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Our computer science, mathematics and statistics faculty and instructors are top of the line, with credentials to rival other universities in and outside of Canada.
We offer Bachelor of Science undergraduate degrees in Applied Statistics, Computer Science and Mathematics. Both Master's and Doctoral levels of study are also available. Department faculty are currently working with students studying at each of these levels, many of whom are graduate students from around the world. Learn more about our majors and minors.
Undergraduate students may have opportunities to do research projects with our faculty, using modern facilities, for hands-on experience. Several department faculty have independent research programmes supported by agencies such as NSERC and IBM Canada, and at times, there may be a collaboration with other disciplines.
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Department Highlights
GSA Teaching Award
Congratulations to Shirin Alimirzaei for receiving the 2025 Graduate Students' Association Teaching Award.
The annual GSA Teaching Awards recognize and honor graduate students at the University of Lethbridge who have demonstrated exceptional commitment and proficiency in their teaching roles. Eight student instructors were nominated this year, and each nomination required a letter of support from an undergraduate student, so this was well-earned.
This semester, Shirin has been running the three tutorials for MATH 1010 - Introduction to Calculus and helping run the four tutorials for MATH 1560 - Calculus I; quite the teaching workload for an already-busy PhD candidate!
Number Theory Seminar
Behruz Tayfeh-Rezaie
TOPIC: Saturation in deterministic and random graphs
Date: Wednesday, Oct 22
Location: Markin Hall - M1060
Time: 1:30 - 2:30 pm
Fix a positive integer n and a graph F. A graph G with n vertices is called F-saturated if G contains no subgraph isomorphic to F but each graph obtained from G by joining a pair of nonadjacent vertices contains at least one copy of F as a subgraph. The saturation function of F, denoted sat(n, F), is the minimum number of edges in an F-saturated graph on n vertices. This parameter along with its counterpart, i.e. Turan number, have been investigated for quite a long time.
We review known results on sat(n, F) for various graphs F. We also present new results when F is a complete multipartite graph or a cycle graph. The problem of saturation in the Erdos-Renyi random graph G(n, p) was introduced by Korandi and Sudakov in 2017. We survey the results for random case and present our latest results on saturation numbers of bipartite graphs in random graphs.
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Guest Speaker - Dr. Darcy Best
Dr. Darcy Best
The leap from university to industry as a software engineer often feels like a mystery until you're actually there. Which skills from computer science (and math) courses actually carry over to the "real world"? In this talk, I'll share my own journey from student to software engineer, highlighting what translated well, what didn't, and what I wish I had known sooner. I'll offer some practical tips on how you can start preparing now to make your interview process much smoother and how to thrive once you've landed the job.
Meet Dr. Amir Akbary, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Devin Schafthuizen (BSc '24), Programmer Analyst, ITS Enterprise Applications
Shining Student Dev Khullar
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