From ostachova at mitacs.ca Tue Jan 3 15:36:04 2006 From: ostachova at mitacs.ca (Olga Stachova) Date: Tue Jan 3 18:03:40 2006 Subject: [grad-students] [Mystudents] Call for Internship Proposals Message-ID: <06cf01c610a5$50fb69e0$4a313a8e@OlgaS> MITACS HEREBY SOLICITS PROPOSALS FOR INTERNSHIP RESEARCH PROJECTS The MITACS Internship Program is designed to facilitate research projects involving graduate students or post-doctoral fellows, their academic supervisors and a participating non-academic partner. Partners can include companies, hospitals, financial institutions, hospitals, government labs and agencies and not-for-profit societies. The internship program provides research funds for faculty members and enables their graduate student or PDF under their supervision to undertake research jointly with a partner organization. The focus is on applying mathematical sciences techniques to research problems of interest to all participants. The aim is to expand joint industry/academia partnerships, to provide a novel training experience for students, and to foster new research projects resulting from the internship research. Each internship project receives $15,000 in funding with the funds being provided equally by MITACS and the non-academic partner with the funds awarded to the academic supervisor as a research grant. MITACS recommends that $10,000 be used to support the graduate student or PDF with any remaining funds used to support research activities related to the project. There is some flexibility to tie together a number of internships thereby forming a larger project and it may be possible to apply for federal grants based on the internship project. MITACS can assist with the preparation of the project proposal as well as helping to secure a non-academic partner where required. Full guidelines and the proposal submission template are available on the MITACS website at: www.mitacs.ca/goto/internships. For more information about this program or to obtain help in preparing a submission, please contact Karen Booth at kbooth@mitacs.ca. Proposals should be received no later than February 15, 2006 for projects intending to start by May 1, 2006. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/grad-students/attachments/20060103/46ce75a6/attachment.htm From joy.abramson at utoronto.ca Mon Jan 16 18:44:11 2006 From: joy.abramson at utoronto.ca (Joy Abramson) Date: Mon Jan 16 18:44:39 2006 Subject: [grad-students] Join the Canadian Math Society Student Committee Message-ID: <006601c61af6$cda75390$0302a8c0@joym1300> The CMS Student Committee is looking for proactive mathematics students interested in building a dynamic community for Canadian mathematics students. The Committee wishes to fill vacancies in its membership, including a student representative from Quebec, a student representative from Eastern Canada, and a general member position. Among the Student Committee's current projects are: publishing a national student newsletter, developing a resource Web site for students, helping the CUMC in preparing its proceedings, supporting local student math conferences and seminars. For more information on the Committee's responsibilities and duties visit: http://www.cms.math.ca/Docs/Terms/TofRef/studc.html For more information on the Committee in general, visit our webpage: http://www.cms.math.ca/Students The Committee members' terms will run from July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2008. Both graduate and undergraduate students are invited and encouraged to apply. Joining the student committee is an excellent opportunity to learn about how mathematics in Canada is organized, to meet students and professors from across the country, to do some meaningful work, and to have a great time! In addition, student members will receive funding (both travel and accommodations) to attend the next four CMS meetings, taking place in Calgary, Toronto, Winnipeg, and London, Ontario. If you are an interested student, or know someone who may be, please contact the Chair of the Student Committee via e-mail at chair-studc@cms.math.ca. We'd love to send you an application form, and to talk to you about the responsibilities and benefits of joining the Student Committee! The nomination period for these positions will be open until February 28, 2006. We appreciate early applications. Sincere thanks, Joy Abramson & Antoine Khalil Chairs, CMS Student Committee ------- Le Comit? ?tudiant de la SMC recherche des ?tudiants actifs en math?matiques int?ress?s ? aider ? b?tir une communaut? dynamique pour les ?tudiants en math?matiques au Canada. Le Comit? ?tudiant veut combler les postes vacants suivants: un(e) repr?sentant(e) du Qu?bec, un(e) repr?sentant(e) de l'est du Canada et un(e) repr?sentant(e) additionnel(le) provenant de n'importe quel endroit au Canada. Parmi les projets actuels du comit? des ?tudiants, on trouve les suivants: publier un p?riodique national ?tudiant, d?velopper une ressource Web pour les ?tudiants, aider la CC?M dans ses pr?parations, soutenir des conf?rences et colloques locaux pour les ?tudiant-e-s en math?matiques. Pour plus d'information au sujet des responsabilit?s et des fonctions du Comit?, veuillez SVP visiter: http://www.cms.math.ca/Docs/Terms/TofRef/studc.html Pour d'autres informations sur le Comit? en g?n?ral, veuillez visiter notre page Web: http://www.cms.math.ca/Students Le mandat des membres du Comit? et du d?l?gu? au Conseil d'administration sera du 1 juillet 2006 au 30 juin 2008. Vous joindre au Comit? des ?tudiants est une opportunit? excellente d'apprendre commment s'organisent les sciences math?matiques au Canada, de rencontrer des ?tudiant(e)s et professeurs de toutes les provinces canadiennes, de faire du travail qui aura un impact et de vous ?clater! Les membres ?tudiants assisteront, frais pay?s, aux quatres prochaines r?unions de la SMC, qui auront lieu ? Calgary, Toronto, Winnipeg et London. Si vous ?tes int?ress?(e) ou si vous connaissez quelqu'un qui pourrait l'?tre, veuillez SVP contacter les Pr?sidents du Comit? des ?tudiants par courriel ? . Il nous fera plaisir de vous faire parvenir une formulaire d'application et de vous en dire un peu plus sur les responsabilit?s et les avantages qui accompagnent l'implication au Comit? des ?tudiaants. Les propositions de candidats doivent ?tre re?ues au plus tard le 28 f?vrier 2006. Sinc?res remerciements, Joy Abramson & Antoine Khalil Pr?sidents du Comit? des ?tudiants From stockie at cs.sfu.ca Thu Jan 19 11:59:16 2006 From: stockie at cs.sfu.ca (John Stockie) Date: Fri Jan 20 09:24:24 2006 Subject: [grad-students] Workshop announcement Message-ID: <200601191659.k0JGxGKa025332@math.sfu.ca> Could you please post the following announcement to the CMS Graduate Student List for a workshop focused on graduate students and postdoctoral fellows? Thank-you, John Stockie. ********************************************************** Workshop: Stability and instability of nonlinear waves September 6-8, 2006; University of Washington; Seattle, Washington Hosted by The Department of Applied Mathematics Supported by: - the National Science Foundation - the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Organizing committee: Bernard Deconinck (UW) J. Nathan Kutz (UW) John Stockie (SFU) Workshop webpage: http://www.amath.washington.edu/~stability/ Related conference: SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, see http://www.siam.org/meetings/nw06 Scientific objectives and scope: Stability plays an essential role in many branches of science and engineering, including several aspects of fluid mechanics, high-speed transmission of information, and feasibility of MHD fusion devices. The objective of the workshop is to give an overview of current state-of-the-art methods for examining stability, as well as to present some widely applicable new techniques. The format will consist of four invited speakers giving a series of lectures at a level aimed at graduate students but useful for researchers from a variety of disciplines, such as mathematics, engineering, biology, etc. Workshop description: Although the topic of stability of solutions of partial differential equations is important in almost any application area, the most powerful techniques one uses to examine stability are hardly ever taught in courses. This is mainly because many of these techniques have come about fairly recently. We are organizing a workshop where these techniques are taught in 4 mini-courses. The workshop is aimed at graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and young researchers interested in stability methods, working in different disciplines on a variety of applications. Course 1. An introduction to stability analysis of nonlinear waves. Lecturer: Mariana Haragus (Mathematics, U. de Franche-Comte) (4 lectures) Course 2. The Evans function. Lecturer: Todd Kapitula (Mathematics and Statistics, U. of New Mexico) (4 lectures) Course 3. Numerical methods. Lecturers: J. Nathan Kutz, Bernard Deconinck (Applied Mathematics, U. of Washington), Jens Rademacher (Weierstrass Institute, Berlin), Jeff Humpherys (Mathematics, Brigham Young) (4 lectures, 1 lecture each) Course 4: Nonlinear stability. Lecturer: Harvey Segur (Applied Mathematics, U. of Colorado, Boulder) (4 lectures) Participation and support: Because of the generous support of the NSF through a VIGRE grant, and of PIMS, we are able to offer support for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to attend this workshop. This support is NOT limited to US or Canadian nationals or citizens. More details are available at the conference webpage at http://www.amath.washington.edu/~stability/ A preliminary schedule is available there as well. Please address all inquiries to stability@amath.washington.edu. From mbarnes at sfu.ca Thu Jan 19 16:25:02 2006 From: mbarnes at sfu.ca (Marcus Emmanuel Barnes) Date: Fri Jan 20 09:28:40 2006 Subject: [grad-students] Fwd: Summer School in Mathematical Finance at PIMS-UBC References: <43CFD268.5000705@pims.math.ca> Message-ID: <5E09FB76-A9DD-4712-8B5D-D2B629061E8A@sfu.ca> Begin forwarded message: > From: Margaret Gardiner > Date: January 19, 2006 9:54:48 AM PST (CA) > To: pims-talks-calls@sfu.ca > Subject: Summer School in Mathematical Finance at PIMS-UBC > Reply-To: margaret@pims.math.ca > > Summer School - Frontiers in Mathematical Economics > > July 10-31, 2006 > > Website: http://www.pims.math.ca/science/2006/06ssfme/ > > Sponsored by PIMS-UBC and CMM (Centro de Modelamiento Matematico) > > The summer school brings together graduate students, postdoctoral > fellows and young faculty members from business schools, economics, > mathematics and operations research with leading economists and > mathematicians. It exposes students in business administration and > economics to mathematical models and methods that they will find > useful > in their research, and graduate students and young researchers in > mathematics and operations research to new mathematical problems > arising > from economic theory. > > The main focus of the summer school is a set of four courses, each > taught by world leaders in the corresponding discipline. All > courses are > accompanied by introductory tutorials and a series of seminar > presentations. > > 1. Topic: Dynamic Contract Theory and Corporate Finance > Lecturer: Jean-Charles Rochet (Professor of Mathematics and > Economics, U. Toulouse I) > 2. Topic: Equilibrium: Theory and Computation > Lecturers: Kenneth L. Judd (Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution on > War, Revolution and Peace), > R. Tyrrell Rockafellar, (Professor of Mathematics, U. Washington), > Roger Wets (Professor of Mathematics, UC, Davis) > 3. Topic: Information and Markets > Lecturer: William R. Zame (Professor of Mathematics and Economics, > UC, Los Angeles) > 4. Topic: The mathematical Structure of Quality Pricing > Lecturer: Ivar Ekeland (Professor of Mathematics and Economics, > UBC) > > Interested applicants should fill in the online application form no > later than April 30, 2006. Participants are expected to have an > interest in economic theory and mathematical modeling and a strong > background in either economics, mathematics or operation research. > Preference will be given to candidates that have already shown some > interest in interdisciplinary research. > > Accommodation for successful applicants will be provided by PIMS. > Partial support towards travel will be considered upon request. > > The scientific organizing committee: > Ivar Ekeland (UBC Vancouver) > Ulrich Horst (UBC Vancouver) > Alejandro Jofre (CMM) > > -- > _______________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/grad-students/attachments/20060119/48ecbc09/attachment.htm From jrockwood at mitacs.ca Mon Jan 23 13:30:17 2006 From: jrockwood at mitacs.ca (Jo-Anne Rockwood) Date: Tue Jan 24 10:26:53 2006 Subject: [grad-students] [Mystudents] Stability and instability of nonlinear waves workshop for students Message-ID: <008201c6204b$0f14df60$4c313a8e@columbian> Please note the following workshop geared towards Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows. Workshop: Stability and instability of nonlinear waves September 6-8, 2006; University of Washington; Seattle, Washington Hosted by The Department of Applied Mathematics Supported by: - the National Science Foundation - the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Organizing committee: Bernard Deconinck (UW) J. Nathan Kutz (UW) John Stockie (SFU) Workshop webpage: http://www.amath.washington.edu/~stability/ Related conference: SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, see http://www.siam.org/meetings/nw06 Scientific objectives and scope: Stability plays an essential role in many branches of science and engineering, including several aspects of fluid mechanics, high-speed transmission of information, and feasibility of MHD fusion devices. The objective of the workshop is to give an overview of current state-of-the-art methods for examining stability, as well as to present some widely applicable new techniques. The format will consist of four invited speakers giving a series of lectures at a level aimed at graduate students but useful for researchers from a variety of disciplines, such as mathematics, engineering, biology, etc. Workshop description: Although the topic of stability of solutions of partial differential equations is important in almost any application area, the most powerful techniques one uses to examine stability are hardly ever taught in courses. This is mainly because many of these techniques have come about fairly recently. We are organizing a workshop where these techniques are taught in 4 mini-courses. The workshop is aimed at graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and young researchers interested in stability methods, working in different disciplines on a variety of applications. Course 1. An introduction to stability analysis of nonlinear waves. Lecturer: Mariana Haragus (Mathematics, U. de Franche-Comte) (4 lectures) Course 2. The Evans function. Lecturer: Todd Kapitula (Mathematics and Statistics, U. of New Mexico) (4 lectures) Course 3. Numerical methods. Lecturers: J. Nathan Kutz, Bernard Deconinck (Applied Mathematics, U. of Washington), Jens Rademacher (Weierstrass Institute, Berlin), Jeff Humpherys (Mathematics, Brigham Young) (4 lectures, 1 lecture each) Course 4: Nonlinear stability. Lecturer: Harvey Segur (Applied Mathematics, U. of Colorado, Boulder) (4 lectures) Participation and support: Because of the generous support of the NSF through a VIGRE grant, and of PIMS, we are able to offer support for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to attend this workshop. This support is NOT limited to US or Canadian nationals or citizens. More details are available at the conference webpage at http://www.amath.washington.edu/~stability/ A preliminary schedule is available there as well. Please address all inquiries to stability@amath.washington.edu. The Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems East Academic Annex, Room 120, Simon Fraser University 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 Tel: 604-291-3711 Fax: 604-268-6657 www.mitacs.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/grad-students/attachments/20060123/df8b2c67/attachment.htm From jrockwood at mitacs.ca Wed Jan 25 15:16:37 2006 From: jrockwood at mitacs.ca (Jo-Anne Rockwood) Date: Thu Jan 26 14:06:57 2006 Subject: [grad-students] [Mystudents] CAIMS-MITACS Annual Conference Message-ID: <014d01c621ec$3ef06c20$4c313a8e@columbian> Join us for the joint CAIMS-MITACS Annual Conference from June 15 - 20, 2006 at York University in Toronto, Ontario when the top academics in the mathematical sciences community come together to explore advances and share research results. The 17th Canadian Symposium on Fluid Dynamics and the 2006 Summer School on Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases will be held simultaneously with the CAIMS-MITACS Annual Meeting. On-line registration is now open at www.mitacs.ca/AC06 This event aims to bring together partner organizations in the academic, public, private and not-for-profit sectors with university researchers to generate solutions. It is an opportunity to participate with others in the mathematical community by listening to top speakers, showcase your research by presenting a poster, socialize and network with your peers at a national level. We are pleased to present a distinguished panel of Plenary Speakers, including Dr. John Ockendon (Oxford University), Dr. John Glasser (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and Dr. Charles Williamson (Cornell University). Individual sessions will cover a wide variety of mathematical sciences, including: * Bioinformatics * Communication and Security in Ad Hoc Networks * Data Mining (joint with the Statistical Society of Canada) * Financial Mathematics * Image Processing and Inverse Problems * Industrial Mathematics * Nonlinear Dynamics in the Health Sciences * Operations Research and Optimization * Scientific Computing * Symbolic Computation * Visual Mathematics Student travel subsidies are available to those students who register early and take an active role in the conference. Be sure to book your accommodations early. There are many accommodation suggestions on the web site. We hope to see you in Toronto! Jo-Anne Rockwood MITACS Event & HQP Coordinator jrockwood@mitacs.ca The Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems East Academic Annex, Room 120, Simon Fraser University 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, B.C. 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URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/grad-students/attachments/20060125/5d417ffe/attachment.htm From mbarnes at sfu.ca Thu Jan 26 22:21:40 2006 From: mbarnes at sfu.ca (Marcus Emmanuel Barnes) Date: Fri Jan 27 07:52:57 2006 Subject: [grad-students] Fwd: [cmath] Summer School in Mathematical Economics at PIMS-UBC References: Message-ID: Begin forwarded message: > From: Alan Kelm > Date: January 26, 2006 11:15:03 AM PST (CA) > To: CMath E-Mail Distribution List > Subject: [cmath] Summer School in Mathematical Economics at PIMS-UBC > > > Summer School - Frontiers in Mathematical Economics > > (To all recipients: Please also help forward this message to your > Economics Department and Business School if possible) > > Website: http://www.pims.math.ca/science/2006/06ssfme/ > > Sponsored by PIMS-UBC and CMM (Centro de Modelamiento Matematico) > > The summer school brings together graduate students, postdoctoral > fellows and young faculty members from business schools, economics, > mathematics and operations research with leading economists and > mathematicians. It exposes students in business administration and > economics to mathematical models and methods that they will find > useful > in their research, and graduate students and young researchers in > mathematics and operations research to new mathematical problems > arising > from economic theory. > > The main focus of the summer school is a set of four courses, each > taught by world leaders in the corresponding discipline. All > courses are > accompanied by introductory tutorials and a series of seminar > presentations. > > 1. Topic: Dynamic Contract Theory and Corporate Finance > Lecturer: Jean-Charles Rochet (Professor of Mathematics and > Economics, U. Toulouse I) > 2. Topic: Equilibrium: Theory and Computation > Lecturers: Kenneth L. Judd (Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution > on War, Revolution and Peace), > R. Tyrrell Rockafellar, (Professor of Mathematics, U. Washington), > Roger Wets (Professor of Mathematics, UC, Davis) > 3. Topic: Information and Markets > Lecturer: William R. Zame (Professor of Mathematics and > Economics, UC, Los Angeles) > 4. Topic: The mathematical Structure of Quality Pricing > Lecturer: Ivar Ekeland (Professor of Mathematics and Economics, > UBC) > > --end-- > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/grad-students/attachments/20060126/385d87f2/attachment.htm From reception at mitacs.ca Fri Jan 27 18:31:27 2006 From: reception at mitacs.ca (Mitacs Reception) Date: Sun Jan 29 12:05:31 2006 Subject: [grad-students] [Mystudents] =?iso-8859-1?q?CONNECTIONS_January_2006_issue=2C_Le_?= =?iso-8859-1?q?num=E9ro_de_janvier_2006_de_CONNECTIONS_?= Message-ID: <005801c62399$cb770060$48313a8e@reception> CONNECTIONS, January 2006 issue, is now on-line at: www.mitacs.ca/goto/connectionsjanuary06eng. For highlights and other information of interest, please read below. Le num?ro de janvier 2006 de CONNECTIONS est d?sormais offert en ligne ?: www.mitacs.ca/goto/connectionsjanuary06fre. Vous trouverez ci-dessous un r?sum? des faits saillants et d'autres points d'int?r?t. (Le fran?ais suit l'anglais) _____________________________________________________________________________ Using math to unlock the secrets of schizophrenia - A profile of an intern Dalhousie University graduate student, Michael Thorne, had the opportunity to undertake research with the Brain Repair Centre of Halifax, NS, as part of the MITACS Internship Program. Using statistical tools, the team uncovered alterations in genes responsible for many processes implicated in schizophrenia patients. http://www.mitacs.ca/main.php?mid=10000199&pid=158&ciy=2006&cim=1&aid=2 Former MITACS Student Named NCE Young Innovator of the Year On December 6, 2005, Dr. Charles Dugas, a former MITACS student, was recognized by the federal Networks of Centres of Excellence for having navigated the path from theoretical research to practical application. Learn about his journey from graduate student to award-winning entrepreneur to CEO of a successful technology company to university professor in under seven years. http://www.mitacs.ca/main.php?mid=10000199&pid=158&ciy=2006&cim=1&aid=6 Expansion of the MITACS Mobility Fund The MITACS Mobility Fund will now support international travel, classified as required visits outside of MITACS nodes. This is designed to allow graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to work with international research groups which have developed specific expertise in their area of research. Potential visits could be from one to four months long with funding of up to $500 per month. This funding must be matched from other sources. For more information, contact Julie Carreau at carreau@iro.umontreal.ca. Help Wanted! The MITACS Student Advisory Committee (SAC) is looking for two new representatives, one each for BC and the Prairies. This is a unique opportunity to get involved in the Canadian mathematical community and meet exciting people. The SAC serves as a voice for the students within MITACS by: ? Organizing student-oriented events ? Advising MITACS on student affairs ? Collecting ideas from students about things they would like to see within MITACS To apply to be a new SAC representative or for more information, do not hesitate to e-mail sac_chair@mitacs.ca. A bilevel approach to optimal pricing Nowadays, optimal pricing models are key to business profitability; an appropriate decision to increase the price of a product can lead to significant gains in operating profit while a wrong decision can have major negative consequences for a company within the marketplace. Learn how the MITACS research team led by Drs. Patrice Marcotte and Gilles Savard are using mathematical modelling and a game theory to help companies make better operational decisions. http://www.mitacs.ca/main.php?mid=10000199&pid=158&ciy=2006&cim=1&aid=1 MITACS Internship Program As an applied research program, the MITACS Internship Program funds graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to undertake research onsite within companies, government labs and hospitals, applying advanced mathematical techniques to address high-level industry issues. The program is designed to engage graduate student researchers across many disciplines and their supervising professor with partner organizations. From helping energy companies to model the dynamics of fuel cells, to increasing the efficiency of company operations, to creating more reliable cyber security solutions, the program is diverse and supports research in the fastest growing sectors of our economy. It offers many benefits to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows including the chance to use mathematical techniques to address important applied issues and problems facing organizations, exposure to industrially relevant research and the opportunity to develop valuable professional relationships with non-academic organizations possibly resulting in new employment opportunities. For more information, visit www.mitacs.ca/goto/internships or contact Karen Booth at kbooth@mitacs.ca. Theoretical approaches to practical solutions North Vancouver, BC-based FDM Software was looking to develop a software package for managing patient transport that would be capable of balancing such factors as appointment time, equipment capacity, routing, travel distance and patient medical condition. A collaboration with a MITACS research team at Simon Fraser University led to a mathematical solution. http://www.mitacs.ca/main.php?mid=10000199&pid=158&ciy=2006&cim=1&aid=3 Joint CAIMS - MITACS 2006 Annual Conference: June 15 - 20 at York The 2006 MITACS Annual Conference is taking place in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society (CAIMS) from June 15 to 20, 2006 at York University in Toronto. This joint meeting with include five plenary speakers with sessions on a wide range of topics including industrial and financial math, scientific computing, bioinformatics, nonlinear dynamics in health sciences, data analysis, communication, security and networks, symbolic computation and image processing as well as student short courses. In addition, the 17th Canadian Symposium on Fluid Dynamics will be held simultaneously with the joint CAIMS - MITACS Annual Meeting. On-line registration is now available! For more information or to register, visit www.mitacs.ca/AC06. ************ Utiliser les maths pour d?voiler les secrets de la schizophr?nie - Profil d'un stagiaire Michael Thorne, un ?tudiant des cycles sup?rieurs de l'Universit? Dalhousie, a eu l'occasion de mener des recherches au Brain Repair Centre d'Halifax, N.-?., dans le cadre du Programme de stages de MITACS. L'?quipe dont il faisait partie a utilis? des outils statistiques pour rep?rer des modifications au niveau des g?nes responsables d'un grand nombre de processus impliqu?s dans la schizophr?nie humaine. http://www.mitacs.ca/main.php?mid=10000199&pid=158&ciy=2006&cim=1&aid=2&lang=fr Un ancien ?tudiant de MITACS est nomm? Jeune innovateur de l'ann?e par les RCE Le 6 d?cembre 2005, les R?seaux nationaux de centres d'excellence ont reconnu M. Charles Dugas, un ancien ?tudiant de MITACS, pour son passage de la recherche th?orique ? l'application pratique. Son cheminement l'a amen?, en l'espace de moins de sept ans, ? assumer successivement un nombre de r?les vari?s : ?tudiant dipl?m?, entrepreneur laur?at, PDG d'une entreprise de technologie florissante et professeur d'universit?. http://www.mitacs.ca/main.php?mid=10000199&pid=158&ciy=2006&cim=1&aid=6&lang=fr Expansion du Fonds d'aide ? la mobilit? MITACS Le Fonds d'aide ? la mobilit? MITACS finance dor?navant les d?placements internationaux consid?r?s comme des visites n?cessaires ? l'ext?rieur des p?les MITACS. Cette mesure est con?ue pour permettre aux ?tudiants dipl?m?s et aux boursiers de recherches postdoctorales de travailler avec des groupes de recherche internationaux qui ont mis au point un savoir-faire sp?cialis? dans leur domaine de recherche. Les visites ?ventuelles dureront de un ? quatre mois, et le financement pourra atteindre 500 $ par mois. Les candidats doivent obtenir un financement ?gal d'autres sources. Pour plus de renseignements, veuillez communiquer avec Julie Carreau ? l'adresse carreau@iro.umontreal.ca. Avis de recherche! Le Comit? Consultatif ?tudiant (CC?) de MITACS est ? la recherche de deux nouveaux repr?sentants pour la Colombie-Britannique et les Prairies. Joindre l'association ?tudiante de MITACS est une opportunit? unique de s'impliquer dans la communaut? math?matique Canadienne et de rencontrer des personnes tr?s int?ressantes. Le CC? est le porte-parole des ?tudiants au sein de MITACS; il le fait en : ? Organisant des ?v?nements destines aux ?tudiantes ? Conseillant MITACS au sujet des affaires ?tudiantes ? Recueillant aupr?s des ?tudiants des id?es sur ce qu'ils aimeraient avoir au sein de MITACS Pour devenir un nouveau repr?sentant ou pour obtenir plus d'information, n'h?sitez pas ? contacter sac_chair@mitacs.ca. L'optimisation des prix : une approche ? deux niveaux De nos jours, les mod?les d'optimisation des prix constituent les facteurs cl?s de la rentabilit? en affaires. L'augmentation judicieuse du prix d'un produit peut entra?ner des hausses consid?rables du b?n?fice d'exploitation, tandis qu'une mauvaise d?cision peut avoir des cons?quences d?sastreuses pour une entreprise au sein du march?. L'?quipe de recherche MITACS dirig?e par MM. Patrice Marcotte et Gilles Savard utilise la mod?lisation math?matique et une th?orie du jeu pour aider les entreprises ? prendre de meilleures d?cisions op?rationnelles. http://www.mitacs.ca/main.php?mid=10000199&pid=158&ciy=2006&cim=1&aid=1&lang=fr Programme de stages de MITACS En tant que programme de recherche appliqu?e, le Programme de stages de MITACS offre des subventions aux ?tudiants dipl?m?s et aux boursiers de recherches postdoctorales afin qu'ils m?nent des travaux ax?s sur l'application de techniques math?matiques avanc?es pour aborder des probl?mes industriels de haut niveau. Les travaux seront effectu?s dans les locaux d'entreprises, de laboratoires gouvernementaux et d'h?pitaux. Le programme est con?u pour ?tablir des liens entre, d'une part, des ?tudiants dipl?m?s (et leur professeur superviseur) qui font de la recherche dans diverses disciplines et, d'autre part, les organismes partenaires. Le programme est diversifi? et appuie la recherche dans les secteurs qui affichent la plus forte croissance dans notre ?conomie. Entre autres, il aide les soci?t?s d'?nergie ? mod?liser la dynamique des piles ? combustible, il aide les entreprises ? rehausser l'efficacit? de leurs op?rations et il cr?e des solutions fiables en mati?re de cybers?curit?. Le programme offre en outre de nombreux avantages aux ?tudiants dipl?m?s et aux boursiers de recherches postdoctorales, dont la chance d'utiliser des techniques math?matiques pour aborder d'importants probl?mes et enjeux appliqu?s auxquels font face les organismes. De plus, il permet aux stagiaires de se familiariser avec la recherche industrielle actuelle et leur donne la chance d'?tablir de pr?cieuses relations professionnelles avec des organismes non universitaires, ce qui peut ?ventuellement mener ? de nouvelles possibilit?s d'emploi. Pour plus de renseignements, visitez www.mitacs.ca/goto/internships ou communiquez avec Karen Booth ? l'adresse kbooth@mitacs.ca. De l'approche th?orique aux solutions pratiques FDM Software, une entreprise bas?e ? North Vancouver, en C.-B., cherchait ? d?velopper une trousse logicielle pour la gestion du transport des patients qui serait capable de prendre en compte des facteurs tels que les heures de rendez-vous, les capacit?s du mat?riel, les itin?raires d'acheminement, les distances de d?placement et les conditions m?dicales des patients. La collaboration avec une ?quipe de recherche MITACS bas?e ? l'Universit? Simon Fraser a men? ? une solution math?matique. http://www.mitacs.ca/main.php?mid=10000199&pid=158&ciy=2006&cim=1&aid=3&lang=fr Conf?rence annuelle conjointe de la SCMAI-MITACS 2006 : du 15 au 20 juin ? l'Universit? 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Outstanding graduate students at both the Masters and PhD level in the fields of mathematics, applied mathematics, statistics, and computer science, or related disciplines, from all Canadian and US universities are invited to apply at http://www.pims.math.ca/gimmc by March 15, 2006. The students accepted for GIMMC will be accepted and required to attend IPSW the following week. Faculty who wish to participate in IPSW should apply at http://www.pims.math.ca/ipsw by March 31, 2006. Limited funds in the form of travel reimbursements and accommodation expenses are available for faculty participants, for whom the workshop offers the following benefits: 1. The challenge of applying their skills to new and relevant problems directly applicable to industry. 2. The opportunity for continued collaboration with the workshop's academic and industrial participants. 3. The opportunity to help promote the role of the mathematical sciences by showing businesses and governments the tangible benefits of supporting mathematical sciences. Faculty interested in acting as mentors at GIMMC should contact JF Williams at gimmc@pims.math.ca by March 31. Please pass this on to others who may be interested. From ostachova at mitacs.ca Tue Jan 31 16:07:53 2006 From: ostachova at mitacs.ca (Olga Stachova) Date: Wed Feb 1 09:18:49 2006 Subject: [grad-students] [Mystudents] Call for Internship Proposals - Second Announcement Message-ID: <0b8501c626aa$6675a680$4a313a8e@OlgaS> MITACS HEREBY SOLICITS PROPOSALS FOR INTERNSHIP RESEARCH PROJECTS The MITACS Internship Program is designed to facilitate research projects involving graduate students or post-doctoral fellows, their academic supervisors and a participating non-academic partner. Partners can include companies, hospitals, financial institutions, hospitals, government labs and agencies and not-for-profit societies. The internship program provides research funds for faculty members and enables their graduate student or PDF under their supervision to undertake research jointly with a partner organization. The focus is on applying mathematical sciences techniques to research problems of interest to all participants. The aim is to expand joint industry/academia partnerships, to provide a novel training experience for students, and to foster new research projects resulting from the internship research. Each internship project receives $15,000 in funding with the funds being provided equally by MITACS and the non-academic partner with the funds awarded to the academic supervisor as a research grant. MITACS recommends that $10,000 be used to support the graduate student or PDF with any remaining funds used to support research activities related to the project. 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The school is designed for > epidemiology and public health graduate students, medical residents > and > graduate students in interdisciplinary science programs, in > addition to > those in the traditional mathematics and statistics graduate programs. > The details can be found at http://www.liam.yorku.ca/sc06/. > > > C.B. Dean, Ph.D., P.Stat. > Professor, Statistics & Actuarial Science > Phone: 604-291-4919; 604-291-3801; FAX: 604-291-4368 > > Statistics & Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University, > Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 Canada http://www.stat.sfu.ca/~dean/ > ____________________________________________________________ From jrockwood at mitacs.ca Mon Feb 13 12:54:01 2006 From: jrockwood at mitacs.ca (Jo-Anne Rockwood) Date: Mon Feb 13 13:53:16 2006 Subject: [grad-students] [Mystudents] MITACS Student Notes Message-ID: <002e01c630c6$78ddd6a0$4c313a8e@columbian> Dear MITACS Student, The latest issue of Student Notes is now available on-line at www.mitacs.ca This newsletter is written by students, about students, for students studying in faculties where mathematics plays a key role. The current issue focuses on student research - read articles about three MITACS research projects, and learn how your research can lead to national awards and recognition by reading interviews with the current winners of the MITACS Poster Awards. English version French version Thank you, Jo-Anne Rockwood MITACS Event & HQP Coordinator jrockwood@mitacs.ca The Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems East Academic Annex, Room 120, Simon Fraser University 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 Tel: 604-291-3711 Fax: 604-268-6657 www.mitacs.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/grad-students/attachments/20060213/ec757adf/attachment.htm From akelm at cms.math.ca Tue Feb 28 10:09:08 2006 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Tue Feb 28 10:09:14 2006 Subject: [grad-students] The 9-th Diffiety school on the geometry of Partial Differential Equations Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Diffiety Scholl To: Italian_School@diffiety.org Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:27:11 +0300 Subject: The 9-th Diffiety school [...] *********************************************************** Dear Colleague, we are organizing this summer from July 14 to July 31, 2006, the ninth Diffiety School in the geometry of Partial Differential Equations. Below you will find preliminary information about courses, programs and other activities. We would be very grateful to you for informing your graduate and undergraduate students, research fellows and any other colleague who could be interested in. On URLs http://diffiety.ac.ru/students/its2006/9Diffiety-a3.pdf and http://diffiety.ac.ru/students/its2006/9Diffiety-a4.pdf you can find the school poster in A3 and A$ formats respectively. More information can be found on our web sites http://diffiety.ac.ru and http://diffiety.org You may also wish to reply to the following address: school06@diffiety.org With best regards, The Organizing Committee ******************************************************************* IX Diffiety school in the geometry of Partial Differential Equations Santo Stefano del Sole (Avellino), Italy, July 14 - 31, 2006 1st Announcement ******************************************************************* In co-operation with -- Diffiety Institute, Russia; -- Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici; -- Municipality of Santo Stefano del Sole (AV), Italy; -- Comunita Montana Serinese-Solofrana, Italy; -- Ente Morale S. Vito Martire, Italy, and under the scientific direction of Prof. A. M. Vinogradov (Salerno University, Italy, and Diffiety Institute, Russia), we are announcing the ninth Diffiety School. The aim of the school is to introduce undergraduate and graduate students in Mathematics and Physics, as well as post-doctoral researchers and other mathematicians into a recently emerged area of mathematics and theoretical physics: Secondary Calculus Secondary calculus is the result of a natural evolution of the classical geometrical theory of partial differential equations (PDE) originated by Sophus Lie. In particular, it allows the construction of a general theory of PDE, in the same manner as algebraic geometry does with respect to algebraic equations. It became also clear that secondary calculus is a natural language for quantum field theory, just in the same way as standard calculus is for classical physics. >From the mathematical point of view secondary calculus is a complex mathematical construction putting into a natural interrelation many parts of modern mathematics such as commutative and homological algebra, algebraic and differential topology, differential geometry, etc. The strategic goal of the school is to involve interested participants into a series of large scale research programs the Diffiety Institute is launching. A first idea of the area can be got from the books: 1. Jet Nestruev, Smooth Manifolds and Observables, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol. 220, Springer-Verlag, 2002 (Russian version published by MCCME, Moscow, 2000). 2. Symmetries and Conservation Laws for Differential Equations of Mathematical Physics, Amer. Math. Soc., Translations of Mathematical Monographs, vol. 182, 1999 (Russian version published by Factorial, Moscow, 1997). 3. A. M. Vinogradov, Cohomological Analysis of Partial Differential Equations and Secondary Calculus, Amer. Math. Soc., Translations of Mathematical Monographs, vol. 204, 2001. Courses: In this edition of the school two series of courses, one for beginners and one for the veterans, will be given. In addition, a level 3 course will be organized. Topics for beginners are: observables, differential calculus in commutative algebras, and analysis on manifolds. Veterans courses will deal with modern geometric and homological methods in PDEs (including elements of the Secondary Calculus) and their applications to integrable systems and equations of mathematical physics. Detailed programs will be published some later on our web sites: http://diffiety.ac.ru and http://diffiety.org. A scientific session aiming to involve interested participants to our research programs is also planned. Prerequisites: Beginners are supposed to be familiar with fundamentals of Commutative Algebra, Topology and Differential Geometry. For details see http://diffiety.ac.ru and http://diffiety.org . Organizing committee: M. B?chtold, C. Di Pietro, V. Fiore, M. Langastro, G. Moreno, R. Piscopo, V. Vingo, M. M. Vinogradov, L. Vitagliano. Registration, accommodation, and fee. The registration fee is expected to amount to 175 Euros. This amount may be reduced in the future. Availability of scholarships and financial support also may present itself. In particular, this sum assumes to cover lodging expenses. More luxurious accommodation on the charge of participants is also possible. Low-cost meals will be organized. Exact accommodation and payment details will be available on May, 2006. Interested persons are invited to fill up the registration form and return it, either via electronic (preferable) or ordinary mail, as soon as possible, but not later than June 30, 2006. This web page will be constantly updated, accordingly to changes and refinements about the details of the courses and accommodation. Interested people are therefore suggested to stay tuned with this web site for losing no valuable information. Addresses: E-mail: school06@diffiety.org Surface mail: Prof. A. M. Vinogradov, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Universita di Salerno, Via Ponte Don Melillo, 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy. For registration forms and fresh school news see on our web sites http://diffiety.ac.ru and http://diffiety.org From joy.abramson at utoronto.ca Thu Mar 2 13:33:41 2006 From: joy.abramson at utoronto.ca (joy.abramson@utoronto.ca) Date: Thu Mar 2 13:34:32 2006 Subject: [grad-students] Journees Peter Shalen Message-ID: Graduate Students can apply for travel funding to attend the conference described below. ---------- JOURNEES PETER SHALEN http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Shalenfest/index_e.html A conference on 3-dimensional topology and its role in mathematics, on the occasion of Peter Shalen's sixtieth birthday. To be held June 12-15 at CRM in Montreal, Quebec. Sponsored by Centre de Recherches Mathematiques, CIRGET, and the National Science Foundation. PARTICIPANT TRAVEL SUPPORT IS BEING PROVIDED BY NSF AND CRM. Graduate students and recent graduates are particularly encouraged to apply. Information is available at http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Shalenfest/ We will begin making travel awards at the end of March. Registration and Banquet tickets are available online. PLEASE REGISTER EARLY. BANQUET TICKETS ARE LIMITED. Organizers: Steve Boyer, Dick Canary, Marc Culler, Nathan Dunfield, Benson Farb The conference will focus on interactions between 3-dimensional topology and other areas of mathematics. The following speakers have agreed to give talks (* if possible): Ian Agol (University of Illinois at Chicago) Marc Culler (University of Illinois at Chicago) Nathan Dunfield (Caltech) Cameron Gordon (University of Texas) * Alex Lubotzky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Dan Margalit (University of Utah) Yair Minsky (Yale University) * Maryam Mirzakhani (Princeton University/Clay Institute) John Morgan (Columbia University) Lenhard Ng (Stanford University / AIM) Peter Ozsvath (Columbia University) Jake Rasmussen (Princeton Univerity) Michah Sageev (Technion) Peter Storm (Stanford) From bmorris at mcmaster.ca Tue Mar 7 09:35:38 2006 From: bmorris at mcmaster.ca (Brenda Morrison) Date: Tue Mar 7 09:39:50 2006 Subject: [grad-students] Computational Engineering&Science Live Webinar Message-ID: <001801c641f4$67762720$8e467182@Brenda> McMaster University is organizing a live Webinar for students interested in pursuing graduate studies in computational engineering and science. We would appreciate it if you would distribute this email in an area frequented by senior-level undergraduate and graduate students who may be interested in participating. We would also encourage you to notify individual students or campus associations by forwarding this email directly on to them. The Webinar ? Wednesday, March 15, 7 p.m. EST ? will include presentations by Dr. Tam?s Terlaky (Director of McMaster?s new School of Computational Engineering and Science; Professor, Computing and Software; Canada Research Chair in Optimization) and Dr. Allison B. Sekuler Acting Associate Dean (Research and External Relations), Faculty of Science, Professor, Department of Psychology, McMaster University; and Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience). Please register at : http://computational.mcmaster.ca/ Together they will discuss and take questions regarding graduate study opportunities at the McMaster School of Computational Engineering and Science. If you have any question please contact me directly. Thank you for your assistance. Brenda Morrison, Administrator, School of Computational Engineering and Science Brenda Morrison Administrator, McMaster University School of Computational Engineering & Science 1280 Main St. West, ITB 113 Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1 Phone: 905-525-9140, Ext 26598 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/grad-students/attachments/20060307/d7fa260e/attachment.htm From joy.abramson at utoronto.ca Mon Mar 13 11:48:15 2006 From: joy.abramson at utoronto.ca (joy.abramson@utoronto.ca) Date: Mon Mar 13 11:49:00 2006 Subject: [grad-students] Southern Ontario Dynamics Day Message-ID: Details on a workshop of interest to graduate students in the area of dynamical systems are below. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 13:11:43 -0500 From: O.B. Allen To: cmath@cms.math.ca Subject: [cmath] Southern Ontario Dynamics Day Colleagues: The 2006 Southern Ontario Dynamics Day is co-organized by the Department of Mathematics & Statistics of the University of Guelph, and The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Science. The workshop will be hosted at The Fields Institute on April 7, 2006. The Southern Ontario Dynamics Day history dates back to 1995. The event is organized on a rotational basis by different Southern Ontario Universities. The 2006 Dynamics Day program consists of 12 invited lectures of 30 minutes each and a poster session. The program will cover very diverse and exciting new areas of research in dynamical systems theory and applications. The list of invited speakers and their abstracts can be found at http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/05-06/dynamics/ Researchers and graduate students in dynamical systems are invited to participate and present posters. The participation at the workshop is free of charge. Coffee breaks and lunch will be provided. REGISTRATION DEADLINE: MARCH 31, 2006. In order to present your poster you must register it (together with title, author and abstract) at http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/05-06/dynamics/ After the workshop we plan a dinner at Spuntini Restaurant, http://www.spuntini.ca/. If you plan to join in for dinner please mark this in your registration e-mail. We need this information to make the reservation. Each participant is responsible for her/his dinner bill. We look forward to a fruitful participation from all attendees. We hope that this event, besides dissemination of knowledge, will provide a new step towards exciting future research projects, and will offer an opportunity to younger researchers, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to present their work to the mathematical community. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact one of the organizers. Prof. Monica-Gabriela Cojocaru & Prof. Anna T. Lawniczak Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics MacNaughton Building University of Guelph Guelph ON Canada N1G 2W1 Email: alawnicz@uoguelph.ca - http://www.uoguelph.ca/~alawnicz Email: mcojocar@uoguelph.ca - http://www.uoguelph.ca/~mcojocar From abonato at rogers.com Sun Mar 12 11:16:51 2006 From: abonato at rogers.com (ANTHONY BONATO) Date: Tue Mar 14 03:46:11 2006 Subject: [grad-students] Course on the web graph Message-ID: <20060312161651.23619.qmail@web88212.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Graduate course on the Web Graph: AARMS Summer School, 2006. Dr. Anthony Bonato (Wilfrid Laurier) is offering an AARMS Summer School course in Spring 2006 at Dalhousie University in Halifax on The Web Graph and Internet Mathematics. The course is intended as an introduction to models for the web graph and other self-organizing networks. First courses in combinatorics or graph theory, linear algebra, and elementary probability theory are the suggested prerequisites. More information on the course, including a course outline, can be found here: http://info.wlu.ca/%7Ewwwmath/faculty/bonato/mnim.html The summer school is intended for graduate students and promising undergraduate students. All local expenses are paid for the students, and there is no registration fee. The course will last 4 weeks. The course is a Dalhousie University graduate course and Dalhousie will facilitate transfer credit to the extent possible. More information on the AARMS summer school, including contacts and enrollment information, can be found here: http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~aarms/summerschools/aarms06.html Students may also contact Dr. Bonato directly for more information: abonato@rogers.com From mbarnes at sfu.ca Tue Mar 14 13:17:40 2006 From: mbarnes at sfu.ca (Marcus Emmanuel Barnes) Date: Wed Mar 15 10:22:25 2006 Subject: [grad-students] Fwd: 2006 NKS Summer School References: <44170447.9060004@irmacs.ca> Message-ID: <66FE7D99-A090-426F-8AB0-D22CCB58053F@sfu.ca> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: NKS Summer School >> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:28:23 -0600 >> Subject: 2006 NKS Summer School >> >> This year we are holding our fourth annual NKS Summer School. The >> school lasts three weeks, from June 19 to July 7, and this year it >> will again be hosted by Brown University in Providence, RI. >> >> The NKS Summer School is a unique educational experience--and an >> opportunity to get jump-started in important cutting-edge >> research. Our students over the past three years have spanned a >> wide range. Many are graduate students in the sciences. Some are >> undergraduates, and a few are professors, seasoned professionals, >> artists, and more. (We've also had a few exceptional high-school >> students.) >> >> We're pleased to say that the Summer School has been a >> life-changing experience for many of our students. Many careers >> have been launched or redefined. Many exciting and unexpected >> projects have been started. A remarkable alumni network has >> formed. And a number of our students have earned positions at >> Wolfram Research. >> >> The core of the Summer School is an individual project done by >> each student. The project is chosen on the basis of each >> student's interests, in discussion with Stephen Wolfram and the >> Summer School instructors. (There's a tremendous supply of >> important problems and fresh perspectives right now from NKS...) >> >> There've been many remarkable things done at the Summer School. In >> three weeks most students go from the definition of a project to >> having concrete and often important results--commonly leading >> directly to published papers. >> >> Supporting the project work are a series of lectures, together >> with many intense hands-on sessions. A popular feature of the >> Summer School is several unscripted "live computer experiments" by >> Stephen Wolfram--in which it's common for discoveries to be made >> in real time. >> >> The Summer School is sponsored by Wolfram Research and Brown >> University, and has no tuition fees. Travel and lodging are the >> responsibility of individual students; dormitory-based >> accomodations and a meal plan are available through Brown at a low >> cost. >> >> There's more information on the 2006 Summer School--as well as >> on previous years--at >> http://www.wolframscience.com/summerschool >> >> For the next few weeks we are still accepting applications for the >> 2006 Summer School. So if you've got the ability, and you're >> serious about getting involved with NKS, apply to the Summer >> School now, and do something exciting this summer! >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Todd Rowland, Ph.D. >> NKS Summer School Academic Director >> >> Catherine Boucher, Ph.D. >> NKS Summer School Program Director >> >> P.S. This year's Summer School immediately follows the NKS 2006 >> Wolfram Science Conference to be held in Washington DC June 16-18. >> Summer School attendees will be given complimentary passes to the >> conference, and transportation will be available from Washington >> DC to Brown University. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Marcus Emmanuel Barnes Graduate Student Department of Mathematics Simon Fraser University 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6 E-mail: mbarnes [at] sfu.ca Telephone: 604.630.6000 Ext. 11079 http://www.sfu.ca/~mbarnes From mbarnes at sfu.ca Wed Mar 15 19:12:47 2006 From: mbarnes at sfu.ca (Marcus Emmanuel Barnes) Date: Thu Mar 16 09:58:47 2006 Subject: [grad-students] Fwd: YMC-III, Fields Institute, April 28-29 2006 References: <0aa0fb8ef7764db519f4995db2e982ad@cs.sfu.ca> Message-ID: >> Re: Young mathematician conference in PDE and dynamical systems III >> Fields Institute, April 28-29 2006 >> >> >> Dear Colleague, >> >> We are organizing a conference of junior researchers in the areas >> of PDE >> and Dynamical Systems. The goal is to encourage scientific >> exchange, and >> to create an opportunity for mathematicians in an early stage of >> their >> career to get to know each other and each other's work. The first >> conference was in January 2004, held in conjunction with the Thematic >> Program in PDE at the Fields Institute. The second conference was >> held >> in January 2005 at McMaster University. >> >> We plan to have the third conference at the Fields Institute on April >> 28-29, 2006. The two-day conference will feature 4 plenary talks >> given >> by senior mathematicians and 12-14 half-hour talks given by junior >> mathematicians (advanced graduate students/post-doctoral fellows). >> >> We are writing to inform you of this event, and ask for >> nominations of >> post-docs and graduate students who might be interested in >> participating >> in this conference. 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URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/grad-students/attachments/20060315/9241ebb9/attachment.htm From reception at mitacs.ca Thu Apr 27 15:00:22 2006 From: reception at mitacs.ca (Mitacs Reception) Date: Fri Apr 28 09:32:09 2006 Subject: [grad-students] [Mystudents] =?iso-8859-1?q?CONNECTIONS_April_2006_issue=2C_Le_nu?= =?iso-8859-1?q?m=E9ro_de_avril_2006_de_CONNECTIONS_?= Message-ID: <017e01c66a2c$d5d37c30$48313a8e@reception> CONNECTIONS, April 2006 issue, is now on-line at the MITACS website at: www.mitacs.ca/goto/connectionsapril06eng. For highlights and other information of interest, please read below. Le num?ro de avril 2006 de CONNECTIONS est d?sormais offert en ligne ?: www.mitacs.ca/goto/connectionsapril06fre. Vous trouverez ci-dessous un r?sum? des faits saillants et d'autres points d'int?r?t. (Le fran?ais suit l'anglais.) Mathematical modelling of mosquito-borne diseases Although mosquito-borne diseases are most prevalent in tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world, some, such as West Nile Virus, have recently emerged in temperate regions including the USA and Canada. Since its incursion into North America in 1999, West Nile Virus has spread rapidly across the continent resulting in thousands of human infections and hundreds of deaths. With the summer months fast approaching, learn how mathematical modelling is helping to control the spread of mosquito-borne diseases. http://www.mitacs.ca/main.php?mid=10000199&pid=158&ciy=2006&cim=4&aid=1 How the logistics of a coffee break changed modern mathematics While it is true that the majority of scientific breakthroughs take years of intense focus and concentration, sometimes all that is required is a well-timed cup of coffee. In this article, read how a chance meeting involving former MITACS theme leader, Dr. Robert Miura, led to a collaboration which changed the course of modern mathematics. http://www.mitacs.ca/main.php?mid=10000199&pid=158&ciy=2006&cim=4&aid=2 Enhancing handheld devices - A profile of an intern Dalhousie University masters student, Lingyun Ye, spent a four-month MITACS internship developing a communication framework for a mini handheld PC. The result was a prototype to enable educators and researchers to exchange information and share computation. http://www.mitacs.ca/main.php?mid=10000199&pid=158&ciy=2006&cim=4&aid=4 Modelling without boundaries In 2004, MITACS project leader, Dr. Jack Tuszynski, began a research collaboration with Dr. Jishou Ruan of the Chern Institute of Mathematics at Nankai University as a result of the MITACS-China Exchange Program. Although the men had been studying the same cellular structures, they approached their research from different angles - one with physics and the other, with bioinformatics. Learn how - and why - despite opposite time zones and different approaches, their collaboration has flourished. http://www.mitacs.ca/main.php?mid=10000199&pid=158&ciy=2006&cim=4&aid=3 MITACS Internship Program As an applied research program, the MITACS Internship Program funds graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to undertake research onsite within companies, government labs and hospitals, applying advanced mathematical techniques to address high-level industry issues. The program is designed to engage graduate student researchers across many disciplines and their supervising professor with partner organizations. From helping energy companies to model the dynamics of fuel cells, to increasing the efficiency of company operations, to creating more reliable cyber security solutions, the program is diverse and supports research in the fastest growing sectors of our economy. It offers many benefits to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows including the chance to use mathematical techniques to address important applied issues and problems facing organizations, exposure to industrially relevant research and the opportunity to develop valuable professional relationships with non-academic organizations possibly resulting in new employment opportunities. For more information, visit www.mitacsinternships.ca or contact Karen Booth at kbooth@mitacs.ca. NSERC Innovation Challenge Awards - Nomination deadline May 15, 2006 The Innovation Challenge Awards honour students pursuing graduate studies in the natural sciences, engineering or computer sciences who have demonstrated an entrepreneurial flair by thinking of ways to transform their research thesis results into products and processes that will potentially benefit Canadians. These awards recognize and reward the power of imagination and innovation within Canada's brightest minds. The nomination deadline is May 15, 2006. For more information, visit http://www.nserc.gc.ca/award_e.asp?nav=ica&lbi=about. Joint CAIMS - MITACS 2006 Annual Conference: June 15 - 20 at York The 2006 MITACS Annual Conference is taking place in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society (CAIMS) from June 15 to 20, 2006 at York University in Toronto. This joint meeting with include five plenary speakers with sessions on a wide range of topics including industrial and financial math, scientific computing, bioinformatics, nonlinear dynamics in health sciences, data analysis, communication, security and networks, symbolic computation and image processing as well as student short courses. In addition, the 17th Canadian Symposium on Fluid Dynamics will be held simultaneously with the joint CAIMS - MITACS Annual Meeting. On-line registration is now available! For more information or to register, visit www.mitacs.ca/AC06. Science Exhibition 2009 - Proposals due May 30, 2006 The Mus?e de la Civilisation in Quebec City, jointly with MITACS Inc. and Universit? Laval, is proposing Science Exhibition 2009, to showcase cutting edge science. The focus will be on Science and the Future with the intention that patrons will have an interactive, hands-on experience. Topics will range across a broad spectrum of disciplines, including (but not limited to) the life sciences, physical sciences, mathematical and computational sciences, engineering, the health sciences, and the social sciences. While the target audience is high school students and teachers, proposals that reach out to general public are also desirable. The goal is to show connections between science and its applications, to stimulate young explorers to discover the beauty of science, and to inspire students to pursue scientific education and careers. We are currently soliciting ideas for specific aspects of cutting edge science to be presented at the exhibition. Proposals must be submitted by May 30, 2006. For more information, visit www.mitacs.ca/goto/scientificexhibition2009. *************************** La mod?lisation math?matique des maladies transmises par les moustiques Bien que les maladies transmises par les moustiques se retrouvent principalement dans les r?gions tropicales et sous-tropicales du monde, certaines d'entre elles, telles que le virus du Nil occidental (VNO), ont r?cemment fait surface dans des r?gions temp?r?es comme les ?.-U. et le Canada. Depuis son apparition en Am?rique du Nord en 1999, le VNO s'est rapidement propag? dans le continent, entra?nant des milliers de cas d'infection chez les humains et des centaines de d?c?s. ? l'approche de l'?t?, d?couvrez comment la mod?lisation math?matique aide ? lutter contre la propagation des maladies transmises par les moustiques. http://www.mitacs.ca/main.php?mid=10000199&pid=158&ciy=2006&cim=4&aid=1&lang=fr La pause caf? qui a chang? le cours des math?matiques modernes Quoiqu'il s'av?re que la majorit? des avanc?es scientifiques exigent des ann?es et des ann?es de concentration intense, il suffit parfois qu'une pause caf? soit prise au moment opportun. En lisant cet article, vous apprendrez comment une rencontre fortuite ? laquelle participait un ancien responsable de th?me de MITACS, M. Robert Miura, s'est sold?e par une collaboration qui a chang? le cours des math?matiques modernes. http://www.mitacs.ca/main.php?mid=10000199&pid=158&ciy=2006&cim=4&aid=2&lang=fr L'am?lioration des dispositifs portatifs - profil d'un stagiaire M. Lingyun Ye, ?tudiant de ma?trise ? l'Universit? Dalhousie, a consacr? les quatre mois de son stage MITACS ? la mise au point d'un cadre de communication pour un l'assistant num?rique de poche. Ses travaux ont d?bouch? sur un prototype permettant ? des ?ducateurs et ? des chercheurs de communiquer et d'?changer des donn?es. http://www.mitacs.ca/main.php?mid=10000199&pid=158&ciy=2006&cim=4&aid=4&lang=fr La mod?lisation sans fronti?res En 2004, M. Jack Tuszynski, chef de projet MITACS, a amorc? une collaboration de recherche avec M. Jishou Ruan, de l'institut Chern ? l'Universit? de Nankai dans le cadre du Programme d'?change MITACS-Chine. Ces deux chercheurs examinaient les m?mes structures cellulaires mais selon des perspectives bien distinctes - le premier dans l'optique de la physique et le second dans celle de la bioinformatique. D?couvrez comment et pourquoi leur collaboration a port? fruit, en d?pit d'approches radicalement diff?rentes et des nombreux fuseaux horaires qui les s?parent. http://www.mitacs.ca/main.php?mid=10000199&pid=158&ciy=2006&cim=4&aid=3&lang=fr Programme de stages de MITACS En tant que programme de recherche appliqu?e, le Programme de stages de MITACS offre des subventions aux ?tudiants dipl?m?s et aux boursiers de recherches postdoctorales afin qu'ils m?nent des travaux ax?s sur l'application de techniques math?matiques avanc?es pour aborder des probl?mes industriels de haut niveau. Les travaux seront effectu?s dans les locaux d'entreprises, de laboratoires gouvernementaux et d'h?pitaux. Le programme est con?u pour ?tablir des liens entre, d'une part, des ?tudiants dipl?m?s (et leur professeur superviseur) qui font de la recherche dans diverses disciplines et, d'autre part, les organismes partenaires. Le programme est diversifi? et appuie la recherche dans les secteurs qui affichent la plus forte croissance dans notre ?conomie. Entre autres, il aide les soci?t?s d'?nergie ? mod?liser la dynamique des piles ? combustible, il aide les entreprises ? rehausser l'efficacit? de leurs op?rations et il cr?e des solutions fiables en mati?re de cybers?curit?. Le programme offre en outre de nombreux avantages aux ?tudiants dipl?m?s et aux boursiers de recherches postdoctorales, dont la chance d'utiliser des techniques math?matiques pour aborder d'importants probl?mes et enjeux appliqu?s auxquels font face les organismes. De plus, il permet aux stagiaires de se familiariser avec la recherche industrielle actuelle et leur donne la chance d'?tablir de pr?cieuses relations professionnelles avec des organismes non universitaires, ce qui peut ?ventuellement mener ? de nouvelles possibilit?s d'emploi. Pour plus de renseignements, visitez www.mitacsinternships.ca ou communiquez avec Karen Booth ? l'adresse kbooth@mitacs.ca. Prix D?fi innovation du CRSNG - Date limite des nominations : le 15 mai 2006 Le prix D?fi innovation rend hommage aux ?tudiants aux cycles sup?rieurs en sciences naturelles, en g?nie ou en informatique qui ont fait preuve d'esprit d'entreprise en trouvant des fa?ons de traduire les r?sultats de leurs travaux de th?se en produits ou en processus qui pourraient ?tre avantageux pour les Canadiens. Ce prix a pour objet de souligner et de r?compenser le pouvoir de l'imagination et de l'innovation des plus brillants esprits canadiens. Pour de plus amples d?tails, visitez http://www.nserc.gc.ca/award_f.asp?nav=ica&lbi=about. Conf?rence annuelle conjointe de la SCMAI-MITACS 2006 : du 15 au 20 juin ? l'Universit? York Du 15 au 20 juin 2006 se tiendra la conf?rence annuelle de MITACS 2006, conjointement avec la rencontre annuelle de la Soci?t? canadienne de math?matiques appliqu?es et industrielles (SCMAI). Cet ?v?nement aura lieu ? l'Universit? York, ? Toronto. La rencontre conjointe comprendra cinq pr?sentations pl?ni?res, des minicours ? l'intention des ?tudiants et des s?ances scientifiques sur une large gamme de sujets, dont les math?matiques industrielles et financi?res, l'informatique scientifique, la bioinformatique, la dynamique non lin?aire dans les sciences de la sant?, l'analyse de donn?es, la communication, la s?curit? et les r?seaux, l'informatique symbolique et le traitement des images. De plus, le 17e Symposium canadien sur la dynamique des fluides aura lieu en m?me temps que la conf?rence conjointe de la SCMAI-MITACS. Vous pouvez vous inscrire en ligne d?s aujourd'hui. Pour plus de d?tails ou pour vous inscrire, visitez http://www.mitacs.ca/AC06/index_fr. Exposition scientifique 2009 - Date limite pour les propositions - le mai 30, 2006 Le Mus?e de la Civilisation de Qu?bec, en collaboration avec MITACS Inc. et l'Universit? Laval, propose la tenue de l'Exposition scientifique 2009, un ?v?nement qui mettra en valeur la fine pointe de la science. L'accent sera mis sur La science et le futur avec l'intention que les visiteurs puissent vivre sur place une exp?rience interactive. Les th?mes couvriront un large ?ventail de disciplines, incluant (sans y ?tre limit?) les sciences de la vie, les sciences physiques, math?matiques et informatiques, le g?nie, les sciences de la sant?, et les sciences sociales. Alors que la client?le vis?e sont les ?tudiants et les enseignants du niveau secondaire, les propositions susceptibles d'int?resser le grand public sont ?galement souhait?es. L'objectif est de mettre en ?vidence les liens entre la science et ses applications, de stimuler les jeunes explorateurs ? d?couvrir la beaut? de la science, et d'inciter les ?tudiants ? poursuivre des ?tudes en science et ? envisager des carri?res scientifiques. Nous sollicitons donc des id?es sur des aspects sp?cifiques de la fine pointe de la science qui pourraient se concr?tiser en une exposition. Des propositions doivent ?tre soumises en mai 30, 2006. 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Join us for the joint CAIMS-MITACS Annual Conference from June 15 - 20, 2006 at York University in Toronto, Ontario when the top academics in the mathematical sciences community come together to explore advances and share research results. The 17th Canadian Symposium on Fluid Dynamics and the 2006 Summer School on Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases will be held simultaneously with the CAIMS-MITACS Annual Meeting. On-line registration is open at www.mitacs.ca/AC06 This event aims to bring together partner organizations in the academic, public, private and not-for-profit sectors with university researchers to generate solutions. It is an opportunity to participate with others in the mathematical community by listening to top speakers, showcase your research by presenting a poster, socialize and network with your peers at a national level. We are pleased to present a distinguished panel of Plenary Speakers, including Dr. John Ockendon (Oxford University), Dr. John Glasser (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and Dr. Charles Williamson (Cornell University). Individual sessions will cover a wide variety of mathematical sciences, including: * Bioinformatics * Communication and Security in Ad Hoc Networks * Data Mining (joint with the Statistical Society of Canada) * Financial Mathematics * Image Processing and Inverse Problems * Industrial Mathematics * Nonlinear Dynamics in the Health Sciences * Operations Research and Optimization * Scientific Computing * Symbolic Computation * Visual Mathematics Student travel subsidies are available to those students who register early by May 15 and take an active role in the conference. Be sure to book your accommodations early. There are many suggestions on the web site. We look forward to seeing you in Toronto! Jo-Anne Rockwood MITACS Event & HQP Coordinator jrockwood@mitacs.ca The Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems East Academic Annex, Room 120, Simon Fraser University 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 Tel: 604-291-3711 Fax: 604-268-6657 www.mitacs.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/grad-students/attachments/20060502/87858fb0/attachment.htm From wehlau-d at rmc.ca Mon Jun 5 17:23:26 2006 From: wehlau-d at rmc.ca (David Wehlau) Date: Tue Jun 6 00:04:16 2006 Subject: [grad-students] Upcoming algebra meeting at the Fields Message-ID: Hello, This is a note to let you know about an upcoming meeting that will be held at the Field's Institute in Toronto Monday July 10 - Friday July 14, 2006. The topic of the meeting is invariant theory, algebraic group actions and geometry. The deadline for applications is June 12. We still have some funding for graduate students. Information can be found at the meeting web site: http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/ sincerely, David Wehlau Queen's University ----------------- American Non Sequitur Society - "We may not make sense, but we do like pizza" --------------------- Professor David Wehlau Royal Military College of Canada Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Kingston, Ontario Canada K7K 7B4 Office: Girouard 316 phone: (613) 541-6000 ext 6469 fax: (613) 541-6584 e-mail: wehlau@rmc.ca, wehlau@mast.queensu.ca www: (local) http://intranet.rmc.ca/~wehlau (external) http://www.rmc.ca/academic/math_cs/wehlau/index.htm From reception at mitacs.ca Fri Jul 7 12:59:40 2006 From: reception at mitacs.ca (Mitacs Reception) Date: Mon Jul 10 09:36:44 2006 Subject: [grad-students] [Mystudents] Call for Participation in Winter School Message-ID: <00c901c6a1e6$bce9b260$48313a8e@reception> ******************************************** MITACS Winter School on Modelling and Mining of Networked Information Spaces BIRS, Banff, Alberta November 25-29, 2006 http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~waw2006/winterschool FORMAT: The MoMiNIS Winter School provides the opportunity to a group of selected graduate students to attend tutorials in the Modelling and Mining of Networked Information Spaces from recognized experts in the field, and present their own work and receive feed back. The unique setting of BIRS is highly conducive to personal interaction and generation of new ideas. The Winter School has the following objectives: * To provide knowledge of the state of the art in the field via tutorials by experts * To support young researchers with networking * To provide young researchers with feedback on their research and the opportunity to discuss their research interests with established researchers in the field The Winter School is most useful to students who are starting their doctoral research and have some ideas about the direction of their PhD thesis. Tutorials will be given by recognized experts. The following speakers have been confirmed: * Soumen Chakrabarti (IITC, Mumbai) Indexing, searching, and ranking in entity-relationship networks with associated text * Fan Chung Graham (UC San Diego) Title TBA * Filippo Menczer (Indiana U) Web Mining, mapping, modeling and mingling * Walter Willinger (ATT) Power laws in Internet graphs: full of sound and fury, signifying nothing? The winter school is associated with the Workshop for Algorithms on the Web graph (WAW2006), held adjacently at BIRS on November 30 and December 1. See http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~waw2006 for details. APPLICATION PROCESS: Applicants must submit the following documents by email to waw2006@mathstat.dal.ca with "Winter School Application" as the subject of the email. Please combine all documents into a single PDF file, formatted for US letter-size paper (8.5 x 11 inches). 1. A one-page summary that outlines the research problem of interest, a proposed research plan, and a summary of progress already made. 2. A curriculum vitae, two pages long, including a half-page statement of how you think you would contribute to the winter school. 3. A letter of recommendation from your thesis advisor, including an assessment of the current status of your research, the start date and the expected completion date of the thesis, and how he/she thinks you would benefit from participating in the winter school. Applications will be reviewed by the organizing committee. Accepted applicants will be expected to present a poster on their research project at the Winter School and a 5-min overview of their poster in presentation format. Room and board will be covered by BIRS and MITACS. There are limited funds available to subsidize the travel expenses of students, upon request after acceptance notification. IMPORTANT DATES: August 15: Application package submission deadline September 10: Acceptance notification November 25-29: Winterschool -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/grad-students/attachments/20060707/6dea1fcf/attachment.htm From mbarnes at sfu.ca Wed Jul 19 14:24:08 2006 From: mbarnes at sfu.ca (Marcus Emmanuel Barnes) Date: Wed Jul 19 14:33:09 2006 Subject: [grad-students] Upcoming events @ Fields open to students... Message-ID: <0C49F41B-9C76-4050-86B4-AB06BF0222E8@sfu.ca> Some events that may be of interest to you: August 12-14, 2006 FRONTIERS OF QUANTUM DECOHERENCE: AN INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP OF CQIQC Fields Institute and University of Toronto www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/06-07/decoherence/ [There may be some travel support for students available --- see the website for more details. Also note that despite the fact that early registration has passed, the registration fee for students remains the same.] August 12-14, 2006 FRONTIERS OF QUANTUM DECOHERENCE: AN INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP OF CQIQC Fields Institute and University of Toronto www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/06-07/decoherence/ August 14-18, 2006 FIELDS-MITACS INDUSTRIAL PROBLEM-SOLVING WORKSHOP (FMIPW) Fields Institute www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/06-07/FMIPW/ August 14 - 26, 2006 FIRST UKRAINE-CANADA SUMMER SCHOOL IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES University of Toronto www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/06-07/ukraine-canada/ From mbarnes at sfu.ca Wed Jul 19 14:31:37 2006 From: mbarnes at sfu.ca (Marcus Emmanuel Barnes) Date: Wed Jul 19 14:33:10 2006 Subject: [grad-students] Thematic Program in Cryptology @ Fields -- stuff relevant to students Message-ID: <5EDA1333-4F37-4760-8F0E-13D9F106A020@sfu.ca> Some other events at the Fields Institute that may be of interest to graduate students: ========================================================== GRADUATE COURSES STARTING FALL 2006 www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/06-07/crypto/courses/ Elliptic and hyperelliptic curve cryptography Sept. 11-15, 2006 Instuctor: Tanja Lange (Technical University of Denmark) Quantum Information Theory Instructor: Hoi-Kwong Lo (University of Toronto) High-speed cryptography Oct. 23-26, 2006 and Nov. 6-16, 2006 (tentative) Instructor: D. J. Bernstein (University of Illinois at Chicago) Abelian varieties and Cryptography Instructor: Kumar Murty (Toronto) Quantum Information Theory, Error-correction, and Cryptography Instuctors: Ashwin Nayak and Debbie Leung (University of Waterloo) ======================= September 18-20, 2006 ALGEBRAIC CURVES IN CRYPTOGRAPHY. THE 10TH WORKSHOP ON ELLIPTIC CURVE CRYPTOGRAPHY (ECC 2006) **Registration is required and on a first-come first-serve basis.** Please register at: www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/2006/ecc2006/announcement.html October 2-6, 2006 QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY AND COMPUTING WORKSHOP www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/06-07/crypto/quantum/ October 30- November 3, 2006 COMPUTATIONAL CHALLENGES ARISING IN ALGORITHMIC NUMBER THEORY AND CRYPTOGRAPHY www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/06-07/crypto/number_theory/ November 27-December 1, 2006 CRYPTOGRAPHY: UNDERLYING MATHEMATICS, PROBABILITY AND FOUNDATIONS www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/06-07/crypto/ crypto_foundations/ From janssen at mathstat.dal.ca Tue Aug 8 09:09:08 2006 From: janssen at mathstat.dal.ca (Jeannette Janssen) Date: Tue Aug 8 12:16:11 2006 Subject: [grad-students] MITACS Winter school at BIRS Message-ID: MITACS Winter School on Modelling and Mining of Networked Information Spaces BIRS, Banff, Alberta November 25-29, 2006 http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~waw2006/winterschool Tutorials will be given by recognized experts. The following speakers have been confirmed: * Soumen Chakrabarti (IITC, Mumbai) Indexing, searching, and ranking in entity-relationship networks with associated text * Fan Chung Graham (UC San Diego) Title TBA * Filippo Menczer (Indiana U) Web Mining, mapping, modeling and mingling * Walter Willinger (ATT) Power laws in Internet graphs: full of sound and fury, signifying nothing? The winter school is associated with the Workshop for Algorithms on the Web graph (WAW2006), held adjacently at BIRS on November 30 and December 1. See http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~waw2006 for details. The MoMiNIS Winter School provides the opportunity to a group of selected graduate students to attend tutorials in the Modelling and Mining of Networked Information Spaces from recognized experts in the field, and present their own work and receive feed back. The unique setting of BIRS is highly conducive to personal interaction and generation of new ideas. The Winter School has the following objectives: * To provide knowledge of the state of the art in the field via tutorials by experts * To support young researchers with networking opportunities * To provide young researchers with feedback on their research and the opportunity to discuss their research interests with established researchers in the field The Winter School is most useful to students who are starting their doctoral research and have some ideas about the direction of their PhD thesis. Application process: Applicants must submit the following documents by email to waw2006@mathstat.dal.ca with "Winter School Application" as the subject of the email. Please combine all documents into a single PDF file, formatted for US letter-size paper (8.5 x 11 inches). 1. A one-page summary that outlines the research problem of interest, a proposed research plan, and a summary of progress already made. 2. A curriculum vitae, two pages long, including a half-page statement of how you think you would contribute to the winter school. 3. A letter of recommendation from your thesis advisor, including an assessment of the current status of your research, the start date and the expected completion date of the thesis, and how he/she thinks you would benefit from participating in the winter school. Applications will be reviewed by the organizing committee. Accepted applicants will be expected to present a poster on their research project at the Winter School and a 5-min overview of their poster in presentation format. Room and board will be covered by BIRS and MITACS. There are limited funds available to subsidize the travel expenses of students, upon request after acceptance notification. Important Dates: August 15: Application package submission deadline September 10: Acceptance notification November 25-29: Winterschool ********************************************************** * * Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to * * DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de * * Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be * addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. The * original sender, however, is invited to prepare an * update of the replies received and to communicate it * via DMANET. * * DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND ALGORITHMS NETWORK (DMANET) * http://www.zaik.uni-koeln.de/AFS/publications/dmanet/ * ********************************************************** From mbarnes at sfu.ca Wed Aug 9 22:47:46 2006 From: mbarnes at sfu.ca (Marcus Emmanuel Barnes) Date: Wed Aug 9 22:49:36 2006 Subject: [grad-students] Fields Institute-Postdoctoral Fellowships References: <200608092107.k79L7Df1018130@fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca> Message-ID: Begin forwarded message: > From: Fields Manager of Scientific Program > > Date: August 9, 2006 2:07:13 PM PDT (CA) > To: Fields Mailing List Subscribers > > Subject: Fields Institute-Postdoctoral Fellowships > > Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada > Postdoctoral Fellowships > =================================== > Description: Applications are invited for postdoctoral fellowship > positions at > the Fields Institute in Toronto for the 2007-2008 academic year. > The thematic > program on Operator Algebras will take place at the Institute from > August- > December 2007, while the thematic program on New Trends in Harmonic > Analysis > will run from January-June 2008. The fellowships provide for a > period of > engagement in research and participation in the activities of the > Institute. > They may be offered in conjunction with partner universities, > through which a > further period of support may be possible. One recipient will be > awarded the > Institute's prestigious Jerrold E. Marsden Postdoctoral 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. Funding is being sought from NSF to support > junior U.S. > participants in these programs. > > Eligibility: Qualified candidates who will have recently completed > a PhD in a > related area of the mathematical sciences are encouraged to apply. > > Deadline: December 7, 2006, 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Deadline to apply October 1, 2006. www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/06-07/cwimac06/ Starting FALL 2006 THEMATIC PROGRAM IN CRYPTOGRAPHY, GRADUATE COURSES - Elliptic and hyperelliptic curve cryptography - Quantum Information Theory - High-speed cryptography - Abelian varieties and Cryptography - Quantum Information Theory, Error-correction, and Cryptography www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/06-07/crypto/courses/ >> From mbarnes at sfu.ca Fri Aug 25 22:20:50 2006 From: mbarnes at sfu.ca (Marcus Emmanuel Barnes) Date: Fri Aug 25 22:21:07 2006 Subject: [grad-students] Fwd: [cmath] PIMS Postdoctoral Fellowships References: <44EF415A.8080505@pims.math.ca> Message-ID: <3AE155CD-B86E-425B-97D3-914818F90572@sfu.ca> Begin forwarded message: > From: Breeonne Baxter > Date: August 25, 2006 11:28:42 AM PDT (CA) > To: cmath@cms.math.ca > Subject: [cmath] PIMS Postdoctoral Fellowships > > Call for Nominations: Pacific Institute for the Mathematical > Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowships > > The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) invites > nominations of outstanding young researchers in the mathematical > sciences for Postdoctoral Fellowships for the year 2007-2008. > > Candidates must be nominated by one or more scientists affiliated > with PIMS or by a Department (or Departments) affiliated with PIMS. > The fellowships are intended to supplement support made available > through such a sponsor. The Institute expects to support up to 20 > fellowships tenable at any of its Canadian member universities: > Simon Fraser University, the University of Alberta, the University > of British Columbia, the University of Calgary, and the University > of Victoria, as well as the affiliated universities: the University > of Lethbridge and the University of Regina. > > For the 2007-2008 competition, the amount of the award is $20,000 > and the sponsor(s) is (are) required to provide additional funds to > finance a minimum stipend of $40,000 (including benefits). > > Award decisions are made by the PIMS PDF Review Panel based on > excellence of the candidate, potential for participation in PIMS > programs and potential for 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 other sites. To ensure that PIMS > Postdoctoral Fellows are able to participate fully in Institute > activities, they may not teach more that two single-term courses > per year. > > Nominees must have a Ph.D. or equivalent (or expect to receive a > Ph.D. by December 31, 2007) 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, 2004). The > fellowship may be taken up at any time between April 1, 2007 and > January 1, 2008. The fellowship is for one year and is renewable > for at most one additional year. > > Nominations must include > > 1. curriculum vitae, > 2. statement of research interests, > 3. three letters of reference (including one from a sponsoring > professor), and > 4. statement of anticipated support from the sponsor. > > Deadline for Nominations: December 15, 2006. > > The sponsors should register their nominees at: https:// > www.pims.math.ca/opportunities/postdocs/ and send the complete > nomination package to: > > Attn: PIMS PDF Competition > Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences > 200 - 1933 West Mall > University of British Columbia > Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 > Canada > > or hand-deliver the package to any one of the Canadian PIMS Site > Offices. > > PIMS accepts no responsibility for incomplete packages, or for > individual components of a nomination package being sent to any of > our offices. > > Nominations must be received by December 15, 2006. > > ---------------------------------------------------- > Breeonne Baxter > Scientific Publications and Communications Manager > Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences > 200 - 1933 West Mall, UBC > Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 > 604.822.0402 > ---------------------------------------------------- > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Application deadline: October 1, 2006. www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/06-07/reductive/ >> From mbarnes at sfu.ca Sat Sep 2 15:56:07 2006 From: mbarnes at sfu.ca (Marcus Emmanuel Barnes) Date: Sat Sep 2 15:58:19 2006 Subject: [grad-students] New venue for student work... Message-ID: <7779005E-36D5-4032-8420-D94AD46419E3@sfu.ca> The Atlantic Electronic Journal of Mathematics is a refereed online journal for articles in mathematics and related disciplines. The primary purposes are to give students (both graduate and undergraduate) a venue for publishing papers and to publish articles from established researchers at a level suitable for students. Each article is refereed by professional mathematicians to ensure a high publication standard. The final decision for publication is made by the editors. While original research results are not required, high quality in exposition and content are required. The AEJM publishes new results, new perspectives on known results, historical aspects of mathematics, relationships between areas of mathematics (or other areas of study), or interesting applications of mathematical ideas or techniques. We publish two issues per year, one late in December and one in June. http://aejm.ca/index.htm MANAGING EDITORS Franklin Mendivil Holger Teismann AEJM Acadia University Wolfville, Nova Scotia Canada B4P 2R6 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The fellowship offers an annual > stipend of at least $36,000 CDN for one year, and is renewable for > a second year. This is a research fellowship, allowing the > recipient to devote all of his or her time to research under the > supervision of a professor from one of the ISM member universities > (Concordia, Laval, McGill, Sherbrooke, Universit? de Montr?al and > UQAM). If fellows wish to teach, they may request to be offered > teaching assignments for which they will receive an additional > salary. > > Applications are welcome in all fields of research in which the CRM > and the ISM are actively involved, namely: algebra, analysis, > applied mathematics, category theory, combinatorics, geometry and > topology, mathematical physics, nonlinear dynamics, number theory, > probability, quantum computing, statistics, and mathematical > methods in medical imaging. Note that in 2007-08, the CRM's theme > year will be in Dynamics from both an applied and pure point of > view. The first semester will be on dynamical systems applied > mainly to delay equations and biology, while the second semester > will concentrate on Hamiltonian and non-Hamiltonian dynamical > systems, evolution equations, and spectral analysis. > > Applicants are asked to submit their applications electronically on > the following web site: http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/~crmism/ > index_en.html > > Required documents: > ? online application form > ? curriculum vitae (PDF format) > ? research project (PDF format) > ? 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. > > Deadline: December 1, 2006 > > > ********************************************************************** > **************************************************************** > > > BOURSES POSTDOCTORALES CRM-ISM 2007-2008 > > 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 2007. > > Les bourses postdoctorales CRM-ISM sont attribu?es ? des chercheurs > prometteurs qui ont r?cemment obtenu, ou qui obtiendront sous peu, > leur doctorat en math?matiques. La bourse offre une r?mun?ration > d'au moins 36 000$ CDN pour un an, renouvelable pour une deuxi?me > ann?e. Cette bourse de recherche permettra ? 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 (Concordia, Laval, McGill, Sherbrooke, > Universit? de Montr?al et UQAM). Si le boursier le d?sire, il > pourra enseigner durant son stage et ainsi recevoir une > r?mun?ration suppl?mentaire. > > Nous acceptons des demandes dans tous les domaines de recherche du > CRM et de l'ISM, ? savoir: alg?bre, 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 th?orie des nombres. Notez > que l'ann?e th?matique 2007-2008 du CRM portera sur la dynamique, > avec un volet appliqu? et un volet pur. Le premier semestre sera > d?di? aux syst?mes dynamiques appliqu?s surtout aux ?quations ? > d?lai et ? la biologie, tandis que le deuxi?me semestre portera sur > les syst?mes dynamiques hamiltoniens et non-hamiltoniens, aux > ?quations d'?volution et ? l'analyse spectrale. > > Les candidats sont pri?s de soumettre leurs demandes > ?lectroniquement en allant au site web: http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/ > ~crmism/. > > Documents requis : > ? formulaire ?lectronique de candidature > ? curriculum vitae (format PDF) > ? projet de recherche (format PDF) > ? 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. > > Date limite: 1er d?cembre 2006 > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The combination of skills and experience gained through the program should be attractive to both graduate schools and employers at financial institutions and industrial companies in North America and around the world. The program's flexibility provides students with the opportunity to specialize or gain a broad education in applicable mathematics. To learn more about this new program, visit our web page http://cubic.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=43&p=978 or contact the Graduate Coordinator, Dr. Anthony Bonato http://info.wlu.ca/~wwwmath/faculty/bonato/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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An international > Operations > Research Case Competition for students is also planned. For further > details > please visit the conference web page at: > http://math-optima1.surrey.sfu.ca/algor2007/orc.htm > > Selected papers from conference will be published as a special > issue of the > journal Algorithmic Operations Research > (http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/AOR) > > Sincerely, > Abraham P Punnen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/grad-students/attachments/20060930/0790cbfe/attachment.htm From jtichon at yahoo.com Sun Oct 15 01:55:53 2006 From: jtichon at yahoo.com (Jenna G. Tichon) Date: Sun Oct 15 13:03:02 2006 Subject: [grad-students] New math web forum for students and groups Message-ID: <20061015055553.39412.qmail@web54304.mail.yahoo.com> Hi! My name is Jenna and I'm writing as a representative from the Student Committee (Studc) of the Canadian Mathematics Society (CMS) to tell you about an exciting project that has just been launched this weekend. This summer while attending the CUMC at McGill I had overwhelming feedback from student group leaders that students at their universities felt isolated and wanted a way to communicate with other math students. To help address that we've created an internet bulletin at http://www.studc.com/forum to connect students across the country. It's a place where student groups can share ideas for activities and fundraising. Where individual students can ask questions, learn about scholarships, grad school, and conferences. There's a section for any thing math related and it's an excellent way to meet your fellow math students. We are just starting out so the membership is currently small but I sincerely hope you'll visit the site, make some posts and keep coming back as the site grow. And by all means, please pass on this information to other math students and advertise this at your unversities. The more people who get involved, the better it will be and it will become an invaluable resource to Canadian math students. Please check it out and I look forward to meeting you on the forum! -Jenna G. Tichon Representative to the CMS Student Committee Studc Web Forum Adminstrator -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Applications are invited for postdoctoral > fellowship > positions at the Fields Institute for the 2007-2008 academic year. The > Thematic Program on Operator Algebras will take place at the > Institute from > August-December 2007, while the Thematic Program on New Trends in > Harmonic > Analysis will run from January-June 2008. > www.fields.utoronto.ca/proposals/postdoc.html > > ======================== > GRADUATE COURSES starting January 2004 > ======================= > see Thematic Program on Homotopy Theory > www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/06-07/homotopy/courses/ > > =========================== > WORKSHOPS & SPECIAL EVENTS > =========================== > > Nov 18, 2006 -- 12:30 p.m. > FIELDS INSTITUTE GRADUATE SCHOOL INFORMATION DAY > www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/06-07/grad_school_day/ > > Nov 27 - Dec 1, 2006 > WORKSHOP ON UNDERLYING MATHEMATICS, PROVABILITY AND FOUNDATIONS > Organizers: Arjen Lenstra, Charles Rackoff, Ramarathnam Venkatesan, > Moti Yung > www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/06-07/crypto/ > crypto_foundations/ > > Dec 7 - 8, 2006 > CONNECTING WOMEN IN MATHEMATICS ACROSS CANADA > www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/06-07/cwimac06/ > > Dec 11 - 15, 2006 > ISAAC WORKSHOP ON PSEUDO-DIFFERENTIAL OPERATORS: > Partial Differential Equations and Time-Frequency Analysis > Fields Institute > www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/06-07/ISAAC/ > > =========================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Planned activities include invited > presentations, research papers, poster sessions, tutorial courses, > vendor exhibits and software demonstrations. > > Important Dates > > ISSAC 2007 will be held from July 29 to August 1, 2007 > in Waterloo, Canada. > > Deadline for submissions: January 17, 2007 (Midnight [24:00 EST]) > Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 28, 2007 > Camera-ready copy to the publisher: April 27, 2007 > > Please note that the refereeing and publication schedule does not > permit any delays in these dates. > > Conference topics include, but are not limited to: > > Algorithmic Mathematics > Algebraic, symbolic and symbolic-numeric algorithms. Simplification, > function manipulation, summation, integration, polynomial/ > differential/difference equations, linear algebra, number theory, > group and invariant theory, geometric computing. > > Computer Science > Theoretical and practical problems in symbolic computation. Systems, > problem solving environments, user interfaces, software, libraries, > parallel/distributed computing and programming languages, concrete > analysis, benchmarking, theoretical and practical complexity, > automatic differentiation, code generation, mathematical data > structures and exchange protocols. > > Applications > Problem treatments using algebraic, symbolic or symbolic-numeric > computation in an essential or a novel way. Engineering, economics > and finance, physical and biological sciences, computer science, > logic, mathematics and education. > > > The ISSAC 2007 web site is > > http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/issac2007/ > > > Instructions to Authors > Original research results and insightful analyses of current concerns > are solicited for submission. Submissions must not duplicate work > published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers will be > reviewed by the program committee and additional referees. > Proceedings will be distributed at the symposium. > Papers must be in English and should not exceed 8 pages in the > standard > format for ACM proceedings, or 20 to 22 pages of text in LaTeX 12pt > article style. > > To view the formatting requirements, or to submit your > contribution, please visit the Paper Submission page > (http://www.easychair.org/ISSAC2007/). > > > Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the > symposium and will be required to sign the ACM copyright agreement > (www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_form.html). > > For poster submissions please consult the forthcoming Call for Posters > or the Poster Submission page (http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/issac2007/ > posters/). > Abstracts of posters will be distributed at the symposium. > > > SIGSAM Distinguished Paper Award > This award will be given to the most distinguished paper(s) > presented at > ISSAC 2007. The distinguished paper(s) will be selected by the program > committee. > > SIGSAM Distinguished Student Author Award > This award will be given to the best student author(s). An author > who is a > full-time student at the time of submission is eligible for the award. > This status should be indicated when the paper is submitted. > > For details concerning the selection procedure for this award as > well as > the procedure for the ISSAC Distinguished Paper Award, see the > ISSAC Award > Guidelines (http://www.acm.org/sigsam/ISSAC_Awards/). > > Organizing Committee > > General Chair: Dongming Wang > > Program Committee Chair: Bernard Mourrain > > Local Arrangements: Keith Geddes, Mark Giesbrecht, > George Labahn, Arne Storjohann > > Publicity Chair: Viktor Levandovskyy > > Treasurer: Juergen Gerhard > > Webmaster: John P. May > > Software Exhibitions Chair: Hirokazu Anai > > Tutorial Chair: J. 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URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/grad-students/attachments/20061117/39fc7c59/attachment.htm From akelm at cms.math.ca Thu Nov 23 16:32:37 2006 From: akelm at cms.math.ca (Alan Kelm) Date: Thu Nov 23 16:32:41 2006 Subject: [grad-students] Seminar - Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems and Applications Message-ID: S?minaire de math?matiques sup?rieures 2007 NATO Advanced Study Institute Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems and Applications Syst?mes dynamiques hamiltoniens et applications Universit? de Montr?al June 18-29 juin 2007 Speakers/Conf?renciers?: Kam Theory?: Eliasson, Hakan, Universit? de Paris VII, France Yuan, Xiaoping, Fudan University, People Republic of China. Stolovich, Laurent, Universit? de Toulouse, France. Hamiltonian PDE and small divisors?: Poeschel, Jurgen, Stuttgart, Germany. Bourgain, Jean, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), USA. Hamiltonian PDE and Nekhoroshev theory?: Bambusi, Dario, Universit? di Milano, Italy. Variational methods in Hamiltonian dynamics?: Rabinowitz, Paul, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Berti, Massimiliano, SISSA/ISAS, Italy. Arnold diffusion?: Cheng, C.-Q., Nanjing University, People Republic of China. De la Llave, Rafael, University of Texas - Austin, USA. Hamiltonian dynamical systems?: Treschev, Dimitry, Moscow State University, Russia. Applications to celestial mechanics?: Chenciner, Alain, Observatoire de Paris / CNRS, France. Applications to control theory?: Agrachev, Andrei, SISSA / ISAS, Italy. Applications to PDE?: Wayne, C. Eugene, Boston University, USA. Applications to averaging methods and adiabatic invariants?: Neistadt, Anatoly, Space Research Institute, Russia. This summer school is aimed primarily at postdoctoral fellows, doctoral students and junior faculty. 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Austin, USA. > Hamiltonian dynamical systems : > Treschev, Dimitry, Moscow State University, Russia. > Applications to celestial mechanics : > Chenciner, Alain, Observatoire de Paris / CNRS, France. > Applications to control theory : > Agrachev, Andrei, SISSA / ISAS, Italy. > Applications to PDE : > Wayne, C. Eugene, Boston University, USA. > Applications to averaging methods and adiabatic invariants : > Neistadt, Anatoly, Space Research Institute, Russia. > > This summer school is aimed primarily at postdoctoral fellows, > doctoral students and junior faculty. Financial support > available. pplication Deadline/Date limite des candidatures : > February 28 f?vrier 2007. > > www.dms.umontreal.ca/sms/ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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References: <200611171417.kAHEHD2x014015@fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca> Message-ID: <72FEB30A-72BE-40D5-8A69-E97FF2522DD0@sfu.ca> Begin forwarded message: > From: Fields Thematic Program Coordinator > > Date: November 17, 2006 6:17:14 AM PST (CA) > To: Fields Mailing List Subscribers > > Subject: Activities in the Thematic Program in Homotopy, Winter/ > Spring 2007 > > ********************************************************************** > ** > THE FIELDS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE > 222 College Street, Toronto, M5T 3J1 Tel: 416-348-9710 > > If additional information is required about Fields activities, please > contact: homotopy@fields.utoronto.ca > ========================================================== > GRADUATE COURSES STARTING JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2007 > ========================================================== > www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/06-07/homotopy/courses/ > > n-categories with duals and TQFT > Instructor: Eugenia Cheng > > Project 1: Basic aspects of quasi-categories > Project 2: Extension of category theory to quasi-categories > Instructor: Andre Joyal > > Simplicial presheaves > Instructor: J.F. Jardine Note that on www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/06-07/ homotopy/courses/ you will find information on courses being offered from January through June, as well as information on how to obtain partial financial assistance to attend the courses if you live beyond commuting distance from Toronto. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/grad-students/attachments/20061212/bdd06270/attachment.htm From mbarnes at sfu.ca Sat Dec 16 21:16:41 2006 From: mbarnes at sfu.ca (Marcus Emmanuel Barnes) Date: Sat Dec 16 21:16:46 2006 Subject: [grad-students] Fwd: Applied Math Graduate Student Conference 2007 References: <45829DC8.8080303@sfu.ca> Message-ID: Begin forwarded message: > From: Colin Macdonald > Date: December 15, 2006 5:06:16 AM PST (CA) > Subject: Applied Math Graduate Student Conference 2007 > > Hi, > > The 2007 Applied Mathematics Graduate Student Conference (AMGSC) > will be > held at SFU on February 3rd, 2007. As attendees of last year's 2006 > AMGSC, I'd like to invite you to attend this year's event. > > The AMGSC is a one-day event organized for students by students, to > provide a casual setting for students to network and possibly give > their > first academic presentation. There are some limited travel funds > available for students to attend. More information and > registration can > be found at the conference website: > > http://www.math.sfu.ca/~amgsc > > Also, please consider passing the word along to other students at your > institution; particularly if you know of grads or senior undergrads > early in their academic careers who might benefit from presenting > either > their research or a course project. > > Thanks, > Colin Macdonald > > -- > Colin Macdonald > Graduate Student, Dept. of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.cms.math.ca/pipermail/grad-students/attachments/20061216/da043e28/attachment.htm