Mathematics and Statistics - News

PhD Oral Defence of Mr. Renaud Alie

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�鶹Լ�� DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS

PhD Oral Defence of Mr. Renaud Alie

DATE: Friday, October 18, 2024

TIME / PLACE: Defence 10:00 a.m. (BURN 1025)

TITLE: Tractability and Scalability in Multitype Gaussian

Cox Process Models

CHAIR: Prof. Rustum Choksi

SUPERVISOR: Prof. David A. Stephens

INTERNAL MEMBER: Prof. Christian Genest

Professor David Stephens elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC)

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Professor David Stephens has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Celebrating International Pi Day with the Office of Indigenous Initiatives

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Earlier this year, �鶹Լ��’s Office of Indigenous Initiatives celebrated International Pi Day with a talk from mathematician Dr. Edward Doolittle followed by a student panel on Indigenous experiences in STEM and, of course, some delicious pie.

Professor Eyal Goren awarded prestigious Frontiers of Science Award (2024)

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Professor Eyal Goren has received a prestigious Frontiers of Science Award for his co-authorship in his landmark publication Faltings heights of abelian varieties with complex multiplication by Andreatta Fabrizio, Goren Eyal, Howard Benjamin, Keerthi Sampath Madapusi. Annals of Mathematics (2018).

Axel Hundemer awarded Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching

�鶹Լ�� — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 14:38:01 +0000

Congratulations to Professor Axel Hundemer, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, for being awarded the 2024 Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching! This award is given each year to recognize a faculty member for superior teaching at the undergraduate level in the Faculty of Science.

Read below the citation for the announcement of the award.

Professor Christian Genest - recipient of the 2024 Lise Manchester Award from The Statistical Society of Canada (SSC)

�鶹Լ�� — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:08:45 +0000

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Professor Christian Genest is one of the three recipients of the 2024 Lise Manchester Award from The Statistical Society of Canada (SSC).

The award recognizes excellence in state-of-the-art statistical work which considers problems of public interest and which is potentially useful for formation of Canadian public policy.

Professor Henri Darmon named Guggenheim Fellow (2024)

�鶹Լ�� — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 17:35:36 +0000

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced their 2024 fellows, which includes one faculty member from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Professor Henri Darmon.

Professor Darmon is among 188 scholars to receive fellowships, from a pool of almost 3,000 applicants — “a distinguished and diverse group of culture-creators working across 52 disciplines,” according to the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation press statement.

Real Data and Real Solutions in MATH 527

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On a cloudy afternoon this past December, a group of �鶹Լ�� students gathered in a downtown Montréal boardroom to give a data science presentation to Citera, a sustainability analytics company. This presentation wasn’t for an internship or any other extracurricular activity – it was part of one of �鶹Լ��’s newest and most innovative courses: MATH 527, Statistical Data Science Practicum.

Ed Doolittle and Panel on March 14th

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Asha Basu and Antoine Labelle – Winners of the 2023 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition

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Asha Basu and Antoine Labelle were ranked in the top 100 receiving the accolade of Honorable Mention in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, a preeminent mathematics competition for undergraduate students in the United States and Canada.

Courtney Y. Paquette receives 2024 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship

�鶹Լ�� — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:19:45 +0000

It is a great pleasure to announce that our colleague Courtney Paquette has been named a 2024 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Computer Science.

Machine learning relies heavily on probabilistic optimization algorithms.

While machine learning papers are written at a staggering rate, there is much less foundational mathematical work that addresses the success of machine learning.

Since her PhD, Courtney has been at the forefront of this foundational work.

Ryan O’Loughlin (Université Laval)

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Title: Symmetric Tensor Products: An Operator Theory Approach

TA Award (Fall 2023)

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Dear Students and Fellow Colleagues,

It gives me great pleasure to announce the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award winners for the Fall 2023 term.

Congratulations to Gabriel Crudele (MATH 356), Shereen Elaidi (MATH 133), Christopher Karpinski (MATH 235), and Aaron Shalev (MATH 242).

This prestigious award recognizes exceptional performance from TAs in our Department each Fall and Winter term. Winners are selected based on course evaluations received by the Department.

Thank you all very much for your excellent work!

Robin Khanfir (�鶹Լ��)

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TITLE / TITRE
The Horton-Strahler number and the Brownian tree

ABSTRACT / RÉSUMÉ

Former PhD student James Rickards featured in Quanta Magazine

�鶹Լ�� — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 19:38:19 +0000

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Prof. Dave Stephens part of groundbreaking study on SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in Canada, 2020-2023

�鶹Լ�� — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 15:42:50 +0000

Read the article, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal: