Murder and maggots will be on the academic menu created specifically for gifted high school mathematicians taking part in the 19th offering of A Taste of Pi. It’s a series of invitation-only talks and activities for Grade 10 and 11 students who have a demonstrated talent and strong interest in mathematics.

On Saturday, April 6, this year’s cadre of students will hear world famous SFU criminologist Gail Anderson deliver her presentation Murder and Maggots at IRMACS theatre, SFU Burnaby. Anderson’s talk will be the A Taste of Pi series’ 100th presentation.

The series consists of monthly Saturday morning meetings, 9:00 a.m. to noon, during which students hear SFU faculty talk about their research and get the scoop on new developments and contemporary applications in math. Students then apply what they’ve learned in problem solving activities.

SFU’s math department and IRMACS (Interdisciplinary Research in the Mathematics and Computational Science) host the series and SFU’s Faculty of Science and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) provide additional support.

Malgorzata Dubiel, an SFU math senior lecturer, and Veselin Jungic, an SFU adjunct professor of math, both involved in the organization of this series, can explain why invitation-only students line up for it.

Malgorzata Dubiel, 778.782.3800, dubiel@math.sfu.ca
Veselin Jungic, 778.782.3340, vjungic@sfu.ca