2025-2026 SEMINAR SCHEDULE

WINTER 2026

DateSpeaker & TitleTime & LocationWatch Party locationsVideo Link
January 12David Earn
Canadian mathematical epidemiologist and Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University
Epidemic Momentum
12:00 (PT)
In person at UVic
Clearihue A329

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https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81909983859

Meeting ID: 819 0998 3859
Password: 010303
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UAlberta
1pm (MT)
UCOMM 2-180

UManitoba
2pm (CT)
Updated: Education Building
Rm 338
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February 23Alan Hastings
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Department of Environmental Science & Policy
University of California, Davis
An Inverse Approach for Understanding Ecological Coexistence
12:00 (PT)
In person at UVic
Human and Social Dev A-270

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https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81909983859

Meeting ID: 819 0998 3859
Password: 010303
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UAlberta
1pm (MT)
UCOMM 2-180

UManitoba
2pm (CT)
225 St. Paul’s College
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March 30Leah Edelstein-Keshet
Emerita Professor
Department of Mathematics
University of British Columbia
Species competition inside a cell and between cells
12:00 (PT)
In person at UVic
Clearihue A329

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https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81909983859

Meeting ID: 819 0998 3859
Password: 010303
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UAlberta
1pm (MT)
UCOMM 2-180

UManitoba
2pm (CT)
225 St. Paul’s College
April 13Hao Wang (Howard)
Professor and
Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Biosciences
University of Alberta
Theory + Data: Building Hybrid Models with Stoichiometry and Machine Learning
2:00 (CT)
In person at UofM
St. Paul’s College room 225
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UAlberta
1pm (MT)
UCOMM 2-180

UVic
12 pm (PT)
Clearihue A329

Past seminars

FALL 2025

DateSpeaker & TitleTime & LocationWatch Party locationsVideo Link
September 22, 2025Chadi Saad-Roy
Department of Mathematics
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of British Columbia
Modelling the ecology and evolution of post-infection mortality

HDM Working Group Speaker Choice
12:00 (PT)
In person at UVic Clearihue A-317

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Meeting ID: 819 0998 3859
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UAlberta
1pm (MT)
SAB 3-36

UManitoba
2pm (CT)
225 St. Paul’s College
video unavailable
October 6, 2025Daniel Cooney
Department of Mathematics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Spatial Pattern Formation and the Evolution of Cooperative Behaviour

EEF Working Group Speaker Choice
2:00 (CT)
In person at UofM St. Paul’s College room 225

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https://umanitoba.zoom.us/j/66960493994?pwd=xahlt1zaWR3DTgL0eDsdoMbMu0JC7Q.1

Meeting ID: 669 6049 3994
Passcode: 900153
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UAlberta
1pm (MT)
SAB 3-36

UVic
12 pm (PT) Clearihue A-317
November 3, 2025Khanh Dao Duc
Department of Mathematics
University of British Columbia
Building new metrics for analyzing large biological shape data

QMP Working Group Speaker Choice
1:00 pm (MT)
In person at UAlberta
UComm 4-450

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https://ualberta-ca.zoom.us/j/97624718507

Meeting ID: 976 2471 8507

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UManitoba
2pm (CT)
225 St. Paul’s College

UVic
12 pm (PT) Clearihue A-317


December 1, 2025Jeremy Fox
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Calgary

Gambling for resurrection: environmental fluctuations can reduce extinction risk for highly at-risk populations
2:00 (CT)
In person at UofM St. Paul’s College room 225

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https://umanitoba.zoom.us/j/66960493994?pwd=xahlt1zaWR3DTgL0eDsdoMbMu0JC7Q.1

Meeting ID: 669 6049 3994
Passcode: 900153
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UAlberta
1pm (MT)
UComm 4-450

UVic
12 pm (PT) Clearihue A-317
December 8, 2025James Watmough
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of New Brunswick

Disease-transmission in small, heterogeneous, populations:
How is it different? Why do we care?
2:00 (CT)
In person at UofM St. Paul’s College room 225

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https://umanitoba.zoom.us/j/66960493994?pwd=xahlt1zaWR3DTgL0eDsdoMbMu0JC7Q.1

Meeting ID: 669 6049 3994
Passcode: 900153
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UAlberta
1pm (MT)
UComm 4-450

UVic
12 pm (PT) Clearihue A-317