Announcements

We sadly announce that our retired colleague Ahmed Sourour has passed away after a serious illness.

Congratulations to Arjun Banik on being chosen as the recipient of the Dr. Margaret “Marmie” Perkins Hess Graduate Fellowships in Earth, Ocean, Astronomy, and Environmental Sciences. This is a major scholarship. Excellent news!

In this episode co-hosts Michelle and Steph chat with math youtuber and UVic professor Dr. Trefor Bazett. Covering topics like " Can anyone learn math?", Game theory and Topology.

Congratulations to our Math Competition 2024 winners: Overall: Nick Sima Junior (1st/2nd year): Stacey Sharfenberg Well done both, and Nick won for the second year in a row!

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Victoria is seeking candidates for nomination for a Postdoctoral Fellowship, starting July 1, 2025. The field of research is open, but priority will be given to candidates whose research area aligns with current faculty expertise. The Fellowship is for one year and is renewable, contingent on satisfactory progress, for an additional year. The Postdoctoral Fellowship is partially supported by PIMS, the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences. The position is open to recent PhDs, or to graduate students who expect to receive a PhD by December 31, 2025.

Congratulations to Mark Lewis for being awarded the 2024 Akira Okubo Prize. The Akira Okubo Prize, awarded every four years, recognizes outstanding contributions to Mathematical Biology.

Our current PhD student Shannon Ogden received the Lieutenant Governor's Silver Medal for outstanding Master's thesis at the convocation ceremony in June. The title of her thesis is Saturation Problems on Graphs. Congratulations Shannon!

Every year, we recognize the student with the highest graduating GPA in the Faculty of Science with the Faculty of Science Jubilee Medal. This year, we're proud to celebrate Nick MacGregor (he/him), who graduated with a BSc (Honours) in combined Mathematics and Statistics.

Congratulations to PhD student, Yasaman Shahhosseini who won the first-place award for her poster presentation "Spatiotemporal fractal based analysis of fMRI time series", at the 2024 Canadian Statistics Student Conference in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Yasaman is co-supervised by Michelle Miranda and Farouk Nathoo.

Benjamin Frizzel won 2nd place for his undergraduate poster "Optimal Experimental Design using Simulated Annealing" at the 2024 Canadian Statistics Students Conference.

Trefor Bazett was awarded the 2024 PIMS Education Prize at the PIMS Changing the Culture Conference on May 17 in Vancouver. Trefor excels at teaching math in person and online and you can view his many math videos on YouTube. Congratulations Trefor!

Boualem Khouider's PhD student Carlos Sevilla won the award of outstanding student presentation at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, held in San Fransisco last 11-15 December, 2023.

Positions: There are approximately 55 positions ranging from 98 to 150 hours each for the period between September and December 2024. Most positions are for about 98 hours in total, and are distributed as 8 to 12 weekly hours for 12 to 14 weeks. Teaching Assistants mark assignments and tests, instruct tutorials, or work in the Assistance Centre, which provides one-to-one tutoring with University of Victoria students who are enrolled in our first- and second-year Mathematics and Statistics courses.

Congratulations to Chris Eagle! He is this year’s recipient of the Harry Hickman Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching and Educational Leadership. The Harry Hickman Award is the highest honour for teaching excellence at the University of Victoria. This award recognizes faculty members who have demonstrated excellence in teaching and educational leadership.

IMAGINING UVic is a summer camp intended to encourage young women to pursue STEM fields. The program will be held on the UVic campus, providing participants with the opportunity to immerse themselves in the university environment. The program will run July 2 – 5, 2024, from 10:00am to 3:30pm each day. Interactive sessions lead by cutting-edge researchers will introduce participants to new and exciting math concepts which go beyond the BC curriculum. Participants will also have various opportunities to interact and form connections with professors and graduate students in mathematics.

Congratulations to our postdoctoral fellow Kehinde Olobatuyi for being awarded a Research Excellence, Diversity and Independence (REDI) Early Career Transition Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Kehinde's research uses statistics to help fight emerging infectious diseases. He is supervised by Laura Cowen.

Dr. Christopher Eagle of the University of Victoria has been named the recipient of the Canadian Mathematics Society (CMS) 2024 Excellence in Teaching Award for his innovative teaching style, student mentorship, and depth of subject knowledge. Congratulations Chris!

Check out the research posters from our undergraduate students, Simon Johns, Luke Ingalls, Gregory Huber, Kshitij Naik, Andrew Lane and Amy Penney at Honours Fest this Thursday in Michele Pujol Room, SUB 2:30-5:30pm Thursday, Feb 29

In recognition of Rod Edwards’ remarkable contributions to the field of Mathematical Modeling, we are inviting Rod’s current and former students, postdocs, close collaborators, friends and colleagues to attend this event, scheduled to take place on campus on February 17th and 18th, 2024.

Congratulations to our Master's student Kate Nimegeers for winning a poster prize in the AARMS-CMS Student Poster Session at the 2023 CMS Winter Meeting.

Congratulations to Andrew Lane and Nick Sima for winning the UVic Undergraduate Math Competition. Andrew was the overall winner while Nick was the winner among first and second year students.

Congratulations to our PhD student Shannon Ogden, who has been named a 2023 Vanier Scholar.

Leiden ranks UVic first in Canada for impact in math and computer science

For many people, math is a popular subject to hate. For graduating science student Elena Moss, it’s the subject she loves and has spent the five years of her degree studying—and the subject she intends to keep studying for the next five, as she heads to the Berlin Mathematical School in Germany this fall to begin graduate studies.

Applications for admission into the Data Science Program are being accepted from April 1 to April 30.