Annual Report 2005 - Fields Institute - University of Toronto

The workshop was attended by approximately 25 participants
who heard six plenary talks (90 minutes each,
including 30 minutes for discussion). It was followed by
the annual one-day Atlantic Relativity Mini-Conference on
April 30.
Sixth Annual Bluenose Numerical Analysis Day
Held at Cape Breton University
June 10, 2005
Organizers: George (Shaohua) Chen (CBU), Pat Keast
(Dalhousie), Paul Muir (Saint Mary’s), Ronald Haynes,
Richard Karsten and Holger Teismann (Acadia)
This annual meeting brought again together researchers
from Atlantic Canada (including graduate students) interested
in the theory and “use” of numerical analysis, applied
mathematics and computer science. The ten invited and
contributed talks were arranged around the one by the keynote
speaker, Dr. Steve Ruuth (Simon Fraser University).
In addition to the above events, AARMS is pleased partially
to support the newly created “Center for Research in
Operator Algebras” at the University of New Brunswick
(Fredericton). The center was approved by UNB in the
spring of 2005; its current director is Dan Kucerovsky, and
its international advisory board includes leading researchers
from Canada, the US, Denmark, and France.
Following the second AARMS postdoctoral fellowship
competition of January 2005, AARMS will extend partial
support of $15K per year, starting in September 2005, to
each of three PDFs, two of whom will be based at Dalhousie
University and one at the University of New Brunswick
(Fredericton).
After three years at Memorial University of Newfoundland,
the AARMS Summer School has now moved to Dalhousie
University in Halifax. The new directors are Tony Thompson
and Renzo Piccinini, and the 2005 edition of the school
(July 17 to August 14) will offer courses on Convexity and
Fixed Point Algorithms in Hilbert Space (Heinz Bauschke,
Guelph), Integral Geometry of Convex Bodies and
Polyhedra (Daniel Klein, U. Massachusetts, Lowell), The
Mathematics of Finance (Wolfgang Runggaldier, Padova),
and Mathematical Statistics (Bruce Smith, Dalhousie).
AARMS would like to thank Dr. Edgar Goodaire not only
for being instrumental in creating the AARMS Summer
School series but also for his superb stewardship during its
first three years.
G e n e r a l S c i e n t i f i c A c t i v i t i e s
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