Past Events
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PIMS Young Researchers Conference in Mathematics and Statistics
May 27–29, 2015
University of Calgary
What is the PIMS YRC? The PIMS Young Researchers Conference in Mathematics and Statistics (PIMS YRC) is an annual event that provides a unique forum for young mathematicians across Canada to present their research and to collaborate with their peers...
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Curvature of the Central Path in Linear Programming
May 26–29, 2015
University of Calgary
Optimization is an interdisciplinary area of mathematics and computer science that, simply speaking, amounts to choosing the best element from some set of available alternatives and studying its properties. Optimization has become ubiquitous to...
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Explicit Methods for Abelian Varieties: Kick-off Workshop
May 25–29, 2015
University of Calgary
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PIMS Workshop on Advances in Seismic Imaging and Inversion
May 20–22, 2015
University of Alberta
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Lie Theory Workshop: Geometry and Lie Theory
May 16–17, 2015
University of Alberta
The Lie Theory Workshop series of weekend conferences has been meeting several times a year since 1990. Most years the NSF supports graduate students and postdoctoral participants, and the institution at which the workshop takes place also provides...
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Big Data in Environmental Science
May 11–15, 2015
University of British Columbia
The extraordinarily broad field of Environmental Science faces an explosion in the amount of data and in the dimension of records captured. We will bring together methodologists building relevant tools in such areas as Laplace approximation...
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Changing the Culture 2015
May 8, 2015
Simon Fraser University
Date: Friday, May 8th, 2015 Location: SFU-Vancouver at Harbour Centre, 515 W. Hastings Street, Vancouver, Canada Conference Program 8:00 Registration 8:45 Opening Remarks, (Room 1900 - Fletcher Challenge Theater) 9:00 Plenary Talk: Building Thinking...
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Alberta Mathematics Dialogue
May 8–9, 2015
University of Lethbridge
The purpose of the Alberta Mathematics Dialogue is two-fold. In the one hand it promotes mathematical research across universities in the Province of Alberta and on the other hand it serves as a forum for discussing issues related to mathematical...
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Changing the Culture 2015
May 8, 2015
Simon Fraser University
Further information forthcoming.
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Building a Bioanalytical Theory for Analysis of Marine Mammal Movements
May 4–8, 2015
University of British Columbia
This Peter Wall Institute Roundtable will be a first step toward a new subfield of bioanalytics concerned with both biomonitoring (using animals to explore inaccessible habitats) and biologging (tracking animals to characterize their behavior)...