Announcements

Pauline van den Driessche was among one of seven extraordinary individuals to receive an honorary degree from UVic. van den Driessche is an internationally renowned scientist who has made significant contributions in different areas of mathematics, revolutionizing the understanding of disease dynamics. Her work applies to topics such as multicity disease dynamics, HIV/AIDS control and West Nile virus outbreak predictions. Congratulations!

UVic Statistics professor Xuekui Zhang has received funding from GenomeBC to study how chronic obstructive pulmonary disease changes immune cell populations.

UVic Math & Stats students Alexandra Deane, Shannon Ogden and Danielle Tsao have been awarded Canadian Mathematical Society Excellence Scholarships. There are 12 awards available nationally for 2021 and the three students we nominated all won. Congratulations!

The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) honours the memory of Dr. Alfonso Gracia-Saz, who was to receive the CMS Award for Teaching Excellence later this summer. Dr. Gracia-Saz was a teaching professor in our department and the Learning and Teaching Centre before moving on to the University of Toronto. He left quite an impact while he was here and he will be missed by his former colleagues.

Chris Bruce PhD Victoria 2020 was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (MSCA-IF) starting next year. It is for two years, and will be taken up at the University of Glasgow (after the completion of his Banting Fellowship with Queen Mary University of London).

The UVic Faculty of Science Teaching Excellence Award for 2019-2020 was awarded to Louise Page (Biology) and Christopher Eagle (Mathematics and Statistics). Congratulations!

UVic Master's student in Mathematics Aaron Slobodin was awarded a top three prize for his poster "2-Limited Broadcast Domination in Grid Graphs" in the AARMS-CMS Student Poster Session at the 2020 CMS Winter Meeting.

This year's Graduate donor awards in math and statistics were given to Brittany Halverson-Duncan, Natella Jafarova, Jeremy Hume, Dayton Preissl and Aaron Slobodin. Congratulations!

On Nov 26, 2020 at 6:30pm, the Departments of Mathematics & Statistics and Physics & Astronomy held a virtual information session for prospective undergraduate students.

Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Hari M. Srivastava for being named once again a Web of Science Group (Clarivate Analytics) Highly Cited Researcher for 2020. Very few researchers earn this distinction and Srivastava has been named five times, having done so previously in 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019. 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.

Here are some useful links for UVic students taking courses remotely.