The CAIMS Cecil-Graham Doctoral Dissertation Award is presented to Dr. Chai Molina for his work of remarkable depth and breadth in the field of evolutionary game theory, which contains results significant to application, as well as theoretical results that have implications not only in the field but also in broader areas of applied mathematics. Dr.…

CAIMS and PIMS are pleased to announce Ben Adcock of Simon Fraser University, and Hau-Tieng Wu of the University of Toronto as the co-winners of the 2017 Early Career Award in Applied Mathematics. Professor Adcock received his PhD in 2010 from the Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics at Cambridge. Since leaving Cambridge, he…

The 2017 CAIMS Research Prize is presented to Professor James Feng from the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at UBC in recognition of his influential contributions to the study of complex fluids. Prof James Feng is an international expert in multi-component complex fluids, with highly cited work on two-phase…

The Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society and the Fields Institute are pleased to announce that Professor Zhangxing (John) Chen has been awarded the 2017 CAIMS-Fields Industrial Mathematics Prize for his seminal contributions to industrial and applied mathematics, computational science, and modelling of flow in porous media. Dr. Chen is a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at…

An advance screening for the movie “GIFTED” in Toronto is happening this upcoming Thursday, March 16th at 7:00PM at Cineplex Yonge and Dundas. The Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society has been offered 15 double passes to attend! If you are interested, please write to me (communications-officer@caims.ca/) and I will send along the link to…

The Fields Undergraduate Summer Research Program welcomes carefully selected undergraduate students from around the world for a rich mathematical research experience in July and August. This competitive initiative matches students with faculty from Fields Principal Sponsoring/Affiliate Universities, visiting scientists, or researchers in industry. Students accepted for the Program will have most of their travel and on-site…

A remembrance day dedicated to the memory of Jonathan Michael Borwein will be taking place on Friday February 10th, 2017 at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris. Speakers on that day will be F.J. Aragón Artacho (University of Alicante and CARMA) David H. Bailey (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Patrick Combettes (North Carolina State University) Ivar…

Patrick (Pat)  Keast, retired professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, passed away suddenly at his home in Halifax on Monday, July 25, 2016, at the age of 73. He is survived by his wife Kathleen, whom he met in high school, and sons Liam (Brenda) and James (Stephanie) and his grandchildren, Isaac, Kate…

2016 Industrial Problem Solving Workshop August 15 – 19, 2016, The Fields Institute Description The interaction between industry and academia has many potential benefits for both. Academics learn about interesting potential research problems and find application for their existing tools. Industries get access to some of the most experienced mathematical modellers and problem-solvers on the…

Professor Leah Edelstein-Keshet of the Mathematics Department at the University of British Columbia is the recipient of the 2016 CAIMS Research Prize. Professor Edelstein-Keshet is a world leader in the application of mathematical methods and analyses to biological problems. She has written highly original and impactful papers on the characterization of collective spatial organization of…