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Friday, February 21, 2025

Applied Math student Christopher Pollack wins third place in 2025 GRADflix competition

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!

Left to right: Jiayue, Maliha, and Hassan receving awards from Hans
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Applied Math holds first graduate mini-conference

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!

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Publication of Mohamed Hibat-Allah attracts extensive media coverage

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.

Friday, December 20, 2024

Applied Math alum Sam Hirniak wins 2024 Milt Weinstein Award

Sam Hirniak, a PhD student at the University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy, was awarded the 2024 Milt Weinstein Award for Outstanding Presentation in Applied Health Economics at the  Society of Medical Decision Making (SMDM) Annual Meeting. As an undergraduate student in the UW Faculty of Math (BMath’17), Sam was a member of the International Genetically Engineered Machine Team (iGEM), co-advised by Applied Math professor Brian Ingalls. Sam credits Dr. Ingalls for inspiring her to study mathematics and pursue research opportunities in mathematical modelling. Read the full story on the School of Pharmacy website.

Congratulations, Sam!

2024 Holiday Party AM and CM group photo
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Applied Math and Computational Math Holiday Party 2024

The Department of Applied Mathematics and the Centre for Computational Mathematics hosted the annual holiday party in Federation Hall. It was an occasion to unwind, socialize, and celebrate the community’s many achievements over the past year. May you have many successes to celebrate and memories to cherish in 2025!

10 students and faculty celebrating convocation.
Monday, November 18, 2024

Fall Convocation 2024

Three master’s and three doctoral degrees in Applied Mathematics were awarded at the 2024 Fall Convocation. Congratulations to the graduates!

Friday, June 28, 2024

Applied Math student Chichi Zhou wins Mehta-Jenner Climate Change Mitigation Graduate Scholarship

Congratulations to Applied Math master’s student Chichi Zhou, who is this year’s recipient of the Mehta-Jenner Climate Change Mitigation Graduate Scholarship. The $10,000 Mehta-Jenner Scholarship is awarded to female graduate students in a Faculty of Mathematics master’s program who are conducting research on the assessment and/or mitigation of climate change.

“I would like to express my gratitude to everyone around me for their support, whether it’s in academics or in other aspects of my life. This scholarship makes me feel more motivated about my current research and future goals,” Zhou says. “It also allows me to fully focus on my studies in the master’s program, which is valuable.”

Read the full story from Math News to learn more.