Announcements

Congratulations to our many math and stats undergrad, masters, and PhD students celebrating their graduations in the UVic June convocation. You are all amazing!!

Congratulations to Muskaan Danish Ali for winning the best presentation award and Yasaman Shahhosseini for receiving an honourable mention at the 2026 Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting!

We invite applications for the Ian and Sheila Barrodale Award in Computer Science and Mathematics* Value: at least $2,000

Congratulations to Mehnaz Jahid for winning the Survey Methods Section Student Research Oral Presentation Award at the 2025 Statistical Society Canada Meeting. Mehnaz is supervised by Laura Cowen and the title of her talk is "Integrated model for dependent spatial capture-recapture and presence-absence data".

Congratulations to Shibai Zhang on being runner up to the WNAR 2025 student most outstanding oral presentation award! Her presentation is titled "A Conditionally Markovian Reformulation of Memory-Mediated Animal Movement Using Cognitive Maps". She is supervised by Professors Mark Lewis and Farouk Nathoo.

Congratulations to Lina Li, Yushan Hu, and Soo Kim. At the poster competition at the 13th Annual Canadian Statistics Student Conference, Lina and Yushan came first and second, respectively, in the PhD group, and Soo came first in the MSc group. All three students work with Xuekui Zhang; Lina is a visiting student.

Congratulations to Laura Cowen, who has been chosen to receive the 2025 Bob Riffenburgh Award.

Congratulations to Mark Lewis, Kennedy Chair in Mathematical Biology, for being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society UK.

Congratulations to Dr. Min Tsao who has been selected by the Statistical Society of Canada as the recipient of the Canadian Journal of Statistics Award!

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