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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 2h

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...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 3h

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.

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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.⁠

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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" 🌾

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

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...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

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...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

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...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

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...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

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...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

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...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

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...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

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. ⁠

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

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...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

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

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

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...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

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. 🎉

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

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...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

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...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

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

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

MSc candidate Md Shahidul Islam (Department of Computer Science) will defend their thesis titled "Improving our understanding of test code: Technical debt and evolution." 📍 EITC E2-461 🗓️ August 6 at 1:00 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The Department of Microbiology is Canada’s only stand-alone Microbiology Department, offering students the opportunity to explore viruses, bacteria, fungi, and microbial communities through cutting-edge research and discovery. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Z9... #Chemistry #UManitoba #UManitobaSci

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

MSc candidate Samuel Barrett (department of computer science) will defend their thesis titled ""Design your robot to listen attentively: A novel backchanneling authoring interface for non-experts." 📍 Hosted online via Zoom 🗓️ August 4 at 9:00 a.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The 2026 Wawatay Summer Orientation started last week, and the students are having so much fun. Wawatay’s summer orientation offers an enriching experience, from engaging campus tours to exciting icebreakers and social events. 🥳

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

MSc candidate Shalini Jayanetti Arachchi (Department of Statistics) will defend their thesis titled "Causal discovery and causal effect estimation using time series data." 📍 304 Biological Sciences Building and online via Zoom 🗓️ July 24 at 9:00 a.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

MSc candidate Simran Panthi (department of computer science) will defend their thesis titled "Investigating Technology Support for Older Adults to Play Bingo Online." 📍 EITC E2-461 🗓️ July 24 at 1:00 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Before a mineral becomes a battery, an alloy becomes an airplane part or a polymer becomes packaging, somebody has to understand those materials inside and out. That work happens at the Manitoba Institute for Materials (MIM) and Manitoba Isotope Research Facility (MIRF).

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

PhD candidate Samuel Morrissette (department of statistics) will defend their thesis, "Bayesian methods for the analysis of dissimilarities." 📍 304 Biological Sciences Building and online 🗓️ July 8 at 1:00 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Being among the recipients of 2025 Research Manitoba grants through the New Investigator Operating Grant program, Faculty of Science researchers each tackle a unique problem that can improve the quality of life for all Manitobans and Canadians. umtoday.ca/stories/rese...

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From cleaning up toxic metals to a can of solar cells

2025 Research Manitoba grant recipients at the Faculty of Science through the New Investigator Operating Grant program.

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

What does Indigenous storytelling say about the moon? Rockford McKay holds the CUBESat with Philip Ferguson, Director of STARLab, and Charles Cochrane, Executive Director of the Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre. // Photo courtesy CTV Winnipeg

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The Rh Foundation and UM have announced the new Rh Chrysalis Awards to recognize exceptional early-career research at UM. Congratulations to all the recipients, and two researchers were from the Faculty of Science! 🎉

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Dr. Cale Gushulak is an assistant professor in the department of biological sciences who argues that access to good quality water is the most fundamental item on the hierarchy of needs for humans.

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

June 21, 2026, is the 30th anniversary of National Indigenous Peoples Day. It's a time to recognize and celebrate the traditions, cultures and contributions of First Nations, Inuit and Métis.

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Andrea Bunt, professor in the department of computer science at UM, will present a seminar titled "Investigating tech disengagement interventions with and for early adolescents."⁠ ⁠ Date: June 19, 2026⁠ Time: 2:30 p.m.⁠ Location: EITC E2-304 EITC, University of Manitoba, Fort Garry Campus⁠

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

MSc candidate Callum Lehingrat (department of statistics) will defend their thesis, “Nonparametric tests for change in the mean with high power for changes near the beginning or end of the sample.” 📍 Online 🗓️ June 18 at 2:00 p.m. eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Dr. Savino Longo, an assistant professor in the department of physics and astronomy, is a recipient of the Research Manitoba New Investigator Operating Grant. To learn more about his research and goals, watch his interview on our YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/watch?v=re2m...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The University of Manitoba has joined a new Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)-funded network of Canadian universities tackling some of the most fundamental questions in modern astronomy, including how gravitational waves occur when black holes collide.⁠ umtoday.ca/stories/open...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Nicholas Palmerley, a PhD candidate from the Lin’s lab is the leading researcher of a recently published work in a nature daughter journal. 🎉 #UMScience #UManitoba #UManitobaSci

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Thirty-six exceptional educators were honoured May 5 at this year’s Students’ Teacher Recognition Reception, an annual gathering that celebrates teaching excellence. 🥳 Read the full article on UM Today, umtoday.ca/stories/cele...

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UM Faculty of Science @umanitobasci.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

And with that the 2025-2026 school year comes to an end, so proud of all of you 🎓 #umanitoba #umanitobasci

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