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Fields Institute Graduate School Information Day

Saturday, November 22, 2003
12:30 - 4:00 p.m.

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On the afternoon of November 22, The Fields Institute will be hosting an information session for Ontario universities to display information on their graduate programs in mathematics, statistics and some computer science programs. As part of the day's activities there will be two keynote lectures aimed at undergraduate students in the mathematical sciences.
Please join us for this event and this opportunity to talk to representatives from the various university graduate programs.
All are welcome.

We are making a table (and poster board if requested) available to each university. Universities who wish to participate, and who have not already contacted The Fields Institute to confirm their participation should do so by sending an e-mail to the address listed below. Universities with several departments are asked to cooperate on using the space.
Fields can assist Universities with renting a van or bus to facilitate student travel for the afternoon, to request assistance please contact gensci(PUT_AT_SIGN_HERE)fields.utoronto.ca

SCHEDULE FOR THE DAY

12:30 - 1:00 Open time--Information available

1:00 - 2:00
Speaker: Sam Roweis, University of Toronto, Computer Science
The Mathematics of Computer Science

2:00 p.m. Reception and information sessions

3:00 p.m.
Speaker:Victor LeBlanc, University of Ottawa, Mathematics and Statistics
Euclidean Symmetry and the Dynamics of Spiral Waves

Prof. LeBlanc recently received the Premier's Research Excellence Award (PREA). The PREA awards are given each year by the Government of Ontario to gifted researchers in all research disciplines, and they are designed to help them attract talented people to their research teams.Professor LeBlanc won the award for his innovative research project on applications of dynamical systems theory to spiral wave dynamics.

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