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M. Dupuis, F. Girelli (from the Math Phys group) and A. Riello (PI) organize a workshop (April 25-29th) sponsored by the Fields Institute, the UW Math Faculty and Perimeter Institute, dedicated to the use of Poisson-Lie groups / quantum groups in quantum gravity. The workshop will be located  in the university, probably the IQC (QNC building).

Applied Math PhD graduates Wilten Nicola and Colin Phipps have been awarded prestigious NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowships.

The following Applied Mathematics students were recently honoured at the Faculty of Mathematics Banquet for awards and scholarships received in the 2015-2016  academic year:

Josef Paldus, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Applied Math, was awarded a 2015 Neuron Award for Contribution to Science.

Applied Mathematics department members Manda Winlaw, Mike Hynes, and Anthony Caterini (PhD, Master’s and undergraduate students), along with their supervisor Hans De Sterck, won the best paper award (and a $2,000 cash prize!) at the 21st IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2015) in Melbourne, Australia, for their paper “Algorithmic Acceleration of Parallel ALS for Collaborative Filtering: Speeding up Distributed Big Data Recommendation in Spark”.

Fourth-year applied math student James Lowman, with help from his classmates, has recreated the 1919 Great Boston Molasses Flood, also known as the Boston Molassacre, in the laboratory. This experiment and video was part of his final project for AMATH 463 (Fluid Mechanics).

The Waterloo International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) team was awarded gold medal standing at the recent 2015 iGEM Giant Jamboree in Boston. The Waterloo team also received awards for best poster overgrad and best software tool overgrad, as well as being nominated for the best overgrad foundational advance project.

Matthew Smart was awarded the prize for best presentation at the recent Applied Math Undergraduate Student Research Mini-Conference held on August 14.

The following current applied math students have won scholarships for graduate studies for fall 2015. Scholarships include:

David Harmsworth has been selected one of two winners of the 2015 Faculty of Mathematics Awards for Distinction in Teaching.