News and events

  • Dr. Nanayakkara Colloquium Talk Thursday Sept 19 2019

    The Department of Mathematics and Statistics would like to invite anyone interested, including undergraduate and graduate students, to a Colloquium Talk by Dr. Basic Nanayakkara on Thursday September 19, 2019 from 2:30 to 3:30 PM. The talk will take place in South Block 216 and is entitled Rings and the spectra in Algebraic Geometry.

    Abstract:

    Given a commutative ring with unity, we will construct its spectrum as a topological space. If time permits we will study the notion of affine schemes. This is an introductory talk on algebraic geometry and so is accessible to undergraduate students who are familiar with the notion of rings and the definition of a topology on a set

  • Congratulations to our graduate student Leila Meskine

    Leila Meskine, one of our Mathematics graduate students, has been honoured with the 2018-2019 Barb Daly Excellence & Student Leadership Award. Leila has also been awarded The President’s Surgite Award that recognizes students who have great leadership potential and excellence in academic work during their studies at Brock. Congratulations Leila!

  • Congratulations to our former student Rachel Van Herk

    Rachel Van Herk, Honour Bachelor of Science, Math & Stats co-op student, one of our recipients for the “Co-op Students of the Year” award at Brock, is the winner for the Provincial “Co-op Student of the Year” award this year. All the recipients for our “Co-op Students of the Year” awards will be announced next week during the National Co-op & Work Integrated Learning week. MARCOM is running a story of Rachel which will be live on Brock News next Monday. Congratulations to Rachel!

  • Brock International Number Theory Conference II

    Brock International Number Theory Conference II

    Celebrating the 70th birthday of Professor Mohamed Ayad

    May 2-3, 2019

    Organizer: Omar Kihel

    Plenary speakers:

    Henri Darmon, McGill University, Canada
    Ram Murty, Queens University, Canada

    Invited speakers:

    Saban Alaca, Carleton University, Canada
    Farid Bencherif, USTHB, Algiers, Algeria
    Boualem Benseba, USTHB, Algiers, Algeria
    Nacira Berbara, USTHB, Algeria
    Pierre Debes, Université de Lille, France
    Karl Dilcher, Dalhousie University, Canada
    Peter Fleischmann, University of Kent, England
    Takao Komatsu, Wuhan University, China
    Claude Levesque, Université Laval, Canada
    Sukrawan Mavecha, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand
    Ayad Mohamed, Université du Littoral à Calais, Calais, France
    Kumar Murty, Toronto University, Canada
    Djiby Sow, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal
    Abdelmoumen Zekiri, USTHB, Algiers, Algeria

    For those who wish to present a contributed talk (20 minutes, questions included) please send the abstract (pdf and source file) by e-mail to: okihel@brocku.ca before April 03, 2019.

    Registration fee $U 70. (will cover refreshments during breaks and a reception on May 2, 2019).

    There is no registration fee for invited speakers.

    Poster

  • Congratulations to our former student Rachel Van Herk

    In January 2019, our former Statistics student Rachel Van Herk started a position as a Credit Reporting Analyst at Meridian Credit Union, St. Catharines Corporate Office, Ontario.  Congratulations to Rachel!

  • Our Prospective Math Teachers Integrating Programming in Niagara School Classrooms

    As part of a new experiential learning component to MATH 3P41, the MICA III course for future math teachers taught by Professor Chantal Buteau, students paired with Niagara Catholic District School Board teachers in order to develop and implement programming-based math activities in the classroom.

    Their work is now available online for other teachers to use:

    http://mkn-rcm.ca/brock-u-ncdsb-ct-math-tasks/

    The collaborative initiative with Niagara Catholic falls under, and is partially funded by, the Ontario Ministry of Education’s Mathematics Knowledge Network, for which Buteau is a Brock representative.

    For the full article in Brock news:

    Students introduce innovative ways to make math fun

  • Colloquium Talk: Vitali Vougalter

    Department of Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium Talk

    Vitali Vougalter

    University of Toronto

    Department of Mathematics

     

    Wednesday, September 5, 2018

    15:00 – 16:00

    MCJ404

     

    On the well-posedness of the magnetic, semi-relativistic Schrodinger-Poisson system

     

    Abstract:

    We prove global existence and uniqueness of strong solutions for the Schrodinger-Poisson system in the repulsive Coulumb case with relativistic, magnetic kinetic energy

  • Congratulations to Professor Xioajian Xu and Professor Chantal Buteau

    We congratulate Professor Xu and Professor Buteau who were both recently promoted to Full Professor.

  • Our Prospective Math Teachers Integrating Programming in Niagara School Classrooms

    As part of a new experiential learning component to MATH 3P41, the MICA III course for future math teachers taught by Professor Chantal Buteau, students paired with Niagara Catholic District School Board teachers in order to develop and implement programming-based math activities in the classroom.

    The collaborative initiative with Niagara Catholic falls under, and is partially funded by, the Ontario Ministry of Education’s Mathematics Knowledge Network, for which Buteau is a Brock representative.

    For the full article in Brock news:

    https://brocku.ca/brock-news/2018/05/students-introduce-innovative-ways-to-make-math-fun/

  • Condolences to the family of Darrell Short

    It is with profound sadness that the Department of Mathematics and Statistics wishes to let our students, former students and other members of the Brock community know that Darrell Short passed away on Tuesday April 17th at the age of 61. Darrell has been with us for over 37 years as a Teaching Assistant, helping and inspiring countless students in a multitude of courses. His contributions to the Department were immeasurable, touching the lives of students, faculty and staff members alike.

    The Department would like to extend its condolences to Darrell’s family. He will very much be missed by all of us. It simply won’t be the same place now that he has passed.

    Darrell’s obituary is available via this link.