Yixin Han, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at the University of Alberta, will present a seminar titled "OptAPI: Optimally active powered inference under label budget." 📍 EITC-E2 160 🗓️ October 8 at 2:45 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

Cameron Goater, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at University of Lethbridge, will present a seminar titled "Host manipulation and more: Ecological interactions between an iconic puppeteer parasite and its ant hosts." 📍 207 Buller 🗓️ Oct 16 at 3:30 p.m.

One of the most important research and teaching facilities at the University of Manitoba relies on a critical and non-renewable resource: helium.

Reconciliation is an ongoing practice rooted in listening, humility and action. Each year, September 30 — National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (NDTR) — reminds us to honour Survivors, remember the children who never returned home, and commit to change.⁠

Learn to use Canadian High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud computing resources at our free Autumn 2026 in-person, 3-day-long workshop! 🎉 Date: October 21-23, 2026 Time: 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Location: 405 Brodie Centre, Bannatyne campus www.eventbrite.ca/e/manitoba-2...

James McVittie, assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Regina, will present a seminar titled "Analysis of extreme events with missing observations." 📍 EITC E2-160 🗓️ October 1 at 2:45 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

Have you registered for Forge Your Future with speaker Lorisa Dubuc? 🥳 ⁠ Date: October 23, 2026⁠ Time: 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.⁠ Location: Marshall McLuhan Hall⁠ This event is free, but registration is required. Light refreshments will be served. Save your spot now, www.eventbrite.ca/e/forge-your...

Funmilola "Mary" Taiwo, PhD candidate in the Department of Statistics at UM, will present a seminar titled "Flexible Bayesian multinomial models for complex and imbalanced data." 📍 EITC E2-160 🗓️ September 24 at 2:45 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

Dr. Oluwatoyosi Adaramodu (Lisa) from the department of biological sciences at the Faculty of Science is one of the challengers at the 2026 Three Minute Postdoc (3MP). Her research is titled "Linking Natural Genetic Variation to Cell-Type-Specific Mechanisms of Water-Stress Response in Rice" 🌾

Jason Gibbs, associate professor and department head in the Department of Entomology (Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences) will present a seminar titled "How I learned to love the most hated native bees." 📍 207 Buller 🗓️ September 18 at 3:30 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

Join the Manitoba Group in Protein Structure and Function Seminar Series for a lecture by Joanna Slusky. Slusky is a professor and associate chair in the department of molecular biosciences at the University of Kansas. 📍 207 Buller 🗓️ Oct 7 at 2:30 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

Madhawa Hulangamuwa, PhD candidate in the Department of Statistics at UM, will present a seminar titled "Bagging with ranked set sampling." 📍 EITC E2-160 🗓️ September 17 at 2:45 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

Associate Dean Carrie Madden will host the first drop-in sessions for those who want to chat about the student experience. 🎉⁠ Date: September 18, 2026⁠ Time: drop by any time between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m Location: SSA lounge

MSc candidate Heshani Mendis (Department of Statistics) will defend their thesis, "Flexible tree ensembles with data adaptive splitting rules." 📍 201 Biological Sciences Building and online via Zoom 🗓️ September 3 at 1:00 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

Advising, classes, student clubs, emails, socials, posters, community and so much more on your mind when you get on campus! 🥳 Your new associate dean for student experience, Carrie Madden welcomes you and wants you to say hi whenever you see her on campus! 👋 youtu.be/nm3v7xr7cnk

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MSc candidate Alexander Senden (Department of Computer Science) will defend their thesis, "Deep generative dataset augmentation via layout conditioned diffusion transformers for downstream image segmentation." 📍 EITC E2-461 🗓️ August 31 at 1:00 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

MSc candidate Dhanushka M. Roshan (Department of Computer Science) will defend their thesis, "Multi-objective dynamic data-driven electric vehicle route planning." 📍 Hosted online via Teams 🗓️ August 25 at 9:30 a.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

MSc candidate Gayathri Subasinghe (Department of Statistics) will defend their thesis titled "Support vector regression with a novel ϵ-insensitive loss function." 📍 Hosted online via Zoom 🗓️ August 18 at 1:00 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

MSc candidate Madhawa Hulangamuwa (Department of Statistics) will defend their thesis titled "Bootstrap aggregating (bagging) with ranked set sampling." 📍 111 Armes and online via Zoom 🗓️ August 17 at 1:00 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

MSc candidate Goyumi (Lavanya) Kumarasiri (Department of Statistics) will defend their thesis, "Instrumental variable estimation in linear models with censored and mismeasured covariates." 📍 Hosted online via Zoom 🗓️ August 19 at 2:00 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

PhD candidate Xiaohua (Emma) Liu(Department of Statistics) will defend their thesis titled "A Bayesian approach to model selection and response optimization on data with a multistratum structure." 📍 Hosted online via Zoom 🗓️ August 19 at 9:00 a.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

MSc candidate Adham Sami (Department of Statistics) will defend their thesis titled "Quaternion tensor regressions and applications." 📍 Hosted online via Zoom 🗓️ August 17 at 10:00 a.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

That’s a wrap for Wawatay Summer Orientation 2026! It has been an incredible few weeks where students had the opportunity to build new friendships, strengthen their connections to the science community, and take part in a wide range of engaging, hands-on learning experiences. ⁠

MSc candidate Sanha Kil (Department of Statistics) will defend their thesis titled "Second-order least squares method for statistical inference in linear models with asymmetric errors." 📍 Hosted online via Zoom 🗓️ August 11 at 2:00 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

Would you like to see what the undergraduate students have been working on all summer in the labs? 👀

MSc candidate Emmanuel Segun-Lean (department of computer science) will defend their thesis titled "Exploring the feasibility of interactive storytelling as an anti-ageism intervention for older adults." 📍 EITC E2-461 🗓️ August 14 at 1:00 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

Wawatay Summer Orientation 2026 has been an incredible journey so far. Throughout the orientation, students have had the chance to connect with one another with so much variety of hands-on learning opportunities. 🎉

MSc candidate Md Nahidul Islam Opu (Department of Computer Science) will defend their thesis titled "The limits and promise of software-metric-based prediction: From method-level bugs to app popularity." 📍 EITC E2-461 🗓️ August 5 at 1:00 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

PhD candidate Jervis Gallanosa will defend their thesis, "Finite-sample-optimized nonparametric asymptotic confidence intervals for the mean and tests for change in the mean and regression coefficients." 📍 Zoom 🗓️ July 29 at 8:30 a.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

Applications have launched for the 2027 cohort of McCall MacBain Scholars! 🎉⁠