May 19, 2022, 06:30 PM
York University Mathematics & Statistics Career Panel
Hi Everyone, we've been organizing an event with mathematics & statistics alumni and professors to give you a chance to hear from them on their career paths and what you can do with a math or stats degree! Come by if you are interested, I guarantee you will learn something!
29th April, Friday, 11:00AM - 3:00PM
Three students gave presentations on the Mathematics of Quantum Information Theory.
• Entanglement: The Fuel of Quantum Computation (Matthew Tsang) - 11:00AM-12:00PM
• Majorization in Quantum Information Theory (Xavier Mootoo) - 1:00PM-2:00PM
• Quantum Entropy and Source Coding (Noam Tobin) - 2:00PM-3:00PM
Monday, February 21, 2022, from 6 PM to 8 PM.
Math Olympiad
We had organized a Math Olympiad on the first day of reading week, it was Monday, February 21, 2022, from 6 PM to 8 PM.
Participating in the Math Olympiad provided students with a valuable experience. Math Olympiad helped students to enhance their arithmetic and logical skills and at the same time, it gave them a sense of competition.
Book club
We had organized club infinity's first ever book club.
Our aim was to read technical / non-technical books / papers together and have weekly discussions.
In future iterations, we will pick books based on community suggestions but for this semester we had read 'Gödel, Escher, Bach'.
Schedule:
Week 1 : Jan 17 ~ 22. Intro, Ch.1, Ch2
Week 2 : Jan 23 ~ 29 Ch.3,4
Week 3 : Jan 30 ~ Feb 5 Ch5, ch7
Week 4: Feb 6 ~ Feb 12 Ch.8, Ch.13
Week 5: midterm break
Week 6 : Feb 20 ~ Feb26 (reading week) Ch.13,14,15
Week 7: Feb27 ~ Mar5 Ch.16,17
Thursday, October 7, 2021, 4pm.
Professor Ada Chan had kindly invited students to attend Dr. Aruliah's talk on Mathematical lessons from industry and academia, which York University hosted in October!
Oct 1st, Friday, 6:30 pm.
Hosted a movie night on Oct 1st, Friday, 6:30 pm. Possible choices were "Knife out", "the grand tour lockdown", “Mr and Mrs Smith" and some others. This was a great opportunity to meet new people and make friends!
Thursday, September 23rd
We had the first event of the academic year on Thursday, September 23rd at 6 PM. It was a social event to get to know our colleagues.
To facilitate a more interactive experience, the virtual platform was gather.town. Gather is a fun medium that allows you to customize your character to the max! You can create an avatar and hang out in the comfort of your own domicile.
