Editor: Christina Christara
- Please renew your membership for 2025
- Faculty position, University of Guelph, assessment starting March 3, 2025
- Six (6) faculty positions, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, assessment starting March 3, 2025
- Call for nomination to the 18th Bellman Prize, sponsored by the journal Mathematical Biosciences, deadline April 1, 2025
- Increase of job ad fee at CAIMS*SCMAI webpage and E-news
1. Please renew your membership for 2025
If you have not renewed your CAIMS*SCMAI membership for 2025
and if you are not a lifetime member of CAIMS*SCMAI,
please renew your membership.
To do that, go to
https://caims.ca/individual-membership/
Towards the bottom of the page, there is a link
to renew or sign-up.
Note that memberships are for calendar years,
for example, this year they are for
January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025
2. Faculty position, University of Guelph, assessment starting March 3, 2025
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics (within the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences) at the University of Guelph invites applications for a
tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level.
The successful candidate is expected to support the development of our proposed undergraduate program in Data Science. The anticipated start date of the position is 1 July 2025, or another mutually agreed-upon date in 2025.
The successful applicant should or will have a Ph.D. in mathematics, statistics, or a closely related area.
Assessment of applications will begin on March 3, 2025, and will continue until the position is filled.
For more information about the position, the university and the program, as well as the procedure for applying, please see
https://caims.ca/assistant-professor-data-science/
3. Six (6) faculty positions, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, assessment starting March 3, 2025
The Department of Applied Mathematics (AMA), part of the newly formed Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, invites applications for a
Research Assistant Professor in Applied Optimization and Operations Research / Data Science and Analytics / Applied Statistics and Financial Mathematics / Engineering and Computational Mathematics / Mathematical Science (six posts) (Ref. 250210008)
Applicants should have a PhD degree in Mathematics / Statistics / Financial Mathematics / Operations Research / Computational Mathematics / Applied Mathematics or a closely related field with experience in Data Science and Analytics.
Consideration of applications will commence on 3 March 2025 until the positions are filled.
For more information about the position, the university and the program, as well as the procedure for applying, please see
https://caims.ca/research-assistant-professor-in-applied-optimization-and-operations-research-data-science-and-analytics-applied-statistics-and-financial-mathematics-engineering-and-computational-mathematics-m-2/
4. Call for nomination to the 18th Bellman Prize, sponsored by the journal Mathematical Biosciences, deadline April 1, 2025
The Bellman Prize is a biennial award to a research team or single investigator, whose Mathematical Bioscience article has made an outstanding contribution to their research field over the last five years.
Nominations are now open for any Mathematical Biosciences original research paper published in the years 2020 and 2021. The prize committee does not consider self-nominations, but anyone else can submit a nomination. We encourage you to ask a colleague to nominate your work. Papers published by the Editor-in-Chief or Deputy Editor cannot be nominated.
A complete nomination package consists of:
– A letter of nomination of at most two pages.
– A citation of the research paper (approximately 100 words)
– Optional: two letters of support for the nomination
Nominations must be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief, Abba Gumel, via email to agumel@umd.edu. The deadline for nominations is April 1st, 2025.
The Bellman Prize was established in 1985 in honor of Dr. Richard Bellman (1920–1984) founder and Editor-in-Chief of Mathematical Biosciences.
For more information and for the history of the prize, visit
https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/256857/call-for-nomination-to-the-18th-bellman-prize
5. Increase of job ad fee at CAIMS*SCMAI webpage and E-news
CAIMS*SCMAI maintains a page of paid job ads at
https://caims.ca/current-positions/
As of March 1, 2025,
the fee for posting a job ad on the CAIMS*SCMAI webpage
will increase from $100 (CAD) to $130 (CAD),
and the fee for posting a short job ad in the next E-news
will increase from $50 (CAD) to $65 (CAD),
For information how to purchase a job ad on the CAIMS*SCMAI webpage, see
https://caims.ca/posting-advertisements/
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://caims.ca).
Past issues are available on the web at https://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
Iain Moyles, 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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