changing at Mathematics and Statistics -- you can count on it!

My very best wishes to the Department on this new and useful publication."

Neil Gold Provost

I am delighted to welcome this inaugural issue of the Math and Stats Newsletter. The Department has undergone a revival over the past few year teaching many new students and seeing scholarship bloom among its members. As

this issue shows, change is the one reliable and predictable but unquantifiable variable (or is it quantifiable?). Whether it’s the dean's new golf scheduling program or the arrival of new faculty and the transitions of older ones, things are

Message from the Provost

The past few years have seen dramatic change and growth, and there is more excitement yet to come. This newsletter will serve as an important record of these dynamic, exciting times.

Richard Caron Dean, Faculty of Science

Welcome to the first issue of the Department's newsletter. It is appropriate that the Department is reviving the practice of publishing a newsletter, as so much else in the Department has seen a revival as well. The old “Undergraduate Teaching Assistantship Award (UTAA)” has been replaced with the

“Outstanding Scholars” program, the number of undergraduate and graduate students has grown to levels reminiscent of the “good old days”, and, since the publication of the last issue of the old newsletter, all staff members are new and there are four new permanent faculty members including a new Head, Dr. Ahmed.

Message from the Dean

vated and reopened the Math and Statistics Re-source Centre (MSRC), just in time for the dou-ble cohort.

Continued on page 2...

Welcome to the newly resurrected Department newsletter for the De-partment of Mathemat-ics and Statistics at the University of Windsor. This newsletter will be published quarterly, with this edition con-taining events from 2004.

These past couple of years have been ex-tremely productive for the Department. We have created the Centre for Statistical Consult-ing, Research and Ser-vices, which provides consulting services to faculty, students, and industry. We have reno-

Message from the Head

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Windsor

2004 Volume 1, Issue 1

Newsletter

Inside this issue:

News from the Math + Stats Club

2

In Memoriam 3

New Faces, Departures 3

WindSOR/SWORD 2004

4

Faculty of Science Celebration of Success

5

Recent Grads 5

Publications Conferences 6

Notable Achievements 8

Math Challenge 9

Department News 11

Golf Scheduling program 11

25 years of NSERC 11

SOMSD 12

Consulting Service 13

Name the Newsletter 12

There have also been some “cosmetic” changes. The Faculty of Science provided funds to replace curtains in the offices with blinds. New furniture has been ordered for the lounge, and a new fridge and stove were purchased in the Fall.

The double cohort resulted in our undergraduate majors’ enrolment more than doubling. Our course en-rolments in general increased signifi-cantly. Our graduate enrolment reached its highest levels ever, with forty students expected for the Win-ter, 2005 semester, including thir-teen Ph.D. students. In order to pre-pare for this influx of students, the Department hired three new tenure-track faculty and seven limited-term faculty. We are in the process of fill-ing two other tenure-track positions, with more to come in the next year or so. We have introduced new courses for graduate students, in-cluding one in Statistical Consulting,

to be offered in Winter, 2006. We are also introducing undergraduate programs in Statistics, and Actuarial Science and Statistics.

Students were encouraged this Fall, to reform the undergraduate student Club, which has been met with very enthusiastically. They have big plans, as you can see in their article on page two.

The Department has expanded its Colloquium series. Since Fall, 2003 the Department has held 32 Collo-quia, with half of the speakers being from outside the University. The Department is also hosting Southern Ontario Matrices and Statistics Days, to be held June 9 -10, 2005. More details can be found in an arti-cle on page 13.

The past year has not been without losses. We have lost two long-time faculty members, Dr. J.F. (Fred) McDonald, and Dr. Harold Atkinson.

Both will be missed by colleagues and students alike. Faculty members have written tributes on page three.

Overall, the past two years have been very productive. We have accom-plished a great deal for a Department with only twelve full-time faculty. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate everyone on their suc-cesses over the past two years. Thank you to the Department staff for all their hard work . I wish every-one all the best for 2005.

Together we succeed!

S. Ejaz Ahmed, Head

Message from the Head (Continued from page 1)

work assignments), an awareness of the necessity of mathematics and mathematicians in a wide variety of fields, and an active involvement in

improving both our campus and Windsor community.

With these goals in mind, we have

Early last semester, Dr. Ahmed held a general meeting for all Math and Statistics undergraduate students interested in discussing any issues or concerns they had. What he wanted to discuss most of all was the possi-bility of starting a club for students interested in mathematics and sta-tistics. Despite the enticement of doughnuts and pop, very few people showed up. However, every person there was extremely excited at the prospect of such a club, and since then we have more than doubled our membership list.

And so the Math + Stats Club began. Some of our goals are to promote an appreciation for interesting mathe-matics (rather than repetitive home-

already planned several lectures, some pi(e) day festivities, and an “Applied Statistics Experimentation” night, the proceeds of which will be going to charity. We will also be sell-ing “First-Year Math and Stats Cheat-Shirts”, with proceeds going to founding an entrance bursary for Math and Stats majors. We also hope to be able to get out to the area high schools to show them what is available at the University of Win-dsor.

Thank you all for the support you have shown so far, and we look for-ward to seeing you at our Math + Stats events in the future.

Allison Oldfield, President

News from the Math + Stats Club

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In Memoriam—Dr. J.F. (Fred) McDonald

Harold Atkinson, a member of the Department almost since the University was formed, passed away on December 23, 2004. He had served twice as Head of the Department and was very involved in liason with the area highschools. He was well-known in the community for his committment to a number of

social justice and environmenal causes. He was a founder of the Windsor Folk Music Society and remained involved with it, even singing at the Acoustic Stage 2 weeks before his death. He was a welcome member of the Real Analysis Exchange group to the end.

Students and professors of the Department will remember him as ever helpful and a very easy person to work with. Sadly, we will never again hear him sing about the poor negative epsilon that had no delta.

Tim Traynor

In Memoriam—Dr. Harold Atkinson

Departures Dr. Nader Zamani completed the process to transfer to the Depart-ment of Mechanical, Automotive and Materials Engineering. He has-n’t really left, though. He still teaches courses for the Department on overload.

New Faces Dr. Xueqing Chen and Dr. Xing Jiang began one-year limited-term contracts in July, 2004.

Mr. Sam Hoda began his duties as Math Demonstrator, in September, 2004.

New arrivals Marija Argoselo and her husband Andrew welcomed their son Brendan into the world, September 18, 2004.

Brendan Argoselo, born September 18, 2004

New Faces, Arrivals, and Departures

In 1963, the Parliament of Ontario established the University of Win-dsor. Fred McDonald joined the Mathematics Department in 1967 after receiving his Ph.D. degree in Physics from Wayne State Univer-sity. During his long career here he authored many research articles in mathematical physics and applied mathematics. Students in engi-

neering and physics were con-stantly seeking him out for assis-tance in their research projects. Those of us who knew him in the early years enjoyed his mischievous ways, his sense of humour and his forthright manner. Throughout, Fred told it as he saw it.

The younger members of the De-partment know that when Fred

latched onto a problem he held on like a bulldog until it was solved. Unfortunately, Fred has now lost his long battle with cancer and we miss him.

Daniel J. Britten

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Windsor Student Operational Re-search (WindSOR) Day is an annual event of the University of Windsor. South Western Ontario Operational Research Day (SWORD) is an annual event of McMaster University, Uni-versity of Waterloo, University of Western Ontario, and University of Windsor. The events were held si-multaneously this year at the Univer-sity of Windsor on August 30th, 2004.

The program was attended by more than 25 students, as well as approxi-mately 20 faculty and guests. Dr. Bernard Gendron from the Univer-sity of Montreal gave the keynote address on an efficient implementa-tion of an integer program for gener-ating weekly schedules of 3000 em-ployees in a network of 400 stores in Quebec. Dr. Elfaki Hassini from McMaster University made a presen-

tation on academic job search, which was followed by a panel discussion by Dr. Richard Caron, Dean of the Faculty of Science here at the Uni-versity, and Dr. Leo Oriet, Chair, De-partment of Industrial Manufactur-ing Systems Engineering. Dr. Reza Lashkari, also from the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Sys-tems Engineering, gave information on Canadian Operational Research Society diploma.

During the afternoon session a total of fourteen students presented their works and participated in the stu-dent paper presentation competi-tion. First prize was given to Douglas Woolford from the University of Western Ontario for his paper enti-tled “ Exploring Lightning and Fire Ignition Data Using Sharpening Techniques” .

Second prize was awarded to Zhuo Zheng from McMaster Unievrsity for his paper entitled “Optimal SS FP Pulse-Sequence Design for Tissue Density Estimation”. The papers were judged on a variety of criterion by Drs. Yash Aneja, Richard Caron, Matt Davison, Elfaki Hassini, Myron Hlynka, and Reza Lashkari.

A big thank-you goes out to all who attended or participated in the event!

For more information on Win-dSOR/Sword 2004, and to obtain a copy of the keynote address, please go to http://athena.uwindsor.ca/units/ research/ORGroup.nsf/inToc/BAD6D384BB227B1EB85256EA7007127F6

WindSOR/SWORD 2004

SWORD participants pose outside of Vanier Hall

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with used Casino Dice, which were perhaps loaded.

Dr. Karen Fung was presented with the "Triple Crown" award in recogni-tion of receiving grants from NSERC, SSHRC AND CIHR. Her award in-cluded a crown with three points, one for each granting agency.

Awards were also given out to the faculty member and sessional in-structor from each Department who received the highest teaching score for total students taught over one hundred. This year's winners were Dr. Alan Gold for the faculty, and Dr. Sharif Musameh for the Sessional instructors.

On Friday, November 19, 2004, the Faculty of Science held it's Annual Celebration of Success, to celebrate the accomplishments of members of the Faculty of Science over the past year.. The theme this year was "Olympic" in scope, with members of "Team Science" receiving mousepads. Award winners received a "Gold medal" and a certificate hon-ouring their respective accomplish-ments.

The following members of the De-partment were honoured:

OGS winners: Jianhua Hu Chris Tavolieri Dawei Zheng

OGSST winners: Krishna Saha

NSERC AND OGSST Scholarship winners: Lihua An

Some of the awards presented had a humourous theme. The Department won the "Speedo" award for being the first Department to submit all of its grades for the Fall semester. The Department's name goes on a plaque adorned with a "Speedo" bathing suit.

Dr. Myron Hlynka was recognized for his internationally renowned website on Queuing Theory and for the promotion of Queuing theory in the media. The award included a jar

Faculty of Science Annual Celebration of Success

Fall Convocation Doctor of Philosophy Xing Jiang Krishna Saha Master of Science - Mathematics & Statistics Cheng Wang Bachelor of Mathematics - Honours Mathematics Adrian Arvai

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics would like to congratulate the following graduates at the Con-vocation ceremonies held this year: Spring Convocation Concurrent Bachelor of Mathemat-ics/Bachelor of Education (General) Stephanie Hosking Master of Science - Mathematics Mostafa Zamani Forooshani Master of Science - Statistics Christopher Wills Huiling Xiong Yi Bei Zhang Bachelor of Mathematics - Honours Mathematics Aubrey DeJong

Bachelor of Mathematics - Honours Mathematics and Computer Science Lori Piche Bachelor of Mathematics - Honours Mathematics and Statistics Lin Li Melissa Mayea Corey Pyne John Tonch Bachelor of Mathematics - General Jan Blondin Joseph Goulet Zeina Haidar Jefferey Johnson Zhenguo Ma Kinberly McCann Jean-Marc Mongeau Amy Scully Kalarami Selvam

Recent Grads

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Publications S.E. Ahmed, “Assessing the process capability index for non-normal processes”, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference , 129 (2005) 195-206.

S.E. Ahmed and W. J. Krzanowski, “Biased estimation in a smiple multivariate regression model”, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis , 45:689-696, 2004.

S. Buhamra, N. Al-Kandarri and S.E. Ahmed, “Inference concerning quantile for left truncated and right censored data”, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 46:819-831, 2004.

N. Al-Kandarri, S. Buhamra, S.M. Khan and S.E. Ahmed, “On the estimation of intraclass correlation coefficients: a shrinkage pretest perspective”, Journal of Statistical Research , 46:819-831, 2004

D.J. Britten, O. Khomenko, F. Lemire, V.Mazorchuck, “Reducibility of Torsion Free n Modules of Finite Degree”. J. of Algebra, 276:129-142, 2004.

Chen, X. “Root Vectors of the Composition Algebra of the Kronecker Algebra”, Algebra and Discrete Mathematics, Number 1. Jan 2004. 37 -56.

Chen, X. “Properly Stratified Endomorphism Algebras” (with Vlastimil Dlab), Journal of Algebra, Volume 283, No.1, Jan 2005. 63-79.

Duggal K.L., Atindogbe, C., “Conformal screen on lightlike hypersurfaces”, International Jour-nal of Pure and Ap-plied Mathematics, Volume 11, No. 4, 2004, pages 421 -442.

Fung, K.Y., Krewski, D., Burnett, R., Dominici, F. (2004) “Testing the harvesting hypothesis by time domain analy-sis, Part I-- Baseline analysis”, J. of Toxicology and Environmental Health , In press.

Fung, K.Y., Krewski, D., Burnett, R., Ramsay, T., Chen, Y. (2004) “Testing the harvesting hypothesis by time do-main analysis, Part II--Models with covariates”, J. of Toxicology and Environmental Health, In press.

Tan, J.K.L., Morneau, K., Fung, K.Y. (2004) “Randomized controlled trial of pimecrolimus 1% cream for treatment of facial acne vulgaris”, Accepted for publication in American Academy of Dermatology.

Fung, K.Y., Luginaah, I., Gorey, K.M., Webster, G. (2005) “Air pollution and daily hospital admissions for cardio-vascular diseases in Windsor, Ontario”, Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 96, 29-33.

Z. Hu, “A generalized Kakutani-Kodaira theorem”, accepted on June 2004, to appear in the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society .

Z. Hu and M. Neufang, “Decomposability of von Neumann algebras and Mazur property of higher level”, accepted on September 2004, to appear in the Canadian Journal of Mathematics.

P.N. Kaloni and J. X. Lou, “Weakly nonlinear instability of a ferromagnet fluid rotating about a vertical axis” Jour-nal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Vol. 284C, pp.54-68, 2004

P.N. Kaloni and J.X. Lou, “Convective instability of magnetic fluids” Physical Review E, Vol. 70, pp. 026313-1-026313-12, 2004.

S. Grimm, F. Lemire, J. Patera, Discrete group transformations on SU(2)X SU(2) and SU(3), authors Resenhas of Instituto de Mathematica e Estatistica, Univ. of Sao Paulo, (2004) Vol. 6 No. 2 pp 199-214.

Antoine Derighetti, Mahmoud Filali, and Mehdi Sangani Monfared, “On the ideal structure of some Banach alge-bras related to convolution operators on Lp(G) ” Journal of Functional Analysis, Vol. 215, pp. 341-365, 2004

Paul, S.R. “Goodness of Fit of the geometric distribution: an application to human fecundability data”, Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods, 3:2004

Paul, S.R., Xing, Jiang, Rai, S. and Balasoorya, U. “Tests of treatment effect in pre-drug and post-drug count data”, Statistics in Medicine , 23:1541 -1554, 2004

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Publications, Conferences

Sydney Bulman-Fleming, Eckehart Hotzel and Jing Wang, Semigroups that are factors of subdirectly irreducible semigroups by their monolith, Algebra Universalis, 51 (2004), 1 -7 .

S.J. Pride and Jing Wang, Relative rewriting systems , in Semigroups and Languages (ed. I.M. Araujo, M.J. Branco, V.H. Fernandes and G.M. Gomes), World Scientific, 2004, 196-211.

Chapters in Books

Paul, S. R. Applications of the beta distribution. In Handbook of the Beta Distribution (2004). Edited by A. K. Gupta,and S. Nadarajah,S.Marcell Dekker

Conferences Ahmed, S.E., Improved estimation in LTRC model. McMaster, November, 2004 (Invited)

Ahmed, S.E., Achievements through higher education. AMSE conference, Chicago, September 2004 (Invited)

Ahmed, S.E., Estimating reliability functions, University of Southern Illinois at Carmendale, September, 2004 (Invited)

Ahmed, S.E., Inference concerning quantile for left-truncated and right-censored data. University of North Carolina, May, 2004 (Invited)

Ahmed, S.E., Estimating the parameters of Birnbaum-Saunders lifetime distribution, IISA, Athens, GA, May, 2004 (Invited)

Zhang, Z., Barron, R.M., An, C.-F. (2004) "Spectral analysis of air flow over a cavity", Proceedings of the 4th Com-putational Aeroacoustics Workshop on Benchmark Problems, NASA/CP-2004-212954, pp. 197 -204.

D. J. Britten, F. W. Lemire and C. Tavolieri , On a basis realization of torsion free An modules. Annual Meeting of the American Mathematical Society in Atlanta, January 6,2005 (Invited) Presented by Dan Britten.

Caron, R., “Finding Feasible Points in Nonlinear Programs”, Invited Session with two speakers, CORS/INFORMS Joint Conference, Banff, Alberta, May 2004.

Caron, R., “A Random Method for Finding Feasibility in Nonlinear Programmes”, CORS/INFORMS Joint Confer-ence, Banff, Alberta, May 2004.

Z. Hu and M. Neufang, Decomposability of von Neumann algebras on locally compact groups, The Spring Confer-ence on Banach Spaces, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, April 18-24, 2004.

Z. Hu, A Kakutani-Kodaira theorem for von Neumann algebras on locally compact groups, The 2004 Canadian Sym-posium on Abstract Harmonic Analysis, The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, May 17-18, 2004.

Z. Hu and M. Neufang, How to count projections in von Neumann algebras, The 2004 Canadian Operator Sympo-sium, The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, May 19-23, 2004.

Z. Hu and M. Neufang, Decomposability of von Neumann algebras and applications, The Summer 2004 Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 13-15, 2004.

Z. Hu, Maximally decomposable von Neumann algebras and the spectrum of L_\infty(G), The 2004 International Conference on Abstract Harmonic Analysis, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, July 12-17, 2004.

Frank W. Lemire, Daniel J. Britten and Justin Lariviere. Decomposition of Tensor Products of Torsion Free Cn-modules of finite degree and simple finite dimensional modules. Preliminary report. 1003, Atlanta, Georgia, SS 23A, AMS Special Session on Representations of Lie Algebras, Annual Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Atlanta, January, 2005. Presented by Frank Lemire.

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News of this award appeared in the Daily News as well as the Windsor Star.

She also received a contract from Health Canada to conduct a “Spatial Monitoring Program” in Windsor. $31,749, 2004, as a co-applicant.

Dr. Karen Fung received funding from all three tri-councils this year:

1) NSERC Discovery —Modeling and analysis of exposure-response data from toxicological and epidemiology, $87,500, 2004-2009.

2) SSHRC—Community health study

in the Sarnia Area of Concern, $113,400, 2004-2007, as a co-applicant.

3) CIHR—Social, prognostic and therapeutic factors associated with breast cancer survival in Canada and the U.S., $353,040, 2004-2009, as a co-applicant.

Notable Achievements

Saha, K., and Paul S. R. (2004). Bias Corrected maximum likelihood estimator of the negative binomial dispersion parameter. Joint Statistical meetings (JSM) of the American Statistical association, International Biometric Society and Statistical Society of Canada.

Deng, D. and Paul, S. R. (2004). Generalized linear model, zero- inflation and over- dispersion. Joint Statistical meetings (JSM) of the American Statistical association, International Biometric Society and Statistical Society of Can-ada.

Paul, S. R., Xing, Jiang (2004). Tests of treatment effect in pre-drug and post-drug count data. Joint Statistical meetings (JSM) of the American Statistical association, International Biometric Society and Statistical Society of Can-ada.

Dr. Krishan L. Duggal

Professor Emeritus K. L. Duggal organized a special session "Geometric Analysis in Mathe-matical Physics" at the fourth World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts in Orlando, FL, June 30-July 7, 2004.

There were 15 leading invited speakers from Spain, Korea, Greece, Germany, USA and Canada.

Dr. Duggal also delivered a 45 minutes invited talk at this conference on "Conformal vector fields on gen-eral relativistic spacetimes and intitial data".

Dr. Zhiguo Hu: Organizing Committee for conference

Dr. Hu was one of the organizers for The 2004 Canadian Symposium on Abstract Harmonic Analysis, sponsored by The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences and held at the University of Western Ontario on May 17-18, 2004. Thirty two mathematicians from Britain, Canada, Italy, Switzerland and the United States participated in this conference. Both Dr. Hu and Dr. Monfared from this department gave their research presentations.

Dr. Purna N. Kaloni (also presented papers)

25th Canadian Applied and Industrial Math Faculty and 16th Canadian Symposium on Fluid Dynamics, Dalhousie Uni-versity, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 12-15, 2004

International Conference on Magnetic Fluids, Guaruja, Sao Paulo, and Brazil, August 2-6, 2004

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Math Challenge

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Reception marks 25 years of NSERC

celebration was held in conjunction with NSERC’s 25th anniver-sary.

NSERC distributed a silver pin to each re-searcher who has held a grant since its inception.

More than 20 Univer-University of Windsor researchers were in hon-oured at a reception on April for 25 continuous years of funding grants from the Natural Sci-ences and Engineering Council (NSERC). The

Congratulat ions to Ronald Barron, Daniel Britten, Krishan Duggal, Karen Fung, Purna Ka-loni, Francis Lemire, Chi Song Wong

Have an item you’d like to see in Newsletter?

Email: mthsta@ uwindsor.ca

Theorem 1: Every horse has an infinite number of legs (Proof by intimidation).

Proof: Horses have an even number of legs. Behind they have two legs, and in front they have fore legs. This makes six legs, which is certainly an odd number for a horse.

But the only number that is both odd and even is infinity. Therefore, horses have an infinite number of legs.

Putnam Mathe-matical Competi-tion

The Putnam Mathe-matical Competition for Undergraduate Students will be held on Saturday, Decem-ber 4th, 2004. Times are 10am-1pm and 3pm-6pm in Room 9118, Lambton Tower. See Dr. Hlynka for additional details.

Actuarial Exams

Actuarial Exams #1-4 were given Nov. 1 -4, 2004, in Room 9118 Lambton Tower. Dr. Hlynka was the exam supervisor. The next

set of Actuarial Exams will be written in May, 2005. See Dr. Hlynka for details.

Math Grad Student Wins Table Tennis Tournament

On October 1 st, Mad-han Balagurusamy participated in the Table Tennis Tourna-ment held by Campus Recreation at the St. Denis Centre. Out of approximately 20 players, Madhan won 1st place. Congratula-tions! (special thanks to Campus Rec news-letter for information)

Analysis Seminar

The Analysis Seminar of the department is held every Friday at 3:00PM in LT 9-118. This weekly seminar started on September 2003. Besides the talks from the faculty members, some visi-tors to the department also gave talks on their research in the semi-nar. The current series of talks are on the re-cently developed Op-erator Space Theory , which is also called the quantization of Ba-nach space theory.

league foursomes.

Dr. Caron, and his team of undergrad research students — Sandra Eozz-cetto, Luiza Ilea and Shashi Khatri — wrote the scheduling program, which now runs in a Windows environment.

Ever try to make a schedule for a golf league, so that you don’t play with the same play-ers twice? When he was Head of the Math De-partment nine years ago, someone asked Rick Caron if he had a for-mula for scheduling golf

Dr. Caron has placed the program on his website www.uwindsor. ca/rcaron. All he asks is that anyone who uses it send a cheque to the faculty’s graduate schol-arship fund.

Department News

Dr. Caron’s golf scheduling program

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Southern Ontario Matrices and Statistics Days 2005 The University of Windsor will host Southern Ontario Matrices and Statistics Days 2005, to be held June 9-10, 2005.There will be four keynote speakers and twenty -four invited speakers. This event is or-ganized by Dr. S.E. Ahmed and Dr. A. Hussein, and Dr. G. Styan (McGill).

This first Southern Ontario Matri-ces and Statistics Days aims to be a forum for the exchange of ideas for researchers in statistics, linear alge-bra and matrix theory. The purpose is to stimulate research and, in an informal setting, to foster the inter-action of researchers in the interface between statistics and matrix the-ory. Further, this meeting will pro-vide a forum for the discussion of research topics emerging from some statistical applications which in-volve the use of linear algebraic methods.

This event is a follow-up to the Fields Institute Special Session on Matrices and Statistics at the 2003 annual meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, June 2003) and the series of International Workshops on Matrices and Statistics held al-most every year since 1990

Speakers include:

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Malayda Ghosh

(University of Florida, Gainesville) Simo Puntanen

(University of Tampere, Finland) Pranab Kumar Sen

(University of North Carolina) Henry Wolkowicz

(University of Waterloo)

INVITED Abdo Alfakih

(University of Windsor) Yogendra Chaubey

(Concordia University) Ka Lok Chu

(Dawson College, Montreal) Kjell Doksum

(University of Wisconsin, Madison Shaun Fallat

(University of Regina) Doug Farenick

(University of Regina) Debashis Ghosh

(University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Edit Gombay

(University of Alberta) Jeffrey J. Hunter (Massey

University, Albany Campus) Abdul H. Hussein

(University of Windsor) Jarkko Isotalo

(University of Tampere, Finland)

Janusz Kawczak (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

Steve Kirkland (University of Regina)

Shuangzhe Liu (University of Canberra)

Derege H. Mussa (City University of NY)

Saswat Panigrahi (MCGill University)

Serge Provost (University of Western Ontario)

A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh (Carleton University)

George P. H. Styan (McGill University)

Yoshio Takane (McGill University)

Yongge Tian (University of Alberta)

Amanullah (University of California - Riverside)

Andrei Volodin (University of Regina)

Douglas P. Wiens (University of Alberta)

Henry Wolkowicz (University of Waterloo)

Fuzhen Zhang (Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale)

For more details, including a regis-tration form, please visit the website http://www.uwindsor.ca/somsd

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Name the Newsletter It’s contest time, everyone. We want you, the faculty, staff and students of the Department, to come up with an original title for the Newsletter. We’re looking for originality and creativity, something catchy. Finalists will be named in the next newsletter, and you will be able to vote on your favourite. The winner(s) will receive a gift certificate to the University Bookstore. Deadline for submissions is April 8, 2005. Please submit all title ideas to mthsta2@uwindsor.ca. Good Luck!

Director

Dr. S. Ejaz Ahmed

C. Young Administrative Secretary

Consultants

Dr. Abdo Alfakih

Dr. Richard Caron

Dr. Karen Fung, P. Stat.

Dr. Myron Hlynka, P. Stat.

Dr. Abdul Hussein

Dr. Sudir Paul

For further information and for a free estimate please contact:

Dept. of Mathematics and Sta-tistics

University of Windsor

Windsor, Ontario, N9B 3P4

Phone: (519) 253-3000 ext. 3015

Fax: (519) 971-3649

E-mail cscrs@uwindsor.ca

Visit our website:

http://www.uwindsor.ca/cscrs

The Center for Statistical Consulting, Research and Service (CSCRS) has been recently formed within the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Windsor to provide statistical and mathematical services to clients both on campus and outside organizations.

The goals of the CSCRS are to:

¹ carry out activities to promote an environment conducive to increasing awareness and usefulness of the statistical and mathematical sciences

¹ increase the use of statistical methods to solve scientific, business and industry problems

¹ enhance prospects for research collaboration

¹ develop a link between the University and the community

Services available:

¸ Design and Analysis of Experiments and Surveys

¸ Data Exploration and Analysis

¸ Complex Data Sets of Varying Quality Collected From Various Sources

¸ Statistical Quality Assurance

¸ Scheduling and Optimization

¸ Numerical Computations and Monte Carlo Simulation

¸ Data Mining and Predictive Modeling

¸ SPSS, SAS and S-PLUS Coding

¸ Probability Models

¸ Short Courses and Professional Development

¸ Expert Witness Testimony

First hour of consultation is free.

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CENTRE FOR STATISTICAL CONSULTING, RESEARCH and SERVICES

Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Windsor