The UPEI Student Health Centre, located in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre (above the Bookstore), is offering a Flu Vaccination Clinic on the morning of Wednesday, November 2, 2016 -- by appointment only-- for faculty, staff, and students.

Cost for the vaccination is $10. Valid provincial health card information will be required when scheduling and your health card must be provided at the appointment.

Please call 902-566-0616 to book your appointment.

Dr. Michael West, a candidate for the open, two-year term community practice position in AVC's Department of Companion Animals will be interviewed on Wednesday, October 26, 2016. As part of this interview process, Dr. West has been asked to provide a seminar to the campus community. The seminar is called "Nutrition and the Pruritic Dog" and will take place at 12:30 pm, in room 287N, The McCain Foundation Learning Commons.

A CV and letter of intent are available upon request from Linda Constable in the AVC Dean's Office.

Our Semi-Annual General Meeting (SAGM) is Tuesday November 8 from 4:30–6pm in Main Building room 420 (there will be pizza & drinks). 

It is really important for a large number of students to attend and give us input and suggestions about graduate student life at UPEI.

If you have questions, please email gsa@upei.ca.

TODAY! Monday, October 24 at 1:30pm
Join us in the Robertson Library Room 312 OR from the comfort of your own office through this link: https://ca.bbcollab.com/guest/ECA7CCC40920FDB1B296A02E9C33515A
The topic is "Open Education: Reducing Costs, Transforming Pedagogy".
For more information: https://library.upei.ca/robin-derosa-open-education-reducing-costs-transforming-pedagogy-upei-webinar-oct-24
Contact: Donald Moses dmoses@upei.ca

The University of Prince Edward Island is celebrating Open Access Week with a series of informative events.

As an appetizer to the main event, join us this Friday, October 21, 10:30 am - noon, in the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building, for Open Appetizers: What Open can do for Higher Ed

On Monday, October 24 at 1:30 pm in Robertson Library 312 (or from the comfort of your own office), we are hosting a webinar by Robin DeRosa (Plymouth State University): Open Education: Reducing Costs, Transforming Pedagogy

On Thursday, October 27 at 10:00 am, Robertson Library 312, Robert Gilmour will introduce and re-launch the new IslandScholar and data.upei.ca. Dawn Hooper and Donald Moses from the Robertson Library will demonstrate the services and answer questions.

Also on Thursday, October 27 at 7:00 pm, the Robertson Library will partner with the Open Data Book Club to host a special event in Robertson Library 312. First, the Open Data Book Club will introduce its activities related to Open Data. Following that we will have two speakers: Dr. Adam Fenech, Director of UPEI Climate Lab, will speak on "The Value of Open Data in Research" and Mary-Ann MacSwain, Data Analyst at the UPEI Centre for Health and Community Research will speak on "Health Data in an Open Data World." 

Dr. Oriana Raab, a candidate for the open, tenure-track small animal internal medicine position in the Department of Companion Animals, will be interviewing on Tuesday, October 25 to Thursday, October 27, 2016. As part of this interview process, Dr. Raab has been asked to provide two seminars geared towards 3rd year DVM students. You are invited to attend. 

SEMINAR - Tuesday, October 25 @ 12:30pm
AVC Lecture Theatre 'C'
Cryptococcosis in the Dog and Cat

SEMINAR - Thursday, October 27 @ 12:30pm
AVC Lecture Theatre 'A'
Canine Lower Respiratory Diseases

Please contact Dr. Stephanie Hamilton, Chair of the Selection Committee (smhamilton@upei.ca) or Laurel Fisher (fisher@upei.ca) if you would like to meet individually with Dr. Raab.

What exactly is a syllabus? Is it a contract, a promise, even a work of art? Head to http://projects.upei.ca/scent/ to read this week's article, "My Syllabus, My Self," and see what you think – and, of course, leave a comment! Questions? Email Gerald at the Faculty Development Office: fdo@upei.ca.

OCTOBER 24, 2016
3:00 – 3:50 pm
CASS SCIENCE HALL ROOM 101
Refreshments to be served in Cass 312 after the talk

Title
New techniques for analysing online algorithms: matching theory to practice.

Speaker
Marc Renault , IRIF, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7

Abstract: 
An algorithm is a set of instructions to process the input for a given problem. In the classical setting, algorithms have access to the entire input and the algorithm is a function applied to this input. The result of the function being the output. In contrast, in the online setting, the input is revealed sequentially, piece by piece; these pieces are called requests. Moreover, after receiving each request, the algorithm must take an action before the next request is revealed. That is, the algorithm must make irrevocable decisions based on the input revealed so far without any knowledge of the future input. Since the future is unknown, these decisions could prove very costly. Online problems have many real-world applications such as paging, routing and scheduling. In this talk, I'll introduce the topic of online computation, some classic online problems, and some techniques used to analyze online algorithms that have been developed over the last 30 years. Then, I'll show how our new techniques (the bijective ratio and approximate stochastic dominance) fit into this rich domain and apply them to classic problems with a particular focus on the greedy algorithm for the k-server problem, an algorithm that performs well in practice (on certain metric spaces) when the classic analysis tools claim it should not.
Refreshments will be served immediately after
in Cass Science Hall Resource Room 312

Hope to see you there on October 24, 2016!

The Celebration of Student Success- Dean's Honours List Ceremony for the School of Nursing will be held on Monday, October 24 at 7:00 pm in McMillan Hall, W.A. Murphy Student Centre. Students who are on the Dean's List for the 2015-16 academic year will be presented with a certificate recognizing their outstanding academic performance.

If you are from BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan or Manitoba, the provincial government wants to hear from you! We are interested in hearing your perspectives regarding life on PEI. Most importantly, we want to know how we can make your UPEI experience better.

Please contact heklein@upei.ca for more information

If you are from BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan or Manitoba, the provincial government wants to hear from you! We are interested in hearing your perspectives regarding life on PEI. Most importantly, we want to know how we can make your UPEI experience better.

Please contact heklein@upei.ca for more information

Monday, October 24 at 1:30pm- Robertson Library 312 (or from the comfort of your own office). 

Open Educational Resources have the ability to eliminate the costs to students for textbooks and other learning materials, but they also empower students and faculty to work in new ways. This presentation will explore how we can save money for students, while also transforming our teaching and radically centering learners in their own educations. We will take a look at how free, openly-licensed digital materials can be incorporated into any course in any discipline, and explore new ways of using technology to connect our students and their work to the world outside of the the university.
http://library.upei.ca/robin-derosa-open-education-reducing-costs-trans…

Contact: Donald Moses dmoses@upei.ca 

The Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC) requires that all personnel involved with the use of animals in research, teaching, testing and service take this course.  (A refresher course is required every 5 years). The next UPEI on-site training session in animal use and care will be held on:

Wednesday, November 9, 2016 from 1:00 - 4:00 pm
The McCain Foundation Learning Commons, Room 287N
Atlantic Veterinary College

This will be a 3-hour training session with handouts, based on CCAC Recommended Syllabus (exam included).

Please notify Sherri Pineau by e-mail at animalcare@upei.ca by 12:00 noon on Wednesday, November 2, 2016 if you or any of your staff will be attending this session.

The Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences' (AARMS) Collaborative Research Group in Iterated Function Systems (IFS), Fractals, Invariant Measures and Applications presents the first event of its seminar series. Entitled "Fractals and images", the seminar will presented by Dr. Franklin Mendivil (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Acadia University) via skype.

Friday, October 21, 3:00 pm, Cass Science Hall 101
School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences

Abstract: Many people have seen the incredibly intricate images that can be generated using fractals. But can fractals be useful to generate “normal” images (like photos)? In this talk, we discuss fractals, digital images, image compression, and combine them all together in fractal image compression.

The IFS, Fractals, Invariant Measures, and Applications Collaborative Research Group is administered by UPEI's Shafiqul Islam, and includes members Franklin Mendivil and Tara Taylor (St. Francis Xavier University).

The campus community is invited to attend a seminar given by PhD candidate Ashok Somalraju, entitled the "Advances and implications of genome editing technologies."

Date: Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Location: Duffy Science Centre 423
Time: 9:00 am

While the Seminar is open, the exam portion is closed to the public.

Last year, UPEI and PEI Health and Wellness combined to offer a hot bowl of soup in a safe environment - healthy food for mental health.  This year, gardens are adding physical health to our plan.

To increase sustainability, we invited the campus to donate bowls and spoons. We received 75 bowls and 15 spoons, and installed soap and sanitizer at the Chaplaincy Centre to decrease our footprint. As cottages close, we are hoping for more spoons and bowls.  Donations can be left at the Chaplaincy Centre.

Our first event will be Wednesday October 19, 11:30 am -1:00 pm.  Drop by with a bowl for a soul!

Sister Sue