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First International Women in Mathematics Day May 12 2019

May 10, 2019

May 12, 2019 is the First International Women in Mathematics day. There are hundreds of events happening world-wide throughout the month of May, including several in Canada. For more information see the official Women in Mathematics website. The date chosen to celebrate Women in Mathematics is the birthday of Professor Maryam Mirzakhani.   In 2014, Prof.…

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CAIMS-PIMS Early Career Award Presented to Dr. Bahman Gharesifard

May 7, 2019

Prof. Bahman Gharesifard of Queen’s University is awarded the 2019 CAIMS/PIMS Early Career Award in recognition of their cutting edge work on the advancement of theory in the network sciences, and for novelty and breadth in applications in social, biological, and economic networks.

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Jianhong Wu wins the 2019 CAIMS-Fields Industrial Mathematics Prize

May 2, 2019

The Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society and the Fields Institute are pleased to announce that Prof. Jianhong Wu of York University has been awarded the 2019 CAIMS-Fields Industrial Mathematics Prize in recognition of their many contributions to dynamical systems in mathematical epidemiology and in particular, their collaborative research with public health professionals in government…

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CAIMS Research Prize Presented to Dr. Pauline van den Driessche

May 2, 2019

It is a great honour for the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematical Society to present the 2019 Research Prize to Prof. Pauline van den Driessche from the University of Victoria. The award is given in recognition of their contributions to Mathematical Epidemiology and Matrix Analysis, and the high impact of this work in many areas…

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CAIMS Cecil-Graham Doctoral Dissertation Award: Amir Maleki

May 2, 2019

It is with great pleasure that the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society presents the 2019 Cecil Graham Doctoral Dissertation Award to Dr. Amir Maleki. The award is given  in recognition of a high-quality, insightful thesis addressing multiple aspects of modeling displacement flows used to cement wells in oil and gas industry. They employed a…

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CAIMS Service Award Presented to Dr. Lucy Campbell

May 2, 2019

It is a great pleasure for the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematical Society to present the 2019 Arthur Beaumont Distinguished Service Award to Prof. Lucy Campbell from Carleton University in Ottawa, for their outstanding service to  CAIMS/SCMAI as two-time co-organizer of the Canadian Symposium on Fluid Dynamics, active contributor to Annual Meetings, Board Member, and…

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Mathematics in Science and Industry

August 23, 2018

CAIMS/SCMAI has launched its new journal: Mathematics in Science and Industry – We are now open for business! Submissions in all areas of applied and industrial mathematics are welcome. More information is available on our website, or on printable flyers (letter, A4).  

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CAIMS Research Prize Presented to Dr. Leon Glass

May 15, 2018

It is a great honor for the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematical Society to present the Research Prize to Dr. Leon Glass from McGill University. Dr. Leon Glass, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, has made seminal contributions to research, education and community leadership. His early research on dynamic genetic networks in the 1970’s and 80’s…

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CAIMS Cecil-Graham Doctoral Dissertation Award: David McLeod

May 15, 2018

It is with great pleasure that the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society presents the 2018 Cecil Graham Doctoral Dissertation Award to David McLeod. Dr. McLeod’s thesis is a beautiful example of applied mathematics, applying sophisticated mathematical ideas to questions of fundamental interest to evolutionary biologists, relating to infectious diseases and mating systems, including sexual selection and conflict, and also…

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CAIMS-PIMS Early Career Award Presented to Dr. Alexander Bihlo

May 9, 2018

Alexander Bihlo is a meteorologist and numerical analyst who currently holds a Tier II CRC position in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Memorial University. In the seven years since receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Bihlo has made over 30 peer-reviewed contributions to the literature.  His most significant work impacts climate modelling and refining computational approaches for real-world…

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Cecil Graham Doctoral Dissertation Award Presented to Chai Molina

June 19, 2017

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.…

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CAIMS-PIMS Early-Career Award 2017 co-winners: Ben Adcock, Hau-tieng Wu

June 6, 2017

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…

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Professor James Feng is awarded the CAIMS Research Prize 2017

June 1, 2017

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…

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(John) Chen Wins the 2017 CAIMS-Fields Industrial Mathematics Prize

April 24, 2017

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…

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