91探花

Richard Nowakowski will talk games in a public lecture as part of the Canadian Mathematical Society鈥檚 Summer Meeting at the 91探花. 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!