CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Volume 08 Number 2 ; April 25, 2008 Editor: Abba Gumel (gumelab@cc.umanitoba.ca) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS 1. Second Montreal Industrial Problem Solving Workshop (CRM, Montreal) 2. Second Annual Meeting of Prairie Network for Research in Mathematical Sciences (Brandon University) 3. 7th AIMS International Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications (U. Texas at Arlington) 4. Fifth Prairie Discrete Mathematics Workshop (University of Manitoba) 5. Workshop on Population Dynamics and Mathematical Biology (CIRM Luminy, France, June 16-20, 2008) 6. The 10-th Annual Conference for Canadian Queueing Theorists and Practitioners at Carleton University 7. MITACS' Canada-Africa Biomath Network Summer School in Mathematical Biology, Botswana 8. CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Information = = = = = Item 1 = = = = = Second Montreal Industrial Problem Solving Workshop (August 18-22, 2008) LA VERSION FRANÇAISE DE CE MESSAGE SE TROUVE CI-DESSOUS. Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the Second Montreal Industrial Problem Solving Workshop (August 18-22, 2008) will be held at the Centre de recherches mathematiques in Montreal. This workshop is sponsored by MITACS and organized by the CRM, ncm2 (Network for Computing and Mathematical Modelling), GERAD and CIRRELT. This year, most of the problems to be studied will fall within the scope of operations research. For further information, please consult the site http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/probindustriels2008/index_e.shtml . Best regards, Odile Marcotte, Deputy Director CRM Chers collègues, il nous fait plaisir d'annoncer que le Second atelier de résolution de problèmes industriels de Montréal se tiendra au Centre de recherches mathématiques du 18 au 22 août 2008. Cet atelier est parrainé par le réseau MITACS et organisé par le CRM en collaboration avec le rcm2 (Réseau de calcul et de modélisation mathématique), le GERAD et le CIRRELT. En 2008, la plupart des problèmes qui seront examinés pendant l'atelier relèvent de la recherche opérationnelle. Pour toute information supplémentaire, veuillez consulter le site http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/probindustriels2008/ . Sincèrement vôtre, Odile Marcotte Directrice adjointe CRM = = = = = Item 2 = = = = = Second Annual Meeting of Prairie Network for Research in Mathematical Sciences. The Prairie Network for Research in Mathematical Sciences (PNRMS) was formally launched in November 2007, at the inaugural Annual Meeting held at the University of Regina, May 3-5, 2007. The objective of the Network is to help encourage and advance research in the mathematical sciences in the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan (further details about the PNRMS can be found at the website: home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~gumelab/PNRMS/index.html). The Second Annual Meeting of the PNRMS is scheduled to take place at Brandon University on May 7-9, 2008. This year's meeting will follow a Student Workshop (organized by Professors J. Chipalkatti and A. Stokke of the Universities of Manitoba and Winnipeg, respectively) inAlgebra and Combinatorics. The Workshop is broadly aimed at the senior undergraduate or beginning graduate level. In addition to presentations on research activity, the Annual Meeting and the Student Workshop will provide an opportunity for students and faculty at prairie universities to meet face-to-face and discuss issues and initiatives related to the Network. The Meeting is organized by Murray Bremner (Saskatchewan), Douglas Farenick (Regina), Chenkuan Li (Brandon; Chair), Anna Stokke (Winnipeg) and Nina Zorboska (Manitoba). The website of the meeting is located at: http://flinflon.brandonu.ca/pnrms.htm. = = = = = Item 3 = = = = = 7th AIMS International Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications (May 18-21, 2008) The 7th AIMS International Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications will be hosted by the Department of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Arlington (http://www.uta.edu/math/aims2008/). The conference will be held on May 18 - 21, 2008 on the campus of UT Arlington. The city of Arlington is located at the heart of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, about 20 miles from Dallas, 10 miles from Fort Worth. Plenary Speakers: Lisa Fauci (USA); Carlangelo Liverani (Italy); Anatoly Neishtadt (Russia and UK); Lassi Paivarinta (Finland); George Papanicolaou (USA); Jean-Claude Saut (France); Walter Strauss (USA); Hans Weinberger (USA); Sijue Wu (USA). = = = = = Item 4 = = = = = Fifth Prairie Discrete Mathematics Workshop The University of Manitoba will be hosting the Fifth Prairie Discrete Mathematics Workshop on May 28 and 29, 2008 (see http://server.maths.umanitoba.ca/~craigen/PDMW08/PDMW.html). This workshop follows the format of the previous Prairie Discrete Mathematics Workshops. The idea is that there will be a series of one-hour talks by 10-12 invited speakers. There will also be a open poster session. See the web site for instructions. This is an excellent opportunity for graduate students and post-docs. Invited Speakers Talk Ralph Stanton TBA Richard Dukes Permutation Codes of Distance Four Wayne Broughton Quasi-3 Designs and Regular Hadamard Matrices Bill Sands TBA Richard Nowakowski Topic - Games of No Chance Hugh Williams Primality Proving,Polynomials and Seiving Donald Kreher Regular Partial Triple Systems Ortrud Oellermann TBA Wendy Myrvold Embedding Graphs on Surfaces-Algorithmic Aspects and Obstructions Bert Hartnell Well-Covered Graphs Bill Kocay Graph Reconstruction by Permutations Registration: There is no formal registration process and no registration fee will be charged. To help us with our planning, if you plan to attend the workshop, we would appreciate it if you could let us know at: craigenr@cc.umanitoba.ca Accommodation: A block of rooms has been reserved at U of M Residence. Several hotels are listed on the Workshop Website. = = = = = Item 5 = = = = = Workshop on Population Dynamics and Mathematical Biology (CIRM Luminy, France, June 16-20, 2008) The goal of this workshop is to bring together specialists from different fields to discuss recent progress in Population Dynamics and Mathematical Biology focusing on the qualitative analysis of structured population models, with regards to pattern formation, front propagation, and bifurcation phenomena. Special attention will be given to applications in the spread and control of epidemic diseases, invasion and persistence in ecological systems as well as in biomedical and cancer modeling. Participation is by invitation in general. However, any researcher (especially graduate students and recent Ph.D.'s) active in this field and interested in attending the workshop is encouraged to contact one of the organizers: http://awal.univ-lehavre.fr/magal/Workshop-CIRM-2008/ Organizers: Pierre Magal ( pierre.magal@univ-lehavre.fr) and Shigui Ruan (ruan@math.miami.edu). = = = = Item 6 = = = = TThe 10-th Annual Conference for Canadian Queueing Theorists and Practitioners (Canqueue 2008) Following the success of 9 previous conferences held in Winnipeg (1999), London (2000), Waterloo (2001), Saskatoon (2002), Toronto (2003), Kelowna (2004), Hamilton (2005), Banff (2006) and Halifax (2007), the 10th CanQueue meeting will be held in Ottawa, August 28-30, 2008. The conference is organized by Carleton University under the sponsorship of Fields Institute and MITACS, and Laboratory for Research in Statistics and Probability at School of Mathematics and Statistics of Carleton University (the conference website is located at: http://www.math.carleton.ca/CanQueue-08/). The CanQueue conference started from a workshop organized by Dr. A.S. Alfa at the University of Manitoba in 1999. The name "CanQueue" was suggested and used at the meeting in London, Ontario, in 2000. The goal of the conference is to promote research and applications of queueing theory. The annual conference provides a forum where scientists, researchers, engineers, executives and students in the field meet to encourage on-going research and to discuss work-in-progress. You are invited to participate this meeting! Registration : Required with no registration fee Travel Assistance Available: Limited funding is available for assisting speakers and students to attend the event. Please send your request of assistance as soon as possible (deadline TBA soon) to the event organizers, Minyi Huang (mhuang@math.carleton.ca) and Yiqiang Q. Zhao (zhao@math.carleton.ca). For additional information contact mhuang@math.carleton.ca, zhao@math.carleton.ca = = = = Item 7 = = = = MITACS Canada-Africa Biomath Network Summer School in Mathematical Biology, Botswana The Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS) has formed a Canada-Africa Biomath Network in 2007. The central objective of the Network, which was formally laucnhed in Kampala, Uganda, November 2007, is to foster collaboration (for research and training) between mathematical and public health scientists from Canada and their colleagues in Africa in areas pertaining to the use of mathematical sciences to combat the spread of emerging and re-emerging diseases of public health importance. MITACS recognizes that the globalization of the modern world makes every country, including Canada, vulnerable to diseases emerging and spreading in other parts of the world. It is crucially important for Canada to partake and lead in a concerted effort to develop training and research programs aimed at finding effective methodologies to combat the spread of emerging or re-emerging diseases in other regions of the world (particularly hot-spot areas like Africa) and also help build and sustain a strong local research capacity to handle such tasks The Network focuses on the development of new mathematical models, methodologies and tools for designing effective public health policy for controlling the spread of diseases in Africa, with a view of understanding the epidemiological and health practices that make the continent of Africa vulnerable to persistent outbreaks. Training (of highly qualified personnel) is at the heart of the Network's activities. MITACS is pleased to announce the First Canada-Africa Biomath Summer School, scheduled in Botswana August 18-29, 2008. The School will consist of series of lectures and tutorials on the design and analyses of models for the spread of emerging and re-emerging diseases. Various modeling paradigms will be discussed, in addition to giving introductory lectures on materials pertinent to the course. The Summer School will include a number of hands-on and computer exercises, together with group projects to reinforce and extend the various concepts covered during lectures. Leading and young experts, from Africa and Canada, will conduct this course. It is expected that medical and public health specialists from Canada and Africa will also partake in this exercise (both as speakers and as participants). Those interested in attending the Summer School should please complete the registration form from the website: http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~gumelab/Botswana/index.html Some funding is available for selected students. For further information, please contact the Co-chairs of the Organizing Committee: Professors Abba Gumel (gumelab@cc.umanitoba.ca), Arvind Gupta (arvind@mitacs.ca) and Edward Lungu (lunguem@mopipi.ub.bw). = = = = = Item 8 = = = = = CAIMS*SCMAI E-News Information CAIMS*SCMAI E-News is distributed electronically several times a year by the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society/Societe Canadienne de Mathematiques Appliquees et Industrielles (http://www.caims.ca). Past issues are available on the web at http://www.caims.ca/Society/pub.html Submissions are welcome and should be sent in plain text format to: Abba Gumel, CAIMS-SCMAI Secretary, Email: gumelab@cc.umanitoba.ca. 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