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If you want to attend a conference during the summer (whether it be CUMC, SSC, CMS or JSM) and you are member of SUMS, you can email SUMS with your proof of registration. We will create a support group for approximately 30 students. If you are attending a conference outside of Montreal, we require that you either participate in a poster session or give a talk to be eligible for support. Further support can be obtained via SUS if you are a Science student not graduating in May.
You need to supply in the email your name, program of study and level, along with the abstract for your presentation and the proof of registration. Update: we will refund 45\$ for students attending and 60\$ for those presenting. Early bird rate extended until June 8th for the CUMC
If you are around during the summer, there are many interesting conferences that one might want to attend. First, the ISM summer school (more info to come). Next, the CUMC2013 which will be held this year at UdeM. SUMS will be putting together a fund for attendants (which could also be used for other events), via support from the Faculty of Science, the Math & Stat department, the Science Undergraduate Society and SUMS. Priority will be given for students for students giving talks. Other events include the SSC Annual meeting in Regina from May 26-29, the 2013 CMS Summer meeting in Halifax from June 4-7 and the Joint Statistical Meetings from August 3-8.
SUMS is looking for articles, cover illustrations and volunteers for the next edition of Delta-Epsilon. If you happened to see the most recent edition at the Awkward Mixer, you know what a slick piece of work it is and were probably already wondering how you could be a part of its development. Whether you want to participate in the review and selection process or journal formatting and logistics, your assistance will be vital! Submissions can range from graduate-level to U1-accessibility. The deadline for articles and graphics is March 30th. Please contact $\delta-\varepsilon$ with your interest or for information on how to submit materials and expect to see an announcement for an information session in this listserv later in the month.
SUMS est à la recherche de braves qui sont intéressés de travailler ensemble pour créer la prochaine édition du Delta-Epsilon, ainsi que les articles et illustrations de page couverture. Si vous avez vu l'édition la plus récente au Awkward Mixer, vous savez déjà que c'est un chef-d'œuvre et étiez certainement en train de vous demander comment y participer. Que vous participiez au processus de revue et de sélection, ou à celui de la mise en forme et de la logistique, votre aide sera cruciale! Les soumissions peuvent s'adresser une auditoire diplômée ou même au début d'université. La date limite pour les articles ou graphiques est le 30 mars février. Veuillez contacter thedeltaepsilon@gmail.com, si vous êtes intéressé ou avez besoin de savoir comment à soumettre vos matériaux. D'ici un mois, une session d'information sera organisée.
Pr. Jaksic will be giving a course on “Classical and Quantum Entropy” in May , addressed to undergraduates/graduate students and postdocs, Large part of the course will be accessible to U1 and U2 students. There will be two or three 2 hour lectures per week. The organizational meeting is on Wed May 1st, 2pm, BURN 1120. He will also give then the first lecture.
BH911 is open for all questions on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 11:30 to 3:30pm during May. Feel free to drop by.
Drop by SUMS today between 11h and 12h30 for our special exam time de-stress session. We will be providing crayons and paper to satisfy all of your coloring needs and in addition, pastries and tea will be served!
SUMS Clothing Orders are here! Deadline for submitting orders is Monday, April 8th. Check out the catalogue.
RSVP Mathilde.
Brunch des femmes en mathématiques à 12h.
L'heure du thé, au local de l'asso étudiante, 13h-14h
The tutorial will take place in BH1214, from 11:30 to 1:00pm.
Follow-up of last tutorial which will focus on advanced material. Topics will include: formatting equations, references, labels and tags, new commands, operators, bibliography (standard and BibTex), the TikZ package and figure environment, index and table of contents, mathtool package, theorems and sections, building a title page, enumerate and itemize (with options), tabularx, hyperlinks and xcolor, geometry, verbments packages, footnote, header and footers, verbatim. If times permit: integration of plots from R using knitr and tikz. All are welcome. Juice and cookies will be served. Slides or notes will be provided after the tutorial on the website.
Tutoriel avancé $\LaTeX$pert: au BH1214, de 11h30 à 13h.
SUMS speakers series with Henri Darmon, BH1214 at 12h. Topic will be “The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture”
The celebrated Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture predicts a striking connection between the behaviour of the rational and mod $p$ solutions to certain cubic equations in two variables, known as elliptic curves. As one of the Clay Institute's seven Millennium Prize Problems, its solution carries a million dollar reward. This talk will strive to explain the conjecture to the educated layperson (so no number theory background will be assumed!), and to convey a feeling for why it is viewed as such an important question in mathematics.
Conférences de SUMS: Henri Darmon donnera un exposé sur la théorie des nombres, au BH1214 à 12h.
Tea time from 1pm to 2pm in SUMS lounge. Bring your mug
L'heure du thé au local de l'asso, de 13h à 14h. Apportez votre tasse
Movie night, 6pm, BH1B20. Also at the same time “A Beautiful Mind” (2001) at 6:30 in Room 217, Otto Maass Chemistry Building
Soirée film, 18h, BH1B20. Également le 21 mars le film «Un homme d'exception» (version anglaise) à 18h30 au local 217 du pavillon de chimie Otto Maass
=== Mon March 18: ISM Undergraduate Summer Scholarships applications due === ISM Undergraduate Summer Scholarships applications due - bring applications to Alexandra Haedrich at the ISM offices, in President-Kennedy building, UQAM
Date limite pour les applications aux Bourse d'été de premier cycle de l'ISM. Apporter votre dossier à Alexandra Haedrich aux bureaux de l'ISM, au pavillon Président-Kennedy à l'UQAM.
=== Frid March 15: Awkward Semi-Formal === SUMS Elections voting period ends at 6pm & Awkward semi takes place Friday from 9pm to Saturday 3 am at Espace des Arts (sold out)
Fin de la période de votation à 18h. L'Awkward Mixer se déroule à l'Espace des Arts de 21h à 3h (complet).
$\Pi$ day! at 1:59pm, there will be pie in the lounge (BH1B20). Please join us for some chatting and tea in the afternoon.
La journée $\Pi$! à 1:59pm, il y aura de la tarte au local de l'association (BH1B20). Joignez vous au conseil pour une pointe et du thé en après-midi. Des stations de vote seront en place pour vous permettre de choisir vos représentants.
Voting period begins at 6pm. Online vote; check your emails for your ballot. The list of candidates is online on SUMS website in the About us section
Début de la période de votation pour les élections du conseil de SUMS à 18h: vérifiez vos courriels, le bulletin de vote sera envoyé à partir de la plateforme de EUS. La liste complète des candidats est disponible dans la section À propos
The NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA) in Universities program is meant to stimulate interest in research in the natural sciences and engineering, and the pursuit of research careers in these fields. Recipients engage in a research and development activity under the supervision of a professor holding an NSERC grant. It is an opportunity to gain research experience in an academic setting, while receiving financial support for summer 2013.
To find out more about this program, including application forms and procedures, please start at: http://www.mcgill.ca/science/research/ours/nserc
Each Faculty of Science unit (school or department) has a quota of available awards, and has its own selection process and deadlines. Apply through the academic unit where you wish to hold your award (i.e., your proposed supervisor's school or department, not necessarily your own unit). See the aforementioned webpage for contacts in each unit and deadline information.
Submission Deadline to the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for NSERC USRA 2013: Friday February 22, 2013 by 4:00 p.m. Contact Person: Angela White
Come by the SUMS lounge at Friday, February 15th tomorrow for our inaugural tea time. Expect tea, biscuits and fine company. The nomination period for next year's SUMS council is now open. Check out sums.math.mcgill.ca (under “About Us”) for a list of positions + more information in the coming weeks, and, if you'd like to nominate yourself, email sums@math.mcgill.ca with your full name, a short (200 words max) blurb and optional photo for us to put on the website.
THE MATHEMATICS OF LIGHT AND SOUND This conference given by Nilima Nigam of Simon Fraser University will take place this Friday, February 15th at the University of Montréal. Check out http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Nigam/ for more information or read on: Our perception of sound and light informs much of how we experience the world. We see glorious rainbows and hear the summertime chirp of crickets; we wonder about invisibility cloaks and the twinkling of distant stars.Our fascination with light and sound has informed much intellectual and scientific thought. The ancient Greeks noticed the interplay between overtones and musical notes; Euler and Newton thought about the very nature of light.
This student-led conference, which will take place Saturday, May 25th at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, welcomes all undergraduate and graduate students to participate in workshops and contributed sessions on professional skill development, careers in industry and academia, and research presentations. Dr. Jeffrey Rosenthal of the Department of Statistics at the University of Toronto, a leading Canadian researcher, teacher, author, and an engaging speaker, will give the keynote address. Abstract submission for the conference is currently open! You can submit abstracts for oral or poster presentations. Please see the conference website (http://www.ssc.ca/en/meetings/2013/student_conference) for more details regarding abstract submission. Deadline for abstract submission is February 28th, 2013. Registration is through the main SSC registration form (you can choose to sign up for the main SSC meeting, just the student meeting, or both): https://form.ssc.ca/SSC2013/ The student conference registration fee is $50. The deadline to register is May 7th, 2013. For more details, visit http://www.ssc.ca/en/meetings/2013/student_conference or email Mireille Schnitzer, chair of the student organizing committee.
On February 7th at 6:00pm, SUMS is hosting a movie night! We'll be projecting Pi, the first film by the acclaimed director of Black Swan, in the lounge (Burnside basement). Some sort of snack should be avaible along with the company of your oh-so-cultured peers.
The legend continues on January 30th at 12:00pm in BURN 1214. Prof. Nave dishes on numerical PDEs and fluid modeling with juice and cookies provided.
Open Discussion regarding Women in Undergraduate Mathematics Tuesday, January 29th, 4:00 pm, BURN 1205
SUMS is hosting an open discussion in order to assess the place of women in mathematics at McGill. We would like to discuss current issues, such as the lack of female professors (currently there is only one), and the scarcity of female graduates from the mathematics program. We would in particular like to offer some ideas for solutions to the department. During the discussion we will formulate a letter to the department. Later, SUMS will meet with the department and offer these solutions.
All math students current and former are welcome. Cookies and juice will be served.