Past Events

The sixteenth annual BIRS Math Fair Conference 2018:The Ted Lewis Workshop on SNAP Math Fairs 2018 at the beautiful conference center above the town of Banff in Alberta. We start on Friday evening with a puzzle social in the Corbett Hall lounge area...

A flexible Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) framework is presented. The framework is derived on the basis of an Augmented Lagrangian formulation for FSI, and is suitable for matching and non-matching interface discretization. The key constituents of...

As machine learning becomes more critical to businesses’ core offerings, data scientists must adapt their tools and techniques to meet business demands. Industry data scientists can no longer run ad hoc Tensorflow or Spark jobs against local data...

Registration Deadline: March 4, 2018 A reduced contest participation fee of $17 is available until February 18. After this date and until the deadline of March 4, the contest fee is $25. Contest content is covered in the Province Math Curriculum...

Personalized medicine has been hailed as one of the main frontiers for medical research in this century. In the first half of the talk, we will give an overview on our projects that use complex and big data sets for biomarker discovery. In the second...

The Vancouver Police Department is known worldwide for its pioneering work in the field of intelligence-led policing, and is the first police service in Canada to deploy a machine-learning predictive system directly on police mobile computers. With a...

This Alternative Math Education event will present fun methods of teaching math and computer science concepts to children (and adults!) using games and art. Lots of hands-on activities! Including: • A Sorting Network • An Impossible Balancing Act •...

PIMS and UBC are excited to be bringing back the Math Circles Workshops for elementary school students to Monday evenings in 2018. We invite students from grades 4-7 to challenge and develop their thinking, creativity and problem solving skills in a...

The Alberta Epigenetics Network (AEN) in partnership with the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) is organizing a workshop November 24, 2017 in Calgary, which would: 1. Provide researchers and industry partners a platform to share...

This Alternative Math Education event will present fun methods of teaching math and computer science concepts to children (and adults!) using games and art. Lots of hands-on activities! Including: • A Sorting Network • An Impossible Balancing Act •...