[cmath] new Canadian Rep to ICMI

[Peter Taylor]

This note is to let everyone know that my term as 
Canadian representative to ICMI has ended and I 
am delighted to welcome Frédéric Gourdeau of 
Université Laval to be the new 
representative.  Frédéric’s term will run until 
the end of December 2014.  I must say I have felt 
honoured to serve in this capacity as Canada has 
always been an active and highly regarded 
contributor to the global mathematics education 
community (and of course in this regard I must 
mention Bernard Hodgson’s 11-year tenure as Secretary-General of ICMI).

Just to expand on this contribution, there are 
already many Canadians on the program for ICME-12 next summer in Seoul.
<http://www.icme12.org/>http://www.icme12.org/
First, Bernard will give a Plenary Lecture on the 
Evolution of Math Education from the point of view of ICMI.

Secondly, Canada will have (so far) four regular lecturers:
Brent Davis
Frédéric Gourdeau
Luis Radford
Yvan Saint Aubin

Thirdly, several of us are associated with Topic Study Groups:
Miroslav Lovric
Viktor Freiman
Egan Chernoff
Stéphane Cyr
Christine Suurtamm
Andy Liu
Lesley Cormack

Gosh I hope I didn’t miss anyone.  But there will 
be more updates, and of course the Discussion Groups are still being formed.

Quite apart from the international scene, I never 
stop marveling at how wonderful Canada is as a 
country to live and work in, and, in particular 
(having just come from CMS and CMESG) how vibrant 
is its mathematics education community.  Having 
said that it is a challenging (but extremely 
interesting!) time to be in the education business.  Keep dancing everyone! :-)
peter


Peter Taylor
Professor
Dept Math&Stats
Queen's University
Kingston ON K7L 3N6
613 533-2434
http://www.mast.queensu.ca/~peter/ 
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