Richard Nowakowski will talk games in a public lecture on Friday, June 5 at 5 pm in the Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium, Don and Marion McDougall Hall, as part of the Canadian Mathematical Society’s 2015 Summer Meeting at the University of Prince Edward Island. Chess and checkers are two games that Nowakowski studies, as he specializes in two-player games where the players move alternately, there are no random factors and the last player to move determines the winner. Nowakowski is heavily involved with the CMS and mathematics in the Maritimes. He volunteers with Dalhousie Math Circles, a mathematics outreach program based out of the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at Dalhousie University, where he works as a research professor. The public lecture will launch the CMS Summer Meeting, taking place at UPEI from June 5-8. Over 300 mathematics professionals, students and educators from Canada and around the world are expected to attend. No mathematical background is required to appreciate the talk!