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Can animals think?

“They’re smarter than we thought,” explored questions
says Jay Ingram, host of the about and the implications
Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet of animal self-awareness
and author of several bestselling and the line between
books including Theatre of the intelligent thinking
Mind: Pulling Back the Curtain on behaviour and automatism.
Consciousness and The Science of The free public lecture, designed to
Everyday Life. Ingram posed the showcase and promote excellence in
question “Can animals think?” and science journalism, is co-sponsored
provided answers at the Discovery annually by the Faculty of Science
Lecture on March 7. and the School of Journalism and
Summing up 30 years of research Communication.
into animal intelligence, Ingram
Add-itional events

Carleton becomes a Mecca for mathemati- “The talks are intended to be accessible
cians and statisticians this spring as the to graduate students,” says Associate ! Upcoming events
School of Mathematics and Statistics hosts Professor Daniel Panario. “Students receive
two events supported by the Fields Institute an overview of cutting-edge research in sev- the Ottawa Photonics cluster, dedicated
for Research in the Mathematical Sciences. eral branches of discrete mathematics and to rallying photonics companies and
Founded in 1992, the Fields Institute is a have a chance to interact with renowned other stakeholders to strengthen
center for mathematical research activities specialists. This in turn has helped to attract Ottawa’s ability to attract employees,
where mathematicians can carry out graduate students to work in this area.” investment, funding and facilities, is
research and formulate problems of mutual The symposium in probability and hosting Photonics North 2007, from
June 3 to 7 at the Ottawa congress
interest. The Institute supports research in stochastic processes features 29 speakers centre. the week of photonics
pure and applied mathematics, statistics focusing on population and evolutionary events includes the Photonics North
and computer science, and collaboration models, stochastic analysis, measure-valued conference and Exhibition, the
between mathematicians and those processes, hierarchical mean-field analysis International conference on Education
applying mathematics. and stochastic networks. This symposium and training in Optics and Photonics,
One of seven principal sponsoring enhances the ongoing series of workshops the Executive symposium on Photonics
universities of the Fields Institute, Carleton at Carleton in this research area. Dr. Donald commercialization and the OIDA
is hosting the Ottawa-Carleton Discrete Dawson, Professor Emeritus and Distin- workshop on Photonic sensors. It is
Mathematics Workshop 2007 from May guished Research Professor, will deliver a hosted by the canadian Photonics
25-26 and the Probability and Stochastic one-hour keynote address. consortium, of which carleton is a
Processes Symposium in honour of Donald “These events stimulate interaction member. Associate Dean John Armitage
A. Dawson’s work from June 5 to 8. among research groups at Carleton, is chairing the technical committee.
The workshop on discrete mathemat- strengthen collaboration between univer-
ics, an annual event alternately hosted by sities in and around the Ottawa region, calling classes of 1957, 1962, 1967,
Carleton and the University of Ottawa, and also provide an ideal opportunity for 1982 and 1997—and all grads from the
consists of a colloquium talk followed by continued international collaboration of carleton college years! From May 4 to
five invited talks on graph theory, combina- researchers in these areas,” says Dr. Yiqiang 6, return to campus for Alumni Reunion
torial structures, optimization, combinatorial Q. Zhao, Director of the School of Math- Weekend, a fun-filled weekend with old
enumeration and algorithms. ematics and Statistics. friends and former classmates. Revisit
old haunts and tour new facilities. Go
Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: back to class for an afternoon — no
tests! celebrate over a grand dinner in
Department of University Advancement Publication Mail Agreement the new dining hall.
carleton University No. 40063314
1125 colonel By Drive IssN 0226-5389 Visit alumni.carleton.ca/reunion for details.
Ottawa, ON K1s 5B6 canada
Mail to: PM40063314

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