Media

OTTAWA, May 7, 2010  —  Below is a summary of activities taking place at the University of Ottawa this week. For more information, please visit www.media.uOttawa.ca.

May 6 to 10, 2010

26th Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics

9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., DesmaraisBuilding, room 1150 (55 Laurier Avenue East)

MFPS conferences are devoted to the areas of mathematics, logic and computer science that are related to models of computation, in general and to the semantics of programming languages, in particular. There will be a forum where researchers can meet and exchange.Conference registration is $160 (Canadian) per person and $100 for students. For more information please send an e-mail to mfps@math.tulane.eduor visit http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~mwarren/MFPS/ for registration.

May 12, 2010

Reinventing CIDA

12 p.m., DesmaraisBuilding, room 12110 (55 Laurier Avenue East)

Launch of a new report by Barry Carin and Gordon Smith, Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria on the question: What is the future of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and Canada's development policies? The authors call for changes to CIDA and new approaches to Canadian development assistance that would focus on providing incentives to, and encouraging greater competition among, organizations delivering development assistance. The event is free. Registration is not required. The presentation of the report will be in English and the following discussion period in English and French. For more information please visit www.sciencessociales.uottawa.ca/cepi-cips/eng/events.asp.

May 13 and 14, 2010

Feminist Legal Activism at Fifty - Critical Reflections
5 p.m. to 8 p.m., DesmaraisBuilding, room 12102 (55 Laurier Avenue East)

Shirley E. Greenberg Chair in Women and the Legal Profession will sponsor a symposium to mark the fiftieth anniversary in Canadian feminist legal history. Two dozen Canadian feminists will reflect on processes, political formations, mobilizing strategies, what ideas, reforms and jurisprudential building blocks, pedagogies, models of leadership and of feminism and lessons from past failures. The registration fee is $15 for students and $30 for general admission. For more information, please contact Professor Martha Jackman at greenberg@uOttawa.caor visit www.commonlaw.uottawa.ca/en/chairs/greenberg-events/2009-2010-events.html.

For more information about the Gee-Gees and upcoming sporting events, contact Jacinthe Néron at 613-562-5800 extension 2113 or visit www.geegees.uOttawa.ca.