Announcements

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Victoria invites applications for an Assistant Teaching Professor position, leading to a continuing position, and subsequent eligibility for tenure, to commence July 1, 2020, or as soon as possible after that date. Successful applicants will be welcomed into a stimulating, collegial and culturally diverse department with an outstanding record in both research and teaching, and a University community that is strongly supportive of mathematical sciences training across a wide range of disciplines. A documented record of improving the participation of underrepresented groups in the mathematical sciences and an articulated plan to continue such activities will be considered an asset.

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Victoria invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level in Combinatorics, to commence July 1, 2020. We are particularly interested in candidates whose area of research is Algebraic or Probabilistic Combinatorics, or Discrete Optimization.

CANADA150 CRC Caroline Colijn will be visiting UVic to give a seminar on October 24th and a public talk on October 25th. We will also be having a student luncheon with Caroline to talk about her career pathway in mathematics (more info to follow). These events are supported by the Provost’s Distinguished Women Scholars Lecture Committee and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences.

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

Mathematics and Statistics student Joseph Horan has won a President's Fellowship in Research-Enriched Teaching.

Our Master's student in Statistics, Matthew Parker won two awards at the VADA Summer School. His team won second place in the VADA Summer School Data Challenge and he received a poster award for Effective Visualization and Communication. Congratulations Matthew!

Congratulations to Alexandra Deane (Computer Science/Math) and Natella Jafarova (Statistics), who were among 10 students to receive the 2018 Women in Technology scholarships from the Irving K. Barber British Columbia Scholarship Society.

It is a great honour for the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematical Society to present the 2019 Research Prize to Prof. Pauline van den Driessche from the University of Victoria. The award is given in recognition of their contributions to Mathematical Epidemiology and Matrix Analysis, and the high impact of this work in many areas of Applied Mathematics more generally.