Banff International Research Station (BIRS) is proud to announce Professor Malabika Pramanik as the next Director of the Station commencing on July 1, 2020.
BIRS is proud to announce an exciting new partnership with the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Granada (IMAG) in Spain. IMAG will join
@CMO_oaxaca
(Mexico), IASM-Hangzhou (China), and BIRS-UBCO (Canada) as a BIRS-affiliate centre.
🎉Congratulations, Dr. Matilde Lalin, member of the Board of Directors of
@BIRS_Math
, for receiving the 2022 Krieger-Nelson Prize for her outstanding contributions to research in Number Theory and related areas. 💐
This week at BIRS: Mathematical and Statistical Challenges in Bridging Model Development, Parameter Identification and Model Selection in the Biological Sciences
BIRS Scientific Director Search: BIRS invites applications or nominations for the position of Scientific Director for a five-year term commencing July 1, 2020 or as soon as convenient thereafter.
Join the screening of 𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑢𝑟𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒 - 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑉𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑦𝑎𝑚 𝑀𝑖𝑟𝑧𝑎𝑘ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑖, TODAY at 3pm PDT at to celebrate her life, her math work, and her inspiration. Happy
#WomenInMaths
Day!
Congratulations to Prof. Nalini Joshi
@monsoon0
, BIRS Scientific Advisory and EDI board member on winning the prestigious George Szekeres Medal, jointly with Prof. Ole Warnaar! 🎉 🎉
#AustMS2020
@AustMS
Late night virtual meeting with a group of international & esteemed mathematicians from Canada, United States & Australia. Discussing and planning how to make the maths community more inclusive!
@BIRS_Math
@IMAmaths
@snezanalawrence
Nicolai Reshethikin (University of California at Berkeley and Tsinghua University, Beijing), Quantum groups at roots of unity and topological invariants
Arthur Lander (University of California Irvine), The essential role of feedback in the control of proliferation: implications for normal biology and cancer
Banff and Oaxaca were not available for our
@BIRS_Math
workshop, so we're holding it at Banff International Research Station Total Landscaping instead, which is even better.
Ana Victoria Ponce Bobadilla (University of Heidelberg), Quantitative frameworks for understanding cancer cell invasion through in-vitro scratch assays
The next Career & Innovation Hub event "Machine Learning, AI, & Data Science" will take place November 20th at 10AM MST. Visit for info and registration.
BIRS is proud to announce the Career & Innovation Hub. This series of free monthly seminars and workshops will bring the upcoming math science workforce together with companies in emerging fields. Visit for details and registration info.
Melvin Leok (University of California, San Diego), The Connections Between Discrete Geometric Mechanics, Information Geometry, Accelerated Optimization and Machine Learning
Gerald Quon (University of California, Davis), Characterizing cell type-specific responses to stimuli using single cell RNA sequencing (Abstract ID: A12)