This October 12^th and 13^th, l'Université de Moncton will be hosting the Annual Conference for Science Atlantic Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, and the annual AARMS Workshop on Sunday, October 14^th, 2018.

Sponsorship for the conference is provided by Science Atlantic, the Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences (AARMS), and l'Université de Moncton, Moncton, NB.

Registration

Pay for Conference Registrations

Call for Abstracts

This October 12^th to 14^th, l'Université de Moncton will be hosting the Annual Conference for Science Atlantic in Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. We are pleased to announce that abstracts are now being accepted for oral presentations. This is an excellent opportunity for students to develop their presentation skills and to receive valuable feedback from several professors from Atlantic universities. When submitting your abstracts, please follow carefully the formatting guidelines.

Abstract Formatting Guidelines:

• Format as a single paragraph.
• Abstracts should be submitted in plain text format.
• For math expressions or special characters, please use Word.
• Abstracts should be less than 250 words.
• Abstracts can be submitted in English or French.
• Include title.
• Include presenter name, supervisor name and university affiliation.

Abstracts have to be submitted through this link. If you have any questions, please contact Elmahdi Driouch. Deadline for abstract submissions is October 9th, 2018.

Program

Detailed Program

With the exception of the Saturday evening banquet in the Taillon Building, all events on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday will be in the Rémi-Rossignol Building.

Friday

Time	Event	Room
10:00-6:00	Check-in	Rotonde
11:30-12:00	Programming Competition Meeting	A031
12:00-5:00	Programming Competition	A031 & D213
2:00-5:00	Mathematics Competition	A102
2:45-3:45	Joint Committee Meeting	A002
4:00-5:00	Math Committee Meeting	A002
4:00-5:00	CS Committee Meeting	R113
5:30-7:00	Pizza Party	Rotonde
7:30-8:30	Sedgwick Lecture (CS) - Soumaya Cherkaoui A Connected World: Challenges and Opportunities in Overcoming the IoT Datastorm.	R221
8:30-10:00	Reception	Rotonde / R215

Saturday

Time	Event	Room
9:00-11:00	Check-in	Rotonde
9:00-10:30	Contributed Talks	A002 (CS), A102 (Math), A202 (Stats)
10:30-11:00	Break	R215
11:00-12:00	Blundon Lecture (Math) - André Fortin An Introduction to Mathematical Modeling: From Academic to Industrial Problems.	R221
12:00-2:00	Lunch Break
2:00-3:30	Contributed Talks	A002 (CS), A102 (Math), A202 (Stats)
3:30-3:45	Break	R215
3:45-4:45	Fields Lecture (Stats) - François Perron Bayesian Statistics in theory and in practice.	R221
6:00-9:00	Banquet & Awards	Taillon

Sunday

Time	Event	Room
9:00-10:00	Introduction to Markov Chain Monte-Carlo sampling – Salah El Adlouni	A031
10:00-10:15	Coffee Break	R215
10:15-11:00	MCMC Programming Workshop	A031
11:00-12:00	Constrained Multiple Taxicab Correspondence Analysis of Multivariate Binary Data with Rare Categories – Vartan Choulakian & Jacques Allard	A031

Programming Contest - 2018 Atlantic Canadian Preliminary Contest

The 2018 Atlantic Canadian Preliminary Contest is an official qualifying contest for the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.

Useful Contest Info

• Each team will be provided with one Linux workstation running Arch Linux.

  Only the following editors will be available:

  • emacs
  • gedit
  • nano
  • vim and gvim

  The command line calculator bc will also be available.

  gcc is version 8.2.1 on Arch Linux vs 7.3.0 on Kattis.
  Both include full support for c99.
  Kattis uses the following flags: -g -O2 -std=gnu99 -static {files} -lm.

  g++ is also version 8.2.1 on Arch Linux vs 7.3.0 on Kattis.
  Both include full support for C++11 and C++14.
  Kattis uses the following flags: -g -O2 -static -std=gnu++14 {files}.

  Java is version OpenJDK 1.8.0_181, same as on Kattis.
  Kattis Java compiler uses the following flags:
  -encoding UTF-8 -sourcepath {path} -d {path} {files}.
  Kattis Java runtime flags are:
  XX:+UseSerialGC -Xss64m -Xms{memlim}m -Xmx{memlim}m -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -cp {path}
  where {memlim} is the actual memory limit for the problem you are submitting to.

  Python 2 is version 2.7.15 on Arch Linux vs 2.7.13 on Kattis.
  Kattis uses the following flags: {files}.
  You are allowed to use all standard libraries included with Python 2.

  Python 3 is version 3.7.0 on Arch Linux vs 3.6.5 on Kattis.
  Kattis uses the following flags: {files}.
  You are allowed to use all standard libraries included with Python 3.

• Per ACM rules, you are permitted 25 pages of printed reference material.


• Contest Website

Contest Schedule

Time	Event	Room
11:30-12:00	Programming Competition Briefing	A031
12:00-5:00	Programming Competition	A031 & D213

Math Contest

Coming soon.

AARMS Workshop

Sunday's workshop is about Monte Carlo Markov chain approaches and Multiple Taxicab correspondence analysis.
Contact Salah El Adlouni, Université de Moncton.  Salah-eddine.el.adlouni@umoncton.ca

Time	Event	Room
9:00am-10:00am	Markov Chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) sampling, by Salah El Adlouni (Université de Moncton).	A031
10:00am-10:15am	Break	R215
10:15am-11:00am	MCMC Programming Workshop.	A031
11:00am-12:00pm	Constrained Multiple Taxicab Correspondence Analysis of Multivariate Binary Data with Rare Categories, by Vartan Choulakian and Jacques Allard (Université de Moncton).	A031

Accommodations

There are a block of rooms held at each of the hotels below until Wednesday, September 12^th. Please use the contact information below to receive the special conference rate.

• Delta Beausejour ($136+HST; 2.7 km) - (506) 854-4344 - mention Science Atlantic
• Comfort Inn ($123+HST; breakfast included; 1.9 km) - (506) 859-6868 - mention Science Atlantic
• Best Western ($109+HST; 2.5 km) - (506) 388-0888 - mention Science Atlantic

Directions

Parking

On Friday afternoon, parking is free only in the three parkings indentified in blue on the campus map around the Rémi-Rossignol building.
On Friday evening, Saturday, and Sunday, all parkings are free.

Université de Moncton, Moncton Campus - Rémi-Rossignol Building