News and Events
A group of nine volunteers spent all of February 10 in Hope, sharing math/logic puzzles with the 15 K-6 classes at Coquihalla Elementary. They also spent two hours on campus on Family Day (math is your family, too?), taking part in a workshop on the puzzles and effective methods of presenting them to a class. … Read more
LDA to Find User Archetypes for Search and Matching: A Talk by Thomas Levi, Senior Data Scientist at PlentyOfFish.com Thomas Levi started out with a doctorate in Theoretical Physics and String Theory from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. His post-doctoral studies in cosmology and string theory, where he wrote 19 papers garnering 700+ citations, took … Read more
Funding Now Available! Natural Resources Canada’s (NRCan) – Science and Technology Internship Program (STIP) Are you (or do you know of) an organization, business, university or community college that could benefit from funding to support an internship in the area of natural sciences? Do you know a post-secondary graduate who is looking for practical experience … Read more
“The Winter that Never Was” – What’s up with this warm winter weather? We’re celebrating the World Wildlife Fund’s annual sweater week by handing out ice cream and talking climate change. We will have a booth at the Abbotsford campus on the green Thursday February 4th from 10 – 1. We will having a draw … Read more
Math Challengers is an inter-school math competition in which students in grades 8 and 9 compete in teams of four or five. Regional competitions are held across BC each year in February, with the top teams from each regional tournament moving on to compete at the annual Provincial comptition in March or April. The Fraser … Read more
UFV will send one Science student to London, UK summer 2015 (all expenses paid) to attend the annual London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF) from July 22 to August 5, 2015. LIYSF information can be found at liysf.org.uk/liysf-2015. Information Session: January 29 at 1 pm in C1423. Guest speaker Etienne Dryer, last year’s representative for UFV … Read more
Math Social January 26th, 2015 at 4:30 pm in A421.
It time for the Centre for Sustainability’s Winter 2015 Green Team meeting. On the agenda: Planning and promotion of Sweater Week (February 2-5) Planning for more carpooling Updates on our Computers need Sleep campaign and other energy saving initiatives The new garden club Results of the student survey from Fall 2014 (done by Ashleigh, reported … Read more
The Reach Museum and Gallery is creating an extremely exciting exhibition starting in March 2015. The exhibition will include an augmented reality experience for visitors and ITcredible is about to start the process of setting up the technology. This project requires 2-3 students to join on a volunteer basis. The focus will be on the technology involved in augmented reality, … Read more
Interested in exploring New York and Washington DC with the Biology Department? We are offering a Field School this Spring and have extended the deadline for applications. Field School Dates – April 24-May 8, 2015 Credits – 8 or 9 (your choice) Trip Costs: $1,000 non-refundable tour deposit due January 23, 2015 $1,550 non-refundable final … Read more