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Pi day, SPINE, Afghanistan health
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March 12, 2010
Happy Pi Day!
It’s International Pi Day on Sunday, Mar. 14 (3.14 on the calendar, get it?) and SFU mathematician Peter Borwein plans to celebrate. In 1996, he co-authored a seminal paper on calculating pi—the ratio of circumference to diameter of a circle—with what’s now referred to as the Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula. He says the question of pi’s randomness has captured the global imagination for centuries and that Pi Day is “both serious and fun at the same time—a hard thing to do with mathematics.” He’s available to talk about his love of pi.
Peter Borwein, 778.846.4376; peter_borwein@sfu.ca
Showing SPINE at SFU Woodward’s
SPINE runs throughout the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games at the new Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre at SFU Woodward’s in downtown Vancouver. Part of the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad, the new Canadian play features B.C. actor James Sanders, a quadriplegic who plays a man escaping the limits of his physical body by beaming into cyberspace. Tickets: www.sfuwoodwards.ca
Heather Kennedy, 604.723.2562; heatherkennedy.vcr@gmail.com
Susan Jamieson-McLarnon, 778.782.5151; jamieson@sfu.ca
Health care in Afghanistan
Has health care improved in Afghanistan since the US-led invasion in 2001? Johns Hopkins University professor Gilbert Burnham has studied health services in that troubled land since 2004 and will review his findings at the Dr. Cam Coady Foundation Annual Lecture in Health Issues presented by SFU’s Faculty of Health Sciences: Mar. 17 in SFU Surrey’s Westminster Savings Credit Union Theatre, Rm. 2600, at 7 pm. Burnham is available for interviews after the lecture.
Gilbert Burnham, 410.955.3928; gburnham@jhsps.edu
It’s International Pi Day on Sunday, Mar. 14 (3.14 on the calendar, get it?) and SFU mathematician Peter Borwein plans to celebrate. In 1996, he co-authored a seminal paper on calculating pi—the ratio of circumference to diameter of a circle—with what’s now referred to as the Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula. He says the question of pi’s randomness has captured the global imagination for centuries and that Pi Day is “both serious and fun at the same time—a hard thing to do with mathematics.” He’s available to talk about his love of pi.
Peter Borwein, 778.846.4376; peter_borwein@sfu.ca
Showing SPINE at SFU Woodward’s
SPINE runs throughout the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games at the new Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre at SFU Woodward’s in downtown Vancouver. Part of the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad, the new Canadian play features B.C. actor James Sanders, a quadriplegic who plays a man escaping the limits of his physical body by beaming into cyberspace. Tickets: www.sfuwoodwards.ca
Heather Kennedy, 604.723.2562; heatherkennedy.vcr@gmail.com
Susan Jamieson-McLarnon, 778.782.5151; jamieson@sfu.ca
Health care in Afghanistan
Has health care improved in Afghanistan since the US-led invasion in 2001? Johns Hopkins University professor Gilbert Burnham has studied health services in that troubled land since 2004 and will review his findings at the Dr. Cam Coady Foundation Annual Lecture in Health Issues presented by SFU’s Faculty of Health Sciences: Mar. 17 in SFU Surrey’s Westminster Savings Credit Union Theatre, Rm. 2600, at 7 pm. Burnham is available for interviews after the lecture.
Gilbert Burnham, 410.955.3928; gburnham@jhsps.edu