The 61st Undergraduate Student Science Atlantic Conference on Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science will take place in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada between October 13 and October 14, 2023.
Charlottetown is the capital and largest city on Prince Edward Island,
and the birthplace of Canada.
The conference is organized by the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences of
University of Prince Edward Island.
Important Dates
- Deadline for undergraduate abstract submissions:
October 7, 2023, 5:00pm, ADT,
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Conference: October 13-14, 2023
Submissions
We invite abstract submissions from undergraduate students of Atlantic Canadian universities for oral presentations. We encourage submissions from all areas of mathematics, statistics, and computer science.
Accepted abstracts will be presented at MSCS 2023 and published in the Science Atlantic MSCS 2023 conference proceedings/booklet.
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We will accept all undergraduate submissions per the SA MSCS Conference policy.
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We will accept all graduate submissions per the SA MSCS Conference policy if there is enough room in the conference schedule.
Undergraduate Abstract Submissions
Only abstracts are required. However, the judges may use the full papers or extended abstracts to rank the presentations.
The abstract is limited to 2300 characters in the submission form.
Extended abstract submissions/full papers are optional and
must be written in LaTeX/Microsoft Word/Open Office Writer at most four(4) pages long, bibliography included.
If the authors believe that more details are essential to substantiate their claims, they may include a clearly marked appendix that judges will read at their discretion.
Graduate extended abstract submissions
MSCS 2023 will offer a parallel session for graduate students.
Only abstracts are required. The full papers or extended abstracts may be used by the judges to rank the papers or, in case of a flood
of submissions by the organizers, to select accepted papers.
Extended abstract submissions/full papers are optional, and they
must be written in LaTeX/Microsoft Word/Open Office Writer, at most eight(8) pages long, bibliography included.
Authors should submit their contributions using
the form provided.
Only electronic submissions of sources(tex, txt, doc, docx) are possible.
If you want to submit the accompanying PDF file, you will submit a zip/tgz/tar.gz file containing all your files.
In case of difficulties, student talks (abstracts) can be registered by a faculty member or SA representative (or designate) of the respective university by email to  .
However, filling out the abstract submission form here is the preferred registration method.
Oral presentations will be 15 minutes long (with 5 minutes between each presentation for questions and setup of the next speaker).
Booklet
All papers from the conference will be included
in a booklet available for download at the time of the conference.
Awards
Mathematics and Statistics
- For the best papers Undergraduate Research awards:
- 1st place: Logan Pipes (MtA)
- 2nd place: Timothy Power (Dal)
- 3rd place: Ethan Saunders (Dal)
- For the best papers Graduate Research awards:
- 1st place: Louis Bu (Dalhousie)
- 2nd place: Dylan Pearson (Dal)
- 3rd place: Joy Liu (Dal)
- For the best paper communication award(Mathematics and Statistics):
Computer Science
- For the best papers Undergraduate Research awards:
- 1st place: Aakanksha Khandwaha (Mount Allison)
- 2nd place: Lai T Uyen (UPEI)
- 3rd place: Shivam Wadhwa (UPEI)
- For the best papers Graduate Research awards:
- 1st place: Ethan Heavey (St. Francis Xavier)
- 2nd place: Charanpreet Singh (UPEI)
- 3rd place: Riya Pandey (UPEI)
- For the best paper communication award(Computer Science):
- Baxter Madore (Saint Mary’s)
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Keynote Invited Speakers
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Field Lecture: Joanna Mills Flemming (Dalhousie University, Halifax/Nova Scotia, Canada)
"Much can be learned about the ocean and its inhabitants despite the scarcity of direct observations. Instead, we frequently rely on ocean technologies to explore, study, and make use of its resources. The data collected by these efforts, when combined with (often complex) statistical models, play a crucial role in improving our understanding of the ocean and how it is responding to climate change, mitigating (other) environmental challenges, and sustaining various industries. This talk describes three research projects each of which uses vastly different ocean technologies, data, and statistical models to unveil secrets of the sea."
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Sedgewick Lecture: Kathleen Fraser (Ottawa/Ontario, Canada)
"Every day brings exciting new advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), and yet questions remain about whether these technologies have the ability to make the right moral choices -- and who gets to decide what the "right" choice is, anyway? In this talk, I will define eight key pillars of Ethical AI, as established by Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society: privacy, accountability, safety, transparency, fairness, human control of technology, professional responsibility, and the promotion of human values. I will illustrate each theme with real-world examples of the harms that result when these pillars are overlooked -- and ways that we can avoid these harms to build a better, safer, and more equitable society with AI technology."
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Blundon Lecture: Franklin Mendivil (Acadia University, Wolfville/Nova Scotia, Canada)
"Most of us learned about infinite sums in a calculus class where we were initiated into the mysteries of when such a sum converges or diverges. In this talk, we revisit this mathematical locale but instead consider what you can "construct" if you look at ALL the possible (convergent) subsums of an infinite series. The resulting sets have pleasing structure and include fractals, both familiar and unfamiliar.
This question has been investigated since at least 1914 and has generated some pretty mathematics. It is also tied to geometric questions about sums of Cantor sets."
Organizing Committee
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Cezar Câmpeanu (University of Prince Edward Island, Canada)
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Andrew Goudbout (University of Prince Edward Island, Canada)
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Shafiqul Islam (University of Prince Edward Island, Canada)
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Gordon McDonald (University of Prince Edward Island, Canada)
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Michael A. McIsaac (University of Prince Edward Island, Canada)
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Gurjit Randhawa (University of Prince Edward Island, Canada)
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Chris Vessey (University of Prince Edward Island, Canada)
Website and Contacts
Official MSCS 2023 website
Personal inquires should be sent to
or to
MSCS 2023 Organizing Committee,
School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences,
University of Prince Edward Island,
550 University Avenue, Charlottetown, PE C1A 4P3, CANADA.
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