Announcements

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

The winners of the 2017 UVic Math competition are Mathew Lewis and Will Beckett. Each is to receive a $100 prize. Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to the other student competitors for a strong showing.

C. F. Jeff Wu will be giving a PIMS Distinguished Lecture on "Statisticians at Work: Inspiration, Aspiration, Ambition" on Monday, October 30 at 3:30 pm in MacLaurin D103.

Chadi Saad-Roy was a high school math whiz with no idea when he first enrolled at the University of Victoria in 2012 that he would one day be trying to unravel how a cow with cattle fever spreads the disease to the rest of the herd.

Master's student Clint Seinen has been awarded the best student poster in the "Other" category at the 51st Congress of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society in Toronto.

At the World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling in Barcelona, UVic Math & Stats Emeritus William J. Reed was made a Fellow of the Resource Modeling Association, in recognition of his achievements in the field. Congratulations Bill!

Juan Jaramillo won 3rd prize for his poster presentation at the PIMS Graduate Summit in Mathematical Biology and Applied PDE which took place in Jasper May 25-28, 2017. Juan is supervised by Pauline van den Driessche and Junling Ma. Congratulation Juan!

The Faculty of Science is pleased to present to Nicholas Benson, the Governor General’s Silver Medal. Nicholas is graduating with a Bachelor of Science Combined Honours in Computer Science and Mathematics, where he earned the highest possible grade point average of 9 out of 9.