5th Annual Aboriginal Students in Math and Science Workshop

  • Date: 10/31/2014
Location: 

The IRMACS Centre at SFU

Description: 

The main goal of the workshop is to give an opportunity to Aboriginal high school students to experience "hands on" mathematics and science through various activities.

Schedule:

10:00 - 10:10 Welcome by William Lindsay, Office for Aboriginal Peoples
10:10 - 11:00 "Studenting, Learning, or Thinking: Three Sides of the Same Coin" by Peter Liljedahl, Faculty of Education
11:00 - 11:10 Break
11:10 - 12:00 "Surprisingly Simple Multi-Robot Systems" by Richard Vaughan, School of Computing Science
12:00 - 12:15 Donalene Rapada, Accountant, Service of Delivery for Squamish Nation
12:15 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 1:50 "Math and the Olympics" by John Stockie, Department of Mathematics
1:50 - 2:00 Break
2:00 - 2:50 Sophie Lavieri, Department of Chemistry
3:00 - 4:00 SFU Campus Tour

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The workshop comes at no cost to the participants and lunch will be provided. Registration is required.

Sponsor: 

The workshop is organized by the Math Catcher Outreach Program, the SFU Office for Aboriginal Peoples, the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, and the IRMACS Centre.