Past Events
Educational, Conference
Changing the Culture 2019
April 28, 2000
Simon Fraser University
The advent of affordable computers with huge storage and communication capabilities seems to promise a golden age of mathematical visualisation. The question is to what extent it can relieve us of the laborious doodling and imagining that has always...
Educational, Conference
Changing the Culture 2000
April 28, 2000
Simon Fraser University
The advent of affordable computers with huge storage and communication capabilities seems to promise a golden age of mathematical visualisation. The question is to what extent it can relieve us of the laborious doodling and imagining that has always...
Educational, Conference
Changing the Culture 1999
February 19–20, 1999
Simon Fraser University
The Second Annual Conference, organized and sponsored by the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, again brought together mathematics researchers, educators and school teachers from all levels to work towards narrowing the gap between...
Industrial, Summer School
First Graduate Industrial Math Modelling Camp
May 24–25, 1998
Simon Fraser University
The inaugural Graduate Industrial Mathematical Modeling Camp (GIMM) of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) was held at Simon Fraswer University from May 24-29, 1988. Close to 40 graduate and soon to be graduate students from...
Educational, Conference
Changing the Culture 1998
February 20–21, 1998
Simon Fraser University
The conference will continue the work initiated by the 1995 BC Miniforum on Education in Mathematics, bringing together mathematicians, mathematics educators and school teachers from all levels to work together towards changing the culture of school...