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back to Banff in 2014![14w5125]

A few days ago, we heard from BIRS‘s director the very good news, the great news, that our proposal for a workshop on Advances in Scalable Bayesian Computation had been accepted! The dates of th… more →

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Patrick Saul - Sound Archivist

Lorraine wrote 3 weeks ago: Patrick Saul 1913-1999. Source: British Library Anthony Patrick Hodgins Saul , the founder of what i … more →

Tags: East Cliff Area, People, Saul Patrick - Sound Archivist, Saul Patrick - Sound Archivist, British Library Sound Archive, British Museum

Tell me about El CASA — 4 comments

Ghoussoub wrote 1 month ago: Once again, I had to perform the unpleasant annual task of writing to more than 120 colleagues and t … more →

Tags: Banff International Research Station, Banff, Casa, Conacyt, El Centro de las Artes San Agustín Etla, Francisco Toledo, NSERC, NSF, Oaxaca

Penguins

lbotlbot wrote 1 month ago: Penguins are cute. They are also pretty social and watching their interactions (even in a zoo) is a … more →

Tags: Nature Photography, Animal, Birds, Nature, Photography, Penguins, San Francisco Zoo

American Idol's Idol Across America Tour hits DC!

Vivaciously Vivian wrote 2 months ago: I got to participate in the promo shoot for American Idol’s Day 4 of the “Idol Across Am … more →

Tags: Miscellaneous, Howard University, TV, washington dc, DC, Ryan Seacrest, American Idol, Idol Across America, Promo

Honeyeater

ianl56 wrote 3 months ago: Nikon D7000 … more →

Tags: Birds, Australia, Melbourne, Coastal, honey eater

Why do I have the best job in the world — 1 comment

Ghoussoub wrote 3 months ago: Just imagine if you receive a Valentine’s card every day of every week of every one of the las … more →

Tags: Op-Eds, Banff International Research Station, Alan Bernstein, Alice Major, Computer Science, shared memory, Small Number, valentines card

Will BIRS bring CIFAR and the mathematical sciences together?

Ghoussoub wrote 3 months ago: My inbox started filling up at an unusual speed. The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR … more →

Tags: R&D Policy, Banff International Research Station, Alan Bernstein, calgaryherald, CIFAR, Darwin, mathematics, TBC

Lonely in the Snow — 8 comments

daffy wrote 4 months ago: As the snow brings the Country to an almost standstill once again, I hear myself harping on about th … more →

Tags: Family, snow, bird watching, flooding, Memories, Nature, Early mornings

back to Banff in 2014![14w5125] — 2 comments

xi'an wrote 5 months ago: A few days ago, we heard from BIRS‘s director the very good news, the great news, that our pro … more →

Tags: mountains, statistics, University Life, Canadian Rockies, banff centre, 14w5125, Advances in Scalable Bayesian Computation

Benue Tax Boss and his Limbo: Behind the Scene — 6 comments

atiterkula wrote 5 months ago: Mr. Andrew Ayabam, Benue’s chief tax collector, before his appearance on the public scene little or … more →

Tags: SUSWAM GABRIEL, Benue Internal Revenue Service, Steven Lawani, ayabam Andrew, Oklobia omandachi

NSERC, Math, Stats, Innovation and all that jazz — 4 comments

Ghoussoub wrote 5 months ago: Last weekend, representatives of Canada’s mathematical and statistical sciences community presented  … more →

Tags: R&D Policy, Banff International Research Station, CRM, Discovery Grants, Fields, long range plan, MITACS, mprime, Nancy reid

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to salute the "Mathematics of Planet Earth Initiative" — 1 comment

Ghoussoub wrote 5 months ago: Marc Garneau, our astronaut MP, who saw from outer space how beautiful, fragile and precious our pla … more →

Tags: Op-Eds, Banff International Research Station, gary goodyear, kennedy stewart, Marc Garneau, Mathematics of Planet Earth, Susan Truppe, Ted Hsu

BABY BIRDS IN OUR KITCHEN — 5 comments

manasupaluku wrote 5 months ago: BABY  BIRDS  IN OUR  KITCHEN   Sometime in  March or April  1990 we noticed a young sparrow couple s … more →

Tags: Thinking Heart, Heart speaks, 35mm, Baby birds; kalpakkam, camera, film, house, Kitchen, Nature

Torsion in the homology of arithmetic groups, and an Iwasawa algebra puzzle — 5 comments

JSE wrote 10 months ago: Kudos to Nicolas Bergeron, Paul Gunnells, and Akshay Venkatesh for organizing a wonderfully interest … more →

Tags: Math, iwasawa, 3-manifolds, emerton, arithmetic groups, hyperbolic, homology, Banff, marshall

The business community to the rescue of the research community — 2 comments

Ghoussoub wrote 11 months ago: Tuesday’s UBC Board of Governors meeting was the best I’ve witnessed in my last four yea … more →

Tags: Board of Governors, stephen toope, Innovation, MITACS, Karen Prentice, brad bennett

Photo of Da day @ Da Pine #292 — 6 comments

Developing A New Image wrote 11 months ago: I don’t think it is the early bird that always gets the worm.  Nor is it the fastest, I have f … more →

Tags: Photography, West TX, Nature, Prey, post a day 2012, swallows, persitent, fast, early

Plover drive — 3 comments

BrownhillsBob wrote 1 year ago: This is an important request from Graham Evans and Chasewater Wildlife Group. Conservationists and b … more →

Tags: Brownhills stuff, Spotted whilst browsing the web, Chasewater, wildlife, Environment, Fun stuff to see and do, it makes me mad, Shared Media, Local Media

"To promote a deeper understanding of our world", Canada may need a Jim Simons — 2 comments

Ghoussoub wrote 1 year ago: The news may come as a shock to the Dean of U. Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, Roger Ma … more →

Tags: Op-Eds, David Eisenbud, Lazaridis, Roger Martin, Rotman School of Management, Simons Foundation, Theory of computing

THE BENUE UNIVERSITY SAGA AND JUNGLE JUSTICE by TERNENGE TOROUGH — 3 comments

su'eddie wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday, 2012 29th March, a Dangote trailer crushed a final year student of the Benue State Univer … more →

Tags: Life, makurdi, Benue State University, Demonstration, benue state university demonstration, violence in Benue, Student unrest, Benue Internal Revenue Service


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