On 12 March 2022, Dr Kay Lo lp gave an online lecture on "The Flu Seasons and the Missing Data: A Matched-Pair Analysis Northern and Southern Hemispheres 2021-2022 and Hong Kong, China 2004-2009" to UIC students and faculty. He presented the trends and characteristics of different influenza viruses based on the data he collected.Dr. lp is a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Manitoba, wh...
UIC launched the new Math Learning Centre (MLC) on 15 December to facilitate math and statistics studies.Located at T3-101, the MLC is equipped with interactive teaching facilities. Students can come here to discuss math and statistics-related questions without making appointments, and there are teachers and student tutors on duty to help. Moreover, math learning workshops and sharing sessions ...
The Division of Science and Technology (DST) held a lecture on “A Polynomial Algorithm for Best Subset Selection” given by guest speaker Prof. Rongxian Yue on November 12th, 2021. Prof. Yue introduced G-optimality condition for designing mixed-effects models and proposed the competitive swarm optimizer (CSO) algorithm to generate G-optimal designs for linear mixed models.Prof. Yue is giving t...
The Division of Science and Technology (DST) held a lecture on “A Polynomial Algorithm for Best Subset Selection” with guest speaker Prof. Xueqin Wang on September 22, 2021. Prof. Wang talked about how to choose the best subset, introduced ABESS algorithm and made comparison with other existing methods.Prof. Wang giving a lectureProf. Wang is a professor of the School of Management at the Uni...
The Division of Science and Technology (DST) held an award ceremony for the 2020 CUMCM (China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling) and the 2021 MCM/ICM (Mathematical Contest in Modeling/Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling) participating teams on May 6, 2021. The ceremony was hosted by Miss Hongyi Lu, a Year-2 Statistics student, and Dr. Timothy Wu, supervisor for the MCM participan...
UIC students excelled in the 2021 Mathematical Contest in Modeling/Interdisciplinary Contest In Modeling (MCM/ICM), with one group designated as Finalist, four groups being Meritorious Winners, and 14 groups winning Honorable Mentions.MCM/ICM, sponsored by the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP), is the most influential mathematical modelling competition globally. A t...
The Division of Science and Technology (DST) held a lecture on “Column-orthogonal Strong Orthogonal Arrays” with guest speaker Prof. Minqian Liu on April 23, 2021. Prof. Liu introduced column-orthogonal strong orthogonal arrays (OSOA), illustrated its application and made comparison with other existing methods.Prof. Liu giving a lectureProf. Liu is the Associate Dean of the Department of Stat...
Wei Xuan, a fourth-year student studying Statistics in the Division of Science and Technology (DST) at UIC, received the admission letter from Yale University’s Master of Science in Public Health in Biostatistics. Wei Xuan’s college life is coming to an end; she says she will remember the beauty of the campus and the days studying with friends in the Learning Resource Centre. She grew a...
