Medical Imaging or looking inside your body
Anna Celler, PhD, FCCM
Medical Imaging Research Group, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre

In a situation when a person gets ill, it is very important to see what could be wrong in order to decide about the best treatment. To make accurate diagnosis or just to better understand how our body works doctors often depend on sophisticated techniques that are jointly called "medical imaging". These techniques not only allow us to obtain images of the inside of the human body, but also can show how different organs work in the normal and diseased conditions. In my talk I will present a short review of different imaging methods and explain how physics, mathematics and computer science, together with several other disciplines, are used to create such images and… to have a look inside the human body.

Careers in Mathematics, Statistics, and Epidemiology: One Man's Experience
Kevin Craib, PhD, B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Langara College

I will describe my personal experience of pursuing a career as a mathematician, statistician, and an epidemiologist. In addition, I will present an example of my recent work involving mortality rates and causes of death in a cohort of urban injection drug users.

Contest results and presentation of prizes