CAIMS*SCMAI is pleased to announce the winner of the 2014 CAIMS*SCMAI Research Award. This is the society’s preeminent research award and recognizes innovative and exceptional research contributions in applied or industrial mathematics. The 2014 awardee is Professor Michael Doebeli of the University of British Columbia for his contributions to the mathematical theory of the evolution of diversity and the evolution…

CAIMS*SCMAI and MPrime are pleased to announce that Prof. John Stockie of Simon Fraser University has been awarded the 2014 CAIMS-MPrime Industrial Mathematics Prize. This prize is awarded in recognition of exceptional research in any branch of industrial mathematics. John Stockie’s industrial modelling work has had an important impact in the energy industry (Ballard Power Systems), agriculture (North American Maple…

The CAIMS 2014 Annual Meeting will be held June 22-26 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Local Organizing Committee: Gordon Sarty, Raymond Spiteri (chair) Themes (and organizers) for the meeting include: Canadian Society for Fluid Dynamics (Lucy Campbell, Peter Minev, Robert Owens) Applied Analysis and Dynamical Systems (Luciano Buono, Adam Oberman, Michael Ward) Mathematical Biology (Hermann Eberl, Thomas…

The 2013 CAIMS•SCMAI was held June 16-20, 2013 at Hôtel Château Laurier Québec in Québec City, hosted by Université Laval. Thematic sessions included: Industrial Mathematics Mathematics in Biology and Medicine: Issues and Perspectives Dynamical Systems Computational Mechanics and Mathematics in the Geosciences First Canadian Symposium in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing (CSNASC) More information can be…

CAIMS is pleased to announce that the 2012 Cecil Graham Doctoral Dissertation Award has been awarded to Dr. Vladislav Buksthynov, who completed his doctoral degree at McMaster University under the supervision of Professor Bartosz Protas. Dr. Buksthynov’s Ph.D. thesis was entitled “Computational Methods for the Optimal Reconstruction of Material Properties in Complex Multiphysics Systems”. This…

CAIMS is pleased to announce that the 2013 CAIMS•SCMAI Research Prize has been awarded to Prof. Neil Balmforth, University of British Columbia. Prof. Balmforth’s research has focused on the modeling and analysis of problems in classical fluid mechanics, complex geophysical flows, and viscoplastic flows. His work combines asymptotic analysis, dynamical systems theory, and stability theory together with a…

CAIMS and PIMS are pleased to announce that Prof. Serdar Yuksel of Queen’s University has been awarded the 2013 CAIMS/PIMS Early Career Award in Applied Mathematics.  Prof. Yuksel received his MSc in 2003 and PhD in 2006, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, under the supervision of Tamer Basar.  Subsequently, he did postdoctoral…

The CAIMS 2012 meeting will be held at the Fields Institute for Research in the Mathematical Sciences, Toronto, June 24-28th, 2012. We are grateful to the Fields Institute for their support of this conference. Please see the CAIMS 2012 Official Website for more details including information on registration. The meeting will feature the following themes……

The NSERC Long Range Plan for Mathematics and Statistics Research will be presented at the CAIMS Board Meeting and AGM, on June 24 and 27. At the request of NSERC, the Canadian mathematics and statistics communities will engage in a long range planning exercise to develop a long-range plan (LRP) will allow the communities to…

The 2012 Nerenberg Lecture was delivered by The Rt. Hon. Christopher Monckton, Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley at the University of Western Ontario on March 19th 2012. The following information about the event is take from the University of Western Ontario’s website for this event Premise:Mathematics is the lingua franca of the sciences. Few speak…

Mathematics is the lingua franca of the sciences. Few speak it. Today’s statesmen and the handful of courtiers they have time to trust must often go beyond their expertise. This is the Courtier’s Conundrum: how can the inexpert adviser advise expertly? Margaret Thatcher’s six policy advisers were not scientists. Yet they often gave scientific advice,…

The 2011 Nerenberg Lecture was given by Gerald Pollack at the University of Western Ontario on March 30th, 2011. Prof. Pollack is part of the Systems and Quantitative Biology group at the University of Washington where his research areas include: Interfacial Water and Energy, Cell Biology and the Molecular Basis of Biological Motion. The following…

Probably everyone connected with mathematics knows that revealing your con- nection leads to reactions like: “Eeew, mathematics; I was never any good at that in school.” It’s like announcing that you have some communicable disease. Com- plementary to this is the expression, “well, it’s not rocket science,” meaning that you, dummy, should be able to…

A second international MPE competition for science museum exhibits (modules) was announced at the Next Einstein Forum in Dakar, Senegal on March 10 2016. The competition is organized jointly by Mathematics of Planet Earth (MPE), the International Basic Science Program (IBSP) at UNESCO, the International Mathematical Union (IMU), the International Commission of Mathematical Instruction (ICMI)…