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math_imgs[nbr_math_imgs++] = new myImage
    (images_dir+"spin_movienight.jpg", null, null,
     "S&eacute;lectionnez l'image pour l'agrandir.<br>"
     +"<span style=\"font-size: 6pt;\"> Ralph Nevins &copy;2009 </span>",
     "Click on the image to enlarge it."
     +"<br><span style=\"font-size: 6pt;\"> Ralph Nevins &copy;2009 </span>",
     null, null, "220px", null,
     images_dir+"spin_movienight_icon.jpg");

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    (images_dir+"mathPict/zombies.jpg", null, null,
     "Les zombies envahissent le d&eacute;partement.  Un math&eacute;maticien "
     +"est seul &agrave; les combattre.  Pour en savoir plus, visiter le "
     +"<a href=\"http://www.uottawa.ca/bienvenue.html\" class=\"MMathSStat\">"
     +"site de l'Universit&eacute; d'Ottawa</a>.",
     "Zombies are invading the department.  A mathematician fights them alone."
     +"  For more information, visit the "
     +"<a href=\"http://www.uottawa.ca/welcome.html\" class=\"MMathSStat\">"
     +"University of Ottawa website</a>",  null, null, "220px", null,
     images_dir+"mathPict/zombies_icon.jpg");
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    (images_dir+"mathPict/mobius.jpg", null, null, 
     "La fameuse bande de Mobius est un simple exemple d'une surface qui ne "
     +"peut pas &ecirc;tre orient&eacute;e.  Combien de cot&eacute;s cette "
     +"bande poss&egrave;de-t-elle?",
     "The famous Mobius band is a simple example of a surface that "
     +"cannot be oriented.  How many sides does this band have?",
     null, null, "200px", null, images_dir+"mathPict/mobius_icon.jpg");

math_imgs[nbr_math_imgs++] = new myImage
    (images_dir+"mathPict/RealEllipticCurves.png", null, null, 
     "<strong> Courbes elliptiques r&eacute;elles</strong>: Les courbes "
     +"elliptiques sont des objets de la g&eacute;om&eacute;trie "
     +"alg&eacute;brique qui se sont av&eacute;r&eacute;s tr&egrave;s utiles "
     +"en cryptographie.",
     "<strong> Real Elliptic Curves</strong>: Elliptic curves are examples of "
     +"objects in algebraic geometry which have found important applications "
     +"in cryptology.", null, null, "200px", null,
     images_dir+"mathPict/RealEllipticCurves_icon.png");

math_imgs[nbr_math_imgs++] = new myImage
    (images_dir+"mathPict/PointAdditionOnEllipticCurves.png", null, null,
     "<strong> Addition de points sur une courbe elliptique sur les nombres "
     +"r&eacute;els </strong>: Les courbes elliptiques combinent "
     +"l'alg&egrave;bre et la g&eacute;om&eacute;trie; ce sont des objets "
     +"g&eacute;om&eacute;triques munis d'une structure alg&eacute;brique "
     +"de groupe.",
     "<strong> Addition of Points on an Elliptic Curve over the Reals "
     +"</strong>: Elliptic curves meld algebra and geometry; they are "
     +"geometric objects equipped with the algebraic structure of a group.",
     null, null, "220px", null,
     images_dir+"mathPict/PointAdditionOnEllipticCurves_icon.png");

math_imgs[nbr_math_imgs++] = new myImage
    (images_dir+"mathPict/heart-aorte.jpg", null, null,
     "Un des groupes de recherche du d&eacute;partement tente de reproduire "
     +"les g&eacute;om&eacute;tries d'organes du corps humain; en particulier,"
     +" le coeur.",
     "One of the research groups of the department tries to reproduce "
     +"numerically the human organs; in particular, the heart.",
     null, null, "220px", null,
     images_dir+"mathPict/heart-aorte_icon.jpg");

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    (images_dir+"mathPict/connected3D.png", null, null,
     "Un des groupes de recherche du d&eacute;partement tente de reproduire "
     +"les g&eacute;om&eacute;tries d'organes du corps humain; en particulier,"
     +" le coeur.",
     "One of the research groups of the department tries to reproduce "
     +"numerically the human organs; in particular, the heart.",
     null, null, "220px", null,
     images_dir+"mathPict/connected3D_icon.png");

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    (images_dir+"mathPict/ribbons1.gif", null, null,
     "<em class=\"MMathSStat\"> Flowers with Ribbons </em>: Le tableau a "
     +"&eacute;t&eacute; produit par les it&eacute;rations d'une fonction "
     +"p&eacute;riodique par rapport au treillis carr&eacute; dans le plan et "
     +"invariante sous l'action d'une rotation de &pi:/2 radians.  Le tableau "
     +"provient de <em class=\"MMathSStat\"> Symmetry and Chaos </em> par "
     +"M. Golubitsky et M. Field, o&ugrave; il est possible d'obtenir plus "
     +"d'information sur les motifs sym&eacute;triques et p&eacute;riodiques "
     +"du plan.",
     "<em class=\"MMathSStat\"> Flowers with Ribbons </em>: The picture was "
     +"produced by the iterations of a mapping which is periodic with respect "
     +"to the planar square lattice and invariant under the rotation by "
     +"&pi;/2 radians.  The picture comes from <em class=\"MMathSStat\"> "
     +"Symmetry and Chaos </em> by M. Golubitsky and M. Field, where more "
     +"information about planar symmetric patterns can be found.",
     null, null, "220px", null,
     images_dir+"mathPict/ribbons1_icon.jpg");

math_imgs[nbr_math_imgs++] = new myImage
    (images_dir+"mathPict/rootg2.png", null, null,
     "Syst&egrave;mes de racines, comme la configuration de vecteurs "
     +"repr&eacute;sent&eacute;e ici, sont de puissants outils pour classifier"
     +" les alg&egrave;bres de Lie, les groupes de Lie, et les groupes finis "
     +"de r&eacute;flexions.",
     "Root systems, such as the set of vectors depicted here, are a powerful "
     +"classification tool for Lie groups, Lie algebras and finite reflection "
     +"groups.",
     null, null, "220px", null,
     images_dir+"mathPict/rootg2_icon.png");

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    (images_dir+"mathPict/b_2.png", null, null,
     "Le groupe de sym&eacute;tries d'un pavage (ou r&eacute;seau) "
     +"p&eacute;riodique du plan peut &ecirc;tre un groupe de "
     +"r&eacute;flexions affines (dans le cas pr&eacute;sent, "
     +"<em style='font-style: italic;'> B<sub>2</sub></em>).  Ce type de "
     +"groupes est la clef &agrave; la classification des groupes "
     +"alg&eacute;briques sur les corps locaux.  En chimie, les groupes de "
     +"sym&eacute;tries des r&eacute;seaux en trois dimensions jouent une "
     +"r&ocirc;le majeur en cristallographie.",
     "Symmetry groups of regular tilings of the plane can give rise to affine "
     +"reflection groups (in the present case, "
     +"<em style='font-style: italic;'> B<sub>2</sub></em>).  Such groups are "
     +"the key to the classification of algebraic groups over local fields.  "
     +"In chemistry, symmetry groups of 3-dimensional regular tilings play a "
     +"major role in crystallography.",
     null, null, "220px", null,
     images_dir+"mathPict/b_2_icon.png");

math_imgs[nbr_math_imgs++] = new myImage
    (images_dir+"mathPict/whip1.gif", null, null,
     "<em class=\"MMathSStat\"> Whipper-Snipper</em>: Ce tableau "
     +"poss&egrave;de une sym&eacute;trie avec 55 plis.  N&eacute;anmoins, "
     +"c'est un objet fractal avec toutes les subtilit&eacute;s que l'on "
     +"retrouve dans un objet fractal.  Le tableau a &eacute;t&eacute; produit"
     +" par les it&eacute;rations d'un ensemble fini de fonctions; une "
     +"fonction &eacute;tant choisie de fa&ccedil;on al&eacute;atoire &agrave;"
     +"chaque it&eacute;ration.  Ce tableau provient de "
     +"<em class=\"MMathSStat\"> Symmetry and Chaos </em> par M. Golubitsky et"
     +" M. Field, o&ugrave; il est aussi possible d'obtenir plus d'information"
     +" sur les objets fractals sym&eacute;triques.",
     "<em class=\"MMathSStat\">  Whipper-Snipper</em>: The picture above has a"
     +" 55-fold symmetry.  Nevertheless, it is a fractal object with all the "
     +"intricacy expected of a fractal object.  The picture was produced by "
     +"the iterations of a finite collection of mappings; one of these "
     +"mappings being randomly selected at each iteration.  The picture comes "
     +"from <em class=\"MMathSStat\"> Symmetry and Chaos </em> by M. "
     +"Golubitsky and M. Field, where more information about symmetric "
     +"fractals can be found.",
     null, null, "220px", null,
     images_dir+"mathPict/whip1_icon.jpg");

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    (images_dir+"raluca_mateja_small.jpg", null, null,
     "Les professeures de math&eacute;matiques Raluca Balan et Mateja "
     +"&Scaron;ajna sont deux des laur&eacute;ates canadiennes du "
     +"Programme du CRSNG d'appui aux professeurs universitaires. "
     +"Madame Balan s'int&eacute;resse aux probabilit&eacute;s et "
     +"&agrave; la statistique alors que Madame &Scaron;ajna "
     +"s'int&eacute;resse &agrave; la th&eacute;orie des graphes.",
     "Mathematics professors Raluca Balan and Mateja &Scaron;ajna, "
     +"are recipients of the federal government's NSERC University "
     +"Faculty Awards program. Prof. Balan's research is in "
     +"probability and statistics and Prof. &Scaron;ajna works in "
     +"combinatorics and graph theory.", null, null, null, null);

home_imgs[nbr_home_imgs++] = new myImage
    (images_dir+"yves_small.jpg", null, null,
     "Le professeur Bourgault s'int&eacute;resse &agrave; la "
     +"simulation num&eacute;rique des flux sanguins dans les "
     +"art&egrave;res et les autres parties du syst&egrave;me "
     +"cardiaque, ainsi qu'aux ph&eacute;nom&egrave;nes "
     +"cardiovasculaires en g&eacute;n&eacute;ral.<br><br>",
     "Prof. Yves Bourgault's research interests include the computer "
     +"simulation of blood flows in arteries and heart components, "
     +"and other cardiovascular related phenomena.<br><br>",
     null, null, null, null);

home_imgs[nbr_home_imgs++] = new myImage
    (images_dir+"joseph.jpg", null, null,
     "Avant de se joindre le d&eacute;partement pour diriger le "
     +"centre d'aide en math&eacute;matiques, prof. Joseph Khoury "
     +"&eacute;tait professeur &agrave; temps partiel.  Pour son "
     +"travail exceptionnel, l'association des professeurs &agrave; "
     +"temps partiel de l'universit&eacute; d'Ottawa lui a "
     +"d&eacute;cern&eacute; le Prix d'excellence pour le professeur "
     +"&agrave; temps partiel de l'ann&eacute;e.",
     "Before becoming the manager of the mathematics Help Centre, "
     +"Dr. Joseph Khoury was a part time professor. In recognition of "
     +"his outstanding teaching, the Association of Part-time "
     +"Professors of the University of Ottawa selected Joseph Khoury "
     +"as part time professor of the year.", null, null, null, null);

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    (images_dir+"victor.jpg", null, null,
     "Le professeur LeBlanc a gagn&eacute; une des bourses du premier "
     +"ministre (de l'Ontario) pour l'excellence de sa recherche "
     +"sur l'application de la th&eacute;orie des syst&egrave;mes "
     +"dynamiques &agrave; la dynamique des ondes spirales.",
     "Professor Victor LeBlanc received the Ontario Premier's "
     +"Research Excellence Awards for his innovative research on "
     +"the applications of dynamical systems theory to wave dynamics.",
     null, null, null, null);

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    (images_dir+"barry.jpg", null, null,
     "Le professeur Barry Jessup est l'un des r&eacute;cipiendaires du "
     +"prix pour l'excellence en &eacute;ducation de "
     +"l'Universit&eacute; d'Ottawa.  Les int&eacute;r&ecirc;ts de "
     +"recherches du professeur Jessup comprennent la topologie "
     +"alg&eacute;brique et la th&eacute;orie de l'homotopie "
     +"rationnel.",
     "Professor Barry Jessup received the University Excellence in "
     +"Education Prize. Professor Jessup's research interests are in "
     +"the areas of algebraic topology and rational homotopy theory.",
     null, null, null, null);

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new myImage(images_dir+"green_7665.jpg", "", "",
	    "Quand l'Art rencontre les Math&eacute;matiques",
	    "When Arts meets Mathematics", "", "");

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new myImage(images_dir+"tulips.jpg", "", "",
	    "Le festival des tulipes au mois de mai est le festival "
	    +"&agrave; l'ext&eacute;rieur des Pays Bas qui pr&eacute;sente "
	    +"le plus grand nombre de tulipes (et de vari&eacute;t&eacute;s "
	    +"de tulipes) et annonce l'approche de l'&eacute;t&eacute;.",
	    "The tulip festival in Mai is the festival outside the "
	    +"Netherlands with the largest number of tulips (and types of "
	    +"tulips) and is a sign of the incoming summer.", "", "");

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new myImage(images_dir+"Winterlude.jpg", "", "",
	    "Personne ne peut dire apr&egrave;s s'&ecirc;tre ammus&eacute; "
	    +"au bals des neiges, le carnaval d'hiver d'Ottawa au mois de "
	    +"f&eacute;vrier, que l'hiver n'est pas amusant.",
	    "Nobody can say after having enjoyed Winterlude, the Ottawa's "
	    +"winter carnival in February, that winter is not fun.", "", "");

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new myImage(images_dir+"sciencefair.jpg", "", "",
	    "La Facult&eacute; des sciences de l'Universit&eacute; d'Ottawa "
	    +"participe &agrave; l'organisation de la foire des "
	    +"sciences qui se d&eacute;roule &agrave; tous les printemps. "
	    +"Les participants proviennent des &eacute;coles de la "
	    +"r&eacute;gion de la capital nationale.  Plusieurs membres "
	    +"du d&eacute;partement de math&eacute;matiques et de statistique "
	    +"font partie du comit&eacute; de s&eacute;lection des meilleures "
	    +"pr&eacute;sentations.",
	    "The Faculty of Science of the University of Ottawa is involved "
	    +"in the Science Fair which takes place each spring. The "
	    +"participants are from schools in the national capital region. "
	    +"Members of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics are "
	    +"among the judges of the competition for the best exhibits.",
	    "", "", 226, 190);
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