Professor Eric Katz of the University of Waterloo and his colleagues Karim Adiprasito (Max Planck Society and Hebrew University) and June Huh(Clay Mathematical Institute and Princeton University) have proved Rota's 45-year old conjecture on the log concavity of the characteristic polynomial of matroids.
The Faculty of Mathematics has contracted with Crowdmark Inc. to provide campus-wide on-line midterm/exam marking and results distribution starting Fall 2015 for all course instructors who are interested.
Students write exam papers with Crowdmark-generated QR codes on each page. Exams are later scanned and uploaded to Crowdmark for marking.
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The Velocity Fund is a non-equity grant program for startups. Each year Velocity produces three pitch competition events where the Velocity Fund awards at least $115,000 in money to winners. To read more about the Velocity Fund Finals, please visit their website.
At the Velocity Fund Finals, Spring 2015, the following students from the Math faculty pitched their ideas:
Dr. Eric Katz and Dr. Laura Sanita from the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization have been named recipients of this year's Early Researcher Awards. A total of 14 researchers were selected for this award from the University of Waterloo.
Congratulations to today's graduates and honorees!
From the University of Waterloo Daily Bulletin
It's a by-the-numbers situation today as two ceremonies will see 1,079 Mathematics graduates cross the stage to receive their degrees.
The fourth annual Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research will be awarded to graduating students Rutger Campbell and Melanie Chanona at convocation on June 12.
Congratulations to the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing, (CEMC) honoured today with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Award for Science Promotion. Details in this NSERC media release.
Canada strengthens actuarial sector in Indonesia to stimulate economic growth and stability
May 21, 2015 - Waterloo, Ontario - Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada
Three subjects at the University of Waterloo rank in the top 50 in the world and eight other subjects rank among the top 100, according to the U.K. firm Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings by Subject.
Subject ranking highlights for the Faculty of Mathematics: