Twenty–First Summer Meeting

1961 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 267-268
Keyword(s):  
National Council ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Mathematics And Physics

The twenty-first Summer Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics will be held under the sponsorship of the Ontario Association of Teachers of Mathematics and Physics, at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August 2G-23, 1961. This is the first time that any meeting of the Council has been held in Canada.

scholarly journals Experience with Online Delivery of an Engineering Technical Elective Course

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Wallace ◽  
Harpreet Dhariwal
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Online Delivery ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Physical Presence ◽  
Elective Course ◽  
On Line ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

MIE 515, Alternative Energy Systems, an engineering technical elective course open to senior undergraduates and graduate students, was delivered as an on line course for Fall 2011. This is the first time an undergraduate engineering course at the University of Toronto has been offered online. The course is also one of five pilot online courses across the University. The move online is being accomplished in two steps. For Fall 2011, a small lecture section of 25 students was used as a setting for video capture and the remaining 110 students accessed the course lectures online asynchronously. A live tutorial was offered once a week. All students were physically present for the midterm examination and the final examination. For Fall 2012, the course will be delivered entirely online, with the exception of student physical presence for the two examinations. Pedagogical and technical lessons learned during this transition year will be presented. The benefits and drawbacks of online delivery will be discussed from the perspective gained this year and compared with our expectations. Student feedback will also be presented and discussed.

April 16, 2017 – Notes of the Captain of the Spaceship sent to Planet of Exile

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 447-453
Author(s):  
Deniz Basar
Keyword(s):  
Young Person ◽  
Symbolic Power ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Presidential System ◽  
Legal Structures ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

I started writing this story on the day after the constitutional referendum in Turkey, which took place on 16th of April, 2017. The referendum took place under a State of Emergency which meant that the legal structures which could check the elections were not functioning as they should have been. The referendum was about Turkey’s state system changing into a presidential system or not; and in the case of “yes” to the presidential system, the parliament would only have symbolic power beginning with the establishment of new constitution and current political power would have the legal basis to stay in power forever. The election turned out to be 51% “yes” after the High Electoral Board decided to accept ballots that had not been officially stamped (which “coincidentally” turned out to be approximately two million new “yes” ballots) a few hours before the election was about to result. I was in Toronto on that day, surrounded with my friends from Turkey working towards their PhDs in Toronto like me. My experience as a young person trying to deal in Canada alone had been deeply traumatizing despite my privileges like being able to speak English (with an accent), not being “illegal”, studying at the University of Toronto, and having enough economic sources to live. In Canada I, for the first time in my life, understood what it means to be stripped from my personhood and to negotiate on my own existence. I understood that the best immigrant is the quiet and grateful one, the one who doesn’t dare to see herself as equally human; and I was, and am, far away from that. On the day of the referendum my pride and human dignity were severely broken because of the incommunicable situation I was in (both for Canadians and for my friends and family in Turkey), and this story is about that. I hide it in the allegory to make it speakable.

scholarly journals A WORKSHOP ON LEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR ENGINEERING FACULTY MEMBERS

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Romkey ◽  
Susan McCahan
Keyword(s):  
Educational Practice ◽  
Initial Step ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Graduate Attributes ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

As an initial step in preparing faculty members for the new outcomes-based accreditation process introduced by the CEAB, a pilot workshop on creating learning objectives was developed for engineering professors at the University of Toronto. As the Graduate Attributes will be mapped to individual courses within engineering programs, the need for course-based learning objectives is even more critical; although research already supports the development and use of learning objectives as an effective educational practice. . This paper will describe the process of developing the workshop, facilitating it for the first time, and the lessons learned that were used in developing a second iteration of the workshop.

Politics in Motion: Change and Complexity in the Contemporary Era

2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (02) ◽  
pp. 424-425
Author(s):  
Lauren G. West
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Task Forces ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Duke University ◽  
Related Group ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

For the first time in its history, the APSA Annual Meeting and Exhibition will be held outside of the continental United States. Held September 3–6, 2009, in Toronto, this marks the 105th assembly of the world's largest annual gathering of political scientists. The meeting will feature over 800 panels organized by 49 thematic divisions, 66 related groups, APSA committees, and presidential task forces, as well as more than 200 meetings and receptions. In addition to division and related group panels, program chairs Simone Chambers of the University of Toronto and Bruce Jentleson of Duke University will present a series of theme panels and plenary sessions that will focus on the meeting's theme, “Politics in Motion: Change and Complexity in the Contemporary Era.”

Having It Both Ways with Erving Goffman

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 439-448
Author(s):  
John Plotz
Keyword(s):  
Social Situation ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Presentation Of Self ◽  
Public Places ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The Social ◽  
Anthony Giddens ◽  
University Of Manitoba ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

Historians of social science from Anthony Giddens forward have ably chronicled Erving Goffman's legacy. Goffman's resonant book titles alone hint at the Dickensian acuity of his social close-reading: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1956), Behavior in Public Places (1963), Interaction Ritual (1967), Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience (1974), and Forms of Talk (1981). I envy newcomers the opportunity to read pieces like “On Cooling the Mark Out” (1952) and “Where the Action Is” (1967) with fresh eyes. Goffman, born in 1922 in Alberta, Canada, to Ukrainian parents, attended the University of Manitoba and the University of Toronto before receiving a PhD in sociology from Chicago. His fieldwork was in the Shetlands, and Asylums: Essays on the Condition of the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates (1961) and Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity (1963) were both written after a period of ethnographic immersion at St. Elizabeth's mental hospital in Washington, DC. It may help first-time readers to know that as an adolescent he had a “special aptitude for noticing details of people's interpersonal conduct”; also that “his Chicago classmates nicknamed him ‘the little dagger’ because of his talent for the pointed personal comment. Sometimes, they felt, he never knew when to stop.”

Hugo Dingler

1988 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gereon Wolters
Keyword(s):  
Surface Deformation ◽  
Edmund Husserl ◽  
David Hilbert ◽  
Felix Klein ◽  
University Of Munich ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mathematical Sciences ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Mathematics And Physics

Hugo Dingler lived from 1881 to 1954. During the academic years 1901–2 and 1903–4 he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Munich. He spent the intervening year (and then the summer of 1906) in Göttingen, where he studied mathematics with David Hilbert and Felix Klein as well as – for the first time – philosophy (with Edmund Husserl). In 1907 Dingler completed his doctorate in Munich with Aurel Voss with a dissertation on general surface deformation. His Habilitation followed in 1912, also at the University of Munich, but only for the prospectless field of “Method, Didactics and History of Mathematical Sciences.”

Opera Evangelica: A Lost Collection of Christian Apocrypha

2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 356-387
Author(s):  
Tony Burke ◽  
Gregory Peter Fewster
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
English Language ◽  
Rare Book ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Material Form ◽  
Selection Of

Within the holdings of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto there is a curious, rarely examined handwritten book entitled Opera Evangelica, containing translations of several apocryphal works in English. It opens with a lengthy Preface that provides an antiquarian account of Christian apocrypha along with a justification for translating the texts. Unfortunately, the book's title page gives little indication of its authorship or date of composition, apart from an oblique reference to the translator as ‘I. B.’ But citations in the Preface to contemporary scholarship place the volume around the turn of the eighteenth century, predating the first published English-language compendium of Christian apocrypha in print by Jeremiah Jones (1726). A second copy of the book has been found in the Cambridge University Library, though its selection of texts and material form diverges from the Toronto volume in some notable respects. This article presents Opera Evangelica to a modern audience for the first time. It examines various aspects of the work: the material features and history of the two manuscripts; the editions of apocryphal texts that lie behind its translations; the views expressed on Christian apocrypha by its mysterious author; and its place within manuscript publication and English scholarship around the turn of the eighteenth century. Scholars of Christian apocrypha delight in finding ‘lost gospels’ but in Opera Evangelica we have something truly unique: a long-lost collection of Christian apocrypha.

scholarly journals Prelude to lithuanian mathematical studies: Higher courses in Kaunas

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
Juozas Banionis
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Basic Sciences ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
The Core ◽  
Solid Foundation ◽  
University City ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Mathematics And Physics

As soon as the young Lithuanian state was formed, the international situation was unfavorable (the war of independence took place) and as a result its internal life was burdened by difficulties. Therefore, the Lithuanian intelligentsia (one of their leading mathematicians Z. Žemaitis) took the initiative to organize Higher Courses (AK) in the temporary capital Kaunas. These universal courses, equivalent to the type of higher education institution (university), existed in 1920– 1922. According to the adopted statute, there were six chapters covering the basic sciences - humanities, social sciences and natural or real sciences. The existence of the latter sciences was evidenced by the Department of Mathematics and Physics, where there was an opportunity to study mathematics in Lithuanian. This article shows the circumstances of the establishment of AK, the conditions of their activity, introduces the lecturers of mathematics and shows the composition of the listeners, as well as reveals the content of mathematics studies and names the literature used for studies. During the two years of AK's existence, a solid foundation was laid for the future Lithuanian University (since 1930 – Vytautas Magnus). The staff formed consisted mainly of 1922. the core of the developing university, and the first scientific aids, books and premises were acquired - the base of the higher school. For the first time in its history, AK turned Kaunas into a university city, and the departments operating in them laid the foundations for the establishment of the university, as well as the Faculty of Mathematics.

scholarly journals Springtime Arctic ground-based spectroscopy of O<sub>3</sub> and related trace gases at Eureka, Canada – Part 1: Evaluation of the analysis method and comparison with infrared measurements

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 343-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Farahani ◽  
K. Strong ◽  
R. L. Mittermeier ◽  
H. Fast ◽  
M. Van Roozendael ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stratospheric Ozone ◽  
Optical Absorption Spectroscopy ◽  
Air Masses ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Infrared Measurements ◽  
Infrared Spectrometer ◽  
Uv Visible ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Polar Ozone

Abstract. For the first time in spring 1999 the ground-based UV-visible zenith-sky measurements of stratospheric gases were performed at Environment Canada's Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Observatory (ASTRO) located at Eureka, Nunavut, Canada (80.05° N, 86.42° W, 610 m a.s.l.). The University of Toronto UV-visible ground-based spectrometer (UT-GBS) has been deployed for nine years afterwards at Eureka to measure ozone and NO2 total columns by using sunlight scattered from the zenith sky during spring, when the conditions leading to polar ozone depletion develop. During spring 2000, elevated OClO slant column densities were also measured for the first time. First dedicated analysis of UT-GBS measurements applying two independent differential optical absorption spectroscopy algorithms was performed on spectra recorded during spring 2000. The resulting ozone and NO2 total columns agreed to 4% and 5% or better, respectively. Also, first four years of UT-GBS results (1999–2003) were compared with those made by ozonesondes and by the Meteorogical Service of Canada Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (MSC FTS) at ASTRO, which has been operated by Canada's Department of Environment for measuring the total columns of several stratospheric gases. The comparison of UT-GBS and MSC FTS ozone total columns proved to be better than 5% for the periods when both instruments were viewing similar air masses.

scholarly journals Scientific overview: CSCI-CITAC Annual General Meeting and Young Investigators’ Forum 2014

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Keow ◽  
Eric Zhao ◽  
Nardin Samuel ◽  
Ayan Dey ◽  
Raphael Schneider ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
General Meeting ◽  
Annual General ◽  
Annual General Meeting ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Clinical Investigator ◽  
Poster Sessions ◽  
Bayer Healthcare ◽  
The University ◽  
Oral Presentations ◽  
First Time

The Canadian Society of Clinician Investigators (CSCI) and Clinical Investigator Trainee Association of Canada/Association des cliniciens-chercheurs en formation du Canada (CITAC/ACCFC) annual general meeting (AGM) was held in Toronto during November 21-24, 2015 for the first time in conjunction with the University of Toronto Clinician-Investigator Program Research Day. The overall theme for this year’s meeting was the role of mentorship in career development, with presentations from Dr. Chaim Bell (University of Toronto), Dr. Shurjeel Choudhri (Bayer Healthcare), Dr. Ken Croitoru (University of Toronto), Dr. Astrid Guttman (University of Toronto), Dr. Prabhat Jha (University of Toronto) and Dr. Sheila Singh (McMaster University). The keynote speakers of the 2014 AGM included Dr. Qutayba Hamid, who was presented with the Distinguished Scientist Award, Dr. Ravi Retnakaran, who was presented with the Joe Doupe Award, and Dr. Lorne Babiuk, who was the CSCI-RCPSC Henry Friesen Award winner. The highlight of the conference was, once again, the outstanding scientific presentations from the numerous clinician investigator (CI) trainees from across the country who presented at the Young Investigators’ Forum. Their research topics spanned the diverse fields of science and medicine, ranging from basic science to cutting-edge translational research, and their work has been summarized in this review. Over 120 abstracts were presented at this year’s meeting. This work was presented during two poster sessions, with the six most outstanding submitted abstracts presented in the form of oral presentations during the President’s Forum.

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