advertencia de >confidencialidad http://www.rec.ulaval.ca/lce/securite/confidentialite.htm >____________________________________________ Peter Taylor Professor Math&Stats Queen's University Kingston ON K7L 3N6 613 533-2434 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The successful applicant will have a record of outstanding international excellence in research in Pure Mathematics and demonstrate the ability to provide academic leadership in both research and teaching of Pure Mathematics both within the school and the wider University community. Initial enquiries, and request for a full information pack including details of how to apply, may be directed in confidence to Fabrice No?l, Principal Recruitment Consultant at srsacademic@usyd.edu.au or +61 2 9036 7295. Closing date: 18 September 2009 Lecturer in Pure Mathematics Reference No. 090/0609 Applications are invited from candidates with research expertise in any area of pure mathematics for a lecturer position in Pure. The successful candidate will engage in research and scholarly activities in pure mathematics as well as teaching a range of courses in mathematics and playing an active role in the administration of the School. All applications must be submitted online. 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We are looking for faculty who are interested in contributing to the development of this interdisciplinary program. Teaching responsibilities will include 2.5 FCEs among the following Mathematics 0140 - Topics in Mathematics (1 FCE) Topics covered in this course include: numeracy and number sense, measurement, geometry and spatial reasoning, patterning, algebra, probability, and data management. Special attention is given to the development of a conceptual understanding of mathematics, as well as the appropriate use of manipulatives and concrete materials. Mathematics 1160 - Calculus for Social and Life Sciences (1 FCE) Functions, the derivative, logarithmic and exponential functions, the graphs of functions, applications of the derivative, integration, applications of integration, and infinite series. Mathematics 2111- Differential Equations (.5 FCE) Solutions of first order differential equations; applications. Solutions of second order linear differential equations with constant coefficients. Methods of finding particular solutions. Solutions of second order linear differential equations with variable coefficients. Applications. Mathematics 2131- Vector Calculus (.5 FCE) Coordinate systems and vectors; parametric curves and surfaces; partial differentiation; multiple integration; vector fields; and vector calculus including Green's theorem, Stokes' theorem, and the divergence theorem. Inquiry 1010 - Foundations of Inquiry (.5 FCE) Students will study the strategies used in various disciplines of science, social science, arts, and humanities to identify and analyze problems. Exploring selected topics from diverse disciplinary perspectives, they will formulate questions, gather and interpret evidence, and reach well-considered conclusions. Inquiry 1030 - Applications of Inquiry (.5 FCE) Building upon Inquiry 1010, students will apply multidisciplinary strategies to address, in a collaborative setting, complex problems in selected areas of science, social science, arts, and humanities. A completed Confirmation of Immigration/Citizenship Status should accompany your package. This form is available on our website at http://hr.lakeheadu.ca/pdf/immig.pdf. Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, a statement of their teaching and research interests, re-prints and pre-prints of publications, and contact information for three referees, to: Dr. Kim Fedderson, Orillia Campus Dean, Lakehead University - Orillia Campus 1 Colborne Street West, Orillia, ON L3V 7X5 e-mail: orhumres@lakeheadu.ca fax: (705) 329-4648 Review of applications will begin on August 7, 2009 and continue until the positions have been filled. Lakehead University is a comprehensive institution with over 7,500 students and over 2,000 faculty and staff. The University has a main campus in Thunder Bay, Ontario and a branch campus in Orillia, Ontario. Lakehead offers a variety of programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including the PhD. Lakehead University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. -- Adam Van Tuyl Chair, Department of Mathematical Sciences Associate Professor of Mathematics Lakehead University, Thunder Bay 807-343-8228 avantuyl@lakeheadu.ca http://flash.lakeheadu.ca/~avantuyl/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From akelm at cms.math.ca Thu Jul 9 15:18:02 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Thu Jul 9 15:18:04 2009 Subject: [cmath] Post-Doctoral Position in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Optimization - McMaster University Message-ID: Post-Doctoral Position in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Optimization An opening for a Post-Doctoral Fellow is available in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at McMaster University. The fellow will work in the research group of Dr. Protas, and the focus of this industry-funded position will be continued research on integration of Optimization Theory and Computational Fluid Dynamics with the goal to develop strategies for optimization of multi-physics fluid systems. In addition to substantial experience in scientific computing, an ideal candidate would also have background in Computational/Theoretical Fluid Dynamics and Optimization/Control Theory. This position will also involve some teaching responsibilities. The fellowship is open to candidates of any nationality and selection will be based upon the candidate's research potential. The start date of the position is September 1, 2009 or as soon as possible after that. The duration of the position will be initially one year with the possibility of an extension for another year based on a satisfactory review. The annual salary will be $42,000. Candidates are required to apply for this fellowship by using the MathJobs website; see our advertisement at www.mathjobs.org. We will begin to review applications on August 1, 2009, however, applications will continue to be accepted until the position is filled. Applicants should provide at least three letters of recommendation. Preferably these letters will be submitted through the MathJobs website (see above); they may also be sent directly to: Dr. Bartosz Protas Department of Mathematics & Statistics McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, CANADA L8S 4K1 Phone: +1 (905) 525 9140 ext. 24116 Fax: +1 (905) 522 0935, Email: bprotas@mcmaster.ca http://modelmath.mcmaster.ca www.math.mcmaster.ca/~bprotas We appreciate all replies to this advertisement, but applications will not be acknowledged. McMaster is committed to Employment Equity and encourages applications from all qualified candidates, including aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities and women. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment From adem at pims.math.ca Sun Jul 12 22:26:41 2009 From: adem at pims.math.ca (Alejandro Adem) Date: Sun Jul 12 22:26:51 2009 Subject: [cmath] PIMS call for proposals Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) welcomes applications for support of collaborative research groups, thematic programs, conferences, workshops, summer schools, seminar series and related activities in the mathematical sciences, to occur on or after April 1, 2010. For details please see http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific/call-proposals Note the **October 1, 2009** deadline. Best regards, Alejandro Adem. -- Director, PIMS tel: (604) 822-3922 http://www.pims.math.ca From ikotsire at UWATERLOO.CA Sat Jul 11 13:47:11 2009 From: ikotsire at UWATERLOO.CA (Ilias Kotsireas) Date: Mon Jul 13 12:13:45 2009 Subject: [cmath] [SIGSAM] ASCM 2009 and MACIS 2009 Message-ID: Forwarded as requested by Hirokazu ANAI ===================================================================== The Joint Conference of ASCM 2009 and MACIS 2009 December 14th-17th, 2009 JAL Resort Sea Hawk Hotel, Fukuoka, Japan Website: http://gcoe.math.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ascm-macis2009/ Contact Address: ascm-macis2009@math.kyushu-u.ac.jp ===================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Sep 15, 2009 Submission deadline Oct 20, 2009 Notification of acceptance The information on how to submit abstract/paper will be published in the ASCM/MACIS web page soon. BACKGROUND ---------- Two international conferences * the 9th Asian Symposium on Computer Mathematics (ASCM 2009) and * the 3rd International Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Computer and Information Sciences (MACIS 2009) will be held jointly at Fukuoka in December 14th -17th, 2009 supported by the GCOE program "Math-for-industry" of the Graduate School of Mathematics of Kyushu University and Mathematical Research Center for Industrial Technology of Kyushu University. The programs of ASCM and those of MACIS will be organized independently by each program committee except invited talks. Sessions of ASCM and those of MACIS will be held in parallel and invited talks will be given in plenary. JOINT ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------------- General Chair: Masakazu Suzuki (Kyushu University, Japan) Local chairs: Hiroshi Yoshida (Kyushu University, Japan) Tatsuyoshi Hamada (Fukuoka University/JST CREST, Japan) Koji Nakagawa (Kyushu University, Japan) Program Committee Chairs of the MACIS: Hoon Hong (North Carolina State University, USA) Hirokazu Anai (Kyushu University/Fujitsu Laboratories LTD, Japan) Program Committee Chairs of the ASCM: Chee Yap (New York University, USA) Yosuke Sato (Tokyo University of Science, Japan) Coordinator of the joint conference: Kazuhiro Yokoyama (Rikkyo University, Japan) Program Committee Members of the MACIS: Enric Rodriguez Carbonell (Barcelona, Spain) Andrzej Cichocki (RIKEN, Japan) Mohab Safey El Din (INRIA, France) Jeremy Johnson (Drexel University, USA) Masaaki Kanno (Niigata University, Japan) Gabriel Dos Reis (Texas A&M University, USA) Fabrice Rouillier (INRIA, France) Eric Schost (Univ. of Western Ontario, Canada) Hiroshi Yoshida (Kyushu University, Japan) Program Committee Members of the ASCM: Xiao-Shan Gao (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Deepak Kapur (Univ. of New Mexico, USA) Ziming Li (Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, China) Hirokazu Murao (The University of Electro Communications, Japan) Mitsuhiro Nakao (Kyushu Univesity, Japan) Hyungju Park (KIAS, Korea) Guenael Renault (LIP6, France) Ko Sakai (Tsukuba University, Japan) Alan P. Sexton (University of Birmingham, UK) Volker Sorge (University of Birmingham, UK) Gert Vegter (Groningen University, the Netherlands) Dahan Xavier (Kyushu University, Japan) ========= ASCM 2009 ========= The Asian Symposium on Computer Mathematics (ASCM) is a series of conferences which serve as a forum for participants to present original research, learn of research progress and developments, and exchange ideas and views on doing mathematics using computers. The previous ASCM meetings were held in Beijing, China (1995), Kobe, Japan (1996), Lanzhou, China (1998), Chiang Mai, Thailand (2000), Matsuyama, Japan (2001) , Beijing, China (2003), Seoul, Korea (2005), Singapore, Singapore (2007). Further information on previous ASCM symposium may be found at http://www.mmrc.iss.ac.cn/ascm. This year, the meeting will consist of invited talks, regular sessions of contributed papers, and three organized sessions. Regular sessions are run in a traditional style of ASCM. Each organized session is run by its organizer(s) independently. Organized sessions: 1) Digitizing Mathematics -- From Pen and Paper to Digital Content Organizers: Volker Sorge and Alan P. Sexton (University of Birmingham, UK) 2) Validated Numerical Computation Organizer: Mitsuhiro Nakao (Kyushu Univesity, Japan) 3) Computational Algebraic Number Theory Organizer: Guenael Renault (LIP6, France) The selected papers presented at ASCM 2009 will be published either in MCS special issues or in a volume of LNAI. ========== MACIS 2009 ========== MACIS is a new series of conferences where foundational research on theoretical and practical problems of mathematics for computing and information processing may be presented and discussed. MACIS also addresses experimental and case studies, scientific and engineering computation, design and implementation of algorithms and software systems, and applications of mathematical methods and tools to outstanding and emerging problems in applied computer and information sciences. The first MACIS conference took place in Beijing (China), July 24-26, 2006 (see http://www.cc4cm.org/macis2006/ for more details). The second MACIS conference took place in Paris (France), December 5-7, 2007 (see http://www-spiral.lip6.fr/MACIS2007/ for more details). MACIS2009 is run in a format where each PC member organizes a session on a specific topic. MACIS 2009 consists of 9 sessions, which are categorized into three main thema as shown in the following: ------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- theme / sessions | PC member in charge ------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- 1) Polynomial system solving complex Fabrice Rouillier (INRIA, France) real Mohab Safey El Din (INRIA, France) rational Eric Schost (Univ. of Western Ontario, Canada) 2) Control/System/Signal control Masaaki Kanno (Niigata University, Japan) system (bio/bio-inspired) Hiroshi Yoshida (Kyushu University, Japan) signal Andrzej Cichocki (RIKEN, Japan) 3) Software Science Analysis Enric Rodriguez Carbonell (Barcelona, Spain) Synthesis Jeremy Johnson (Drexel University, USA) Language/Framework Gabriel Dos Reis (Texas A&M University, USA) ------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- The selected papers presented at MACIS 2009 will be published in MCS special issues. ***** You may leave the SIGSAM-FRIENDS list at any time by sending a "SIGNOFF SIGSAM-FRIENDS" command to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG or by visiting http://listserv.acm.org/archives/SIGSAM-FRIENDS.html. From rmarsh at mitacs.ca Fri Jul 17 17:19:24 2009 From: rmarsh at mitacs.ca (Rebeccah Marsh) Date: Mon Jul 20 09:42:47 2009 Subject: [cmath] Call for MITACS Project Proposals / Appel de propositions de MITACS Message-ID: Le fran?ais suit l'anglais ***************** MITACS is soliciting proposals for new full and seed projects. Full projects are expected to have multi-year duration with an annual budget of $100K to $160K (of which $75K-$120K is provided by MITACS and the remaining 33% is provided by the partner organization(s)). Seed projects in this competition are expected to have a 24 month duration with an annual budget of $45K to $75K (of which $30K-$50K is provided by MITACS and the remaining 25% is provided by the partner organization(s)). These projects must show potential to grow into full-scale large projects. Submissions should be sent by email to mitacs@mitacs.ca and arrive by September 18, 2009 to be eligible in this competition. New projects will be selected from these on the recommendation of the Research Management Committee, with an announcement of the selection and funding levels planned for March 2010, after approval of the MITACS Board of Directors. Projects chosen by the MITACS Research Management Committee (RMC) are expected to start on April 1, 2010. You are strongly encouraged to discuss your project ideas with MITACS before submitting your final proposal so that it best reflects the priorities that the MITACS Research Management Committee has set out. Inquiries regarding this competition can be directed to MITACS at programs@mitacs.ca. For detailed submission instructions, guidelines, and a template for your submission please visit the MITACS web page at http://www.mitacs.ca/goto/callsEN **************************************************************** MITACS sollicite des propositions de nouveaux projets complets ainsi que de projets de d?marrage. Les projets de grande envergure doivent durer plusieurs ann?es et disposer d'un budget annuel allant de 100 000 $ ? 160 000 $. De 75 000 $ ? 120 000 $ proviennent de MITACS, le reste (33 %) est financ? par la ou les organismes partenaires. Dans le cadre de ce concours, les projets de d?marrage doivent avoir une dur?e de 24 mois et ?tre dot?s d'une enveloppe annuelle de 45 000 $ ? 75 000 $. De 30 000 $ ? 50 000 $ proviennent de MITACS, le reste (25 %) est financ? par la ou les organismes partenaires. Ces projets doivent avoir le potentiel de se transformer en projets de grande envergure. Les soumissions doivent ?tre envoy?es par courrier ?lectronique ? mitacs@mitacs.ca avant la date limite du 18 septembre 2009. Les nouveaux projets seront s?lectionn?s en fonction des recommandations du Comit? de gestion de la recherche. Apr?s l'approbation des projets par le Conseil d'administration de MITACS, on pr?voit annoncer les projets s?lectionn?s ainsi que leurs niveaux de financement respectifs en mars 2010. Les projets retenus par le Comit? de gestion de la recherche (CGR) de MITACS d?buteront le 1er avril 2010. Nous vous conseillons fortement de discuter de vos id?es de projet avec le personnel de MITACS avant de soumettre votre proposition finale afin que cette derni?re refl?te le mieux possible les priorit?s ?tablies par le Comit? de gestion de la recherche de MITACS. Les demandes de renseignements relatives ? ce concours peuvent ?tre adress?es au personnel de MITACS ? l'adresse programs@mitacs.ca. Pour obtenir des instructions et des directives d?taill?es sur les soumissions ou pour vous procurer un gabarit, veuillez visiter le site Web de MITACS ? http://www.mitacs.ca/goto/callsFR. ================================================= Rebeccah Marsh PhD Director of Programs MITACS Inc. TASC 2, Room 9904 Simon Fraser University 8888 University Drive Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Ph: 778.782.6902 Fax: 778.782.6657 Email: rmarsh@mitacs.ca Web: www.mitacs.ca Web: www.mitacsaccelerate.ca Making research count / La recherche, ?a compte ================================================= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090717/78749175/attachment.htm From jrockwood at mitacs.ca Mon Jul 20 18:06:22 2009 From: jrockwood at mitacs.ca (Jo-Anne Rockwood) Date: Tue Jul 21 09:08:32 2009 Subject: [cmath] MITACS Call for Networking Proposals Message-ID: Le fran?ais suit l'anglais ***************** MITACS has funding available for the following scientific events: 1. Hot Topic Events: networking or training events in any academic discipline that: * Target a provincial priority area; and/or * Provide opportunities for academics to interact with the non-academic sector or with other disciplines with whom they do not normally interact. Since they are subject to the availability of provincial funding, Hot Topic Events must take place in BC, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Newfoundland, or PEI. 1. Mathematical Sciences Networking Events: workshops, conferences, roundtables or other similar events that have a significant connection with MITACS-NCE theme areas or projects and * Involve applications of mathematical sciences to problems with major economic or societal impact; * Leverage significant participation from non-academic organizations. 2. Mathematical Sciences Student Training Events: summer schools, tutorials, workshops, short courses or other similar events that provide graduate students and postdoctoral fellows with technical training that augment their normal program of study. We are particularly interested in events with significant graduate student participation. MITACS accepts networking proposals three times annually, on January 15, April 30, and September 10. For detailed submission instructions, guidelines, and a template for your submission please visit the MITACS web page at www.mitacs.ca/goto/callsEN ************************************************************************* MITACS propose du financement pour les activit?s scientifiques suivantes : 1. ?v?nements d'actualit? : activit?s de r?seautage ou de formation, toutes disciplines universitaires confondues, qui : * ciblent un domaine provincial prioritaire; et/ou * offrent la possibilit? aux membres de milieu universitaire d'interagir avec les intervenants extrascolaires ou d'autres disciplines avec qui ils ne dialoguent pas habituellement. ?tant assujettis ? la disponibilit? du financement provincial, les ?v?nements d'actualit? doivent se d?rouler en Colombie-Britannique, en Saskatchewan, en Ontario, ? Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador ou ? l'?le-du-Prince-?douard. 1. 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URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090720/0a15363e/attachment.htm From director at cms.math.ca Wed Jul 22 10:26:20 2009 From: director at cms.math.ca (CMS Executive Director) Date: Wed Jul 22 10:36:32 2009 Subject: [cmath] CANADIAN MATH STUDENTS WIN OLYMPIAD GOLD, SILVER, AND BRONZE MEDALS Message-ID: CANADIAN MATH STUDENTS WIN OLYMPIAD GOLD, SILVER, AND BRONZE MEDALS Strong Performance Advances Canada?s International Ranking OTTAWA, Ontario ? In competition with students from 103 other countries, a team of six Canadian high school students performed exceptionally well, winning one gold, three silver and two bronze medals, at the 50th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) held in Bremen, Germany, from July 10^ to July 22, 2009. The strong performance gave Canada an overall 18^th place finish, up from 22^nd last year, and the highest overall student performance in over fifteen years. The six Canadian students - Robin Cheng, Pinetree Secondary School, Coquitlam (British Columbia); Jonathan Schneider, University of Toronto Schools, Toronto (Ontario); XiaoLin (Danny) Shi, Sir Winston Churchill High School, Calgary (Alberta); Hunter Spink, Western Canada High School, Calgary (Alberta); Chen Sun, A.B. Lucas Secondary School, London (Ontario); and Chengyue (Jarno) Sun, Western Canada High School, Calgary (Alberta) - were selected from among more than 200,000 students in grades 7 to 12 and in CEGEPs who participated in local, provincial and national mathematics contests. The team was accompanied by the Team Leader Dorette Pronk (Dalhousie University), Deputy Team Leader David Arthur (Stanford), and Deputy Team Leader Observer Jacob Tsimerman (Princeton). Both David Arthur and Jacob Tsimerman are Canadian gold medal winners from previous IMO competitions. At the Closing Ceremony on July 21, a Gold Medal was awarded to XiaoLin (Danny) Shi, Silver Medals to Robin Cheng, Hunter Spink, and Chen Sun, and Bronze Medals to Jonathan Schneider and Chengyue (Jarno) Sun. "This team of Canadian students performed exceptionally well with each student bringing home a medal. Everyone involved in supporting the team is extremely proud of their achievements on the world stage" said Dorette Pronk. "The IMO is the world championship high school mathematics competition. The problems are difficult and challenging and Canadian students always turn in a strong performance. This year the talent and creativity displayed by the students was outstanding. Everyone is pleased to see the training, hard work and commitment so well rewarded." said Dr. Graham Wright, of the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS), the organization responsible for the selection and training of Canada?s IMO team. Although students compete individually, country rankings are obtained by adding the team scores. The maximum score for each student is 42 and for a team of six students the maximum is 252. The Canadian team placed 18th out of 104 competing countries with an overall score of 158, the highest total team score in over 15 years. The 2009 medals brings Canada?s mathematics student medal count total to 17 gold, 40 silver, and 68 bronze, since 1981. Prior to leaving for the 50^th IMO, the Canadian team trained from June 26^th to July 12^th at a special IMO Training Seminar held at the University of Calgary and at the Banff International Research Station. The 2009 IMO contest was set by an international jury of mathematicians, one from each country, and was written on Wednesday July 15 and Thursday July 16. On each day of the contest, three questions had to be solved within a time limit of four and a half hours. Student participants must be less than 20 years old when they write the IMO. For the 2009 competition, the top 10 teams and their scores are: People?s Republic of China (221); Japan (212); Russian Federation (203), Republic of Korea (188); Democratic People?s Republic of Korea (183); United States of America (182); Thailand (181); Turkey (177); Germany (171); and Belarus (167). The team will be returning to Canada today (July 22), in Toronto, London, Calgary, and Vancouver. For further details contact the Canadian Mathematical Society. In addition to the Canadian Mathematical Society, sponsors of the 2009 Canadian IMO team include: the Imperial Oil Foundation; Sun Life Financial; NSERC PromoScience; the Banff International Research Station; the Samuel Beatty Fund; Maplesoft; Nelson Thomson Learning; John Wiley and Sons Canada Ltd; A.K. Peters Ltd; the Ontario Ministry of Education; Alberta Learning; Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth; Nova Scotia Department of Education; the Newfoundland and Labrador Ministry of Education; the Northwest Territories Ministry of Education; the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education; Centre de recherches math?matiques; the Fields Institute; the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences; the Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia; the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary; the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University; the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa; the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Regina; the Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto; the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing, University of Waterloo; the Department of Statistics, University of Waterloo; and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University. The 51st International Mathematical Olympiad will take place in Astana, Kazakhstan, in July 2010. For more information, contact: Dr. Graham P. Wright Canadian Mathematical Society 613-290-3046 (Cell) director@cms.math.ca www.cms.math.ca/Competitions/ From president at cms.math.ca Tue Jul 28 10:02:18 2009 From: president at cms.math.ca (Anthony To-Ming Lau) Date: Tue Jul 28 10:16:51 2009 Subject: [cmath] CMS APPOINTS NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR / UN NOUVEAU DIRECTEUR ADMINISTRATIF POUR LA SMC Message-ID: [Fran?ais ? suivre] CMS APPOINTS NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR At the June 5th meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society Board of Directors in St. John?s, the Board approved the appointment of Johan Rudnick as the new national Executive Director and Secretary of the CMS, effective July 15, 2009.?To facilitate the transition of responsibilities Graham Wright has kindly agreed to stay on and assist and advise Johan, as Executive Consultant, on a part-time basis until December 31. Johan brings to the position a wide range of executive experience at the local, regional and national level across the federal government, including operations, organizational development, and corporate secretary support to boards and committees.?As a volunteer, Johan is chair of a regional arts and community centre that also hosts Ottawa?s Lumi?re Festival that attracts 10,000 visitors each year.?Johan holds a B. Arch. from Carleton and an MBA from Queen?s University. He is a recipient of a number of public service excellence awards, including a national Queen?s Golden Jubilee medal. As someone who is neither an academic nor a mathematician, Johan recognizes that he has a unique learning curve ahead to understand the complexities of the CMS and the warm welcome afforded him in St. John?s was an excellent start.??As a core science that underlies all that we do, advancing mathematics advances the lives of all Canadians,? he said. ?Mathematics is a public interest that needs to be better understood and supported. Having worked on public interest issues for many years, advancing mathematics and the good works of the CMS is a cause that I am privileged to be involved with.? In the midst of the economic downturn, the CMS is facing pressing challenges to retain and grow our membership, strengthen our partnerships and sponsorship base, and address the emerging opportunities of the electronic publishing environment. Johan?s appointment will help the Society address those challenges while maintaining a high level of support and services to our members. Anthony To-Ming Lau CMS President ***************************************************************************************************** UN NOUVEAU DIRECTEUR ADMINISTRATIF POUR LA SMC R?uni le 5 juin ? St. John?s, le conseil d?administration de la Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC) a approuv? la nomination de Johan Rudnick ? titre de directeur administratif et secr?taire de la SMC, ? compter du 15 juillet 2009. Pour faciliter la transition et aider Johan, Graham Wright a bien voulu accepter de demeurer au service de la SMC en tant que conseiller de direction ? temps partiel jusqu?au 31 d?cembre. Johan fera profiter la SMC de sa longue exp?rience en administration sur la sc?ne locale, r?gionale et nationale dans divers secteurs de l?administration f?d?rale, au niveau des op?rations, du d?veloppement organisationnel et en tant que secr?taire de nombreux conseils et comit?s. ? titre b?n?vole, Johan est pr?sident d?un centre culturel communautaire r?gional, organisateur notamment du Festival Lumi?re d?Ottawa qui attire 10?000 visiteurs annuellement. Johan est titulaire d?un baccalaur?at en architecture de l?Universit? Carleton et d?une ma?trise en administration des affaires de l?Universit? Queen?s. Il a re?u plusieurs prix d?excellence pour son travail en administration publique, dont une M?daille du jubil? de la reine. N??tant ni universitaire ni math?maticien, Johan reconna?t qu?il a beaucoup ? apprendre avant de bien saisir la complexit? d?un organisme comme la SMC, mais l?accueil chaleureux re?u ? St. John?s est un excellent commencement. ??Les math?matiques ?tant une science fondamentale ? la base l?activit? humaine, tout dans ce domaine repr?sente aussi un progr?s pour toute la population canadienne, affirme-t-il. Les math?matiques sont d?int?r?t public et doivent ?tre mieux comprises et soutenues. J?ai travaill? de nombreuses ann?es ? d?fendre des causes d?int?r?t public. La promotion des math?matiques et du bon travail de la SMC est une cause ? laquelle je me sens privil?gi? de travailler.?? En cette p?riode de ralentissement ?conomique, la SMC doit s?efforcer de retenir ses membres et d??largir son effectif, de consolider ses partenariats et ses commandites, tout en profitant des nouvelles possibilit?s qui s?offrent en publication ?lectronique. L?arriv?e de Johan aidera la Soci?t? ? franchir ces obstacles tout en maintenant un niveau ?lev? de soutien et de service aux membres. Anthony To-Ming Lau Pr?sident de la SMC From akelm at cms.math.ca Thu Aug 6 16:55:03 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Thu Aug 6 16:55:05 2009 Subject: [cmath] Faculty Positions in Operations Research - University of Waterloo Message-ID: Faculty Positions in Operations Research University of Waterloo The Department of Combinatorics and Optimization (http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/CandO_Dept/) at the University of Waterloo invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in operations research. Applications for Assistant Professorships as well as more senior levels will be considered. A Ph.D. degree and evidence of excellence in research and teaching are required. Successful applicants are expected to maintain an active program of research, to attract and supervise graduate students, to participate in undergraduate and graduate teaching, and have the potential for industrial collaborations. Salary will depend on the candidate's qualifications. The effective date of appointment is July 1, 2010. Interested individuals are encouraged to apply using the MathJobs site: http://www.mathjobs.org. Applications should include a curriculum vitae and up to three selected reprints/preprints. In addition, at least three reference letters should be submitted. Enquiries may be addressed to combopt@math.uwaterloo.ca or to Ian Goulden, Chair, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1. Closing date for receipt of applications is December 11, 2009. The University of Waterloo encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including women, members of visible minorities, native peoples, and persons with disabilities. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, citizens and Permanent Residents of Canada will be given priority. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment From adem at pims.math.ca Wed Aug 19 19:55:41 2009 From: adem at pims.math.ca (Alejandro Adem) Date: Wed Aug 19 19:56:08 2009 Subject: [cmath] CRM/Fields/PIMS Prize Message-ID: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS The Centre de recherches mathematiques (CRM), the Fields Institute, and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) invite nominations for the joint CRM-Fields-PIMS prize, in recognition of exceptional research achievement in the mathematical sciences. The candidate's research should have been conducted primarily in Canada or in affiliation with a Canadian university. The prize was established as the CRM-Fields prize in 1994. Renamed in 2005, the 2006 and later prizes will be awarded jointly by all three institutes. Previous recipients are: H.S.M. Coxeter, George A. Elliott, James Arthur, Robert Moody, Stephen A. Cook, Israel Michael Sigal, William T. Tutte, John Friedlander, John McKay, Edwin Perkins, Donald Dawson, David Boyd, Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann, Joel Feldman, Allan Borodin and Martin Barlow. The selection committee, formed by the three institutes, will select a recipient for the 2010 prize on the basis of outstanding contributions to the advancement of the mathematical sciences, with excellence in research as the main selection criterion. A monetary prize will be awarded, and the recipient will be asked to present a lecture at each of CRM, the Fields Institute, and PIMS. Nominations should be submitted by November 1, 2009 by at least two sponsors of recognized stature, and should include the following elements: 3 supporting letters, curriculum vitae, list of publications, and up to four preprints. Nominations will remain active for two years. At most one prize will be awarded during any academic year. Electronic Submissions only: nominations@pims.math.ca Questions about the nomination procedure can be addressed to David Brydges, PIMS Deputy Director dbrydges@pims.math.ca From director at cms.math.ca Thu Aug 20 11:21:31 2009 From: director at cms.math.ca (CMS Executive Director) Date: Thu Aug 20 11:21:35 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-15?q?NSERC_-_CMS_Math_in_Moscow_Scholarships/?= =?iso-8859-15?q?Bourse_CRSNG/SMC_Math_=E0_Moscou?= Message-ID: Deadline September 30, 2009 - Date limite le 30 septembre 2009. NSERC - CMS Math in Moscow Scholarships The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) support scholarships at $9,000 each. Canadian students registered in a mathematics or computer science program are eligible. The scholarships are to attend a semester at the small elite Moscow Independent University. Math in Moscow Program www.mccme.ru/mathinmoscow/ Application details www.cms.math.ca/Scholarships/Moscow For additional information please see your department or call the CMS at 613-733-2662. Deadline September 30, 2009 to attend the Winter 2010 semester. ******************************************** Bourse CRSNG/SMC Math ? Moscou Le Conseil de Recherches en Sciences Naturelles et en G?nie du Canada (CRSNG) et la Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC) offrent des bourses de 9,000 $ chacune. Les ?tudiantes ou ?tudiants du Canada inscrit(e)s ? un programme de math?matiques ou d'informatique sont ?ligibles. Les bourses servent ? financer un trimestre d'?tudes ? la petite universit? d'?lite Moscow Independent University. Programme Math ? Moscou www.mccme.ru/mathinmoscow/ D?tails de soumission www.smc.math.ca/Bourses/Moscou Pour plus de renseignements veuillez communiquer avec votre d?partement ou la SMC au 613-733-2662. Date limite le 30 septembre 2009 pour le trimestre d'hiver 2010. From adem at math.ubc.ca Thu Aug 20 18:30:53 2009 From: adem at math.ubc.ca (Alejandro Adem) Date: Thu Aug 20 18:30:59 2009 Subject: [cmath] CRM/Fields/PIMS Prize Message-ID: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS The Centre de recherches mathematiques (CRM), the Fields Institute, and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) invite nominations for the joint CRM-Fields-PIMS prize, in recognition of exceptional research achievement in the mathematical sciences. The candidate's research should have been conducted primarily in Canada or in affiliation with a Canadian university. The prize was established as the CRM-Fields prize in 1994. Renamed in 2005, the 2006 and later prizes will be awarded jointly by all three institutes. Previous recipients are: H.S.M. Coxeter, George A. Elliott, James Arthur, Robert Moody, Stephen A. Cook, Israel Michael Sigal, William T. Tutte, John Friedlander, John McKay, Edwin Perkins, Donald Dawson, David Boyd, Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann, Joel Feldman, Allan Borodin and Martin Barlow. The selection committee, formed by the three institutes, will select a recipient for the 2010 prize on the basis of outstanding contributions to the advancement of the mathematical sciences, with excellence in research as the main selection criterion. A monetary prize will be awarded, and the recipient will be asked to present a lecture at each of CRM, the Fields Institute, and PIMS. Nominations should be submitted by November 1, 2009 by at least two sponsors of recognized stature, and should include the following elements: 3 supporting letters, curriculum vitae, list of publications, and up to four preprints. Nominations will remain active for two years. At most one prize will be awarded during any academic year. Electronic Submissions only: nominations@pims.math.ca Questions about the nomination procedure can be addressed to David Brydges, PIMS Deputy Director dbrydges@pims.math.ca From turnerw at WABASH.EDU Sat Aug 22 20:45:18 2009 From: turnerw at WABASH.EDU (William Turner) Date: Mon Aug 24 10:21:28 2009 Subject: [cmath] [SIGSAM] Call for Papers: JSC-ISSAC 2009 Message-ID: <4A90911E.2030201@wabash.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS JSC-ISSAC 2009 JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION SPECIAL ISSUE ON SYMBOLIC AND ALGEBRAIC COMPUTATION METHODOLOGY, APPLICATIONS, SYSTEMS Guest Editors Jeremy Johnson, Erich Kaltofen, and Hyungju Park This special issue is related to topics discussed in the context of the ISSAC Conference in July 2009 at KIAS in Seoul, Korea http://issac2009.kias.re.kr/ The International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC) is the premier annual conference to present and discuss new developments and original research results in all areas of symbolic mathematical computation. Topics solicited are those covered by ISSAC 2009 including -- all of computer algebra -- algebraic methods in computational geometry and in theorem proving -- the computer science of creating software for doing mathematics Applications of symbolic computation to the natural sciences, life science, engineering, education, and others For more details, see, e.g., the TOC in the Computer Algebra Handbook URL: http://issac2009.kias.re.kr/cah_toc.pdf In addition and not exclusively, applications of symbolic computation to -- new models of computation (e.g., quantum computation, origami mathematics) -- algebraic statistics Certification of numerical results by symbolic computation Implementation of symbolic computation systems on compact and mobile devices. The Special Issue will contain a selection of papers containing orginal or SUBSTANTIALLY EXTENDED published work on these topics. The submission is open to contributions not necessarly related to papers included in the Proceedings of ISSAC 2009. The guiding principle for the publication procedure will be the following: original research results are solicited for submission. Papers must not duplicate work already published or submitted for publication elsewhere. New ideas on work included in the Proceedings of ISSAC 2009 are welcome. In that case the cover letter should explain what the new ideas are compared to the related ISSAC 2008 Proceedings paper. - Papers submissions should follow the guidelines for JSC submssions (see www4.ncsu.edu/~hong/jsc.htm) and should be submitted to easy chair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jscissac09 - All the papers will be refereed according to the JSC standards. - DEADLINE: February 1, 2010 ***** You may leave the SIGSAM-FRIENDS list at any time by sending a "SIGNOFF SIGSAM-FRIENDS" command to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG or by visiting http://listserv.acm.org/archives/SIGSAM-FRIENDS.html. -------------- next part -------------- ===================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS JSC-ISSAC 2009 JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION SPECIAL ISSUE ON SYMBOLIC AND ALGEBRAIC COMPUTATION METHODOLOGY, APPLICATIONS, SYSTEMS Guest Editors Jeremy Johnson, Erich Kaltofen, and Hyungju Park This special issue is related to topics discussed in the context of the ISSAC Conference in July 2009 at KIAS in Seoul, Korea http://issac2009.kias.re.kr/ The International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC) is the premier annual conference to present and discuss new developments and original research results in all areas of symbolic mathematical computation. Topics solicited are those covered by ISSAC 2009 including -- all of computer algebra -- algebraic methods in computational geometry and in theorem proving -- the computer science of creating software for doing mathematics Applications of symbolic computation to the natural sciences, life science, engineering, education, and others For more details, see, e.g., the TOC in the Computer Algebra Handbook URL: http://issac2009.kias.re.kr/cah_toc.pdf In addition and not exclusively, applications of symbolic computation to -- new models of computation (e.g., quantum computation, origami mathematics) -- algebraic statistics Certification of numerical results by symbolic computation Implementation of symbolic computation systems on compact and mobile devices. The Special Issue will contain a selection of papers containing orginal or SUBSTANTIALLY EXTENDED published work on these topics. The submission is open to contributions not necessarly related to papers included in the Proceedings of ISSAC 2009. The guiding principle for the publication procedure will be the following: original research results are solicited for submission. Papers must not duplicate work already published or submitted for publication elsewhere. New ideas on work included in the Proceedings of ISSAC 2009 are welcome. In that case the cover letter should explain what the new ideas are compared to the related ISSAC 2008 Proceedings paper. - Papers submissions should follow the guidelines for JSC submssions (see www4.ncsu.edu/~hong/jsc.htm) and should be submitted to easy chair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jscissac09 - All the papers will be refereed according to the JSC standards. - DEADLINE: February 1, 2010 ===================================================================== ***** You may leave the SIGSAM-FRIENDS list at any time by sending a "SIGNOFF SIGSAM-FRIENDS" command to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG or by visiting http://listserv.acm.org/archives/SIGSAM-FRIENDS.html. From jrockwood at mitacs.ca Fri Aug 28 10:57:30 2009 From: jrockwood at mitacs.ca (Jo-Anne Rockwood) Date: Fri Aug 28 10:57:32 2009 Subject: [cmath] REMINDER - MITACS Call for Networking Proposals deadline September 10 Message-ID: Le fran?ais suit l'anglais ***************** MITACS has funding available for the following scientific events: 1. Hot Topic Events: networking or training events in any academic discipline that: * Target a provincial priority area; and/or * Provide opportunities for academics to interact with the non-academic sector or with other disciplines with whom they do not normally interact. Since they are subject to the availability of provincial funding, Hot Topic Events must take place in BC, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Newfoundland, or PEI. 1. Mathematical Sciences Networking Events: workshops, conferences, roundtables or other similar events that have a significant connection with MITACS-NCE theme areas or projects and * Involve applications of mathematical sciences to problems with major economic or societal impact; * Leverage significant participation from non-academic organizations. 2. Mathematical Sciences Student Training Events: summer schools, tutorials, workshops, short courses or other similar events that provide graduate students and postdoctoral fellows with technical training that augment their normal program of study. We are particularly interested in events with significant graduate student participation. MITACS accepts networking proposals three times annually, on January 15, April 30, and September 10. For detailed submission instructions, guidelines, and a template for your submission please visit the MITACS web page at www.mitacs.ca/goto/callsEN ************************************************************************* MITACS propose du financement pour les activit?s scientifiques suivantes : 1. ?v?nements d'actualit? : activit?s de r?seautage ou de formation, toutes disciplines universitaires confondues, qui : * ciblent un domaine provincial prioritaire; et/ou * offrent la possibilit? aux membres de milieu universitaire d'interagir avec les intervenants extrascolaires ou d'autres disciplines avec qui ils ne dialoguent pas habituellement. ?tant assujettis ? la disponibilit? du financement provincial, les ?v?nements d'actualit? doivent se d?rouler en Colombie-Britannique, en Saskatchewan, en Ontario, ? Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador ou ? l'?le-du-Prince-?douard. 1. 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In announcing the award, Tony Lau, President of the CMS, noted that ?Professor Whiteley is an acknowledged expert and innovator in the field of mathematics education and this award recognizes not only his commitment to and passion for mathematics education but the excellence of his contribution as well.? ?Professor Whiteley has made an outstanding contribution to the teaching and learning of mathematics in Quebec and Ontario and on the national and international stage? noted Dr. Peter Taylor, Chair of the CMS Education Committee. ?His work has influenced teachers and students throughout our education system and his dedication to advancing mathematics, mathematics education, and, more recently, education policy at the national and provincial levels, makes him an ideal recipient of the 2009 Adrien Pouliot Award.? Professor Whiteley is one of a handful of Canadian mathematicians whose work is grounded in the mathematics education literature and who is a contributor to international math education studies. The award also acknowledges his leadership and influence in the development of mathematics education. At the centre of his work, both in mathematics research and in education, is geometry, whether it be the rigidity of buildings or the flexibility of proteins, and his passion for this wonderful and tragically neglected subject gives focus and energy to his work. For more information: http://www.cms.math.ca/MediaReleases/2009/ap_announcement Johan Rudnick, Executive Director, Canadian Mathematical Society, director@cms.math.ca, (613) 733-2662 ext. 721 ************************************* La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC) est fi?re d?annoncer que le professeur Walter Whiteley de l?Universit? York est le laur?at 2009 du prix Adrien-Pouliot pour sa contribution exceptionnelle ? l??ducation math?matique. Le professeur Whiteley recevra son prix ? la R?union d?hiver 2009 de la SMC, qui se tiendra ? Windsor, en Ontario. Inaugur? en 1995, le prix Adrien-Pouliot rend hommage aux personnes ou aux groupes qui ont fait une contribution importante et soutenue ? l??ducation math?matique au Canada. Ce prix porte le nom du deuxi?me pr?sident de la SMC, qui ?tait un ?minent math?maticien et ?ducateur. Dans son annonce, le pr?sident de la SMC, Tony Lau, a soulign? que ? le professeur Whiteley ?tait un sp?cialiste reconnu et un innovateur dans le domaine de l??ducation math?matique, et que ce prix r?compensait non seulement son d?vouement et sa passion pour l?enseignement des math?matiques, mais aussi l?excellence de sa contribution au domaine. ? ? La contribution du professeur Whiteley ? l??ducation math?matique au Qu?bec, en Ontario et sur la sc?ne nationale et internationale est exceptionnelle ? souligne Peter Taylor, pr?sident du Comit? d??ducation de la SMC. ? Son travail a influenc? des enseignants, des ?tudiants et des ?l?ves de tous les niveaux, et son d?vouement pour l?avancement des math?matiques, l??ducation math?matique et, plus r?cemment, pour les politiques ?ducatives au niveau national et provincial, font de lui le laur?at id?al du prix Adrien-Pouliot 2009. ? Le professeur Whiteley est l?un des rares math?maticiens canadiens qui porte ses int?r?ts de recherche sur l?enseignement des math?matiques et qui contribue ? des ?tudes internationales dans ce domaine. Ce prix souligne ?galement son r?le de chef de file et son influence dans le domaine. Tant en recherche qu?en ?ducation, ses travaux portent essentiellement sur la g?om?trie, qu?il s?agisse de la solidit? des b?timents ou de la souplesse des prot?ines. Sa passion pour ce sujet merveilleux et malheureusement n?glig? guide tous ses travaux et leur insuffle une ?nergie nouvelle. Renseignements : http://www.cms.math.ca/Communiques/2009/ap_announcement Johan Rudnick, directeur administratif, Soci?t? math?matique du Canada, director@smc.math.ca, (613) 733-2662 ext. 721 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thank you for sending your suggestions to the IAC at iac@cms.math.ca. Niky Kamran, on behalf of the IAC. From peter.taylor at queensu.ca Wed Sep 2 08:18:17 2009 From: peter.taylor at queensu.ca (Peter Taylor) Date: Wed Sep 2 08:18:29 2009 Subject: [cmath] Fwd: ICMI Executive meeting-opportunity for input Message-ID: <0KPC0044VFIN9CA0@mta02.its.queensu.ca> The Executive Committee of ICMI will have its 2009 annual meeting on September 7-10 in St. Petersburg, Russia. This will be the final meeting of the 2007-2009 Executive. Comments and suggestions on the agenda of this EC meeting are welcome and should be sent to me by September 6. I will pass them on to Bernard Hodgson. Part of the agenda of the meeting will be devoted to preparing the transition to the next ICMI EC, whose term begins next January 1. Peter Taylor Professor Dept Math&Stats Queen's University Kingston ON K7L 3N6 613 533-2434 http://www.mast.queensu.ca/~peter/ From akelm at cms.math.ca Thu Sep 3 09:24:18 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Thu Sep 3 09:24:24 2009 Subject: [cmath] Limited Term Position in Mathematics - St. Francis Xavier University Message-ID: Limited-Term Position in Mathematics St. Francis Xavier University Applications are invited for a limited-term appointment at the Assistant Professor or Lecturer level in Mathematics at St. Francis Xavier University to commence by September 10, 2009. Applicants should hold or be near completion of a Ph.D. in Mathematics or closely related field. Preference will be given to individuals who exhibit a commitment to excellence in teaching and research. To ensure consideration, applications must be submitted immediately. Consideration of applications will begin on September 3, 2009 and will continue until the position is filled. Applicants should send curriculum vitae and teaching and research statements to: Dr. Joe Apaloo, Chair Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science St. Francis Xavier University PO Box 5000 Antigonish, NS B2G 2W5 Canada Submissions via email to japaloo@stfx.ca are encouraged. All qualified candidates, especially women and members of minority groups, are encouraged to apply; however, in accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority. St. Francis Xavier University is committed to the principle of employment equity. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: stfx-ad.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 60201 bytes Desc: Url : https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090903/6dee9e73/stfx-ad.pdf From akelm at cms.math.ca Thu Sep 3 15:06:30 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Thu Sep 3 15:06:32 2009 Subject: [cmath] Tenure Track Position, Number Theory - University of Alberta Message-ID: ?Tenure Track Position, Number Theory The Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at the University of Alberta invites applications for a tenure track position in Number Theory at the Assistant Professor level.?Appointment at a higher level may be possible under exceptional circumstances.?We offer an excellent research environment with a normal teaching load of three courses per year. The University of Alberta has one?of the leading Mathematics Departments in Canada and has strong connections with other mathematical institutes, such as the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS), and the Banff International Research Station (BIRS). For more information about the Department, please visit our website at www.math.ualberta.ca. The successful candidate will hold a PhD?or international equivalent; have established accomplishments and outstanding promise in research;?as well as a strong commitment to graduate and undergraduate teaching. Applicants should submit their curriculum vitae, a research statement, a teaching profile outlining experience and interests, and at least three confidential letters of reference. Review of applications?will begin on November 13, 2009; however, the competition will remain open until filled. Early applications are encouraged. Interested applicants may apply to: Online: http://www.careers.ualberta.ca/competition.aspx?id=A10019299 Arturo Pianzola, Chair Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences University of Alberta Edmonton, AB Canada T6G 2G1 Email: chairsec@math.ualberta.ca Competition?No.??-???A10019299 Closing Date??-???Will remain open until filled. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Alberta hires on the basis of merit. We are committed to the principle of equity in employment. 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The University of Alberta has one?of the leading Mathematics Departments in Canada and has strong connections with other mathematical institutes, such as the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS), and the Banff International Research Station (BIRS).?For more information about the Department, please visit our website at www.math.ualberta.ca. The successful candidate will hold a PhD?or international equivalent; have established accomplishments and outstanding promise in research;?as well as a strong commitment to graduate and undergraduate teaching. Applicants should submit their curriculum vitae, a research statement, a teaching profile outlining experience and interests, and at least three confidential letters of reference. Review of applications?will begin on November 13, 2009; however, the competition will remain open until filled. Early applications are encouraged. Interested applicants may apply to: Online: http://www.careers.ualberta.ca/competition.aspx?id=A10019301 Arturo Pianzola, Chair Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences University of Alberta Edmonton, AB Canada T6G 2G1 Email: chairsec@math.ualberta.ca Competition?No.??-???A10019301 Closing Date??-???Will remain open until filled. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Alberta hires on the basis of merit. We are committed to the principle of equity in employment. 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The University of Alberta has one?of the leading Mathematics Departments in Canada and has strong connections with other mathematical institutes, such as the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS), and the Banff International Research Station (BIRS).?For more information about the Department, please visit our website at www.math.ualberta.ca. The successful candidate will hold a PhD?or international equivalent; have established accomplishments and outstanding promise in research;?as well as a strong commitment to graduate and undergraduate teaching. Applicants should submit their curriculum vitae, a research statement, a teaching profile outlining experience and interests, and at least three confidential letters of reference. Review of applications?will begin on November 13, 2009; however, the competition will remain open until filled. Early applications are encouraged. Interested applicants may apply to: Online: http://www.careers.ualberta.ca/competition.aspx?id=A10019300 Arturo Pianzola, Chair Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences University of Alberta Edmonton, AB Canada T6G 2G1 Email: chairsec@math.ualberta.ca Competition?No.??-???A10019300 Closing Date??-???Will remain open until filled. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Alberta hires on the basis of merit. We are committed to the principle of equity in employment. 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Name: ualberta-math_finance.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 45663 bytes Desc: Url : https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090903/a6adc9f3/ualberta-math_finance.pdf From akelm at cms.math.ca Thu Sep 3 16:30:32 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Thu Sep 3 16:30:34 2009 Subject: [cmath] Tenure Track Position, Fluid Dynamics - University of Alberta Message-ID: Tenure Track Position, Fluid Dynamics The Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, at the University of Alberta, invites applications for a tenure-track position in the general area of fluid dynamics?at the?Assistant Professor level.?Appointment at a higher level may be possible under exceptional circumstances.?We offer an excellent research environment with a normal teaching load of three courses per year. The University of Alberta has one?of the leading Mathematics Departments in Canada and has strong connections with other mathematical institutes, such as the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS), and the Banff International Research Station (BIRS).?For information about the Department, please visit our website at www.math.ualberta.ca.?For information about the Fluid Dynamics Group, see www.math.ualberta.ca/~gfd The successful candidate will hold a PhD?or international equivalent; have established accomplishments and outstanding promise in research;?as well as a strong commitment to graduate and undergraduate teaching. We seek an individual who will complement the department's existing expertise in turbulence, waves and shock theory, stratified fluids, hydrodynamic stability, physical oceanography and?climatology. In addition to developing a strong research program, the successful candidate will be expected to teach undergraduate and graduate courses, including mathematical fluid dynamics, numerical methods and advanced partial differential equations. Applicants should submit their curriculum vitae, a research statement, a teaching profile outlining experience and interests, and at least three confidential letters of reference.?Review of applications?will begin on November 13, 2009; however, the competition will remain open until filled.?Early applications are encouraged. Interested applicants may apply to: Online: http://www.careers.ualberta.ca/competition.aspx?id=A10019298 Arturo Pianzola, Chair Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences University of Alberta Edmonton, AB Canada T6G 2G1 Email: chairsec@math.ualberta.ca Competition?No.??-???A10019298 Closing Date??-???Will remain open until filled. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Alberta hires on the basis of merit. We are committed to the principle of equity in employment. We welcome diversity and encourage applications from all qualified women and men, including persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and Aboriginal persons. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The research expertise of the candidate should interface well with existing research strengths in Mathematics within the Department which include the areas of Analysis, Group Theory, Mathematical Physics and Number Theory. Applicants should have a PhD degree, a strong research record, and demonstrated interest/experience in teaching both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Applications must consist of a cover letter, a current curriculum vitae, copies of recent publications, a statement of teaching philosophy/interests, a statement of research achievements, and evidence of teaching effectiveness. Candidates must also arrange to have three letters of reference sent directly to: Dr. Y.P. Chaubey, Chair Department of Mathematics and Statistics Concordia University 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8 Canada chair@mathstat.concordia.ca http://www.mathstat.concordia.ca Subject to budgetary approval, we anticipate ?lling this position, normally at the rank of Assistant Professor, for July 1, 2010. Unless otherwise stipulated in the descriptions on our website, candidates should have a PhD. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. All applications should reach departments no later than November 2, 2009. All inquiries about the position should be directed to Dr. Chaubey (chair@mathstat.concordia.ca). For additional information, please visit our website at http://artsandscience.concordia.ca/ All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority. 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The fellowships provide for a period of engagement in research and participation in the activities of the Institute. They may be offered in conjunction with partner universities, through which a further period of support may be possible. In addition to regular postdoctoral support, one visitor for each six-month program will be awarded the Institute's prestigious Jerrold E. Marsden Postdoctoral Fellowship. There will also be a number of two year positions available connected to the Fields-Ontario fellowship. Applicants seeking postdoctoral fellowships funded by other agencies (such as NSERC or international fellowships) are encouraged to request the Fields Institute as their proposed location of tenure, and should apply to the Institute for a letter of invitation. Eligibility: Qualified candidates who will have recently completed a PhD in a related area of the mathematical sciences are encouraged to apply. Deadline: December 15, 2009, although late applications may be considered. Application Information: Please consult www.fields.utoronto.ca/proposals/postdoc.html or apply on-line at https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/317 The Fields Institute is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from women, visible minority group members, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. l ------------ Sincerely, Alison Conway _________________________________________ Alison Conway | Manager of Scientific Programs 416-348-9710 | Fields Institute ext.3026 | Research in Mathematical Science 222 College St., Toronto, ON M5T 3J1 _________________________________________ From peter.taylor at queensu.ca Sat Sep 5 16:24:11 2009 From: peter.taylor at queensu.ca (Peter Taylor) Date: Sat Sep 5 16:24:30 2009 Subject: [cmath] Fwd: Update -- Joint ICMI/ICIAM Study Message-ID: <0KPI007RUM0LFJ10@mta02.its.queensu.ca> JOINT ICMI / ICIAM STUDY Educational Interfaces between Mathematics and Industry (EIMI) The deadline for submitting contributions to the Study has been extended until OCTOBER 15. 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The Welcome Reception is held on Friday, December 4 at 18:30 in the Riverfront Club Room. The Banquet takes place on Sunday, December 6. Admission to the reception is complimentary for all registered participants; tickets for the banquet are available at $60 each. *Early Bird Registration ? Deadline: September 30* To qualify for the discounted Early Bird registration fee, the registration form and payment have to be received by the deadline. *Accommodation ? Deadline: November 6* We have secured discounted rates at the Hilton and Radisson Hotels; the rates may no longer be available after the deadline. Student Subsidies - We encourage the participation of students at the Meeting. Towards this, we are allocating funds to help defray the cost of travel and accommodation for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. We look forward to welcoming you in Windsor! -- Gertrud Jeewanjee Meeting Planner, Canadian Mathematical Society 105-1785 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1G 3Y6 Tel: 613-733-2662, ext. 733, F: 613 733-8994 www.cms.math.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090909/b56d1366/attachment.htm From meetings at cms.math.ca Wed Sep 9 09:11:37 2009 From: meetings at cms.math.ca (Gertrud Jeewanjee) Date: Wed Sep 9 09:11:44 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?utf-8?q?R=C3=A9union_d=E2=80=99hiver_2009_de_la_SMC?= Message-ID: <4AA7A989.1090409@cms.math.ca> *R?union d?hiver 2009 de la SMC* *Du 5 au 7 d?cembre, Windsor (Ontario)* www.smc.math.ca La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada et le D?partement de math?matiques et de statistique de l?Universit? de Windsor invitent la communaut? math?matique ? la R?union d'hiver 2009 de la SMC. Au programme : dix conf?rences (pl?ni?res, publique et de laur?ats) ainsi que 18 sessions sur une grande vari?t? de sujets. Toutes les activit?s scientifiques et sociales se d?rouleront aux h?tels Hilton (situ? au 277 Riverside Drive West) et Radisson; la table d?inscription sera situ?e dans la salle Riverfront Club du Hilton. La r?ception d?accueil aura lieu le vendredi 4 d?cembre ? 18 h 30 dans la salle Riverfront Club. Le banquet se tiendra le dimanche 6 d?cembre. L?admission ? la r?ception est incluse dans les frais d?inscription; les billets pour le banquet sont disponibles au co?t de 60 $ chacun. *Pr?inscription ? Date limite : 30 septembre* Pour avoir droit au tarif r?duit de pr?inscription, le formulaire d?inscription accompagn? du paiement doivent nous parvenir au plus tard ? la date limite. *H?bergement **? Date limite : 6 novembre* Nous avons n?goci? des chambres ? tarif r?duit aux h?tels Hilton et Radisson; il se peut que le tarif r?duit ne soit plus offert apr?s la date limite. Aide financi?re - Nous encourageons la participation des ?tudiants ? la R?union. Nous offrons donc de l?aide financi?re, sous forme de remboursement des frais de voyage et d?h?bergement aux ?tudiants de cycles sup?rieurs et aux chercheurs postdoctoraux. Au plaisir de vous accueillir ? Windsor! -- Gertrud Jeewanjee Meeting Planner, Canadian Mathematical Society 105-1785 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1G 3Y6 Tel: 613-733-2662, ext. 733, F: 613 733-8994 www.cms.math.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090909/784e5714/attachment.htm From lchang at fields.utoronto.ca Thu Sep 10 16:26:44 2009 From: lchang at fields.utoronto.ca (Luke Chang) Date: Thu Sep 10 16:26:59 2009 Subject: [cmath] Call for nominations for the position of Deputy Director of The Fields Institute Message-ID: FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 10TH 2009 - Toronto, Ontario This is a call for nominations for the position of Deputy Director of the Fields Institute for a term beginning July 1, 2010 and lasting three or four years. The deputy director works closely with the director on all aspects of the institute's oversight and program development. Qualified candidates should be mathematical scientist with good management skills, an excellent research record, and a strong interest in developing the programs of the institute. Women and members of underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply. While, in the past, this position has been filled by a mathematical scientist seconded from a local university, we are also open to other strategies, such as using this as an opportunity to recruit new faculty to Ontario. Inquiries can be addressed to any member of the search committee: Edward Bierstone (bierston@fields.utoronto.ca), Tom Salisbury (salt@pascal.math.yorku.ca) and Mary Thompson (methomps@uwaterloo.ca) A brief letter of nomination and a CV should be sent to: Edward Bierstone Director Fields Institute 222 College St. W. Toronto, ON M5T 3J1 bierston@fields.utoronto.ca For more information visit www.fields.utoronto.ca From director at cms.math.ca Mon Sep 14 08:32:10 2009 From: director at cms.math.ca (CM Executive Director) Date: Mon Sep 14 04:32:17 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-15?q?NSERC_-_CMS_Math_in_Moscow_Scholarships/?= =?iso-8859-15?q?Bourse_CRSNG/SMC_Math_=E0_Moscou?= Message-ID: Deadline September 30, 2009 - Date limite le 30 septembre 2009. NSERC - CMS Math in Moscow Scholarships The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) support scholarships at $9,000 each. Canadian students registered in a mathematics or computer science program are eligible. The scholarships are to attend a semester at the small elite Moscow Independent University. Math in Moscow Program www.mccme.ru/mathinmoscow/ Application details www.cms.math.ca/Scholarships/Moscow For additional information please see your department or call the CMS at 613-733-2662. Deadline September 30, 2009 to attend the Winter 2010 semester. ******************************************** Bourse CRSNG/SMC Math ? Moscou Le Conseil de Recherches en Sciences Naturelles et en G?nie du Canada (CRSNG) et la Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC) offrent des bourses de 9,000 $ chacune. Les ?tudiantes ou ?tudiants du Canada inscrit(e)s ? un programme de math?matiques ou d'informatique sont ?ligibles. Les bourses servent ? financer un trimestre d'?tudes ? la petite universit? d'?lite Moscow Independent University. Programme Math ? Moscou www.mccme.ru/mathinmoscow/ D?tails de soumission www.smc.math.ca/Bourses/Moscou Pour plus de renseignements veuillez communiquer avec votre d?partement ou la SMC au 613-733-2662. Date limite le 30 septembre 2009 pour le trimestre d'hiver 2010. From akelm at cms.math.ca Mon Sep 14 16:24:19 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Mon Sep 14 12:24:18 2009 Subject: [cmath] Quantitative Analyst Position - D. E. Shaw group Message-ID: Quantitative Analyst The D. E. Shaw group, a global investment and technology development firm with approximately US $29 billion in aggregate investment capital, is looking for exceptionally talented quantitative analysts.? "Quants" at the D. E. Shaw group apply mathematical techniques and write software to develop and analyze statistical models for our computerized financial trading strategies.? Specific responsibilities range from examining trading data in an effort to increase profitability, decrease risk, and reduce transaction costs to conceiving new trading ideas and devising the simulations needed to test them.? Successful quant candidates have traditionally been the top students in their respective math, physics, engineering, and computer science programs; a considerable number have also competed successfully in the United States and International Math Olympiads as well as the Putnam Competition.? You can learn more about us and apply online at: https://www.deshaw.com/recruit/jobs/Ad/CanMS/Quant Members of the D. E. Shaw group do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment From akelm at cms.math.ca Tue Sep 15 11:08:18 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Tue Sep 15 07:08:15 2009 Subject: [cmath] Tenure-Track Positions - University of British Columbia Message-ID: The Mathematics Department at the University of British Columbia is seeking outstanding candidates for at least two positions, subject to funding, at the tenure-track Assistant Professor level, with a starting date of July 1, 2010. Exceptional candidates at the Associate Professor or Full Professor level may be considered. A Ph.D. in a relevant field is required. Postdoctoral experience is normally expected. Priority research areas are Arithmetic Geometry, Partial Differential Equations, and Topology. More detail on hiring priorities will be posted by September 1, 2009 at http://www.math.ubc.ca/Dept/Jobs/priorities/. In any event, exceptional candidates in any area of mathematics may be considered. Joint positions with other departments may also be possible. The successful applicant is expected to work in an area of interest to current faculty, to interact with related groups in the Department and to have demonstrated interest and ability in teaching. The salary will be commensurate with experience and research record. Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply on-line; submissions can be made at MathJobs.Org. Alternatively, applicants may send a current CV including a list of publications, statement of research and teaching interests, a teaching dossier or similar record of teaching experience, and should arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent directly to: Chair, Departmental Committee on Appointments Department of Mathematics, #121-1984 Mathematics Road University of British Columbia Vancouver, B.C., Canada, V6T 1Z2 In order to ensure full consideration, applications should be received by November 15, 2009. The Department is one of the leading Mathematics Departments in Canada and has strong connections with other mathematical institutes, such as the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS), Banff International Research Station (BIRS), and the UBC Institute of Applied Mathematics (IAM). For more information see www.math.ubc.ca. The University of British Columbia hires on the basis of merit and is committed to employment equity. We encourage all qualified persons to apply; however Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority. We strongly encourage candidates from under-represented groups to apply, including women, visible minorities, people of aboriginal origin, and people with disabilities. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The successful candidate will be expected to develop a strong externally-funded research program, supervise students, as well as develop and teach undergraduate and graduate courses. More information about the School can be found at www.math.carleton.ca. Applications (hard copies only) including a curriculum vitae, up to four sample publications, and a teaching dossier, should be sent to: Dr. P.J. Farrell, Director School of Mathematics and Statistics Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA K1S 5B6 email: ms-atd@math.carleton.ca Applicants should also arrange to have three letters of reference sent directly to the above address. At least one of the letters should address the applicant's teaching skills. Consideration of applications will begin on December 1, 2009, and continue until the position is filled. 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Proposals should include a brief description of the focus and purpose of the session, the expected number of the talks, as well as the organizer?s name, complete address, telephone number, e-mail address, etc. All sessions will be advertised in the CMS/ Notes/, on the web site and, if possible, in the /Notices/ of the AMS and in publications of other societies. 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 Meeting Directors by the deadline below. *Deadline*: October 31, 2009 *Meeting Directors* Dr. Hugh Thomas, Tel. 506-458-7331, hthomas@unb.ca Dr. Barry Monson, Tel. 506-453-4768, bmonson@unb.ca Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UNB - Fredericton, Fredericton, NB Canada E3B 5A3 *Plenary Speakers* Gerda de Vries (Alberta) Idun Reiten (Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology) Gunther Uhlmann (Washington) Henri Moscovici (Ohio State) Kristin Schleich (UBC) *The following sessions have been confirmed for this conference:* Algebraic Combinatorics Org: Alex Yong, Li Li (Illinois - Urbana-Champaign) Algebraic Geometry, Noncommutative Algebra and Derived Categories Org: Colin Ingalls (UNB) Discrete Geometry Org: Barry Monson (UNB), Egon Schulte (Northeastern) Error Control Codes, Information Theory, and Applied Cryptography Org: Tim Alderson (UNB - Saint John) Geometric and Combinatorial Aspects of Convex Optimization Org: David Bremner (UNB) Geometric Topology Org: Ryan Budney (Victoria), Andy Nicas (McMaster) Graph Theory Org: Shannon Fitzpatrick (UPEI) Inverse Problems in Partial Differential Equations Org: Adrian Nachman (Toronto) Mathematical Ecology and Epidemiology Org: Lin Wang, James Watmough (UNB) Mathematical Physics Org: Viqar Husain, Jack Gegenberg (UNB) Mathematics Education Org: Alyssa Sankey (UNB) Noncommutative Geometry Org:Bahram Rangipour (UNB) Representation Theory of Algebras Org: Ibrahim Assem, Thomas Bruestle, Shiping Liu (Sherbrooke) Spectral Methods in the Analysis of Differential Equations Org: Almut Burchard, Marina Chugunova (Toronto) Stability in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations Org: Stephen Gustafson (UBC), Dmitry Pelinovsky (McMaster) Tensor Categories Org: Robert Pare (Dalhousie) Contributed Papers Org: TBD =============================== Johan Rudnick CMS Executive Director director@cms.math.ca 105-1785 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1G 3Y6 Tel: 613-733-2662, ext 721, F: 613 733-8994 =============================== * * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Les conf?renciers devront pr?senter un r?sum? qui sera publi? sur le site web et dans le programme de la R?union. Toute personne qui souhaiterait organiser une session est pri?e de faire parvenir une proposition aux directeurs de la R?union avant la date limite indiqu?e ci-dessous. *Date* *limite* : 31 octobre 2009 *Directeurs de la R?union :* Dr. Hugh Thomas, Tel. 506-458-7331, hthomas@unb.ca Dr. Barry Monson, Tel. 506-453-4768, bmonson@unb.ca Department of Mathematics and Statistics UNB - Fredericton Fredericton, NB Canada E3B 5A3 * Conf?rences pl?ni?res* Gerda de Vries (Alberta) Idun Reiten (Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology) Gunther Uhlmann (Washington) Henri Moscovici (Ohio State) Kristin Schleich (UBC) *Les sessions suivantes ont ?t? confirm?es :* Combinatoire alg?brique Org: Li Li, Alex Yong (Illinois - Urbana-Champaign) G?om?trie alg?brique, alg?bre non commutative et cat?gories d?riv?es Org: Colin Ingalls (UNB) G?om?trie discr?te Org: Barry Monson (UNB), Egon Schulte (Northeastern) Codes de contr?le d'erreurs, th?orie de l'information et cryptographie appliqu?e Org: Tim Alderson (UNB - Saint John) Aspects g?om?triques et combinatoires de l'optimisation convexe Org: David Bremner (UNB) Topologie g?om?trique Org: Ryan Budney (Victoria), Andy Nicas (McMaster) Th?orie des graphes Org: Shannon Fitzpatrick (UPEI) Probl?mes inverses pour les ?quations aux d?riv?es partielles Org: Adrian Nachman (Toronto) Ecologie math?matique et ?pid?miologie Org: Lin Wang, James Watmough (UNB) Physique math?matique Org: Jack Gegenberg, Viqar Husain (UNB) ?ducation math?matique Org: Alyssa Sankey (UNB) G?om?trie non commutative Org: Bahram Rangipour (UNB) Th?orie des repr?sentations des alg?bres Org: Ibrahim Assem (Sherbrooke), Thomas Br?stle (Sherbrooke; Bishop?s), Shiping Liu (Sherbrooke) M?thodes spectrales en analyse des ?quations diff?rentielles Org: Almut Burchard, Marina Chugunova (Toronto) Stabilit? pour les ?quations aux d?riv?es partielles nonlin?aires Org: Stephen Gustafson (UBC); Dmitry Pelinovsky (McMaster) Cat?gories tensorielles Org: Robert Par? 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URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090917/266a1f4d/attachment.htm From akelm at cms.math.ca Mon Sep 28 13:50:40 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Mon Sep 28 13:50:50 2009 Subject: [cmath] Tenure-Track Position in Mathematics - Mount Royal University Message-ID: JOB TITLE: Assistant Professor, Mathematics Competition Number: 6250BA Position Type: Tenure track Department: Mathematics, Physics and Engineering Competition Closes: November 30, 2009 Description: The Department of Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level that will commence August 15, 2010. Mount Royal is seeking dynamic candidates with a focus on teaching and learning, and an interest in research, scholarly pursuits, and service. The successful applicant will be teaching introductory and senior level courses in mathematics, and general education courses. The department is looking for enthusiastic individuals who are interested in integrating technology into their teaching and are committed to participating in department activities. Course and programme development will also be expected. New faculty are hired into one of two work patterns. The teaching/scholarship/service pattern has a focus on teaching with the requirement that the faculty member be involved in a research program as well as service to the Mount Royal community. The teaching/service pattern has a focus on teaching and service only. There is an option to change work patterns after tenure. Applicants interested in the teaching/scholarship/service pattern should have the ability and intent to pursue a research program. Since opening in 1910, Mount Royal has embraced change in order to meet the needs of the people and community it serves. At Mount Royal students experience high quality education enhanced by smaller class sizes, personalized learning and a single-minded dedication to premier undergraduate learning. Mount Royal is known for its collegial working environment. A Ph.D. in mathematics is required. Preference will be given to candidates in applied mathematics, in particular, mathematical biology or computational science. A complete dossier including curriculum vitae, the names and contact information of three (3) references, evidence of teaching excellence, and a statement of research interests should be submitted quoting competition #6250BA to: MOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES 4825 MOUNT ROYAL GATE S.W. CALGARY, AB T3E 6K6 Fax: 403.440.6629 Email: webapply@mtroyal.ca If applying by email, please send your r?sum? as an attachment, in either Microsoft Word format or RTF. For further information, contact Dr. Indy Lagu, Chair, Department of Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering, at 403.440.6147. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: mtroyal-math.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 73818 bytes Desc: Url : https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090928/1d436c43/mtroyal-math.pdf From akelm at cms.math.ca Mon Sep 28 13:52:15 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Mon Sep 28 13:52:17 2009 Subject: [cmath] Tenure-Track Position in Statistics - Mount Royal University Message-ID: JOB TITLE: Assistant Professor, Statistics Competition Number: 6249BA Position Type: Tenure track Assistant Professor Department: Mathematics, Physics and Engineering Competition Closes: November 30, 2009 Description: The Department of Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level that will commence August 15, 2010. Mount Royal is seeking dynamic candidates with a focus on teaching and learning, and an interest in research, scholarly pursuits, and service. The successful applicant will be teaching introductory and senior level courses in statistics, and possibly general education courses. The department is looking for enthusiastic individuals who are interested in integrating technology into their teaching and are committed to participating in department activities. Course and programme development may also be expected. New faculty are hired into one of two work patterns. The teaching/scholarship/service pattern has a focus on teaching with the requirement that the faculty member be involved in a research program as well as service to the Mount Royal community. The teaching/service pattern has a focus on teaching and service only. There is an option to change work patterns after tenure. Applicants interested in the teaching/scholarship/service pattern should have the ability and intent to pursue a research program. Since opening in 1910, Mount Royal has embraced change in order to meet the needs of the people and community it serves. At Mount Royal students experience high quality education enhanced by smaller class sizes, personalized learning and a single-minded dedication to premier undergraduate learning. Mount Royal is known for its collegial working environment. A Ph.D. in statistics or mathematics is required. A complete dossier including curriculum vitae, the names and contact information of three (3) references, evidence of teaching excellence, and a statement of research interests should be submitted quoting competition #6249BA to: MOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES 4825 MOUNT ROYAL GATE S.W. CALGARY, AB T3E 6K6 Fax: 403.440.6629 Email: webapply@mtroyal.ca If applying by email, please send your r?sum? as an attachment, in either Microsoft Word format or RTF. For further information, contact Dr. Indy Lagu, Chair, Department of Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering, at 403-440-6147. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: mtroyal-stat.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 73728 bytes Desc: Url : https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20090928/c21612f9/mtroyal-stat.pdf From akelm at cms.math.ca Tue Oct 6 14:49:21 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Tue Oct 6 14:49:24 2009 Subject: [cmath] University-College Professor Position - Vancouver Island University Message-ID: <4ACB9131.5090604@cms.math.ca> At Vancouver Island University, it's easy to love where you work. We are a supportive campus community focused on innovative teaching methods, undergraduate research opportunities, and creating an exceptional learning experience for our students. Become a part of our team, applications are being accepted for the following position: *University-College Professor, Mathematics Department, Competition No. 09-4061 Faculty of Science and Technology * Vancouver Island University Nanaimo Campus Start date: August 1, 2010 *Duties: * To teach a range of University Mathematics courses, mainly at the first or second year level. The successful applicant will generally teach 16 hours of lecture per week (eight one-term courses per year). *Qualifications: Required * PhD in Mathematics or Statistics from an appropriately accredited institution. Candidates must have the ability to teach at least one of our upper-level course offerings and be willing to teach at the VIU regional campuses. Candidates must demonstrate commitment to teaching, learning and student success. The successful candidate will participate in a wide range of activities outside the classroom such as student support, faculty and committee meetings and other initiatives and professional activities in keeping with their disciplines. Applications must include a complete Curriculum Vitae and evidence of teaching ability at the post-secondary level (include teaching evaluations, if available), an overview of teaching and research interests, and the names and contact information of three references (telephone, e-mail). *Qualifications: Preferred * PhD in Statistics or demonstrated ability to teach a wide range of statistics courses. All qualified individuals seeking a long and successful career, primarily in teaching, are encouraged to apply. *Posting Period * 1 pm Thursday, October 08, 2009 - 1 pm Thursday, December 03, 2009 For more information on application procedures at Vancouver Island University, visit www.viu.ca and click on Employment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The applicants should be either "fonctionnaires titulaires" either at the CNRS or at a French university, and priority will be given to junior researchers ("charg(e)es de recherches" or "maitres de conferences"). Applications should be sent to Guy Metivier, Directeur INSMI (CNRS), and to Alejandro Adem, Director of PIMS, by December 1, 2009. They should include a vitae and a list of publications, together with a description of the research project to be done during the academic year, and the names of the PIMS researchers which would be involved in the project. In the case of university faculty, once the application has been accepted, the actual appointment is subject to the person asking for a "detachement au CNRS" from his/her home institution and being accepted. Successful applicants will be sent for one year by the CNRS to the PIMS university where the research is to be carried out, on the understanding that they will be given adequate working conditions, and be treated like local faculty (except for teaching). We encourage researchers at PIMS universities to contact their French counterparts and encourage them to apply. The extent of local support will be a crucial factor in judging the applications. Guy Metivier, Directeur INSMI (CNRS) Email: Guy.Metivier@cnrs-dir.fr Alejandro Adem, Director of PIMS Email: director@pims.math.ca Please direct any technical questions to Do-Rim Joo, Executive Assistant Email: reception@pims.math.ca From birs-director at birs.ca Fri Oct 9 19:10:05 2009 From: birs-director at birs.ca (BIRS Director) Date: Fri Oct 9 19:10:13 2009 Subject: [cmath] Challenges and opportunities for Canada's Math. Sci. Community Message-ID: Dear Colleagues: You are all aware that our Canadian mathematical community is currently facing many challenges, but it is also in a position to capitalize on new opportunities. The Math Institute directors and presidents of the professional societies will convene for a retreat at BIRS next week to discuss current issues and how to address them together as a community. I encourage all of you with specific (global) concerns, ideas, and action plans for the future to communicate them to us before next Thursday, and we will be happy to consider them for the agenda. Sample issues to be considered: 1. The changes in NSERC's review processes for Discovery grants. 2. NSERC's new deliberate policy of lowering success rates and its impact on the math sciences. 3. NSERC's changes to the guidelines of the MRS program, and their impact on AARMS and NICDS. 4. The substantial cut by NSERC to the MRS program (and its potential impact on the 3 institutes and BIRS) 5. The upcoming termination of MITACS NCE funding and the potential loss of 9 million dollars in funding for the mathematical sciences. 6. Our relationship with the IMU (after its rejection of two of our bids for ICM 2010, and 2014, its handling of Canada's role in the Fields medal, etc...) 7. The recently achieved prominent role of our community in advocating for research and innovation on the national level. The retreat of the Canadian mathematical community at BIRS in 2004 correctly anticipated many of the upcoming challenges mentioned above. We were, however, much less successful in implementing the recommendations that came out of that retreat. It is therefore high time to rethink the next steps. Thanks to all Nassif From peter.taylor at queensu.ca Mon Oct 12 09:52:34 2009 From: peter.taylor at queensu.ca (Peter Taylor) Date: Mon Oct 12 09:52:58 2009 Subject: [cmath] Fwd: ICME-13 --- A reminder Message-ID: <7u1un7$1t5hdr@fipsb02.cogeco.net> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ICMEs and ICMs.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 15465 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20091012/37eb6ebc/ICMEsandICMs.pdf From akelm at cms.math.ca Tue Oct 13 15:24:22 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Tue Oct 13 15:24:25 2009 Subject: [cmath] Postdoctoral Fellowships - Dalhousie University Message-ID: <4AD4D3E6.2000007@cms.math.ca> Dalhousie University Postdoctoral Fellowships The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Dalhousie University invites applications for the following two postdoctoral fellowship programs. *1. Izaak Walton Killam Postdoctoral Fellowships * *Description: * Izaak Walton Killam Postdoctoral Fellowships are awarded annually at Dalhousie University to recently graduated scholars of superior academic research ability in any discipline. Awards are tenable for two years and include travel costs, a research grant, and a conference travel allowance. *Eligibility: * The date of the applicant's Ph.D. must be January, 2008 or later. For further criteria and information, please see http://killamtrusts.dal.ca/apply/postdoctoralfellows/ *Application deadline: December 15, 2009. * Candidates in Mathematics or Statistics: Please send your application to Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship Committee c/o Dr. Richard Nowakowski, Chair Department of Mathematics and Statistics Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada, B3H 4H6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *2. AARMS (Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences) Postdoctoral Fellowships * *Description: * AARMS postdoctoral fellowships are awarded, on the recommendation of its Scientific Review Panel, to beginning researchers who received their Ph.D. no more than four years before applying. Applications will be considered from those who anticipate receiving their Ph.D. before the proposed start time of the fellowship; however, the Ph.D. must be in hand before actually beginning the fellowship. *Application deadline: December 15, 2009. * *Application procedure: * Applications can be made by the candidate through an online system which is expected to be operational from November 15. 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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. All 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 by the deadline below. *Deadline: January 31, 2010* *Scientific Directors* Dr. Brian Marcus, marcus@math.ubc.ca, T: 604-822-3262 Dr. Jozsef Solymosi, solymosi@math.ubc.ca, T: 604-822-5868 *Plenary Speakers* David Aldous (UC-Berkeley) David Donoho (Stanford) Sujatha Ramdorai (Tata Institute; UBC) Peter Sarnak (Princeton) Tamar Ziegler (Technion) * Sessions* The following sessions have been confirmed for this conference: Compressed Sensing: Theory, Algorithms and Application Org: Michael Friedlander (UBC), Felix Herrmann (UBC), Ozgur Yilmaz (UBC) Computational Number Theory Org: Mark Bauer (Calgary), Mike Bennett (UBC) Convex and Nonsmooth Analysis Org: Philip Loewen (UBC), Yves Lucet (UBC-Okanagan) Harmonic Analysis and Additive Combinatorics Org: Izabella Laba (UBC), Akos Magyar (UBC), Malabika Pramanik (UBC) History and Philosophy of Mathematics Org: Tom Archibald (SFU), Alan Richarson (UBC), Glen van Brummelen (Quest Univ.) Mathematics Education Org: TBD p-adic groups, Automorphic forms, and Geometry Org: Clifton Cunningham (Calgary), Julia Gordon (UBC) Probability in Biology and Computer Science Org: David Brydges (UBC), Ed Perkins (UBC) Symbolic Dynamics and Ergodic Theory Org: Chris Bose (Victoria), Doug Lind (Washington), Ian Putnam (Victoria), Anthony Quas (Victoria) Theory and Application of Sequences and Arrays Org: Jonathan Jedwab (SFU), Brett Stevens (Carleton) Contributed Papers Org: TBD -- Gertrud Jeewanjee Meeting Planner Canadian Mathematical Society Tel: +1 (613) 733-2662 ext. 733 /Think before you PRINT!/ Please consider the environment. [cms web link] Gertrud Jeewanjee Responsable des r?unions Soci?t? math?matique du Canada T?l : +1 (613) 733-2662 poste 733 /Pensez avant que vous IMPRIMIEZ !/ Consid?rez svp l'environnement. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Les conf?renciers devront pr?senter un r?sum? qui sera publi? sur le site web et dans le programme de la R?union. Toute personne qui souhaiterait organiser une session est pri?e de faire parvenir une proposition aux directeurs scientifiques avant la date limite indiqu?e ci-dessous. *Date limite : 31 janvier 2010 **Directeurs scientifiques* Dr. Brian Marcus, marcus@math.ubc.ca, T: 604-822-3262 Dr. Jozsef Solymosi, solymosi@math.ubc.ca, T: 604-822-5868 *Conf?rences pl?ni?res* David Aldous (UC-Berkeley) David Donoho (Stanford) Sujatha Ramdorai (Tata Institute; UBC) Peter Sarnak (Princeton) Tamar Ziegler (Technion) *Sessions* Les sessions suivantes ont ?t? confirm?es : Acquisition comprim?e : Th?orie, algorithmes et application Org : Michael Friedlander (UBC), Felix Herrmann (UBC), Ozgur Yilmaz (UBC) Analyse convexe et non lisse Org : Philip Loewen (UBC), Yves Lucet (UBC-Okanagan) Analyse harmonique et combinatoires additives Org : Izabella Laba (UBC), Akos Magyar (UBC), Malabika Pramanik (UBC) Dynamique symbolique et th?orie ergodique Org : Chris Bose (Victoria), Doug Lind (Washington), Ian Putnam (Victoria), Anthony Quas (Victoria) ?ducation math?matique Org : ? venir Groupes p-adiques, formes automorphes et g?om?trie Org : Clifton Cunningham (Calgary), Julia Gordon (UBC) Histoire et philosophie des math?matiques Org : Tom Archibald (SFU), Alan Richarson (UBC), Glen van Brummelen (Quest Univ.) Probabilit? en biologie et informatique Org : David Brydges (UBC), Ed Perkins (UBC) Th?orie des nombres computationnelle Org : Mark Bauer (Calgary), Mike Bennett (UBC) Th?orie et application des suites et tableaux Org : Jonathan Jedwab (SFU), Brett Stevens (Carleton) Communications libres Org : ? venir -- Gertrud Jeewanjee Meeting Planner Canadian Mathematical Society Tel: +1 (613) 733-2662 ext. 733 /Think before you PRINT!/ Please consider the environment. [cms web link] Gertrud Jeewanjee Responsable des r?unions Soci?t? math?matique du Canada T?l : +1 (613) 733-2662 poste 733 /Pensez avant que vous IMPRIMIEZ !/ Consid?rez svp l'environnement. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20091015/dfed24d7/attachment.htm From olga at math.mcgill.ca Fri Oct 16 14:38:09 2009 From: olga at math.mcgill.ca (olga@math.mcgill.ca) Date: Fri Oct 16 14:53:23 2009 Subject: [cmath] Winter school in pure and applied mathematics Message-ID: <3773.132.206.150.243.1255718289.squirrel@webmail.math.mcgill.ca> Dear Chairs, please, help us to make this event visible Olga Kharlampovich (Graduate Program Director) Winter school in pure and applied math We are collecting applications from Canadian and US last year undergraduate and master's students to participate in the Winter 2010 school in Pure and Applied Mathematics to be held January 8-10 at McGill University (Montreal, Canada). Attending the school can be a very motivating and exciting experience for a student. We will pay your travel and arrange accommodation. The application should be submitted by e-mail and should include the following: Non-official transcript, Academic statement. (Applicants should submit a statement of no more than one page outlining their general academic interests). It would help if you submit one letter of recommendation from some of your professors (in a sealed and signed envelope or sent by e-mail). In addition we will have a poster project competition. The aim of this weekend winter school is to familiarize last year students with trends in modern mathematics and with research at McGill and in Montreal. The following McGill mathematics professors have agreed to give one-hour lectures. Louigi Addario-Berry: Probabilistic Combinatorics Henri Darmon: TBA (Number theory) Eyal Goren: "Equations over finite fields, 24-dimensional lattices, and rovers on Mars" Tony Humphries: "Lattices, Travelling Waves, and Differential equations with retarded and advanced arguments" Dmitry Jakobson: "Spectral theory, geometry and dynamical systems." Vojkan Jaksic: "Modern Mathematical Physics" Olga Kharlampovich: "Geometric and asymptotic group theory" Alexei Miasnikov: "Group Theory, complexity, probability, cryptography" Gantamur Tsogtgerel: TBA Adrian Vetta: "Game theory" Graduate students from Montreal are welcome to participate (and to present posters). Participants will arrive Thursday, Jan 7 or Friday Jan 8(rooms will be booked by the organizers for each funded participant). The workshop will begin Friday at 1 p.m. We will have two lectures on Friday, then go to the Colloquium at UQAM (or run the colloquium at McGill with one of our professors speaking). Then we all will go to Saint Sauveur (a nice ski place on the North of Montreal) and continue lectures (5 lectures on Saturday and 2 on Sunday) there. The school will terminate Sunday, Jan 10 at noon. Submit your application to Olga Kharlampovich (Graduate Program Director, Dept. Math and Stats, McGill University) to olga@math.mcgill.ca Deadline December 1, 2009 From benhima at CRM.UMontreal.CA Mon Oct 19 14:15:09 2009 From: benhima at CRM.UMontreal.CA (Sakina Benhima) Date: Mon Oct 19 14:15:02 2009 Subject: [cmath] To post please Message-ID: <8D392964-063E-42A1-BC5D-ADEC8F9E2EC5@crm.umontreal.ca> CRM-ISM POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS 2010-2011 The Centre de recherches math?matiques (CRM) and the Institut des sciences math?matiques (ISM) invite applications for their joint postdoctoral fellowship program starting in September 2010. CRM-ISM postdoctoral fellowships are awarded to promising researchers who have obtained a Ph.D in the mathematical sciences after December 1st, 2005. The annual stipend is $40,000 CDN for one year and is renewable for a second year. This is a research fellowship, allowing the recipient to devote most of his or her time to research under the supervision of a professor from one of the ISM member universities. If fellows wish to teach, they may request to be offered teaching assignments for which they will receive an additional salary. The CRM is a national research center in the mathematical sciences. It includes nine research laboratories, and every year it organizes a wide range of events attracting participants from around the world. The CRM's 2010 Fall thematic semester will be on Geometric, Combinatorial and Computational Group Theory, and the 2011 Winter thematic semester will be on Statistics. The ISM is a consortium composed of eight Qu?bec universities (Concordia, Laval, McGill, Sherbrooke, Universit? de Montr?al, UQAM, UQTR and Bishop?s University). It coordinates the resources of the member universities and organizes a wide variety of activities for graduate students. Applications are welcome in all fields of research in which the CRM and the ISM are actively involved, namely : algebra and number theory, analysis, applied mathematics, category theory, combinatorics, geometry and topology, mathematical physics, nonlinear dynamics, probability, quantum computing, statistics, mathematical methods in medical imaging, and actuarial and financial mathematics. Applications must arrive at the CRM by Friday, December 18th, 2009. The following documents are required: 1- online application form 2- curriculum vitae (PDF format) 3- research project (PDF format) 4-the names of at least two (2) and at most five (5) people who know your work well and could write letters of recommendation in support of your application. For further information and to apply please go to : http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/%7ecrmism/index_en.html BOURSES POSTDOCTORALES CRM-ISM 2010-2011 Pour faciliter la lecture, le genre masculin est utilis? sans discrimination dans ce texte. Le Centre de recherches math?matiques (CRM) et l'Institut des sciences math?matiques (ISM) sollicitent des candidatures dans le cadre de leur programme conjoint de bourses postdoctorales d?butant en septembre 2010. La bourse postdoctorale CRM-ISM s'adresse ? des chercheurs prometteurs ayant obtenu leur doctorat en math?matiques apr?s le 1er d?cembre 2005. D'une valeur de 40 000 $ CAN par ann?e, renouvelable pour une deuxi?me ann?e, la bourse permet ? son b?n?ficiaire de consacrer la majeure partie de son temps ? ses travaux de recherche sous la supervision d'un professeur appartenant ? l'une des universit?s membres de l'ISM. Le montant de la bourse ne comprend aucune t?che d'enseignement. Si le boursier le d?sire, il pourra enseigner durant son stage et ainsi recevoir une r?mun?ration suppl?mentaire. Le CRM est un centre national de recherches en sciences math?matiques. Il regroupe neuf laboratoires de recherche, et organise chaque ann?e un large ?ventail d?activit?s scientifiques faisant appel ? une participation internationale. Veuillez noter que le semestre d?automne 2010 du CRM portera sur la th?orie des groupes g?om?trique, combinatoire et computationnelle, alors que celui de l?hiver 2011 portera sur les statistiques. L'ISM est un consortium form? de huit universit?s qu?b?coises (Concordia, Laval, McGill, Sherbrooke, Universit? de Montr?al, UQAM, l?UQTR et l?Universit? Bishop?s). Il coordonne un grand ensemble de ressources des universit?s membres et organise de nombreuses activit?s pour les ?tudiants de cycles sup?rieurs. Nous acceptons des demandes dans tous les domaines de recherche du CRM et de l?ISM, ? savoir : alg?bre et th?orie des nombres, analyse, combinatoire, dynamique non-lin?aire, g?om?trie et topologie, informatique quantique, math?matiques appliqu?es, m?thodes math?matiques en imagerie m?dicale, physique math?matique, probabilit?s, statistique, th?orie des cat?gories, et math?matiques actuarielles et financi?res. Les candidatures doivent parvenir au CRM au plus tard le vendredi 18 d?cembre 2009. Les candidats sont pri?s de joindre les pi?ces suivantes: 1- formulaire de candidature ?lectronique 2- curriculum vitae (format PDF) 3-projet de recherche (format PDF) 4- le nom d?au moins deux (2) et d?au plus cinq (5) personnes connaissant bien votre travail de recherche qui r?digeront une lettre de r?f?rence pour appuyer votre demande. 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Name: uottawa-postdoc.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 100449 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20091019/39538be9/uottawa-postdoc.pdf From gpwright at cms.math.ca Tue Oct 20 08:46:21 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Tue Oct 20 08:46:25 2009 Subject: [cmath] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - 2010 David Borwein Message-ID: 2010 David Borwein Distinguished Career Award The David Borwein Distinguished career award recognizes mathematicians who have made exceptional, broad, and continued contribution to Canadian mathematics. A complete nomination dossier consists of: ? A signed nomination statement from a present or past colleague, or collaborator (no more than three pages) having direct knowledge of the nominee?s contribution; ? a short curriculum vitae, no than five pages; ? Two to four letters of support in addition to the nomination; ? Other supporting material may be submitted, no more than 10 pages. A nomination can be updated and will remain active for three years. Six copies of the complete nomination dossier must arrive at the CMS Executive Office no later than November 15, 2009. Selection Committee David Borwein Distinguished Career Award Canadian Mathematical Society 105-1785 Alta Vista Dr., Ottawa, ON K1G 3Y6 From gpwright at cms.math.ca Tue Oct 20 08:47:03 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Tue Oct 20 08:47:05 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?utf-8?q?Prix_David-Borwein_de_math=C3=A9maticien_?= =?utf-8?b?w6ltw6lyaXRlIHBvdXIgbOKAmWVuc2VtYmxlIGTigJl1bmVjYXJyacOo?= =?utf-8?q?re_2010?= Message-ID: Prix David-Borwein de math?maticien ?m?rite pour l?ensemble d?une carri?re 2010 Le prix David-Borwein de math?maticien ?m?rite pour l?ensemble d?une carri?re rend hommage ? un math?maticien qui a fait une contribution exceptionnelle et soutenue aux math?matiques canadiennes. Le dossier de candidature comprendra les ?l?ments suivants : ? une lettre de mise en candidature sign?e par un coll?gue ou un collaborateur actuel ou des ann?es pass?es (trois pages maximum) qui conna?t tr?s bien les r?alisations de la personne propos?e; ? un bref curriculum vitae, maximum de cinq pages; ? de deux ? quatre lettres d?appui, en plus de la mise en candidature; ? tout autre document pertinent, maximum de 10 pages. Toute mise en candidature est modifiable et demeurera active pendant trois ans. Le dossier complet, en six exemplaires, doit parvenir au bureau administratif de SMC au plus tard le 15 novembre 2009. Comit? de s?lection Prix David Borwein pour carri?re distingu?e Soci?t? math?matique du Canada 105-1785 Alta Vista Dr., Ottawa, ON K1G 3Y6 From gpwright at cms.math.ca Tue Oct 20 08:47:53 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Tue Oct 20 08:47:56 2009 Subject: [cmath] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - CRUX EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Message-ID: EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Crux Mathematicorum with Mathematical Mayhem (CRUX with MAYHEM) The term of office of the present Editor-in-Chief of CRUX with MAYHEM will end December 31, 2010. The Publications Committee of the CMS solicits nominations for an Editor-in-Chief for CRUX with MAYHEM. The appointment will be for five years beginning January 1, 2011. The deadline for the submission of nominations is November 30, 2009. Nominations, containing a curriculum vitae and the candidate?s agreement to serve should be sent electronically to the e-mail address below. Address for Nominations Professor Matthias Neufang. Chair CMS Publications Committee chair-pubc@cms.math.ca From gpwright at cms.math.ca Tue Oct 20 08:48:18 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Tue Oct 20 08:48:21 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-15?q?APPEL_DE_MISES_EN_CANDIDATURE_-_R=C9DACT?= =?iso-8859-15?q?EUR-EN-CHEF?= Message-ID: R?DACTEUR-EN-CHEF Crux Mathematicorum with Mathematical Mayhem (CRUX with MAYHEM) Le mandat de r?dacteur-en-chef actuel prendra fin le 31 d?cembre 2010. Le comit? des publications de la SMC sollicite des mises en candidature pour un poste de r?dacteur-en-chef de ?CRUX with MAYHEM?. Le mandat sera de cinq ans et d?butera le 1er janvier 2011. L??ch?ance pour proposer des candidat(e)s est le 30 novembre 2009. Les mises en candidature, accompagn?es d?un curriculum vitae ainsi que du consentement du candidat(e), devraient ?tre envoy?es ?lectroniquement ? l?adresse courriel ci-dessous. Addresse de mise en candidatures : Professor Matthias Neufang, Pr?sident Comit? des publications de la SMC chair-pubc@cms.math.ca From gpwright at cms.math.ca Tue Oct 20 08:51:13 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Tue Oct 20 08:51:16 2009 Subject: [cmath] CMS Excellence in Teaching Awardfor post-secondary undergraduate teaching in Mathematics Message-ID: CMS Excellence in Teaching Award for post-secondary undergraduate teaching in Mathematics Deadline for nomination: November 15, 2009 Recognizing sustained and distinguished contributions in undergraduate teaching. Full-time university, college, two-year college, or CEGEP teachers in Canada with at least five years teaching experience at their current institution can be nominated. For details regarding nomination procedure, please visit: www.cms.math.ca/Prizes or http://hed.nelson.com Supported by Nelson Education Ltd. From gpwright at cms.math.ca Tue Oct 20 08:52:08 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Tue Oct 20 08:52:11 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-7?q?APPEL_DE_MISES_EN_CANDIDATURE_-_Prix_d=A2?= =?iso-8859-7?q?exellence_en_enseignement?= Message-ID: Prix d?exellence en enseignement de la SMC pour l?enseignement coll?gial et de premier cycle universitaire en math?matiques Date limite pour soumettre une candidature : 15 novembre 2009 Ce prix r?compense des contributions exceptionnelles et soutenues en enseignement. Il s?addresse aux professeures et professeurs d?universit?, de coll?ge ou de c?gep au Canada ayant au moins cinq ans d?exp?rience dans leur institution pr?sente. Pour les d?tails sur la proc?dure de mise en candidature voir : www.smc.math.ca/Prix ou http://hed.nelson.com Date limite pour soumettre une candidature : 15 novembre 2009 Appuy? par la compagnie Nelson. From gpwright at cms.math.ca Wed Oct 21 08:26:12 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Wed Oct 21 08:26:17 2009 Subject: [cmath] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - CANADIAN MATHEMATICAL BULLETIN - EDITORS-IN-CHIEF Message-ID: CANADIAN MATHEMATICAL BULLETIN - EDITORS-IN-CHIEF The term of office of the present Editors-in-Chief of the Canadian Mathematical Bulletin will end December 31, 2010. The Publications Committee of the CMS invites nominations for the next Editors-in-Chief to serve for a five year term. Applications should consist of a formal letter of application and include the following: ? A curriculum vitae ? An expression of views of the publication indicating if any changes in direction or policy are contemplated ? Since editorial responsibilities often necessitate a lessening of responsabilities in an individual?s normal work, applicants should indicate that they have the support of their university department and, in particular, of their head of department. Any input from the mathematical community concerning this important selection process is welcome. Applications (with supporting material) and/or comments should be sent electronically to the e-mail address below. The deadline for the receipt of applications is November 30, 2009. Address for Nominations Professor Matthias Neufang, Chair CMS Publications Committee chair-pubc@cms.math.ca CURRENT CJM/CMB EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBRES ACTUELS DU CONSEIL DE R?DACTION Editor-in-Chief / R?dacteurs-en-chef du CMB Nantel Bergeron (York) to/? 31/12/2010 Jianhong Wu (York) to/? 12/31/2010 Editor-in-Chief / R?dacteurs-en-chef du CJM Henry Kim (Totonto) to/? 31/12/2011 Robert McCann (Toronto) to/? 31/12/2011 Associate Editors / R?dacteur associ?s : Karoly Bezdek (Calgary) to/? 31/12/2011 James Colliander (Toronto) to/? 31/12/2011 Luc Devroye (McGill) to/? 31/12/2009 Alan Dow (North Carolina) to/? 31/12/2010 George Elliott (Toronto) to/? 31/12/2010 Associate Editors con?d/ R?dacteur associ?s suite : Kathryn Hare (Waterloo) to/? 31/12/2011 Stephen Kudla (Toronto) to/? 31/12/2013 Vladimir Pestov (Ottawa) to/? 31/12/2013 Thomas Ransford (Laval) to/? 31/12/2009 Gordon Slade (UBC) to/? 31/12/2013 Roland Speicher (Queen?s) to/? 31/12/2013 Ravi Vakil (Stanford) to/? 31/12/2009 Vinayak Vatsal (UBC) to/? 31/12/2013 Jie Xiao (Memorial) to/? 31/12/2013 From gpwright at cms.math.ca Wed Oct 21 08:27:55 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Wed Oct 21 08:27:58 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-15?q?APPEL_DE_MISES_EN_CANDIDATURE__-_BULLETI?= =?iso-8859-15?q?N_CANADIEN_DE_MATH=C9MATIQUES=2C=C9DITEURS-EN-CHEF?= Message-ID: BULLETIN CANADIEN DE MATH?MATIQUES ?DITEURS-EN-CHEF Le mandat des r?dacteurs-en-chef actuels du Bulletin canadien de math?matiques prendra fin le 31 d?cembre 2010. Le Comit? des publications de la SMC sollicite des mises en candidatures pour les prochains r?dacteurs-en-chef pour un mandat de cinq ans. Les mises en candidature doivent inclure une lettre formelle et les ?l?ments suivants: ? Un curriculum vitae ? L?expression de votre opinion sur la publication indiquant si des changements de directions ou de politiques sont envisag?s ? Puisque les responsabilit?s de r?daction n?cessitent souvent une r?duction dans la charge normale de travail, les candidats devraient indiquer qu?ils(elles) ont l?appui de leur d?partement et en particulier, de leur chef de d?partment. Les commentaires de la communaut? math?matique au sujet de cette importante s?lection sont bienvenus. Les mises en candiatures (avec mat?rial ? l?appui) et/ou commentaires devraient ?tre achemin?s ?lectroniquement ? l?adresse courriel ci-dessous. L??ch?ance pour la r?ception des mises en candidature est le 30 novembre 2009. Addresse de mise en candidatures : Professor Matthias Neufang, Pr?sident CMS Publications Committee chair-pubc@cms.math.ca MEMBRES ACTUELS DU CONSEIL DE R?DACTION R?dacteurs-en-chef du CMB Nantel Bergeron (York) to/? 31/12/2010 Jianhong Wu (York) to/? 12/31/2010 R?dacteurs-en-chef du CJM Henry Kim (Totonto) to/? 31/12/2011 Robert McCann (Toronto) to/? 31/12/2011 R?dacteur associ?s : Karoly Bezdek (Calgary) to/? 31/12/2011 James Colliander (Toronto) to/? 31/12/2011 Luc Devroye (McGill) to/? 31/12/2009 Alan Dow (North Carolina) to/? 31/12/2010 George Elliott (Toronto) to/? 31/12/2010 Kathryn Hare (Waterloo) to/? 31/12/2011 Stephen Kudla (Toronto) to/? 31/12/2013 Vladimir Pestov (Ottawa) to/? 31/12/2013 Thomas Ransford (Laval) to/? 31/12/2009 Gordon Slade (UBC) to/? 31/12/2013 Roland Speicher (Queen?s) to/? 31/12/2013 Ravi Vakil (Stanford) to/? 31/12/2009 Vinayak Vatsal (UBC) to/? 31/12/2013 Jie Xiao (Memorial) to/? 31/12/2013 From director at cms.math.ca Wed Oct 21 09:54:01 2009 From: director at cms.math.ca (CMS Executive Director) Date: Wed Oct 21 09:54:04 2009 Subject: [cmath] 2009 GRAHAM WRIGHT AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE Message-ID: CHRISTIANE ROUSSEAU TO RECEIVE THE 2009 GRAHAM WRIGHT AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE The Canadian Mathematical Society is pleased to announce that Dr. Christiane Rousseau, Department of Mathematics and Statistics (University of Montreal) will receive the Society's 2009 /Graham Wright Award for Distinguished Service. The award recognizes individuals who have made sustained and significant contributions to the Canadian mathematical community, and in particular, to the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS). The award is named in honour of Dr. Graham Wright, of the University of Ottawa, who served as Executive Director and Secretary of the CMS for over 30 years. ?Christiane Rousseau is an excellent example of a Canadian who has served mathematics, generously, exceptionally, and in wide variety of roles.? Noted Anthony Luau, Chair of the CMS Distinguished Awards Selection Committee. As President of the CMS from 2002 to 2004, Professor Rousseau displayed decisive leadership during a challenging time of reorganization for the society. She had earlier served as CMS Vice-President for Quebec. In 2000, she coordinated the campaign "Operation Metro 2000" during the World Mathematical Year 2000, making Montreal the first city in the world with mathematics posters in its subway. As Chair of the CMS International Affairs committee, she spearheaded an initiative to increase the presence of Canadian lecturers at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2010). She was Co-chair of the 2003 Canadian Mathematics Education Forum in Montreal, an event which brought to the forefront the issue of mathematics education in aboriginal communities, and whose success led to two subsequent fora in Toronto and Vancouver. She was the organizer for the Canadian side of the first Canada-France mathematics meeting in Toulouse in 2004, and helped assemble the mathematical community for the very large second Canada-France Mathematics Congress in Montreal in 2008. For the latter, she represented the CMS as a member of the scientific program committee and also served as local organizer. She coordinated two recent Canadian bids, attempting to bring the International Congress of Mathematicians back to Canada (the second prepared jointly with Bruno R?millard). This aligns with her numerous mathematical outreach activities, ranging from delivering lectures in schools and CEGEPS, to organizing student conferences, math camps or public lectures, all of which aim to stimulate public or student engagement with mathematics. Christiane Rousseau recently led one of Canada's major mathematics research institutes as Interim Director of the Centre de recherches math?matiques (CRM). She joined the faculty at the Universit? de Montr?al in 1979, and has served a term as Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. In 1999 she won the Abel Gauthier prize of the Association Math?matique du Quebec (AMQ). Professor Rousseau is a distinguished mathematical researcher, working in the field of dynamical systems, with numerous publications in leading scientific journals. Her well received monograph "Mathematics and Technolog" (co-authored with Yvan Saint-Aubin), describes a strikingly broad set of case-studies of the applications of mathematics, in a manner highly accessible to students. Professor Rousseau's accomplishments span all aspects of her profession. Her dedication to the mathematical community and her outstanding efforts on behalf of mathematics, make her an ideal recipient of the Society?s highest award for service. The 2009 Graham Wright Award for Distinguished Service will be awarded to Dr. Christiane Rousseau at the 2009 CMS Winter Meeting in Windsor. For more information, contact: Anthony To-Ming Lau President and Chair ? CMS Distinguished Awards Canadian Mathematical Society president@cms.math.ca (780) 492-0398 Johan Rudnick Executive Director Canadian Mathematical Society director@cms.math.ca (613) 733-2662 ext 721 ******************************************************************************* About the Canadian Mathematical Society (www.cms.math.ca) The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) is the main national organization whose goal is to promote and advance the discovery, learning, and application of mathematics. The Society's activities cover the whole spectrum of mathematics including: scientific meetings, research publications, and the promotion of excellence in mathematics education at all levels. The CMS has a number of awards and prizes that are annually given to individuals in recognition of outstanding contributions to the advancement of mathematics. ******************************************************************************* From director at cms.math.ca Wed Oct 21 09:58:34 2009 From: director at cms.math.ca (Directeur administratif) Date: Wed Oct 21 09:58:37 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-15?q?le_PRIX_GRAHAM-WRIGHT_2009_POUR_SERVICE_?= =?iso-8859-15?q?M=C9RITOIRE?= Message-ID: CHRISTIANE ROUSSEAU re?oit le PRIX GRAHAM-WRIGHT 2009 POUR SERVICE M?RITOIRE La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada est heureuse d?annoncer qu?elle remettra son prix Graham-Wright pour service m?ritoire 2009 ? Mme Christiane Rousseau, du D?partement de math?matiques et de statistique de l?Universit? de Montr?al. Ce prix r?compense les personnes qui contribuent de fa?on importante et soutenue ? la communaut? math?matique canadienne, et en particulier ? la SMC. Il a ?t? nomm? en l?honneur de Graham Wright, de l?Universit? d?Ottawa, qui a occup? les fonctions de directeur administratif et de secr?taire de la SMC pendant plus de 30 ans. ? Christiane Rousseau est un excellent exemple d?une Canadienne qui a travaill? pour la cause des math?matiques avec g?n?rosit? et de fa?on exceptionnelle, de toutes sortes de fa?ons ?, souligne Anthony Lau, pr?sident du Comit? de s?lection du prix de la SMC pour service m?ritoire. En tant que pr?sidente de la SMC de 2002 ? 2004, Christiane Rousseau a exerc? un leadership d?terminant durant une p?riode cruciale de r?organisation de la Soci?t?. Auparavant, elle avait occup? le poste de vice-pr?sidente pour le Qu?bec. En 2000, elle a coordonn? la campagne "Op?ration Metro 2000" dans le cadre de l?ann?e internationale des math?matiques (2000), ce qui a fait de Montr?al la premi?re ville au monde ? avoir des affiches sur les math?matiques dans son m?tro. En tant que pr?sidente du Comit? des affaires internationales de la SMC, elle a men? une initiative visant ? accro?tre la pr?sence canadienne parmi les conf?renciers au Congr?s international des math?maticiens (CIM 2010). Elle a ?galement copr?sid? le Forum canadien sur l?enseignement des math?matiques 2003 tenu ? Montr?al, congr?s qui a fait ressortir la probl?matique de l?enseignement des math?matiques dans les communaut?s autochtones, et dont la r?ussite a men? ? la tenue de deux autres forums, l?un ? Toronto, l?autre ? Vancouver. Elle a aussi ?t? l?organisatrice de la partie canadienne du premier congr?s de math?matiques Canada-France ? Toulouse en 2004, et elle a rassembl? la communaut? math?matique pour accueillir un second congr?s franco-canadien d?une grande ampleur ? Montr?al en 2008. ? cette occasion, elle a ?galement repr?sent? la SMC en tant que membre du Comit? du programme scientifique et du comit? organisateur local. Elle a en outre assur?, derni?rement, la coordination de deux propositions visant ? accueillir ? nouveau au Canada le Congr?s international des math?maticiens (la seconde fois avec Bruno R?millard). Ces activit?s s?ajoutent aux nombreuses activit?s d??ducation math?matique auxquelles elle a touch?, qu?il s?agisse de conf?rences dans des ?coles et des C?GEPS, de colloques ?tudiants et de camps math?matiques ou de l?organisation de conf?rences publiques, toutes des activit?s visant ? stimuler l?int?r?t du public et des ?tudiants pour les math?matiques. R?cemment, Christiane Rousseau a dirig? l?un principaux instituts math?matiques du pays en tant que directrice int?rimaire du Centre de recherches math?matiques (CRM). Elle s?est jointe au corps professoral de l?Universit? de Montr?al en 1979, o? elle a assur? la direction D?partement de math?matiques et de statistique pendant un mandat. En 1999, elle a re?u le prix Abel-Gauthier de l?Association math?matique du Qu?bec (AMQ). Christiane Rousseau est une chercheuse ?m?rite qui travaille dans le domaine des syst?mes dynamiques et qui compte ? son actif de nombreuses publications dans de grands journaux scientifiques. Son ouvrage "Math?matiques et Technologie" (avec Yvan Saint-Aubin), louang? par la critique, d?crit un tr?s large ?ventail d?applications math?matiques d?une fa?on tr?s accessible pour les ?tudiants. Ses r?alisations couvrent tous les aspects de sa profession. Son attachement envers la communaut? math?matique et son travail exceptionnel pour la cause des math?matiques en font une laur?ate de choix pour le prix de service m?ritoire le plus prestigieux de la Soci?t?. Le prix Graham-Wright pour service m?ritoire 2009 sera remis ? Christiane Rousseau ? la R?union d?hiver 2009 de la SMC ? Windsor. Renseignements : Anthony To-Ming Lau Pr?sident de la SMC Pr?sident ? Prix de service m?ritoire de la SMC Soci?t? math?matique du Canada president@smc.math.ca 780-492-0398 Johan Rudnick Directeur administratif Soci?t? math?matique du Canada directeur@smc.math.ca 613-733-2662, poste 721 ********************************************************************** ? propos de la Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (www.smc.math.ca) La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC) est le principal organisme national dont l?objectif consiste ? promouvoir et ? favoriser la d?couverte et l?apprentissage des math?matiques, et les applications qui en d?coulent. Les activit?s de la Soci?t? couvrent les math?matiques sous tous leurs aspects : congr?s scientifiques, publications scientifiques et promotion de l'excellence en ?ducation ? tous les niveaux. La SMC d?cerne tous les ans des prix ? des personnes qui se d?marquent par leur contribution exceptionnelle ? l?avancement des math?matiques. ********************************************************************** From akelm at cms.math.ca Thu Oct 22 10:53:42 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Thu Oct 22 10:53:46 2009 Subject: [cmath] Lecturer Position - Robert Gillespie Academic Skills Centre, University of Toronto at Mississauga Message-ID: <4AE071F6.7080908@cms.math.ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The fellowships are open to candidates of any nationality and selection will be based on the candidate's research potential and fit with a research group in the department. The fellowship normally starts *July 1, 2010 * and provides an annual stipend plus a $2,000 grant for research expenses. Candidates are required to apply for these fellowships by using the MathJobs website by * January 4, 2010. * See our advertisement at www.mathjobs.org . Applicants should provide at least three letters of recommendation. At least one of these letters should report on the candidate's teaching abilities. Preferably these letters will be submitted through the MathJobs website (see above); they may also be sent directly to: Dr. Hans U. Boden, Chair c/o Postdoctoral Fellowship Applications Mathematics & Statistics Hamilton Hall 218 McMaster University Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1 CANADA We appreciate all replies to this advertisement, but only applicants under consideration will be contacted. McMaster University is strongly committed to employment equity within its community, and to recruiting a diverse faculty and staff. The University encourages applications from all qualified candidates, including women, members of visible minorities, Aboriginal persons, members of sexual minorities, and persons with disabilities. // ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20091023/70057ec4/attachment.htm From akelm at cms.math.ca Fri Oct 23 11:04:54 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Fri Oct 23 11:04:56 2009 Subject: [cmath] Canada Research Chair Postdoctoral Fellowship - McMaster University Message-ID: <4AE1C616.9000101@cms.math.ca> Applications are invited for the Canada Research Chair Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University. These fellowships provide opportunities to engage in research in mathematics, with a limited amount of teaching, and they are particularly suitable for talented mathematicians who have recently completed their Ph.D. Positions are tenable for two or three years, depending on the research project and the available funding. To learn more about the department, please visit our web page . These Fellowships are open to candidates of any nationality and selection will be based upon the candidate's research potential. Fellowship holders will work under the supervision of Dr. Walter Craig, a holder of a Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Analysis and its Applications at McMaster University. Research areas of particular interest include Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems and Applied Mathematics. The fellowship normally starts * July 1, 2010 * and provides an annual stipend plus a $5,000 grant for research expenses. Candidates are required to apply for these fellowships by using the MathJobs website by * January 4, 2010. * See our advertisement at www.mathjobs.org . Applicants should provide at least three letters of recommendation. At least one of these letters should report on the candidate's teaching abilities. Preferably these letters will be submitted through the MathJobs website (see above); they may also be sent directly to either: Dr. Hans U. Boden Chair c/o CRC Postdoctoral Fellowship Applications Mathematics & Statistics Hamilton Hall 218 McMaster University Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1 CANADA OR Dr. W. Craig c/o CRC Postdoctoral Fellowship Applications Mathematics & Statistics Hamilton Hall 218 McMaster University Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1 CANADA We appreciate all replies to this advertisement, but only applicants under consideration will be contacted. McMaster University is strongly committed to employment equity within its community, and to recruiting a diverse faculty and staff. The University encourages applications from all qualified candidates, including women, members of visible minorities, Aboriginal persons, members of sexual minorities, and persons with disabilities. // ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20091023/0d2f0d48/attachment.htm From akelm at cms.math.ca Fri Oct 23 11:13:03 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Fri Oct 23 11:13:05 2009 Subject: [cmath] Britton Postdoctoral Fellowship - McMaster University Message-ID: <4AE1C7FF.7000503@cms.math.ca> Applications are invited for the Britton Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University named after our former colleague Dr. Ronald F. Britton. These fellowships provide opportunities to engage in research in mathematics, with a limited amount of teaching, and they are particularly suitable for talented mathematicians who have recently completed their Ph.D. Positions are tenable for two or three years, depending on the research project and the available funding. To learn more about the department, please visit our web page . The Fellowship is open to candidates of any nationality and selection will be based upon the candidate's research potential. Research areas of particular interest include the Geometry and Topology of Manifolds, Algebraic K-Theory, and Group Actions. The fellowship normally starts *July 1, 2010 * and provides an annual stipend plus a $5,000 grant for research expenses. Candidates are required to apply for these fellowships by using the MathJobs website by * January 4, 2010. * See our application at www.mathjobs.org . Applicants should provide at least three letters of recommendation. At least one of these letters should report on the candidate's teaching abilities. Preferably these letters will be submitted through the MathJobs website (see above); they may also be sent directly to either: Dr. Hans Boden Chair c/o Britton Postdoctoral Fellowship Applications Mathematics & Statistics Hamilton Hall 218 McMaster University Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1 CANADA OR Dr. I. Hambleton Britton Professor of Mathematics c/o Britton Postdoctoral Fellowship Applications Mathematics & Statistics Hamilton Hall 218 McMaster University Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1 CANADA We appreciate all replies to this advertisement, but only applicants under consideration will be contacted. McMaster University is strongly committed to employment equity within its community, and to recruiting a diverse faculty and staff. The University encourages applications from all qualified candidates, including women, members of visible minorities, Aboriginal persons, members of sexual minorities, and persons with disabilities. // ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20091023/c980f3b9/attachment.htm From akelm at cms.math.ca Fri Oct 23 11:34:06 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Fri Oct 23 11:34:09 2009 Subject: [cmath] Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Mathematical Biology - McMaster University Message-ID: <4AE1CCEE.4000604@cms.math.ca> Applications are invited for one or more Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Mathematical Biology in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University (our web page ). Candidates should have experience and interest in research in mathematical and computational modelling applied to epidemiology, ecology, conservation, genomics or immunology. Fellows will conduct research in one or more of these areas, and will do a limited amount of teaching. Fellowships are open to candidates of any nationality, and selection will be based upon the candidate's research potential. Fellowships normally start * July 1, 20010, * and provide an annual stipend plus a $2,000 grant for research expenses. Candidates are required to apply using the MathJobs website by * January 4, 2010. * See our advertisement at: www.mathjobs.org . Applicants should provide at least three letters of recommendation. At least one of these letters should report on the candidate's teaching abilities. Preferably these letters will be submitted through the MathJobs website (see above); they may also be sent directly to: Dr. David Earn, Department of Mathematics & Statistics McMaster University Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1 CANADA Informal enquiries may be addressed to: Dr. Ben Bolker bolker@math.mcmaster.ca Dr. David Earn earn@math.mcmaster.ca Dr. Jonathan Dushoff dushoff@mcmaster.ca Dr. Gail Wolkowicz wolkowic@math.mcmaster.ca We appreciate all replies to this advertisement, but only applicants under consideration will be contacted. McMaster University is strongly committed to employment equity within its community, and to recruiting a diverse faculty and staff. 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Name: CIFAR.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 128707 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20091027/0718180f/CIFAR.pdf From gpwright at cms.math.ca Thu Oct 29 08:40:43 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Thu Oct 29 08:40:58 2009 Subject: [cmath] 2009 CANADIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY G. DE B. ROBINSON AWARD WINNERS Message-ID: 2009 CANADIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY G. DE B. ROBINSON AWARD WINNERS The Canadian Mathematical Society is pleased to announce that Dr. Vladimir Manuilov (Moscow State University) and Dr. Klaus Thomsen (Aarhus University) are the winners of the 2009 G. de B. Robinson Award. The G. de B. Robinson Award was inaugurated to recognize the publication of excellent papers in the Canadian Journal of Mathematics and the Canadian Mathematical Bulletin and to encourage the submission of the highest quality papers to these journals. The 2009 G. de B. Robinson Prize is awarded to V. Manuilov and K. Thomsen for their paper "On the Lack of Inverses to C*--extensions related to property T groups" (Canadian Mathematical Bulletin 50 (2007), no. 2, 268-283). The Connes-Higson construction [A. Connes and N. Higson, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris S?r. I Math. 311 (1990), no. 2, 101--106] is one of the most fundamental constructions of E-theory. In E-theory, utilizing the notion of asymptotic morphism, an extension is viewed as trivial when it is asymptotically split, and as semi-invertible when its direct sum with some other extension is trivial. In earlier work [J. Funct. Anal. 213 (2004), no. 1, 154--175], V. Manuilov and K. Thomsen show that when dealing with a suspension, every extension is semi-invertible. The authors are able to modify an example investigated by S. Wassermann [Ann. of Math. (2) 134 (1991), no. 2, 423--431] to get an extension which is not invertible up to homotopy. This paper then provides the first example of a C*--algebra for which the semigroup of homotopy classes of extensions is not a group. Professor Vladimir Manuilov was born in Kishinev, USSR, in 1961 and obtained his Diploma in Mathematics in 1983 and his Ph.D. degree from Moscow State University in 1987, under the supervision of Alexander Mishchenko. He obtained a second higher doctoral degree in 2000, also from Moscow State University. He began teaching at the same university in 1995 and became a full professor in 2003. Vladimir Manuilov has lectured and worked in several other universities, particularly at the Harbin Institute of Technology (China). Two graduate students have obtained their Ph.D. degrees under Manuilov's supervision. He is also the author of 50 publications, including a monograph, with E. Troitsky, entitled "Hilbert C*--modules" which was published by the AMS in 2005. His main area of research has been on K-theory of C*--algebras. His collaboration with Klaus Thomsen on asymptotic homomorphisms and extensions of C*-algebras started in 1998 and has resulted in a series of 13 joint papers. Klaus Thomsen received his Ph.D. from the University of Aarhus in 1985 and has been an Associate Professor since 1988. His main interests are in operator algebras and dynamical systems, and, in particular, the interplay between these two areas. On a more personal level he is married and the proud father of two sons and a daughter. For more information, contact: Dr. Matthias Neufang Chair - CMS Publications Committee School of Mathematics and Statistics Carleton University 613-520-2600 ext 2161 mneufang@math.carleton.ca Mr. Johan Rudnick Executive Director Canadian Mathematical Society (613) 733-2662 ext 721 director@cms.math.ca ********************* About the Canadian Mathematical Society (www.cms.math.ca) The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) is the main national organization whose goal is to promote and advance the discovery, learning, and application of mathematics. The Society's activities cover the whole spectrum of mathematics including: scientific meetings, research publications, and the promotion of excellence in mathematics education at all levels. The CMS has a number of awards and prizes that are annually given to individuals in recognition of outstanding contributions to the advancement of mathematics. From gpwright at cms.math.ca Thu Oct 29 08:41:28 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Thu Oct 29 08:41:37 2009 Subject: [cmath] 2009 CANADIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY G. DE B. ROBINSON AWARD WINNERS Message-ID: 2009 CANADIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY G. DE B. ROBINSON AWARD WINNERS The Canadian Mathematical Society is pleased to announce that Dr. Vladimir Manuilov (Moscow State University) and Dr. Klaus Thomsen (Aarhus University) are the winners of the 2009 G. de B. Robinson Award. The G. de B. Robinson Award was inaugurated to recognize the publication of excellent papers in the Canadian Journal of Mathematics and the Canadian Mathematical Bulletin and to encourage the submission of the highest quality papers to these journals. The 2009 G. de B. Robinson Prize is awarded to V. Manuilov and K. Thomsen for their paper "On the Lack of Inverses to C*--extensions related to property T groups" (Canadian Mathematical Bulletin 50 (2007), no. 2, 268-283). The Connes-Higson construction [A. Connes and N. Higson, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris S?r. I Math. 311 (1990), no. 2, 101--106] is one of the most fundamental constructions of E-theory. In E-theory, utilizing the notion of asymptotic morphism, an extension is viewed as trivial when it is asymptotically split, and as semi-invertible when its direct sum with some other extension is trivial. In earlier work [J. Funct. Anal. 213 (2004), no. 1, 154--175], V. Manuilov and K. Thomsen show that when dealing with a suspension, every extension is semi-invertible. The authors are able to modify an example investigated by S. Wassermann [Ann. of Math. (2) 134 (1991), no. 2, 423--431] to get an extension which is not invertible up to homotopy. This paper then provides the first example of a C*--algebra for which the semigroup of homotopy classes of extensions is not a group. Professor Vladimir Manuilov was born in Kishinev, USSR, in 1961 and obtained his Diploma in Mathematics in 1983 and his Ph.D. degree from Moscow State University in 1987, under the supervision of Alexander Mishchenko. He obtained a second higher doctoral degree in 2000, also from Moscow State University. He began teaching at the same university in 1995 and became a full professor in 2003. Vladimir Manuilov has lectured and worked in several other universities, particularly at the Harbin Institute of Technology (China). Two graduate students have obtained their Ph.D. degrees under Manuilov's supervision. He is also the author of 50 publications, including a monograph, with E. Troitsky, entitled "Hilbert C*--modules" which was published by the AMS in 2005. His main area of research has been on K-theory of C*--algebras. His collaboration with Klaus Thomsen on asymptotic homomorphisms and extensions of C*-algebras started in 1998 and has resulted in a series of 13 joint papers. Klaus Thomsen received his Ph.D. from the University of Aarhus in 1985 and has been an Associate Professor since 1988. His main interests are in operator algebras and dynamical systems, and, in particular, the interplay between these two areas. On a more personal level he is married and the proud father of two sons and a daughter. For more information, contact: Dr. Matthias Neufang Chair - CMS Publications Committee School of Mathematics and Statistics Carleton University 613-520-2600 ext 2161 mneufang@math.carleton.ca Mr. Johan Rudnick Executive Director Canadian Mathematical Society (613) 733-2662 ext 721 director@cms.math.ca ********************* About the Canadian Mathematical Society (www.cms.math.ca) The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) is the main national organization whose goal is to promote and advance the discovery, learning, and application of mathematics. The Society's activities cover the whole spectrum of mathematics including: scientific meetings, research publications, and the promotion of excellence in mathematics education at all levels. The CMS has a number of awards and prizes that are annually given to individuals in recognition of outstanding contributions to the advancement of mathematics. From gpwright at cms.math.ca Thu Oct 29 08:56:29 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Thu Oct 29 08:56:32 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-15?q?R=C9CIPIENDAIRES_DU_PRIX_G=2E_DE_B=2E_RO?= =?iso-8859-15?q?BINSON_2009_DE_LA_SOCI=C9T=C9_MATH=C9MATIQUE_DU_CA?= =?iso-8859-15?q?NADA_?= Message-ID: R?CIPIENDAIRES DU PRIX G. DE B. ROBINSON 2009 DE LA SOCI?T? MATH?MATIQUE DU CANADA La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada est heureuse d'annoncer qu'elle d?cerne son prix G. de B. Robinson 2009 au professeur Vladimir Manuilov de l'Universit? d'Etat de Moscou et au professeur Klauss Thomsen de l'Universit? Aarhus. Le prix G. de B. Robinson rend hommage aux math?maticiens qui se sont distingu?s par l'excellence de leurs articles parus dans le Journal canadien de math?matiques et le Bulletin canadien de math?matiques, et vise ? encourager la pr?sentation d'articles de premi?re qualit? pour ces revues. Le prix G. de B. Robinson 2009 est attribu? ? V. Manuilov et K. Thomsen pour leur article ? On the Lack of Inverses to C*--extensions related to property T groups ? (Bulletin Canadian de math?matiques 50 (2007), no. 2, 268-283). La construction de Connes-Higson [A. Connes et N. Higson, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris S?rie I Math. 311 (1990), no. 2, 101--106] est une des constructions fondamentales de la E-th?orie. En ce qui concerne l'utilisation de la notion de morphisme asymptotique en E-th?orie, une extension est consid?r?e comme triviale lorsqu'elle est asymptotiquement scind?e et comme semi-inversible lorsque sa somme directe avec une autre extension est triviale. Dans un autre ouvrage [J. Funct. Anal. 213 (2004), no. 1, 154--175], V. Manuilov et K. Thomsen montrent que lorsqu'il s'agit d'une suspension, chaque extension est semi-inversible. Les auteurs ont ?t? capables de modifier un exemple de S. Wassermann [Ann. of Math. (2) 134 (1991), no. 2, 423--431] pour obtenir une extension qui n'est pas inversible modulo une homotopie. Cet article fournit alors le premier exemple d'une C*--alg?bre pour laquelle le semi-groupe des classes des homotopies des extensions n'est pas un groupe. Professeur Vladimir Manuilov est n? ? Kishinev, URSS, en 1961 et a obtenu son dipl?me de premier cycle en math?matiques en 1983 et son doctorat de l'Universit? de l'Etat de Moscou en 1987, sous la surveillance d'Alexandre Mishchenko. Il a obtenu un deuxi?me doctorat plus distingu? en 2000, aussi de l'Universit? de l'Etat de Moscou. Il a commenc? ? enseigner ? la m?me universit? en 1995 et est devenu professeur titulaire en 2003. Vladimir Manuilov a enseign? et travaill? dans plusieurs autres universit?s, en particulier ? l'Institut de Technologie de Harbin (Chine). Deux ?tudiants de troisi?me cycle ont obtenu leurs dipl?mes doctoraux sous la surveillance de Manuilov. Il est ?galement l'auteur de 50 publications, y compris une monographie, avec E. Troitsky, intitul? ? Hilbert C*-modules ? qui a ?t? ?dit? par l'American Mathematical Society en 2005. Son principal domaine de recherche est la K-th?orie des C*--alg?bres. Sa collaboration avec Klaus Thomsen sur des homomorphismes asymptotiques et des extensions des C*--alg?bres a d?but? en 1998 et a produit 13 publications conjointes. Klaus Thomsen a obtenu son doctorat de l'Universit? d'Aarhus en 1985 et a ?t? professeur agr?g? depuis 1988. Ses principaux int?r?ts sont en alg?bres d'op?rateurs et les syst?mes dynamiques, et, en particulier, l'interaction entre ces deux domaines. Sur un plan plus personnel, il est mari? et heureux p?re de deux fils et une fille. Pour plus d'informations, communiquer avec : Dr. Matthias Neufang Chair - CMS Publications Committee School of Mathematics and Statistics Carleton University 613-520-2600 ext 2161 mneufang@math.carleton.ca Mr. Johan Rudnick Directeur administratif Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (613) 733-2662 poste 721 director@cms.math.ca ********************* ? propos de la Soci?t? math?matique du Canada La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC) est le principal organisme national dont l'objectif consiste ? promouvoir et ? favoriser la d?couverte et l'apprentissage des math?matiques, et les applications qui en d?coulent. Les activit?s de la Soci?t? couvrent les math?matiques sous tous leurs aspects : congr?s scientifiques, publications de recherche et promotion de l'excellence en ?ducation ? tous les niveaux. En partenariat avec d'autres organismes, la SMC appuie chaque ann?e des activit?s et des initiatives li?es ? l'?ducation math?matique ? l'intention des enseignants et des ?tudiants de tout le Canada. From Nassif at math.ubc.ca Thu Oct 29 23:53:06 2009 From: Nassif at math.ubc.ca (Nassif Ghoussoub) Date: Thu Oct 29 23:53:12 2009 Subject: [cmath] The Canadian Science Policy Conference Message-ID: <5EB3D457-021D-4ACA-81A4-62C3FB4DD7F1@math.ubc.ca> The Canadian Science Policy Conference is happening in Toronto (Wed- Fri this week). The current coordinator of the http://dontleavecanadabehind.wordpress.com/ blog --which was established in response to the government's stimulus budget position on research and innovation-- is attending and posting summaries and commentary during the conference. Most of the "usual suspects" of Canada's science policy are there, whether they have anything to say or not. But also some pleasant surprises... He is also providing shorter updates via twitter. Nassif From haedrich.alexandra at uqam.ca Thu Oct 29 16:27:36 2009 From: haedrich.alexandra at uqam.ca (Alexandra Haedrich) Date: Fri Oct 30 09:30:25 2009 Subject: [cmath] ISM Distinguished Doctoral Fellowships / Bourse d'excellence au doctorat de l'ISM Message-ID: ISM Distinguished Doctoral Fellowships ISM Distinguished Doctoral Fellowships provide financial support to outstanding, new students to pursue a doctoral program at one of the ISM member universities. Awarded for a two-year period and renewable for a further two years, the scholarship is worth $20,000 per year. Applications can be submitted electronically to: http://www.math.uqam.ca/ism/bourses/fellow_en.html ISM Doctoral Program in Mathematics The Institut des sciences math?matiques (ISM), a unique consortium of eight Quebec universities, offers a unified doctoral program in the mathematical sciences. Graduate students have access to specialized courses and seminars at all of the member universities, and are quickly integrated into one of the ISM?s eleven inter-university research groups. For more information: Institut des sciences math?matiques Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al Case postale 8888, succursale Centre-Ville Montr?al (Qu?bec) Canada H3C 3P8 email: ism@uqam.ca http://www.math.uqam.ca Bourses d?excellence au doctorat de l?ISM Les bourses d?excellence au doctorat de l'ISM offrent un appui financier aux nouveaux ?tudiants exceptionnels pour poursuivre leurs ?tudes doctorales dans une universit? membre de l'ISM . Octroy?e pour une p?riode de deux ans et renouvelable pour deux ans suppl?mentaires, la bourse est d'une valeur de 20 000 $ par ann?e. Les demandes peuvent ?tre soumises ?lectroniquement ? : http://www.math.uqam.ca/ism/ bourses/fellow_fr.html Programme de doctorat en math?matiques de l?ISM L?Institut des sciences math?matiques (ISM), un consortium unique de huit universit?s qu?b?coises, offre un programme doctoral unifi? en sciences math?matiques. Les ?tudiants aux cycles sup?rieurs ont acc?s ? tous les cours et s?minaires sp?cialis?s offerts dans les universit?s membres, et ainsi ils s?int?grent rapidement ? un des onze groupes de recherche interuniversitaires de l?ISM. Pour plus de renseignements: Institut des sciences math?matiques Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al Case postale 8888, succursale Centre-Ville Montr?al (Qu?bec) Canada H3C 3P8 email: ism@uqam.ca http://www.math.uqam.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Nominations Nominations must be submitted by January 31, 2010 to CAIMS/PIMS by a sponsor who is responsible for providing the following information: ? a curriculum vitae ? a publication list ? a cover letter explaining the basis of the nomination ? a maximum of three additional letters of support Unsuccessful nominations which continue to meet the eligibility criteria will be automatically considered for a second year. Advisory Committee The recipient of the prize will be decided by an advisory committee consisting of four experts, who will serve for two-year terms. Two of them will be appointed by the President of CAIMS and two will be selected by the Director of PIMS. Decisions will be announced by April 1, 2010. The Award The award will consist of a cash prize of $1,000 and a commemorative plaque that will be presented at the CAIMS Annual Meeting. The recipient will be invited to deliver a plenary lecture at the CAIMS Annual Meeting in the year of the award. A travel allowance will be provided. Submit nominations to: nominations@pims.math.ca Only electronic submissions will be accepted. From olga at math.mcgill.ca Tue Nov 3 10:05:57 2009 From: olga at math.mcgill.ca (olga@math.mcgill.ca) Date: Tue Nov 3 11:57:01 2009 Subject: [cmath] Winter school in pure and applied mathematics Message-ID: <49507.70.52.29.56.1257260757.squirrel@webmail.math.mcgill.ca> Winter school in pure and applied math We are collecting applications from Canadian and US last year undergraduate and master's students to participate in the Winter 2010 school in Pure and Applied Mathematics to be held January 8-10 at McGill University (Montreal, Canada). Attending the school can be a very motivating and exciting experience for a student. We will pay your travel and arrange accommodation. The application should be submitted by e-mail and should include the following: Non-official transcript, Academic statement. (Applicants should submit a statement of no more than one page outlining their general academic interests). It would help if you submit one letter of recommendation from some of your professors (in a sealed and signed envelope or sent by e-mail). In addition we will have a poster project competition. The aim of this weekend winter school is to familiarize last year students with trends in modern mathematics and with research at McGill and in Montreal. The following McGill mathematics professors have agreed to give one-hour lectures. Louigi Addario-Berry: Probabilistic Combinatorics Henri Darmon: TBA (Number theory) Eyal Goren: "Equations over finite fields, 24-dimensional lattices, and rovers on Mars" Tony Humphries: "Lattices, Travelling Waves, and Differential equations with retarded and advanced arguments" Dmitry Jakobson: "Spectral theory, geometry and dynamical systems." Vojkan Jaksic: "Modern Mathematical Physics" Olga Kharlampovich: "Geometric and asymptotic group theory" Alexei Miasnikov: "Group Theory, complexity, probability, cryptography" Gantamur Tsogtgerel: TBA Adrian Vetta: "Game theory" Graduate students from Montreal are welcome to participate (and to present posters). Participants will arrive Thursday, Jan 7 or Friday Jan 8(rooms will be booked by the organizers for each funded participant). The workshop will begin Friday at 1 p.m. We will have two lectures on Friday, then go to the Colloquium at UQAM (or run the colloquium at McGill with one of our professors speaking). Then we all will go to Saint Sauveur (a nice ski place on the North of Montreal) and continue lectures (5 lectures on Saturday and 2 on Sunday) there. The school will terminate Sunday, Jan 10 at noon. Submit your application to Olga Kharlampovich (Graduate Program Director, Dept. Math and Stats, McGill University) to olga@math.mcgill.ca and Svetla Vassileva (PhD student at McGill who is organizing the school) svassileva@math.mcgill.ca Deadline December 1, 2009 From akelm at cms.math.ca Wed Nov 4 10:25:43 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Wed Nov 4 10:25:47 2009 Subject: [cmath] Postdoctoral Fellowships - University of Western Ontario Message-ID: <4AF19CF7.20304@cms.math.ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Applications will be considered from those who anticipate receiving their PhD before the proposed start time of the fellowship, however the PhD must be in hand before actually beginning the fellowship. It is typically expected that the proposed supervisor will not be the same person as the applicant's PhD supervisor, and that the proposed Postdoctoral Fellowship will be at a different university than the one at which the PhD was awarded. The proposed supervisor must be a full-time tenure track or tenured faculty member at a university in Atlantic Canada. *Duration * Normally two years. Funding for the second year is dependent upon satisfactory performance demonstrated in the detailed progress report submitted by the supervisor(s). *Application * Applications should be made by the candidate through the PDF Application page. Please see http://www.aarms.math.ca/pdf/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20091104/43a9d567/attachment.htm From akelm at cms.math.ca Fri Nov 6 10:33:05 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Fri Nov 6 10:33:09 2009 Subject: [cmath] Instructor, Mathematics - College of the North Atlantic - Qatar Message-ID: <4AF441B1.3060209@cms.math.ca> / Come Join Our Team! Instructor, Mathematics / * /Are you looking for an international assignment with a great Canadian College and an opportunity that offers: /* *Competitive Compensation * Furnished Accommodation * Single or Family Status Contract * Relocation Allowances * Annual Travel * K-12 Education for Children * Living Allowance (Canadian Residents) * Pension (Canadian Residents) * Comprehensive Medical Insurance * Family-Centered Environment * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ / *Then join us for an exciting and rewarding career at our world-class technology college in the Middle East. */ College of the North Atlantic - Qatar is a comprehensive technical College with a growing international reputation in the State of Qatar. We are seeking dynamic, adventurous people who are excellent leaders, culturally-sensitive and client-oriented, and we are now searching for *Mathematics Instructors* commencing August 2010. If you are a Canadian citizen with excellent English language skills and are ready for a professional and personal adventure in the Middle East, we want to hear from you! *DUTIES: *The instructor will plan, develop, and deliver instruction in Mathematics to students enrolled in a variety of College and academic preparatory programs. S/he will evaluate student progress and manage the resources of the learning environment. Instructors will keep course portfolio documents required for accreditation processes and engage in instructional development/improvement plans. All employees are expected to contribute to professional and community life within the College and beyond. *QUALIFICATIONS: * The successful candidate must have teaching experience and a thorough knowledge of Mathematics. S/he must have a Bachelor of Education Degree with post-secondary or high school methods courses and an undergraduate degree with a major in Mathematics, combined with recent teaching experience. S/he will have exemplary communication skills and expert fluency in English is essential. All instructors work in a learning environment where English language is taught through and across disciplines. The ability to develop effective working relationships and a strong commitment to working in a team and student-centered learning environment are required. *COMPETITION NUMBER: * CNA-Q.PPD.MATH.10.11 (quote when applying) *DEADLINE: December 18, 2009 * * NOTE: Employment is contingent upon successful completion of the State of Qatar visa process. * Canadian citizens meeting the above qualifications are encouraged to consider this exciting opportunity. Candidates must provide a recent Certificate of Conduct upon request. Quoting the specific competition number, please forward your resume, transcripts, and contact information for three current references to the e-mail address below using Microsoft Word wherever possible. College of the North Atlantic - Qatar Project P. O. Box 1693 St. John's, NL A1C 5P7 Tel: 709-758-7347 e-mail: qatarjobs@cna.nl.ca /*Visit our websites www.cna-qatar.com & www.cna.nl.ca/qatar for all the information you'll need to know about our employment opportunities, employment contracts, the immigration process, our campus, programs of study, employee life and so much more at CNA-Qatar. CREATE THE FUTURE YOU WANT!*/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/related From akelm at cms.math.ca Fri Nov 6 11:00:48 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Fri Nov 6 11:00:52 2009 Subject: [cmath] Tenure-Track Position in Statistics - University of Prince Edward Island Message-ID: <4AF44830.8080408@cms.math.ca> The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Prince Edward Island invites applications for a tenure-track position in statistics starting July 1, 2010. This tenure track appointment will normally be made at the Assistant Professor level. All positions are subject to final budgetary approval. Candidates must have a doctoral degree in statistics at the date of appointment and must have a strong research record with a demonstrated capacity for independent research. They should have experience in applied statistics and be able to establish links with other areas of interest on campus such as biostatistics or actuarial science. Candidates must have a strong commitment to and excellence in, undergraduate teaching and must be able to provide leadership in the development of the department's statistics offerings. Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, a list of publications, a research outline, a statement on teaching, evidence of teaching ability, including any available student evaluations. Applicants should arrange for four letters of reference to be sent directly to the address below. Two of the letters should address teaching ability. See http://www.upei.ca/humanres/36a09 for more details. Closing Date: * December 15, 2009, * however, the competition will remain open until the position is filled. Please email or mail applications to: Dr. Maxim Burke, Chair Department of Mathematics & Statistics University of Prince Edward Island 550 University Avenue Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island Canada C1A 4P3 Telephone: (902) 566-0508 Fax: (902) 566-0466 E-mail: burke@upei.ca http://www.upei.ca/math In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, all qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority. UPEI is committed to the principle of equity in employment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For details regarding nomination procedure, please visit: www.cms.math.ca/Prizes From director at cms.math.ca Mon Nov 9 12:04:27 2009 From: director at cms.math.ca (Executive Director) Date: Mon Nov 9 12:04:30 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?utf-8?q?Prix_d=E2=80=99excellence_en_enseignement_de_l?= =?utf-8?q?a_SMC=2Cpour_l=E2=80=99enseignement_coll=C3=A9gial_et_de?= =?utf-8?q?_premier_cycle_universitaire_en_math=C3=A9matiques?= Message-ID: Prix d?excellence en enseignement de la SMC pour l?enseignement coll?gial et de premier cycle universitaire en math?matiques Date limite pour soumettre une candidature : 15 novembre 2009 Ce prix r?compense des contributions exceptionnelles et soutenues en enseignement. Il s?adresse aux professeures et professeurs d?universit?, de coll?ge ou de c?gep au Canada ayant au moins cinq ans d?exp?rience dans leur institution pr?sente. Pour les d?tails sur la proc?dure de mise en candidature voir : www.smc.math.ca/Prix From akelm at cms.math.ca Tue Nov 10 12:38:23 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Tue Nov 10 12:38:30 2009 Subject: [cmath] Tenure-Stream Position - University of Toronto Message-ID: <4AF9A50F.3030901@cms.math.ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The Welcome Reception is held on Friday, December 4 at 18:30 in the Riverfront Club Room. The Banquet takes place on Sunday, December 6. Admission to the reception is complimentary for all registered participants; tickets for the banquet are available at $60 each. *Online Registration deadline - November 15 Accommodation deadline - extended to November 20 * We look forward to welcoming you in Windsor! Gertrud Jeewanjee Meeting Planner Canadian Mathematical Society Tel: +1 (613) 733-2662 ext. 733 /Think before you PRINT!/ Please consider the environment. [cms web link] Gertrud Jeewanjee Responsable des r?unions Soci?t? math?matique du Canada T?l : +1 (613) 733-2662 poste 733 /Pensez avant que vous IMPRIMIEZ !/ Consid?rez svp l'environnement. -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/related From meetings at cms.math.ca Tue Nov 10 13:45:46 2009 From: meetings at cms.math.ca (Gertrud Jeewanjee) Date: Tue Nov 10 13:45:49 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?utf-8?q?R=C3=A9union_d=E2=80=99hiver_2009_de_la_SMC_-_?= =?utf-8?q?5-7_d=C3=A9cembre=2C_Windsor_=28Ontario=29?= Message-ID: <4AF9B4DA.5060707@cms.math.ca> *Rappel* La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada et le D?partement de math?matiques et de statistique de l?Universit? de Windsor invitent la communaut? math?matique ? la *R?union d'hiver 2009 de la SMC *. Au programme : dix conf?rences (pl?ni?res, publique et de laur?ats) ainsi que 18 sessions sur une grande vari?t? de sujets. Toutes les activit?s scientifiques se d?rouleront aux h?tels Hilton (situ? au 277 Riverside Drive West) et Radisson; la table d?inscription sera situ?e dans la salle Riverfront Club du Hilton. La r?ception d?accueil aura lieu le vendredi 4 d?cembre ? 18 h 30 dans la salle Riverfront Club. Le banquet se tiendra le dimanche 6 d?cembre. L?admission ? la r?ception est incluse dans les frais d?inscription; les billets pour le banquet sont disponibles au co?t de 60 $ chacun. *Inscription en ligne jusqu'au 15 novembre H?bergement - r?servations accept?es** jusqu'au 20 novembre *** Au plaisir de vous accueillir ? Windsor! Gertrud Jeewanjee Meeting Planner Canadian Mathematical Society Tel: +1 (613) 733-2662 ext. 733 /Think before you PRINT!/ Please consider the environment. [cms web link] Gertrud Jeewanjee Responsable des r?unions Soci?t? math?matique du Canada T?l : +1 (613) 733-2662 poste 733 /Pensez avant que vous IMPRIMIEZ !/ Consid?rez svp l'environnement. -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/related From gpwright at cms.math.ca Thu Nov 12 09:41:56 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Thu Nov 12 09:42:00 2009 Subject: [cmath] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - 2010 David Borwein Distinguished Career Award Message-ID: 2010 David Borwein Distinguished Career Award The David Borwein Distinguished career award recognizes mathematicians who have made exceptional, broad, and continued contributions to Canadian mathematics. A complete nomination dossier consists of: . A signed nomination statement from a present or past colleague, or collaborator (no more than three pages) having direct knowledge of the nominee's contribution; . a short curriculum vitae, no than five pages; . Two to four letters of support in addition to the nomination; . Other supporting material may be submitted, no more than 10 pages. A nomination can be updated and will remain active for three years. Six copies of the complete nomination dossier must arrive at the CMS Executive Office no later than November 15, 2009. Selection Committee David Borwein Distinguished Career Award Canadian Mathematical Society 105-1785 Alta Vista Dr., Ottawa, ON K1G 3Y6 From gpwright at cms.math.ca Thu Nov 12 09:42:18 2009 From: gpwright at cms.math.ca (Graham Wright) Date: Thu Nov 12 09:42:27 2009 Subject: [cmath] =?utf-8?q?APPEL_DE_MISES_EN_CANDIDATURE_-_Prix_David-Bor?= =?utf-8?b?d2VpbiBkZSBtYXRow6ltYXRpY2llbiDDqW3DqXJpdGUgcG91ciBs4oCZ?= =?utf-8?q?ensemble_d=E2=80=99une_carri=C3=A8re_2010?= Message-ID: Prix David-Borwein de math?maticien ?m?rite pour l?ensemble d?une carri?re 2010 Le prix David-Borwein de math?maticien ?m?rite pour l?ensemble d?une carri?re rend hommage ? un math?maticien qui a fait une contribution exceptionnelle et soutenue aux math?matiques canadiennes. Le dossier de candidature comprendra les ?l?ments suivants : ? une lettre de mise en candidature sign?e par un coll?gue ou un collaborateur actuel ou des ann?es pass?es (trois pages maximum) qui conna?t tr?s bien les r?alisations de la personne propos?e; ? un bref curriculum vitae, maximum de cinq pages; ? de deux ? quatre lettres d?appui, en plus de la mise en candidature; ? tout autre document pertinent, maximum de 10 pages. Toute mise en candidature est modifiable et demeurera active pendant trois ans. Le dossier complet, en six exemplaires, doit parvenir au bureau administratif de la SMC au plus tard le 15 novembre 2009. Comit? de s?lection Prix David Borwein pour carri?re distingu?e Soci?t? math?matique du Canada 105-1785 Alta Vista Dr., Ottawa, ON K1G 3Y6 From director at cms.math.ca Thu Nov 12 09:43:50 2009 From: director at cms.math.ca (Executive Director) Date: Thu Nov 12 09:43:53 2009 Subject: [cmath] Call for nominations - 2010 Doctoral Prize Message-ID: 2010 Doctoral Prize The CMS Doctoral Prize recognizes outstanding performance by a doctoral student. The prize is awarded to the person who received a Ph.D. from a Canadian university in the preceding year (January 1st to December 31st) and whose overall performance in graduate school is judged to be the most outstanding. Although the dissertation will be the most important criterion (the impact of the results, the creativity of the work, the quality of exposition, etc.) it will not be the only one. Other publications, activities in support of students and other accomplishments will also be considered. Nominations that were not successful in the first competition, will be kept active for a further year (with no possibility of updating the file) and will be considered by the Doctoral Prize Selection Committee in the following year's competition. The CMS Doctoral Prize will consist of an award of $500, a two-year complimentary membership in the CMS, a framed Doctoral Prize certificate and a stipend for travel expenses to attend the CMS meeting to receive the award and present a plenary lecture. Nominations Candidates must be nominated by their university and the nominator is responsible for preparing the documentation described below, and submitting the nomination to the address below. No university may nominate more than one candidate and the deadline for the receipt of nominations is January 31, 2010. The documentation shall consist of: . A curriculum vitae prepared by the student. . A resum? of the student's work written by the student and which must not exceed ten pages. The resum? should include a brief description of the thesis and why it is important, as well as of any other contributions made by the student while a doctoral student. . Three letters of recommendation of which one should be from the thesis advisor and one from an external reviewer. A copy of the external examiner's report may be substituted for the latter. More than three letters of recommendation are not accepted. Chair, Doctoral Prize Selection Committee Canadian Mathematical Society 105-1785 Alta Vista Drive Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1G 3Y6 From director at cms.math.ca Thu Nov 12 09:44:56 2009 From: director at cms.math.ca (Executive Director) Date: Thu Nov 12 09:44:59 2009 Subject: [cmath] APPEL DE MISES EN CANDIDATURE - Prix de doctorat 2010 Message-ID: Prix de doctorat 2010 La SMC a cr?? ce Prix de doctorat pour r?compenser le travail exceptionnel d'un ?tudiant au doctorat. Le prix sera d?cern? ? une personne qui aura re?u son dip?me de troisi?me cycle d'une universit? canadienne l'ann?e pr?c?dente (entre le 1er janvier et le 31 d?cembre) et dont les r?sultats pour l'ensemble des ?tudes sup?rieures seront jug?s les meilleurs. La dissertation constituera le principal crit?re de s?lection (impact des r?sultats, cr?ativit?, qualit? de l'exposition, etc.), mais ne sera pas le seul aspect ?valu?. On tiendra ?galement compte des publications de l'?tudiant, de son engagement dans la vie ?tudiante et de ses autres r?alisations. Les mises en candidature qui ne seront pas choisies dans leur premi?re comp?tition seront consid?r?es pour une ann?e additionelle (sans possibilit? de mise ? jour du dossier), et seront r?vis?es par le comit? de s?lection du Prix de doctorat l'an prochain. Le laur?at du Prix de doctorat de la SMC aura droit ? une bourse de 500 $. De plus, la SMC lui offrira l'adh?sion gratuite ? la Soci?t? pendant deux ans et lui remettra un certificat encadr? et une subvention pour frais de d?placements lui permettant d'assister ? la r?union de la SMC o? il recevra son prix et pr?sentera une conf?rence. Candidatures Les candidats doivent ?tre nomm?s par leur universit?; la personne qui propose un candidat doit se charger de regrouper les documents d?crits aux paragraphes suivants et de faire parvenir la candidature ? l'adresse ci-dessous. Aucune universit? ne peut nommer plus d'un candidat. Les candidatures doivent parvenir ? la SMC au plus tard le 31 janvier 2010. Le dossier sera constitu? des documents suivants : . Un curriculum vitae r?dig? par l'?tudiant. . Un r?sum? du travail du candidat d'au plus dix pages, r?dig? par l'?tudiant, o? celui-ci d?crira bri?vement sa th?se et en expliquera l'importance, et ?num?rera toutes ses autres r?alisations pendant ses ?tudes de doctorat. . Trois lettres de recommandation, dont une du directeur de th?se et une d'un examinateur de l'ext?rieur (une copie de son rapport serait aussi acceptable). Le comit? n'acceptera pas plus de trois lettres de recommandation. Pr?sident du Comit? de s?lection du Prix de doctorat Soci?t? math?matique du Canada 105-1785 Alta Vista Drive Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1G 3Y6 From peter.taylor at queensu.ca Fri Nov 13 08:38:49 2009 From: peter.taylor at queensu.ca (Peter Taylor) Date: Fri Nov 13 08:39:03 2009 Subject: [cmath] Fwd: New and recent NISS volumes Message-ID: <0KT1007OFV8R4OA0@mta02.its.queensu.ca> I forward some interesting notices of New ICMI Studies. With respect to the newest, Vol 13, Celia gave an excellent talk on this subject at ICME 11 and the "rethinking" is definitely needed. peter A NEW NISS VOLUME I am pleased to inform you that the Study Volume resulting from the 17th ICMI Study has just appeared in the New ICMI Study Series (NISS) published by Springer: Celia Hoyles and Jean-Baptiste Lagrange (Eds.) "Mathematics Education and Technology - Rethinking the Terrain: The 17th ICMI Study." New ICMI Study Series, Vol. 13 Springer, 2010, XIV, 494 p., 50 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-0145-3 Information about the book can be found on the NISS webpage, inside Springer website: http://www.springeronline.com/series/6351 RECENT NISS VOLUMES You are reminded that the Study Volumes resulting from the 15th and 16th ICMI Studies have appeared by the end of 2008, also in the NISS series: -- Ruhama Even and Deborah Loewenberg Ball (Eds.) "The Professional Education and Development of Teachers of Mathematics: The 15th ICMI Study." New ICMI Study Series, Vol. 11 Springer, 2009, XII, 280 p., Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-09600-1 -- Edward J. Barbeau and Peter J. Taylor (Eds.) "Challenging Mathematics In and Beyond the Classroom: The 16th ICMI Study." New ICMI Study Series, Vol. 12 Springer, 2009, XIII, 337 p., 5 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-09602-5 ICMI DISCOUNT --- ONLINE ORDERING OF THE NISS VOLUME I USE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO REMIND YOU THAT MEMBERS OF THE ICMI COMMUNITY PURCHASING THE NISS BOOKS FOR PERSONAL USE ARE ENTITLED TO A 60% DISCOUNT ON THE HARDBOUND PRICE AND A 25% DISCOUNT ON THE SOFTBOUND PRICE. In order to obtain the society discount granted to ICMI, the appropriate "SpringerToken" must be entered during the online ordering process through the Springer NISS website. Please visit the ICMI website http://www.mathunion.org/ICMI/ under Useful Links > NISS Volumes Discount for instructions on how to obtain the ICMI discount. Thanks for disseminating this information widely within your community. Best wishes to all, Bernard ____________________________________________ Bernard R. Hodgson Secretary-General of ICMI -- Secr?taire g?n?ral de la CIEM (International Commission on Mathematical Instruction / Commission internationale de l'enseignement math?matique) D?partement de math?matiques et de statistique Facult? des sciences et de g?nie 1045, avenue de la M?decine Universit? Laval Qu?bec (Qu?bec) G1V 0A6 CANADA T?l?phone : +1 418 656 2131, poste 2975 T?l?copie : +1 418 656 2817 Courriel : bhodgson@mat.ulaval.ca Site personnel : http://www.mat.ulaval.ca/pages/hodgson/ Site CIEM / ICMI website : http://www.mathunion.org/ICMI/ Avis relatif ? la confidentialit? / Notice of Confidentiality / Advertencia de confidencialidad http://www.rec.ulaval.ca/lce/securite/confidentialite.htm ____________________________________________ Peter Taylor Professor Dept Math&Stats Queen's University Kingston ON K7L 3N6 613 533-2434 http://www.mast.queensu.ca/~peter/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The University of Toronto is an international leader in mathematics research and education, and the Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences enjoys strong ties to other units within the University. The successful candidate for this position will be expected to participate actively in the Graduate Department of Mathematics at the University of Toronto, as well as to contribute to the enrichment of mathematics academic programs at the University's Scarborough campus. Candidates should have, or be about to receive, a Ph.D. in mathematics or a related field. They must demonstrate an ability to pursue innovative research at the highest level, and a commitment to undergraduate and graduate teaching. Evidence of excellence in teaching and research is necessary. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Application materials, including curriculum vitae, research statement, teaching statement, the AMS Standard Cover Sheet, and four letters of recommendation, should be submitted online at www.mathjobs.org , preferably well before our deadline of *January 17, 2010. * *PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE ONLY ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS AT: *www.mathjobs.org For more information about the Department of Computer & Mathematical Sciences @ UTSC, please visit our home page . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20091116/f83615b8/attachment.htm From akelm at cms.math.ca Fri Nov 20 11:21:44 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Fri Nov 20 11:21:48 2009 Subject: [cmath] Fwd: New Director in Research Grants at NSERC / Nouvelle directrice aux Subventions de recherche du CRSNG Message-ID: <4B06C218.7010601@cms.math.ca> *From:* Blain,Isabelle *Sent:* November 13, 2009 9:17 AM *To:* NSERC-ONET Research Grants Officers; NSERC-ONET University Reps; NSERC-VPs of Research; NSERC-ONET Scholarship Liaison Officers; NSERC-COMMITTEE-COGS; NSERC-ONET Deans and Assoc Deans of Graduate Studies *Subject:* New Director in Research Grants at NSERC / Nouvelle directrice aux Subventions de recherche du CRSNG /(la version fran?aise suit)/ Please join me in extending a warm welcome to Anne-Marie Thompson, who has joined NSERC as our new Director of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. Since earning her master?s degree in environmental engineering from Carleton University, Ms. Thompson has served in several government departments, including Natural Resources Canada, the Department of National Defence and Environment Canada. Most recently, she was a Section Head in Environment Canada?s Oil, Gas and Alternative Energy Division. Ms. Thompson is already known to certain sectors of the research community, thanks to working on projects such as the development of /Canada?s Technology Roadmap for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage/, and the planning and implementation of an R&D strategic plan on environmental and energy technologies. She joins us at an extremely busy time in NSERC?s competition cycle, as we begin processing some 3,500 Discovery Grant applications, prepare an orientation session for the members of our new Evaluation Groups and hold the semi-annual meeting of the Committee on Grants and Scholarships. The appointment of a new director is also an important part of the recent process to reorganize NSERC?s Research Grants and Scholarships Directorate. The new structure now includes five divisions: Life Sciences and Geocience; Physical and Mathematical Sciences; Engineering, Innovabite Collaboration, Science Promotion and Operations; and Scholarships and Fellowships. The reorganization was done in response to both the increased workload experienced by our staff and changes in the research landscape. We began implementing the new structure on October 1, and we expect it to be fully in place by April 1, 2010. We thank you for your patience during this transition. * * * * * * * * * Veuillez vous joindre ? moi pour accueillir chaleureusement Anne?Marie Thompson, la nouvelle directrice de la Division des sciences physiques et math?matiques du CRSNG. Apr?s avoir obtenu une ma?trise en g?nie de l?environnement de la Carleton University, M^me Thompson a travaill? au sein de plusieurs minist?res f?d?raux, notamment Ressources naturelles Canada, le minist?re de la D?fense nationale et Environnement Canada. Plus r?cemment, elle a occup? le poste de chef de section ? la Division du p?trole, du gaz et de l??nergie de remplacement d?Environnement Canada. M^me Thompson est d?j? connue dans certains secteurs du milieu de la recherche gr?ce ? son travail sur des projets tels que l??laboration de la Feuille de route du captage et du stockage du dioxyde de carbone du Canada ainsi qu?? la planification et ? la mise en ?uvre d?un plan strat?gique pour la R et D touchant les technologies environnementales et ?nerg?tiques. Elle a joint nos rangs au cours d?une p?riode extr?mement occup?e du cycle de concours du CRSNG, au moment o? nous entamons le traitement de quelque 3 500 demandes de subvention ? la d?couverte, la pr?paration d?une s?ance d?orientation pour les membres de nos nouveaux groupes d??valuation et la tenue d?une r?union semi-annuelle du Comit? des subventions et des bourses. La nomination d?une nouvelle directrice repr?sente ?galement un ?l?ment important de la r?organisation de la Direction des subventions et bourses de recherche. La nouvelle structure comprend maintenant cinq divisions : Sciences de la vie et g?osciences; Sciences physiques et math?matiques; g?nie; Collaborations innovatrices, promotion des sciences et op?rations des programmes; Bourses. Cette r?organisation a ?t? faite en r?action tant ? la charge de travail accrue de notre personnel qu?aux changements dans le milieu de la recherche. La mise en ?uvre de la nouvelle structure a d?but? le 1^er octobre et devrait se terminer d?ici le 1^er avril 2010. Nous vous remercions de votre patience au cours de cette p?riode de transition. Isabelle Blain /Vice-President, Research Grants and Scholarships / Vice-pr?sidente, Subventions de recherche et bourses/ /NSERC / CRSNG/ /350 Albert, Ottawa, ON K1A 1H5/ /Tel : (613) 995-5833/ /Fax / t?l?copieur : (613) 995-7753/ /(please note my new e-mail address / veuillez noter ma nouvelle adresse courriel)/// /email / courriel : /isabelle.blain@nserc-crsng.gc.ca // /web : //www.nserc.ca/ / //www.crsng.ca/ -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/related From rmarsh at mitacs.ca Tue Nov 24 13:22:02 2009 From: rmarsh at mitacs.ca (Rebeccah Marsh) Date: Tue Nov 24 13:23:35 2009 Subject: [cmath] MITACS Call for Networking Proposals Message-ID: Le fran?ais suit l'anglais ***************** MITACS accepts networking proposals three times annually, on January 4, April 30, and September 10. For detailed submission instructions, guidelines, and a template for your submission please visit the MITACS web page at www.mitacs.ca/goto/callsEN MITACS has funding available for the following scientific events: 1. Hot Topic Events: networking or training events in any academic discipline that: * Target a provincial priority area; and/or * Provide opportunities for academics to interact with the non-academic sector or with other disciplines with whom they do not normally interact. Since they are subject to the availability of provincial funding, Hot Topic Events must take place in BC, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Newfoundland, or PEI. 1. Mathematical Sciences Networking Events: workshops, conferences, roundtables or other similar events that have a significant connection with MITACS-NCE theme areas or projects and * Involve applications of mathematical sciences to problems with major economic or societal impact; * Leverage significant participation from non-academic organizations. 2. 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Pour obtenir des instructions et des directives d?taill?es sur les soumissions ou pour vous procurer un gabarit, veuillez visiter le site Web de MITACS ? www.mitacs.ca/goto/callsFR MITACS propose du financement pour les activit?s scientifiques suivantes : 1. ?v?nements d'actualit? : activit?s de r?seautage ou de formation, toutes disciplines universitaires confondues, qui : * ciblent un domaine provincial prioritaire; et/ou * offrent la possibilit? aux membres de milieu universitaire d'interagir avec les intervenants extrascolaires ou d'autres disciplines avec qui ils ne dialoguent pas habituellement. ?tant assujettis ? la disponibilit? du financement provincial, les ?v?nements d'actualit? doivent se d?rouler en Colombie-Britannique, en Saskatchewan, en Ontario, ? Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador ou ? l'?le-du-Prince-?douard. 1. Activit?s de r?seautage en sciences math?matiques : ateliers, conf?rences, tables rondes ou autres activit?s similaires pr?sentant un lien important avec les projets ou domaines th?matiques du RCE MITACS et qui : * comportent l'application des sciences math?matiques aux probl?mes ayant des retomb?es majeures sur les plans ?conomique ou social; ou * tirent parti de la participation inestimable des organismes extrascolaires. 2. Activit?s de formation des ?tudiants en sciences math?matiques : cours d'?t?, didacticiels, ateliers, cours abr?g?s ou autres activit?s similaires qui offrent aux ?tudiants dipl?m?s et aux boursiers postdoctoraux une formation technique s'ajoutant ? leur programme d'?tudes normal. Nous nous int?ressons particuli?rement aux activit?s qui demandent la participation de nombreux ?tudiants dipl?m?s. Kind regards, Rebeccah Marsh PhD Director of Programs MITACS Inc. 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Eligibility, criterion and continuity A selection committee established by the CAP Division of Theoretical Physics and the CRM has the mandate to choose the laureate of this prize on the basis of outstanding contributions to the advancement of the field. The main selection criterion is excellence in research. The candidate?s research should have been carried out primarily in Canada or in affiliation with a Canadian university or industry. Nominations are valid for three (3) years. Nominations must be submitted by January 15, 2010 by at least one sponsor and should include the following: 1. The completed online nomination form available on the web site http://www.cap.ca/en/activities/medals-and-awards/medals-research/theoretical-mathematical-physics, and a supporting letter from the nominator. 2. A curriculum vitae for the nominee of 20 pages maximum, including a list of publications and a list of awards, grants, and other evidence of exceptional impact on the field. It need not contain routine information on service on university committees and similar commitments. 3. A short summary (one page or less) of the candidate?s major contributions to mathematical physics. 4. Three letters from referees with recognized expertise in the candidate?s field. Letters should particularly address the quality, originality, and significance of the candidate?s work, as shown by citations and other such evidence of impact. 5. A short description of the significance and impact of up to five (5) important papers in a format similar to that in the NSERC Form 100. 6. A citation of 300 words or less suitable for public dissemination if the nominee is selected as the medal recipient (submitted in plain text format, cut and pasted into the online nomination form). 7. A photograph of the nominee. (This can be a low resolution photograph, which may be retrievable from the nominee?s worksite. The nominee will be asked for a high resolution photo if selected as medal recipient). Please note that this is not required in order to complete the file but will speed up the announcement of the medal winner. There will be at most one prize each year, to be awarded at the annual congress of the Canadian Association of Physicists. The laureate will be invited to give a lecture at the CAP annual congress and later at the CRM. A commemorative medal and $2,000 will be given to the laureate at the CAP Congress. Past recipients of the CAP-CRM Prize are: Hong Guo (2009), Richard Cleve (2008), Jo?l Feldman (2007), John Harnad (2006), Robert C. Myers (2005), Jiri Patera (2004), Matthew W. Choptuik (2003), Pavel Winternitz (2002), Andr?-Marie Tremblay (2001), Gordon W. Semenoff (2000), David J. Rowe (1999), J. Richard Bond (1998), Ian Affleck (1997), William G. Unruh (1996) et Werner Israel (1995). For more information: Centre de recherches math?matiques, 514-343-7501 CRM@CRM.UMontreal.CA, www.crm.umontreal.ca/prix --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- APPEL ? CANDIDATURES LE PRIX ACP-CRM 2010 Date limite: 15 janvier 2010 Le Centre de recherches math?matiques (CRM) et l?Association canadienne des physiciens et physiciennes (ACP) sollicitent les candidatures pour le Prix ACP-CRM de physique th?orique et math?matique qui vise ? souligner des r?alisations exceptionnelles dans le domaine. Admissibilit?, crit?res et continuit? Un comit? d?attribution mis sur pied par la division de physique th?orique de l?ACP et par le CRM s?lectionne le laur?at du Prix sur la foi de contributions remarquables ? l?avancement des connaissances dans le domaine. Le crit?re de s?lection principal est l?excellence de la recherche. Les candidats au Prix ACP-CRM doivent avoir r?alis? leurs travaux de recherche essentiellement au Canada ou dans le cadre d?une affiliation avec une universit? ou une entreprise canadienne. Les nominations sont valides pour trois (3) ans. Les mises en candidature doivent avoir ?t? re?ues au plus tard le 15 janvier 2010, ?tre parrainn?es par au moins une personne qui s?occupe de d?poser le dossier qui comporte les documents suivants: 1. Le formulaire ?lectronique de mise en candidature disponible en suivant la proc?dure sur le site http://www.cap.ca/fr/activites/medailles-bourses/medailles-recherche/theorique-mathematique et une lettre d?appui du pr?sentateur de la candidature. 2. Un curriculum vitae de la personne propos?e, d?au plus 20 pages, comprenant une liste des publications et une liste des prix, les subventions et autres ?l?ments probants ayant eu un impact exceptionnel sur la discipline. Le curriculum ne doit pas comprendre d?information courante sur les services rendus ? des comit?s universitaires et sur d?autres engagements semblables. 3. Un bref r?sum? (une page ou moins) des contributions exceptionnelles du candidat ? la physique math?matique. 4. Trois lettres d?examinateurs ayant une comp?tence reconnue dans le domaine du candidat. Les lettres doivent notamment faire ?tat de la qualit?, de l?originalit? et de l?importance des travaux du candidat, comme le montrent les citations et les autres preuves d?impact semblables. 5. Une br?ve description de l?importance et de l?impact de communications importantes (maximum de cinq), semblables ? celles contenues dans le formulaire 100 du CRSNG. 6. Une citation de 300 mots ou moins qui puisse ?tre publi?e si la personne propos?e est choisie pour recevoir la m?daille (pr?sent?e en format texte clair, coup?-coll? sur le formulaire de mise en candidature en ligne). 7. Une photographie de la personne mise en nomination (ce peut ?tre une photo ? faible r?solution, tir?e par exemple du site web de l?institution o? la personne travaille; on lui demandera une meilleure photo si la m?daille lui est attribu?e). Veuillez noter que cette photo n?est pas requise pour que le dossier soit complet, mais cela acc?l?re l?annonce des r?cipiendaires de m?dailles. Au maximum un seul prix ACP-CRM sera d?cern? ? chaque ann?e. Le laur?at sera invit? ? prononcer une conf?rence lors du congr?s annuel de l?ACP. Une m?daille comm?morative et un montant de 2000 $ lui seront remis dans le cadre du congr?s de l'ACP. Les laur?ats pr?c?dents du Prix ACP-CRM ont ?t?: Hong Guo (2009), Richard Cleve (2008), Jo?l Feldman (2007), John Harnad (2006), Robert C. Myers (2005), Jiri Patera (2004), Matthew W. Choptuik (2003), Pavel Winternitz (2002), Andr?-Marie Tremblay (2001), Gordon W. Semenoff (2000), David J. Rowe (1999), J. Richard Bond (1998), Ian Affleck (1997), William G. 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Merci, ?ric Marchand -- ?ric Marchand (Directeur int?rimaire, Professeur de statistique) D?partement de math?matiques Universit? de Sherbrooke (eric.marchand@usherbrooke.ca) http://www.usherbrooke.ca/mathematiques/ 819 821-8000 (poste 62032 ou 62021) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: UdeS_emploi_00522_statistique.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 149578 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20091127/d7263db8/UdeS_emploi_00522_statistique.pdf From akelm at cms.math.ca Fri Nov 27 14:53:31 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Fri Nov 27 14:53:36 2009 Subject: [cmath] Lecturer =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=93_Mathematics_-__University_of_Toronto?= =?utf-8?q?_Mississauga?= Message-ID: <4B102E3B.8060403@cms.math.ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 1839 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20091201/610ad321/attachment-0001.gif From akelm at cms.math.ca Wed Dec 2 13:49:25 2009 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Wed Dec 2 13:49:27 2009 Subject: [cmath] Faculty Position in Mathematics - Grant MacEwan University Message-ID: <4B16B6B5.1050404@cms.math.ca> /Inspiring and enabling individuals to succeed in life through career and university studies/ Full-Time Faculty Position ? Mathematics The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Grant MacEwan University invites applications for one full-time faculty position in Mathematics commencing July 1, 2010. This position will contribute to the growth and success of MacEwan's four-year Bachelor of Science degree. The candidate must have a PhD (or solid indication of imminent completion) in Mathematics, must demonstrate excellence or clear promise of excellence in teaching, and must demonstrate strong research ability through an active research program. Applicants should have strong written and oral communication skills in English. Applicants should submit a covering letter with curriculum vitae, a teaching statement and student evaluations, graduate transcripts, a statement of research interests and evidence of current scholarly activity. Candidates should also arrange for three letters of reference to be sent under separate cover. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however in accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority. *Salary Range: commensurate with education and experience * *Closing Date: January 8, 2010 at 4:30 p.m. * *Quote Competition No: 09.11.280 * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Grant MacEwan University thanks all applicants for their interest in employment, however only those selected for interviews will be contacted. * *Apply to: * Human Resources Department Grant MacEwan University City Centre Campus 7-105, 10700 104 Ave Edmonton AB T5J 4S2 Fax: (780) 497-5430 Phone: (780) 497-5434 E-mail: careers@macewan.ca Grant MacEwan University employment opportunities can be viewed by visiting our website at www.macewan.ca Click on Jobs at MacEwan. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This employment position is among those listed in the Employment section of the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/Employment -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20091202/173f3a6a/attachment.htm From adem at pims.math.ca Fri Dec 4 09:47:19 2009 From: adem at pims.math.ca (Alejandro Adem) Date: Fri Dec 4 09:46:09 2009 Subject: [cmath] Gordon Slade winner of 2010 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize Message-ID: Gordon Slade Awarded 2010 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize The Directors of the three Institutes, CRM, Fields and PIMS, are pleased to announce that Gordon Slade from the University of British Columbia is the recipient of the 2010 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize. The award recognises his outstanding work in rigorous statistical mechanics and probability. He is renowned for developing a technique known as the lace expansion into a systematic calculus which he has applied to diverse and famous problems including self-avoiding walk, percolation, branched polymers, random graphs, and numerical techniques for the exact enumeration of self-avoiding walks. His results address some of the most difficult problems in central areas of probability and statistical physics. These are questions motivated by physical problems which are easy to state (what is the average length of an n-step self-avoiding walk?), but notoriously difficult to solve. Gordon Slade received his undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto in 1977 and completed his Doctoral degree with Lon Rosen and Joel Feldman at the University of British Columbia in 1984. He was Lecturer at the University of Virginia from 1985 to 1986. In 1986 he joined the faculty of McMaster University and since 1999 he has been Professor of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia. Gordon Slade has been a leader in Canadian Mathematics, having been an organiser of the (98-99) thematic year in probability and its applications at the Fields Institute, co-organiser of the recent CRM-PIMS Programme Challenges and Perspectives in Probability (08-09). He has served on scientific panels of the Fields and Pacific Institutes and is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the Canadian Journal of Mathematics. His stature as one of the world's leading probabilists and mathematical physicists was underlined by his 1994 invitation to the International Congress of Mathematics and his 2004 invitation to lecture at the prestigious St. Flour Summer School. From director at cms.math.ca Thu Dec 10 09:27:22 2009 From: director at cms.math.ca (Executive Director) Date: Thu Dec 10 09:27:27 2009 Subject: [cmath] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS / APPEL DE MISES EN CANDIDATURE Message-ID: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Crux Mathematicorum with Mathematical Mayhem (CRUX with MAYHEM) The term of office of the present Editor-in-Chief of CRUX with MAYHEM will end December 31, 2010. The Publications Committee of the CMS solicits nominations for an Editor-in-Chief for CRUX with MAYHEM. The appointment will be for five years beginning January 1, 2011. The deadline for the submission of nominations is March 15, 2010. Nominations, containing a curriculum vitae and the candidate's agreement to serve should be sent electronically to the e-mail address below. ***************************************************************** APPEL DE MISES EN CANDIDATURE : R?DACTEUR-EN-CHEF Crux Mathematicorum with Mathematical Mayhem (CRUX with MAYHEM) Le mandat de r?dacteur-en-chef actuel prendra fin le 31 d?cembre 2010. Le comit? des publications de la SMC sollicite des mises en candidature pour un poste de r?dacteur-en-chef de ?CRUX with MAYHEM?. Le mandat sera de cinq ans et d?butera le 1er janvier 2011. L'?ch?ance pour proposer des candidat(e)s est le 15 mars 2010. Les mises en candidature, accompagn?es d'un curriculum vitae ainsi que du consentement du candidat(e), devraient ?tre envoy?es ?lectroniquement ? l'adresse courriel ci-dessous. ***************************************************************** Address for Nominations / Addresse de mise en candidatures : Chair / Pr?sident CMS Publications Committee / Comit? des publications de la SMC chair-pubc@cms.math.ca From director at cms.math.ca Thu Dec 10 09:29:31 2009 From: director at cms.math.ca (Executive Director) Date: Thu Dec 10 09:29:33 2009 Subject: [cmath] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS / APPEL DE MISES EN CANDIDATURE Message-ID: Call for Nominations: Canadian Mathematical Bulletin Editors-in-Chief The term of office of the present Editors-in-Chief of the Canadian Mathematical Bulletin will end December 31, 2010. The Publications Committee of the CMS invites nominations for the next Editors-in-Chief to serve for a five year term. Applications should consist of a formal letter of application and include the following: . A curriculum vitae . An expression of views of the publication indicating if any changes in direction or policy are contemplated . Since editorial responsibilities often necessitate a lessening of responsabilities in an individual's normal work, applicants should indicate that they have the support of their university department and, in particular, of their head of department. Any input from the mathematical community concerning this important selection process is welcome. Applications (with supporting material) and/or comments should be sent electronically to the e-mail address below. The deadline for the receipt of applications is March 15, 2010. *************************************************************************** Appel de mises en candidature : Bulletin canadien de math?matiques ?diteurs-en-chef Le mandat des r?dacteurs-en-chef actuels du Bulletin canadien de math?matiques prendra fin le 31 d?cembre 2010. Le Comit? des publications de la SMC sollicite des mises en candidatures pour les prochains r?dacteurs-en-chef pour un mandat de cinq ans. Les mises en candidature doivent inclure une lettre formelle et les ?l?ments suivants: . Un curriculum vitae . L'expression de votre opinion sur la publication indiquant si des changements de directions ou de politiques sont envisag?s . Puisque les responsabilit?s de r?daction n?cessitent souvent une r?duction dans la charge normale de travail, les candidats devraient indiquer qu'ils(elles) ont l'appui de leur d?partement et en particulier, de leur chef de d?partment. Les commentaires de la communaut? math?matique au sujet de cette importante s?lection sont bienvenus. Les mises en candiatures (avec mat?rial ? l'appui) et/ou commentaires devraient ?tre achemin?s ?lectroniquement ? l'adresse courriel ci-dessous. L'?ch?ance pour la r?ception des mises en candidature est le 15 mars 2009. *************************************************************************** Address for Nominations / Addresse de mise en candidatures : Chair / Pr?sident CMS Publications Committee chair-pubc@cms.math.ca *************************************************************************** CURRENT CJM/CMB EDITORIAL BOARD / MEMBRES ACTUELS DU CONSEIL DE R?DACTION Editor-in-Chief / R?dacteurs-en-chef du CMB Nantel Bergeron (York) to/? 31/12/2010 Jianhong Wu (York) to/? 12/31/2010 Editor-in-Chief / R?dacteurs-en-chef du CJM Henry Kim (Totonto) to/? 31/12/2011 Robert McCann (Toronto) to/? 31/12/2011 Associate Editors / R?dacteur associ?s : Karoly Bezdek (Calgary) to/? 31/12/2011 James Colliander (Toronto) to/? 31/12/2011 Luc Devroye (McGill) to/? 31/12/2009 Alan Dow (North Carolina) to/? 31/12/2010 George Elliott (Toronto) to/? 31/12/2010 Associate Editors con'd/ R?dacteur associ?s suite : Kathryn Hare (Waterloo) to/? 31/12/2011 Stephen Kudla (Toronto) to/? 31/12/2013 Vladimir Pestov (Ottawa) to/? 31/12/2013 Thomas Ransford (Laval) to/? 31/12/2009 Gordon Slade (UBC) to/? 31/12/2013 Roland Speicher (Queen's) to/? 31/12/2013 Ravi Vakil (Stanford) to/? 31/12/2009 Vinayak Vatsal (UBC) to/? 31/12/2013 Jie Xiao (Memorial) to/? 31/12/2013 From director at cms.math.ca Thu Dec 10 09:36:38 2009 From: director at cms.math.ca (Executive Director) Date: Thu Dec 10 09:36:41 2009 Subject: [cmath] Call for Nominations: 2010 Doctoral Prize Message-ID: Call for Nominations: 2010 Doctoral Prize The CMS Doctoral Prize recognizes outstanding performance by a doctoral student. The prize is awarded to the person who received a Ph.D. from a Canadian university in the preceding year (January 1st to December 31st) and whose overall performance in graduate school is judged to be the most outstanding. Although the dissertation will be the most important criterion (the impact of the results, the creativity of the work, the quality of exposition, etc.) it will not be the only one. Other publications, activities in support of students and other accomplishments will also be considered. Nominations that were not successful in the first competition, will be kept active for a further year (with no possibility of updating the file) and will be considered by the Doctoral Prize Selection Committee in the following year's competition. The CMS Doctoral Prize will consist of an award of $500, a two-year complimentary membership in the CMS, a framed Doctoral Prize certificate and a stipend for travel expenses to attend the CMS meeting to receive the award and present a plenary lecture. Nominations Candidates must be nominated by their university and the nominator is responsible for preparing the documentation described below, and submitting the nomination to the address below. No university may nominate more than one candidate and the deadline for the receipt of nominations is January 31, 2010. The documentation shall consist of: . A curriculum vitae prepared by the student. . A resum? of the student's work written by the student and which must not exceed ten pages. The resum? should include a brief description of the thesis and why it is important, as well as of any other contributions made by the student while a doctoral student. . Three letters of recommendation of which one should be from the thesis advisor and one from an external reviewer. A copy of the external examiner's report may be substituted for the latter. More than three letters of recommendation are not accepted. Chair, Doctoral Prize Selection Committee Canadian Mathematical Society 105-1785 Alta Vista Drive Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1G 3Y6 From director at cms.math.ca Thu Dec 10 09:38:17 2009 From: director at cms.math.ca (Executive Director) Date: Thu Dec 10 09:38:19 2009 Subject: [cmath] Appel de mises en candidature : Prix de doctorat 2010 Message-ID: Appel de mises en candidature : Prix de doctorat 2010 La SMC a cr?? ce Prix de doctorat pour r?compenser le travail exceptionnel d'un ?tudiant au doctorat. Le prix sera d?cern? ? une personne qui aura re?u son dip?me de troisi?me cycle d'une universit? canadienne l'ann?e pr?c?dente (entre le 1er janvier et le 31 d?cembre) et dont les r?sultats pour l'ensemble des ?tudes sup?rieures seront jug?s les meilleurs. La dissertation constituera le principal crit?re de s?lection (impact des r?sultats, cr?ativit?, qualit? de l'exposition, etc.), mais ne sera pas le seul aspect ?valu?. On tiendra ?galement compte des publications de l'?tudiant, de son engagement dans la vie ?tudiante et de ses autres r?alisations. Les mises en candidature qui ne seront pas choisies dans leur premi?re comp?tition seront consid?r?es pour une ann?e additionelle (sans possibilit? de mise ? jour du dossier), et seront r?vis?es par le comit? de s?lection du Prix de doctorat l'an prochain. Le laur?at du Prix de doctorat de la SMC aura droit ? une bourse de 500 $. De plus, la SMC lui offrira l'adh?sion gratuite ? la Soci?t? pendant deux ans et lui remettra un certificat encadr? et une subvention pour frais de d?placements lui permettant d'assister ? la r?union de la SMC o? il recevra son prix et pr?sentera une conf?rence. Candidatures Les candidats doivent ?tre nomm?s par leur universit?; la personne qui propose un candidat doit se charger de regrouper les documents d?crits aux paragraphes suivants et de faire parvenir la candidature ? l'adresse ci-dessous. Aucune universit? ne peut nommer plus d'un candidat. Les candidatures doivent parvenir ? la SMC au plus tard le 31 janvier 2010. Le dossier sera constitu? des documents suivants : . Un curriculum vitae r?dig? par l'?tudiant. . Un r?sum? du travail du candidat d'au plus dix pages, r?dig? par l'?tudiant, o? celui-ci d?crira bri?vement sa th?se et en expliquera l'importance, et ?num?rera toutes ses autres r?alisations pendant ses ?tudes de doctorat. . Trois lettres de recommandation, dont une du directeur de th?se et une d'un examinateur de l'ext?rieur (une copie de son rapport serait aussi acceptable). Le comit? n'acceptera pas plus de trois lettres de recommandation. Pr?sident du Comit? de s?lection du Prix de doctorat Soci?t? math?matique du Canada 105-1785 Alta Vista Drive Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1G 3Y6 From secretariat at cmsim.info Wed Dec 16 22:39:44 2009 From: secretariat at cmsim.info (SecretariatCHAOS2010Conference) Date: Thu Dec 17 09:31:02 2009 Subject: [cmath] Reminder, Abstract submission, 3rd Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference Message-ID: Dear Colleague, This is a reminder for the call for Abstract submission (deadline December 20, 2009) to the forthcoming Nonlinear Conference titled: 3rd Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference (CHAOS2010), Chania, Crete, Greece, June 1-4, 2010. The forthcoming 3rd International Conference (Chaos2010) on Chaotic Modeling, Simulation and Applications will take place at the MAICh Conference Centre, Chania, Crete, Greece (June 1-4, 2010). The general topics and the special sessions proposed for the Conference (Chaos2010) include but are not limited to: Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics, Stochastic Chaos, Chemical Chaos, Data Analysis and Chaos, Hydrodynamics, Turbulence and Plasmas, Optics and Chaos, Chaotic Oscillations and Circuits, Chaos in Climate Dynamics, Geophysical Flows, Biology and Chaos, Neurophysiology and Chaos, Hamiltonian systems, Chaos in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Chaos and Solitons, Micro- and Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems, Neural Networks and Chaos, Ecology and Economy. For more information and electronic abstract submission please visit the conference website at: http://www.cmsim.info/ and send email to: secretariat@cmsim.info Kind regards Prof. Christos H. 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These areas include bioinformatics, biostatistics, computational statistics, environmental statistics, sampling, spatial statistics, stochastic finance and other areas which complement the existing research strengths of the Department. Candidates with strong records of collaboration with researchers in other disciplines are also encouraged to apply. To be successful, a candidate must have a Ph.D. degree in statistics or a related discipline (or a Ph.D. degree to be completed by the starting date) and have a strong record or outstanding promise in both research and teaching. Duties will include research, undergraduate and graduate teaching, student supervision, and service-related activities. Please send applications (by e-mail or hard copy) to: Dr. John F. Brewster Chair, Search Committee Department of Statistics The University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3T 2N2 Telephone: 204-474-8172, Fax: 204-474-7621 E-mail: stats_dept@umanitoba.ca. Please include: a) a covering letter, b) a curriculum vitae, c) a description of future research plans, d) a statement of teaching philosophy and e) evidence of teaching ability (if available). Also arrange to have three letters of reference sent directly to the Chair of the Search Committee. Review of applications will commence on February 9, 2010 and continue until the position is filled. Application materials, including letters of reference, will be handled in accordance with the protection and privacy provisions of "The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (Manitoba)". Please note that curriculum vitas may be provided to participating members of the search process. Founded in 1967, the Department of Statistics at the University of Manitoba has a long and rich history. The Department currently has 14 academic members, with research interests in various areas of statistics and probability. The Department has active B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. programs, focusing on both theory and applications. The successful applicant will find that this is an exciting time to join the Department. Most of the current faculty members have joined the Department within the past decade and more positions are expected in the coming years. It is thus an ideal time for new faculty members to contribute to the reshaping of the Department's research and teaching programs. Additional information about the Department can be found at www.umanitoba.ca/statistics . Located in the thriving, multicultural city of Winnipeg, the University of Manitoba offers students and faculty a vibrant learning environment. Researchers at the University of Manitoba are among the best in the world. With over 30,000 students, faculty and staff, and offering 82 degree programs, the University of Manitoba plays a key role in the social, cultural, and economic well-being of its community and the world. 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[I hope I've remembered everyone.] Of course proposals must be briefly documented. Time is short so teamwork is needed. Ideas should be discussed with colleagues. I'm happy to help. Happy new year--it's around the corner again. peter >Dear ICMI Representatives, Chairs of ICMI Affiliate Study Groups and of CIAEM, > >As the tradition has it, I am writing to inform >you of developments concerning the programme of >ICME-12 (to be held in Seoul in July 2012) and >also to ask for your input for some components on the programme. > >The International Programme Committee for >ICME-12 had its first meeting last June, under >the presidency of its Chair, Sung Je Cho. Many >items of the programme are now taking shape, in >particular as regards the plenary >sessions. General information about this will >be issued in a near future, but at the moment I >wish to concentrate on two items on the >programme: Topic Study Groups and Regular Lectures. > > >--- TOPIC STUDY GROUPS >The IPC has identified the list of the 37 Topic >Study Groups to be offered at ICME-12. You will >find this list appended at the bottom of this >message. The IPC is now preparing a brief description of each of these Groups. > >You are invited to propose names of individuals >to be put in charge of the Groups, either as a >co-chairs or members of the organising teams. > > >--- REGULAR LECTURES >You are also invited to propose names of >individuals to play the role of regular lecturers at ICME-12. > > >In each case (Topic Study Groups or Regular >Lectures), you should provide a few lines of >background information supporting your >proposals. Please comment on why you think that >this person is suitable to play the role that you are proposing. > > >Your proposals should be sent directly to the >chair of the ICME-12 IPC, Sung Je Cho >(sungjcho@snu.ac.kr), NO LATER THAN JANUARY 20. > >Thanks in advance for your input, and best wishes, > >Bernard > > >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > >LIST OF TOPIC STUDY GROUPS AT ICME-12 > >TSG 1 Mathematics education at preschool level >TSG 2 Mathematics education at tertiary level and access to tertiary level >TSG 3 Activities and programs for gifted students >TSG 4 Activities and programs for students with special needs >TSG 5 Mathematics education in and for work >TSG 6 Mathematics literacy >TSG 7 Teaching and learning of number systems >and arithmetic --- focusing especially on primary education >TSG 8 Measurement --- focusing especially on primary education >TSG 9 Teaching and learning of algebra >TSG 10 Teaching and learning of geometry >TSG 11 Teaching and learning of probability >TSG 12 Teaching and learning of statistics >TSG 13 Teaching and learning of calculus >TSG 14 Reasoning, proof and proving in mathematics education >TSG 15 Problem solving in mathematics education >TSG 16 Visualization in the teaching and learning of mathematics >TSG 17 Mathematical applications and modelling >in the teaching and learning of mathematics >TSG 18 Analysis of uses of technology in the teaching of mathematics >TSG 19 Analysis of uses of technology in the learning of mathematics >TSG 20 The role of history of mathematics in mathematics education >TSG 21 Research on classroom practice >TSG 22 Learning and cognition in mathematics >TSG 23 Mathematical knowledge for teaching at primary level >TSG 24 Mathematical knowledge for teaching at secondary level >TSG 25 In-services education, professional development of mathematics teachers >TSG 26 Preservice mathematical education of teachers >TSG 27 Motivation, beliefs and attitudes towards mathematics and its teaching >TSG 28 Language and communication in mathematics education >TSG 29 Gender and mathematics education >TSG 30 Mathematics education in a multilingual and multicultural environment >TSG 31 Task design and analysis >TSG 32 Mathematics curriculum development >TSG 33 Assessment and testing in mathematics education >TSG 34 The role of mathematical competitions and >other challenging contexts in the teaching and learning of mathematics >TSG 35 The history of the teaching and learning of mathematics >TSG 36 The role of ethnomathematics in mathematics education >TSG 37 Theoretical issues in mathematics education > >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > > >-- >____________________________________________ >Bernard R. Hodgson >Secretary-General of ICMI -- Secr?taire g?n?ral de la CIEM >(International Commission on Mathematical Instruction / >Commission internationale de l'enseignement math?matique) >D?partement de math?matiques et de statistique >Facult? des sciences et de g?nie >1045, avenue de la M?decine >Universit? Laval >Qu?bec (Qu?bec) G1V 0A6 CANADA >T?l?phone : +1 418 656 2131, poste 2975 >T?l?copie : +1 418 656 2817 >Courriel : bhodgson@mat.ulaval.ca >Site personnel : http://www.mat.ulaval.ca/pages/hodgson/ >Site CIEM / ICMI website : http://www.mathunion.org/ICMI/ > >Avis relatif ? la confidentialit? / Notice of >Confidentiality / Advertencia de >confidencialidad http://www.rec.ulaval.ca/lce/securite/confidentialite.htm >____________________________________________ Peter Taylor Professor Math&Stats Queen's University Kingston ON K7L 3N6 613 533-2434 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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