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The dates of the 19th OMSC are May 20th - 22nd, 2026.
Registration will open soon. We hope to see you there!
It’s the 19th Annual Ottawa Mathematics and Statistics Conference!
As is quickly becoming tradition, we try to theme our logo for the conference around an interesting property of its edition number! For the 16th edition, we had a colorful grid of squares – four by four, of course. The next year, and slightly more obscurely, we have that 17 is the only prime number that is the sum of four consecutive primes. This gave us the idea to make the logo a stylised Young diagram for this cool partition. Last year we based the logo on Pentominoes (Tetras pieces but with 5 squares instead of 4) because there are 18 unique one-sided Pentominoes.
This year for 19 we had choices. 19 is a prime number, in fact it is a twin prime (17, 19). But its prime-ness does not stop there! Indeed it is a cousin prime (19, 23), and 19 forms a sexy prime number pair with 13 (ooh la la!). With so many primes we were spoilt for choice and so decided to ignore it all together. What inspired this year's logo is that 19 is the 3rd centered hexagonal number. As we can see below the sequence starts 1, 7, 19, … If you are in search of a challenge, try and derive the formula for the n-th centered hexagonal number.
Normally this is where we would add some mathematical and aesthetic justifications as to why this particular fact has claimed the honor of being the basis of our logo. This year we proclaim it is self evident, since we all know hexagons are the best-agons!
More about the conference
The Ottawa Mathematics and Statistics Conference (OMSC) provides a venue for graduate students in mathematics and statistics to showcase their original research. Alongside the student talks, expert mathematicians from Canadian universities and industry will give keynote talks. Participants are encouraged to submit abstracts for contributed talks during which they can present their original research or interesting mathematical topics. We will also be hosting a Three-Minute Thesis competition; students are welcome to register with a thesis title. Moreover, to facilitate networking, we will be hosting a variety of social events. Although this conference is built for graduate students in mathematics and statistics programs, the conference remains open to all undergraduate students and post-doctoral researchers wishing to participate.
The conference will be hosted in-person at the University of Ottawa from May 20 - 22, 2026. You must register to attend, contribute a talk, or compete in the 3MT competition. Registration will open soon.
Coffee and lunch will be offered to all registered participants.
This year's Proceedings Booklet will be available soon. In the meantime, make sure to check out previous years' booklets by clicking here.
Thank you to our generous sponsors for all of their support in making this event happen!
Thank you to our generous sponsors for all of their support in making this event happen!
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