Editor: Sharene Bungay (sharene@mun.ca)

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Society News

1. Call for Activity Group Leaders: Dynamical Systems
2. Call for Activity Group Leaders: Financial Mathematics
3. Joining Activity Groups: Dynamical Systems, Industrial Mathematics
4. French Translation of CAIMS Website

Other News

5. Women in Mathematics Awareness Campaign
6. Postdoctoral position – Dalhousie University
7. AARMS summer school 2015 in Differential equations and numerical computing
8. Tenure-track appointment in Actuarial Mathematics
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University
9. CAIMS*SCMAI E-news Information

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Call for Activity Group Leaders: Dynamical Systems

The Dynamical Systems Activity Group is looking for an Activity Group Leader. The duties include, maintaining the Activity Area webpage (in coordination with CAIMS/SCMAI Communication Officer), communicate with members of the Activity Group, receive requests for funding of events (workshop, conference, etc) from the Activity Group fund, be involved in the coordination/organization of special sessions and minisymposia at the CAIMS/SCMAI Annual Meeting. If you are interested, please send an email to CAIMS/SCMAI Communications Officer – Luciano Buono (luciano.buono@uoit.ca).

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Call for Activity Group Leaders: Financial Mathematics

The Financial Mathematics Activity Group is looking for an Activity Group Leader. The duties include, maintaining the Activity Area webpage (in coordination with CAIMS/SCMAI Communication Officer), communicate with members of the Activity Group, receive requests for funding of events (workshop, conference, etc) from the Activity Group fund, be involved in the coordination/organization of special sessions and minisymposia at the CAIMS/SCMAI Annual Meeting. If you are interested, please send an email to CAIMS/SCMAI Communications Officer – Luciano Buono (luciano.buono@uoit.ca).

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Joining Activity Groups: Dynamical Systems, Industrial Mathematics

The Dynamical Systems Activity Group welcomes researchers and students to join its membership. If you would like to be a member of the Dynamical Systems Activity Group, please send an email to the group leader (currently: luciano.buono@uoit.ca) in order to be added. CAIMS/SCMAI provides a limited amount of funding (~ $1000/year) in order to support events and activities, e.g. workshops or conferences, in the area of dynamical systems. Please contact the group leader to enquire about financial support or to submit a proposal. Special sessions and minisymposia on dynamical systems are organized yearly at the CAIMS/SCMAI annual meeting, please visit the Activities/Events page on under the Dynamical Area page, the CAIMS/SCMAI Annual Meeting website for more details or follow the e-newsletter.

The Industrial Mathematics Activity Group welcomes researchers and students to join its membership. If you would like to be a member of the Industrial Mathematics Activity Group, please send an email to the group leader (sean.bohun@uoit.ca) in order to be added. CAIMS/SCMAI provides a limited amount of funding (~ $1000/year) in order to support events and activities, e.g. workshops or conferences, in the area of dynamical systems. Please contact the group leader to enquire about financial support or to submit a proposal. Special sessions and minisymposia on Industrial Mathematics are organized yearly at the CAIMS/SCMAI annual meeting, please visit the CAIMS/SCMAI Annual Meeting website for more details or follow the e-newsletter.

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French Translation of CAIMS Website

We will soon begin the French translation of the CAIMS website. This will be done by a professional translator. However, we need to set up a small task force of fluent French-English CAIMS/SCMAI members to eventually review the translation. If you are interested in joining the task force, please email Luciano Buono, Communication Officer (Luciano.buono@uoit.ca).

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Women in Mathematics Awareness Campaign

The NSERC/Pratt & Whitney Canada Chair for Women in Science and Engineering for Ontario is launching a campaign to spotlight women in mathematics this September. Please see the advertisement in attachment and share with your colleagues.

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Postdoctoral position – Dalhousie University

Postdoctoral position is available under the supervision of Prof. Theodore Kolokolnikov at Dalhousie University, Canada. The prospective candidate should have a strong training in one or more of the following areas: asymptotic methods, dynamical systems, applied analysis, PDEs, pattern formation, modeling and simulations, numerical methods. For inquiries or to submit an application please email to tkolokol@gmail.com.

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AARMS summer school 2015 in Differential equations and numerical computing
July 6-31, 2015, Dalhousie University, Halifax
http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~tkolokol/summer

This summer school is intended for graduate and senior undergraduate students, as well as young researchers. Each participant is expected to register for two of the four courses. Each course consists of five ninety-minute lecture sessions each week. These are graduate courses approved by Dalhousie and we will facilitate transfer credit to the extent possible. Funding is available for travel and lodging for students participating in the school.

Courses/teachers:

Course 1: Waves and patterns in nonlinear systems
Instructors: Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA) and Ricardo Carrettero (SDSU)

Course 2: Topics in Reaction-Diffusion Systems: Theory and Applications
Instructors: Michael Ward (UBC) and Juncheng Wei (UBC)

Course 3: Structure-preserving discretization of differential equations
Instructors: Elena Celledoni (NTNU) and Brynjulf Owren (NTNU)

Course 4: Numerical analysis of singularly perturbed ODEs and PDES
Instructor: Martin Stynes (National University of Ireland)

For more information and to apply, please see here:
http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~tkolokol/summer

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Tenure-track appointment in Actuarial Mathematics
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University

Applications are invited for a tenure-track appointment in Actuarial Mathematics at the Assistant Professor level in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, York University to commence July 1, 2015, subject to budgetary approval. The successful candidate will have completed all the requirements for a Ph.D. in Mathematics or a related discipline by the start date, and have a file that provides documentation of excellence (or, for very junior candidates, the promise of excellence) in both research and teaching. This candidate will also be suitable for prompt appointment to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and be capable of, and willing to, assume a leadership role in the Department’s actuarial program. The ideal candidate will be a Fellow of one of the following professional societies: Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA), Society of Actuaries (SoA), Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS), Faculty and Institute of Actuaries (FIA), or Institute of Actuaries of Australia (IAA). Candidates willing to commit to prompt achievement of Associate status, followed by Fellowship will also be considered.

York University is an Affirmative Action (AA) employer and strongly values diversity, including gender and sexual diversity, within its community. The AA program, which applies to Aboriginal people, visible minorities, people with disabilities, and women, can be found at www.yorku.ca/acadjobs or by calling the AA office at 416-736-5713. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority.

Applications must be received by January 5, 2015. Applicants should post their curriculum vitae, an outline of their research plan and a description of teaching interests on MathJobs.org. They should also arrange for three letters of recommendation (one of which should address teaching) to be sent there. Questions regarding application procedures for this position should be directed to Susan Rainey at srainey@yorku.ca.

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CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Information

CAIMS*SCMAI E-News is distributed electronically several times a year by the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society/Societe Canadienne de Mathematiques Appliquees et Industrielles (https://www.caims.ca/).

Past issues are available on the web at https://www.caims.ca//content/e-news-archive
Submissions are welcome and should be sent in plain text format to:

Sharene Bungay, CAIMS-SCMAI Secretary,
Email: sharene@mun.ca

The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of the Board or Membership of CAIMS*SCMAI. The editorial policy of this publication is to encourage the discussion of issues and facilitate the dissemination of information relevant to Canadian applied and industrial mathematics.

If you wish to have your name removed from the e-mailing list for the CAIMS*SCMAI E-News, please send an email message to Sharene Bungay as above.