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Postdoctoral fellow receives prestigious physics prize lectureship

Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow Chapin Korosec, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, who has received the Michelson Postdoctoral Prize Lectureship for his exceptional early-career research achievements during his PhD in physics. Read the聽full story in YFile.

Student-teacher team analyzes role of peer influence in teen vaping

A 快播视频 researcher and his student have built a mathematical model to understand how peer influence plays a role in vaping among teenagers, and also in their decision to quit and perhaps start again. 鈥淎 lot of people, when they think about math, think about geometry and Pythagoras鈥 theorem,鈥 says Iain Moyles, an associate professor […]

Huaiping Zhu receives CAIMS-Fields Industrial Prize, presents lecture

Congratulations to Professor Huaiping Zhu, who was honoured this year by the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society (CAIMS). He received the 2024 CAIMS-Fields Industrial Prize, and presented the Industrial Research Prize Lecture at the 2024 CAIMS Annual Meeting, held June 24-27, 2024. Zhu, based in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics, is a leader […]

Mathematicians pilot open-access homework platform for students

Thanks to the availability of WeBWorK, an online open educational resource (OER) provided to students at no cost, homework shouldn鈥檛 be as stressful as usual for the hundreds of 快播视频 students enrolled in the Linear Algebra (MATH 1025) course this term. WeBWorK allows them to practise solving challenging problems as often as they鈥檇 like […]

One Health Modelling Network for Emerging Infections hosts annual meeting and lab opening ceremony

The One Health Modelling Network for Emerging Infections, Canada's pioneering national modelling network on One Health, and the Centre of Disease Modelling (CDM) hosted their hybrid Annual Meeting 2023-2024 on February 20-21, 2024, at the inaugural CDM OMNI-R脡UNIS Lab located at 快播视频. The event served as a platform to disseminate the collective work, research […]

Best of YU 2023

We are proud to spotlight some of our Faculty鈥檚 top moments from 2023. New faculty members further York鈥檚 scientific innovation, impact The Faculty of Science welcomed 12 new high-calibre researchers and instructors to its five departments and one division. By recruiting talented faculty members with diverse backgrounds, world views and expertise, we are ensuring the […]

Collaborative project on global climate modelling wins prestigious supercomputing award

Miles Couchman, a 快播视频 assistant professor in applied mathematics, Faculty of Science, is part of an international research collaboration featuring a multidisciplinary network of researchers 鈥 including applied mathematicians and mechanical, civil and environmental engineers 鈥 that has been been awarded a highly competitive 2024 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment […]

Student wins inaugural Faculty of Science award

Department of Mathematics & Statistics student Yibin Zheng is the inaugural recipient of the Global Engagement Funding Award (GEFA), created by the Faculty of Science to support 快播视频 science students who want to study or participate in academic activities abroad as part of their degree. Zheng received the award in recognition of ongoing academic […]

Professor receives patent to improve AI machine learning

Steven Xiaogang Wang, a professor in 快播视频鈥檚 Department of Mathematics & Statistics at the Faculty of Science, and a member of the Laboratory of Mathematical Parallel Systems, has had a U.S. patent approved for an algorithm that will reduce the training time of artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning (ML). The patent, titled 鈥淧arallel Residual […]