Past Events
Educational
Math Mania - Point Grey Secondary
October 1, 2009
University of British Columbia
Industrial, Lunchbox Lecture
The mathematics of randomness inside a single cell
September 28, 2009
University of Calgary
Randomness pervades the biochemical processes that make up life at the cellular level; variations in the dynamic behaviour of cellular processes have been observed even if cells are genetically identical and located in identical environments...
Educational
Teacher Training workshop
September 25, 2009
University of British Columbia
Review of assessment and placement of students at the Haahuupayak School, Port Alberni. Working with teachers and giving advice about the Math program. Collecting feedback from teachers about student performance.
Educational
Math Mania at Southpointe Academy
September 11, 2009
Greater Vancouver Regional District
Math Mania presents a variety of interactive demonstrations, games and art such as soap bubbles, 'get your goat' (Monty Hall game), the penny game, the Set Game, the 'Game of 24', kaleidoscopes and hexaflexagons, Nim, Tower of Hanoi, the amazing...
Industrial, Summer School
Summer School on Seismic Imaging
August 10–14, 2009
University of Washington
The workshop will consist of several minicourses addressing a broad range of theoretical and practical issues arising in seismic imaging including the use of curvelets and other frames in seismic imaging, compressed sensing applied to seismic imaging...
Educational
Math Mania - Vancouver
July 7, 2009
University of British Columbia
Math Mania presents a variety of interactive demonstrations, games and art such as soap bubbles, 'get your goat' (Monty Hall game), the penny game, the Set Game, the 'Game of 24', kaleidoscopes and hexaflexagons, Nim, Tower of Hanoi, the amazing...
Industrial, Lunchbox Lecture
Financial derivatives - what's the big idea?
June 25, 2009
University of Calgary
The use -- and misuse -- of financial derivatives has a long history, and the current crisis is not the only one in which they have been implicated. In this talk I'll tell some of these stories, and give an introduction to the mathematical ideas that...
Educational
Math Mania - Surrey
June 24, 2009
University of Alberta
Math Mania presents a variety of interactive demonstrations, games and art such as soap bubbles, 'get your goat' (Monty Hall game), the penny game, the Set Game, the 'Game of 24', kaleidoscopes and hexaflexagons, Nim, Tower of Hanoi, the amazing...
Industrial, Lunchbox Lecture
Unfair first-year calculus problems, with applications
June 4, 2009
University of Calgary
Educational
Math Mania - Chilliwack
June 3, 2009
Nordegg, Alberta