Announcements

There are approximately 60 positions ranging from 98 to 150 hours each for the period between January and April 2024. Most positions are for about 98 hours in total, and are distributed as 8 to 12 weekly hours for 12 to 14 weeks. Teaching Assistants mark assignments and midterms, instruct tutorials, or work in the Assistance Centre, which provides one-to-one tutoring with University of Victoria students who are enrolled in our first and second year Mathematics and Statistics courses.

The UVic Math competition is scheduled for Tuesday, September 26, from 4:30pm to 6:30pm in DSB C130. If interested, just show up. The 2023 Putnam is occurring at UVic on Saturday, December 2 in DTB A102. If interested, please ask dukes@uvic.ca for an invitation link.

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics invites expressions of interest for the delivery of one or more courses to be offered in person in the Spring term, January – April 2024. In keeping with Article 13.01 of the Agreement between UVic and CUPE 4163 (Component 3), Expressions of Interest are being sought from Graduate Students, adjunct faculty, Postdoctoral Fellows and sessional instructors in the department as well as from other interested parties.

Dr. Shelley Bull from the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute Sinai Health System, Toronto, will give a Lansdowne Lecture talk "Genome-wide association studies: How molecular technology, biology, epidemiology, and statistical genetics came together" on Tuesday, Sept 26 between 3:30-5:20 PM in Cornett A225.

Congratulations to our PhD student Shannon Ogden, who has been named a 2023 Vanier Scholar.

Leiden ranks UVic first in Canada for impact in math and computer science

For many people, math is a popular subject to hate. For graduating science student Elena Moss, it’s the subject she loves and has spent the five years of her degree studying—and the subject she intends to keep studying for the next five, as she heads to the Berlin Mathematical School in Germany this fall to begin graduate studies.

Danielle Tsao has won the 2023 Jubliee Medal in Science. This award is given to the undergraduate student(s) who achieved the highest academic standing in their graduating class in the Faculty of Science. Congratulations Danielle!

Two of our statistics students won awards for their poster presentation at the Eleventh Statistics Student Conference.

Information about the Capstone Scholarship, which does not require an application, has been added/updated.

Applications for admission into the Data Science Program are being accepted from April 1 to April 30.

The In-course online application for students currently attending UVic is open April 1-May 31.

From predicting the spread of COVID-19 to protecting polar bears in the wake of climate change, mathematical biology is quickly becoming a vital tool for addressing world problems. During his 30 years in the field, Mark Lewis has been part of its explosive growth. Joining the University of Victoria in 2022 as the inaugural Gilbert and Betty Kennedy Chair in Mathematical Biology, Lewis is well-positioned to strengthen the discipline at UVic, while his numerous research projects continue to have extensive impacts around the world.

This unique Quantum Computing training program is co-delivered by faculty at three BC universities (UBC, SFU, and UVic) in collaboration with Quantum Computing industry partners. It will equip graduates with highly specialized technical expertise and commercial skills in both quantum computing hardware and software.

Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Hari M. Srivastava for being named once again a Web of Science Group (Clarivate Analytics) Highly Cited Researcher for 2022. Very few researchers earn this distinction and Srivastava has been named seven times, having done so previously in 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. A Highly Cited Researcher has published multiple highly cited papers, defined as papers ranking in the top 1% by citation, considering both year and field of publication, during the last decade.

Congratulations to Xuekui Zhang has won a Michael Smith Health Research BC 2022 Scholar award. The Scholar Program supports early-career health researchers who are building leading-edge health research programs, training the next generation of scientists and expanding their potential to make significant contributions to their field.

Congratulations to this year's Canadian Journal of Statistics Award winners Li Xing (University of Saskatchewan and University of Victoria), Xuekui Zhang (University of Victoria), Igor Burstyn (Drexel University), and Paul Gustafson (University of British Columbia).

Don Sin of UBC and Xuekui Zhang of UVic has received $540,000 in funds from MITACS Accelerate for their project “Cellular Phenotyping Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: From Microbes to Epithelial and Macrophages”.

Three mathematicians, including UVic's Jonathan Noel, show, for the first time, how to form a square with the same area as a circle by cutting them into interchangeable pieces that can be visualized.