Posts

Showing posts from January, 2017

In memoriam Anne Penfold Street

Image
Dr. Street passed away peacefully on 28 December, 2016. She was privately cremated on   Thursday   5 January, 2017. Anne was a Founding Fellow of the Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications, and an editor of the BICA from 1991 to 2014. Picture of Anne Street and Ralph Stanton from Boca conference in 2009. Anne was a student of Michio Suzuki and received her PhD at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1966 with dissertation "Subgroups Determining Functions on Groups."    The Australian Mathematical Society has an award named after her, in recognition of her contributions to the advancement of knowledge across the broader mathematical community where she promoted the intellectual development of secondary and tertiary students, and actively supported the advancement of her peers. She was appointed Professor of Mathematics at The University of Queensland in 1985. She was the third woman appointed to a mathematics professorship in Australia, after H

CAI 2017

Dear colleagues, we are sending this CFP on behalf of the organizers of CAI 2017 ============================== ================== Call for Papers CAI 2017 7th International Conference on Algebraic Informatics  June 25-28, 2017  Kalamata, Greece  http://www.cargo.wlu.ca/ CAI2017/ CAI is the biennial conference serving the community interested in the intersection of theoretical computer science, algebra, and related areas. CAI 2017 will feature invited presentations and a selective five-track program of contributed papers describing original and unpublished research. Important Dates Submission deadline:  March 1, 2017, 23:59 PST  (Pacific Standard Time) Author notification:  April 15, 2017  Early registration deadline: May 15, 2017 Deadlines are firm; late submissions will not be considered. CAI 2017 General Chair Ilias Kotsireas, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada CAI Steering Committee Symeon Bozapalidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Olivier Carton, Universite Paris 7,

ICA Membership

There are four types of individual membership in the ICA: Fellow of the Institute (FTICA) Associate fellow of the Institute (AFTICA) Member of the Institute (MTICA) (this includes graduate, student and companion members) Honorary fellow of the Institute (FTICA (hon.)) These categories of membership are summarized as follows: A  fellow  is an established scholar with a sound record of publication or a senior person who has made substantial contributions to the development or promotion of combinatorics, the use of combinatorics, or the advancement of combinatorial education. Someone who became a fellow in the first year of operation of the ICA (1990 to 1991) is designated as a  foundation fellow . An  associate fellow  is a person in the beginning stages of a research career, normally at the rank of assistant professor or of junior associate professor, who has just begun to publish research work, or a person involved either in the promotion or use of combinatorics or in combin

ICA webpages

Our new website with lots of collected information about membership, publications, and medals is here: http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~dstinson/icawebpages/ICAindex.html