PIMS Connection - June 2014

Greetings from PIMS!

 

Here’s what’s happening in June...

 

June 2014

 

2-27 June – 2014 Summer School in Probability at the University of British Columbia

  http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/140602-ssp

 

2-6 June  – String Math Summer School at the University of British Columbia

  http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/140602-smss

 

2-4 June  – 11th PIMS Young Researchers Conference at the University of British Columbia

  http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/140602-1pyrc

 

6 June  – UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Ravi Ramakrishna at the University of Washington

  http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/140606-upmcrr

 

9-13 June  – String Math Conference - 2014 at the University of Alberta

  http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/140609-smc

 

21 June  – Combinatorial Applications to Biology, Chemistry and Physics at the University of Saskatchewan

  http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/140621-cabcp

 

 

News

 

PIMS is pleased to announce that Martin Barlow (UBC) has been appointed interim PIMS Deputy Director for one year, starting on July 1, 2014. Many thanks to Bud Homsy for his tireless efforts during his term; we wish him all the best in his next endeavour.

 

Nominations Invited for the 2015 CRM-Fields-PIMS prize. Please see www.pims.math.ca/pims-glance/prizes-awards for rules and instructions. The final deadline for nominations is November 1, 2014.

 

The Global Risk Institute in Financial Services (GRI) provides sponsorship for the PIMS Summer School and Workshop on The Economics and Mathematics of Systemic Risk, July 21 - 30, 2014.

https://globalriskinstitute.org/gri-to-sponsor-pims-summer-school-and-workshop-2014/

 

PIMS Call For Proposals for Activities in 2015 or Later. PIMS is currently welcoming applications for support of conferences, workshops, summer schools, Distinguished Visitors, Focus Periods, Collaborative Research Groups and related activities in the mathematical sciences.

http://www.pims.math.ca/news/pims-call-proposals-activities-2015-or-later

 

 

Upcoming Event Registration Deadlines

 

2-4 July – Mathematics at the Frontier of Developmental Biology Workshop http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/140702-mfdbw. Deadline: June 18

 

28-30 July – PIMS Workshop on The Economics and Mathematics of Systemic Risk and the Financial Networks http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/140728-pwtemsrafn.  Deadline July 22

 

 

-PIMS