UPEI Robertson Library Strategic Planning

You are invited to provide feedback on the current and future direction of UPEI Robertson Library during a focus group involving UPEI faculty and staff. The Library is in the process of developing a new five year strategic plan and would like to hear from you about what is working well and what we can do differently in the future. An independent facilitator, Wendy Drake (MRSB Consulting Services) will facilitate your discussion and will ask you the following questions: What is currently working well and should continue? What is not working so well and needs to be enhanced, improved, or changed? Are there services at other academic institutions that you feel should be offered at the UPEI Robertson Library? What gaps or challenges should be addressed? What opportunities should be pursued in the next 5 years? In your opinion, what is the most important priority for UPEI Robertson Library within the next five years? Please RSVP by May 26th to Pauline MacPherson at pmacpherson@upei.ca. Your feedback is appreciated!

Public Lecture - Richard Nowakowski talks "games"

Richard Nowakowski will talk games in a public lecture as part of the Canadian Mathematical Society’s 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. Nowakowski also volunteered on a team of university markers across Canada who graded the Sun Life Financial Canadian Mathematics Challenge (COMC) in November 2014. He has worked with the CMS since the mid 1980s and is a former Canadian Mathematical Olympiad (CMO) Chair. The free, public lecture will launch the 2015 Canadian Mathematical Society Summer Meeting. 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!