Second Annual Conference of the Prairie Network for Research in
Mathematical Sciences (2008)

Wednesday  May 7 (Students' Workshop)
Thursday May 8, and Friday May 9 (Conference)

Brandon University

In cooperation with University of Regina,  University of Saskatchewan,
University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba

Local organizers:  Chenkuan Li and Jeff Williams

We would like to acknowledge the Fields Institute and the Pacific Institute for
the Mathematical Sciences for providing financial support for the Workshop
and Conference

Announcement

This is the announcement for the Second Annual Conference of the Prairie Network for
Research in Mathematical Sciences and the Student Workshop in Algebra and Combinatorics.
The main objective of the Prairie Network is to help encourage and advance research in the
mathematical sciences in Saskatchewan and Manitoba.  In addition to presentations on research
activity, the meeting and workshop will provide an opportunity for students and faculty at prairie
universities to meet face to face and discuss issues and initiatives related to the network.  This 
proposal for a regional network has been vetted and encouraged by the directors of PIMS 
and Fields.

Prairie Discrete Mathematics Meeting  is a semi-regular regional meeting  focusing on 
pure and applied Combinatorics and Discrete Mathematics.

Information

• Department of Mathematics and Computer Science: First Floor, John R. Brodie Science Centre.
• Lecture room:  Brodie Science 1-54.   Poster room and refreshments 1-24.
• Dining room: Main Cafeteria in McMaster Hall.
• Accommodation:
     1.  BU Residence Office; telephone Gisele Clements at (204) 727-7394.
     2.  Canad Inns, 1125-18th Street, Brandon; telephone (204) 727-1422 or 1-888-332-2623.
          Canad Inns has made a block of rooms available for us at the special rate of $105 plus tax per night
          for any of the nights between Tuesday, May 6 and Friday, May 9, inclusive.  To book rooms at this rate, 
          please phone the hotel directly and mention either the Department of Mathematics at Brandon University  
          or the Prairie Network for Research in Mathematical Sciences.  Rooms must be booked prior to close 
          of work on Tuesday, April 15.
     3.  Victoria Inn, 3550 Victoria Avenue, Brandon; telephone (204) 725-1532 or 1-877-842-4667.
• Parking at no charge:
     1. Please print E-parking permit
     2. The map to find your parking lot.
• Click here for the Campus Map.
• Participants and Schedule of lectures  and the Conference talk abstracts
• Student Poster Session.  Graduate students and senior undergraduates who wish to submit a poster
  for the conference are encouraged to do so.  Please inform Jeff Williams (williams@brandonu.ca)
  if you would like to present a poster.
• Lunch is provided for the Student Workshop in the Louis Riel Room at no cost.
• The Student Workshop  Banquet will be held on Wednesday, May 7, in the Louis Riel Room.  
  Cash bar at 5:30 pm; Dinner at 6:30 pm.  (There is no charge for the dinner). 
• Lunch is provided for the Conference in the Louis Riel Room at no cost.
  The Conference Banquet will be held on Thursday, May 8, in the same location.  
  Cash bar at 5:30 pm; Dinner at 6:30 pm.  (There is no charge).
• The Student Workshop (in Algebra and Combinatorics) is broadly aimed at the senior undergraduate
  or beginning graduate level.  The following members will present talks in the Workshop
       
     1. Jaydeep Chipalkatti (Manitoba)
     2. Simon Karuku (Manitoba)
     3. Anna Stokke (Winnipeg)
     4. Terry Visentin (Winnipeg)
  
  
• The Workshop Schedule and Topics, which is partially supported by the Canadian Mathematical Society.  If you are 
  interested in attending the workshop, please write to Jaydeep Chipalkatti or Anna Stokke.
  
  

Registration

    There is no registration fee; however, one needs to register.  To do so, please send an email to Chenkuan Li
    (lic@brandonu.ca) that indicates the following information:

• Your name and institution
• Your position (faculty member, postdoctoral researcher, graduate student or undergraduate student)
• Whether you will or will not attend the Workshop Banquet (evening of May 7) or the Conference Banquet
  (evening of May 8.)  Please indicate if you are bringing a guest.

Please register by  30 April, 2008

Organizing Committee

• Murray Bremner (Saskatchewan)
• Douglas Farenick (Regina)
• Chenkuan Li (Brandon)
• Anna Stokke (Winnipeg)
• Nina Zorboska (Manitoba)

Coordinating Committee for the Prairie Network

• Abba Gumel (Manitoba)
• Stephen Kirkland (Regina)
• Raymond Spiteri (Saskatchewan)