Announcements

We are now accepting applications for Markers, Assistance Centre tutors and Tutorial instructors for the Jan-Apr 2023 term.

Sampath Kannan from the University of Pennsylvania will be giving a talk as part of the Mathematics of Ethical Decision-making Systems Seminar Series on Thursday October 6 at 3:30pm in ECS 660. His talk is titled "Networks of Classifiers and Classifiers with Feedback - Fairness and Equilibria".

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 2023.

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.

Dr. Lisa Sauermann from MIT will give a Distinguished Women Scholars Lecture on "The card game SET and some results in extremal combinatorics" on Thursday, October 13 at 3:30 PM online with Zoom. Registration is required. Free and open to everyone.

2022/2023 WORK STUDY PROGRAM JOB POSTING To work with a faculty supervisor to enhance the department's online presence in support of our undergraduate and graduate students in the mathematical sciences. The student will contribute by receiving ideas for stories, researching links to outside content, developing internal content, and finally adapting the content for publication.

Dr. Mark Lewis joins the Faculty of Science as the inaugural Gilbert and Betty Kennedy Chair in Mathematical Biology and Professor in the Departments of Mathematics and Statistics and Biology.

The UVic Mathematics Competition is held annually in the fall. This year it will be held on Monday, September 26, 2022 between 3:00-5:00 pm in CLE C108. There are monetary prizes. To participate, just show up. The competition is open to all undergraduate students at UVic, including first year students. In the past some prizes were won by first year students.

Congratulations to our graduate student in statistics Hanan Abousaleh. Hanan's talk on "Robust minimax A-optimal designs for regression models with heteroscedastic errors" won the best oral presentation prize at the Master's level at the 2022 Canadian Statistics Students Conference. Hanan is supervised by professor Julie Zhou.

Our undergraduate student Danielle Tsao won 1st prize in the poster presentation competition at the Tenth Annual Canadian Statistics Student Conference (CSSC). This conference is organized by the Statistics Society of Canada (SSC), and is a satellite conference of the 2022 SSC annual meeting.

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).

The Statistical Society of Canada's Case Studies in Data Analysis Poster Competition was held on Wednesday, June 1, 2022. The case studies are intended to provide enthusiastic teams of graduate and senior undergraduate students with the opportunity to use data analysis to address issues of current importance in society. Congratulations to UVic students Jianping Yu (current MSc) and Shreena Kalaria (incoming MSc) for winning this year's competition.

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.

Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Hari M. Srivastava for being named once again a Web of Science Group (Clarivate Analytics) Highly Cited Researcher for 2021. Very few researchers earn this distinction and Srivastava has been named six times, having done so previously in 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. 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.

Laura Cowen of the University of Victoria discusses a new study finding that the number of COVID cases in northern B.C. and the province more generally are likely 2 to 6 times higher than what's being reported.

ILAS (International Linear Algebra Society) has announced that Pauline van den Driessche (UVic) and Nick Higham (University of Manchester, UK) are to receive the 2022 Hans Schneider Prize. The Hans Schneider Prize in Linear Algebra is awarded by ILAS for research, contributions, and achievements at the highest level of Linear Algebra. This prize may be awarded for an outstanding scientific achievement or for lifetime contribution.