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…

CAIMS*SCMAI will be holding an election next winter (March 2015) for: One Member-at-Large position on the Board of Directors Secretary President-Elect The member-at-large position will fill the position to be vacated by Roderick Melnik, whose term will come to an end in 2015. The Secretary position will be vacated by Sharene Bungay. The President-Elect position will be vacated…

The Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society (CAIMS) would like to invite nominations for the Arthur Beaumont Distinguished Service Award. This award honours members of CAIMS/SCMAI for outstanding service to the society or to Applied Mathematics in Canada. The award is named after its first recipient, and was initiated as a means to honour Arthur for his years of unselfish…

The Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society (CAIMS) and the Fields Institute would like to invite nominations for the CAIMS-Fields Industrial Mathematics Prize. This prize is to be awarded to a researcher in recognition of exceptional research in any branch of industrial mathematics, interpreted broadly. The nominee’s research should have been conducted primarily in Canada. The award will consist of…

The Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society (CAIMS) would like to invite nominations for the CAIMS*SCMAI Research Prize. This award recognizes innovative and exceptional research contributions in applied or industrial mathematics. The award will consist of a prize of $1,000 and a commemorative plaque that will be presented at the CAIMS*SCMAI Annual Meeting. The recipient will be invited to give…

The Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences are pleased to announce the 2015 competition for the CAIMS/PIMS Early Career Award in Applied Mathematics. The prize is to be awarded to a researcher fewer than ten years past the date of Ph.D. as of January of the year of the award. The prize…

The Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society (CAIMS) would like to invite nominations for the 2014 Cecil Graham Doctoral Dissertation Award. This award is given to recognize and to publicize an outstanding PhD thesis in Applied Mathematics defended at a Canadian University during the calendar year prior to the year of the award. The award consists of a prize…

The CAIMS 2015 Annual Meeting will be held June 7-12 in Waterloo, Ontario. Local Organizing Committee: Roderick Melnik Themes (and organizers) for the meeting include: The 2nd Canadian Symposium on Scientific Computing and Numerical Analysis (Scott MacLachlan, Justin Wan, Hans de Sterck, Ben Adcock) Industrial Mathematics (Huaxiong Huang, John Stockie, Odile Marcotte, Sean Bohun) Mathematical…

This September at the NSERC / Pratt & Whitney Canada Chair for Women in Science and Engineering for Ontario – Chaire CRSNG / Pratt & Whitney Canada pour les femmes en sciences et génie pour l’Ontario, we are putting a spotlight on Women in Math in Ontario by featuring the stories of over twenty amazing…

CAIMS*SCMAI is happy to announce that the recipient of the 2013 CAIMS*SCMAI Cecil Graham Doctoral Dissertation Award is Dr Frances Mackay of the University of Western Ontario. Her thesis titled: “Hybrid lattice Boltzmann – molecular dynamics simulations with both simple and complex fluids”, was completed under the supervision of Professor Colin Denniston in the Department…

CAIMS*SCMAI is happy to announce that the recipient of the 2014 Arthur Beaumont Distinguished Service Award is Professor Arvind Gupta of UBC. Under Arvind’s leadership MITACS brought about a change in the way in which much of applied mathematics was carried out in Canada and an equally important change in the perception of the mathematical sciences by Canadian industry…

CAIMS and PIMS are pleased to announce that Prof. Geoff Wild of the University of Western Ontario has been awarded the 2014 CAIMS/PIMS Early Career Award in Applied Mathematics. Prof. Wild obtained his PhD in 2004 from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Queen’s University. Since 2004 he has held post-doctoral positions at both Queen’s University and the University…