Students from these countries would study in our Department as part of the exchange. We hope to have this in place for the Fall of 2001, or 2002 at the latest. The International Student Centre of the University of Calgary can provide a great many choices, if a student wishes to pursue study abroad. As a Statistics student, you can participate in the University of Calgary Co-operative Education Program, in which students gain practical experience. This program entails the taking of four work terms, where students work for an employer in an area related to Statistics.
Students gain valuable experience and make important contacts with employers.
As mentioned above, the new capstone course, Practice of Statistics, will prepare students to tackle the sort of real-world statistical problems encountered by practicing Statisticians. While our other Statistics courses attempt to provide some exposure to non-textbook problems, this course will focus exclusively on the practice of Statistics, including the production of proper reports and oral presentations. StatCaR has clients from industry and other Departments and Faculties within the University. They write and publish papers and books about their research interests, prove mathematical theorems, present their findings orally at conferences and at public lectures, research topics of interest in the library and on the World Wide Web, and program computer simulations to explore the behaviour of complicated stochastic models. Current faculty members and their research interests are listed at the end of this document As a student in this department, you will use the same kinds of research skills by reading texts carefully and analytically, through discussion in class, by working on term projects that are essentially small research projects, and by researching in the library and on the World Wide Web.