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…

CAIMS is pleased to announce that the recipient of the CAIMS Arthur Beaumont Distinguished Service Award for 2016 is Professor Sharene Bungay from the Department of Computer Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland, for her outstanding service to CAIMS as a Board Member from July 2009 to June 2011, CAIMS Secretary from July 2011 to…

The Fields Institute is pleased to announce in conjunction with the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society (CAIMS) that Professor Huaxiong Huang from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at York University is the 2016 winner of the CAIMS-Fields Industrial Mathematics Prize. Huang was the inaugural Industrial Coordinator at the Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences, he…

CAIMS*SCMAI and PIMS are pleased to announce that Professor Jean-Philippe Lessard of Université Laval is the winner of the 2016 CAIMS/PIMS Early Career Award in Applied Mathematics. Professor Lessard obtained his PhD in 2007 from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He held postdoctoral positions at the Free University of Amsterdam, Rutgers and Princeton, and is now associate…

Please note that the deadline for submission of abstracts for minisymposium or contributed talks, and poster presentations at the 2016 CAIMS Annual Meeting is February 29, 2016. The meeting will take place at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, June 26-30, 2016.  It will be held in conjunction with the Canadian Symposium in Fluid Dynamics. The…

Nominations for the annual CAIMS*SCMAI Prizes and Awards are now open. Those are 1) Arthur-Beaumont Distinguished Service Award 2) Cecil-Graham Doctoral Dissertation Award 3) CAIMS*SCMAI Research Prize 4) CAIMS-Fields Industrial Mathematics Prize 5) CAIMS/PIMS Early Career Award Please visit www.caims.ca//nominations

CAIMS-SCMAI now has a Youtube Channel. Be sure to subscribe to the channel. Once reaching 500 subscribers, the society will be able to choose its channel name. If you have videos relevant to the CAIMS membership or on Applied and Industrial Mathematics at large and would like it to be available on the society’s Youtube channel,…

The first CAIMS-SCMAI Distinguished Lecture in Mathematical Biology by Laurent Pujo-Menjouet is now available on CAIMS-SCMAI Youtube channel. La première Conférence émérite CAIMS-SCMAI en biologie mathématique par Laurent Pujo-Menjouet est maintenant disponible sur le canal Youtube de CAIMS-SCMAI. Part 1/Première partie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXnv2CLeXoo Part 2/Deuxième partie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CdBhEoYWVY

The deadline for submission of minisymposia at the CAIMS 2016 Annual Meeting has been extended to October 30, 2015. The proposals can be submitted at: http://caims2016.caims.ca//caims2016/Submissions_caims2016/Submissions_caims2016_info.html

September 1, Tuesday, 2:30-3:30 Room: North Ross Building 940, York University Speaker: Laurent Pujo-Menjouet Title: Mad cow disease: how collaboration between biologists and mathematicians lead to a new discovery about prion formation Abstract: In a previous work by Alvarez-Martinez et al. (2011), the authors pointed out some fallacies in the mainstream interpretation of the prion…

CAIMS*SCMAI and The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences are pleased to announce that Prof. Sean Bohun of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology is the winner of the 2015 CAIMS-Fields Prize in Industrial Mathematics. Prof. Bohun obtained his PhD in 1998 from the University of Victoria and has been a faculty member…

CAIMS*SCMAI and PIMS are pleased to announce that Prof. Jane Heffernan of York University is the winner of the 2015 CAIMS/PIMS Early Career Award in Applied Mathematics. Prof. Heffernan obtained her PhD in 2005 from the Department of Applied Mathematics at Western, and was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal. She held an NSERC postdoctoral…