Mary Joy Aitken
mj2aitken@math.uwaterloo.ca
Friday, August 22, 2008
Beach at Red Sea
Mary Joy Aitken
mj2aitken@math.uwaterloo.ca
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Canadian Team After Closing Ceremonies
The entire Canadian team did a fantastic job at a very challenging competition featuring the world's best computer science secondary students. Well done and congratulations for representing Canada so well.
Mary Joy Aitken
mj2aitken@math.uwaterloo.ca
Canada Wins Gold!
Mary Joy Aitken
mj2aitken@math.uwaterloo.ca
Bronze Medal to Canada
Mary Joy Aitken
mj2aitken@math.uwaterloo.ca
Canadian Team at IOI 2008 Closing Ceremonies
Mary Joy Aitken
mj2aitken@math.uwaterloo.ca
Salinas New President of IOI
Mary Joy Aitken
mj2aitken@math.uwaterloo.ca
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Competitors in Cyber Cafe
Mary Joy Aitken
mj2aitken@math.uwaterloo.ca
IOI Competitors at Lunch
Mary Joy Aitken
mj2aitken@math.uwaterloo.ca
Canadian Team After 2nd Competition
Mary Joy Aitken
mj2aitken@math.uwaterloo.ca
Holy Family In Egypt
Mary Joy Aitken
mj2aitken@math.uwaterloo.ca
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Robin Chen at Dinner
Mary Joy Aitken
mj2aitken@math.uwaterloo.ca
Cyber Cafe Popular
Mary Joy Aitken
mj2aitken@math.uwaterloo.ca
Canadian IOI Team Prepares for Competition
Mary Joy Aitken
mj2aitken@math.uwaterloo.ca
Monday, August 18, 2008
Entertainment on Nile Cruise
Mary Joy Aitken
mj2aitken@math.uwaterloo.ca
Troy Vasiga Enjoys Cruise
Mary Joy Aitken
mj2aitken@math.uwaterloo.ca
Arriving at Nile River
Mary Joy Aitken
mj2aitken@math.uwaterloo.ca
IMG00043.jpg
Mary Joy Aitken
mj2aitken@math.uwaterloo.ca
Dessert Outside Mubarek
located just outside of Cairo.
Another View of Mubarek City
greenery and flowers. Remarkable for the dessert. Extensive irrigation is
used to maintain this green oasis in the midst of the very dry dessert that
surrounds Mubarek City.
IMAX Theatre at Mubarak City
film is presented every other day for delegates to enjoy.
Mosque on campus
which is an important part of the Mubarek City campus.
Mubarek City
campus after escorting delegates and students to the Opening Ceremonies on
Monday
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Canadian students compete in International Olympiad in Informatics in Egypt
WATERLOO, Ont. (Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008) -- While the summer Olympics athletes dazzle in Beijing, three University of Waterloo mathematics experts will coach a team of Canada's top high school computing stars in the prestigious International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) to be held next week in Cairo, Egypt.
The four-member student team, along with its UW coaches, leaves on Friday. The IOI competition runs between Aug. 16 and 23.
The names of the competitors on the Canadian IOI team are:
* Hanson Wang, of Toronto, Ontario
* Aaron Voelker, of Smittsville, Ontario
* Robin Cheng, of Coquitlam, British Columbia
* Tom Szymanski, of Windsor, Ontario
To earn the honour to represent Canada, the four students competed earlier this year in the Canadian Computing Competition, run annually by UW's Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing based in the faculty of mathematics.
"Our team is very well prepared and ready to give their best efforts in the competition," says Troy Vasiga, a UW computer science lecturer and director of the Canadian Computing Competition. "We are quite excited to be going to Egypt and our students will be touring parts of Egypt near Cairo including the pyramids and the Nile river."
The other two UW representatives leading the Canadian IOI team are Ian Munro, a computer science professor and Graeme Kemkes, a doctoral student in combinatorics and optimization.
As well, Mary Joy Aitken, senior development officer in the faculty of math, will accompany the team and run a blog, complete with photos and updates, throughout the competition. The blog is located at http://www.mjaitken.blogspot.com/
In 2010, UW will be the first Canadian university ever to host this competition. About 400 of the brightest young people aged 14 to 17 from nearly 100 countries will come to Waterloo to participate in the competition.
The annual week-long competition, which has been held since 1989, features 400 of the world's top computer science high school students, who are selected through national computing contests. About 250,000 young people compete in total each year to represent their country.
The IOI, which was first proposed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), is the world's premier high school computer programming competition.
The goals of the IOI are to bring together, challenge, and give recognition to young students from around the world who are the most talented in informatics (computer programming), and to foster friendship among these students from diverse cultures. For further information, visit http://www.ioi2008.org/index.php
The four-member student team, along with its UW coaches, leaves on Friday. The IOI competition runs between Aug. 16 and 23.
The names of the competitors on the Canadian IOI team are:
* Hanson Wang, of Toronto, Ontario
* Aaron Voelker, of Smittsville, Ontario
* Robin Cheng, of Coquitlam, British Columbia
* Tom Szymanski, of Windsor, Ontario
To earn the honour to represent Canada, the four students competed earlier this year in the Canadian Computing Competition, run annually by UW's Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing based in the faculty of mathematics.
"Our team is very well prepared and ready to give their best efforts in the competition," says Troy Vasiga, a UW computer science lecturer and director of the Canadian Computing Competition. "We are quite excited to be going to Egypt and our students will be touring parts of Egypt near Cairo including the pyramids and the Nile river."
The other two UW representatives leading the Canadian IOI team are Ian Munro, a computer science professor and Graeme Kemkes, a doctoral student in combinatorics and optimization.
As well, Mary Joy Aitken, senior development officer in the faculty of math, will accompany the team and run a blog, complete with photos and updates, throughout the competition. The blog is located at http://www.mjaitken.blogspot.com/
In 2010, UW will be the first Canadian university ever to host this competition. About 400 of the brightest young people aged 14 to 17 from nearly 100 countries will come to Waterloo to participate in the competition.
The annual week-long competition, which has been held since 1989, features 400 of the world's top computer science high school students, who are selected through national computing contests. About 250,000 young people compete in total each year to represent their country.
The IOI, which was first proposed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), is the world's premier high school computer programming competition.
The goals of the IOI are to bring together, challenge, and give recognition to young students from around the world who are the most talented in informatics (computer programming), and to foster friendship among these students from diverse cultures. For further information, visit http://www.ioi2008.org/index.php
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Highlights of Egypt: The Nile River
The Nile is the longest river in the world. It runs for about 6,400 km (4,000 miles), starting in the south in eastern Africa and ending in Egypt at the Mediterranean Sea. Southern Egypt, which is upstream, is thus called Upper Egypt, and northern Egypt, being downstream and the Delta, is called Lower Egypt.When one cruises on the Nile, one might pass by the ancient and significant sites of Karnak, Luxor, on the other side of the river from Karnak, Dendera, with its grand temple to the goddess Hathor, Abydos, with its marvelous temple built by Seti I as well as being the site of Earlier Dynastic tombs, Esna, with its temple to the potter and creator-god Khnum, lord of the region who was credited as having the power over the river and its richness, Edfu, with its temple to Horus, Kom Ombo, with its double temple to Sobek and a form of Horus called Haroeris, and Aswan itself, with its mighty modern dam.
An interesting fact is that the river has changed its location and size over millions of years.
The ancient Egyptian calendar, made up of twelve months of 30 days each, was divided into three seasons, based upon the cycles of the Nile. The three seasons were: akhet, Inundation, peret, the growing season, and shemu, the drought or harvest season. During the season of the Inundation, layers of fertile soil were annually deposited on the flood-plain.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
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