Editor: Christina Christara

1. Call for minisymposia at the CAIMS*SCMAI annual meeting
2. Distinguished Women in Mathematics Colloquium, Friday, March 11, 2022, 15:30
   
3. Stay tuned for the CAIMS*SCMAI 2022 elections messages

1. Call for minisymposia at the CAIMS*SCMAI annual meeting

The CAIMS*SCMAI 2022 Annual Meeting minisymposium submission page is open for submissions at
https://cmps.ok.ubc.ca/about/caims/
under “submissions” on the navigation bar on the left.
Note the new minisymposium formats for this year’s meeting!
The deadline (firm) is March 20th.

Take a look at a picture from the location of the meeting
https://sci-cmps.cms.ok.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/132/2021/11/CAIMS_1920x780.jpg

Vous pouvez maintenant soumettre vos propositions de minisymposiums pour la réunion annuelle SCMAI*CAIMS 2022!  La page web est à
https://cmps.ok.ubc.ca/about/scmai/
(voir «soumissions» dans la barre de navigation à gauche).
Notez les nouveaux formats de minisymposium pour la réunion de cette année! La date limite (ferme) est le 20 mars.

Regardez une photo du lieu de la réunion
https://sci-cmps.cms.ok.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/132/2021/02/BIRS_Campus_Arial_Slider.jpg

2. Distinguished Women in Mathematics Colloquium, Friday, March 11, 2022, 15:30

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Ottawa
is proud to host Prof. Christiane Rousseau (Montreal) for the annual
Distinguished Women in Mathematics Colloquium.
The colloquium takes place on Friday March 11 at 3:45 PM.
You are all invited to join the presentation online (information below).

Title: The equivalence problem in analytical dynamics

Abstract: A central problem in local dynamics is the equivalence
problem: when are two analytic systems locally equivalent under an analytic coordinate change?  In the neighborhood of a singular point, the representatives of the equivalence classes could be given by normal forms. But, most often, the coordinate changes to the normal form diverge. Why does this happen? What does this mean? The unfolding of singularities reveals geometric obstructions to convergence to the normal form.

In this talk, we discuss a class of singularities and their unfoldings for which we can provide moduli spaces for equivalence problems. We explain the common geometric features of these singularities, and how the study of the unfolding of these singularities allows us to understand both the singularities themselves, and the obstructions to the existence of analytic coordinate changes to the normal form.

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.

When: Mar 11, 2022 15:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Register (free) in advance for this meeting:

https://uottawa-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vf-upqDsrHdJlU2UWWXKvH56pHZk8_FFq

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing
information about joining the meeting.

3. Stay tuned for the CAIMS*SCMAI 2022 elections messages

CAIMS*SCMAI will be holding an election soon for

* Four Member-at-Large positions on the Board of Directors
* Treasurer

All registered members will soon receive e-mail messages with links about how to vote. Stay tuned for these messages.

If you are not registered this year, and you are not a lifetime member, please make sure you register soon. To do that, visit
https://caims.ca/individual-membership/
and sign-up or renew your membership online.

Only members who are registered at least one week before the elections close or are lifetime members are eligible to vote.

CAIMS*SCMAI E–News Information

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

Past issues are available on the web at https://www.caims.ca/e-news_archive

Submissions are welcome and should be sent in plain text format to:
Christina Christara, CAIMS*SCMAI Secretary Email: secretary@caims.ca
or
Morgan Craig, CAIMS*SCMAI Communications-Officer Email: communications-officer@caims.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.

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