The City of Charlottetown has posted that CSA approved helmets are now required by all individuals using the City of Charlottetown rinks. Currently, the IRO has an active ice-skate lending service. However, in order for our UPEI students to continue to enjoy this popular skate service, we will now need to offer helmets. Any donations would be greatly appreciated. Contact rgreathouse@upei.ca.

The Open Pages series at UPEI’s Robertson Library welcomes John Cousins to discuss his book New London: The Lost Dream. The event is Wednesday, November 16 at 7 pm, in the second floor common area of the Robertson Library.

New London: The Lost Dream tells the true story of brave Quakers from London, England who settled along PEI’s north shore in 1773. This book is an excellent recreation of how some of the Island’s first European settlers arrived, survived, and occasionally thrived in the “new world.”

New London: The Lost Dream is published by Island Studies Press at UPEI. For more details, see “Recent Titles” at http://projects.upei.ca/isp/.

Open Pages features local authors speaking about their books: what inspired them, what they learned, and what they shared. The public is warmly invited to this evening, which takes place in the common area on the second floor of the UPEI Robertson Library. Light refreshments will be served, and books will be for sale and signing by the author.

For more information, contact Joan Sinclair at Island Studies Press at ispstaff@upei.ca, or Simon Lloyd in the Robertson Library, slloyd@upei.ca. 

Donald Moses will demonstrate the new IslandScholar, UPEI’s institutional repository of faculty and staff publications, graduate theses, and graduate projects on Thursday, October 27 at 10:00 am in Robertson Library 312. The session will also include a demonstration of data.upei.ca, a service that provides UPEI researchers with a suite of tools that include a data management planning tool, a locally hosted “WorkSpaces” to store and manage research data files, and a publishing/archiving platform for research data sets. Contact Donald Moses for more information.

The next presentations in the Environmental Sciences and Human Biology seminar series take place on Friday, October 28, 2016 at 12:30 pm in Duffy Science 204: 

• Travis McIsaac (MSc-c), “Exploring the relationship between negative sport experiences and positive youth development”
• Kshitij Trivedi (MSc-c), “Exploring the activity of homeotic genes in hibiscus”

All are welcome.

Our Semi-Annual General Meeting (SAGM) is Tuesday, November 8 from 4:30–6pm in SDU Main Building, room 420 (there will be pizza and drinks).

It is really important for a large number of students to attend to give input and suggestions about graduate student life at UPEI. If you have questions, please email gsa@upei.ca

The UPEI Student Health Centre, located in the W.A. Murphy Student Centre (above the Bookstore), is offering a Flu Vaccination Clinic on the morning of Wednesday, November 2, 2016 -- by appointment only-- for faculty, staff, and students.

Cost for the vaccination is $10. Valid provincial health card information will be required when scheduling and your health card must be provided at the appointment.

Please call 902-566-0616 to book your appointment.

Dr. Michael West, a candidate for the open, two-year term community practice position in AVC's Department of Companion Animals will be interviewed on Wednesday, October 26, 2016. As part of this interview process, Dr. West has been asked to provide a seminar to the campus community. The seminar is called "Nutrition and the Pruritic Dog" and will take place at 12:30 pm, in room 287N, The McCain Foundation Learning Commons.

A CV and letter of intent are available upon request from Linda Constable in the AVC Dean's Office.

Our Semi-Annual General Meeting (SAGM) is Tuesday November 8 from 4:30–6pm in Main Building room 420 (there will be pizza & drinks). 

It is really important for a large number of students to attend and give us input and suggestions about graduate student life at UPEI.

If you have questions, please email gsa@upei.ca.

TODAY! Monday, October 24 at 1:30pm
Join us in the Robertson Library Room 312 OR from the comfort of your own office through this link: https://ca.bbcollab.com/guest/ECA7CCC40920FDB1B296A02E9C33515A
The topic is "Open Education: Reducing Costs, Transforming Pedagogy".
For more information: https://library.upei.ca/robin-derosa-open-education-reducing-costs-transforming-pedagogy-upei-webinar-oct-24
Contact: Donald Moses dmoses@upei.ca

The University of Prince Edward Island is celebrating Open Access Week with a series of informative events.

As an appetizer to the main event, join us this Friday, October 21, 10:30 am - noon, in the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building, for Open Appetizers: What Open can do for Higher Ed

On Monday, October 24 at 1:30 pm in Robertson Library 312 (or from the comfort of your own office), we are hosting a webinar by Robin DeRosa (Plymouth State University): Open Education: Reducing Costs, Transforming Pedagogy

On Thursday, October 27 at 10:00 am, Robertson Library 312, Robert Gilmour will introduce and re-launch the new IslandScholar and data.upei.ca. Dawn Hooper and Donald Moses from the Robertson Library will demonstrate the services and answer questions.

Also on Thursday, October 27 at 7:00 pm, the Robertson Library will partner with the Open Data Book Club to host a special event in Robertson Library 312. First, the Open Data Book Club will introduce its activities related to Open Data. Following that we will have two speakers: Dr. Adam Fenech, Director of UPEI Climate Lab, will speak on "The Value of Open Data in Research" and Mary-Ann MacSwain, Data Analyst at the UPEI Centre for Health and Community Research will speak on "Health Data in an Open Data World." 

The Celebration of Student Success- Dean's Honours List Ceremony for the School of Nursing will be held on Monday, October 24 at 7:00 pm in McMillan Hall, W.A. Murphy Student Centre. Students who are on the Dean's List for the 2015-16 academic year will be presented with a certificate recognizing their outstanding academic performance.

If you are from BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan or Manitoba, the provincial government wants to hear from you! We are interested in hearing your perspectives regarding life on PEI. Most importantly, we want to know how we can make your UPEI experience better.

Please contact heklein@upei.ca for more information

Dr. Oriana Raab, a candidate for the open, tenure-track small animal internal medicine position in the Department of Companion Animals, will be interviewing on Tuesday, October 25 to Thursday, October 27, 2016. As part of this interview process, Dr. Raab has been asked to provide two seminars geared towards 3rd year DVM students. You are invited to attend. 

SEMINAR - Tuesday, October 25 @ 12:30pm
AVC Lecture Theatre 'C'
Cryptococcosis in the Dog and Cat

SEMINAR - Thursday, October 27 @ 12:30pm
AVC Lecture Theatre 'A'
Canine Lower Respiratory Diseases

Please contact Dr. Stephanie Hamilton, Chair of the Selection Committee (smhamilton@upei.ca) or Laurel Fisher (fisher@upei.ca) if you would like to meet individually with Dr. Raab.

What exactly is a syllabus? Is it a contract, a promise, even a work of art? Head to http://projects.upei.ca/scent/ to read this week's article, "My Syllabus, My Self," and see what you think – and, of course, leave a comment! Questions? Email Gerald at the Faculty Development Office: fdo@upei.ca.

OCTOBER 24, 2016
3:00 – 3:50 pm
CASS SCIENCE HALL ROOM 101
Refreshments to be served in Cass 312 after the talk

Title
New techniques for analysing online algorithms: matching theory to practice.

Speaker
Marc Renault , IRIF, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7

Abstract: 
An algorithm is a set of instructions to process the input for a given problem. In the classical setting, algorithms have access to the entire input and the algorithm is a function applied to this input. The result of the function being the output. In contrast, in the online setting, the input is revealed sequentially, piece by piece; these pieces are called requests. Moreover, after receiving each request, the algorithm must take an action before the next request is revealed. That is, the algorithm must make irrevocable decisions based on the input revealed so far without any knowledge of the future input. Since the future is unknown, these decisions could prove very costly. Online problems have many real-world applications such as paging, routing and scheduling. In this talk, I'll introduce the topic of online computation, some classic online problems, and some techniques used to analyze online algorithms that have been developed over the last 30 years. Then, I'll show how our new techniques (the bijective ratio and approximate stochastic dominance) fit into this rich domain and apply them to classic problems with a particular focus on the greedy algorithm for the k-server problem, an algorithm that performs well in practice (on certain metric spaces) when the classic analysis tools claim it should not.
Refreshments will be served immediately after
in Cass Science Hall Resource Room 312

Hope to see you there on October 24, 2016!

If you are from BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan or Manitoba, the provincial government wants to hear from you! We are interested in hearing your perspectives regarding life on PEI. Most importantly, we want to know how we can make your UPEI experience better.

Please contact heklein@upei.ca for more information