Past Events

The annual Changing the Culture Conference, organized and sponsored by the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, brings together mathematicians, mathematics educators and school teachers from all levels to work together towards narrowing...

Participants will be invited to engage in a series of mathematical tasks which highlight ways of getting learners to use and develop their undoubted powers (imagining & expressing; specialising & generalizing; conjecturing & convincing). Speaker...

Without changing course content, delivery, or assessments, how we make an impact on undergraduate student learning?Dr. Junkins proposes taking advantage of the frequent and varied interactions between students and teaching assistants, by targeting...

PIMS is sponsoring the 2017 ProtoChallenge on the April 1 weekend at the University of Calgary, hosted by Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) at Calgary. ProtoChallenge is a 24 hour event where groups of students pitch ideas to help the community...

Mathematics is integral to every aspect of game development including character and level creation, movement, player input, NPC behaviour, physics simulations, and real-time rendering. Fortunately for game designers, most of this computation is...

This Alternative Math Education event will present fun methods of teaching math and computer science concepts to children (and adults!) using games and art. Including: A sorting network An impossible balancing act Bubbles Mathematical puzzles Sudoku...

Archimedes Talks is a speaker series aimed at talented high-school students who are interested in math and science. Speakers will introduce students to a variety of topics in mathematics and engineering that students would not otherwise be exposed to...

Chronic disease management often involves sequential decisions that have long-term implications. Those decisions are based on high dimensional information, which pose a problem for traditional modeling paradigms. In some key instances, the disease...

Math Mania is a math education event which presents a variety of interactive demonstrations allowing students to learn math concepts in a fun and engaging way.

A video of this event is available on The Pennsylvania Department of Correction operates 29 correctional facilities (prisons) and about 50,000 prisoners (inmates) each year. The assignments of inmates to appropriate correctional facilities is a...