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Congratulations to Stephen New and Levent Tuncel, winners of the 2012 Faculty of Mathematics Award for Distinction in Teaching!

At the 2012 Annual Meeting of Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) held at the University of Guelph, June 3-6, three major national awards were presented to researchers from The University of Waterloo.

Professor Ming Li and his family have created this award in honour and memory of his late wife, Jessie Wenhui Zou. 

Matthew Kennedy (Pure Mathematics (PM), PhD, 2011) has won the 2012 Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) Doctoral Prize. He will give a talk, and receive the award, in December at the CMS meeting in Montreal.

His PhD thesis supervisor was Professor Ken Davidson.

Congratulations to the Waterloo Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) team - students Tyson Andre, Benoit Maurin, and Anton Raichuk with coach Professor Ondrej Lhotak - on their bronze medal at the 2012 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals!

The competition was held in Warsaw, Poland. 

His funded project title: "Increasing the applicability of mixed-integer programming".

When the University of Waterloo dedicated the atrium of the new Mathematics 3 building this week, the name of the generous donor who helped make it possible wasn’t on it. He wanted his high school math teacher to have that honour instead. Bruce White is a retired educator who taught Mathematics at Vincent Massey Secondary School in Windsor, Ontario. He is a recipient of the Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence and the University of Waterloo’s Descartes Award for Outstanding Teaching in High School Mathematics. His former student, John C.R.

Earlier today, the Waterloo Black team (Tyson Andre, Benoit Maurin, Anton Raichuk) finished first in the University of Chicago Invitational Programming Contest. The contest brought together all 22 Canadian and U.S. teams that have qualified for the World Finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest to be held May 14 to 18 in Warsaw, Poland. Waterloo solved nine problems, beating runners-up Harvard, Stanford, and Princeton. Alberta finished eighth, UBC 10th and Toronto 13th.