| When: | Friday, September 13th, 2024 |
| Time: | 3:30 pm — 4:30 pm |
| Location: | Herzberg Laboratories, Room 4351 |
| Audience: | Anyone |
| Cost: | Free |
| Contact: | Rima Mattar, rima.mattar@carleton.ca, 613 520 4388 |
Dr. Laura Cohen, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria
I have been dancing around EDI issues for much of my career. However, I finally started actively working on these issues in 2017 preparing for our departmental Academic Program Review. This review catalyzed the formation of our Department EDI committee. Later, as Associate Dean Research for the Faculty of Science at UVic, I founded our EDI council. I will discuss EDI activities that we have undertaken at UVic at the Department level, the Faculty level, and within my lab. I hope that we can end this talk with a lively discussion.
About the speaker: I am an ecological statistician studying animal demography, in particular through capture-recapture methods and applications. I have worked on human, fishery, aquaculture, and seabird populations estimating population parameters such as survival and abundances and developing statistical methods to provide these estimates. I also collaborate with other scientists (such as ecologists, fisheries scientists, microbiologists, seabird biologists) to work on ecological problems in the broader sense. Finally, I collaborate with sociologists and anthropologists looking at aspects of injection drug user populations and modeling lemur populations.
Co-hosted by the Faculty of Science and the School of Mathematics and Statistics