The Faculty of Mathematics is proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 Alumni Achievement Medals and the J.W. Graham Medal in Computing and Innovation.
Congratulations to Dr. Anita Layton, who has received the Ernest H. Starling Distinguished Lecture of the American Physiological Society (APS) Water & Electrolyte Homeostasis (WEH) Section for her research mathematically modeling kidney function.
Nearly 30 students from across Canada gathered at the University of Waterloo this summer for the first Climate Mathematics CREATE Summer School, a five-day program exploring the mathematical tools used to understand and address climate change.
Researchers in Applied Mathematics, Jun Liu and Maxwell Fitzsimmons, have received the Oded Maler Award, a distinction presented for the best paper at FORMATS 2025.
Though the building’s designers aren’t math professors, they are constantly thinking about optimization – making the best decisions with limited resources to achieve their goals.
Waterloo co-op students at Faire — an online wholesale platform connecting independent retailers with unique brands — are helping build tools that strengthen local economies and empower small businesses to thrive.
Professor Shai Ben-David has been named a 2025 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the highest national recognition for researchers in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences.
By tapping into Google Research Football’s reinforcement learning environment, the researchers developed a system that can simulate and record unlimited soccer matches.
“People deserve to have full transparency on how AI models work. Why do they make certain mistakes or decisions? What is the technology behind these models? I want to help everyday people make informed decisions when they interact with AI systems.”
Colafranceschi’s project is titled “Axiomatic Framework for Quantum Gravity: Unravelling Black Hole Entropy.”