The following twelve poster abstracts were presented at the ANTS-8 poster session.1 ANTS-8 was held at the Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta Canada, May 17–22, 2008. The conference website, where many of the posters can be viewed online, is http://ants.math. ucalgary.ca/. Calculating Really Big Cyclotomic Polynomials Andrew Arnold and Michael Monagan, Simon Fraser University, ada26@ sfu.ca The nth...

On April 30, 2009 environmental groups released a na­ tional media story that said that the Banff Spring’s snail (Physella johnsonit), found solely in Banff National Park (BNP), Canada, was the only species out of 449 listed under the Canadian Species at Risk Act (Government of Canada 2002) to benefit from the full legally man­ dated conservation process. Ironically, on the same day in BNP’s ba...

This article focuses on young adults who travel to work and live in the Rocky Mountain resort destination of Banff National Park western Canada. is usually an early experience lives these workers, often their first. I discuss patterns impact mobility adult tourism workers using three different frames understanding: (a) precarious employment associated with industry itself; (b) specific place co...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The development of the Banff classification of renal transplant pathology has allowed the standardisation of approaches to transplant biopsy histology and reduced interobserver and interdepartmental variation. The usefulness of the Banff classification in the diagnosis of acute rejection has previously been tested by sending sections from 21 "difficult" biopsies to almost al...