University of Calgary

Over 2000 student participants from grades 4, 5 and 6 are expected.

Approximately 300 grades 7, 8 and 9 students will participate.

This is a 90-minute mathematics contest which takes place every spring.The exam is primarily for Grade 9 students. However, all junior high students attending schools in Calgary and surrounding districts are eligible. The exam is written by...

Canadian Math Kangaroo Contest is for students in grade 2-12. The main purpose of this competition is to introduce participants to math challenges in an enjoyable way, thus, inspiring their further interest and advancement in mathematics. There are...

PIMS is involved in judging and contributing $250 and $100 prize money for projects making major use of mathematics.

In many applications, ranging from engineering to economics and applied mathematics, it is often desired to locate an extremum of a functional that captures the performance of the system. Typically, such an extremum has to be found subject to a set...

The University of Calgary has been an international leader in developing experiments that involve imaging the aurora. At present, UofC has more than 50 instruments deployed across the Canadian Arctic. This network takes images and other measurements...

Humankind's fascination with the mathematical constant pi goes well beyond practical need. In fact, even though over five trillion decimal places of pi has been calculated, a mere four decimal places are sufficient for the design of the world's...

The electrophysiology in a cardiac cell can be modelled as a system of ordinary differential equations. The efficient solution of these systems is important because they must be solved billions of times as sub-problems of organ-level simulations. The...

Mathematical models can help us understand the formation of complex spatial patterns, including the territories of wolves and coyotes. Here scent marks provide important cues regarding the use of space. In this talk I will show how biologically-based...