Collaborative project on global climate modelling wins prestigious supercomputing award

Miles Couchman, a York University assistant professor in applied mathematics, Faculty of Science, is part of an international research collaboration featuring a multidisciplinary network of researchers – including applied mathematicians and mechanical, civil and environmental engineers – 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 York University 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 […]

Why do we learn Mathematics: The connection between Mathematics and Nature as an example

Professor receives patent to improve AI machine learning

Steven Xiaogang Wang, a professor in York University’s 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 “Parallel Residual […]

York U program helps fund 16 Global South health-care hubs to combat infectious diseases

Media Release from September 12, 2023 A York University-led program is helping bolster health care in the Global South by providing more than $5.8 million in funding for 16 projects in as many countries, including polio surveillance in Ethiopia and helping Indigenous communities in the Philippines. “We have led the call to strengthen the health-care […]

York mathematicians lead mpox research projects funded by Government of Canada

A research project led by Professor Woldegebriel Assefa Woldegerima and another co-led by Professor Iain Moyles were among 13 projects selected for funding by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to advance research on mpox and other zoonotic diseases to improve health outcomes. Woldegerima (principal investigator) received $480,000 for his project entitled “Modelling, predicting and […]

New approach needed to manage systemic risks, such as pandemics, climate catastrophes, financial crises

Media release from May 18, 2023 Risk and Insurance Studies Centre at York University team receives more than $11M to develop a better way to manage risk and protect Canadians from increasing threats. Controlling systemic risks from things like financial and geopolitical crises, pandemics and natural disasters is vital to protect Canadians, but as researchers […]

Professor Mike Haslam to Chair Department of Mathematics & Statistics

A new Chair has been appointed to take on leadership of the Department of Mathematics & Statistics. Effective July 1, 2023, Professor Michael Haslam will assume the role of Chair for a term of three years. Professor Haslam joined the Faculty of Science in 2006 after completing a three-year postdoctoral appointment in Applied and Computational […]

Professor Jude Kong receives President’s Emerging Research Leadership Award

Congratulations to Professor Jude Kong for being recognized with the York University President’s Emerging Research Leadership Award (PERLA) in STEM. The PERLA recognizes two full-time faculty members — one in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and one in the social sciences, humanities and arts – within 10 years of their first academic appointment, who […]

Similarities between COVID-19, cold and flu symptoms could lead to higher infections

Media release from January 19, 2023 York University researchers say assuming you have COVID-19 and isolating may decrease influenza and COVID-19 infections, and help an already stressed health-care system Feeling sniffly, congested or have a sore throat and don't know if it's a cold, the flu or SARS-CoV-2? Researchers at York University say before heading […]