PIMS Connection - May 2011

Events this month:

 

May 2-5 - PIMS Young Researchers Conference at UBC.

  http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/110502-pyrcm

 

 

May 5 - Mathematics and Palaeontology - An Unlikely Pair? No!

PIMS/Shell Lunchbox lecture in Calgary.

  http://www.pims.math.ca/industrial-event/110505-mpaupn

 

May 16 - 20 - Computational and Analytical Mathematics at SFU.

 

  http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/110516-cam

 

May 30, 2011 Niven Lecture, The Mathematics of Doodling, Ravi Vakil (Stanford University) at UBC.

  http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/110530-nltmd

 

May 31- June 5 CanaDAM 2011 at UVic.

  http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/110531-c

 

News

 

Call for Proposals, we are now welcoming applications for support of conferences, workshops, seminars, Collaborative Research Groups.

  http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific/call-proposals

 

The 2010 PIMS Year in Review is now available online

  http://www.pims.math.ca/resources/publications/pims-year-review

 

PIMS site director Gunther Uhlmann wins SIAM award

  http://www.pims.math.ca/news/site-director-gunther-uhlmann-awarded-prestigious-siam-prize

 

Did you know?

PIMS has sponsored the Calgary Youth Science Fair (CYSF) for the past several years. About 800 students from Grades 3-12 and 500 judges participated in the 2011 CYSF. In addition to this yearly event, PIMS helps to set up fairs at local schools and judges final projects. For the list of this year's CYSF winners visit

  http://www.cysf.org/prize-winners.html

 

For more information and events, visit http://www.pims.math.ca

 

Thank you to all who responded to our survey, your contributions are valuable.

 

 

Regards,Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences.