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Applications for admission into the Data Science Program are being accepted from April 1 to April 30.
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.
Read more: Renowned mathematical ecologist Mark Lewis returns as Kennedy Chair
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.
Read more: Srivastava on Web of Science Group list of Highly Cited Researchers
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.
Read more: Zhang wins Michael Smith Health Research BC 2022 Scholar award
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).
Read more: UVic's Zhang and coauthors win Canadian Journal of Statistics Award
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.
Read more: Máthé, Noel and Pikhurko discover a new way of squaring the circle