Past Events

Creative writing about the content of mathematics and science is rare, and creative writing about the activity of mathematics and scientific creation is even rarer. This book arose from a unique and remarkable endeavor with practitioners who engage...

Demonstrations of fun methods to teach math and computer science concepts to students, teachers and parents through games and art. Registration is open to the public; however, interested parties (other than parents/students/teachers) should contact...

A common problem in seismic interpretation is the search for discontinuities such as faults. The usual approach to identifying these features is the coherency method (Bahorich and Farmer, 1995). The phase congruency algorithm detects corners and...

Mathematical and computational models are becoming more prominent in biological and bioinformatics research. However, the designing, programming, testing and even utilization of computer models has not yet found the acceptance it deserves within the...

What are Lesson Studies? "Lesson Studies", in various formats, have become popular in the teaching community as a means of professional development. The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) will offer a series of workshops closely...

Math Mania - Demonstrations of fun methods to teach math and computer science concepts to students, teachers and parents through games and art.

This will be a gathering of math postdocs/graduate students with the goal of discussing issues which are relevant to them such as: - applying for tenure track jobs in Canada and the United States - connecting to industry We plan to have presentations...

While the examples will centre on grades 4-7 work, the workshop is suitable for teachers of all grade levels. This is the first of 3 workshops. The dates of the two follow-up sessions will be announced later. The workshop will be presented by Melania...