Activities

I. Current Year (2023-2024) — our members are so active and enthusiastic!

II. CAIMS Distinguished Lectures in Mathematical Biology.
The purpose of the annual CAIMS Distinguished Lecture in Mathematical Biology is to (i) provide access to high quality international speakers in mathematical biology to all interested campuses and mathematical biology programs in Canada; (ii) encourage mathematical biology dialogue across Canada by providing researchers across the country with a common speaker series; (iii) raise the profiles of mathematical biology and CAIMS in Canada; (iv) provide smaller programs (with limited resources) access to high calibre international speakers. If you want to host such a lecture in your institute, please contact Dr. Xingfu Zou at ( xzou@uwo.ca ).

2023 CAIMS Distinguished Lectures in Mathematical Biology:

• Frank Hilker (University of Osnabrueck, Germany) —Mathematical models of a social-ecological system: coupling lake pollution dynamics and human behavior, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023, 4:00pm Eastern Time (US and Canada).(hosted by Frithjof Lutcher). The talk will be given at U Ottawa but you can
• Join Zoom Meeting
  https://uottawa-ca.zoom.us/j/92035415506?pwd=MU1ad0tTMFNCS1h2ancwbWZvODRNdz09
• Meeting ID: 920 3541 5506,    Passcode: 4fERjW

Past Distinguished Lectures:

• 2022: Yihong Du (University of New England, Australia) —Rate of propagation for the nonlocal Fisher-KPP equation with free boundary in high space dimensions,   given at the University of Western Ontario on August 8, 2022 (hosted by Xingfu Zou).
• 2020: Jimmy Garnier from CNRS at the Université de Savoie-Mont Blanc (France), talk given at the University of Alberta (hosted by Mark Lewis and Rebecca Tyson (UBC)) —Cancelled due to covid-19 pandemic.
• 2019:  Simon Levin from Princeton University,
  talk at the University of Victoria (hosted by Pauline van den Driessche)
• 2018: Christina Cobbold from University of Glasgow, talk given at University of Ottawa (hosted by Frithjof Lutscher)
• 2017: Kevin Painter from Hariot-Watt University,  talk given at the University of Alberta (host by Thomas Hillen)
• 2016: Michael Bonsall from Oxford University, talk given at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan (hosted by Rebecca Tyson)
• 2015: Laurent Pujo-Menjouet from University of Lyon,talk-part-1 and part-2 given at York University (hosted by Jianhong Wu)

III. Past other events sponsored/organized by our members

Our members are also actively involved in organizing various events
in mathematical biology. Below are some recent examples:

• Mathematical Cell Biology Symposium, University of British Columbia, Vancover, BC, 10 May 2023, organized by Leah Keshet (UBC).
• Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics 6 (CMPD6), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 23-27 May 2023, organized by Julien Arino, Kang-Ling Liao and Stephanie Portet (U Manitoba).
• Workshop on Advances in Mathematical Ecolgy, at the Fields Institute on December 6-7, 2022,  orgnaized by Christina Cobbold (Glasgow), Raluca Eftimie (Franche-Comte), Thomas Hillen (Alberta) and Frithjof Lutscher (Ottawa).
• Workshop on Modeling Population Dynamics in Ecology, Environment and Epidemiology, at the Fields Institute, on August 15-19, 2022, orgnaized by Sue Ann Campbell (Waterloo), Shigui Ruan (Miami) and Jianghong Wu (York)
• Workshop on Mathematical Ecology, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada (August 10-11, 2022), organized by Troy Day, Felicia Magpantay and Bill Nelson.
• 2021-2022: Webinar on Infectious Disease Outbreaks, organized by Q. Griette, J. Heffernan, Y. Maday, P. Magal and J. Wu.
• 2020-2021: Quantitative and Computational Biology Seminar Series, organized by Morgan Craig (University of Montreal) and The Centre for Mathematical Medicine at the Fields Institute.
• 2020-2021: Distinguished Lecture Series on “Modeling and Control of Infectious Diseases”, organized by Huaiping Zhu (York University) et al.
• 2020 Ottawa Applied Analysis Day, October 2, 2020 (organized by Frithjof Lutscher) — two invited talks:
  1. Mary Pugh: Using Adaptive Time-Steppers to Explore Stability Domains
  2. Bard Ermentrout: Follow your nose: The Dynamics of Bilateral Olfactory Search and Navigation

• 2020-2021 Fields Institute Covid-19 Mathematical Modeling Seminar (online) , organized by Kumar Murty and Jianhong Wu.
• 2019-2020:CCDM Distinguished Lecture Series on Mathematics and COVID-19
• 2019 (Aug 12-16): Problem Solving Workshop “Systems Modelling in the Pharmaceutical Industry” (organized Morgan Craig)
• 2019 (Jul-22-26): SMB Annual Meeting in Montreal( organized by Jacques Belair and his colleagues);
• 2019 (Jun-27-28): Workshop on Mathematical Ecology at Queen’s University (organized by Felicia Magpantay and her colleagues)
• 2019 (Jun-14-15): Levin Fest 2019, A Symposium at the Intersection of Mathematics and Biology at the University of Victoria (organized by  Pauline  van den Driessche and her colleagues). Plenary tall Simon Levin (Priceton)
• 2018 (Jul-23-27): The Sixth G. J. Butler International Conference on Differential Equations and Population Biology at the Univ Alberta (organized by Hao Wang and Michael Li)
• 2018: A symposium to celebrate Mackey and Glass at McGill (organized by Jacques Belair)
• 2017: A workshop at University of Waterloo (organized by Chris Bauch)
• 2016: A summer school at University of Alberta (organize by Thomas Hillen);
• 2016: A summer school at York University (organized by Jane Heffernan)