PIMS Connection - May 2013

Greetings from PIMS!

 

Here is a list of what's happening around the sites...

 

May 2013

 

2 May - PIMS Distinguished Visitor Colloquium: Frits Beukers at Simon Fraser University

   http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/130502-pdvcfb

 

2 May - PIMS Colloquium: Tom Archibald at Simon Fraser University

   http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/130502-pcta

 

2-3 May - 2013 Alberta College Mathematics Conference (ACMC) and North-South Dialogue (N-S) at the University of Calgary

   http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/130502-acmcnsds

 

3 May - West End Number Theory Seminar: Moshe Adrian at the University of Calgary

   http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/130503-wentsma

 

3-4 May - Prairie Discrete Math Workshop 2013 at Thompson Rivers University

   http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/130503-pdmw

 

3 May - Math Across Campus Colloquium: Richard Tapia at the University of Washington

   http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/130503-maccrt

 

4-5 May - The 3rd Pacific Northwest Theory Day at the University of Victoria

   http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/130504-t3pntd

 

7 May - PIMS Number Theory Seminar: Frits Beukers at Simon Fraser University

   http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/130507-pntsfb

 

7 May - PIMS Distinguished Visitor Seminar: Frits Beukers at Simon Fraser University

   http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/130507-pdvsfb

 

10 May - PIMS-UW Mathematics Colloquium: S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan at University of Washington

   http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/130510-pumcsrsv

 

11-12 May - Alberta Number Theory Days 2013 in Banff, Alberta

   http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/130511-antd

 

14 May - PIMS/Shell Lunchbox Lecture: Visual Computing Challenges and Solutions for Smart Oil/Gas Exploration & Production at Calgary Place Tower, Calgary

   http://www.pims.math.ca/industrial-event/130514-vccssoep

 

18-19 May - Cascade Topology Seminar at Portland State University

   http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/130518-cts

 

21-24 May - 10th PIMS Young Researchers Conference in Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Alberta

   http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/130521-1pyrcms

 

23-25 May International Workshop on the Perspectives on High-dimensional Data Analysis III at the University of British Columbia

   http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/130523-iwpohddai

 

25 May - 2013 SSC Student Conference at the University of Alberta

   http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/130525-ssc

 

26-30 May - 2013 CMOS/CGU/CWRA Joint Scientific Congress at the University of Saskatchewan

   http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/130526-cjsc

 

24 May - 14 June - PIMS IGTC Mathematical Biology Summer School at the University of Alberta

   http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/130527-pimbss

 

27 May - 2013 Niven Lecture - Yann Brenier at the University of British Columbia

   http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/130527-nlyb

 

 

News

 

PIMS is pleased to announce the appointment of four new members to our Board of Directors: Samuel Gray (Chief Scientist, CGG, Calgary); Yuval Peres (Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research); John F.H. Thompson (Consultant, PetraScience Consultants Inc. and Professor, Cornell University) and Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann (Professor of Mathematics and Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Geometric Analysis, University of Alberta)

   http://www.pims.math.ca/news/pims-welcomes-new-board-members.

 

 

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (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-2014-or-later.