From peter.taylor at queensu.ca Mon Jan 4 09:23:44 2010 From: peter.taylor at queensu.ca (Peter Taylor) Date: Mon Jan 4 09:23:53 2010 Subject: [cmath] News from ICMI Message-ID: <0KVQ00AN57ZKBKA0@mta02.its.queensu.ca> Colleagues: First of all I wish you all a wonderful 2010 year and indeed a great new decade. The ideas and energy around mathematics education over the past couple of years, world-wide but particularly here in Canada and particularly with so much enthusiasm from young scholars and teachers, has given me considerable optimism for our work over the next few years. This is a longish email and parts of it are technical and will not be of wide interest, but the beginning is of interest to us all--the reminder that the new ICMI Executive took office on Jan 1 of this year. Notable for us in Canada is that this signals the end of Bernard Hodgson's prodigious 11-year service as General Secretary of ICMI. Bernard's wisdom and common sense and enormous understanding of ICMI guided the organization through a period of considerable growth and change and reflected well on Canada as a significant player in international mathematics education. Bernard is far from "retiring" in any other sense; remarkably enough already last year he agreed to serve a term on the CMS Education Committee and his knowledge of "the workings of the world" will be available to us all as we move forward. Peter New ICMI Executive The purpose of this email is to remind you that as of January 1st, a new Executive Committee of ICMI will take charge, for the period 2010-2012. The elected members of this EC, following the election which took place during the 2008 ICMI General Assembly held in Monterrey, are: PRESIDENT: William (Bill) Barton (New Zealand) SECRETARY-GENERAL: Jaime Carvalho e Silva (Portugal) VICE-PRESIDENTS: Mina Teicher (Israel) Angel Ruiz (Costa Rica) MEMBERS AT LARGE: Mariolina Bartolini Bussi (Italy) Sung Je Cho (Korea) Roger Howe (USA) Renuka Vithal (South Africa) Zhang Yingbo (China) According to the ICMI Terms of Reference, the past President of ICMI as well as the President and the Secretary of IMU are also members of this EC. For any matter pertaining to ICMI, I thus invite you from now on to contact the new President or Secretary-General of ICMI, who can be reached at the following email addresses: b.barton@auckland.ac.nz (Bill BARTON) jaimecs@mat.uc.pt (Jaime CARVALHO E SILVA) As this is the last email that I am sending you in my capacity as ICMI Secretary-General, I wish to stress that it was for me a pleasure and an honor serving as the ICMI SG over the last 11 years and being regularly in contact with you. Thanks for all your collaboration and dedication in order to support ICMI mission, in particular by disseminating information about the work of ICMI in your country, and by keeping ICMI informed of developments in your country or region. New Terms of Reference of ICMI. The Executive Committees of ICMI and of its mother organisation, the International Mathematical Union, have felt the need to revise the Terms of Reference of ICMI. While some of you may not be enthusiastic readers of this kind of "literature", I am sure that you will all agree on the importance of revisiting from times to times this document, whose aim is to define the legal framework for the existence of ICMI and guide the way in which the Commission is acting (under the umbrella of IMU), in order to ensure that the Terms reflect adequately the evolution in the governance of ICMI and that all those having interest in ICMI and its activities clearly understand the distribution of duties and rights among the many actors involved in the life of ICMI. It is my pleasure to inform you that, following a series of discussions between the Executive Committees of ICMI and IMU, revised Terms of Reference for ICMI were formally adopted, December 31, 2009, by the EC of IMU, while the ICMI EC had adopted also the Guidelines pertaining to these Terms. The new Terms of Reference of ICMI and the Guidelines are appended at the end of this message. These Terms are the result of a thorough revision of the previous version. There are changes of various levels. For instance, the ICMI Terms have been split into two parts. From now on, the first part is (as usual) under the jurisdiction of the IMU EC, while the second part (Guidelines for the ICMI Terms of Reference) is under the jurisdiction of the ICMI EC. But other changes are much more substantial. I do not wish here to point to or to comment on all these changes, but let me stress a few important ones: -- The last paragraph of Clause 2 is congruent with the importance of the ICMI General Assembly, now responsible for the election of the ICMI EC. -- Clause 3, about the ICMI General Assembly, specifies in particular that the only members of the ICMI GA having voting rights are the representatives of Full member countries of IMU. -- Clause 4c stresses that co-option on the ICMI EC should be exceptional. -- Clause 9 introduces an important new notion, that of "Affiliate Organization", of which the current notion of "Affiliated Study Group" is becoming one "cas de figure". Affiliation is now possible not only for groups devoted to a specific field of interest in mathematics education, like the current five ICMI Affiliated Study Groups, but also to multi-national organizations with interest in mathematics education. We trust that this new element will be helpful in facilitating and supporting ICMI efforts about international collaboration and exchanges in mathematics education. It is the hope of the IMU and ICMI ECs that these new Terms of Reference for ICMI will be a useful tool for ICMI and the community it serves. Terms of Reference of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI), a commission of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) (Adopted by the IMU Executive Committee by an electronic vote on December 31, 2009) 1. ICMI shall be charged with the conduct of the activities of IMU bearing on mathematical or scientific education, and shall take the initiative in inaugurating appropriate programmes designed to further the sound development of mathematical education at all levels, and to secure public appreciation of its importance. In the pursuit of this objective, ICMI shall cooperate, to the extent it considers desirable, with groups, international, regional, topical or otherwise, formed within or outside its own structure. 2. The Members of ICMI consist of a. those countries which are Members of IMU, and b. other countries which are co-opted, as specified in (8) below. The term "country" is to be understood as described in the Statutes of IMU. Non-attendance by a country at two consecutive meetings of the ICMI General Assembly, as described under (3) below, shall lead to an investigation by the ICMI Executive Committee into the appropriateness of continued membership, such action to be undertaken in conjunction with IMU. 3. The General Assembly of ICMI consists of a. the members of the Executive Committee, as specified in (4) below, and b. the representative of each member country of ICMI, as described in (6) below, or a substitute duly certified to the Secretary-General of ICMI. The General Assembly of ICMI shall normally meet once in every four years, on the occasion of the International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME). Only the representatives of countries that are Full Members of IMU have voting rights. No person shall represent more than one country at the General Assembly. ICMI Affiliate Organizations, as described in (9) below, have the right to participate in the ICMI General Assembly, but shall have no voting rights. 4. The Executive Committee (EC) of ICMI consists of the following members. a. Elected by the ICMI General Assembly: Nine members, including the four officers, namely, the President, the two Vice-Presidents, and the Secretary-General. The President shall serve for one, non-renewable, term. b. Ex-officio members: The immediate Past President of ICMI, the President and the Secretary of IMU. The IMU President and Secretary may delegate to the ICMI EC meetings up to two other IMU EC members, the ICMI liaison persons. c. Co-opted member: In order to compensate for missing coverage or representation, the ICMI Executive Committee may exceptionally co-opt one additional member, in consultation with the IMU Executive Committee. Decisions of the ICMI Executive Committee are generally taken by consensus. In instances where a vote is required, all members of the Committee, including ex-officio members and the co-opted member, if any, shall have the right to vote. The election of the ICMI Executive Committee, including the formation of the ICMI Nominating Committee, is carried out according to the most recent version of the procedures for election, as adopted by the IMU General Assembly. 5. In all other respects, ICMI shall make its own decisions as to its internal organization and rules of procedure. 6. Each member country of ICMI shall appoint a representative to ICMI. This appointment is the responsibility of the IMU Adhering Organization, for those countries which are Full or Associate Members of IMU, and of the ICMI Adhering Organization, for the other countries co-opted under item (8) below. A representative should normally not serve for more than two consecutive four-year terms. 7. Any Adhering Organization wishing to support or encourage the work of ICMI may create or recognize, in agreement with its Committee for Mathematics in the case of a Full or Associate Member of IMU, a Sub-Commission for ICMI to maintain liaison with ICMI in all matters pertinent to its affairs. The representative to ICMI should be a member of the said Sub-Commission, if created. 8. ICMI may, with the approval of the Executive Committee of IMU, co-opt as Members of ICMI countries that are not Members of IMU, on an individual basis. Each such co-opted Member shall identify an Adhering Organization to ICMI. As soon as a country has been elected Associate Member of IMU, it automatically becomes a co-opted Member of ICMI. 9. ICMI may approve, through its Executive Committee, the affiliation to ICMI of multi-national organizations that operate in ways consistent with its aims and values. ICMI and the Affiliate Organizations are independent, financially and otherwise. Affiliate Organizations shall produce quadrennial reports to be presented at the General Assembly of ICMI, and a brief annual report on their activities for the ICMI Bulletin. Affiliation may be terminated by decision of the ICMI Executive Committee, or by request of the Affiliate Organization. 10. The budgetary requests of ICMI shall be submitted to the General Assembly of IMU at such times as may be determined by agreement between the Executive Committees of IMU and ICMI. 11. ICMI shall file an annual financial report with the Executive Committee of IMU, and shall file a quadrennial report at each regular meeting of the General Assembly of IMU. 12. ICMI shall file an annual report of its activities with the Executive Committee of IMU, and shall file a quadrennial report at each regular meeting of the General Assembly of IMU. 13. At each regular meeting of the General Assembly of ICMI, the ICMI Executive Committee shall file a quadrennial report of ICMI's financial situation and of its activities. Guidelines for the ICMI Terms of Reference (Adopted by the ICMI Executive Committee by an electronic vote on December 31, 2009) Ad 4: According to the clause of the ICMI procedures for election concerning changes in these procedures, the structure and formation of the ICMI Nominating Committee form part of the Terms of Reference of ICMI and are thus under the jurisdiction of the IMU General Assembly, while the election procedures themselves are part of the operating rules of ICMI, and, as such, are under the jurisdiction of the ICMI General Assembly. Ad 6: The limit of two consecutive terms for representatives to ICMI follows from the resolution adopted at the IMU General Assembly held in 1990 in Kobe, Japan. Ad 9: Affiliation of organizations to ICMI is approved for the purpose of facilitating jointly sponsored activities and jointly pursuing the objectives of ICMI. These organizations may be: study groups focussing on a specific field of interest and study in mathematics education; multi-national mathematical education societies; or multi-national societies, mathematical or otherwise, which have a formal mathematical education subgroup. Affiliate Organizations have the right to submit proposals for joint activities to the General Assembly or to the Executive Committee of ICMI. ICMI shall look for ways to keep close relations with the Affiliate Organizations and ways to support and enhance mathematical education activities in their regions and fields of interest. ICMI shall cooperate, to the extent possible, with the work of the Affiliate Organizations, for example by regularly publishing, when requested, information on their activities in the ICMI communications channels such as the ICMI Bulletin, ICMI News and on their web page within the ICMI website. Affiliate Organizations shall be consulted by ICMI on all relevant ICMI activities. In addition to producing annual and quadrennial reports, Affiliate Organizations shall inform ICMI of specific activities where appropriate. A new ICMI Affiliate Organization It is my pleasure to inform you that as of today, the Comit nter-Americano de Educaci atem ca (Inter-American Committee on Mathematical Education) is becoming a new organisation affiliated to ICMI. This affiliation was approved by the Executive Committees of both ICMI and CIAEM. CIAEM thus joins the five other organisations that were already affiliated to ICMI (under the umbrella of "Study Groups"): HPM The International Study Group on the Relations between the History and Pedagogy of Mathematics (1976) PME The International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (1976) IOWME The International Organization of Women and Mathematics Education (1987) WFNMC The World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions (1994) ICTMA The International Community of Teachers of Mathematical Modelling and Applications (2003) It is probably most appropriate that CIAEM becomes the first multi-national mathematical education society affiliated to ICMI under the new scheme introduced through the revision of the ICMI Terms of Reference adopted today by the IMU Executive Committee. CIAEM was indeed founded in 1961 by Marshall Stone, who at that time was the President of ICMI, thus becoming the first "regional entity" of ICMI . Hence ICMI was in no way indifferent to the birth of CIAEM, to say the least. It may be of interest to note that a "Memorandum on affiliation of CIAEM to ICMI" was formally adopted by the ICMI EC when it met during the 1974 International Congress of Mathematicians in Vancouver (as reported in the ICMI Bulletin no. 5, 1975, p. 5). However this memorandum does not seem to have been reflected in the ICMI Terms, and it is not easy to see its actual impact in the life of ICMI and CIAEM. While the intensity of the contacts between ICMI and CIAEM may have varied over the years, depending possibly on the personality of those in charge of these bodies, it is clearly the common vision of both the current ICMI and CIAEM ECs that, following some efforts for a closer and more regular collaboration in recent years between the two organisations, these links are now in excellent health. To use the words of CIAEM President, Angel Ruiz, right now is a special moment to tighten still further the connections between ICMI and CIAEM and work together, so to foster the development of mathematics and mathematics education in the Americas, and especially Latin America. It is the hope of the ICMI and CIAEM ECs that the status of ICMI Affiliated Organization, with the moral obligations for regular contact that it brings, will be useful in helping these links to remain vivid and productive over the years. It should be noted that the 50th anniversary of CIAEM will be celebrated in 2011 on the occasion of the XIII Conferencia Interamericana de Educaci atem ca (XIII Inter-American Conference on Mathematics Education) held in Recife, Brasil (see http://xiii.ciaem-iacme.org). More information about CIAEM can be accessed on the website http://www.ciaem-iacme.org/. The ICMI EC is currently having discussions with two other multi-national organizations as regards a possible affiliation to ICMI and I trust that positive developments should be announced in a near future by the next ICMI EC. Best wishes, Bernard R. Hodgson Secretary-General of ICMI 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/20100104/0563360b/attachment.htm From ferreira at fe.up.pt Sun Jan 3 11:07:19 2010 From: ferreira at fe.up.pt (antonio ferreira) Date: Thu Jan 7 09:59:52 2010 Subject: [cmath] New Call for Papers - 16th International Conference on Composite Structures (ICCS/16), at the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, 28-30 June 2011 Message-ID: <7FDA6BFE-F257-4BEB-87D3-77B504B16C38@fe.up.pt> Dear Colleague, I hope all is well with you. A very happy 2010 ! Further to my recent email, I contact you again due to significant improvements in the organization of ICCS16. More than 25 Special Sessions will be organized and (so far) 12 plenary lectures will be presented. Therefore, I invite you to submit your abstract to the 16th International Conference on Composite Structures (ICCS/16), at the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, 28-30 June 2011. Deadline for abstract submission: December 1st, 2010. As the name implies, this will be the 16th in a biennial series of conferences which commenced in Scotland in September 1981. They continue to be the only international forum with a focus on structural aspects of composite materials and are one of the longest running ?composites? conferences. This will be the second occasion the conference will be held in Portugal. ICCS15(15-17 June 2009) attracted more than 350 delegates from 34 countries. We expect ICCS16 will be even larger. I am very pleased to inform you that the following distinguished Colleagues have accepted to present a Plenary Lecture: 1. Yapa Rajapakse, Office of Naval Research, USA 2. Ole T. Thomsen, aalborg University, Denmark 3. Arun Shukla, University of Rhode Island, USA 4. Mark Robinson, University of Newcastle, UK 5. Rui Moreira, University of Aveiro, Portugal 6. Richard Degenhardt, German Aerospace Center, Germany 7. J. N. Reddy, Texas A&M, USA 8. Gerhard Ziegmann, Clausthal University, Germany 9. Mohamad Qatu, Mississippi State University, USA 10. Simon Wang, Loughborough University, UK 11. Riadh Al-Mahaidi, Monash University, Australia 12. Anthony Waas, University of Michigan, USA A Special Session(s) by the Office of Naval Research will be organized, thanks to the kind contribution of Dr. Yapa Rajapakse (Program Manager at ONR). The ICCS16 web page is http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~iccs16/index.html Template for abstract submission can be found at the borrom of this page: http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~iccs16/index.html Registration form can be found at the end of the page: http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~iccs16/registration.html After the conference, some selected papers will be invited for submission in a regular issue of the Journal of Composite Structures (ELSEVIER). May I stress that the participation in ICCS16 does not guarantee publication of the full paper in Composite Structures. As in ICCS15, we will award (a gift of about 1000 euro - in kind) the Ian Marshall's Best Student Paper (only to students that submit the full paper and present it at ICCS16) So far, other than the ONR Special Sessions, the following 25+ Special Sessions (Mini-Symposium) are planned. With the exception of the ONR Sessions, you can contact the organizers of the Sessions directly, if you wish. in the link: http://feupload.fe.up.pt/get/nkBXVXyYL5ArIB3 In case you wish to promote another Special Session, please contact me by email. I hope to meet you again soon Best wishes Antonio ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Antonio J. M. Ferreira *Editor, Composite Structures* http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/405928/description#description *ICCS16: 16th International Conference on Composite Structures (28-30 June 2011, Porto, Portugal)* http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~iccs16 *Matlab codes for finite element analysis* http://www.springer.com/engineering/book/978-1-4020-9199-5 _______________ Antonio J. M. Ferreira, PhD (Associate Professor) Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Departamento de Engenharia Mecanica Rua Dr Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal Phone +351225081705, email: ferreira@fe.up.pt * * From ferreira at fe.up.pt Sun Jan 3 11:11:34 2010 From: ferreira at fe.up.pt (antonio ferreira) Date: Thu Jan 7 09:59:52 2010 Subject: [cmath] New Call for Papers - 16th International Conference on Composite Structures (ICCS/16), at the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, 28-30 June 2011 Message-ID: <39BAD732-DBEB-4034-B7B5-5EA8182E5F1A@fe.up.pt> Dear Colleague, I hope all is well with you. A very happy 2010 ! Further to my recent email, I contact you again due to significant improvements in the organization of ICCS16. More than 25 Special Sessions will be organized and (so far) 12 plenary lectures will be presented. Therefore, I invite you to submit your abstract to the 16th International Conference on Composite Structures (ICCS/16), at the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, 28-30 June 2011. Deadline for abstract submission: December 1st, 2010. As the name implies, this will be the 16th in a biennial series of conferences which commenced in Scotland in September 1981. They continue to be the only international forum with a focus on structural aspects of composite materials and are one of the longest running ?composites? conferences. This will be the second occasion the conference will be held in Portugal. ICCS15(15-17 June 2009) attracted more than 350 delegates from 34 countries. We expect ICCS16 will be even larger. I am very pleased to inform you that the following distinguished Colleagues have accepted to present a Plenary Lecture: 1. Yapa Rajapakse, Office of Naval Research, USA 2. Ole T. Thomsen, aalborg University, Denmark 3. Arun Shukla, University of Rhode Island, USA 4. Mark Robinson, University of Newcastle, UK 5. Rui Moreira, University of Aveiro, Portugal 6. Richard Degenhardt, German Aerospace Center, Germany 7. J. N. Reddy, Texas A&M, USA 8. Gerhard Ziegmann, Clausthal University, Germany 9. Mohamad Qatu, Mississippi State University, USA 10. Simon Wang, Loughborough University, UK 11. Riadh Al-Mahaidi, Monash University, Australia 12. Anthony Waas, University of Michigan, USA A Special Session(s) by the Office of Naval Research will be organized, thanks to the kind contribution of Dr. Yapa Rajapakse (Program Manager at ONR). The ICCS16 web page is http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~iccs16/index.html Template for abstract submission can be found at the borrom of this page: http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~iccs16/index.html Registration form can be found at the end of the page: http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~iccs16/registration.html After the conference, some selected papers will be invited for submission in a regular issue of the Journal of Composite Structures (ELSEVIER). May I stress that the participation in ICCS16 does not guarantee publication of the full paper in Composite Structures. As in ICCS15, we will award (a gift of about 1000 euro - in kind) the Ian Marshall's Best Student Paper (only to students that submit the full paper and present it at ICCS16) So far, other than the ONR Special Sessions, the following 25+ Special Sessions (Mini-Symposium) are planned. With the exception of the ONR Sessions, you can contact the organizers of the Sessions directly, if you wish. in the link: http://feupload.fe.up.pt/get/nkBXVXyYL5ArIB3 In case you wish to promote another Special Session, please contact me by email. I hope to meet you again soon Best wishes Antonio ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Antonio J. M. Ferreira *Editor, Composite Structures* http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/405928/description#description *ICCS16: 16th International Conference on Composite Structures (28-30 June 2011, Porto, Portugal)* http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~iccs16 *Matlab codes for finite element analysis* http://www.springer.com/engineering/book/978-1-4020-9199-5 _______________ Antonio J. M. 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The Call for Papers is available at http://www.issac-conference.org/2010/call-for-papers/ News: --------- If you have not recently visited the conference web site, you may be interested that the invited speakers and tutorials have been announced. The invited speakers are: * Evelyne Hubert (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France): Algebraic invariants and their differential algebras * Siegfried M. Rump (Hamburg U. of Technology, Germany & Waseda U., Japan): Verification methods: Rigorous results using floating-point arithmetic * Ashish Tiwari (SRI International, USA): Theory of reals for verification and synthesis of hybrid dynamical systems and the tutorials are: * Moulay A. Barkatou (Limoges U., France): Symbolic methods for solving systems of linear ordinary differential equations * J?rgen Gerhard (Maplesoft, Canada): Asymptotically fast algorithms for modern computer algebra * Sergey P. Tsarev (Siberian Federal U., Russia): Transformation and factorization of partial differential systems with applications to stochastic systems For details, please visit http://www.issac-conference.org/2010 . Best regards, Peter Horn, on behalf of the ISSAC 2010 organizing committee PS: Apologies for multiple copies. ***** You may leave the ISSAC-ANNOUNCE list at any time by sending a "SIGNOFF ISSAC-ANNOUNCE" command to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG or by visiting http://listserv.acm.org/archives/ISSAC-ANNOUNCE.html. From publicity2010 at ISSAC-CONFERENCE.ORG Thu Jan 7 06:31:28 2010 From: publicity2010 at ISSAC-CONFERENCE.ORG (Peter Horn) Date: Thu Jan 7 09:59:53 2010 Subject: [cmath] [SIGSAM] ISSAC 2010 Reminder and News Message-ID: Reminder: --------------- The submission deadline for ISSAC 2010 is soon approaching. If you intend to submit a paper, please submit a brief abstract at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=issac2010 by January 14. The full paper can be submitted at the same time or, up to a week later, by January 21. The Call for Papers is available at http://www.issac-conference.org/2010/call-for-papers/ News: --------- If you have not recently visited the conference web site, you may be interested that the invited speakers and tutorials have been announced. The invited speakers are: * Evelyne Hubert (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France): Algebraic invariants and their differential algebras * Siegfried M. Rump (Hamburg U. of Technology, Germany & Waseda U., Japan): Verification methods: Rigorous results using floating-point arithmetic * Ashish Tiwari (SRI International, USA): Theory of reals for verification and synthesis of hybrid dynamical systems and the tutorials are: * Moulay A. Barkatou (Limoges U., France): Symbolic methods for solving systems of linear ordinary differential equations * J?rgen Gerhard (Maplesoft, Canada): Asymptotically fast algorithms for modern computer algebra * Sergey P. Tsarev (Siberian Federal U., Russia): Transformation and factorization of partial differential systems with applications to stochastic systems For details, please visit http://www.issac-conference.org/2010 . Best regards, Peter Horn, on behalf of the ISSAC 2010 organizing committee PS: Apologies for multiple copies. ***** 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 turnerw at WABASH.EDU Thu Jan 7 11:50:18 2010 From: turnerw at WABASH.EDU (William Turner) Date: Mon Jan 11 05:29:22 2010 Subject: [cmath] [SIGSAM] PARCA 2010 CFP Message-ID: <4B4610CA.9070602@wabash.edu> First Announcement and Call for Papers International Conference on Parallel Computer Algebra 2010 http://parca2010.parallel-computer-algebra.org June 29 - July 3, 2010 The subject of parallel computation in the area of computer algebra has become one of growing theoretical and practical interest. This summer, Tambov State University will host the Parallel Computer Algebra 2010 conference to provide a venue for work in this increasingly important and exciting area. Submissions of original research papers are invited in all areas in the extension and development of parallel computer algebra and parallel symbolic computation. Topics ====== The general areas of interest include * all aspects of parallel algorithms for computer algebra * software techniques for parallel computer algebra systems * applications of parallel computer algebra in all fields * use of computer algebra to design parallel algorithms or software in other areas. Examples of particular topics include, but are not limited to, * parallel polynomial computation * parallel algorithms for symbolic linear algebra, matrix operations and linear systems * parallel methods for solving systems of differential equations * parallel methods for Groebner basis computation * parallel algorithms in combinatorics and cryptography * parallel algorithms in computational algebraic geometry * complexity of parallel computer algebra algorithms * reinvention and adaptation of existing symbolic algorithms to a parallel setting. Submission ========== The conference invites submission of research articles in the areas of the meeting. Articles must be in English and not more than 12 pages using the IEEE conference style[*]. Articles must present original research results and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are to submit their work by uploading a pdf file using the EasyChair system at the web site, http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=parca2010 . Authors who wish to present new aspects or a survey of earlier work are invited to submit an extended abstract of up to 4 pages for an informal presentation. Abstracts of informal contributions will not be included in the formal proceedings. Important Dates =============== Deadline for submission 2 April 2010. Notification of acceptance 5 May 2010. Deadline for final version 25 May 2010. Organization ============ Organizing Committee: General Chair and PC Co-Chair: Gennadi Malaschonok, Tambov State U., Russia PC Co-Chair: Gene Cooperman, Northeastern U., Boston, USA PC Co-Chair: Stephen M. Watt, U. Western Ontario, Canada Local Arrangements Chair: Natalia Malaschonok, Tambov State U., Russia Program Committee: Yuri Blinkov, Saratov State U., Russia, Gene Cooperman, Northeastern U., Boston, USA, James H. Davenport, U. Bath, UK, Jean-Guillaume Dumas, Universit? Joseph Fourier, France, Vladimir Gerdt, Dubna, JINR, Russia, Jeremy Johnson, Drexel U., USA, Erich Kaltofen, North Carolina State U., USA, Tony Kennedy, U. Edinburgh, UK, Viktor Levandovskyy, Aachen U., Germany, Gennadi Malaschonok, Tambov State U., Russia, Marc Moreno Maza, U. Western Ontario, Canada, Aleksandr Myllari, Turku U., Finland, Dana Petcu, Western U. of Timisoara, Romania, Alexander Tiskin, Warwick U., UK, Nikolay Vasiliev, PDMI RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia, Stephen M. Watt, U. Western Ontario, Canada, Alexey Zobnin, Moscow State U., Russia. Local Arrangements Committee: Andrey Betin, Alexey Lapaev (web-master), Natalia Malaschonok, Oxana Pereslavtseva (secretary), Maxim Starov. Registration ============ The conference registration fee of 200 Euro covers * access to conference sessions and facilities, * conference materials, * meals and coffee-breaks, * conference banquet, and * excursion to Sergei Rakhmaninov's Museum in Ivanovka . Questions ========= Questions may be addressed to organizers at the e-mail address . [*] IEEE Conference Style: http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs_iportals/iportals/publications/journmag/transactions/IEEEtran.tar.gz -- William J. Turner, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Mathematics & Computer Science Wabash College, P.O. Box 352, Crawfordsville, IN 47933 USA http://persweb.wabash.edu/facstaff/turnerw ***** 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 turnerw at WABASH.EDU Fri Jan 8 11:32:55 2010 From: turnerw at WABASH.EDU (William Turner) Date: Mon Jan 11 05:31:21 2010 Subject: [cmath] [SIGSAM] ADG 2010 (with corrected submission date) Message-ID: <4B475E37.1010900@wabash.edu> ADG 2010 - Munich _______________________________________________ Eighth International Workshop on Automated Deduction in Geometry July 22-24 2010 https://lsiit.u-strasbg.fr/adg2010 ________________________________________________ ADG (Automated Deduction in Geometry) is a forum dedicated to the exchange of ideas and views, to the presention of research results and progress, and to the demonstration of software tools on the intersection between geometry and automated deduction. ADG workshops are organized biennially. The previous ones were held in Shangha? (China) 2008, Pontevedra (Spain) 2006, Gainesville (USA) 2004, Linz (Austria) 2002, Zurich (Switzerland) 2000, Beijing (China) 1998, and Toulouse (France) 1996. The eighth workshop ADG 2010 will be hosted in Munich, Germany, by the Technical University Munich, from July 22 to July 24, 2010. The homepage for this edition is at the URL https://lsiit.u-strasbg.fr/adg2010 ADG is now calling for contributions, in the form of extended abstracts or full papers (no page limits), to be submitted before February 22, 2010, via EasyChair. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be issued by March 29, 2010. For comments or questions concerning this Call for Papers, please contact adg2010@easychair.org Important Dates =============== * Extended abstract/paper submission for presentation at the workshop: February 22, 2010 * Notification of acceptance or rejection: March 29, 2010 * Workshop taking place: July 22-24, 2010 Specific topics for ADG 2010 ============================ The topics include but are not limited to: * Polynomial algebra, invariant and coordinate-free methods, probabilistic, synthetic, and logic approaches, techniques for automated geometric reasoning from discrete mathematics, combinatorics, and numerics * Symbolic and numeric methods for geometric computation, geometric constrain solving, automated generation/reasoning and manipulation with diagrams * Design and implementation of geometry software, special-purpose tools, automated theorem provers, experimental studies * Applications of ADG to mechanics, geometric modeling, CAGD/CAD, computer vision, robotics and education Submission Guidelines ======================== * Extended abstracts (or full papers if you wish). No page limits. * The extended abstracts (or the introduction of the full papers) must address the following aspects explicitly. ** Problem: What is the problem/question/objective? ** Motivation: Why do we work on the problem? What is the importance? ** State of the Art: What has been done already on the problem? ** Contribution: What is the main original contribution? ** Main Idea: What is the main idea underlying the contribution? * Electronic submission as PDF is required. * It will be greatly appreciated if the submissions follow the standard Springer Proceedings format llncs.cls. * Submit your contribution via the paper submission page at Easy Chair. * If you have problems with the submission of your paper or questions concerning EasyChair, please contact adg2010@easychair.org * Submit it by February 22, 2010. Refereeing ============== * The submitted contributions will be subject to a summary review by the Program Committee, bearing in mind that this first review is mainly for presentation, NOT for publication. Publication ============= * Extended abstracts or full papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be available during the meeting, published as an internal document for the participants. * We plan to ask the authors of the extended abstracts (and possibly full papers) accepted for presentation at the workshop to submit their full and/or revised papers for publication in some formal proceedings of ADG 2010 after the workshop. * The full papers (submitted after the meeting) will be formally reviewed by PC members and external referees. * It is expected that the accepted full papers will be published as a special issue of some journal or in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. * The proceedings of ADG 1996, ADG 1998, ADG 2000, ADG 2002, and ADG 2004, and ADG 2006 appeared as LNAI 1360, LNAI 1669, LNAI 2061, LNAI 2930, LNAI 3763, and LNAI 4869 respectively. ***** 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 akelm at cms.math.ca Tue Jan 19 16:08:19 2010 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Tue Jan 19 16:08:29 2010 Subject: [cmath] Poste de =?utf-8?q?carri=C3=A8re_/_Tenure-Track_Position_-_Univer?= =?utf-8?q?sit=C3=A9_Laval?= Message-ID: <4B561F43.2030805@cms.math.ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: laval-f.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 25911 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20100119/cf72dcb0/laval-f.pdf -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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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 nominations@pims.math.ca Only electronic submissions will be accepted. The deadline for nominations is March 15, 2010. 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, 2010. Previous winners of the PIMS Education Prize are Gerda de Vries (U.Alberta) 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) Jim Morrow (U.Washington). From akelm at cms.math.ca Fri Jan 22 11:33:10 2010 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Fri Jan 22 11:33:22 2010 Subject: [cmath] Tenure-Track Position - Cape Breton University Message-ID: <4B59D346.2080609@cms.math.ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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L'entr?e en fonction pr?vue est le 1er juin 2010, et la date limite pour soumettre les candidatures est le 12 mars 2010. -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/mixed From dkucerov at unb.ca Tue Jan 26 11:43:20 2010 From: dkucerov at unb.ca (Kucerovsky, Daniel Z) Date: Tue Jan 26 11:43:24 2010 Subject: [cmath] COASy 2010 Message-ID: <1264524200.4b5f1ba88bdbd@webmail.unb.ca> Organizers: Dan Kucerovsky(dan@math.unb.ca),Andrew Dean(andrew.dean@lakeheadu.ca) Event Title: 2010 Canadian Operator Algebra Symposium Date: 06/07/2010 - 06/11/2010 Location: University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, CANADA URL: www.math.unb.ca/~dan/coas2010/coas2010Main.htm Description: The current installment of a well-established operator algebras meeting. The CMS Summer meeting is in the same city (Fredericton, NB) right before this meeting, so it is quite feasable to attend both, or alternatively one can attend both GPOTS and the COASy. From akelm at cms.math.ca Wed Jan 27 10:29:40 2010 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Wed Jan 27 10:29:49 2010 Subject: [cmath] Research Associate Position in Mathematical Modeling - University of British Columbia Centre for Disease Control Message-ID: <4B605BE4.4080605@cms.math.ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: UBC-CDC-ad.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 27704 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20100127/b7105efd/UBC-CDC-ad.pdf From ballen at uoguelph.ca Wed Jan 27 20:06:26 2010 From: ballen at uoguelph.ca (Brian Allen) Date: Wed Jan 27 20:06:52 2010 Subject: [cmath] PhD Opportunities at the University of Guelph Message-ID: <4B60E312.4060804@uoguelph.ca> Dear Colleagues: Please circulate to interested students. Exciting opportunities exist for suitably qualified students to join the doctoral program in the Department of Mathematics& Statistics at the University of Guelph. Students study either mathematics or statistics and the program has an applied emphasis, although more theoretical projects are also available. All interested students are encouraged to apply. Annual stipends at a minimum of $25,000 will be offered, on a competitive basis, to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Our faculty members are committed to providing a personalized approach to learning for their graduate students. In addition to making themselves readily available for consultations with students, faculty members conduct leading-edge research, use innovative teaching methods, are well connected within their respective professional communities, and are committed to student success. Their dedication creates a personalized, positive and well-rounded academic environment for our graduate students. See www.mathstat.uoguelph.ca for further information. Applications will be considered until all positions are filled. Best regards, Brian Allen, Chair From turnerw at WABASH.EDU Tue Feb 2 09:01:06 2010 From: turnerw at WABASH.EDU (William Turner) Date: Tue Feb 2 11:11:58 2010 Subject: [cmath] [SIGSAM] CFP: PASCO 2010 (Grenoble, France) Message-ID: <4B683022.8010807@wabash.edu> Please address any questions to Daniel de Angelis Cordeiro . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Parallel Symbolic Computation 2010 (PASCO 2010) July 21-23, 2010 -- Grenoble, France http://pasco2010.imag.fr/ C A L L f o r P A P E R S Initial Announcement Overview: The International Workshop on Parallel and Symbolic Computation (PASCO) is a series of workshops dedicated to the promotion and advancement of parallel algorithms and software in all areas of symbolic mathematical computation. The pervasive ubiquity of parallel architectures and memory hierarchy has led to the emergence of a new quest for parallel mathematical algorithms and software capable of exploiting the various levels of parallelism: from hardware acceleration technologies (multicore and multi-processor system on chip, GPGPU, FPGA) to cluster and global computing platforms. To push up the limits of symbolic and algebraic computations, beyond the optimization of the application itself, the effective use of a large number of resources --memory and general or specialized computing units-- is expected to enhance the performance multi-criteria objectives: time, energy consumption, resource usage, reliability. In this context, the design and the implementation of mathematical algorithms with provable and adaptive performances is a major challenge. Earlier meetings in the PASCO series include PASCO'94 (Linz, Austria), PASCO'97 (Maui, U.S.A.), PASCO'07 (London, Canada). PASCO 2010 is affiliated with the 2010 International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC) in Munich, Germany. Immediately prior to the ISSAC 2010 meeting, PASCO will be held in Grenoble, France. The workshop PASCO 2010 will be a three-day event including invited presentations and tutorials, contributed research papers and posters. Specific topics include, but are not limited to: * Design and analysis of parallel algorithms for computer algebra * Practical parallel implementation of symbolic or symbolic-numeric algorithms * High-performance software tools and libraries for computer algebra * Applications of high-performance computer algebra * Distributed data-structures for computer algebra * Hardware acceleration technologies (multi-cores, GPUs, FPGAs) applied to computer algebra * Cache complexity and cache-oblivious algorithms for computer algebra * Compile-time and run-time techniques for automating optimization and platform adaptation of computer algebra algorithms Call for Papers: The conference invites submission of papers presenting original research, either in the form of extended abstracts (2 pages) or full papers (up to 10 pages) in ACM format. As in previous years, PASCO 2010 will publish formal proceedings of the accepted papers. Important Dates Paper submission deadline: April 2 (Fri), 2010 Notification of acceptance: May 10 (Mon), 2010 Camera-ready version of paper due: May 28 (Fri), 2010 Tutorials and Workshop in Grenoble: July 21-23 (Wed-Fri), 2010 Conference Chairs: Marc Moreno Maza (University of Western Ontario, Canada) Jean-Louis Roch (Grenoble University, France) Clement Pernet (Grenoble University, France) Publicity Chair: Daniel Cordeiro (Grenoble University, France) Administration: Daniele Herog (INRIA Grenoble, France) Christian Seguy (CNRS, France) Ahlem Zammit-Boubaker (INRIA Grenoble, France) Program Committee: Daniel Augot (INRIA Saclay, France) Jean-Claude Bajard (Montpellier II University, France) Olivier Beaumont (INRIA Bordeaux, France) Bruce Char (Drexel University, USA) Gene Cooperman (Northeastern University, USA) Gabriel Dos-Reis (Texas A&M University, USA) Jean-Christophe Dubacq (LIPN, Universit? Paris 13, France) Jean-Guillaume Dumas (Grenoble University, France) Jean-Charles Faugere (INRIA - UPMC, France) Matteo Frigo (Intel, USA) Thierry Gautier (INRIA Grenoble, France) Pascal Giorgi (LIRMM, France) Stef Graillat (Universit? Paris 6, France) Jeremy Johnson (Drexel University, USA) Erich Kaltofen (NCSU, USA) Herbert Kuchen (University of Muenster, Germany) Philippe Langlois (University of Perpignan, France) Anton Leykin (Georgia Tech, USA) Gennadi Malaschonok (Tambov State University, Russia) Michael Monagan (Simon Fraiser University, Canada) Winfried Neun (Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany) Clement Pernet (Grenoble University, France) Nicolas Pinto (MIT, USA) Manuel Prieto-Matias (Complutense university of Madrid, Spain) Markus Pueschel (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Nathalie Revol (INRIA - LIP, France) David Saunders (University of Delaware, USA) Eric Schost (University of Western Ontario, Canada) Wolfgang Schreiner (RISC, Austria) Arne Storjohann (University of Waterloo, Canada) Sivan Toledo (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) Gilles Villard (CNRS, France) Yuzhen Xie (University of Western Ontario, Canada) Kazuhiro Yokoyama (Rikkyo University, Japan) Links: PASCO 2010 http://pasco2010.imag.fr/ ISSAC 2010 http://www.issac-conference.org/2010/ Submission http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pasco2010 ***** 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 akelm at cms.math.ca Wed Feb 3 11:11:20 2010 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Wed Feb 3 11:11:27 2010 Subject: [cmath] ESF-EMS/ERCOM Conference on 'Algebraic Methods in Dynamical Systems', Bedlewo, 16-22 May 2010 Message-ID: <4B69A028.1020902@cms.math.ca> Subject: ESF-EMS/ERCOM Conference on 'Algebraic Methods in Dynamical Systems', Bedlewo, 16-22 May 2010 Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:01:05 +0100 From: Aurelie Sissler Dear Sir, The *European Science Foundation* (ESF), in partnership with *EMS *and* ERCOM* is organising the following conference: *Algebraic Methods in Dynamical Systems* *The Institute of Mathematics Conference Centre, Bedlewo, Poland*** 16-22 May 2010 *Chairs*: *Zbigniew Hajto*, Jagiellonian University, Theoretical Computer Science , PL *Teresa Crespo*, Universitat de Barcelona , ES May I kindly ask you whether it would be possible to announce it on your website? Our closing date for application is the 21^st of February, 2010. This conference is part of the 2010 ESF Research Conferences Programme and is accessible on-line from www.esf.org/conferences/10320 . I thank you in advance for any form of assistance you might be able to provide in advertising this event and remain at your disposal should you need further information. Kind regards, Aur?lie Sissler Communications Assistant European Science Foundation - Communications Unit 1 quai Lezay-Marn?sia, BP 90015 67080 Strasbourg Cedex, France Phone: +33 (0)388 76 21 48 Fax: +33 (0)388 76 71 80 asissler@esf.org www.esf.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20100203/65123d1a/attachment.htm From head at math.ubc.ca Wed Feb 3 19:47:19 2010 From: head at math.ubc.ca (R. Kuske, (Math Head)) Date: Wed Feb 3 19:50:03 2010 Subject: [cmath] Science Education Postdoctoral Researcher: UBC Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative Message-ID: <5BFEF890-4E0C-4EB3-A6A1-924DB500402C@math.ubc.ca> Science Education Postdoctoral Researcher Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative Online ad: http://www.math.ubc.ca/Dept/deptJobs.shtml#CWSEI The Department of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia invites applications for at least one Postdoctoral researcher in the UBC Mathematics Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative (MATH-CWSEI) (http://www.cwsei.ubc.ca/), a multi-year program for study of and innovation in science education. We seek individuals to work with faculty teams in our department, other science education postdocs, and CWSEI staff to develop and coordinate mathematics courses and curriculum. Teams are developing course and program level learning objectives, assessments, and pedagogy; administer and evaluate assessments of student learning and of student attitudes toward science; supervise and guide development and testing of teaching and learning materials including IT learning resources. Faculty teams are focusing on areas such as development of assessment tools for proof skills throughout the curriculum, first year calculus courses, interdisciplinary courses, and incorporating IT-based resources across the curriculum. Candidates should have: completed their Ph.D.; excellent organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills, a strong personal commitment to science education, an ability to work independently and meet deadlines. English fluency is also required. Experience in educational materials or curriculum development, on- line teaching, project management, and familiarity with current pedagogical research and IT learning resources at the post-secondary level will be considered assets. The appointment will be for six months initially, starting March 1, 2010, and may be renewable for up to 3 years at the postdoctoral level. Applicants should submit a resume, statement of teaching interests, and the names and complete contact information (including phone, fax and e-mail) of three references to: Department Head, Department of Mathematics, 121-1984 Mathematics Road, Vancouver, BC, V6K 1T5, daisley@math.ubc.ca Review of applications will begin on February 20, and will continue until the position is filled. UBC hires on the basis of merit and is committed to employment equity. We encourage all qualified persons to apply; however, Canadians and Permanent Residents of Canada 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. The positions are subject to final budgetary approval. Salary and title will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. From akelm at cms.math.ca Mon Feb 8 15:23:22 2010 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Mon Feb 8 15:23:31 2010 Subject: [cmath] Lecturers/Senior Lecturers, Pure Mathematics - Monash University (Australia) Message-ID: <4B7072BA.9090401@cms.math.ca> Lecturers/Senior Lecturers, Pure Mathematics (Two positions) * Faculty of Science * * *School of Mathematical Sciences* * *Leading international university* * *Clayton campus* * The Opportunity * Outstanding mathematicians are invited to apply for two continuing full-time Lectureships at Level B or C as appropriate. We seek applications in any area of pure mathematics that enhances the School's research profile. Applicants should have a PhD, an outstanding research record and proven teaching ability. Appointment will be made at a level appropriate to the successful applicant's qualifications, experience and in accordance with classification standards for each level. All applications should address the selection criteria. Please refer to "How to Apply for Monash jobs" below. *The University * Monash University has a bold vision - to deliver significant improvements to the human condition. Distinguished by its international perspective, Monash takes pride in its commitment to innovative research and high quality teaching and learning. *The Benefits *Remuneration package: $83,363 - $98,994 / $102,119 - $117,749 pa Level B/Level C (includes employer superannuation of 17%) This role is a full-time position, however flexible working arrangements may be negotiated. Monash offers a range of professional development programs, support for research, study and overseas work, generous maternity leave and flexible work arrangements. *Duration * Continuing appointment *Location * Clayton campus *Enquiries Only * Professor Kate Smith-Miles on +61 3 9905 3170 or email kate.smith-miles@sci.monash.edu.au *Ref No * A1010541 *Applications Close* * *Friday, 26 March 2010 *More Information * * Download Position Information * How to Apply for Monash Jobs * Apply Online ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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Appointment will be made at a level appropriate to the successful applicant's qualifications, experience and in accordance with classification standards for each level. All applications should address the selection criteria. Please refer to "How to Apply for Monash jobs' below. *The University * Monash University has a bold vision - to deliver significant improvements to the human condition. Distinguished by its international perspective, Monash takes pride in its commitment to innovative research and high quality teaching and learning. *The Benefits * Remuneration package: $83,363 - $98,994 / $102,119 - $117,749 pa Level B/Level C (includes employer superannuation of 17%) This role is a full-time position, however flexible working arrangements may be negotiated. Monash offers a range of professional development programs, support for research, study and overseas work, generous maternity leave and flexible work arrangements. *Duration * Continuing appointment *Location * Clayton campus *Enquiries Only * Professor Kate Smith-Miles on +61 3 9905 3170 or email kate.smith-miles@sci.monash.edu.au *Ref No * A0910131 *Applications Close * **Friday, 26 March 2010 *More Information * * Download Position Information * How to Apply for Monash Jobs * Apply Online ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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Applicants should have completed a PhD in Mathematics by the time of appointment and provide evidence of a clearly-defined research program leading to publication and the potential for research funding. Successful candidates must be able to teach a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate level math courses. Preference will be given to candidates whose research interests complement those of current faculty. Qualified candidates who have an interest in interdisciplinary education and who are capable of teaching in the Inquiry program are especially encouraged to apply. Applicants should submit a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, a statement of their research interests, and evidence of teaching effectiveness (e.g. a statement of teaching philosophy, teaching evaluations), and arrange for at least three letters of reference to be sent to: Dr. Kim Fedderson Orillia Campus Dean Lakehead University - Orillia Campus 1 Colborne St. W. Orillia, ON L3V 7X5 email: orhumres@lakeheadu.ca fax: (705) 329-4648 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 Review of applications will begin on March 15, 2010 and continue until the position has been filled. 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The choice of this topic is motivated by the belief of the organizers that the dialogue between the two communities is very necessary in order to make significant progress in making the computer a truly intelligent aid for mathematicians and engineers. Important dates: --------------- 15 March 2010 : Special sessions / Workshops / Tutorials proposals 30 May 2010 : Paper submission 15 August 2010 : Notification of acceptance 01 September 2010 : Registration 08 September 2010 : Revised papers according to the reviews 23-26 September 2010 : Symposium period 30 November 2010 : Final papers for post-proceedings Topics of interests: ------------------- * Symbolic Computation + computer algebra; + symbolic techniques applied to numerics; + hybrid symbolic and numeric algorithms; + numerics and symbolics for geometry; + programming with constraints, narrowing. * Logic and programming + automatic reasoning; + formal system verification; + formal verification and synthesis; + software quality assessment; + static analysis; + timing analysis. * Artificial Intelligence + hard computational problem solving; + intelligent systems (front-ends) for scientific computing; + agent-based complex systems modeling and development; + knowledge and data intensive systems; + soft computing; + recommender systems for scientific computing; + data mining and web mining; + information retrieval. * Numerical computing + iterative approximation of fixed points; + solving systems of nonlinear equations; + numerical and symbolic algorithms for differential equations; + numerical and symbolic algorithms for optimization; + parallel algorithms for numeric computing; + scientific visualization and image processing. * Distributed computing + parallel, distributed and web computing for symbolics and numerics; + cloud computing + grid middleware and applications; + agent-based grid computing; + grid services; + workflow management. This list is not intended to be exhaustive. Publication: ------------ The research papers accepted for the conference will be collected as post-proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (ISI Proceedings). (For previous proceedings see http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=4438060) Honorary Chairs: --------------- * Bruno Buchberger, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Stefan Maruster, West University of Timisoara, Romania Steering Committee: * Tetsuo Ida, University of Tsukuba, Japan * Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada * Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania General chair: * Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania Program Chair: * Tetsuo Ida, University of Tsukuba, Japan Track chairs: * Symbolic computation + Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada + Dongming Wang, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France * Logic and programming + Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria + Jens Knoop, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Artificial Intelligence + Ajith Abraham, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway + Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Numerical computing + Abdellatif Moudafi, Universit? des Antilles-Guyane, Martinique, France + Vasile Berinde, North University of Baia Mare, Romania * Distributed computing + Wolfgang Schreiner, Johannes Kepler University, Austria + Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Special sessions and workshops chairs + Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria + Laura Kovacs, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland Tutorial chair + Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Proceedings chairs + Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania + Tetsuo Ida, University of Tsukuba, Japan Local committee chair + Cosmin Bonchis, Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania Submission: ----------- We invite submissions in the form of: * research papers (up to 8 pages in the IEEE conference style), * posters. Papers (IEEE conference style), must be submitted electronically through http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=synasc2010. Research papers must contain original research results not submitted and not published elsewhere. We also invite proposals for: * special sessions * satellite workshops * tutorials Proposals are invited for special sessions on any topic relevant to the conference. Special sessions are intended to stimulate in-depth discussions in special areas and they are fully integrated into the main conference. The research papers and the informal presentations submitted and accepted for the special sessions follow the same rules as the papers submitted to the regular sessions. It is expected that the organizers of the special sessions appoint their own chair and program committee, which will be integrated in the conference program committee and will be supervised by the conference programme chair and by the general chair. Proposals for satellite workshops are also invited. The scientific program of the satellite workshops is entirely organized by the respective workshops. The main conference provides the infrastructure (registration, handling the finance, room and coffee breaks, etc). Authors contributing to a workshop would be required to register for the symposium. Proposals for tutorials are also invited. Tutorials provide fundamental exposure to topics ranging from introductory through intermediate to advanced. The number and the duration of the tutorials will be decided by the tutorial chair under the supervision of the general chair. Depending on the number and the quality of the proposals for tutorials, they may be organized as a SYNASC Autumn School. ---------- SYNASC 2010 West University of Timisoara Dept. of Computer Science Bd. V. Parvan 4, 300223 Timisoara, Romania tel: + (40) 256 592155 fax: + (40) 256 592316 e-mail: synasc10.info.uvt.ro _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe send an empty e-mail to synasc-call-for-papers-leave@lists.info.uvt.ro or visit this link: http://lists.info.uvt.ro/mailman/listinfo/synasc-call-for-papers ***** 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 akelm at cms.math.ca Wed Mar 3 11:52:35 2010 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Wed Mar 3 11:49:57 2010 Subject: [cmath] BIRS meeting promoting female mathematicians Message-ID: Algebraic Combinatorixx will be held at the Banff International Research Station (BIRS) May 22-27, 2011. This 5-day workshop will bring together senior and junior female mathematicians to collaborate on cutting-edge research problems and to forge mentoring networks, with the long-term goal of increasing and strengthening the participation of women in algebraic combinatorics and related fields of research. The workshop will focus on combinatorics and its connections with representation theory, mathematical physics, statistical mechanics algebraic geometry, knot theory, symmetric functions, and invariant theory. For information on how to apply, email combinatorixx@gmail.com. The number of participants is limited. Applications should be received by May 1, 2010. Early career (graduate students and non-tenured) algebraic combinatorialists are especially encouraged to apply. More information on the workshop will appear at the website http://www.birs.ca/birspages.php?task=displayevent&event_id=11w5025. From adem at pims.math.ca Thu Mar 4 09:35:30 2010 From: adem at pims.math.ca (Alejandro Adem) Date: Thu Mar 4 09:39:26 2010 Subject: [cmath] Mathematical Modeling in Industry: Canada/Mexico/US event In-Reply-To: <7345_1245888423_1245888423_Pine.SOC.4.64.0906241648350.20617@cantor> References: <7345_1245888423_1245888423_Pine.SOC.4.64.0906241648350.20617@cantor> Message-ID: *Opportunity for Graduate Students from Canada* Three North American mathematical institutes: CIMAT, IMA and PIMS are jointly organizing the following industrial training event which is open to students from all over Canada: Mathematical Modeling in Industry A Workshop for Graduate Students to be held at CIMAT in Guanajuato, MEXICO, August 2-11, 2010 Space is limited and applications will be considered on a competitive basis. The deadline is *April 16, 2010*. Students must apply online, the website with full information is available at http://www.ima.umn.edu/2009-2010/MM8.2-11.10/ Alejandro Adem. Director, PIMS http://www.pims.math.ca From haedrich.alexandra at uqam.ca Thu Mar 4 16:10:17 2010 From: haedrich.alexandra at uqam.ca (Alexandra Haedrich) Date: Thu Mar 4 16:21:10 2010 Subject: [cmath] Tier II Canada Research Chair Position in Geometry and Topology of Manifolds Message-ID: Tier II Canada Research Chair Position in Geometry and Topology of Manifolds The Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al invites applications for a Tier II Canada Research Chair position in the Department of Mathematics in geometry and topology of manifolds (the position is conditional to a favorable decision from the Canada Research Chairs program). In accordance with the Canada research Chairs program (www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca), Tier 2 chairs are awarded to researchers who completed their Ph.D. less than 10 years ago and are recognized to be leading young researchers. The chairholder will be a member of the inter-university geometry and topology research group, CIRGET (www.cirget.uqam.ca), and shall receive a salary bonus, a research grant and a reduced teaching load for a period of five years. A formal description of the position, including requirements, is available at the following website: www.rhu.uqam.ca Applications, including a complete C.V., a research statement, all appropriate material concerning teaching, and four letters of recommendation should be submitted online at https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/UQAM/2096 Applications will be accepted until the position has been filled. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Dans le cadre du programme des Chaires de recherche du Canada (www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca ), les chaires de niveau 2 visent des chercheurs d?tenant un doctorat depuis moins de 10 ans, reconnus par leurs pairs comme ?tant susceptibles de devenir des chefs de file dans leur domaine. Le titulaire sera int?gr? au Centre interuniversitaire de recherches en g?om?trie et topologie (CIRGET, www.cirget.uqam.ca), et recevra une prime salariale, une subvention de recherche ainsi qu'une r?duction d?enseignement pour une p?riode de 5 ans. La personne candidate doit ma?triser le fran?ais parl? et ?crit. Date d?entr?e en fonction : le 1er avril 2011. Traitement selon la convention collective UQAM-SPUQ. Une description d?taill?e de ce poste, y compris les exigences et le d?lai pour poser votre candidature, est disponible ? l?adresse internet suivante : www.rhu.uqam.ca Les candidats sont invit?s ? soumettre en ligne un CV complet, un projet de recherche, tout mat?riel pertinent concernant leur enseignement et quatre lettres de recommandation ? : https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/UQAM/2096 Les candidatures seront accept?es jusqu?? ce que le poste soit combl?. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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 5th 2010, 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20100309/4bca6014/attachment.htm From akelm at cms.math.ca Tue Mar 9 13:50:47 2010 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Tue Mar 9 13:50:42 2010 Subject: [cmath] Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society Message-ID: The CMS has been asked to distribute the following notice. It is being circulated for information purposes only, as it may be of interest to some mathematicians. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joseph K. Golson Subject: Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society CALL FOR AUTHORS: Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society We are inviting academic editorial contributors to a new reference work on the role of mathematics in everyday life to be published by Salem Press in 2011. This comprehensive encyclopedia will be marketed and sold to high-school, college, public, and academic libraries and includes 3 volumes of approximately 500 articles. Mathematics is a fundamental part of society, yet many people may not be aware of the interconnections between what they have learned in school and their everyday lives. In its Curriculum Guide (MAA, 2004), the Mathematical Association of America?s Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics (CUPM) recommends that mathematics programs lead people ?to learn mathematics in a way that helps them to better understand its place in society: its meaning, its history, and its uses.? In keeping with this philosophy, the editors chose topics for inclusion based on one or more of the following criteria: (1) the topic is currently timely and likely to remain so; (2) the topic can be tied to mathematical concepts that people likely have been exposed to; (3) the topic is related to concepts and connections that professional mathematical organizations have suggested are important; (4) the topic is one that the general public has expressed interest in; (5) the topic is one we have successfully used or that we know has been successfully used in other contexts. We are now making article assignments with a deadline of June 1, 2010. Each article ranges from 600 to 3500 words and is signed by the contributor. The General Editors for the encyclopedia are Drs. Sarah Greenwald and Jill Thomley, Appalachian State University, who will review all the articles for editorial content and academic consistency. If you are interested in contributing to the Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society, it can be a notable publication addition to your CV/resume and broaden your publishing credits. Moreover, you can help ensure that accurate information and important points of view are credibly presented to students and library patrons. Compensation is an honorarium payment of $25 up to 1000 words; $35 from 1001 to 2500 words; and $45 above 2501 words. The list of available articles, style guidelines, and sample article are prepared and will be sent to you in response to your inquiry. Please then select which unassigned articles may best suit your interests and expertise. If you would like to contribute to building a truly outstanding reference with the Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society, please contact me by the e-mail information below. Thanks for your time and interest. Joseph K. Golson Author Manager math@golsonmedia.com 920-740-4137 --- From akelm at cms.math.ca Wed Mar 10 09:49:31 2010 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Wed Mar 10 09:49:39 2010 Subject: [cmath] Postdoctoral Research Position - Ryerson University Message-ID: <4B97B17B.8060408@cms.math.ca> Postdoctoral research position, Ryerson University A postdoctoral research fellow position in the Department of Mathematics at Ryerson University is available in the area of Graph Theory, starting July 1, 2010. This position provides an opportunity to engage in research in mathematics, with a limited amount of teaching, and is suited for talented mathematicians who have recently completed their Ph.D. The salary is competitive, with funding provided for a year and with potential for renewal for a second year. The applicant should have a PhD in Mathematics or Computer Science. The ideal candidate would have expertise in one or more of the areas of complex networks (such as the web graph or on-line social networks), random graphs, vertex pursuit games (such as Cops and Robbers), infinite graphs, or graph homomorphisms. The position is open to candidates of any nationality and selection will be based upon the candidate's research record and potential. Knowledge or experience with programming is a plus. As the applicant will normally teach, some teaching experience is preferred. Applicants should provide a cover letter, updated curriculum vitae, and at least three letters of recommendation. At least one of these letters should report on the candidate's teaching abilities. Applicants should apply no later than * April 12, 2010, *and the position will remain open until filled. Please note the position is advertised pending budgetary approval. 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URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20100310/44f433b0/attachment.htm From jrudnick at cms.math.ca Thu Mar 11 14:08:22 2010 From: jrudnick at cms.math.ca (Johan Rudnick) Date: Thu Mar 11 14:08:30 2010 Subject: [cmath] 2010 CMS Excellence in Teaching Award / Le Prix d'excellence en enseignement 2010 de la SMC Message-ID: <007d01cac14e$38547770$a8fd6650$@math.ca> The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) is pleased to announce the award of the 2010 CMS Excellence in Teaching Award to Professor Jennifer Hyndman, Mathematics Program, University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC). The Award will be presented at the Society's 2010 Summer Meeting in Fredericton, New Brunswick. The award recognizes sustained and distinguished contributions in teaching at the undergraduate level at a Canadian post-secondary education institution. Nelson Education, a major Canadian publisher for students and educators, is a proud sponsor of this unique national award. The complete announcement has been posted on the CMS website at: http://www.cms.math.ca/MediaReleases/2010/et-announcement La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC) a le plaisir de d?cerner le Prix d?excellence en enseignement 2010 de la SMC ? la professeure Jennifer Hyndman, du Programme de math?matiques, ? la University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC). Le prix sera remis au cours de la r?union de la Soci?t? ? l??t? 2010, ? Fredericton, au Nouveau-Brunswick. Ce prix souligne une contribution soutenue et exceptionnelle ? l?enseignement au premier cycle dans un ?tablissement d?enseignement postsecondaire canadien. Nelson Education, une importante maison d??dition canadienne pour les ?tudiants et les enseignants, est fier commanditaire de ce prix national unique. L'annonce compl?te a ?t? signal?e sur le site web de la SMC ? : http://www.cms.math.ca/Communiques/2010/et-announcement -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The award is named after Cecelia Krieger, the first woman to earn a mathematics doctorate from a Canadian university, and Evelyn Nelson, an ardent researcher, referee, and reviewer. The complete announcement has been posted on the CMS website at: http://www.cms.math.ca/MediaReleases/2010/kn-announcement La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC) a le plaisir d?annoncer que Rachel Kuske de la University of British Columbia est laur?ate du prix Krieger-Nelson 2011, qui souligne sa contribution exceptionnelle ? la recherche. Professeure Kuske recevra son prix en 2011 au cours de la r?union d??t? de la SMC. La SMC a cr?? le prix Krieger-Nelson en 1995 afin de souligner le travail de math?maticiennes qui ont fait une contribution exceptionnelle ? la recherche en math?matique. Le prix a ?t? nomm? en l?honneur de Cecelia Krieger, premi?re femme ? obtenir un doctorat en math?matique d?une universit? canadienne, et d?Evelyn Nelson, illustre chercheuse, arbitre et examinatrice. L'annonce compl?te a ?t? signal?e sur le site web de la SMC ? : http://www.cms.math.ca/Communiques/2010/kn-announcement -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20100311/1e0ba52e/attachment.htm From jrudnick at cms.math.ca Thu Mar 11 14:25:30 2010 From: jrudnick at cms.math.ca (Johan Rudnick) Date: Thu Mar 11 14:25:34 2010 Subject: [cmath] CMS 2011 Jeffery-Williams Prize / Le prix Jeffery-Williams 2011 de la SMC Message-ID: <008a01cac150$9c81d7e0$d58587a0$@math.ca> The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) is pleased to announce that Kai Behrend from the University of British Columbia is the recipient of the 2011 Jeffery-Williams Prize in recognition of his outstanding research contribution. Kai Behrend will receive his award at the June 2011 Society?s Summer Meeting. The Jeffery-Williams Prize was inaugurated in 1968 to recognize established mathematicians who have made outstanding contributions to mathematical research. The first award was presented in 1968 and named, in part, for Ralph Lent Jeffery, the fourth CMS President who by consistently encouraging research, made an outstanding contribution to mathematics in Canada. The award is also named, in part, for Lloyd Williams, who was instrumental in establishing the predecessor organization of the CMS. The complete announcement has been posted on the CMS website at: http://www.cms.math.ca/MediaReleases/2010/jw-announcement La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC) a le plaisir d?annoncer que Kai Behrend de la University of British Columbia est laur?at du prix Jeffery-Williams 2011, qui souligne la contribution exceptionnelle de ce dernier ? la recherche. Kai Behrend recevra son prix au cours de la r?union d??t? de la Soci?t? au mois de juin 2011. Le prix Jeffery-Williams a ?t? inaugur? en 1968 dans le but de souligner la contribution exceptionnelle de math?maticiens ?tablis ? la recherche en math?matique. Le premier prix a ?t? d?cern? en 1968 et nomm? en partie en hommage ? Ralph Lent Jeffery, quatri?me pr?sident de la SMC, qui, en appuyant continuellement la recherche, a fait une contribution exceptionnelle au domaine des math?matiques au Canada. Le prix porte ?galement le nom de Lloyd Williams, qui a contribu? de mani?re d?terminante ? la cr?ation de l?organisation pr?d?cesseur de la SMC. L'annonce compl?te a ?t? signal?e sur le site web de la SMC ? : http://www.cms.math.ca/Communiques/2010/jw-announcement -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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You may wish to stress that the deadline for submitting contributions is next November 30. Also further info can be obtained from Richard Barwell (UOttawa), who is on the IPC of ICMI Study 21. Thanks and best wishes, Bernard >From: "Setati, Mamokgethi" >Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:47:41 -0500 >Subject: >Thread-Index: AcrA5r9Wd5l7xAqcQJW6KXnswJmTfw== >Accept-Language: en-US >acceptlanguage: en-US >x-ironport-anti-spam-result: > AgsBACohmEujyNsPmWdsb2JhbACBRI1RAYppB2gBAQEBAQgLCgcTIoYTtk6EegQ >x-ironport-anti-spam-filtered: true >This message (and attachments) is subject to >restrictions and a disclaimer. Please refer to >http://www.unisa.ac.za/disclaimer >for full details. > ________________________________ > >It is my pleasure to introduce to you ICMI Study >21 entitled "Mathematics Education and Language diversity". > >The two co-chairs are >Mamokgethi Setati >University of South Africa, and >Maria Do Carmo Domite >Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil. The >Discussion Document may be found at the >study website and the >Study Conference will be held on 16 - 20 September 2011 in S?o Paulo, Brazil. > >Please circulate the news widely. > >kgethi > > >"The great only appear great because we are on our knees." (African proverb) >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Prof. Mamokgethi Setati, PhD (Wits), MASSAf >Executive Dean: College of Science, Engineering and Technology >University of South Africa >P. O. Box 392 >UNISA, 0003 > >Preller Street, Mucklenueck Ridge, >City of Tshwane >South Africa >Office number: TvW 8-126 >Tel : +27 12 429-2851 >Fax: +27 86 659-6806 > >PA: Ms. Sandra Vieira >Office: TvW 8-125 >Tel.: +27 12 429-8046 >Email: Vieirspl@unisa.ac.za > > ____________________________________________ Bernard R. Hodgson D?partement de math?matiques et de statistique Facult? des sciences et de g?nie 1045, avenue de la M?decine Universit? 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From akelm at cms.math.ca Mon Mar 15 11:43:35 2010 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Mon Mar 15 11:43:44 2010 Subject: [cmath] Postdoctoral Fellowship in Geometry/Topology - University of Waterloo Message-ID: <4B9E55A7.6080500@cms.math.ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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This award recognizes exceptional research in any branch of applied mathematics where the recipient is less than ten years past the date of Ph.D. at the time of nomination. Prof. Coombs is cited for his creativity, productivity, and ever-growing impact in mathematics applied to problems in biology. He works in the field of computational immunology, addressing a wide range of problems in viral disease dynamics and HIV modelling, and in the dynamics of receptors on cell surfaces. In particular, he and his co-workers have recently developed innovative single particle tracking algorithms that have enabled improved and insightful interpretation of experimental data from cell biology. Prof. Coombs obtained his PhD in 2001 from the University of Arizona, held a postdoctoral position at Los Alamos National Laboratories (2001-03), and joined UBC in 2003, where he is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics. The award consists of a cash prize of $1,000 and a commemorative plaque that will be presented at the CAIMS Annual Meeting at Memorial University at St. John's on July 17-20, 2010. Prof. Coombs will deliver a plenary lecture at the meeting as part of the award ceremony. From cdavid at mathstat.concordia.ca Tue Mar 16 11:16:32 2010 From: cdavid at mathstat.concordia.ca (cdavid@mathstat.concordia.ca) Date: Tue Mar 16 11:16:42 2010 Subject: [cmath] Call for Nominations for Ribenboim Prize in Number Theory Message-ID: <20100316111632.zhxte07mkg0ccg0o@www.mathstat.concordia.ca> Ribenboim Prize in Number Theory The Canadian Number Theory Association (CNTA) solicits nominations for the Sixth Ribenboim Prize, for distinguished research in number theory by a mathematician who is Canadian or has connections to Canadian mathematics. This prize is normally awarded every 2-4 years in conjunction with a CNTA meeting. The first five Ribenboim prizes were awarded to Andrew Granville (1999), Henri Darmon (2002), Michael Bennett (2004), Vinayak Vatsal (2006) and Adrian Iovita (2008). The intention is to award the next prize at the 11th CNTA meeting to be held from July 10-16, 2010 in Acadia, Nova Scotia. http://math.acadiau.ca/cnta-xi/ The prize winner will receive a certificate and medal and will give a plenary talk at the CNTA meeting. Normally the prize winner will have received his or her Ph.D. within the last 12 years. Nominators should submit a letter of nomination, a citation of not more than 250 words stating why the nominee should receive the award, a curriculum vitae of at most 20 pages, including a list of publications, and the names of 3 potential referees to the committee by May 1, 2010. Electronic submission in pdf format to Chantal David is preferred. Ribenboim Prize Committee c/o Professor Chantal David Department of Mathematics and Statistics Concordia University 1455 de Maisonneuve West Montreal, Quebec Canada H3G 1M8 From jrudnick at cms.math.ca Wed Mar 17 08:38:13 2010 From: jrudnick at cms.math.ca (Johan Rudnick) Date: Wed Mar 17 08:38:23 2010 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-1?q?2010_CMS_David_Borwein_Distinguished_Care?= =?iso-8859-1?q?er_Award_/__Le_prix_David-Borwein_de_math=E9maticie?= =?iso-8859-1?q?n_=E9m=E9rite_2010_pour_l=27ensemble_d=27une_carri?= =?iso-8859-1?q?=E8re?= Message-ID: <012c01cac5ce$b59a65d0$20cf3170$@math.ca> The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) is pleased to announce that Nassif Ghoussoub from the University of British Columbia is the recipient of the 2010 CMS David Borwein Distinguished Career Award in recognition of his exceptional, broad, and continued contribution to mathematics. Nassif Ghoussoub will receive his award at the Society?s 2010 Winter Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. The David Borwein Distinguished Career Award was established in 2004 to recognize individuals who have made a sustained outstanding contribution to the advancement of mathematics. David Borwein is a distinguished mathematician and former CMS President. The first award was presented in 2006 and includes a sculpture donated by the Borwein Family. The complete announcement has been posted on the CMS website at: http://www.cms.math.ca/MediaReleases/2010/db-announcement La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC) est fi?re d?annoncer que Nassif Ghoussoub de l?Universit? de la Colombie-Britannique est le laur?at 2010 du prix David-Borwein de math?maticien ?m?rite pour l?ensemble d?une carri?re, en reconnaissance de sa contribution exceptionnelle, ?tendue et soutenue aux math?matiques. Nassif Ghoussoub recevra son prix ? la R?union d?hiver 2010 de la Soci?t? ? Vancouver, en Colombie-Britannique. 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It is the intention to award the next prize at the Canadian Operator Symposium in Fredericton June 7-11, 2010. Nominations should consist of a letter of support from the nominator and a current c.v for the nominee. Please send it in an electronic format to the Israel Halperin Prize Committee c/o Ken Davidson at krdavids@uwaterloo.ca The deadline is May 1, 2010. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From rmarsh at mitacs.ca Wed Mar 24 17:33:12 2010 From: rmarsh at mitacs.ca (Rebeccah Marsh) Date: Wed Mar 24 17:34:38 2010 Subject: [cmath] MITACS Call for Networking Proposals Message-ID: Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.gif Type: image/gif Size: 1052 bytes Desc: image001.gif Url : https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20100324/afb86e57/image001.gif -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The award is named, in part, for Donald Coxeter, the seventh CMS President who is considered one of the great geometers of the 20th century. The award is also named, in part, after Ralph Duncan James, the fifth CMS President who diligently promoted the development of mathematics. The complete announcement has been posted on the CMS website at: http://www.cms.math.ca/MediaReleases/2010/cj-announcement La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC) a le plaisir d?annoncer que B?lint Vir?g de l?Universit? de Toronto est laur?at du prix Coxeter-James 2010, qui souligne la contribution exceptionnelle d?un jeune math?maticien ? la recherche. B?lint Vir?g recevra son prix au cours de la rencontre d??t? de la Soci?t? du 4 au 6 juin 2010 ? Fredericton, au Nouveau-Brunswick. Le prix Coxeter-James a ?t? inaugur? afin de souligner la contribution exceptionnelle de jeunes math?maticiens qui se sont d?marqu?s dans le domaine de la recherche en math?matique. 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Prof. Liu is an outstanding mathematical educator who has been internationally recognized for his tireless work in education and outreach over a period of many years. He is a winner of the Deborah and Franklin Teppo-Haimo Award from the Mathematical Association of America (2004), the Adrienne Poulot Award from the Canadian Mathematical Society (2003), the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Pacific Northwest Section of the MAA (2002), the Delta Chi Teaching Excellence Award (2000), the 3M National Teaching Fellowship (1999), and was Canadian University Professor of the Year (1998). He was also the leader of the Canadian team to the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2000 and 2003. Prof. Liu is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Alberta and has been highly influential through his popular courses for future elementary school teachers. He also serves as Director of "Saturday Mathematical Activities, Recreations and Tutorials" (SMART), an enrichment program for students in Edmonton which has captured the imagination of several generations of junior high school students. He has helped organize and promote the highly successful SNAP (Student-oriented, Non-competitive, All-inclusive, Problem-based) Math Fairs. He is Chair of the Alberta High School Mathematics Competition Board, and serves as Vice-President of the International Mathematics Tournament of Towns. He has also been the organizer for the CMS Regional Mathematics Summer Camps held in Edmonton in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008. The 2010 PIMS Education Prize will be awarded at a special event during the annual Changing the Culture conference at Simon Fraser University on May 21, 2010. PIMS is grateful to CGG Veritas & Hampson-Russell for sponsoring this award. For more information on the PIMS Education Prize please see http://www.pims.math.ca/pims-glance/prizes-awards From akelm at cms.math.ca Mon Mar 29 12:23:38 2010 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Mon Mar 29 12:23:44 2010 Subject: [cmath] A Celebration of Mathematics and the 40th Anniversary of Jeffery Hall - Queen's University - May 14-15 Message-ID: <4BB0D40A.1030600@cms.math.ca> *A Celebration of Mathematics and the 40th Anniversary of Jeffery Hall * *May 14-15, 2010* http://www.mast.queensu.ca/~conference2010/ In the post-Sputnik era, Canada and the United States faced an immense challenge to bring the scientific research levels of both nations to a higher standard. In the mathematical field, this challenge was met in Canada by several mathematicians, the most notable being Professor R.L. Jeffery of Queen's University. By strengthening the Canadian Mathematical Society and by organizing the summer research seminars held at Queen's University during the 1950's and 1960's, Professor Jeffery was instrumental in raising the level of mathematical research in Canada. Jeffery Hall, which presently houses the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Queen's University, is named after him. This building was 40 years old in October, 2009. The world now faces a similar challenge to the one Professor Jeffery faced in the 1950's. To keep the importance of mathematical research in the forefront of our scientific consciousness, as well as to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Jeffery Hall and honour Professor Jeffery, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Queen's University is planning a two-day celebration from May 14-15, 2010. Several presentations are planned. Professor Sir David Cox of the University of Oxford, Professor Hale Trotter of Princeton University and Professor Gerhard Frey of the University of Duisburg, Essen have already agreed to speak. A lecture surveying the development of research in mathematics in Canada, as well as R.L. Jeffery's role in the Canadian Mathematical Society, is also planned. It is anticipated that this celebration will galvanize and reinforce the mathematical talent in Canada to meet the present scientific and technological challenges. It is expected that many alumni and others will attend. If you would like to be put on the mailing list to receive more information, please write to by mail: Dr. A. M. Herzberg FRSC Department of Mathematics Queen?s University Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 by e-mail: Miss A. Burns burnsa@queensu.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Professor Fesenko will give three lectures under the general title "A generalization of the adelic analysis theory of Tate and Iwasawa to arithmetic surfaces": Lecture 1 (Tuesday, April 20, 2010): "Higher fields and adeles associated to arithmetic surfaces, and a translation invariant integration on higher local fields and adeles" Lecture 2 (Wednesday, April 21, 2010): "K-delic structures on arithmetic surfaces and two-dimensional class field theory" Lecture 3 (Thursday, April 22, 2010): "Zeta integral on a regular model of elliptic curve over global field and applications to three fundamental properties of its zeta function" All lectures will be held in Room 107 of Middlesex College at 3:30pm on the indicated dates. Refreshments will be served before the first lecture. Further details are available on our departmental web site: http://www.math.uwo.ca/calendar/month.php# E-mail inquiries can be sent to mathdept@uwo.ca. From nassif at math.ubc.ca Wed Apr 7 13:40:34 2010 From: nassif at math.ubc.ca (Nassif Ghoussoub) Date: Wed Apr 7 15:06:49 2010 Subject: [cmath] BIRS funding and NSERC matters Message-ID: I am pleased to inform you that the government of Alberta and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) have recommended full funding for BIRS for the period 2011-15. This is of course conditional on NSERC's funding decision which is yet to be made public. This said, NSERC has communicated the alarming fact that there were 11 proposals in this year's MRS competition whose budget was $1.2 million, half of which was the returning budget of BIRS. It is therefore important for the Mathematical community to realize that this doesn't bode well for the future of our community. Indeed, the 3 math sci. institutes were "transfered" a couple of years ago from the discovery grants to the MRS envelope in spite of our stiff opposition. An impasse that ended with a controversial poll (with dubious choices) in favor of the transfer. Note that after last year's government's budget cut to the tri-council, NSERC elected to cut $6 millions out of the MRS (the envelop where BIRS and the institutes are now parked) and another $6 million from the graduate scholarships. Moreover, the bad news keep emerging about this year's discovery grant competition. Make sure to let the liaison committee (above) know if you feel that our system failed you, and remember: ?don?t hide in the office feeling you?ve done something wrong?. The government has promised a major review of federal funding for research, and we should all be ready to do our share and contribute. Stay tuned. Nassif ******************************************************** Nassif Ghoussoub, FRSC Scientific Director, Banff International Research Station Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Mathematics The University of British Columbia http://www.birs.ca/~nassif/ From jrudnick at cms.math.ca Wed Apr 14 09:26:50 2010 From: jrudnick at cms.math.ca (Johan Rudnick) Date: Wed Apr 14 09:26:57 2010 Subject: [cmath] S.W. Willard Message-ID: <005101cadbd6$240397e0$6c0ac7a0$@math.ca> Stephen Whitman Willard, 67, Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta, passed away on August 7, 2009 in Edmonton, Alberta. He was born in Syracuse, New York and received his PhD in 1965 from the University of Rochester. His supervisor was A.H. Stone. Early in his career, he held positions at Lehigh University and Case Western Reserve. In 1969 he joined the Mathematics Department at the University of Alberta. His main research was in the areas of Borel Sets and characterizing spaces through mappings. Steve is perhaps best known for his book General Topology which was first published in 1970 and is still in print today. An early effort to provide appropriate material for a calculus course for students in the Faculty of Business Administration resulted in a textbook that was published in 1976 as Calculus and its Applications. Throughout his career, he worked tirelessly to provide a positive and challenging learning environment for his students. In particular, he meticulously prepared learning materials for the students who enrolled in all his classes from beginning calculus to graduate level topology courses. He was a dedicated and an outstanding teacher at all levels who was highly respected by his colleagues and students. His teaching achievements were recognized by the University of Alberta in 1983, when he was awarded the Rutherford Award for Teaching Excellence, the highest teaching award given by the University of Alberta. 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The appointment will be for a five year term beginning January 1, 2011. * The deadline for submissions is **September 15, 2010**.* Since editorial responsibilities often necessitate a lessening of responsibilities in an individual's normal work, individuals should review their candidacy with their university department. Expressions of interest should include: * a formal covering letter; * a curriculum vitae; * an expression of views regarding the publication; and * an inclusion of support from your university department. Please submit your expression of interest electronically, preferably in PDF format, to:* CRUX-EIC-2011@cms.math.ca* ********************************************************************************* APPEL MISE EN CANDIDATURE: R?DACTEUR-EN-CHEF - Crux Mathematicorum with Mathematical Mayhem (CRUX with MAYHEM) Le comit? des publications de la SMC sollicite des mises en candidature pour le poste de r?dacteur-en-chef pour CRUX with MAYHEM. Le mandat sera pour cinq ans et d?butera le 1er janvier 2011. * La date limite pour les soumissions est le 15 septembre 2010.* Puisque les responsabilit?s de r?daction n?cessitent souvent une r?duction dans la charge normale de travail, l'individue devraient verifier leur candidature avec leur d?partement. Les mises en candidature doivent inclure : * une lettre formelle; * un curriculum vitae; * l'expression de votre opinion sur la publication; et * une inclusion d'un soutein de votre d?partement universitaire. Veuiller soumettre votre mise en candidature par voie ?lectronique, de pr?f?rence en format PDF, ? : ***CRUX-REC-2011@smc.math.ca* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Expressions of interest should include: * a formal covering letter; * a curriculum vitae; * an expression of views regarding the publication; and * an inclusion of support from your university department. ** Please submit your expression of interest electronically, preferably in PDF format, to:* NOTES-EIC-2012@cms.math.ca* ************************************************************************ APPEL DE MISES EN CANDIDATURE: R?DACTEURS-EN-CHEF - Notes de la SMC (2 postes) Le comit? des publications de la SMC sollicite des mises en candidature pour deux postes de r?dacteur-en-chef pour Notes de la SMC. Le mandat sera pour cinq ans et d?butera le 1er janvier 2012. *La date limite pour les soumissions est le 15 novembre 2010.* Puisque les responsabilit?s de r?daction n?cessitent souvent une r?duction dans la charge normale de travail, les individus devraient verifier leur candidature avec leur d?partement. Les mises en candidature doivent inclure: * une lettre formelle; * un curriculum vitae; * l'expression de votre opinion sur la publication; et * une inclusion d'un soutein de votre d?partement universitaire. Veuillez soumettre votre mise en candidature par voie ?lectronique, de pr?f?rence en format PDF, ? :* NOTES-REC-2012@smc.math.ca* ** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20100416/8c231d05/attachment.htm From director at cms.math.ca Fri Apr 16 13:39:11 2010 From: director at cms.math.ca (Johan Rudnick) Date: Fri Apr 16 13:39:14 2010 Subject: [cmath] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS / APPEL DE MISES EN CANDIDATURE: CJM/JCM Message-ID: <4BC8A0BF.7080101@cms.math.ca> CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: EDITORS-IN-CHIEF - Canadian Journal of Mathematics (2 positions) The term of office of the present Editors-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Mathematics will end December 31, 2011. The Publications Committee of the CMS invites nominations for the next Editors-in-Chief to serve for a five year term beginning January 1, 2012. *The deadline for submissions is **November 15, 2010**.* Since editorial responsibilities often necessitate a lessening of responsibilities in an individual's normal work, individuals should review their candidacy with their university department. Expressions of interest should include: * a formal covering letter; * a curriculum vitae; * an expression of views regarding the publication; and * an inclusion of support from their university department. ** Any input from the mathematical community concerning this important selection process is welcome. Applications (with supporting material) and/or comments should be sent to the email address below. Please submit your expression of interest electronically, preferably in PDF format, to:* CJM-EIC-2012@cms.math.ca* *********************************************************************** APPEL DE MISES EN CANDIDATURE: R?DACTEURS-EN-CHEF - Journal canadien de math?matique (2 postes) Le mandat des r?dacteurs-en-chef actuels du Journal canadien de math?matique prendra fin le 31 d?cembre 2011. 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 qui d?butera le 1er janvier 2012. *La date limite pour les soumissions est le 15 novembre 2010.* Puisque les responsabilit?s de r?daction n?cessitent souvent une r?duction dans la charge normale de travail, les individu(e)s devraient verifier leur candidature avec leur d?partement. Les mises en candidature doivent inclure : * une lettre formelle; * un curriculum vitae; * l'expression de votre opinion sur la publication; et * une inclusion d'un soutein de leur d?partement universitaire. Les commentaires de la communaut? math?matique au sujet de cette importante s?lection sont bienvenus. Les mises en candidatures (avec mat?rial ? l'appui) et/ou commentaires devraient ?tre achemin?s ? l'adresse courriel ci-dessous. Veuiller soumettre votre mise en candidature par voie ?lectronique, de pr?f?rence en format PDF, ? :* JCM-REC-2012@smc.math.ca** * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Expressions of interest should include: * a formal covering letter; * a curriculum vitae; * an expression of views regarding the publication; and * an inclusion of support from their university department. ** Please submit your expression of interest electronically, preferably in PDF format, to:* ATOM**-EIC-2012@cms.math.ca* ************************************************************************ APPEL DE MISES EN CANDIDATURE: R?DACTEUR-EN-CHEF - Aime-T-On-les Math?matiques (ATOM) Le comit? des publications de la SMC sollicite des mises en candidature pour le poste de r?dacteur-en-chef pour l'ATOM. Le mandat sera pour cinq ans et d?butera le 1er janvier 2012. *La date limite pour les soumissions est le 15 novembre 2010.* Puisque les responsabilit?s de r?daction n?cessitent souvent une r?duction dans la charge normale de travail, les individu(e)s devraient verifier leur candidature avec leur d?partement. Les mises en candidature doivent inclure : * une lettre formelle; * un curriculum vitae; * l'expression de votre opinion sur la publication; et * une inclusion d'un soutein de leur d?partement universitaire. Veuiller soumettre votre mise en candidature par voie ?lectronique, de pr?f?rence en format PDF, ? :* ATOM**-REC-2012@smc.math.ca * ** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20100416/fd5c97e4/attachment.htm From akelm at cms.math.ca Fri Apr 16 14:21:09 2010 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Fri Apr 16 14:21:17 2010 Subject: [cmath] Tenure-Track Position in Statistics - Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <4BC8AA95.5070001@cms.math.ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Coxeter, George Elliott, James Arthur, Robert Moody, Stephen Cook, Michael Sigal, William Tutte, John Friedlander, John McKay, Edwin Perkins, Donald Dawson, David Boyd, Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann, Joel Feldman, Allan Borodin, Martin Barlow, and Gordon Slade. The selection committee is appointed by the three institutes and will select the 2011 CRM-Fields-PIMS prize recipient on the basis of outstanding contributions to the advancement of the mathematical sciences, with excellence in research as the main selection criterion. The candidate?s research should have been conducted primarily in Canada or in affiliation with a Canadian university. A monetary prize will be awarded, and the recipient will be asked to present a lecture at the CRM, the Fields Institute, and PIMS. The final deadline for nominations is November 1, 2010. Nominations should be submitted by at least two sponsors of recognized stature, and must include the following: three 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. Submit nominations to crm-fields-pims-prize@fields.utoronto.ca. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. From akelm at cms.math.ca Thu Apr 22 13:49:00 2010 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Thu Apr 22 13:49:09 2010 Subject: [cmath] Tenure-Track Position in Algebra - Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <4BD08C0C.4080602@cms.math.ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: uwinnipeg-ad.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 31411 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20100430/eee74e72/uwinnipeg-ad.pdf From akelm at cms.math.ca Tue May 4 11:28:01 2010 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Tue May 4 11:28:08 2010 Subject: [cmath] Academic Mathematics Vacancies - Charles Sturt University, Australia Message-ID: <4BE03D01.20503@cms.math.ca> Charles Sturt University * * *Associate Professor/ Professor in Mathematical Sciences (Wagga Wagga, Australia) * * Full time Continuing * Academic Level D/E - $124,297 - $160,112 (Including 17% Superannuation) * * *Associate Lecturer/ Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer in Mathematics and Statistics (Albury-Wodonga, Australia) * * Full time Continuing * Academic Level A/B/C - $58,990 - $119,031 (Including 17% Superannuation) Charles Sturt University is a national leader in providing flexible and distance education for the professions and conducts world class strategic and applied research through its network of research centres and associated national and international linkages. Charles Sturt University is committed to maintaining critical capacity in the mathematical sciences and the School of Computing and Mathematics is currently seeking to expand its staffing levels in this area with appointments at professorial and lectureship levels. The School offers mainstream courses in mathematics and statistics as well as providing essential service teaching support to a wide range of academic programs across the University. Academic staff within the School are engaged in a broad range of research programs as well as providing research consultancy support services through the Quantitative Consulting Unit. The successful candidates will have the opportunity to contribute to the continued development and growth of the mathematical sciences discipline at Charles Sturt University and participate in exciting teaching and research programs linked to a wide range of professional employment and strategic research areas. More details at http://www.csu.edu.au/jobs/vacancies/acad-vacancies.htm *Applications Close: 15 June 2010* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/20100504/e0226caa/attachment.htm From birs-director at birs.ca Thu May 6 13:34:33 2010 From: birs-director at birs.ca (BIRS Director) Date: Thu May 6 13:41:05 2010 Subject: [cmath] Funding for the Banff International Research Station (BIRS) Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce that the Banff International Research Station (BIRS) was successful in its effort to renew and secure the support of the governments of Alberta, Canada, the US and Mexico, for the period 2011-2015. The combined grants totaling more than $12 million over 5 years will allow BIRS to continue to provide the infrastructure for an environment that optimizes creative interaction and the exchange of ideas, knowledge and methods within a broad program covering the mathematical, statistical and computational sciences, as well as their applications in science, technology and society. The funding includes: ? $3.68 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). ? $3.45 million from the Alberta ministry of Advanced Education and Technology. (AAET) ? $3.25 million from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). ? $250,000 from CONACYT, Mexico's National Science and Technology Council. ? $400,000 from the "Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems" (MITACS) network, an NCE in support of industrial mathematics. ? $400,000 from the University of British Columbia, which hosts the headquarters of BIRS, and which in tandem with the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary, provides crucial support for the Station's administrative management. We are extremely grateful to the dozens of scientists who supported BIRS during the joint site visit by the four granting foundations, and to the thousands of BIRS participants who sent us personal and compelling testimonials that helped make the case for BIRS. Nassif Ghoussoub, Director, Banff International Research Station http://www.birs.ca/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please see the website for more information and updates: http://www.math.unb.ca/~dan/coas2010/coas2010Main.htm It would be greatly appreciated if we could have all titles and abstracts by June 1, please. This is so that the title and abstracts can be included in the program. Graduate students and postdocs interested in residence accomodation and/or financial support should contact the organizers (coas2010@listserv.unb.ca). Andrew Dean and Dan Kucerovsky ==========Registration form============ Please copy this page into your e-mail program and send, once completed, to coas2010@listserv.unb.ca. If you don't give the title of your talk, we will assume that you are not giving one. The banquet costs 35 dollars, payable in Canadian currency after arrival. If you intend to purchase more than one banquet ticket, please send one copy of this form for each purchase. There are no registration fees or reimboursements. Some funding may be available for graduate students only, please enquire. Name and affiliation: Arrival date and time: Departure date and time: Talk title (if giving a talk): Talk abstract (if giving a talk): Attending banquet (yes/no) If you are attending the banquet, indicate your menu choices by deleting all but one from each of the lists below: Appetizer: Soup of the day / Salad. Entree: Sirloin steak / Grilled salmon / Chicken stir fry / Vegetarian Stir Fry / Curried Chicken Pasta / Grilled Chicken and Broccoli Dessert: Chocolate cake / Lemon cake From akelm at cms.math.ca Mon May 10 14:08:19 2010 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Mon May 10 14:08:27 2010 Subject: [cmath] Tenure-Track Position in Algebra and Analysis - University of Windsor Message-ID: <4BE84B93.4090109@cms.math.ca> Tenure-Track Position in the area of Algebra and Analysis The University of Windsor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics invites applications for a tenure-track position in the area of Algebra and Analysis at the rank of Assistant Professor commencing as early as * September 1, 2010. * This position is subject to final budgetary approval. Presently, the areas of research in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics include: Algebra, Analysis, Applied Mathematics, Operational Research, and Statistics. There are excellent opportunities for collaboration with researchers in Business Administration, Computer Science, Economics, and Engineering. . Within the Mathematics and Statistics PhD program, the fields of study are Mathematics and Statistics. For the MSc program, the fields of study are also Mathematics and Statistics. At the undergraduate level, we offer Bachelor of Mathematics programs in Mathematics, Mathematics and Statistics, and Mathematics and Computer Science. There is a strong tradition of excellence in teaching at all levels, and several of our faculty have received distinguished teaching awards. For further information about the Department, visit our web site at http://www.uwindsor.ca/math. A successful candidate must: * have a PhD by the date of appointment (or be near completion), * be able to contribute in a major way to the development of our newly approved PhD program in Mathematics, * be dedicated to excellence in teaching at all levels, and * have a realizable potential and willingness to develop a strong research program in Algebra or Analysis. Preference will be given to candidates in Algebra. Applications will include: * a letter of application , including a statement of citizenship/immigration status; * a detailed and current curriculum vitae ; * statements of teaching and research interests; * sample of scholarly writing; * graduate transcripts if a recent graduate; * sample course outlines; * teaching evaluations or other evidence of teaching effectiveness; and * three current letters of reference forwarded directly by the referees to the Chair. To ensure full consideration, complete applications, including letters of reference, should be submitted by * June 30, 2010 *to: * Professor S. E. Ahmed, Head Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, ON N9B 3P4 Phone: (519) 253-3000 Ext. 3015; Fax: (519) 971-3649 E-mail: mthsta2@uwindsor.ca * Applications may still be received after the deadline date. If you are unable to submit the application by the deadline date , you should contact and alert the Chair that you intend to submit an application after the deadline date. If you are viewing the advertisement after the deadline date, you should contact the Chair to find out the status of the search and discuss the possibility of submitting an application. The acceptance of a late submission is at the discretion of the appointments committee. The University of Windsor is committed to equity in its academic policies, practices, and programs; supports diversity in its teaching, learning, and work environments; and ensures that applications from members of traditionally marginalized groups are seriously considered under its employment equity policy. Those who would contribute to the further diversification of our faculty and its scholarship include, but are not limited to, women, Aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and members of sexual minority groups. The University of Windsor invites you to apply to our welcoming community and to self-identify as a member of one of these groups. International candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority . To ensure that you are considered within the priorities of the Employment Equity Program, you may self-identify in your letter of application or in a separate letter to the Presidential Commission on Employment Equity, Office of Faculty Recruitment and Retention (OFRR), 325 Chrysler Hall Tower, University of Windsor , Windsor, Ontario, N9B 3P4. The University of Windsor , one of Ontario\x{2019}s leading academic institutions, provides a learning-centred approach which prepares its graduates for the challenges of tomorrow. Information about the University of Windsor and its programs may be found at http://www.uwindsor.ca. For more information on living and working at the University of Windsor, visit the Office of Faculty Recruitment Web site at http://www.uwindsor.ca/facultypositions, e-mail recruit@uwindsor.ca , or contact Gerri Pacecca, Coordinator at (877) 665-6608 toll free within North America, or call collect outside of North America at 001-519-561-1432. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/20100510/b52b17f7/attachment.htm From richard.zsolt at gmail.com Tue May 18 11:28:55 2010 From: richard.zsolt at gmail.com (Richard Zsolt) Date: Tue May 18 14:42:21 2010 Subject: [cmath] CUMC in Waterloo: July 6-10, 2010 Message-ID: Attention Undergraduate Math Students! Are you a student who is interested in Mathematics? Registration for the 17th Annual Canadian Undergraduate Mathematics Conference is now open! Don't miss an exciting opportunity this summer! Hosted at the University of Waterloo from July 6th to July 10th, come take part in the premier Undergraduate Mathematics event in North America. Visit the conference website at <>http://cumc.math.ca Update: For students who need help with travel expenses, consider the following option: The Department of Combinatorics & Optimization at the University of Waterloo is offering "Summer School in Combinatorics", from July 5 - July 6, that offers paid travel to and from Waterloo, free registration, paid meals, and of course great math. This may be very helpful to those who want to learn more mathematics and have trouble getting financial assistance to come to Waterloo. Anyone who attends the Summer School is encouraged to stick around for a few more days and enjoy the CUMC. For more information, go to the Summer School site at: http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/CandO_Dept/Conference/SummerSchool/SummerSchool2010.shtml If you are an undergraduate student who is interested in Mathematics, don't miss this year's conference. It's a fantastic opportunity to learn more mathematics, meet other students around the country, and have a great time! What is the Canadian Undergraduate Mathematics Conference: The Canadian Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (CUMC) is an annual gathering of undergraduate students with interests in the mathematical sciences. Run by undergraduates for undergraduates, it is the largest event of its kind in North America, and no other similar student conference has run for 17 consecutive years. Each year it attracts over a hundred students of all abilities, from diverse fields such as pure math, applied math, physics, economics, bioinformatics, statistics, computer science, mathematical finance, and actuarial science. Why attend the CUMC? We encourage students who are interested in any math-related field to participate. This is a great opportunity to not only learn about new areas of mathematics, but also to meet students from across the country with similar interests, and to practice giving a mathematical talk (which is encouraged but not required). The conference provides an inclusive, non-competitive environment for students of all abilities to meet, exchange ideas and socialize with others interested in math. This is an invaluable opportunity to learn, travel, and become exposed to the broader mathematical world outside of the classroom. the 2010 CUMC organizing committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20100518/fbac71a3/attachment.htm From richard.zsolt at gmail.com Fri May 21 14:13:07 2010 From: richard.zsolt at gmail.com (Richard Zsolt) Date: Tue May 25 09:00:05 2010 Subject: [cmath] CUMC in Waterloo: July 6-10, 2010 Message-ID: Hello, We're trying to get the following information into the hands of as many mathematically-inclined undergraduate students as possible. Could you please forward the message below to undergraduate students in any mathematical discipline such as mathematics, computer science, physics, statistics and so on. We really appreciate the assistance in helping inform Canadian undergrads about this event. To help us with our logistical tracking if you have the energy could you please send an email confirming that you have sent this to the undergraduates to CUMC.2010@gmail.com. Thank you! Richard Zsolt On behalf of the CUMC 2010 Organizing Committee ***** Attention Undergraduate Math Students! Are you a student who is interested in Mathematics? Registration for the 17th Annual Canadian Undergraduate Mathematics Conference is now open! Don't miss an exciting opportunity this summer! Hosted at the University of Waterloo from July 6th to July 10th, come take part in the premier Undergraduate Mathematics event in North America. Visit the conference website at <>http://cumc.math.ca Update: For students who need help with travel expenses, consider the following option: The Department of Combinatorics & Optimization at the University of Waterloo is offering "Summer School in Combinatorics", from July 5 - July 6, that offers paid travel to and from Waterloo, free registration, paid meals, and of course great math. This may be very helpful to those who want to learn more mathematics and have trouble getting financial assistance to come to Waterloo. Anyone who attends the Summer School is encouraged to stick around for a few more days and enjoy the CUMC. For more information, go to the Summer School site at: http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/CandO_Dept/Conference/SummerSchool/SummerSchool2010.shtml If you are an undergraduate student who is interested in Mathematics, don't miss this year's conference. It's a fantastic opportunity to learn more mathematics, meet other students around the country, and have a great time! What is the Canadian Undergraduate Mathematics Conference: The Canadian Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (CUMC) is an annual gathering of undergraduate students with interests in the mathematical sciences. Run by undergraduates for undergraduates, it is the largest event of its kind in North America, and no other similar student conference has run for 17 consecutive years. Each year it attracts over a hundred students of all abilities, from diverse fields such as pure math, applied math, physics, economics, bioinformatics, statistics, computer science, mathematical finance, and actuarial science. Why attend the CUMC? We encourage students who are interested in any math-related field to participate. This is a great opportunity to not only learn about new areas of mathematics, but also to meet students from across the country with similar interests, and to practice giving a mathematical talk (which is encouraged but not required). The conference provides an inclusive, non-competitive environment for students of all abilities to meet, exchange ideas and socialize with others interested in math. This is an invaluable opportunity to learn, travel, and become exposed to the broader mathematical world outside of the classroom. the 2010 CUMC organizing committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This is so that the title and abstracts can be included in the program. Graduate students and postdocs interested in residence accomodation and/or financial support should contact the organizers (coas2010@listserv.unb.ca). Andrew Dean and Dan Kucerovsky ==========Registration form============ Please copy this page into your e-mail program and send, once completed, to coas2010@listserv.unb.ca. If you don't give the title of your talk, we will assume that you are not giving one. The banquet costs 35 dollars, payable in Canadian currency after arrival. If you intend to purchase more than one banquet ticket, please send one copy of this form for each purchase. There are no registration fees or reimboursements. Some funding may be available for graduate students only, please enquire. Name and affiliation: Arrival date and time: Departure date and time: Talk title (if giving a talk): Talk abstract (if giving a talk): Attending banquet (yes/no) If you are attending the banquet, indicate your menu choices by deleting all but one from each of the lists below: Appetizer: Soup of the day / Salad. Entree: Sirloin steak / Grilled salmon / Chicken stir fry / Vegetarian Stir Fry / Curried Chicken Pasta / Grilled Chicken and Broccoli Dessert: Chocolate cake / Lemon cake From paradis at CRM.UMontreal.CA Thu Jun 3 11:50:02 2010 From: paradis at CRM.UMontreal.CA (Suzette Paradis) Date: Thu Jun 3 11:50:20 2010 Subject: [cmath] =?windows-1252?q?APPEL_DE_CANDIDATURES_/_PRIX_ANDR=C9-AI?= =?windows-1252?q?SENSTADT_=95_CALL_FOR_NOMINATIONS_ANDR=C9-AISENSTADT_PRI?= =?windows-1252?q?ZE?= Message-ID: Included is a pdf format. Le format pdf est inclus. [ English follows] Prix de math?matiques Andr?-Aisenstadt 2011 Appel de candidatures Date limite : 1er octobre 2010 Le Centre de recherches math?matiques (CRM) lance un nouvel appel de candidatures pour le Prix de math?matiques Andr?-Aisenstadt visant ? reconna?tre le talent de jeunes math?maticiens canadiens. Le Prix de math?matiques Andr?-Aisenstadt, comprenant une bourse en argent ainsi qu?une m?daille, souligne des r?sultats exceptionnels de recherche r?alis?s par un jeune math?maticien ou math?maticienne canadien. Le laur?at est choisi par le Comit? scientifique international du CRM. Le prix est normalement accord? annuellement bien qu?il puisse survenir une ann?e o? l?on d?cide de ne pas l?attribuer. Les candidats doivent ?tre citoyens canadiens ou r?sidents permanents du Canada et avoir termin? leur doctorat depuis sept ans ou moins. Le laur?at est invit? ? prononcer une conf?rence au CRM et ? pr?senter un r?sum? de ses travaux pour publication dans le Bulletin du CRM. Les candidatures doivent ?tre parrain?es par au moins deux personnes et pr?sent?es avant le 1er octobre 2010 au Directeur du CRM. Les dossiers devront inclure les documents suivants: ? un curriculum vitae, ? une liste des publications, ? une lettre justificative, ? au plus quatre tir?s ? part, ? et un maximum de quatre lettres de r?f?rence. ? moins que les candidats ne d?cident de les retirer, les candidatures non retenues sont automatiquement remises en concours durant les deux ann?es suivantes, ? condition que la r?gle concernant l?obtention du doctorat depuis sept ans ou moins soit toujours satisfaite. Des mises ? jour des dossiers peuvent ?tre effectu?es. Les laur?ats du Prix de math?matiques Andr?-Aisenstadt depuis sa cr?ation en 1991 ont ?t? les suivants (les affiliations sont celles en vigueur au moment de l?attribution du prix) : Niky Kamran (McGill), Ian Putnam (Victoria), Michael Ward (UBC), Nigel Higson (Penn State), Adrian S. Lewis (Waterloo), Lisa Jeffrey (McGill), Henri Darmon (McGill), Boris Khesin (Toronto), John Toth (McGill), Changfeng Gui (Connecticut), Eckhard Meinrenken (Toronto), Jinyi Chen (UBC), Alexander Brudnyi (Calgary), Vinayak Vatsal (UBC), Ravi Vakil (Stanford), Iosif Polterovich (Montr?al), Tai-Peng Tsai (UBC), Gregory G. Smith (Queen?s), Alexander E. Holroyd (UBC), Jozsef Solymosi (UBC), Jonathan Taylor (Montr?al), Valentin Blomer (Toronto) et Omer Angel (UBC). Pri?re de soumettre les dossiers soit ?lectroniquement, soit sous format papier au : Directeur Centre de recherches math?matiques Universit? de Montr?al C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-ville Montr?al, QC H3C 3J7 Canada Fax: 514 343-2254 directeur@crm.umontreal.ca 2011 Andr?-Aisenstadt Mathematics Prize Call for nominations Submission deadline : October 1st, 2010 The Centre de recherches math?matiques (CRM) solicits nominations for the Andr?-Aisenstadt Mathematics Prize awarded to recognize talented young Canadian mathematicians. The Andr?-Aisenstadt Mathematics Prize, which celebrates outstanding research achievement by a young Canadian mathematician, consists of a monetary prize and a medal. The recipient is chosen by CRM?s international scientific advisory committee. The prize is generally awarded yearly, although in a given year the decision may be made not to award it. At the time of consideration, candidates must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada, and no more than seven years from their Ph.D. The recipient is invited to deliver a lecture at CRM, at a time mutually agreed upon, and to write a brief article on his or her work for publication in the CRM?s Bulletin. Nominations must be submitted by October 1, 2010, to the Director of the CRM, by at least two sponsors who are responsible for providing the following information: ? a curriculum vitae, ? a list of publications, ? a covering letter explaining the basis of the nomination, ? up to four reprints, and ? a maximum of four letters of support. Unsuccessful nominations remain active for two further years if not withdrawn and if the rule regarding the completion of the Ph.D. within seven years is still satisfied. The nominations can be updated if desired. Since its creation in 1991, the Andr?-Aisensadt Prize has been awarded to the following (the affiliations are the current ones at the time of the award): Niky Kamran (McGill), Ian Putnam (Victoria), Michael Ward (UBC), Nigel Higson (Penn State), Adrian S. Lewis (Waterloo), Lisa Jeffrey (McGill), Henri Darmon (McGill), Boris Khesin (Toronto), John Toth (McGill), Changfeng Gui (Connecticut), Eckhard Meinrenken (Toronto), Jinyi Chen (UBC), Alexander Brudnyi (Calgary), Vinayak Vatsal (UBC), Ravi Vakil (Stanford), Iosif Polterovich (Montr?al), Tai-Peng Tsai (UBC), Gregory G. Smith (Queen?s), Alexander E. Holroyd (UBC), Jozsef Solymosi (UBC), Jonathan Taylor (Montr?al), Valentin Blomer (Toronto) and Omer Anger (UBC). Please submit nominations either electronically or by ordinary mail to: Director Centre de recherches math?matiques Universit? de Montr?al C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-ville Montr?al, QC H3C 3J7 Canada Fax: 514 343-2254 director@crm.umontreal.ca -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/mixed From akelm at cms.math.ca Fri Jun 4 14:46:49 2010 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Fri Jun 4 14:47:00 2010 Subject: [cmath] Three Year Contractual Position in Mathematics - Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <4C094A19.50207@cms.math.ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Previous winners were Guihua Gong and Alexandru Nica (2000), Nigel Higson (1995), Ian Putnam (1990), Kenneth Davidson and David Handelman (1985), and Man-Duen Choi (1980). ---The Halperin Prize Committee From akelm at cms.math.ca Fri Jun 18 14:14:10 2010 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Fri Jun 18 14:14:12 2010 Subject: [cmath] International Congress in honour of Professor H.M. Srivastava Message-ID: Uludag University in Bursa, Turkey will host an International Congress in honour of Professor H.M. Srivastava on his 70th Birth Anniversary on August 18-21, 2010. This congress will be organized at Mount Uludag, one of the biggest winter sports centers in Turkey, next to the fourth largest city, Bursa, in Turkey. It is to celebrate the 70th Birth Anniversary of Prof. Dr. Hari M. Srivastava, who has published a lot of joint work with many co-workers including numerous Turkish Mathematicians. He is also one of the few Mathematicians having a very high number of publications, see the congress web page for his CV, ISI, MR or Zentrallblatt. The congress will cover a wide range of topics of Mathematics and related sciences. Refereed papers not exceeding 8 pages will be printed in a Special Issue of the very famous Elsevier Journal, Applied Mathematics and Computation, just after the congress. Deadline for submission of Abstracts is 1st August, 2010 (All participants will have a complimentary copy of the Abstract Book during registration upon arrival at the Hotel). For more information please visit http://homepage.uludag.edu.tr/~srivastava/ From akelm at cms.math.ca Thu Jun 24 10:08:48 2010 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Thu Jun 24 10:08:59 2010 Subject: [cmath] Three Chair Positions - University of Bristol Message-ID: <4C2366F0.6090809@cms.math.ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Industrial Projects: -MITACS expects to fund up to 25 projects in this category -The project is led by a postdoctoral researcher in conjunction with a professor and an identified non-academic organization who is a receptor of the research -Duration: up to 24 months -Annual budget: $70,000 -Required annual contribution from non-academic partner: $20,000 2. Strategic Projects: -MITACS expects to fund up to 10 projects in this category -The project is led by a postdoctoral researcher in conjunction with a professor. The project team will work to identify and develop partnerships with potential receptor organizations for the research -Duration: up to 24 months -Annual budget: $55,000 -Required annual contribution from professor: $15,000 from non-Federal government funding sources Deadline for applications: August 8, 2010 Project start dates: November 1, 2010 to January 1, 2011. Please visit www.mitacs.ca/goto/postdoc_projects for details and to apply. Please send any questions to nce@mitacs.ca. ---------------------------------------- Projets de recherche RCE MITACS pour post doctorants - Appel ? propositions Le R?seau de Centres d'Excellence MITACS subventionnera jusqu'? 35 projets dirig?s par des chercheurs postdoctoraux. Pour les docteurs et doctoresses r?cemment dipl?m?s, les projets que nous subventionnons sont l'occasion d'obtenir de l'exp?rience en direction de projet de recherche et de d?velopper une collaboration avec des organismes non-universitaires. MITACS sollicite des propositions pour deux types de projets : 1. Projets industriels: -MITACS pr?voit subventionner jusqu'? 25 projets dans cette cat?gorie -Le projet est dirig? par un chercheur postdoctoral en collaboration avec un professeur et un partenaire non universitaire qui sera l'un des destinataires des r?sultats de la recherche. -Dur?e : jusqu'? 24 mois. -Budget Annuel : 70 000 $. -Contribution annuelle requise du partenaire non-universitaire : 20 000$. 2. Projets strat?giques: -MITACS pr?voit subventionner jusqu'? 10 projets dans cette cat?gorie -Le projet est dirig? par un chercheur postdoctoral en collaboration avec un professeur. L'?quipe du projet identifiera et d?veloppera des partenariats avec de potentielles organisations partenaires de la recherche. -Dur?e : Jusqu'? 24 mois. -Budget Annuel : 55 000 $. -Contribution annuelle requise du professeur : 15 000 $ de sources de financement autres que le Gouvernement F?d?ral. Date d'?ch?ance pour soumettre les propositions : le 8 ao?t 2010. Dates de d?but des projets : du 1er novembre 2010 au 1er janvier 2011. Consultez notre site Web ? www.mitacs.ca/goto/postdoc_projects pour les d?tails et pour faire votre demande. Si vous avez des questions, veuillez contacter nce@mitacs.ca. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Case studies will involve very large ontologies for health care. The candidate will have the opportunity to work with researchers in an interdisciplinary 6 year R&D project led by Dr. Wendy MacCaull, at StFX University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, carried out in collaboration with industry partners and the local health authority (see www.logic.stfx.ca). This position is partially supported by the ACEnet/Oracle Research Collaboration Program which has the goal of reducing barriers to the efficient, effective, and widespread use of the ACEnet Research Computing Platform through the creation of innovative open source grid, middleware, or web/portaltechnologies. Qualifications: PhD in appropriate area or MSc with 2-3 years experience in theorem proving strategies. Excellent written and oral skills in English. Salary: $44,500 per year (plus medical and dental benefits and a funding allowance for conference presentations). Second year funding is contingent on satisfactory performance during the first year. To apply: Send a 1 page Letter of Application describing how you fit the requirements of this position to Wendy MacCaull at wmaccaul@stfx.ca Include as attachments: (1) A detailed CV; (2) Names and contact information for 3 references (names, addresses, e-mail addresses and phone numbers); (3) Copies of recent publications and/or detailed descriptions of projects and previous experience. Use as the subject: Methods for Scalable Ontological Reasoning. We will begin reviewing applicantions on August 2nd, 2010 and hope to have the successful candidate in place by September/October 2010. Wendy MacCaull, PhD, Professor, Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science, Director, StFX Centre of Logic and Information, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, Canada, B2G 2W5 Tel: 902 867 3989 FAX: 902 867 1397 Information is this e-mail is confidential and meant only for the addressee. 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Activities with relatively small budgets under $2,000 (exemplified below by Pacific Northwest Seminars) can be proposed directly by email to the Deputy Director, G. M. "Bud" Homsy (bud@pims.math.ca) and are not subject to this deadline. Submission Proposals must be submitted online at www.pims.math.ca/scientific/call-proposals/submit-proposal (exceptions are noted below). You should receive an automatically generated e-mail message confirming receipt of your application immediately after you finalize all changes on your proposal. Should you need to make changes to your application after the final submission, or wish to check on the status of your proposal, please contact the PIMS Program Coordinator Ken Leung at kleung@pims.math.ca. Incomplete proposals and late submissions will not be included in the scientific review process. There are two online forms. One is for Collaborative Research Groups ? see below ? and the other is for all other activities except thematic programs, which can be proposed directly to the Deputy Director. Content of Proposals ? General Activities All proposals for general scientific activities and major education and industrial outreach events should follow the outline below and include all 9 sections. Section 5 should be at most 100 words and may appear in public announcements. Section 8 should contain details as well as any unusual features of the proposal, history and possible future aspects, educational benefits, etc. The budget should be itemized and detailed to the level of, for example, a cost estimate of travel and accommodation for each invited speaker. 1. Title of proposal. 2. Organizer(s), including affiliation(s) of all investigators. 3. Proposed location and dates. 4. Amount of funding requested from PIMS. 5. Summary of scientific and other objectives. 6. List of participants (invited, confirmed, speaking?). 7. Intended audience, provision for students. 8. General comments. 9. Other sources of funding and cost-sharing support. ___________________________________________________________________________ Letters of Intent and Proposals for a Collaborative Research Group (CRG) Proposing a CRG is a two-step process. Interested researchers first submit a Letter of Intent for a CRG to start after April 1, 2011. Letters of Intent are 2-4 pages long, serve as preliminary proposals and/or concept papers, and will be reviewed by the PIMS Scientific Review Panel in Fall, 2010. The PIMS Director will then invite successful groups to submit a full CRG Proposal. These in turn are usually developed in consultation with the PIMS Deputy Director and then submitted online as described above under Submission. Letters of Intent and CRG Proposals should contain the six sections listed below. The Summary should be at most 100 words and may appear in public announcements. 1. Title of the Collaborative Research Group. 2. Name, affiliation and CV/biosketch of CRG Leaders (at least two different PIMS sites should be represented) and other participants (please give affiliations for all participants). 3. Scientific rationale and objectives. 4. List of proposed events/modules, including proposed start date. 5. Proposed budget. 6. Executive summary (suitable for public dissemination). ___________________________________________________________________________ Pacific Northwest Seminars These are scientific meetings of one to two days in length. Funding of up to $1,000, together with administrative support is available from PIMS. Cost sharing with other institutions is encouraged. Proposals for Pacific Northwest Seminars are not reviewed by the Scientific Review Panel but are assessed by the Director and Deputy Director. From jacques.hurtubise at mcgill.ca Tue Jul 20 11:52:30 2010 From: jacques.hurtubise at mcgill.ca (Jacques Hurtubise) Date: Tue Jul 20 11:52:48 2010 Subject: [cmath] FW: DARPA solicitation of potential interest to members of your society In-Reply-To: <20100720141819.9269D325A@mailscan2.ncs.mcgill.ca> Message-ID: Colleagues, It seems as if the dynamic duo actually does exist. This might be of interest. Jacques HUrtubise ------ Forwarded Message From: "Clement, Matthew [USA]" Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:18:14 -0400 To: "Clement, Matthew [USA]" Cc: "Macedonia, Christian" Conversation: DARPA solicitation of potential interest to members of your society Subject: DARPA solicitation of potential interest to members of your society Dear Sir or Madam: You are being contacted in regard to two solicitations that may be of interest to the members of your society, particularly mathematicians or biologists interested in novel applications for new mathematics in describing and understanding biology. Please note that these solicitations are requests for information (RFIs) issued solely for information and new program planning purposes; they do not constitute formal solicitations for proposals. The Defense Sciences Office (DSO) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is seeking innovative ideas and approaches that may be applicable to either of the two solicitations described below: Biochronicity and Temporal Mechanisms Arising in Nature (BaTMAN) seeks to provide novel approaches to reveal the fundamental nature of time in biology. BaTMAN could develop an understanding of the relationship between biological systems and the spatial-temporal universe through the application of advanced principles from the physical sciences. In defining the relationship, one aim of this line of research is to transform biology from a descriptive to a predictive field of science. For additional information, please see BaTMAN solicitation DARPA-SN-10-55 at the URL below: https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=47b5315e2a78394e03a7ee935ee33fd1&tab=core&_cview=0 Robustness of Biologically-Inspired Networks (RoBIN) seeks to apply the critical control features of biological networks to build unique models for adaptable networks, and create a dynamic biologically-inspired network of scientists and other experts for crisis response and complex decision support. RoBIN is designed to provide novel approaches to generate robust and adaptable networks of humans and machines inspired by biological design principles. For additional information, please see RoBIN solicitation DARPA-SN-10-56 at the URL below: https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=02d46db085a81f640e8ea6bc4e8898a0&tab=core&_cview=0 Responses to both of the solicitations are due July 30, 2010 by 4:00 PM EDT (8:00 PM GMT). All technical and administrative correspondence, questions regarding this announcement, and how to respond to this RFI should be sent to DARPA-SN-10-55@darpa.mil (refer to "BaTMAN RFI" in all correspondence) or DARPA-SN-10-56@darpa.mil (refer to "RoBIN RFI" in all correspondence). Emails sent in response to this email or addressed to any DARPA support staff will result in no response. Regards, Matthew Clement Ph.D. Contractor Support to DARPA/DSO ------ End of Forwarded Message From akelm at cms.math.ca Tue Jul 27 15:22:21 2010 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Tue Jul 27 15:22:32 2010 Subject: [cmath] Full Professor in Mathematics (analysis and its applications) - University of Fribourg (Switzerland) Message-ID: <4C4F31ED.8070505@cms.math.ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The fellowships provide for a period of engagement in research and participation in the activities of the Institute. 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, 2010, although late applications may be considered. Application Information: Please consult www.fields.utoronto.ca/proposals/postdoc.html 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. ------------ 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 akelm at cms.math.ca Tue Aug 3 14:22:47 2010 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Tue Aug 3 14:22:54 2010 Subject: [cmath] Tenure-Track Position(s) - University of British Columbia Message-ID: <4C585E77.7090709@cms.math.ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The University of the Fraser Valley is the school of choice for 14,000 students annually pursuing more than 80 degree, diploma and certificate programs. Our commitment to teaching excellence is supported by small class sizes, support for active research and scholarship, and a friendly supportive environment open to collaboration and innovation. According to the Globe and Mail's 2010 Canadian University Report, UFV is at the top of the list in the small universities category, earning an A grade in most satisfied students, quality of education, and teaching, and an A+ in student-faculty interaction and class size. We are seeking enthusiastic individuals who have an outstanding ability to teach and communicate effectively with undergraduate students, are able to instruct across a broad range of the undergraduate mathematics curriculum, and can develop new and innovative programs and courses. We are primarily a teaching-oriented university and department but the successful candidate will also be expected to maintain a research program, preferably one which involves students, or is community-linked. *Mathematics Position Qualifications * The successful candidate must have a PhD in Mathematics (or one near completion), demonstrate excellence in teaching at the undergraduate level, and demonstrate potential in research. Applicants from any area will be considered, but preference will be given to those with expertise in industrial mathematics, particularly those who can foster connections with local industry. *Mathematics Education Position Qualifications * The successful candidate must preferably have a PhD in Mathematics Education (or one near completion) or a Master's degree with a good deal of university teaching experience, demonstrate excellence in teaching at the undergraduate level, and demonstrate potential in research. He or she must also have the graduate level mathematics training necessary to support instruction across our mathematics curriculum. Candidates should submit curriculum vitae; evidence of teaching excellence (student evaluations if available); one-page statement of teaching philosophy including examples of innovative approaches to teaching and course design if available; one-page statement of proposed research program, and three letters of reference. Applications, citing * Posting 2010.80 * and indicating which of the two positions is being applied for, should be sent to: * Employee Services University of the Fraser Valley 33844 King Road, Abbotsford, BC, Canada V2S 7M8 Tel: (604) 854-4554 Fax: (604) 854-1538 www.ufv.ca Email resumes to: erinfo@ufv.ca * The Selection Advisory Committee will begin reviewing applications on *October 1, 2010*; however, the position will remain open until filled. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. In an effort to be both environmentally and fiscally responsible, UFV will contact only candidates receiving an interview. We thank all applicants for considering UFV for employment. * UFV 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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More information about the Actuarial Science program and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics is available at: hlink www.math.uregina.ca More information about the Faculty of Science is available at: http://www.uregina.ca/science/ *Qualifications: * An applicant may be a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries or a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society with related work experience. Alternatively, an applicant may be an Associate of the Society of Actuaries or an Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society, with also a PhD. or a Master's degree in an area of study related to actuarial science. A Ph.D. and evidence of a strong independent research program is required in order to be considered for an appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor. ALL applications will be received using our electronic system at http://www.uregina.ca/hr/careers and applicants are required to submit a curriculum vitae and a teaching philosophy statement with a cover letter. 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Existing research areas in the Department include survival analysis, statistical analysis of discrete data, longitudinal data analysis, limit theorems in probability, asymptotic statistics, statistical analysis with incomplete data, analysis of time series data, multiphase sampling design, Schramm-Loewner evolution, loop-erased random walks, Brownian motion, and statistical mechanics. More information about the Mathematics and Statistics Department is available at: www.math.uregina.ca More information about the Faculty of Science is available at: http://www.uregina.ca/science/ *Qualifications: * Candidates must have completed or be near the completion of a Ph.D. in statistics, probability, or a closely related area of the mathematical sciences. ALL applications will be received using our electronic system at http://www.uregina.ca/hr/careers and applicants are required to submit a curriculum vitae and a teaching philosophy statement with a cover letter. Applicants will also have 3 letters of reference sent directly to the Head of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dr. Allen Herman. *Deadline for applications: November 30, 2011 * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/20100805/b8239985/attachment.htm From jrudnick at cms.math.ca Mon Aug 9 13:48:12 2010 From: jrudnick at cms.math.ca (Johan Rudnick) Date: Mon Aug 9 13:48:54 2010 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-1?q?The_International_Congress_of_Mathematics?= =?iso-8859-1?q?_/_Le_congr=E8s_international_de_math=E9matiques_?= Message-ID: The International Congress of Mathematics will be held in Hyderabad, India from August 19-27. 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Chaque ann?e, le gouvernement du Qu?bec remet 30 000 $ en bourse pour honorer les scientifiques qu?b?cois qui se sont d?marqu?s dans leur carri?re et nous sommes fier de pouvoir leur rendre hommage en publiant leurs r?alisations sur nos diff?rents sites internet. Or, pour ce faire, nous devons demander l'autorisation ? la succession du d?funt afin d'?viter d'?ventuels litiges. ?tant donn? que M. L'abb? a enseign? et eut une carri?re active en collaboration avec l'universit? de Montr?al, j'essais de retracer un ami ou un coll?ge de M. L'abb? qui pourrait me renseigner davantage ? ce propos. Je tiens ? vous mentionner que l'utilisation sera faites ? des fins non-commerciales et que les informations que nous obtiendrons de votre part resterons confidentielles en vertu de la loi sur la fonction publique. Cette autorisation vise particuli?rement ? informer le public et ? int?resser les jeunes qu?b?cois aux ?tudes universitaires en sciences. 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Prospective candidates may visit our home pages at http://www.uwo.ca/epidem/ and http://www.stats.uwo.ca/. See http://www.chairs.gc.ca/ for details concerning the CRC program. The successful candidate must have a PhD or equivalent and an established record of high impact research and publication in Biostatistics. In order to be eligible for a Tier 2 Chair, the candidate will be less than 10 years since PhD and will be an emerging research leader. The candidate will also have a commitment to, and demonstrated aptitude for, teaching and will be expected to teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels and to supervise graduate students and provide leadership in the Collaborative Graduate Program in Biostatistics. Faculty in the Collaborative Graduate Program in Biostatistics have research interests which include the development and application of a range of methodologies (including cluster randomization, epidemiology, epidemiologic risk assessment, genetic epidemiology, health economics, interval-censored data, multi-state models, nonparametric regression, statistical genomics, statistical computing, survey methods, and survival analysis). The successful candidate will benefit from the growing research interest at Western in the development of statistical methods for the assessment of gene-environment interactions, causal effect estimation, and personalized medicine. Candidates should submit a curriculum vitae, a list of publications, a research plan, a statement (not to exceed 500 words) explaining how background, experience and research accomplishments qualify you for this position, and must arrange for at least three letters of reference to be sent to: * Professor Rick Secco, Associate Dean (Research) Office of the Dean, Faculty of Science The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada. * Applications will be considered starting * November 1, 2010. * / Positions are subject to budgetary approval. Applicants should have fluent written and oral communication skills in English. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. 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It is of interest to Canadians that Christiane Rousseau of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the Universit? de Montreal has been elected as one of the two vice-presidents. La composition du nouveau comit? ex?cutif de l?International Mathematical Union (IMU) a ?t? annonc?e sur le site Web de l'IMU (www.mathunion.org). Il est d'int?r?t pour les Canadiens de savoir que Christiane Rousseau du D?partement de math?matiques et statistiques de l'Universit? de Montr?al est l'une de deux vice-pr?sidents ?lus. -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/mixed From bobm at dessci.com Thu Aug 26 11:13:05 2010 From: bobm at dessci.com (Bob Mathews) Date: Thu Aug 26 11:30:21 2010 Subject: [cmath] HTML5 and MathML: Internet Explorer 9 is Broken Message-ID: <40A20C534FFFD5438E1A756DD25234D3F8207C@franklin.corp.dessci> I have some good news and some bad news. First, the good news is HTML5 includes MathML and has been embraced by all browser vendors. Now the bad news. MathML support is broken in IE9 and we see no evidence that Microsoft will fix this problem unless they are made to understand how important MathML support is to the STEM and education communities. MathML is also an important key to insuring math accessibility to the blind and sight-impaired, as well as those with certain learning disabilities. While we applaud Microsoft for promising to support HTML5 with Internet Explorer 9, we hope that you will join us in encouraging them to fix the small bug that is currently preventing MathML from working in HTML5 pages. Please publicize the issue with whatever resources you have: personal blogs, tweets, forum posts, comments on other people's blog posts, etc. Read the whole story: http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathplayer/tech/MathMLinHTML5.htm. Thanks, Bob Mathews Design Science From akelm at cms.math.ca Thu Aug 26 13:27:48 2010 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Thu Aug 26 13:28:32 2010 Subject: [cmath] Max Wyman Assistant Professorship in Applied Mathematics - University of Alberta Message-ID: <4C76A414.2040807@cms.math.ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: alberta-applied-math.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 39987 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20100826/adff705d/alberta-applied-math.pdf From akelm at cms.math.ca Thu Aug 26 13:34:44 2010 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Thu Aug 26 13:35:26 2010 Subject: [cmath] Max Wyman Assistant Professorship in Pure Mathematics - University of Alberta Message-ID: <4C76A5B4.4060903@cms.math.ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The complete announcement has been posted on the CMS website at: http://cms.math.ca/MediaReleases/2010/ap-announcement La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC) a le plaisir d'annoncer que Miroslav Lovric de McMaster University est laur?at du prix Adrien Pouliot 2010. Le prix reconna?t des personnes qui ont apport? une contribution significative et soutenue ? l'enseignement des math?matiques au Canada. Monsieur Lovric recevra son prix au cours de la r?union de l'hiver 2010 de la SMC, ? Vancouver. L'annonce compl?te a ?t? signal?e sur le site web de la SMC ? : http://cms.math.ca/Communiques/2010/ap-announcement -- Laura Alyea Communications and Special Projects Officer Canadian Mathematical Society Tel: +1 (613) 733-2662 ext. 728 /Think before you PRINT!/ Please consider the environment. [cms web link] Laura Alyea Communications et projets sp?ciaux Soci?t? math?matique du Canada T?l : +1 (613) 733-2662 poste 728 /Pensez avant que vous IMPRIMIEZ !/ Consid?rez svp l'environnement. -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/related From srainey at yorku.ca Fri Aug 27 10:38:59 2010 From: srainey at yorku.ca (Susan Rainey) Date: Fri Aug 27 10:39:18 2010 Subject: [cmath] Applied Mathematical Biology -- York University Message-ID: Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Special attention is given to the development of a conceptual understanding. Starting Date and Duration: Fall and Winter Sessions September 2010 - April 2011 Location: Orillia Qualifications Preferred: PhD (preferred) with experience teaching at the post secondary level. Candidates lacking the specific degree qualification, but who possess an appropriate combination of experience and other academic qualifications are also encouraged to apply. Send Applications to: Alice den Otter, Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies adenotte@lakeheadu.ca and / or Adam Van Tuyl, Chair of Mathematics avantuyl@lakeheadu.ca Applications should include: A covering letter outlining qualifications, a curriculum vitae, names of referees, and any other relevant information. Date Applications Due: Until position is filled. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ? 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 meetings at cms.math.ca Mon Aug 30 09:06:41 2010 From: meetings at cms.math.ca (Gertrud Jeewanjee) Date: Mon Aug 30 09:08:09 2010 Subject: [cmath] 2011 CMS Summer Meeting, Edmonton - Call for Sessions Message-ID: <4C7BACE1.5010206@cms.math.ca> *2011 CMS Summer Meeting - Call for Sessions * * * We welcome and invite proposals for sessions for this meeting in Edmonton, Alberta (June 3-5, 2011). 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 Meeting Directors by the deadline below. *Deadline*: September 30, 2010 *Meeting Directors* Volker Runde, vrunde@ualberta.ca , T: 780-492-3526 Hassan Safouhi, hassan.safouhi@ualberta.ca , T: 780-485-8631 Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta, Alberta T6G 2G1 *Plenary Speakers* Leah Edelstein-Keshet (UBC) Olga Holtz (UC Berkeley; TU Berlin) Fran?ois Lalonde (Montr?al) Bjorn Poonen (MIT) Roman Vershynin (Michigan) Please find a list of confirmed sessions for this conference at http://cms.math.ca/Events/summer11/. -- Gertrud Jeewanjee Manager, Meetings and Events Canadian Mathematical Society Tel: +1 (613) 733-2662 ext. 733 Please consider the environment. [cms web link] Gertrud Jeewanjee Chef, r?unions et ?v?nements Soci?t? math?matique du Canada T?l : +1 (613) 733-2662 poste 733 Consid?rez svp l'environnement. -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/related From meetings at cms.math.ca Mon Aug 30 09:06:47 2010 From: meetings at cms.math.ca (Gertrud Jeewanjee) Date: Mon Aug 30 09:08:12 2010 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-1?q?R=E9union_d=27=E9t=E9_de_la_SMC_2011=2C_E?= =?iso-8859-1?q?dmonton_-_Appel_de_sessions?= Message-ID: <4C7BACE7.5030201@cms.math.ca> *R?union d'?t? SMC 2011 - Appel de sessions* Nous vous invitons ? proposer des sessions pour la r?union qui se tiendra ? Edmonton (Alberta) du 3 au 5 juin 2011. Votre proposition doit inclure une br?ve description de l'orientation et des objectifs de la session, le nombre de conf?renciers pr?vues, 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 dans le Notices de l'AMS. 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 indiqu?e ci-dessous. *Date* *limite* : 30 septembre 2010 *Directeurs de la R?union :* Volker Runde, vrunde@ualberta.ca , T: 780-492-3526 Hassan Safouhi, hassan.safouhi@ualberta.ca , T: 780-485-8631 Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta, Alberta T6G 2G1 *Conf?rences pl?ni?res* Leah Edelstein-Keshet (UBC) Olga Holtz (UC Berkeley; TU Berlin) Fran?ois Lalonde (Montr?al) Bjorn Poonen (MIT) Roman Vershynin (Michigan) Veuillez trouver une liste des sessions confirm?es en ligne ? http://cms.math.ca/Events/summer11/.f -- Gertrud Jeewanjee Manager, Meetings and Events Canadian Mathematical Society Tel: +1 (613) 733-2662 ext. 733 Please consider the environment. 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Les candidates doivent d?tenir un doctorat en statistique, en biostatistique ou en math?matiques (avec ma?trise en statistique) et doivent d?montrer une excellence en enseignement et en recherche. Ils doivent aussi d?montrer une ma?trise du fran?ais parl? et ?crit. Les personnes int?ress?es sont pri?es de faire parvenir un curriculum vitae en fran?ais, des tir?s ? part de publications ainsi que trois lettres de recommandation (directement des signataires) avant le 8 octobre 2010. Les candidatures re?ues apr?s la date limite pourront toutefois ?tre retenues jusqu'? ce que le poste soit combl?. Des candidatures devraient ?tre envoy?es ? Monsieur Louis Charbonneau, Directeur, D?partement de math?matiques, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al, C. P. 8888, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montr?al, Qu?bec, H3C 3P8 Canada. L'Universit? souscrit ? un programme d'acc?s ? l'?galit? en emploi et un programme d'?quit? en emploi pour les femmes, les membres des minorit?s visibles, les autochtones et les personnes handicap?es. Toutes les personnes qualifi?es sont invit?es ? poser leur candidature, mais la priorit? sera donn?e aux Canadiennes, Canadiens et aux r?sidentes, r?sidents permanents. UQAM Mathematics Department Tenure-stream position in Applied Statistics The Mathematics Department of the Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al (UQAM), invites applications for a tenure-stream appointment (normally, but not strictly) at the rank of Assistant Professor with an expected start date of December 1, 2010. Candidates' research expertise should be in Applied Statistics, preferably with a strong computational component. Applicants should have a Ph.D. in statistics, in biostatistics, or in mathematics (with a Master's degree in statistics) and must show evidence of excellence in teaching and research. They should also have a working knowledge of French, both written and spoken. To ensure full consideration, complete applications including a curriculum vitae in French, copies of recent publications, and three letters of reference (sent directly by the referees) should be received by October 8, 2010. Applications received after this date may be considered as long as the position is not filled. Applications should be sent to: Dr. Louis Charbonneau, Chair, Mathematics Department, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al, PO Box 8888, Station Centre-ville, Montr?al QC, H3C 3P8 Canada. UQAM welcomes applicants from women, visible minorities, aboriginal people and persons with disabilities. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, in accordance with Canadian law, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Starting Date and Duration: Fall and Winter Sessions September 2010 - April 2011 Salary: $11,361.50 + 4% vacation pay Location: Trent University, Symons Campus, Peterborough Qualifications Preferred: Ph.D. (preferred) or M.Sc. in Mathematics, or equivalent Applications should include a c.v., covering letter, and the names and contact information of two referees Closing date: September 7, 2010 (or until the position is filled) ========================================================================== MATH 1350H: Linear Algebra I - Matrix Algebra Topics covered in this course include: Vectors, systems of linear equations, matrices, determinants, linear transformations, eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Duties include preparation and delivery of lectures and tutorials, preparing and grading assignments, tests, and a final examination, compiling and submitting final grades. Starting Date and Duration: Fall Session September 2010 - December 2010 Salary: $5,680.50 + 4% vacation pay Location: Trent University, Symons Campus, Peterborough Qualifications Preferred: Ph.D. (preferred) or M.Sc. in Mathematics, or equivalent Applications should include a c.v., covering letter, and the names and contact information of two referees Closing date: September 7, 2010 (or until the position is filled) Send Applications to: Dr. David Poole, Chair Department of Mathematics Trent University Peterborough, Ontario K9J 7B8 Email: math@trentu.ca ======================================== David Poole Professor and Chair Department of Mathematics Trent University 1600 West Bank Drive Peterborough, Ontario K9J 7B8 Phone: 705-748-1011 x7358 Sec: 705-748-1011 x7531 Fax: 705-748-1155 Email: dpoole@trentu.ca From paradis at CRM.UMontreal.CA Wed Sep 1 15:12:27 2010 From: paradis at CRM.UMontreal.CA (Suzette Paradis) Date: Wed Sep 1 15:12:43 2010 Subject: [cmath] =?windows-1252?q?APPEL_DE_CANDIDATURES_/_PRIX_ANDR=C9-AI?= =?windows-1252?q?SENSTADT_=95_CALL_FOR_NOMINATIONS_ANDR=C9-AISENSTADT_PRI?= =?windows-1252?q?ZE?= Message-ID: <7F14701B-F7E0-4DCD-95FA-9BE2C548A564@crm.umontreal.ca> Included is a pdf format. / Le format pdf est inclus. [ English follows] Prix de math?matiques Andr?-Aisenstadt 2011 Appel de candidatures Date limite : 1er octobre 2010 Le Centre de recherches math?matiques (CRM) lance un nouvel appel de candidatures pour le Prix de math?matiques Andr?-Aisenstadt visant ? reconna?tre le talent de jeunes math?maticiens canadiens. Le Prix de math?matiques Andr?-Aisenstadt, comprenant une bourse en argent ainsi qu?une m?daille, souligne des r?sultats exceptionnels de recherche r?alis?s par un jeune math?maticien ou math?maticienne canadien. Le laur?at est choisi par le Comit? scientifique international du CRM. Le prix est normalement accord? annuellement bien qu?il puisse survenir une ann?e o? l?on d?cide de ne pas l?attribuer. Les candidats doivent ?tre citoyens canadiens ou r?sidents permanents du Canada et avoir termin? leur doctorat depuis sept ans ou moins. Le laur?at est invit? ? prononcer une conf?rence au CRM et ? pr?senter un r?sum? de ses travaux pour publication dans le Bulletin du CRM. Les candidatures doivent ?tre parrain?es par au moins deux personnes et pr?sent?es avant le 1er octobre 2010 au Directeur du CRM. Les dossiers devront inclure les documents suivants: ? un curriculum vitae, ? une liste des publications, ? une lettre justificative, ? au plus quatre tir?s ? part, ? et un maximum de quatre lettres de r?f?rence. ? moins que les candidats ne d?cident de les retirer, les candidatures non retenues sont automatiquement remises en concours durant les deux ann?es suivantes, ? condition que la r?gle concernant l?obtention du doctorat depuis sept ans ou moins soit toujours satisfaite. Des mises ? jour des dossiers peuvent ?tre effectu?es. Les laur?ats du Prix de math?matiques Andr?-Aisenstadt depuis sa cr?ation en 1991 ont ?t? les suivants (les affiliations sont celles en vigueur au moment de l?attribution du prix) : Niky Kamran (McGill), Ian Putnam (Victoria), Michael Ward (UBC), Nigel Higson (Penn State), Adrian S. Lewis (Waterloo), Lisa Jeffrey (McGill), Henri Darmon (McGill), Boris Khesin (Toronto), John Toth (McGill), Changfeng Gui (Connecticut), Eckhard Meinrenken (Toronto), Jinyi Chen (UBC), Alexander Brudnyi (Calgary), Vinayak Vatsal (UBC), Ravi Vakil (Stanford), Iosif Polterovich (Montr?al), Tai-Peng Tsai (UBC), Gregory G. Smith (Queen?s), Alexander E. Holroyd (UBC), Jozsef Solymosi (UBC), Jonathan Taylor (Montr?al), Valentin Blomer (Toronto) et Omer Angel (UBC). Pri?re de soumettre les dossiers soit ?lectroniquement, soit sous format papier au : Directeur Centre de recherches math?matiques Universit? de Montr?al C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-ville Montr?al, QC H3C 3J7 Canada Fax: 514 343-2254 directeur@crm.umontreal.ca 2011 Andr?-Aisenstadt Mathematics Prize Call for nominations Submission deadline : October 1st, 2011 The Centre de recherches math?matiques (CRM) solicits nominations for the Andr?-Aisenstadt Mathematics Prize awarded to recognize talented young Canadian mathematicians. The Andr?-Aisenstadt Mathematics Prize, which celebrates outstanding research achievement by a young Canadian mathematician, consists of a monetary prize and a medal. The recipient is chosen by CRM?s international scientific advisory committee. The prize is generally awarded yearly, although in a given year the decision may be made not to award it. At the time of consideration, candidates must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada, and no more than seven years from their Ph.D. The recipient is invited to deliver a lecture at CRM, at a time mutually agreed upon, and to write a brief article on his or her work for publication in the CRM?s Bulletin. Nominations must be submitted by October 1, 2010, to the Director of the CRM, by at least two sponsors who are responsible for providing the following information: ? a curriculum vitae, ? a list of publications, ? a covering letter explaining the basis of the nomination, ? up to four reprints, and ? a maximum of four letters of support. Unsuccessful nominations remain active for two further years if not withdrawn and if the rule regarding the completion of the Ph.D. within seven years is still satisfied. The nominations can be updated if desired. Since its creation in 1991, the Andr?-Aisensadt Prize has been awarded to the following (the affiliations are the current ones at the time of the award): Niky Kamran (McGill), Ian Putnam (Victoria), Michael Ward (UBC), Nigel Higson (Penn State), Adrian S. Lewis (Waterloo), Lisa Jeffrey (McGill), Henri Darmon (McGill), Boris Khesin (Toronto), John Toth (McGill), Changfeng Gui (Connecticut), Eckhard Meinrenken (Toronto), Jinyi Chen (UBC), Alexander Brudnyi (Calgary), Vinayak Vatsal (UBC), Ravi Vakil (Stanford), Iosif Polterovich (Montr?al), Tai- Peng Tsai (UBC), Gregory G. Smith (Queen?s), Alexander E. Holroyd (UBC), Jozsef Solymosi (UBC), Jonathan Taylor (Montr?al), Valentin Blomer (Toronto) and Omer Anger (UBC). Please submit nominations either electronically or by ordinary mail to: Director Centre de recherches math?matiques Universit? de Montr?al C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-ville Montr?al, QC H3C 3J7 Canada Fax: 514 343-2254 director@crm.umontreal.ca -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/mixed From akelm at cms.math.ca Thu Sep 2 11:05:54 2010 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Thu Sep 2 11:06:03 2010 Subject: [cmath] Post Doctoral Fellowships in High Performance Computing for Geophysical Applications - Memorial University Message-ID: <4C7FBD52.7060201@cms.math.ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: mun-postdoc.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 43114 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20100902/3ef883dc/mun-postdoc.pdf From adem at pims.math.ca Fri Sep 3 10:16:34 2010 From: adem at pims.math.ca (Alejandro Adem) Date: Fri Sep 3 10:18:45 2010 Subject: [cmath] PIMS/CNRS applications--due on December 1 Message-ID: PIMS / CNRS Call for Applications 2011 - 2012 The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) are calling for applications from French researchers to spend the academic year 2011-12 at one of PIMS member universities and to participate in PIMS research activities. 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 Pascal Chossat, Directeur adjoint scientifique, INSMI (CNRS), and to Alejandro Adem, Director of PIMS, by December 1, 2010. They should include a CV 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. Results will be announced by the spring of 2011. In the case of university faculty, once the application has been accepted, the actual appointment is subject to the person receiving a "detachement au CNRS" from his/her home institution. 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. Pascal Chossat, Directeur adjoint scientifique, INSMI (CNRS) Email: pascal.chossat@cnrs-dir.fr Alejandro Adem, Director of PIMS (UMI 3069, CNRS) Email: director@pims.math.ca Please direct any technical questions to Do-Rim Joo, Executive Assistant Email: reception@pims.math.ca Please see http://www.pims.math.ca/essential-information/opportunities for more information. From commsp at cms.math.ca Tue Sep 7 13:22:06 2010 From: commsp at cms.math.ca (Laura Alyea) Date: Tue Sep 7 13:22:11 2010 Subject: [cmath] Math in Moscow Scholarship Program Message-ID: <4C8674BE.6040003@cms.math.ca> The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS), with the support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), is inviting applications from students for the fall Math in Moscow Scholarship Program. One scholarship of $9000 will be awarded to a Canadian undergraduate student registered in a mathematics or computer science program to attend the Math in Moscow program at the Independent University of Moscow for the Winter 2011 semester. The Math in Moscow program provides a fifteen-week-long research experience for students, not only with other talented and highly motivated undergraduates, but also with some of the world's leading mathematicians. Students will be learning and discovering mathematics in an environment similar in spirit to that of an NSERC summer scholarship, but with much broader representation from a world-class international community. This is an excellent preparation for those who intend to pursue graduate studies in mathematics. The deadline for applications is *September 30, 2010*. Full details for submitting an application can be found at http://cms.math.ca/Scholarships/Moscow/ As someone who is involved in the mathematical community, the CMS requests your assistance in informing undergraduate students about this opportunity. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC), avec l'appui du Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en g?nie (CRSNG), invite les ?tudiants ? pr?senter leurs demandes dans le cadre du Programme de bourses Math ? Moscou de l'automne. Une bourse de 9 000 $ sera remise ? un ?tudiant canadien de premier cycle inscrit ? un programme de math?matiques ou de sciences informatiques. Le boursier fera partie du programme Math ? Moscou ? la Independent University de Moscou, au cours du trimestre d'hiver de 2011. Le programme Math ? Moscou procurera aux ?tudiants et aux ?tudiantes une exp?rience de recherche de quinze semaines non seulement avec d'autres futurs math?maticiens talentueux et tr?s motiv?s, mais aussi avec plusieurs math?maticiens et math?maticiennes de renomm?e internationale. Les participants ?tudieront les math?matiques dans un milieu semblable ? celui que procurent les bourses d'?t? du CRSNG, mais aupr?s d'un nombre beaucoup plus ?lev? de repr?sentants de r?putation internationale de la communaut? math?matique. C'est une excellente pr?paration pour ceux et celles qui se destinent ? des ?tudes sup?rieures en math?matiques. L'?ch?ance pour pr?senter sa demande est le *30 septembre 2010*. On peut obtenir des d?tails complets pour la pr?sentation d'une demande ? l'adresse suivante : http://cms.math.ca/Bourses/Moscou/ Puisque vous ?tes une personne qui contribue activement au milieu des math?matiques, la SMC vous demande votre appui pour faire conna?tre cette occasion aux ?tudiants de premier cycle. -- Laura Alyea Communications and Special Projects Officer Canadian Mathematical Society Tel: +1 (613) 733-2662 ext. 728 /Think before you PRINT!/ Please consider the environment. [cms web link] Laura Alyea Communications et projets sp?ciaux Soci?t? math?matique du Canada T?l : +1 (613) 733-2662 poste 728 /Pensez avant que vous IMPRIMIEZ !/ Consid?rez svp l'environnement. -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/related From commsp at cms.math.ca Mon Sep 13 11:54:53 2010 From: commsp at cms.math.ca (Laura Alyea) Date: Mon Sep 13 11:54:58 2010 Subject: [cmath] CMS Excellence in Teaching Award Message-ID: <4C8E494D.3070305@cms.math.ca> The Canadian Mathematical Society is inviting nominations for the 2011 Excellence in Teaching Award. The CMS encourages you, as someone with an interest in the Canadian mathematical community, to consider nominating an associate for this award. The Excellence in Teaching Award is the only national award specifically for post-secondary mathematics teaching. The Award focuses on the recipient's proven excellence as a teacher as exemplified by unusual effectiveness in the classroom and commitment and dedication to teaching and to students. The CMS is proud to partner with Nelson Education to present this award. As Canada's largest educational publisher, Nelson delivers an unrivalled learning advantage to enable the success of Canadian students and educators. The deadline for nominations is *November 15, 2010*. Complete nomination details are available at http://cms.math.ca/Prizes/info/et ------------------------------------------------------------------------ La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC) lance une invitation de mise en candidature pour le Prix d'excellence en enseignement 2011. La SMC vous invite, en votre qualit? de pr?sident de votre facult?, ? envisager de proposer la candidature d'un coll?gue pour ce prix. Le Prix d'excellence en enseignement est le seul prix national s'adressant tout particuli?rement ? l'enseignement des math?matiques au niveau postsecondaire. Le prix souligne l'excellence d?montr?e du laur?at comme enseignant, comme le t?moigne son efficacit? inhabituelle en salle de classe et son engagement ? l'enseignement et aux ?tudiants. La SMC est fi?re de former un partenariat avec Nelson Education afin de remettre ce prix. ? titre d'une des plus importantes maisons d'?dition de mat?riel d'enseignement au Canada, Nelson offre un avantage sans pareil en mati?re d'enseignement afin d'assurer le succ?s des ?tudiants et des enseignants canadiens. La date d'?ch?ance pour les candidatures est le *15 novembre 2010*. On peut obtenir les d?tails complets de la mise en candidature ? l'adresse suivante : http://cms.math.ca/Prizes/info/et Laura Alyea Communications and Special Projects Officer Canadian Mathematical Society Tel: +1 (613) 733-2662 ext. 728 /Think before you PRINT!/ Please consider the environment. [cms web link] Laura Alyea Communications et projets sp?ciaux Soci?t? math?matique du Canada T?l : +1 (613) 733-2662 poste 728 /Pensez avant que vous IMPRIMIEZ !/ Consid?rez svp l'environnement. -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/related From commsp at cms.math.ca Tue Sep 14 08:22:56 2010 From: commsp at cms.math.ca (Laura Alyea) Date: Tue Sep 14 08:23:02 2010 Subject: [cmath] Correction - Excellence in Teaching Award / Prix d'excellence en enseignement In-Reply-To: <4C8E494D.3070305@cms.math.ca> References: <4C8E494D.3070305@cms.math.ca> Message-ID: <4C8F6920.6080907@cms.math.ca> The complete nomination details in French are available at http://cms.math.ca/Prix/info/et Les d?tails de mise en candidature (en fran?ais) se trouvent au lien suivant http://cms.math.ca/Prix/info/et Laura Alyea Communications and Special Projects Officer Canadian Mathematical Society Tel: +1 (613) 733-2662 ext. 728 /Think before you PRINT!/ Please consider the environment. [cms web link] Laura Alyea Communications et projets sp?ciaux Soci?t? math?matique du Canada T?l : +1 (613) 733-2662 poste 728 /Pensez avant que vous IMPRIMIEZ !/ Consid?rez svp l'environnement. On 9/13/2010 11:54 AM, Laura Alyea wrote: > The Canadian Mathematical Society is inviting nominations for the 2011 > Excellence in Teaching Award. The CMS encourages you, as someone with > an interest in the Canadian mathematical community, to consider > nominating an associate for this award. > > The Excellence in Teaching Award is the only national award > specifically for post-secondary mathematics teaching. The Award > focuses on the recipient's proven excellence as a teacher as > exemplified by unusual effectiveness in the classroom and commitment > and dedication to teaching and to students. > > The CMS is proud to partner with Nelson Education to present this > award. As Canada's largest educational publisher, Nelson delivers an > unrivalled learning advantage to enable the success of Canadian > students and educators. > > The deadline for nominations is *November 15, 2010*. Complete > nomination details are available at http://cms.math.ca/Prizes/info/et > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC) lance une invitation de mise > en candidature pour le Prix d'excellence en enseignement 2011. La SMC > vous invite, en votre qualit? de pr?sident de votre facult?, ? > envisager de proposer la candidature d'un coll?gue pour ce prix. > > Le Prix d'excellence en enseignement est le seul prix national > s'adressant tout particuli?rement ? l'enseignement des math?matiques > au niveau postsecondaire. Le prix souligne l'excellence d?montr?e du > laur?at comme enseignant, comme le t?moigne son efficacit? > inhabituelle en salle de classe et son engagement ? l'enseignement et > aux ?tudiants. > > La SMC est fi?re de former un partenariat avec Nelson Education afin > de remettre ce prix. ? titre d'une des plus importantes maisons > d'?dition de mat?riel d'enseignement au Canada, Nelson offre un > avantage sans pareil en mati?re d'enseignement afin d'assurer le > succ?s des ?tudiants et des enseignants canadiens. > > La date d'?ch?ance pour les candidatures est le *15 novembre 2010*. > On peut obtenir les d?tails complets de la mise en candidature ? > l'adresse suivante : http://cms.math.ca/Prizes/info/et > > > Laura Alyea > Communications and Special Projects Officer > Canadian Mathematical Society > Tel: +1 (613) 733-2662 ext. 728 > > /Think before you PRINT!/ > Please consider the environment. > > [cms web link] > > Laura Alyea > Communications et projets sp?ciaux > Soci?t? math?matique du Canada > T?l : +1 (613) 733-2662 poste 728 > > /Pensez avant que vous IMPRIMIEZ !/ > Consid?rez svp l'environnement. > -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/related From han415000 at hotmail.com Mon Sep 13 14:45:14 2010 From: han415000 at hotmail.com (DN Han) Date: Tue Sep 14 08:45:46 2010 Subject: [cmath] Announcement of a PIMS PDF Opening at University of Alberta Message-ID: We are currently offering A two-year PIMS postdoctoral fellowship position in mathematics, in particular on Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis or a closely related area at Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences in the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. The starting date could be any time between April 1st, 2011 and September 1, 2011. The position is for a total of two years with a required renewal based on performance of the first year. The annual salary is $40,000 in Canadian dollars plus some supplemental benefit. In addition to research, the successful applicant will expect to teach no more than two courses per year. The successful applicant will be jointly supervised by Profs. B. Han and E. Braverman under the PIMS CRG program on applied and computational harmonic analysis 2011-2013. The successful applicant will participate in all the activities of this CRG program. The selection of a successful applicant will be based on the pool of applicants and their respective qualifications. A PhD degree no earlier than 2006 is required. Good knowledge in wavelet analysis (or related areas) and strong background in analysis are preferred. Good written and spoken English is a must. Some background in numerical analysis and computing (such as programming in matlab and maple) is a plus. Candidate with strong qualifications from a different but related area will be also considered. The application has two stages. First, please send your curriculum vitae, publication list, statement of research, and teaching experience electronically as pdf files to bhan@math.ualberta.ca. This initial screening procedure goes on until the position is filled (but no later than December 10). Candidates past the initial screening will be contacted for recommendation letters. Then two to three selected candidates will be asked to submit their formal applications to PIMS before the PIMS deadline December 15, 2010. The successful application will be notified by PIMS in February 2011. See http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific/postdoctoral for more detail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20100914/54b55cf6/attachment.htm From benhima at CRM.UMontreal.CA Wed Sep 15 14:15:45 2010 From: benhima at CRM.UMontreal.CA (Sakina Benhima) Date: Wed Sep 15 14:15:59 2010 Subject: [cmath] CRM-ISM Postdoctoral Fellowships 2011-2012 Message-ID: <192EC49C-3485-426C-BBCA-47E7221B2F64@CRM.UMontreal.CA> Hi, Could please post the ad below. Best regards Sakina Benhima CRM-ISM POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS 2011-2012 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 2011. CRM-ISM postdoctoral fellowships are awarded to promising researchers who have obtained a Ph.D in the mathematical sciences after December 1st, 2006. 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 2011 Fall thematic semester will be on Quantum Computing, and the 2012 Winter thematic semester will be on Geometric Analysis and Spectral Theory. 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 Wednesday, December 1st, 2010. 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/~crmism/index_en.html ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BOURSES POSTDOCTORALES CRM-ISM 2011-2012 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 2011. La bourse postdoctorale CRM-ISM s'adresse ? des chercheurs prometteurs ayant obtenu leur doctorat en math?matiques apr?s le 1er d?cembre 2006. 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 2011 du CRM portera sur l?informatique quantique, alors que celui de l?hiver 2012 portera sur l?analyse g?om?trique et la th?orie spectrale. L'ISM est un consortium form? de huit universit?s qu?b?coises (Concordia, Laval, McGill, Sherbrooke, Universit? de Montr?al, UQAM, UQTR et 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 mercredi 1er d?cembre 2010. 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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Les ateliers visent principalement les math?maticiens travaillant dans les d?partements de math?matiques, incluant les ?tudiants gradu?s des 2e et 3e cycles qui enseignent des cours de math?matiques sous-gradu?s.Les ?ducateurs de math?matiques provenant d'autres d?partements et institutions, tels que les c?geps, sont invit?s ? participer ? l'atelier pour y enrichir les discussions. Le programme des ateliers comporte une pr?sentation pl?ni?re de Bernard Hodgson (U Laval), notre rapport sur un sondage Canadien qui a eu lieu au printemps 2009 au sujet de l'int?gration de logiciel de calcul formel dans l'enseignement post-secondaire des math?matiques et trois sessions de discussion, soient: 1) Repenser le curriculum des programmes de math?matiques de premier cycle: quel y est le r?le de la technologie? Walter Whiteley (York University) & Franco Saliola (UQAM) avec Jane Heffernan (York University) 2) Int?grer un cours de programmation et/ou utilisation de logiciel de calcul formel: d?fis et impact sur le curriculum. Yvan St-Aubin (Universit? de Montr?al) & Laurent Delisle (Universit? de Montr?al) avec Janse Van Rensburg (York University) 3) ?valuation dans les cours de math?matiques int?grant la technologie: D?fis techniques et p?dagogiques et consid?ration curriculaires. France Caron (Universit? de Montr?al) & Hichem Ben-El-Mechaiekh (Brock University) Pour plus de d?tails, visiter notre site internet: http://www.nipissingu.ca/casresearch/workshops.htm Pour plus d'information, n'h?sitez pas ? nous contacter (cbuteau@brocku.ca). Chantal Buteau (Brock University), Daniel Jarvis (Nipissing University), and Zsolt Lavicza (University of Cambridge) *********************************************************** We are pleased to announce two workshops regarding 'Technology Integration in Teaching Undergraduate Mathematics Students' that will take place at the Centre de recherche math?matique (Montreal) on October 1, 2010 (in French) and at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences (Toronto) on October 29, 2010 (in English). These workshops are mainly aimed at mathematicians working in departments of mathematics, including graduate students who are teaching undergraduate courses. Mathematics educators from other departments and types of institutions are also invited to attend and enrich the discussions. The program includes a keynote presentation by Bernard Hodgson (U Laval), our report on the national online survey about Computer Algebra Systems integration in Canadian mathematics teaching that took place in Spring 2009, and the following three discussion sessions: 1) Rethinking the undergraduate mathematics curriculum - what role does technology play? Discussion Leaders: Walter Whiteley (York University), Jane Heffernan (York University)& Franco Saliola (UQAM) 2) Integrating an additional first-year course in programming and/or CAS use: Issues and impact on curriculum.Discussion Leaders: Janse Van Rensburg (York University) & Laurent Delisle (Universit? de Montr?al) with Yvan St-Aubin (Universit? de Montr?al) 3) Assessment in mathematics courses integrating technology: Technical/pedagogical challenges and curricular considerations. Discussion Leaders: France Caron (Universit? de Montr?al) & Hichem Ben-El-Mechaiekh (Brock University) For more details, visit our website at: http://www.nipissingu.ca/casresearch/workshops.htm For any inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us (cbuteau@brocku.ca). Chantal Buteau (Brock University), Daniel Jarvis (Nipissing University), and Zsolt Lavicza (University of Cambridge) ------------------------------------------ Dr. Chantal Buteau Associate Professor Mathematics Department Brock University 500 Glenridge Avenue St.Catharines, Ontario CANADA L2S 3A1 Tel: +1 905-688-5550 ext:3167 Fax: +1 905-378-5713 Office: MC J427 Email: cbuteau@brocku.ca 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 program will include a wide variety of scientific sessions and the following prize, public and plenary speakers: Adrien Pouliot Award Lecture - Miroslav Lovric (McMaster) Doctoral Prize Lecture - recipient to be announced Krieger-Nelson Prize Lecture - Lia Bronsard (McMaster) *Public Lecture*: Ron Graham (UC-San Diego) *Plenary Lectures*: David Aldous (UC-Berkeley) David Donoho (Stanford) Sujatha Ramdorai (Tata Institute; UBC) Peter Sarnak (Princeton) Carl Wieman (UBC) Tamar Ziegler (Technion) Several events are planned for students: A student social, a panel discussion on the hiring process and a poster session. Details will be available on the website shortly. 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 15* We have secured discounted rates at the Coast Plaza Hotel; the rates may no longer be available after the deadline. Travel - Air Canada is offering special discounts to delegates attending the CMS Winter Meeting. Student Subsidies - With the support of CRM, the Fields Institute, MITACS, PIMS and the University of Lethbridge (Jiping [Jim] Liu Memorial Travel Fund), grants are available to partially fund the travel and accommodation costs for bona fide graduate students at a Canadian or other university. We look forward to welcoming you in Vancouver! -- Laura Alyea Communications and Special Projects Officer Canadian Mathematical Society Tel: +1 (613) 733-2662 ext. 728 /Think before you PRINT!/ Please consider the environment. [cms web link] Laura Alyea Communications et projets sp?ciaux Soci?t? math?matique du Canada T?l : +1 (613) 733-2662 poste 728 /Pensez avant que vous IMPRIMIEZ !/ Consid?rez svp l'environnement. -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/related From commsp at cms.math.ca Thu Sep 23 13:47:30 2010 From: commsp at cms.math.ca (Laura Alyea) Date: Thu Sep 23 13:47:36 2010 Subject: [cmath] =?windows-1252?q?R=E9union_d=92hiver_SMC_2010=2C_Vancouv?= =?windows-1252?q?er=2C_4-6_d=E9cembre?= Message-ID: <4C9B92B2.8060307@cms.math.ca> *RAPPEL: Inscription l?ve t?t jusqu'au 30 septembre. R?union d?hiver SMC 2010* *du 4 au 6 d?cembre 2010* *H?te : Universit? de Colombie-Britannique* La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC) et l?Universit? de Colombie-Britannique invitent la communaut? math?matique ? la R?union d?hiver 2010 de la SMC, que se tiendra ? l?h?tel Coast Plaza & Suites ? Vancouver. Au programme : une grande diversit? de sessions et les dix conf?rences (pl?ni?res, publique et de laur?ats) suivantes : Prix Adrien-Pouliot - Miroslav Lovric (McMaster) Prix de doctorat - laur?at sera annonc? Prix Krieger-Nelson - Lia Bronsard (McMaster) *Conf?rence publique* : Ron Graham (UC-San Diego) *Conf?rences pl?ni?res* : David Aldous (UC-Berkeley) David Donoho (Stanford) Sujatha Ramdorai (Tata Institute; UBC) Peter Sarnak (Princeton) Carl Wieman (UBC) Tamar Ziegler (Technion) Plusieurs activit?s sont pr?vues pour les ?tudiants : activit? sociale, discussion en groupe sur les processus d?embauche, s?ance de pr?sentation par affiche. Les d?tails suivront sur le site web sous peu. 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 : 15 novembre* Nous avons n?goci? des chambres ? tarif r?duit aux h?tels Delta et Ramada; il se peut que le tarif r?duit ne soit plus offert apr?s la date limite. D?placements - Air Canada offre une r?duction aux personnes qui assisteront ? la R?union d?hiver de la SMC. Aide financi?re - Gr?ce au soutien financier du CRM, de l?Institut Fields, du R?seau MITACS et du PIMS, du PIMS et de l?Universit? de Lethbridge (fonds Jiping [Jim] Liu), les ?tudiants dipl?m?s du Canada ou de l'?tranger peuvent se faire rembourser une partie de leurs frais de d?placement et de s?jour. La pr?f?rence est toutefois accord?e aux ?tudiants canadiens. Au plaisir de vous accueillir ? Vancouver! -- Laura Alyea Communications and Special Projects Officer Canadian Mathematical Society Tel: +1 (613) 733-2662 ext. 728 /Think before you PRINT!/ Please consider the environment. [cms web link] Laura Alyea Communications et projets sp?ciaux Soci?t? math?matique du Canada T?l : +1 (613) 733-2662 poste 728 /Pensez avant que vous IMPRIMIEZ !/ Consid?rez svp l'environnement. -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/related From akelm at cms.math.ca Fri Sep 24 11:08:07 2010 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Fri Sep 24 11:08:17 2010 Subject: [cmath] Position in Probability / Poste en =?utf-8?q?probabilit=C3=A9s_-_?= =?utf-8?q?Universit=C3=A9_de_Montr=C3=A9al?= Message-ID: <4C9CBED7.8000503@cms.math.ca> POSITION IN PROBABILITY, UNIVERSIT? DE MONTR?AL, CANADA. The Department of mathematics and statistics invites applications for one tenure-track position in probability at the rank of Assistant professor starting in June 2011. A PhD in Mathematics or in a related discipline is required. Outstanding candidates working on any topics in probability will be welcome. Expertise in stochastic calculus or stochastic processes with finance or biology as the main field of application would be an asset. For more complete information, visit http://www.dms.umontreal.ca Le D?partement de math?matiques et de statistique de l'Universit? de Montr?al sollicite des candidatures ? un poste de professeure ou professeur en probabilit?s au rang d'adjoint d?butant en juin 2011. Un Doctorat en math?matiques ou dans une discipline jug?e pertinente est requis. Toute candidature exceptionnelle dans le domaine des probabilit?s sera consid?r?e avec attention. Une expertise en calcul stochastique ou en processus stochastiques avec la finance ou la biologie comme champ d'application principal serait un atout. Les personnes int?ress?es peuvent consulter la page web suivante : http://www.dms.umontreal.ca * * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/20100924/b18ef638/attachment.htm From nassif at math.ubc.ca Mon Sep 27 11:11:12 2010 From: nassif at math.ubc.ca (Nassif Ghoussoub) Date: Mon Sep 27 11:12:57 2010 Subject: [cmath] News from BIRS Message-ID: <71622C64-DCEB-4504-9C80-14B1A3F22ADE@math.ubc.ca> A bit mangled story but better than nothing. This appeared today in several North american press outlets, including the CBC http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/09/27/banff-math-centre.html You will be able to see later today the video of the announcements ceremony at http://www.birs.ca/ The first hour is a fascinating and hugely inspiring public lecture by Rita Colwell. .... and don't forget that tonight (midnight) is the deadline for BIRS submissions for the 2012 program. Nassif **************************************************************** North American governments kick in over $10 million for math centre in Banff Canadian Press Sun Sep 26 2010 Section: National general news BANFF, Alta. _ Tucked in among artists, performers and writers at the Banff Centre in the Alberta Rockies, a building run by mathematicians was the scene this weekend of an international funding announcement worth millions of dollars for math and statistical research. When it's added up, which guests at the Banff International Research Station are very, very good at doing, it totals more than $10 million over five years from the United States, Canadian, Alberta, and Mexican governments. ``It's the first time we have the National Science Foundation of the United States investing so much money in Canadian infrastructure in Alberta. And it's the first time the Mexican government invested in (research) outside Mexico,'' explained Nassif Ghoussoub, who is the scientific director and founder of the research station. Every year, the station hosts over 2,000 researchers from around the world for week-long brainstorming sessions. If formulas are needed to simulate testing for fuel cells, the station invites 40 experts to spend a week in Banff to work on a solution. And if statistical methods for surveying a population's spending habits is required, the station knows who to call. It has been operating since 2003. In 2005 it received $10 million over five years from its partnering agencies. This weekend's announcement allows the station to continue operating and includes $3.25 million from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, $3.4 million from Alberta Advanced Education and Technology, and $3.68 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation. It also includes $250,000 from the Mexican government. ``(It) represents the only serious joint educational and scientific research program in the NAFTA space,'' Jose Antonio de la Pena of Mexico's national council on science, said in a news release. Cora Marrett, acting director of the U.S. National Science Foundation, said the station is important for providing solutions to environmental, health, security and sustainability issues. ``Mathematical sciences are a key to innovation and for advancing the frontiers of scientific discovery,'' Marrett noted in the release. Ghoussoub, who is also a professor at the University of British Columbia, said the station is modelled on similar European facilities. No such facility existed in North America, so he and other organizers approached a few governments almost 10 years ago. He said the Alberta government offered the Banff Centre, saying it could get the project moving quickly if he could bring the Canadian and U.S. governments on-board. Guests at the facility sleep and eat on-site, set in the beauty of a national park. ``It's a think tank. It's really about getting the best people in the world to come to Banff and spend some time together day and night essentially and working in isolation and solve problems jointly or develop research programs jointly,'' Ghoussoub said, adding the setting is inspiring and the mathematicians get to mingle with the artists who also inhabit the Banff Centre. ``Mathematicians are also very interested in music, in the arts, and we have workshops on scientific writing, the connection between mathematics and the visual arts. We try to develop synergies between the two groups,'' he said. Copyright ? 2010 The Canadian Press -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Nassif From commsp at cms.math.ca Tue Sep 28 09:21:27 2010 From: commsp at cms.math.ca (Laura Alyea) Date: Tue Sep 28 09:21:35 2010 Subject: [cmath] 2010 CMS Doctoral Prize / Le Prix de doctorat 2010 de la SMC Message-ID: <4CA1EBD7.9070609@cms.math.ca> The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) is pleased to announce that *Benjamin Young* is the recipient of the 2010 Doctoral Prize . The CMS Doctoral Prize recognizes outstanding performance by a doctoral student. Young will receive his award and present a plenary lecture at the 2010 CMS Winter Meeting in Vancouver. Young received his B. Math and M.Sc from Carleton University. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of British Columbia, working under the joint supervision of Jim Bryan and Richard Kenyon. After graduation, he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Centre de Recherches Math?matiques (CRM) held at McGill University. He is currently participating in the program of Random Matrix Theory, Interacting Particle Systems and Integrable Systems at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in Berkeley, California. He will subsequently attend KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm for a Wallenberg Postdoctoral Fellowship. The complete announcement has been posted on the CMS website at: http://cms.math.ca/MediaReleases/2010/doc-announcement ------------------------------------------------------------------------ La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC) est heureuse de remettre son Prix de doctorat 2010 ? *Benjamin Young*. Le Prix de doctorat de la SMC r?compense le travail exceptionnel d'un ?tudiant au doctorat en math?matiques. M. Young recevra son prix et prononcera une conf?rence pl?ni?re ? la R?union d'hiver 2010 de la SMC , qui se tiendra Vancouver. Benjamin Young a obtenu son baccalaur?at en math?matiques et sa ma?trise en sciences de l'Universit? Carleton. Il a fait son doctorat en math?matiques ? l'Universit? de la Colombie-Britannique, sous la direction de Jim Bryan et de Richard Kenyon. Il a ensuite obtenu une bourse du Centre de recherches math?matiques pour faire un stage postdoctoral ? l'Universit? McGill. En ce moment, il participe ? un programme de la th?orie des matrices al?atoires, les syst?mes de particules en interaction et les syst?mes int?grables au Mathematical Sciences Research Institute ? Berkeley, en Californie. Il se rendra ensuite au KTH Royal Institute of Technology ? Stockholm, qui lui a accord? la bourse de recherche postdoctorale Wallenberg. The complete announcement has been posted on the CMS website at: http://cms.math.ca/Communiques/2010/doc-announcement -- Laura Alyea Communications and Special Projects Officer Canadian Mathematical Society Tel: +1 (613) 733-2662 ext. 728 /Think before you PRINT!/ Please consider the environment. [cms web link] Laura Alyea Communications et projets sp?ciaux Soci?t? math?matique du Canada T?l : +1 (613) 733-2662 poste 728 /Pensez avant que vous IMPRIMIEZ !/ Consid?rez svp l'environnement. -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/related From vrunde at ualberta.ca Tue Sep 28 09:22:46 2010 From: vrunde at ualberta.ca (vrunde@ualberta.ca) Date: Tue Sep 28 09:58:52 2010 Subject: [cmath] session at the CMS summer meeting 2011 at the U of A Message-ID: <20100928072246.70091hkrsioitgsk@webmail.ualberta.ca> Dear colleagues, The 2011 summer meeting of the CMS will be held June 3-5 at the University of Alberta. This is a gentle reminder that the deadline for submitting a session proposal is September 30, i.e., two days from now. If you are interested in organizing a session, then simply send one of us an e-mail containing * the title of the session * the names of your co-organizers (if any) * a list of prospective participants * a brief description of the topic. With best regards, Volker Runde (vrunde@ualberta.ca) Hassan Safouhi (hassan.safouhi@ualberta.ca) Meeting Directors From heac at unb.ca Sat Oct 2 21:52:21 2010 From: heac at unb.ca (H E A Eddy Campbell) Date: Sat Oct 2 21:52:29 2010 Subject: [cmath] Richard Kane In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5204190A-835D-4ADE-B27C-BCE902E233BF@unb.ca> Dear Colleagues. I write with sad news about the death of my dear friend, Richard Kane. Here is a tribute from his close friend, Joe Neisendorfer: It is my sad duty to inform the mathematical community, especially those who are in the field of algebraic topology, that Richard Kane of the University of Western Ontario, passed away in London, Ontario on October 1, 2010. He was 66 years old. The cause of his death was cancer. Richard received his BA from the University of Toronto in 1967 and his PhD from the University of Waterloo under the direction of Peter Hoffman in 1973. In 2003 the University of Waterloo awarded him its Alumni Achievement Medal. Richard Kane is the author of a book on the homology of Hopf spaces and of another book on reflection groups and invariant theory. Both books are highly regarded expositions. He is the author of approximately thirty research papers and is well known for his results on torsion in the cohomology of Hopf spaces. His methods were varied, ranging from a deep study of Steenrod operations to applications of extraordinary cohomology theories. He has an impressive history of service to his university and to mathematics in Canada. He was a full professor at the University of Western Ontario and served two terms as the Chair of the Mathematics Department. He was a member of the Royal Society of Canada and served terms as the President and also as the Vice President of the Canadian Mathematical Society. He served, often as the chair, on many committees for Western Ontario, the CMS, and NSERC. For his contributions, he was chosen by the CMS as the winner of the inaugural David Borwein Distinguished Career Award and of the 2006 Distinguished Service Award. Richard has held visiting positions at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Barcelona, the Max Planck Institute in Bonn, Aberdeen, San Diego, and Sidney. He possessed a strong serene integrity. He was a loyal and gracious presence to his family, to his friends, to his colleagues, and to his students. He will be missed by all who knew him. He is survived by his wife Jo anne, his son Michael, his daughter Jennifer, and his sister Margaret. Joseph Neisendorfer In sorrow, H E A Eddy Campbell President and Vice-Chancellor Professor of Mathematics and Statistics University of New Brunswick 506-453-4567 (O) 506-453-5158 (F) president@unb.ca From heac at unb.ca Sun Oct 3 19:14:26 2010 From: heac at unb.ca (H E A Eddy Campbell) Date: Sun Oct 3 19:14:34 2010 Subject: [cmath] Richard Kane Message-ID: <03EB0B93-F831-4B01-BC0D-0B6A0B4D060F@unb.ca> Friends and colleagues Here is Richard's obituary from the London Free Times of yesterday. All of us, and our mathematics, are diminished by his loss. Kane Richard Michael KANE, Richard Michael - Peacefully with family by his side, Richard was given to eternal life on Friday, October 1, 2010 after a 9-month fight with kidney cancer. Much loved husband of Jo-Ann Butler, cherished father and mentor of Michael of San Francisco and Jennifer of Toronto. Beloved brother of Sister Margaret Kane, CSJ, Guelph and cherished cousin, uncle and brother-in-law. Richard's two great loves in his life were his family and his vocation to mathematics. He was also an avid gardener, photographer and adventurous traveler. Since 1980, he has been a member of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario. He received his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo in 1973. He has held post doctoral fellowships at Oxford and MIT and visiting professorships in Princeton, Barcelona, Bonn, Aberdeen, San Diego and Sydney. He was the recipient of the David Borwein Distinguished Career Award, the Canadian Mathematical Society of Distinguished Service Award and is a member of the Royal Society of Canada. He is known by his colleagues and students as a dedicated teacher and distinguished researcher in the field of algebraic topology. He has profoundly influenced the course of mathematics in Canada through his exemplary career. Illness forced his untimely retirement from teaching in January 2010. Despite all his academic achievements he will forever be remembered for his humbleness, gentleness and kindness. We thank the nursing staff of London Health Sciences Centre for their dedicated and loving care of our dear Richard. Family will received friends at JOHN T. DONOHUE FUNERAL HOME, 362 Waterloo Street at King Street, on Tuesday September 5, 2010 from 2-4 and 7-9 o'clock. A Vigil Service will be held at 8 o'clock. Mass of the Resurrection will be held at Windermere on the Mount Chapel, 1486 Richmond Street, at 11 a.m. on Wednesday October 6, 2010. Interment to follow at St. Peter's Cemetery. As expressions of sympathy, memorial donations may be made online to www.kidneycancercanada.org. 'The learned will shine . . . as bright as stars for all eternity.' 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Back in his Globe article of April 29, 2009, ?Not all research deserves public funding?, the retired CEO of EnCana Corp. proceeded to rip into the ?ivory towers of academia?, attack ?esoteric research? and disparage any graduate degree not hailing from medicine or engineering. He also dismissed the 2300 scientists who joined the ?Don?t Leave Canada Behind? campaign, which called on the government to include R&D, the lifeblood of the new economy, in its stimulus budget. To its credit, the government of Canada responded positively to the call of its scientists, but from his -dubiously earned- platform at the Globe and Mail, Mr. Morgan kept at it. In Saturday?s paper, Mr. Morgan employs sweeping generalizations and ghost statistics to come to the conclusion that, among other things, Canada?s university professors are ?poorly prepared? for their lectures, ?show up occasionally? to class, and give ?poorly thought out assignments?. He claims ?the reaction of universities to widespread student dissatisfaction is to blame insufficient financing, rather than their own dysfunction?. He offers that in the new age, formal lectures should be altogether ended. His commentary provides neither data about student learning, nor any direct quotations from professors or students. A 1991 study is cited, and then baptized as the truth with a simple "Nineteen years later, little has changed." The article does not attack a particular university, faculty, or teaching method, but rather an apparently archetypal "university professor". So what if he hasn't been on campus in 40 years? He knows how it is. Even then, he "stopped going to classes and dedicated his time to learning from textbooks and reviewing friends? notes". But Mr. Morgan ignores that a professor somewhere, sometime, must have produced and dictated these textbooks and notes. He finds "no reason why all written course material can?t be delivered via the Internet", obviously not aware that since the 90?s, most course material has been made available on the Internet, thanks to dedicated professors. Morgan's suggestion that we replace large classes with "small informal discussions" sounds great, but how does the CEO propose we pay for the much larger number of professors required to do the job? He wants universities to run like businesses, but as one reader suggested: ?If Universities were run like the oil and gas industry we would be back in the dark ages where the only skill required would be to count your money... at least until the oil runs out?. It is obvious that we embattled post-secondary teachers and researchers need to worry more about the ?very useful idiocy? of Mr. Morgan, the permanent platform he has been provided, and the damage that drivel like this can cause to higher education and advanced research in Canada. For the Globe and Mail, Mr. Morgan has been pure comic gold for years. Writing on a variety of subjects, ranging from environmental issues and health care, to research and post-secondary education, he has been a bottomless trove of shameless misrepresentations, extreme views and sheer wackiness. But ultimately, this is not only about Gwyn Morgan nor about the Globe and Mail. It is about us. It is about Canada?s University Presidents countering his dangerous Tea Party style rhetoric on our post-secondary institutions. It is about the Deans of Canada?s Faculties facing up to Mr. Morgan when he writes: ?Many qualified applicants are turned away from areas such as engineering and medicine, while universities continue to graduate thousands with knowledge that is neither useful in getting a job, nor in helping our country succeed in a competitive world.? It is about the Royal Society of Canada, and other learned societies responding to his views about ?esoteric research that doesn?t have the slightest chance of yielding any real value?. It is also up to our schools of journalism, to point out to mainstream media the irresponsibility in printing shallow, empty articles full of generalizations and devoid of facts. Mr. Morgan may be one of those individuals who get so many things wrong at once that the thought of challenging them or setting the record straight is just too daunting. But it is incumbent upon us not to let his rhetoric negate the exemplary contributions of thousands of Canada?s scholars, teachers and researchers. Nassif Ghoussoub, Professor of Mathematics, The University of British Columbia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The deadline for submission is *December 6, 2010*. Also, we are pleased to announce that the Fields' Mathematics Education Forum will be launching an online peer-reviewed research journal in 2011. Participants who present Research Reports will have the option of submitting an extended paper (8-15 pages) for consideration for publication. Submission of a long paper from Research Day participants is not required, but is strongly encouraged. All long papers will be due Monday, March 28, 2011. We appreciate your interest, and request that you forward submissions to either Donna Kotsopoulos (dkotsopo@wlu.ca) or myself. We look forward to hearing from you! Ami *Research Report - Proposal Guidelines* Proposals should be submitted as Microsoft Word or RTF files. The maximum length is 3 pages, including references and abstract. Formatting should be single spaced, in 12 point Times (or Times-like) font, with one-inch margins . An additional page of tables or figures may also be included. 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ISSAC 2011 is the 36th meeting in the series, started in 1966 and held annually since 1981, in North America, Europe and Asia. The conference presents a range of invited speakers, tutorials, poster sessions, software demonstrations and vendor exhibits with a centerpiece of contributed research papers. Important Dates Abstract submission deadline: Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011, 23:59 PST Full paper submission deadline: Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011, 23:59 PST Notification of acceptance/rejection: Monday, March 10, 2011 Camera-ready copy due: Thursday, March 31, 2011 Submission Instructions ISSAC 2011 invites the submission of original research contributions to be considered for publication and presentation at the conference. Papers should not duplicate work published or submitted for consideration elsewhere prior or in parallel to the ISSAC submission. Submission is in two stages: first the abstract is submitted by the abstract deadline, then the full paper may be submitted up to the paper deadline. Papers must be in English and shall be reviewed by the Program Committee and external referees. Authors may be asked to respond to reviews shortly before acceptance decisions are made. Submissions cannot exceed 8 pages in the ACM sig-alternate.cls style (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates); if necessary, they can have an appendix that may be read by the reviewers and PC members, but which is not part of the Proceedings paper. Papers labelled "extended abstracts" will not be accepted. Submission is exclusively via EasyChair. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference to present the paper. Conference Topics All areas of computer algebra and symbolic computation are of interest. These include, but are not limited to: Algorithmic aspects: Exact and symbolic linear, polynomial and differential algebra. Symbolic-numeric, homotopy, and series methods. Computational geometry, group theory, number theory, quantifier elimination and logic. Summation, recurrence equations, integration, ODE & PDE. Theoretical and practical aspects, including algebraic complexity, and techniques for important special cases. Software aspects: Design of packages and systems, data representation. Parallel and distributed algebraic computing, considerations for modern hardware. User-interface issues, and use with systems for, e.g., digital libraries, courseware, simulation and optimization, automated theorem-proving, computer-aided design, and automatic differentiation. Application aspects: Applications that stretch the current limits of computer algebra, use it in new ways, or apply it in situations with broad impact, in particular to the natural sciences, life sciences, engineering, economics and finance, and education. Organizing Committee General Chair: Eric Schost (U. Western Ontario) Program Committee Chair: Ioannis Emiris (U. Athens) Local Arrangements Chair: Emil Volcheck (NSA) Tutorials Chair: Mark Giesbrecht (U. Waterloo) Poster Chair: Manuel Kauers (RISC Linz) Software Exhibits Chair: Mike Stillman (Cornell U.) Proceedings Editor: Anton Leykin (Georgia Tech) Treasurer: Werner Krandick (Drexel U.) Fundraiser: Ilias Kotsireas (Wilfrid Laurier U.) Publicity Chair: Jean-Guillaume Dumas (U. Joseph Fourier) Webmaster: Guillaume Moroz (IRCCyN) Program Committee Hirokazu Anai (Kyushu U.) Marc Moreno Maza (U. Western Ontario) Dario Bini (U. Pisa) Mohab Safey El Din (U.Pierre & Marie Curie) John Cannon (U. Sydney) Josef Schicho (RICAM Linz) Ioannis Emiris (U. Athens), Chair Rafael Sendra (U. Alcala) Gabriela Jeronimo (U. Buenos Aires) Agnes Szanto (NCSU) Pascal Koiran (ENS Lyon) Nobuki Takayama (Kobe U.) Gregoire Lecerf (Ecole Polytechnique) Ashish Tiwari (SRI International) Wen-Shin Lee (U. Antwerp) Sergey Tsarev (Siberian Federal U.) Hongbo Li (Chinese Sciences Academy) Elias Tsigaridas (U. Aarhus) Kurt Mehlhorn (MPI Saarbruecken) Jan Verschelde (UIC) -- Jean-Guillaume Dumas. ____________________________________________________________________ Jean-Guillaume.Dumas@imag.fr T?l.: +33 476 514 866 Universit? Joseph Fourier, Grenoble I. Fax.: +33 476 631 263 Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann, Math?matiques Appliqu?es et Informatique 51, avenue des Math?matiques. 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Complete nomination details are available at: http://cms.math.ca/Prizes/info/dp ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Date limite: 31 janvier 2011* La SMC sollicite des mises en candidature pour le Prix de doctorat 2011. Le prix r?compenser le travail exceptionnel d'un ?tudiant au doctorat en math?matiques ayant obtenu un dipl?me d'une universit? canadienne entre le 1er janvier et le 31 d?cembre de l'ann?e pr?c?dente. 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. On peut obtenir les d?tails complets de la mise en candidature ? l'adresse suivante: http://cms.math.ca/Prix/info/dp -- Laura Alyea Communications and Special Projects Officer Canadian Mathematical Society Tel: +1 (613) 733-2662 ext. 728 /Think before you PRINT!/ Please consider the environment. [cms web link] Laura Alyea Communications et projets sp?ciaux Soci?t? math?matique du Canada T?l : +1 (613) 733-2662 poste 728 /Pensez avant que vous IMPRIMIEZ !/ Consid?rez svp l'environnement. -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/related From secretariat at cmsim.org Sun Oct 10 01:47:20 2010 From: secretariat at cmsim.org (secretariat@cmsim.org) Date: Tue Oct 12 10:26:19 2010 Subject: [cmath] Invitation 4nd Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference May 31 - June 3, 2011 Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece Message-ID: <2B.17.28947.F6351BC4@cm-omr3> You are kindly invited to participate to the forthcoming Nonlinear Modeling and Analysis International Conference titled: 4nd Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference (CHAOS2011), Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece, May 31 - June 3, 2011. The forthcoming International Conference (CHAOS2011) on Chaotic Modeling, Simulation and Applications will take place in Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece (May 31 - June 3, 2011). The general topics and the special sessions proposed for the Conference 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. The publications of the conference include: 1. The Book of Abstracts in Electronic and in Paper form 2. Electronic Proceedings in CD and in the web in a permanent website 3. A Book including selected papers presented in the conference For more information and Abstract/Paper submission and Special Session Proposals please visit the conference website at: http://www.cmsim.org Kind regards The Conference Secretariat secretariat@cmsim.org ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________ The previous CHAOS2010 Conference proceedings can be downloaded at CHAOS2010 on line Proceedings The Books including selected papers from the previous CHAOS2008 and CHAOS2009 Conferences are published by World Scientific: Skiadas, C. H., Dimotikalis, I. and Skiadas, C. (Eds): Topics on Chaotic Systems: Selected Papers from Chaos 2008 International Conference, World Scientific, 2009 Skiadas, C. H. and Dimotikalis, I. 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Dr. Arvind Gupta, University of British Columbia and MITACS The panel has been asked to review three types of federal research and development (R&D) initiatives: ? Tax incentive programs such as the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) program ? Programs that support business R&D through: ? general support (e.g., Industrial Research Assistance Program) ? sector-specific support (e.g., Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative) ? Programs that support business-focused R&D through federal granting councils (such as NSERC's RPP) and other departments and agencies, including research at universities and colleges (e.g., Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research) The panel will seek submissions from interested parties and conduct focused research to support its work. It will report back in one year to the Minister of State (Science and Technology) with concrete recommendations. You can find further information regarding today?s announcement by clicking on the following link: http://rd-review.ca/eic/site/033.nsf/eng/h_00000.html Nassif From commsp at cms.math.ca Fri Oct 15 10:50:57 2010 From: commsp at cms.math.ca (Laura Alyea) Date: Fri Oct 15 10:50:01 2010 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-1?q?2010_GW_Award_for_Distinguished_Service/P?= =?iso-8859-1?q?rix_GW_pour_service_m=E9ritoire_2010?= Message-ID: <4CB86A51.4090500@cms.math.ca> The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) is pleased to announce that *Dr. Robert Woodrow* of the University of Calgary is the recipient of the 2010 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. Dr. Woodrow will receive his award at the 2010 CMS Winter Meeting in Vancouver. The complete announcement has been posted on the CMS website at: http://cms.math.ca/MediaReleases/2010/gwads-woodrow ------------------------------------------------------------------------ La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC) a le plaisir d'annoncer que *M. Robert Woodrow* de la University of Calgary sera laur?at du Prix Graham Wright pour service m?ritoire 2010. Ce prix souligne la contribution soutenue et importante de particuliers ? la communaut? des math?matiques au Canada et, en particulier, ? la Soci?t? math?matique du Canada. M. Woodrow recevra son prix au cours de la r?union de l'hiver 2010 de la SMC ? Vancouver, en Colombie-Britannique. L'annonce compl?te a ?t? signal?e sur le site web de la SMC ? : http://cms.math.ca/Communiques/2010/gwads-woodrow -- Laura Alyea Communications and Special Projects Officer Canadian Mathematical Society Tel: +1 (613) 733-2662 ext. 728 /Think before you PRINT!/ Please consider the environment. [cms web link] Laura Alyea Communications et projets sp?ciaux Soci?t? math?matique du Canada T?l : +1 (613) 733-2662 poste 728 /Pensez avant que vous IMPRIMIEZ !/ Consid?rez svp l'environnement. -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/related From adem at pims.math.ca Fri Oct 15 11:48:23 2010 From: adem at pims.math.ca (Alejandro Adem) Date: Fri Oct 15 11:43:46 2010 Subject: [cmath] events at UBC & PIMS in honour of Louis Nirenberg Message-ID: Louis Nirenberg, First Recipient of Chern Medal, to Receive UBC Honorary Degree and Deliver PIMS Distinguished Lecture At the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Hyderabad, India this past August, Louis Nirenberg, from the Courant Institute for the Mathematical Sciences at New York University, was awarded the inaugural Chern Medal for his role in the formulation of the modern theory of non-linear elliptic partial differential equations and for mentoring numerous students and post-docs in this area. In addition to this prestigious prize, Professor Nirenberg has received many other awards and honours, including: the American Mathematical Society's Bocher Prize, the Jeffrey-Williams Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society, the Steele Prize of the AMS, the Crafoord Prize and the US National Medal of Science. The full citation can be found at http://www.icm2010.in/prize-winners-2010/chern-medal-louis-nirenberg Professor Nirenberg was born in Hamilton, Ontario and obtained his undergraduate degree from McGill University before emigrating to the United States. He has shown a longstanding interest in the Canadian mathematical community, mentoring and supporting many of our colleagues. This fact and his enormous contributions to the mathematical sciences will be recognized by the University of British Columbia by awarding him an honorary degree during its 2010 Fall Congregation (November 24-26). On November 26 he will deliver a PIMS Distinguished Lecture at 3pm at UBC. Everyone is invited to attend and celebrate Louis Nirenberg's wonderful career in mathematics. Alejandro Adem Director, PIMS Nassif Ghoussoub UBC Board of Governors From commsp at cms.math.ca Tue Oct 19 13:02:06 2010 From: commsp at cms.math.ca (Laura Alyea) Date: Tue Oct 19 13:00:49 2010 Subject: [cmath] CMS Facebook page / Page Facebook de la SMC Message-ID: <4CBDCF0E.4030608@cms.math.ca> The Canadian Mathematical Society is now on Facebook. The CMS Facebook page will feature CMS updates, mathematics news highlights, and discussions on topics important to the mathematical community. Click here to start following the CMS on Facebook. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada est maintenant sur Facebook. La page Facebook de la SMC aura les mises ? jour de la SMC, les nouvelles math?matiques et des discussions sur des sujets importants pour la communaut? math?matique. Cliquez ici pour commencer la suite de la SMC sur Facebook. -- Laura Alyea Communications and Special Projects Officer Canadian Mathematical Society Tel: +1 (613) 733-2662 ext. 728 /Think before you PRINT!/ Please consider the environment. [cms web link] Laura Alyea Communications et projets sp?ciaux Soci?t? math?matique du Canada T?l : +1 (613) 733-2662 poste 728 /Pensez avant que vous IMPRIMIEZ !/ Consid?rez svp l'environnement. -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/related From peter.taylor at queensu.ca Fri Oct 22 09:36:08 2010 From: peter.taylor at queensu.ca (Peter Taylor) Date: Fri Oct 22 09:36:19 2010 Subject: [cmath] John Coleman 1918-2010 Message-ID: <0LAP00M3F1S9ATB0@mta01.its.queensu.ca> John Coleman died three weeks ago. He was a CMS president, a CMESG founder, and altogether a remarkable man. I append this brief tribute. peter Albert John Coleman 1918 ? 2010 His father was a worker on the Canadian Pacific Railway and with the help of a scholarship John gained admission in 1935 to the University of Toronto. In 1938, the team of John Coleman, Nathan Mendelsohn and Irving Kaplansky gave Toronto the top score in the inaugural Putnam exam. Following that he obtained an MSc at Princeton (1940) and a PhD at Toronto in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics under the supervision of J.L Synge and then Leopold Infeld. He spent 10 years as Assistant and Associate Professor at Toronto, and in 1960 began his 20-year tenure as Head of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Queen?s University. Mathematics. From 1973 to 1975 he was the President of the Canadian Mathematical Society, and in 1995 he won its Distinguished Service Award. From 1973-77 he was a member of the Science Council of Canada and in 1975 he was the senior author of the Science Council Report (#37) on the Mathematical Sciences in Canada. Between 1974 and 1982, John was first Chairman and then Treasurer of the Commission on Exchange and Development of the International Mathematical Union (IMU). When asked whether he was a mathematician or a physicist, John would reply that he was a quantum chemist. He published over 50 papers and gave lectures in Dublin, Princeton, Moscow, Leningrad, Jilin (China) Hong Kong, Shanghai, to name a few cities. He was made an Honorary Professor at the University of Shandong in Jinan, China. In the 1970?s and 80?s he was a leading player in the scientific exchange program between Canada and the USSR. Mathematics Education In the early 60?s, John was senior editor of the Gage series of school mathematics textbooks which effectively brought the ?New Maths? to Canada. One of the recommendations of his Science Council Report led to the establishment in 1977 (made ?official? at the next meeting in 1978) of the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group, the founding members being John, David Wheeler and William Higginson. CMESG is the envy of many from other countries who attend its annual meetings as it brings together university mathematicians and math educators, graduate students and teachers for 3-4 days of vigorous workshops and talks. As a teacher, much revered by his students, he rambled over rich and beautiful and often chaotic worlds and then focused sharply on his point, leaving us to reconstruct the technical development. In this regard he was a true disciple of his mentor Alfred North Whitehead, whose Aims of Education was one of his bibles. [This extraordinary collection of essays, written in the 1920?s, is more relevant today than it has ever been.] Theology (the other bible). In his undergraduate days, John was secretary of the Student Christian Movement at Toronto. From 1945-49 he was University Secretary of the World Student Christian Federation in Geneva, visiting 100 universities in 20 countries and writing a book on The Task of the Christian in the University. At that time he met his wife, Marie Jeanne de Haller, a Swiss Theologian, and a remarkably kind, gentle and wise woman, who died in 2006. In 1978 he was the only Canadian layman to participate in the Lambeth conference in Canterbury. [The big issue that year was the admission of women to the clergy.] Starting in 1960, and for many years thereafter he ran a seminar at Queen?s for 12 students in their second year. The summer before, we had the task of reading a number of books: Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, J B Phillips Letters to young churches, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, and others, and during the year we met every second week at his home to take turns presenting papers on the books. It was an extraordinary and formative experience for all who were fortunate enough to take part. The Man John was a remarkable man. His idiosyncratic style, a child-like directness, distanced him from some but won the passionate allegiance of so many others. As a Head, he had a firm and open leadership style. As a colleague and a friend, he was generous with his time, a superb listener, and always interested in the tales that his companion had to tell. He was a devout man, with a strong faith in a just God. He even had a fine run as a politician, almost taking the Kingston federal seat from Flora MacDonald. In these uncertain, morally ambiguous times, I am struck by how much the world now needs people of his wisdom, clarity, and integrity. In the early morning of September 30th 2010, John died quietly in hospital in Kingston at the age of 92. The week before he had been keen to have a young undergraduate I had told him about come to his bedside so he could talk to him about Whitehead?s theory of relativity. Peter Taylor Queen?s University October 21, 2010 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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Eligibility: The date of the applicant's Ph.D. must be January, 2009 or later. For further criteria and information, please see the Killam PDF website: http://killamtrusts.dal.ca/apply/postdoctoralfellows/ *Application deadline: December 15, 2010. * Candidates in Mathematics or Statistics: Please send your application to Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship Committee c/o Dr. Karl Dilcher, Chair Department of Mathematics and Statistics Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3J5 Canada E-mail: chair@mathstat.dal.ca * 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 12, 2010. * *Application procedure: * Applications can be made by the candidate through an online system which is expected to be operational from November 12. Please contact your proposed supervisor directly so that the supervisor can draft a budget and provide a letter of support. For further information or to apply please visit the AARMS PDF website: 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... 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Full details can be found at: http://www.aarms.math.ca/pdf/index.html * Rules and Procedures * *Eligibility and place of tenure * AARMS postdoctoral fellowships are awarded, on the recommendation of its Scientific Review Panel (SRP), to beginning researchers who received their PhD no more than four years before applying. 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. AARMS will provide $17,500 per year for the fellowship and the supervisor is responsible for organizing matching funds of at least this amount 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 * Applicants are required to establish a relationship with a prospective supervisor before applying to AARMS, and to have a tentative agreement from that supervisor to make a joint application to this program. This program is not a service for matching applicants with supervisors. Applications should be made by the candidate through the PDF Application page found through the Online Services link in our menu. After registering on the system, applicants should send their username to their proposed supervisor(s). This enables the supervisor(s) to make their contributions to the application. The application should include: * CV (in pdf format) * Research Proposal: a detailed description of the research area and the research to be carried out during the tenure of the fellowship as well as a description of how the candidate would interact with the supervisor(s). (also in pdf format) After the applicant has registered online each intended supervisor(s) should contribute, through the AARMS online page the following: * A written reference (in pdf format). * A list of the exact sources of matching funding (NSERC or other grant(s), department(s), ...); to be typed directly into the web form provided. If there are more than one intended supervisors only one needs to submit this financial information. The applicant should also arrange for two letters of reference to be submitted to the online system by persons who are familiar with the candidate's work and can comment on their suitability for an AARMS postdoctoral fellowship. The candidate will need to send their username to the external referee to enable them to make this contribution. These letters are to be submitted in pdf format. *Assessment * Applications will be reviewed by the Scientific Review Panel, who will make a recommendation to the Director. *Timetable * * *December 12* - Application deadline. * *December 22* - Deadline for supervisor contribution. * *February 1* -Deadline for the assessment phase. Initial offers on Postdoctoral fellowships are made within the next few weeks. The department/university offered an award is requested to provide to AARMS a signed "funding package", showing the annual contributions by the supervisor(s), the department, and the university. Their amount has at least to match the AARMS contribution of $17,500 and may require that the fellowship holder teach up to one class each term (including spring/summer sessions). If an offer is declined AARMS reserves the right to either offer or to refrain from offering a fellowship to the next candidate in the ranking. * *June 30* - Deadline for reports from supervisors of renewing PDFs. The supervisor must submit a detailed progress report, outlining the research work and listing publications, talks, etc. Electronic copies of all publications must be submitted to AARMS for archival purposes. The PDF is also expected to acknowledge the support of AARMS in their publications. * *August 31* - Latest possible termination date for the second year of a PDF. * *September 1* - Start time for the fellowship. AARMS will transfer $8,750 (first half of the annual amount) during the month when the PDF starts his programme, and the same amount six months later. This is done upon receipt of a formal invoice from the hosting department/university. 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A short letter will be > very much appreciated. > > Thanks in advance for your collaboration. > > With best wishes, > > Marta > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Klaus Schmidt >> Date: 1 November 2010 11:45:09 GMT+01:00 >> To: Undisclosed-recipients: <>; >> Subject: ESI Appeal >> >> Dear Colleague, >> >> On Monday, October 25, 2010, the Erwin Schroedinger Institute (ESI) >> was informed -- without prior warning -- that its funding by the >> Austrian Ministry of Science will be terminated with effect from >> January 1, 2011. >> >> The reason given for this decision was a 'radical structural change >> in the consolidation of Austrian extrauniversity research', >> apparently affecting more than 100 scientific institutions in >> Austria. >> >> As it stands, this decision means that the ESI will have to >> terminate its activities in early 2011. >> >> It may not be too late to reverse this step, but time is running >> short. >> >> If you wish to express support for continued funding (and, indeed, >> existence) of the ESI we ask you to communicate urgently your views >> to the minister responsible: >> >> Dr. Beatrix Karl >> Federal Minister of Science and Research >> Minoritenplatz 5, A-1014 Vienna >> Telephone: +43 1 53 120-0 >> Email: beatrix.karl@bmwf.gv.at >> >> Yours sincerely, >> >> Joachim Schwermer (Scientific Director, ESI) >> Jabob Yngvason (Scientific Director, ESI) >> Klaus Schmidt (President, ESI) >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Erwin Schroedinger Institute Tel: +43-1-4277 28282 >> Boltzmanngasse 9 Fax: +43-1-4277 28299 >> A-1090 Vienna, Austria www: http://www.esi.ac.at >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > Marta Sanz-Sol? > Facultat de Matem?tiques > Universitat de Barcelona > Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585 > E-08007 Barcelona > phone (office): +34 934021655 > cell phone: +34 646440759 > http://www.mat.ub.es/~sanz > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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A Master's Degree (or equivalent) in some area of the physical sciences, mathematics, or education is required, although applicants with non-traditional backgrounds will be considered. Applicants with doctoral-level qualifications may be considered for continuing faculty status. Applications should be received by * 30 November. * Salary commensurate with experience; the start date for the position will be on or before 1 August 2011. See http://www.questu.ca/employment/faculty_openings/index.php for details of the position and application requirements. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/20101101/d6682f3f/attachment.htm From adem at pims.math.ca Mon Nov 1 18:21:30 2010 From: adem at pims.math.ca (Alejandro Adem) Date: Mon Nov 1 18:21:52 2010 Subject: [cmath] nominations for CAIMS-PIMS Early Career Award in Applied Mathematics In-Reply-To: <7345_1245888423_1245888423_Pine.SOC.4.64.0906241648350.20617@cantor> References: <7345_1245888423_1245888423_Pine.SOC.4.64.0906241648350.20617@cantor> Message-ID: CAIMS/PIMS Early Career Award in Applied Mathematics The Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences are pleased to announce the 2011 competition for the CAIMS/PIMS Early Career Award in Applied Mathematics. The prize is to be awarded to a researcher less than ten years past the date of Ph.D. at the time of nomination.? The prize recognizes exceptional research in any branch of applied mathematics, interpreted broadly. The nominee's research should have been conducted primarily in Canada or in affiliation with a Canadian university. Nominations: Nominations must be submitted by January 31, 2011 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, at least two of which should be from references who are neither former PhD/postdoc mentors nor collaborators.? Unsuccessful nominations that continue to meet the eligibility criteria will be automatically considered for a second year. Selection: The prize recipient will be decided by a selection committee consisting of four experts who serve two-year terms. Two are appointed by the President of CAIMS and two by the Director of PIMS. Decisions will be announced by April 1, 2011. 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 commsp at cms.math.ca Wed Nov 3 13:20:41 2010 From: commsp at cms.math.ca (Laura Alyea) Date: Thu Nov 4 15:44:01 2010 Subject: [cmath] 2010 G. de B. Robinson Award / Prix G. de B. Robinson 2010 Message-ID: <4CD199E9.20700@cms.math.ca> The CMS is pleased to announce that *Andrew Toms* and *Wilhelm Winter* are the recipients of the 2010 G. de B. Robinson Award for their paper "Z-Stable ASH Algebras", published in the /Canadian Journal of Mathematics/ (60:3 2008, 703-720; doi:10.4153/CJM-2008-031-6 ). 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 complete announcement is available at the CMS website: http://cms.math.ca/MediaReleases/2010/gdeb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ La SMC est heureuse d'annoncer qu'elle d?cerne son prix G. de B. Robinson 2010 ? *Andrew Toms* et *Wilhelm Winter* pour leur article "Z-Stable ASH Algebras", publi? dans le /Journal canadien de math?matiques/ (60:3 2008, 703-720; doi:10.4153/CJM-2008-031-6 ). 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. L'annonce compl?te a ?t? signal?e sur le site web de la SMC ? : http://cms.math.ca/Communiques/2010/gdeb -- Laura Alyea Communications and Special Projects Officer Canadian Mathematical Society Tel: +1 (613) 733-2662 ext. 728 /Think before you PRINT!/ Please consider the environment. [cms web link] Laura Alyea Communications et projets sp?ciaux Soci?t? math?matique du Canada T?l : +1 (613) 733-2662 poste 728 /Pensez avant que vous IMPRIMIEZ !/ Consid?rez svp l'environnement. -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/related From adem at pims.math.ca Tue Nov 2 10:03:26 2010 From: adem at pims.math.ca (Alejandro Adem) Date: Thu Nov 4 15:44:07 2010 Subject: [cmath] PIMS Postdoctoral Fellowships Message-ID: *****PIMS Postdoctoral Fellowships**** *** December 15, 2010 Deadline for Applications*** The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) invites nominations of outstanding young researchers in the mathematical sciences for Postdoctoral Fellowships for the year 2011-2012. Candidates must be nominated by one (or more) scientists or by a Department (or Departments) affiliated with PIMS. The fellowships are intended to supplement support provided by the sponsor, and are tenable at any of its Canadian member universities: Simon Fraser University, the University of Alberta, the University of British Columbia, the University of Calgary, the University of Victoria, University of Regina and the University of Saskatchewan, as well as at the University of Lethbridge (a PIMS affiliate). For the 2011-2012 competition, held in January of 2011, the amount of the award will be $20,000 and the sponsor(s) is (are) required to provide additional funds to finance a minimum total stipend of $40,000. Rankings of the candidates are made by the PIMS PDF Review Panel based on the qualifications of the candidate, potential for participation in PIMS programs, and potential involvement with PIMS partners. PIMS Postdoctoral Fellows will be expected to participate in all PIMS activities related to the fellow's area of expertise and will be encouraged to spend time at more than one site. To ensure that PIMS Postdoctoral Fellows are able to participate fully in Institute activities, they may not teach more than two single-term courses per year. Nominees must have a Ph.D. or equivalent (or expect to receive a Ph.D. by December 31, 2011) and be within three years of their Ph.D. at the time of the nomination (i.e., the candidate must have received her or his Ph.D. on or after January 1, 2008). The fellowship may be taken up at any time between September 1, 2011 and January 1, 2012. The fellowship is for one year and is renewable for at most one additional year. The PIMS PDF nomination/application process take places entirely online, utilizing the MathJobs service provided by the American Mathematical Society. Having selected their nominees, sponsors direct them to apply online at mathjobs.org/jobs/PIMS. Nominees are required to upload two letters of reference, a curriculum vitae and a statement of research interests. Sponsors must also upload their own reference letters (these are in addition to the two reference letters mentioned just above) and statements of anticipated support. They will receive instructions as to how to proceed from their nominees via email from MathJobs. Detailed instructions regarding all aspects of the MathJobs application procedure may be found in the online MathJobs user guides. Please note that application is by nomination only; unsolicited applications will not be considered. Complete applications must be uploaded to MathJobs by December 15, 2010. For further information, visit: http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific/postdoctoral. From akelm at cms.math.ca Mon Nov 8 13:04:55 2010 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Mon Nov 8 13:05:07 2010 Subject: [cmath] Tenure-Track Position in Probability and Statistics - McMaster University Message-ID: <4CD83BC7.6050903@cms.math.ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: mcmaster-ad.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 28824 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20101108/f1a192b7/mcmaster-ad.pdf From bierston at fields.utoronto.ca Mon Nov 8 14:33:43 2010 From: bierston at fields.utoronto.ca (Edward Bierstone) Date: Mon Nov 8 14:33:57 2010 Subject: [cmath] termination of funding to Erwin Schroedinger Institute Message-ID: <4CD85097.8030007@fields.utoronto.ca> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear Colleagues, Following is a letter that we have sent to the Austrian Minister of Science and Research, Dr. Beatrix Karl, about termination of funding to the Erwin Schroedinger Institute (ESI) in Vienna. ESI's survival is threatened by the loss of funding. The European Mathematical Society is organizing a broad response, and is asking mathematicians around the world to help. If you wish to express support for continued funding (and indeed for the existence) of ESI, please write urgently to the minister responsible: Dr. Beatrix Karl Federal Minister of Science and Research Minoritenplatz 5, A-1014 Vienna Email: beatrix.karl@bmwf.gv.at Thank you very much, Alejandro Adem Edward Bierstone Nassif Ghoussoub Peter Russell > Dr. Beatrix Karl > Federal Minister of Science and Research > Minoritenplatz 5, A-1014 Vienna > Austria > > Dear Dr. Karl, > > We are writing as Directors of the four federally-funded Canadian > institutes for the mathematical sciences, to express our dismay at > the termination by your Ministry of funding to the Erwin Schroedinger > Institute (ESI). > > In less than twenty years, ESI has become one of the world's leading > institutes for mathematics and physics, with impact far beyond its > modest budget. ESI is part of an international network of institutes > that have changed the ways that mathematics and physics are > communicated, opening new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration. > > ESI has helped re-establish a presence in world science that Austria > historically enjoyed, and has become an irreplaceable recruitment > tool for universities in Vienna. > > The closing of ESI will be a loss for world science and a greater loss > for Austria. We strongly hope that the Ministry of Science and Research > will reverse its sudden decision to stop funding ESI, and that a way can > be found to enable ESI to continue its important work. > > Yours respectfully, > > Alejandro Adem, Director, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical > Sciences, Vancouver > > Edward Bierstone, Director, Fields Institute for Mathematical Sciences, > Toronto > > Nassif Ghoussoub, Director, Banff International Research Station, > Banff > > Peter Russell, Directeur, Centre de recherches mathematiques, Montreal > > > cc. Klaus Schmidt, President, ESI > > - -- Edward Bierstone, Director Phone 416 348 9710 ext. 2012 The Fields Institute Fax 416 348 9714 222 College Street, 2nd Floor bierston@fields.utoronto.ca Toronto ON Canada M5T 3J1 www.fields.utoronto.ca -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJM2FCXAAoJEOHcmFPx8NZy+VkH/05g6TubFpM/aJIGby9W6J3k zCVYP7qNN+OZFaa7Z8sQJNJJVEacKy4LNoJUTXAyKj8C2OH5aBqXJOKt57fJ0Zt3 Kh7ZkRTeFMmaksYRY4aMoXo/k59mhOAnah7MHYB6PmxAQhyWtTogNNBRONmdHo0A a04tQmzkbSp2RnkchyQY66+YiATvBGlYt0XJja98VkSas+QlyA9HuFQIJCZI67qW Ax3EREK8XAzOiezZ95IzV1xj17QawFsE0bY+byZUuCNMZ1h2NdJjTv+Z0AsTWHW5 pHru/kKt7NAHRFShGyzqyYQhJEnkfZ/1YK+J+RKuwvYL3cPLyX+q0Fhgm/ZmCWg= =B2zn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From jacques.hurtubise at mcgill.ca Mon Nov 8 20:22:41 2010 From: jacques.hurtubise at mcgill.ca (Jacques Hurtubise) Date: Mon Nov 8 20:24:20 2010 Subject: [cmath] termination of funding to Erwin Schroedinger Institute In-Reply-To: <20101108194208.AFF5AA8EE@mailscan2.ncs.mcgill.ca> Message-ID: I have also written a letter on behalf of the CMS, in much the same vein; others should of course join in. Jacques HUrtubise On 08/11/10 15:33, "Edward Bierstone" wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear Colleagues, Following is a letter that we have sent to the Austrian Minister of Science and Research, Dr. Beatrix Karl, about termination of funding to the Erwin Schroedinger Institute (ESI) in Vienna. ESI's survival is threatened by the loss of funding. The European Mathematical Society is organizing a broad response, and is asking mathematicians around the world to help. If you wish to express support for continued funding (and indeed for the existence) of ESI, please write urgently to the minister responsible: Dr. Beatrix Karl Federal Minister of Science and Research Minoritenplatz 5, A-1014 Vienna Email: beatrix.karl@bmwf.gv.at Thank you very much, Alejandro Adem Edward Bierstone Nassif Ghoussoub Peter Russell > Dr. Beatrix Karl > Federal Minister of Science and Research > Minoritenplatz 5, A-1014 Vienna > Austria > > Dear Dr. Karl, > > We are writing as Directors of the four federally-funded Canadian > institutes for the mathematical sciences, to express our dismay at > the termination by your Ministry of funding to the Erwin Schroedinger > Institute (ESI). > > In less than twenty years, ESI has become one of the world's leading > institutes for mathematics and physics, with impact far beyond its > modest budget. ESI is part of an international network of institutes > that have changed the ways that mathematics and physics are > communicated, opening new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration. > > ESI has helped re-establish a presence in world science that Austria > historically enjoyed, and has become an irreplaceable recruitment > tool for universities in Vienna. > > The closing of ESI will be a loss for world science and a greater loss > for Austria. We strongly hope that the Ministry of Science and Research > will reverse its sudden decision to stop funding ESI, and that a way can > be found to enable ESI to continue its important work. > > Yours respectfully, > > Alejandro Adem, Director, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical > Sciences, Vancouver > > Edward Bierstone, Director, Fields Institute for Mathematical Sciences, > Toronto > > Nassif Ghoussoub, Director, Banff International Research Station, > Banff > > Peter Russell, Directeur, Centre de recherches mathematiques, Montreal > > > cc. Klaus Schmidt, President, ESI > > - -- Edward Bierstone, Director Phone 416 348 9710 ext. 2012 The Fields Institute Fax 416 348 9714 222 College Street, 2nd Floor bierston@fields.utoronto.ca Toronto ON Canada M5T 3J1 www.fields.utoronto.ca -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJM2FCXAAoJEOHcmFPx8NZy+VkH/05g6TubFpM/aJIGby9W6J3k zCVYP7qNN+OZFaa7Z8sQJNJJVEacKy4LNoJUTXAyKj8C2OH5aBqXJOKt57fJ0Zt3 Kh7ZkRTeFMmaksYRY4aMoXo/k59mhOAnah7MHYB6PmxAQhyWtTogNNBRONmdHo0A a04tQmzkbSp2RnkchyQY66+YiATvBGlYt0XJja98VkSas+QlyA9HuFQIJCZI67qW Ax3EREK8XAzOiezZ95IzV1xj17QawFsE0bY+byZUuCNMZ1h2NdJjTv+Z0AsTWHW5 pHru/kKt7NAHRFShGyzqyYQhJEnkfZ/1YK+J+RKuwvYL3cPLyX+q0Fhgm/ZmCWg= =B2zn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From CRM at CRM.UMontreal.CA Tue Nov 9 14:14:17 2010 From: CRM at CRM.UMontreal.CA (CRM@CRM.UMontreal.CA) Date: Tue Nov 9 14:14:25 2010 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-1?q?2011_Andr=E9-Aisenstadt_Prize_/_Prix_Andr?= =?iso-8859-1?q?=E9-Aisenstadt_2011?= Message-ID: <2577E516-F7EE-44A9-8292-97E19C62ED45@CRM.UMontreal.CA> (Le fran?ais suit l'anglais) The 2011 Andr?-Aisenstadt Prize is awarded to Joel Kamnitzer of the University of Toronto. Dr. Kamnitzer obtained his Bachelor in Mathematics at the University of Waterloo in 2001 and his PhD at the University of California (Berkeley) in 2005, under the supervision of Allen Knutson. He held a prestigious AIM Five-Year Fellowship as well as post-doctoral postitions at MIT, MSRI, and the University of California (Berkeley). He has been a professor at the University of Toronto since 2008. Dr. Kamnitzer has made substantial and deep contributions to the field of geometric representation theory and related topics. We mention here three of his more important contributions, on rather different topics. In his thesis, recently published in the Annals of Mathematics, he relates formulae developed in representation theory by Berenstein-Zelevinsky to the theory of Mirkovic-Vilonen polytopes as introduced by Anderson; in the process, he elucidates a number of enigmatic features of these important topics. A second impressive body of work is joint work carried out mainly with S. Cautis but also A. Licata; it has appeared in Inventiones Mathematicae and the Duke Mathematical Journal. This work is part of a program to pursue the categorification of Khovanov's knot invariants. It sheds light on the potential categorificaton of the geometric Satake equivalence and is also related to mirror symmetry problems. Finally, together with P. Etingof, A. Henriques, and E. Rains (in a contribution recently published in the Annals of Mathematics), he has explored the algebraic topology of the real locus of the moduli space of stable curves of genus 0 with marked points. In particular, this article computes the rational cohomology of this space as well as the 2-local torsion in its cohomology. The Andr?-Aisenstadt Prize will be awarded to Dr. Kamnitzer at a ceremony to be held at the CRM on February 18, 2011. ******** Joel Kamnitzer, de l'Universit? de Toronto, est le r?cipiendaire du prix Andr?-Aisenstadt pour 2011. Dr. Kamnitzer obtint un baccalaur?at en math?matiques de l'Universit? de Waterloo en 2001 et un doctorat de l'Universit? de Californie ? Berkeley en 2005 (sous la supervision d'Allen Knutson). La prestigieuse bourse de l'AIM pour cinq ans lui a ?t? attribu?e et il a effectu? divers stages postdoctoraux au MIT, au MSRI et ? l'Universit? de Californie ? Berkeley. Il est professeur ? l'Universit? de Toronto depuis 2008. Nous mentionnons ci-dessous trois de ses plus importantes contributions, qui portent sur des sujets assez diff?rents les uns des autres. Dans sa th?se, parue r?cemment dans les Annals of Mathematics, il ?tablit un lien entre des formules d?velopp?es en th?orie des repr?sentations par Berenstein et Zelevinsky et la th?orie des polytopes de Mirkovic-Vilonen introduite par Anderson. Ce faisant, il fait la lumi?re sur plusieurs aspects ?nigmatiques de ces importants sujets. Une deuxi?me contribution impressionnante consiste en des travaux effectu?s principalement avec S. Cautis mais aussi A. Licata, et r?cemment parus dans Inventiones Mathematicae et le Duke Mathematical Journal. Ces travaux font partie d'un programme ayant pour but la cat?gorificaton des invariants de noeuds de Khovanov. Ils ?clairent la possible cat?gorification de l'?quivalence de Satake g?om?trique et sont aussi reli?s ? des probl?mes de la sym?trie miroir. Finalement, Dr. Kamnitzer, en collaboration avec P. Etingof, A. Henriques et E. Rains et dans un article publi? r?cemment dans les Annals of Mathematics, explore la topologie alg?brique de la sous-vari?t? r?elle de l'espace de modules des courbes stables de genre O avec points marqu?s. En particulier, les auteurs de l'article calculent la cohomologie rationnelle de cet espace ainsi que la 2-torsion dans sa cohomologie. Le prix Andr?-Aisenstadt sera d?cern? ? Joel Kamnitzer lors d'une c?r?monie qui se tiendra au CRM le 18 f?vrier 2011. From commsp at cms.math.ca Wed Nov 10 08:48:33 2010 From: commsp at cms.math.ca (Laura Alyea) Date: Wed Nov 10 08:48:36 2010 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-1?q?CMS_Math_Competition_Grants_/_Subventions?= =?iso-8859-1?q?_pour_les_concours_de_math=E9matiques_de_la_SMC?= Message-ID: <4CDAA2B1.5090704@cms.math.ca> The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) is now accepting applications for the 2011 CMS Math Competition Grants. The Math Competition Grants are open to contests of different kinds at the elementary and secondary school levels. The deadline for applications is *January 14, 2011*. Full application details are available at: http://cms.math.ca/Competitions/grants ------------------------------------------------------------------------ La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC) accepte maintenant des demandes de subventions pour les concours de math?matiques de la SMC 2011. Les subventions pour les concours de math?matiques s'appliquent ? divers concours organis?s au niveau primaire et secondaire. La date limite pour les demandes est le *14 janvier 2011*. On peut obtenir des d?tails complets pour la pr?sentation d'une demande ? l'adresse suivante : http://cms.math.ca/Concours/grants -- Laura Alyea Communications and Special Projects Officer Canadian Mathematical Society Tel: +1 (613) 733-2662 ext. 728 /Think before you PRINT!/ Please consider the environment. [cms web link] Laura Alyea Communications et projets sp?ciaux Soci?t? math?matique du Canada T?l : +1 (613) 733-2662 poste 728 /Pensez avant que vous IMPRIMIEZ !/ Consid?rez svp l'environnement. -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/related From meetings at cms.math.ca Fri Nov 12 10:10:19 2010 From: meetings at cms.math.ca (Gertrud Jeewanjee) Date: Fri Nov 12 10:10:37 2010 Subject: [cmath] 2010 CMS Winter Meeting, Vancouver - online registration closes on November 15 Message-ID: <4CDD58DB.3090608@cms.math.ca> *REMINDER: The online registration closes on November 15. 2010 CMS Winter Meeting* *December 4 - 6, 2010* *Host: University of British Columbia* The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) and the University of British Columbia invite the mathematical community to the *2010 CMS Winter Meeting*, to be held at the Coast Plaza Hotel & Suites in Vancouver. The program will include a wide variety of scientific sessions and the following prize, public and plenary speakers: Doctoral Prize Lecture - recipient to be announced Krieger-Nelson Prize Lecture - Lia Bronsard (McMaster) Adrien Pouliot Award Lecture - Miroslav Lovric (McMaster) *Public Lecture*: Ron Graham (UC-San Diego) *Plenary Lectures*: David Aldous (UC-Berkeley) David Donoho (Stanford) Sujatha Ramdorai (Tata Institute; UBC) Peter Sarnak (Princeton) Carl Wieman (UBC) Tamar Ziegler (Technion) *Related Activities:* CMS Town Hall Meeting NSERC Long Range Strategy Panel NSERC Funding Focus Panel *Student Events:* Poster Session Panel on hiring process Student Social Accommodation *-- Deadline: November 15* We have secured discounted rates at the Coast Plaza Hotel; the rates may no longer be available after the deadline. Travel - Air Canada is offering special discounts to delegates attending the CMS Winter Meeting. The Promotion Code C4PN43M1 has to be entered during the booking. We would like to express our gratitude to the sponsors of this Meeting: AARMS, CRM, Fields Institute, MITACS, PIMS, University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, University of Alberta and the University of Victoria. We look forward to welcoming you in Vancouver! -- Gertrud Jeewanjee Manager, Meetings and Events Canadian Mathematical Society Tel: +1 (613) 733-2662 ext. 733 /Think before you PRINT!/ Please consider the environment. [cms web link] Gertrud Jeewanjee Chef, r?unions et ?v?nements 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 Fri Nov 12 10:10:22 2010 From: meetings at cms.math.ca (Gertrud Jeewanjee) Date: Fri Nov 12 10:10:41 2010 Subject: [cmath] =?windows-1252?q?R=E9union_d=92hiver_SMC_2010=2C_Vancouv?= =?windows-1252?q?er_-_inscription_en_ligne_jusqu=27au_15_novembre?= Message-ID: <4CDD58DE.50601@cms.math.ca> *RAPPEL: Inscription en ligne jusqu'au 15 novembre. R?union d?hiver SMC 2010* *du 4 au 6 d?cembre 2010* *H?te : Universit? de Colombie-Britannique* La Soci?t? math?matique du Canada (SMC) et l?Universit? de Colombie-Britannique invitent la communaut? math?matique ? la R?union d?hiver 2010 de la SMC, que se tiendra ? l?h?tel Coast Plaza & Suites ? Vancouver. Au programme : une grande diversit? de sessions et les dix conf?rences (pl?ni?res, publique et de laur?ats) suivantes : Prix de doctorat - laur?at sera annonc? Prix Krieger-Nelson - Lia Bronsard (McMaster) Prix Adrien-Pouliot - Miroslav Lovric (McMaster) *Conf?rence publique* : Ron Graham (UC-San Diego) *Conf?rences pl?ni?res* : David Aldous (UC-Berkeley) David Donoho (Stanford) Sujatha Ramdorai (Tata Institute; UBC) Peter Sarnak (Princeton) Carl Wieman (UBC) Tamar Ziegler (Technion) *?v?nements li?s :* CMS Town Hall Meeting(en anglais) NSERC Long Range Strategy Panel(en anglais) NSERC Funding Focus Panel(en anglais) *?v?nements pour les ?tudiants :* Pr?sentations par affiches Discussion en groupe sur les processus d?embauche (en anglais) soir?e sociale H?bergement *? Date limite : 15 novembre* Nous avons n?goci? des chambres ? tarif r?duit ? l?h?tel Coast Plaza & Suites; il se peut que le tarif r?duit ne soit plus offert apr?s la date limite. D?placements - Air Canada offre une r?duction aux personnes qui assisteront ? la R?union d?hiver de la SMC. Il faut entrer le Code de promotion C4PN43M1 au moment de la r?servation. Nous souhaitons remercier les commanditaires de ce congr?s : AARMS, CRM, l?Institut Fields, MITACS, PIMS et les universit?s de Colombie-Britannique, d?Alberta, Simon Fraser et de Victoria. Au plaisir de vous accueillir ? Vancouver! -- Gertrud Jeewanjee Manager, Meetings and Events Canadian Mathematical Society Tel: +1 (613) 733-2662 ext. 733 /Think before you PRINT!/ Please consider the environment. [cms web link] Gertrud Jeewanjee Chef, r?unions et ?v?nements 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 Mari_Komatsu at bcit.ca Fri Nov 12 23:53:55 2010 From: Mari_Komatsu at bcit.ca (Mari Komatsu) Date: Mon Nov 15 15:17:09 2010 Subject: [cmath] Math Instructor Openings at BCIT Message-ID: BCIT?s Mathematics Department invites applications for temporary full-time or part-time (daytime) Instructor positions. The successful candidates will be primarily responsible for the delivery of statistics and calculus taught to students in programs such as Biomedical Engineering Technology, Mining, Robotics/Mechatronics, Electronics, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Information Technology. Other duties may include curriculum development and review, peer and student evaluation, administrative duties, project proposals, student advising, and technology liaison. Learn more and apply at bcit.ca/jobs. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20101112/4744f981/attachment.htm From ism at uqam.ca Mon Nov 15 17:21:36 2010 From: ism at uqam.ca (ISM) Date: Mon Nov 15 17:25:16 2010 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-1?q?=C9cole?= d'hiver ISM/ ISM Winter school In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Attention : prospective graduate students in Mathematics in Canada and the U.S.A. Subject : ISM Winter school registration The Institut des Sciences Math?matiques (ISM) will hold a winter school next January 6-8, aimed at finishing undergraduate and Masters students who intend to further their mathematical training. About 50 students will be formally invited from outside Qu?bec, expenses covered up to 500$ including accommodation, to discover the unique academic network developed over the years through the ISM. For students this is an excellent opportunity to hear great lectures about various areas of reseach in pure and applied mathematics, meet fellow students from many north american institutions and to find out about the many opportunities for graduate studies offered by the 8 universities forming ISM network. Speakers will include S. Boyer (Geometry and Topology, UQAM), M. Bertola (Mathematical Physics, Concordia), T. B?rstle (Algebra, Bishop's and Sherbrooke), A. Granville (Number theory, U. de Montr?al), T. Ransford (Analysis, U. Laval), C. Reutenauer (Combinatorics, UQAM) and R. Seiringer (Applied mathematics, McGill). To apply, students should send supporting material (curriculum vitae, latest academic transcript, mathematical areas of interest and short letter of motivation) BEFORE December 6th 2010 via e-mail at the following address : ism@uqam.ca . Olivier Collin, director, ISM Attention : ?tudiants int?ress?s par les ?tudes aux cycles sup?rieurs en Math?matiques au Canada et aux E.U. Sujet : Inscription ? l'?cole d'hiver ISM L'institut des Sciences Math?matiques (ISM) organise une ?cole d'hiver du 6 au 8 Janvier prochain s'adressant sp?cifiquement aux finissants de programmes de premier cycle et Ma?trise en math?matiques qui consid?rent la possibilit? de poursuivre leurs ?tudes. Environ 50 ?tudiants de l'ext?rieur du Qu?bec seront formellement invit?s, frais de d?placement pay?s jusqu'? 500$ incluant l'h?bergement, pour d?couvrir le r?seau acad?mique unique d?velopp? au fil des ans ? travers l'ISM. Pour les ?tudiants il s'agit d'une excellente opportunit? d'assister ? des expos?s de qualit? portant sur divers domaines de recherche en math?matiques pures et appliqu?es, de rencontrer de nombreux autres ?tudiants provenant de diverses institutions nord-am?ricaines et d'en apprendre sur les nombreuses possibilit?s d'?tudes aux cycles sup?rieurs offertes par les 8 universit?s formant le r?seau ISM. Parmi les conf?renciers on retrouve S. Boyer (G?om?trie et Topologie, UQAM), M. Bertola (Physique math?matique, Concordia), T. B?rstle (Alg?bre, Bishop's and Sherbrooke), A. Granville (Th?orie des nombres, U. de Montr?al), T. Ransford (Analyse, U. Laval), C. Reutenauer (Combinatoire, UQAM) et R. Seiringer (Math?matiques appliqu?es, McGill). Les ?tudiants int?ress?s sont pri?s d'envoyer la documentation n?cessaire (curriculum vitae, relev? de notes le plus r?cent, domaines d'int?r?t math?matique et lettre de motivation) AVANT le 6 D?cembre 2010 par courriel ? l'adresse suivante : ism@uqam.ca . Olivier Collin, directeur, ISM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20101115/baeb8893/attachment.htm From gmacgill at math.uvic.ca Tue Nov 16 16:17:25 2010 From: gmacgill at math.uvic.ca (Gary MacGillivray) Date: Wed Nov 17 10:11:55 2010 Subject: [cmath] CanaDAM: Second Announcement Message-ID: <1650AF77-E471-4ED2-A8FE-9EF0F695CCC2@math.uvic.ca> CanaDAM 2011 ? Second Announcement and Call for Submissions *** La version fran?aise de l'annonce ci-dessous *** The third Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference (CanaDAM) will be held May 31 to June 3, 2011 on the campus of the University of Victoria in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The general topic of the conference is the theory and application of discrete structures. Its goal is to highlight the most salient trends in the field. The conference will bring together researchers from the various disciplines with which discrete and algorithmic mathematics interact. CanaDAM is held in odd numbered years using a format similar to the SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics. Particular areas of interest include graphs and digraphs, hypergraphs, matroids, ordered sets, designs, coding theory, enumeration, combinatorics of words, discrete optimization, discrete and computational geometry, lattice point enumeration, combinatorial algorithms, computational complexity, and applications of discrete and algorithmic mathematics, including (but not limited to) web graphs, computational biology, telecommunication networks, and information processing. Please check the conference website, http://CanaDAM.Math.ca/2011, for information about: * contacts, * accommodation, * important dates, * fees, * local information, * student/PDF funding, * the organizing team, and * how to participate in the meeting by submitting a talk or minisymposium. Online submission of contributed talks or minisymposia will be available in the next couple of days. The deadline for submission of a minisymposium is January 15, 2011 (acceptance notifications send by January 31, 2011). The deadline for submission of a contributed talk is January 31, 2011 (acceptance notifications sent by February 7, 2011). The deadline for Student / PDF funding applications is March 7, 2011 (notifications sent by March 28, 2011) Online registration will be available shortly. The early registration deadline is April 7, 2011. Confirmed Invited Speakers: Anne Bergeron (UQAM) Sara Billey (University of Washington) Allan Borodin (University of Toronto) Chandra Chekuri (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Jacob Fox (MIT) Jeff Kahn (Rutgers University) Alice Silverberg (University of California at Irvine) St?phan Thomass? (Universit? Montpellier 2) Confirmed Invited Minisymposia: Discrete and Computational Geometry - Binay Bhattacharya (Simon Fraser University) Combinatorics/Discrete Mathematics in Genomics - Mikl?s Cs?r?s (University of Montreal) Cryptography - Bruce Kapron (University of Victoria) Extremal Graph Theory - Penny Haxell (University of Waterloo) Combinatorial Optimization - Mohit Singh (McGill) Recent Advances in Computational Complexity - Venkatesh Srinivasan (University of Victoria) Algebraic Combinatorics - Mike Zabrocki (York University) Probabilistic Combinatorics - Tom Bohman and Po-Shen Loh (Carnegie Mellon University) Problem Session - hosted by Brett Stevens (Carleton University) Please submit open problems for this session directly to Brett at brett@math.carleton.ca , and put "CanaDAM open problems" in the Subject: field when doing so. Please pass this message along to colleagues in discrete mathematics. Our apologies to those who receive it more than once. The organizing team expresses its thanks and gratitude to the Canadian Mathematical Society for the conference's web presence. ====================================================== CanaDAM 2011 Deuxi?me annonce et soumission de pr?sentations et de minisymposiums Le Troisi?me congr?s canadien de math?matiques discr?tes et algorithmiques aura lieu du 31 mai au 3 juin 2011 sur le campus de l'Universit? de Victoria, situ? dans la belle ville de Victoria (Colombie-Britannique, Canada). Le congr?s portera sur la th?orie et les applications des structures discr?tes. Son but est de mettre en ?vidence les d?veloppements r?cents et importants de cette branche des math?matiques. Le congr?s rassemblera des chercheurs des diverses disciplines ayant des interactions avec les math?matiques discr?tes et algorithmiques. Les congr?s CanaDAM ont lieu pendant les ann?es impaires et leur format est semblable ? celui de la SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics. Parmi les sujets qui seront abord?s, mentionnons en particulier les graphes et digraphes, les matro?des, les ensembles ordonn?s, la combinatoire des plans d'exp?rience, la th?orie des codes, le d?nombrement des structures discr?tes, la combinatoire des mots, l'optimisation discr?te, la g?om?trie discr?te et algorithmique, le d?nombrement des points d'un treillis, les algorithmes combinatoires, la th?orie de la complexit?, et finalement les applications des math?matiques discr?tes et algorithmiques, incluant (entre autres) les applications aux graphes de la toile, ? la biologie computationnelle, aux r?seaux de t?l?communication et au traitement de l'information. Veuillez consulter le site du congr?s, http://CanaDAM.Math.ca/2011 , pour des renseignements sur * les personnes ? contacter, * l'h?bergement, * les dates importantes, * les frais d'inscription, * la ville et le campus, * l'aide financi?re pour les ?tudiants et stagiaires postdoctoraux, * le comit? d'organisation et * la proc?dure pour soumettre une pr?sentation ou un minisymposium. Dans quelques jours, il sera possible de soumettre en ligne des pr?sentations ou des minisymposiums. Les minisymposiums devront ?tre soumis au plus tard le 15 janvier 2011 et les personnes qui les proposeront recevront une r?ponse au plus tard le 31 janvier 2011. Les pr?sentations devront ?tre soumises au plus tard le 31 janvier 2011 et leurs auteurs recevront une r?ponse au plus tard le 7 f?vrier 2011. Les ?tudiants ou stagiaires postdoctoraux devront faire leur demande d'aide financi?re au plus tard le 7 mars 2011 et recevront une r?ponse au plus tard le 28 mars 2011. Il sera bient?t possible de s'inscrire en ligne au congr?s. La date limite pour l'inscription avec frais r?duits est le 7 avril 2011. Conf?renciers invit?s ayant confirm? leur participation Anne Bergeron (UQAM) Sara Billey (University of Washington) Allan Borodin (University of Toronto) Chandra Chekuri (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Jacob Fox (MIT) Jeff Kahn (Rutgers University) Alice Silverberg (University of California at Irvine) St?phan Thomass? (Universit? Montpellier 2) Minisymposiums sur invitation confirm?s Discrete and Computational Geometry - Binay Bhattacharya (Simon Fraser University) Combinatorics / Discrete Mathematics in Genomics - Mikl?s Cs?r?s (Universit? de Montr?al) Cryptography - Bruce Kapron (University of Victoria) Extremal Graph Theory - Penny Haxell (University of Waterloo) Combinatorial Optimization - Mohit Singh (McGill) Recent Advances in Computational Complexity - Venkatesh Srinivasan (University of Victoria) Algebraic Combinatorics - Mike Zabrocki (York University) Probabilistic Combinatorics - Tom Bohman et Po-Shen Loh (Carnegie Mellon University) S?ance de probl?mes Brett Stevens, de l'Universit? Carleton, pr?sidera une s?ance de probl?mes pendant le congr?s CanaDAM 2011. Toute personne d?sirant soumettre des probl?mes ouverts est invit?e ? les envoyer ? Brett Stevens (brett@math.carleton.ca), en donnant "CanaDAM open problems" comme sujet du message. Veuillez faire circuler cette annonce parmi vos coll?gues en math?matiques discr?tes, et nous excuser si vous la recevez plus d'une fois. Le Comit? d'organisation est tr?s reconnaissant ? la Soci?t? math?matique du Canada de son aide pour la diffusion sur la toile des informations concernant le congr?s. ================== Gary MacGillivray Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Victoria gmacgill@math.uvic.ca From nassif at math.ubc.ca Fri Nov 19 14:59:13 2010 From: nassif at math.ubc.ca (Nassif Ghoussoub) Date: Fri Nov 19 14:59:18 2010 Subject: [cmath] Piece of Mind Message-ID: This is an invitation to visit and contribute to my blog "Piece of mind". http://ghoussoub.wordpress.com/ It is mostly concerned with Canadian academic life, public policy towards R&D, and Science in the developing world. For those who knew Richard Kane, allow me to point to the following entry: http://ghoussoub.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/in-memoriam-richard-kane-1944%C2%A0-2010/ Again, comments and contributions will be most welcome. Nassif Ghoussoub, Professor of Mathematics The University of British Columbia http://www.birs.ca/~nassif/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20101119/9079f29a/attachment.htm From akelm at cms.math.ca Wed Nov 24 10:11:24 2010 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Wed Nov 24 10:11:35 2010 Subject: [cmath] AARMS Postdoctoral Fellowship Support Program - Atlantic Association for Research in Mathematical Sciences Message-ID: <4CED2B1C.9040408@cms.math.ca> AARMS PDF Support Program The annual AARMS Postdoctoral Fellowship Support Program will start accepting applications on November 12, 2010. The rules of the program are given below. AARMS would like to encourage faculty at the smaller universities to participate in this program. Applications will be accepted where the costs and the supervision of a postdoctoral fellow are shared between more than one faculty member, or between more than one institution. Full details can be found at: http://www.aarms.math.ca/pdf/index.html * Rules and Procedures * *Eligibility and place of tenure * AARMS postdoctoral fellowships are awarded, on the recommendation of its Scientific Review Panel (SRP), to beginning researchers who received their PhD no more than four years before applying. 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. AARMS will provide $17,500 per year for the fellowship and the supervisor is responsible for organizing matching funds of at least this amount 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 * Applicants are required to establish a relationship with a prospective supervisor before applying to AARMS, and to have a tentative agreement from that supervisor to make a joint application to this program. This program is not a service for matching applicants with supervisors. Applications should be made by the candidate through the PDF Application page found through the Online Services link in our menu. After registering on the system, applicants should send their username to their proposed supervisor(s). This enables the supervisor(s) to make their contributions to the application. The application should include: * CV (in pdf format) * Research Proposal: a detailed description of the research area and the research to be carried out during the tenure of the fellowship as well as a description of how the candidate would interact with the supervisor(s). (also in pdf format) After the applicant has registered online each intended supervisor(s) should contribute, through the AARMS online page the following: * A written reference (in pdf format). * A list of the exact sources of matching funding (NSERC or other grant(s), department(s), ...); to be typed directly into the web form provided. If there are more than one intended supervisors only one needs to submit this financial information. The applicant should also arrange for two letters of reference to be submitted to the online system by persons who are familiar with the candidate's work and can comment on their suitability for an AARMS postdoctoral fellowship. The candidate will need to send their username to the external referee to enable them to make this contribution. These letters are to be submitted in pdf format. *Assessment * Applications will be reviewed by the Scientific Review Panel, who will make a recommendation to the Director. *Timetable * * *December 12* - Application deadline. * *December 22* - Deadline for supervisor contribution. * *February 1* -Deadline for the assessment phase. Initial offers on Postdoctoral fellowships are made within the next few weeks. The department/university offered an award is requested to provide to AARMS a signed "funding package", showing the annual contributions by the supervisor(s), the department, and the university. Their amount has at least to match the AARMS contribution of $17,500 and may require that the fellowship holder teach up to one class each term (including spring/summer sessions). If an offer is declined AARMS reserves the right to either offer or to refrain from offering a fellowship to the next candidate in the ranking. * *June 30* - Deadline for reports from supervisors of renewing PDFs. The supervisor must submit a detailed progress report, outlining the research work and listing publications, talks, etc. Electronic copies of all publications must be submitted to AARMS for archival purposes. The PDF is also expected to acknowledge the support of AARMS in their publications. * *August 31* - Latest possible termination date for the second year of a PDF. * *September 1* - Start time for the fellowship. AARMS will transfer $8,750 (first half of the annual amount) during the month when the PDF starts his programme, and the same amount six months later. This is done upon receipt of a formal invoice from the hosting department/university. It is acceptable for the start of a fellowship to be delayed up until December 1, but funding will be reduced proportionate to the delay. This reduction will be reconciled in the second year of funding. * Apply * All applications are made through our online system. 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Waterfront's selective hiring process considers only highly talented individuals with a history of exceptional professional and academic achievement, and solid real-world experience. *Primary Responsibilities: * * Developing, testing and implementing quantitative trading models. * Models will be based on quantitative data analysis rather than qualitative analysis. * Research strategies in equities and other markets. * Perform historical backtesting to determine optimal strategy parameters. * Generate new indicator ideas. * Requirements of the Candidate include: * * PhD or Masters in physics, statistics, mathematics or operations research. * Strong working knowledge of statistics. * Must possess expert level C/C++ programming skills. * Must be a strong self-starter and able to work well independently. */ Compensation will include immigration and relocation assistance. /* * Waterfront International Email: recruiting@wil.com 95 Wellington Street West, Suite 1900 Toronto, Ontario Canada M5J 2N7 * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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AARMS is a consortium supported by universities in the Atlantic provinces, the three Canadian mathematical sciences research institutes and the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. It provides funding for mathematical sciences research in the region, collaborative research groups (such as the Atlantic Algebra Centre), support for postdoctoral fellowships, an annual summer school for graduate students, and outreach by mathematical scientists to the schools, industry and other academic disciplines. For further information on AARMS please consult our website (www.aarms.math.ca ). Annual reports of our activities, including financial statements, can be found at www.aarms.math.ca/news . The successful candidate will have a distinguished record of research in the mathematical sciences, and administrative or organizational experience (for instance, chair of a department, officer of a learned society, or editor of a journal). The Director should hold a full time, part time or retired faculty position in a university in Atlantic Canada with a strong connection to the mathematical sciences in the region. The term of office for the Director of AARMS is three to five years renewable, with a preferred starting date of July 1, 2011. The position is unsalaried but the AARMS budget includes funds for partial support of a postdoctoral fellow supervised by the Director. The work of the Director is supported by an administrator, presently located at Dalhousie University, and by a Deputy Director, presently located at Memorial University. Candidates will be considered by a search committee established by the AARMS Board of Directors. The committee includes members from universities in the Atlantic region, and from across Canada. Inquiries regarding the position or the search process may be directed to the committee chair, Edgar Goodaire (edgar@mun.ca ). Applications, or nominations with a statement of consent by the nominee, should be accompanied by a CV and the names of three referees, and sent to: David Langstroth, Administrator, AARMS (dll@cs.dal.ca ) Shortlisted candidates will also be requested to submit a vision statement giving their assessment of AARMS and their views on possible future directions. Consideration of candidates will begin on January 31, 2011 and continue until the position is filled. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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I would like to draw your attention to a number of travel subsidies available to young US researchers, Canadian mathematical sciences students and participants from developing nations. We encourage you to review these subsidies to investigate your eligibility. In addition, Canada does require visas or permits from individuals from many countries and the turnaround times vary. Please visit this page on the Government of Canada website for complete information. To compliment your time in Vancouver, we have worked with a local company to create a series of excursions for ICIAM delegates between July 16 and 23rd. These include trips to Whistler and Victoria, tours of the city and surrounding mountains, kayaking outings, museums and float plan adventures. Do not miss out on these amazing opportunities. Don't forget that the deadline for abstract submissions for minisymposia and contributed speakers is December 15, 2010! Quick ICIAM 2011 links: * List of invited speakers (including abstracts) * List of thematic minisymposia (including abstracts) from over 20 areas of applied & industrial mathematics * Information on embedded & satellite meetings For the latest ICIAM 2011 deadlines, announcements and reminders, sign up for e-lerts or follow ICIAM 2011 on Twitter @ICIAM2011. Don't forget to visit www.iciam2011.com. I would like to close by expressing our sadness at the passing of Prof. Jerrold Marsden, co-Chair of the Scientific Program Committee for ICIAM 2011 and a member of the Steering Committee, who lost his battle with cancer on September 21, 2010. Jerry's influence and imprint will be strongly felt in the structure and scientific content of the Congress and his enthusiasm and knowledge will be deeply missed by his colleagues at ICIAM 2011. We look forward to seeing you in Vancouver! 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These areas include biostatistics, computational statistics, environmental statistics, generalized linear models, spatial statistics, statistical image analysis and other areas that 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: 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 Wednesday, January 5, 2011 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 vitaes 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. Winnipeg has a rich cultural environment, including symphony, opera, dance, theatre and ethnic festivals. The region provides ample opportunities for outdoor recreation in all seasons. The University of Manitoba encourages applications from qualified women and men, including members of visible minorities, Aboriginal peoples, and persons with disabilities. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Dr. Morris served on the PIMS Board for over ten years and has over 40 years of experience in the mineral industry, including a term as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Imperial Metals. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Dr. Morris has demonstrated special interest in national and international scientific and professional associations and has been a member of NSERC's Council and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Lithoprobe Project. The first speaker for what will be the most prestigious lecture series hosted by PIMS is George Papanicolaou from Stanford University, who will deliver the inaugural Hugh C. Morris Lecture on March 11 in Vancouver. Prof. Papanicolaou is a highly regarded applied mathematician, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, winner of the SIAM von Neumann Prize (2006) and the William Benter Prize in Applied Mathematics (2010). For more information about PIMS please see http://www.pims.math.ca From nassif at math.ubc.ca Thu Dec 2 21:42:41 2010 From: nassif at math.ubc.ca (Nassif Ghoussoub) Date: Thu Dec 2 21:43:37 2010 Subject: [cmath] =?iso-8859-1?q?=22F=E9licitations_Suzanne=2E=2E=2E=22_an?= =?iso-8859-1?q?d_the_=22binning_of_Canadian_scientists=22?= Message-ID: <1BE8403A-7653-4E0F-9C17-BA832CA2C0E3@math.ubc.ca> You are welcome to see --among others-- the following post about Suzanne Fortier's re-appointment http://ghoussoub.wordpress.com/ as well as the post on the public debate with Isabelle Blain next Sunday http://ghoussoub.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/the-%E2%80%9Cbinning%E2%80%9D-of-canadian-scientists/ From epostma at MAPLESOFT.COM Mon Dec 6 14:43:28 2010 From: epostma at MAPLESOFT.COM (Erik Postma) Date: Tue Dec 7 12:07:37 2010 Subject: [cmath] [ISSAC-ANNOUNCE] SNC 2011 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <20101206144328.60cc74c4@ubuntu64ma293> SNC 2011 First Announcement and Call for Papers 4th International Workshop on Symbolic Numeric Computation June 7-9, 2011, San Jose, California http://www.cargo.wlu.ca/SNC2011/ Member of ACM Federated Computing Research Conference http://acm.org/fcrc/ =================================================== Overview -------- Algorithms that combine techniques from symbolic and numeric computation have been of increasing importance and interest over the past decade. The necessity to work reliably with imprecise and noisy data, and for speed and accuracy within algebraic and hybrid-numerical problems, has encouraged a new synergy between the numerical and symbolic computing fields. Novel and exciting problems from industrial, mathematical and computational domains are now being explored and solved. The goal of the present workshop is to support the interaction and integration of symbolic and numeric computing. Earlier meetings in this series include the SNAP 96 Workshop, held in Sophia Antipolis, France, the SNC 2005 meeting, held in Xi'an, China, SNC 2007 which was held in London, Canada, and SNC 2009, held in Kyoto, Japan. The 4th International Workshops on Symbolic-Numeric Computation will be held on June 7-9 at San Jose, California, as a member of the ACM Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC). SNC 2011 is affiliated with the 2011 International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC 2011) which will be held on June 8-11, 2011 as another member of the ACM FCRC. Conference Topics ----------------- Specific topics of SNC 2011 include, but are not limited to: - Hybrid symbolic-numeric algorithms in linear, polynomial and differential algebra - Approximate polynomial GCD and factorization - Symbolic-numeric methods for solving polynomial systems - Resultants and structured matrices for symbolic-numeric computation - Differential equations for symbolic-numeric computation - Symbolic-numeric methods for geometric computation - Symbolic-numeric algorithms in algebraic geometry - Symbolic-numeric algorithms for nonlinear optimization - Implementation of symbolic-numeric algorithms - Model construction by approximate algebraic algorithms - Applications of symbolic-numeric computation: global optimization, verification, etc. Submission Instructions ----------------------- SNC 2011 invites the submission of original research contributions to be considered for publication and presentation at the conference. Papers should not duplicate work published or submitted for consideration elsewhere prior or in parallel to the SNC submission. Papers must be in English and shall be reviewed by the Program Committee and external referees. Submissions should be in the form of abstracts (2 pages) or full papers (up to 10 pages) in the ACM sig-alternate.cls style (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Submission is exclusively via EasyChair (see http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=snc2011). At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference to present the paper. Conference e-proceedings will be published by ACM and also be in the ACM Digital Library. In keeping with tradition of previous SNC conferences, a special issue of the journal Theoretical Computer Science (TCS, http://www.elsevier.com/locate/tcs) is planned for after the conference. SNC 2011 speakers will be able to submit full papers to the special issue. The specifics of submission to the special issue, the names of the Guest Editors, as well as the relevant deadlines will be announced at the conference. Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: March 15, 2011 Notification: April 15, 2011 Camera-ready version due: April 30, 2011 Workshop: June 7-9, 2011 Organizing Committee -------------------- General Chair: Ilias Kotsireas (Waterloo, Canada) Program Committee Chair: Lihong Zhi (Beijing, China) Proceedings editor: Marc Moreno Maza (London, Canada) Treasurer: Werner Krandick (Philadelphia, USA) Publicity Chair: Erik Postma (Maplesoft, Canada) Webmaster: Guillaume Moroz (Nancy, France) Program Committee ----------------- Daniel Bates (Colorado State University, USA) Mark Giesbrecht (University of Waterloo, Canada) Stef Graillat (Universit? Pierre et Marie Curie, France) Claude-Pierre Jeannerod (INRIA LIP ENS Lyon, France) Hiroshi Kai (Ehime University, Japan) Erich Kaltofen (North Carolina State University, USA) Bingyu Li (Northeast Normal University, China) Marc Moreno Maza (University of Western Ontario, Canada) Teo Mora (University of Genova, Italy) Bernard Mourrain (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France) Kosaku Nagasaka (Kobe University, Japan) Victor Pan (City University of New York, USA) Greg Reid (University of Western Ontario, Canada) Kiyoshi Shirayanagi (Toho University, Japan) Franz Winkler (Johannes Kepler University, Austria) Lihong Zhi (Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, China), Chair Invited Speakers ---------------- Jonathan Borwein (University of Newcastle, Australia) James Demmel (UC Berkeley, USA) Stephen Watt (University of Western Ontario, Canada) Sponsors ---------------- Maplesoft Wilfrid Laurier University Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) Ontario Research Council for Computer Algebra (ORCCA) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM, SIGSAM) ***** You may leave the ISSAC-ANNOUNCE list at any time by sending a "SIGNOFF ISSAC-ANNOUNCE" command to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG or by visiting http://listserv.acm.org/archives/ISSAC-ANNOUNCE.html. From akelm at cms.math.ca Tue Dec 7 15:15:59 2010 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Tue Dec 7 15:16:06 2010 Subject: [cmath] Methodologist - Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Message-ID: <4CFE95FF.3040805@cms.math.ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: MOH-ad.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 13722 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20101207/37b35bfd/MOH-ad.pdf From o.oellermann at uwinnipeg.ca Tue Dec 7 15:26:38 2010 From: o.oellermann at uwinnipeg.ca (Ortrud Oellermann) Date: Tue Dec 7 15:26:57 2010 Subject: [cmath] Mathematics Position - University of Winnipeg Message-ID: <4CFE441E0200004F00160F02@ds1.uwinnipeg.ca> The Department of Mathematics & Statistics at the University of Winnipeg invites applications for a tenure track faculty position in Mathematics at the Assistant Professor level. Candidates should have a strong commitment to undergraduate teaching and have demonstrated the ability to perform independent research of high quality. The effective date of appointment will be July 1, 2011, or as soon afterward as possible. An applicant?s research should connect with interests of Department members, which cluster in discrete mathematics (networks, graph theory, designs, enumeration, combinatorics on words) but also include algebra and analysis. In addition, current Department adjuncts are modeling infectious diseases and studying small world networks. Candidates should have a Ph.D. or be near completion. In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada. The University of Winnipeg is committed to employment equity, welcomes diversity in the workplace, and strongly encourages applications from all qualified individuals including women, members of visible minorities, aboriginal persons, and persons with disabilities. Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, a description of their research program, a statement of teaching philosophy, and have three reference letters sent to The Personnel Committee of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at mathstats@uwinnipeg.ca . At least one reference letter should address the candidate's teaching ability. From akelm at cms.math.ca Tue Dec 7 15:51:33 2010 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Tue Dec 7 15:51:40 2010 Subject: [cmath] Professeure ou professeur en =?utf-8?q?math=C3=A9matiques_-_Coll?= =?utf-8?q?=C3=A8ge_universitaire_de_Saint-Boniface?= Message-ID: <4CFE9E55.6060805@cms.math.ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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While dozens of you appreciated my distribution of the eulogy of Richard Kane, and the article responding to Gwen Morgan, one young postdoc in the Institute of Quantum Computing complained about it as "spam". 2. One colleague who has recently joined the forum asked whether it was dedicated solely to the advertisement of available positions. I therefore encourage the CMS to inform new members who are joining the information network of the original raison d'etre of this forum. This said, I invite you to take a look and contribute to http://ghoussoub.wordpress.com/ There are 2 posts related to NSERC's discovery grant program, which were discussed during the debate that was held earlier this week during the CMS meeting in Vancouver. This will be my last email pointing to the blog. If interested, you can either bookmark it or just subscribe to it. You will then get automatic notifications about new entries. All the best, Nassif From ayeomans at fields.utoronto.ca Thu Dec 9 14:36:41 2010 From: ayeomans at fields.utoronto.ca (Andrea Yeomans) Date: Fri Dec 10 09:25:39 2010 Subject: [cmath] 2011 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize Awarded to Mark Lewis Message-ID: From: Centre de recherches math?matiques Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Date: December 9, 2010 Re: CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize We are delighted to announce that Prof. Mark Lewis of the University of Alberta has been named the winner of the 2011 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize. The CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize is a premier Canadian award for research achievements in the mathematical sciences. The prize winner is selected each fall by an independent international committee with six members, two named by each of the three institutes. The prize winner is invited to give a lecture at each of the institutes in the following year. The prize includes a cash award of $10,000. Mark Lewis holds a Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Biology, and is the Director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Alberta. His research involves mathematical modeling of biological processes, and is an example of the best interplay of science and mathematics, where ideas from each lead to advances in the other. Mark Lewis's work develops techniques in stochastic processes, dynamical systems and partial differential equations and has led to significant advances, for example, in modeling territorial pattern formation in wolf populations, predicting population spread in biological invasions like the West Nile virus, and assessing the effect of habitat fragmentation on species survival. The entire mathematical sciences community is invited to attend Mark Lewis's prize lecture at either the CRM, the Fields Institute or PIMS in 2011. The dates of the lectures will be announced shortly. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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ISSAC 2011 is the 36th meeting in the series, started in 1966 and held annually since 1981, in North America, Europe and Asia. The conference presents a range of invited speakers, tutorials, poster sessions, software demonstrations and vendor exhibits with a centerpiece of contributed research papers. ISSAC 2011 is affiliated with the 2011 International Workshop on Symbolic Numeric Computation (SNC 2011) which will be held on June 79, 2011 as another member of the ACM FCRC. Important Dates Abstract submission deadline: Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011, 23:59 PST Full paper submission deadline: Sunday, Jan. 16, 2011, 23:59 PST (EXTENDED) Notification of acceptance/rejection: Monday, March 10, 2011 Camera-ready copy due: Thursday, March 31, 2011 Invited and Tutorial Speakers Two invited plenary speakers are scheduled during the main program on June 9-11: Victor S. Miller, Center for Communications Research, Princeton, USA. Gilles Villard, CNRS, Lyon, France. Three tutorial sessions are organized on Wednesday, June 8, by the following speakers: Peter B?rgisser, University of Paderborn, Germany. Manuel Kauers, RISC, Johannes Kepler Universit?t, Austria. Agnes Szanto, North Carolina State University, USA. Submission Instructions ISSAC 2011 invites the submission of original research contributions to be considered for publication and presentation at the conference. Papers should not duplicate work published or submitted for consideration elsewhere prior or in parallel to the ISSAC submission. Submission is in two stages: first the abstract is submitted by the abstract deadline, then the full paper may be submitted up to the (new) paper deadline. Due to the tight schedule this year, no further deadline extension is possible. Papers must be in English and shall be reviewed by the Program Committee and external referees. Authors may be asked to respond to reviews shortly before acceptance decisions are made. Submissions cannot exceed 8 pages in the ACM sig-alternate.cls style (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates); if necessary, they can have an appendix that may be read by the reviewers and PC members, but which is not part of the Proceedings paper. Papers labeled "extended abstracts" will not be accepted. Submission is exclusively via EasyChair. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference to present the paper. Conference Topics All areas of computer algebra and symbolic computation are of interest. These include, but are not limited to: Algorithmic aspects: Exact and symbolic linear, polynomial and differential algebra. Symbolic-numeric, homotopy, and series methods. Computational geometry, group theory, number theory, quantifier elimination and logic. Summation, recurrence equations, integration, ODE & PDE. Theoretical and practical aspects, including algebraic complexity, and techniques for important special cases. Software aspects: Design of packages and systems, data representation. Parallel and distributed algebraic computing, considerations for modern hardware. User-interface issues, and use with systems for, e.g., digital libraries, courseware, simulation and optimization, automated theorem-proving, computer-aided design, and automatic differentiation. Application aspects: Applications that stretch the current limits of computer algebra, use it in new ways, or apply it in situations with broad impact, in particular to the natural sciences, life sciences, engineering, economics and finance, and education. Organizing Committee General Chair: Eric Schost (U. Western Ontario) Program Committee Chair: Ioannis Emiris (U. Athens) Local Arrangements Chair: Emil Volcheck (NSA) Tutorials Chair: Mark Giesbrecht (U. Waterloo) Poster Chair: Manuel Kauers (RISC Linz) Software Exhibits Chair: Mike Stillman (Cornell U.) Proceedings Editor: Anton Leykin (Georgia Tech) Treasurer: Werner Krandick (Drexel U.) Fundraiser: Ilias Kotsireas (Wilfrid Laurier U.) Publicity Chair: Jean-Guillaume Dumas (U. Joseph Fourier) Webmaster: Guillaume Moroz (INRIA Nancy) Program Committee Hirokazu Anai (Kyushu U.) Marc Moreno Maza (U. Western Ontario) Dario Bini (U. Pisa) Mohab Safey El Din (U.Pierre & Marie Curie) John Cannon (U. Sydney) Josef Schicho (RICAM Linz) Ioannis Emiris (U. Athens), Chair Rafael Sendra (U. Alcala) Gabriela Jeronimo (U. Buenos Aires) Agnes Szanto (NCSU) Pascal Koiran (ENS Lyon) Nobuki Takayama (Kobe U.) Gregoire Lecerf (Ecole Polytechnique) Ashish Tiwari (SRI International) Wen-Shin Lee (U. Antwerp) Sergey Tsarev (Siberian Federal U.) Hongbo Li (Chinese Sciences Academy) Elias Tsigaridas (U. Aarhus) Kurt Mehlhorn (MPI Saarbruecken) Jan Verschelde (UIC) -- Jean-Guillaume Dumas. ____________________________________________________________________ Jean-Guillaume.Dumas@imag.fr T?l.: +33 476 514 866 Universit? Joseph Fourier, Grenoble I. Fax.: +33 476 631 263 Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann, Math?matiques Appliqu?es et Informatique 51, avenue des Math?matiques. LJK/IMAG - BP53. 38041 Grenoble FRANCE http://ljk.imag.fr/membres/Jean-Guillaume.Dumas ____________________________________________________________________ ***** You may leave the ISSAC-ANNOUNCE list at any time by sending a "SIGNOFF ISSAC-ANNOUNCE" command to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG or by visiting http://listserv.acm.org/archives/ISSAC-ANNOUNCE.html. From akelm at cms.math.ca Fri Dec 17 12:54:40 2010 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Fri Dec 17 12:54:50 2010 Subject: [cmath] Postdoctoral Position - Lakehead University Message-ID: <4D0BA3E0.7010306@cms.math.ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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On December 3rd, the Board determined that it would be in the best interests of MITACS to restructure into two organizations: - Mprime Network Inc. to focus on the original NCE mandate of addressing Canadian socio-economic imperatives through advanced mathematical sciences research and - Mitacs Inc. to focus on ensuring a critical mass of human capital for Canada's knowledge economy Towards this, the Board has asked for a special meeting of MITACS members to vote on this restructuring; this meeting is expected in early February. Note that the current MITACS Inc. programs that are focused on the mathematical sciences (NCE projects, mathematical summer schools, etc.) will now fall under the purview of Mprime Network Inc., while the multi-disciplinary training programs (Accelerate, Step, Globalink, Elevate, etc.) under Mitacs Inc. Note that from a functional point of view, if MITACS is restructured in the proposed manner, all terms and conditions around the existing research grants, training programs, and networking initiatives will continue as before and we will strive to ensure that the scientific community does not experience any disruptions. We will continue to update you on future developments of the proposed restructuring. For more information please visit . Questions or comments can be directed to us at >. Sincerely, Arvind Gupta CEO & Scientific Director MITACS Inc. Suite 301 - Technology Enterprise Facility University of British Columbia 6190 Agronomy Road Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3 ---------------------- Cher (Ch?re) Coll?gues, Au nom du conseil d'administration de MITACS, j'aimerais vous faire part d'une question d'importance strat?gique. Au cours de cette derni?re ann?e, le conseil d'administration de MITACS a examin? la meilleure structure organisationnelle possible pour tenir compte de la croissance ph?nom?nale de l'organisme. Plus pr?cis?ment MITACS, a ?volu? en d?veloppant deux mandats de fond, l'un ax? sur le RCE original et l'autre ax? sur la cr?ation de la capacit? du savoir du Canada. La question se posant ? la Commission ?tait de savoir quelle structure serait optimale pour aider ? assurer les deux mandats ? la fois. Le 3 d?cembre, le Conseil d'administration a d?termin? qu'il serait dans le meilleur int?r?t de MITACS de se restructurer en deux organismes : - R?seau Mprime Inc (pour focaliser sur le mandat original du RCE d'aborder les imp?ratifs socio-?conomiques canadiens au travers de la recherche avanc?e en sciences math?matiques) - Mitacs Inc. (dont le mandat est s'assurer de la garantie d'une masse critique de capital humain pour le Canada pour l'?conomie du savoir du Canada ) Dans ce sens, le conseil a convoqu? une assembl?e extraordinaire des membres de MITACS pour voter cette restructuration, cette assembl?e est pr?vue d?but f?vrier. Veuillez noter que les programmes actuels de MITACS Inc. ax?s sur les sciences math?matiques (Projets RCE, classe d'?t? de math?matiques) rel?veront de la comp?tence de R?seau Mprime Inc., tandis que les programmes pluridisciplinaires (Acc?l?ration, Step, Globalink, El?vation, etc.) rel?veront de la comp?tence de Mitacs Inc. Veuillez noter que d'un point de vue fonctionnel, si MITACS est restructur? dans le sens propos?, tous les termes et conditions contenus dans les subventions de recherche existantes, les programmes de formation, et les initiatives de r?seautage continueront comme auparavant et nous nous efforcerons de veiller ? ce qu'aucune perturbation ne vienne troubler la communaut? scientifique. Pour obtenir des informations ou plus de d?tail, veuillez visiter . Toutes questions et commentaires peuvent ?tre envoy?es directement ? >. Sinc?rement, Arvind Gupta Pr?sident et Directeur Scientifique MITACS Inc. Suite 301 - Technology Enterprise Facility University of British Columbia 6190 Agronomy Road Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/cmath/attachments/20101218/729ca91d/attachment.htm