Welcome to Applied Mathematics

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The Department of Applied Mathematics has 30 faculty members and over 100 graduate students. We offer undergraduate plans in Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics that attract outstanding students. The wide range of interdisciplinary research being undertaken in the department provides a stimulating environment for our graduate program.

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Christopher Pollack, a PhD student at the Department of Applied Mathematics, has won third place in the 2025 University of Waterloo GRADflix competition, for which contestants submit a video describing their graduate research to a non-specialized audience in no more than one minute. Christopher’s video, Symmetries: The Universal Foundation of Physics, is available for viewing online. Christopher was also a finalist in the 2024 competition. Congratulations, Christopher!

On Friday, 24 January 2025, the Department of Applied Mathematics held its first graduate mini-conference. The one-day event featured 14 talks by graduate students with representation from each of the five research areas of the department. The members of the organizing committee were: Khush Bhavsar, Florian Girelli, Vyom Patel, José Polo-Gómez, and María Rosa Preciado-Rivas.

Congratulations to Maliha, Hassaan, and Jiayue!

A research article published in Science, co-authored by applied mathematics professor Mohamed Hibat-Allah, has attracted significant media attention. The paper, Variational benchmarks for quantum many-body problems, introduces a metric of variational accuracy called the V-score for comparing quantum and classical computational methods for quantum many-body physics simulations. The work has been featured on platforms such as Phys.org, Quantum Insider, and IBM.

Read the full story in the Math Faculty news to learn more.

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