The Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematical Society strongly condemns the invasion of Putin’s army into Ukraine. Many of us are rendered speechless by the needless aggression, and the malicious lies…

Raymond Spiteri, Mar 3, 2021 University of Saskatchewan The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a re-think of many of the ways in which we deliver our courses at the university. One aspect…

Thomas Hillen, Jan 15, 2021 CAIMS / SCMAI President University of Alberta Thinking back to 2020, your first thought is probably that this was the year when the CAIMS-blog started! We…

Morgan Craig and Isaac Yule, Sept 18, 2020 CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre Université de Montréal Since the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the world has been gripped with uncertainty and fear in…

John Braun, July 22, 2020 I have always wondered at the incredibly intricate levels of specialization within mathematics while statistics is usually considered as one homogeneous entity.   Recently, our (UBC-Okanagan) department’s…

Anthony Bonato, June 18, 2020 The content of this blog was originally posted on The Intrepid Mathematician blog, hosted by Anthony Bonato. I asked mathematicians: How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected…

Peter Solymos, Subhash Lele, Khalid Lemzouji, analythium.io, May 15, 2020   As we’ve all come to know, flattening the curve is the process of reducing the number of…

Anita Layton, UWaterloo,  March 8, 2020   Imagine someone having a heart attack. Do you see the “classic heart attack”, in which a man collapses, grabbing his chest in…

Dan Coombs, UBC,  February 7, 2020   The beginning of 2020 has seen the emergence of a new public health threat: a transmissible respiratory infection caused by a novel…

I use this blog to present an Ethical Guideline, as it was discussed with the CAIMS board during 2018/19. All CAIMS-SCMAI members and all participants of CAIMS-SCMAI supported activities are…

Web-blogs have become a new medium of information exchange. The members of the  Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematical Society work on hot topics, relevant to every-day issues such as epidemic…