Martin Wainwright, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley who obtained a BMath in Applied Mathematics from Waterloo, has won the 2014 COPSS Presidents' Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies.
Several members of the Applied Math department will be featured on a website celebrating Ontario women mathematicians.
Congratulations to the following Applied Mathematics graduate student scholarship holders for Fall 2014:
The Applied Mathematics Department is pleased to announce the creation of a new undergraduate scholarship due to the generosity of one our alumni.
A number of recently graduated PhD students in Applied Mathematics have started working in a range of fields, including academia and industry.
The Department of Applied Mathematics recently announced the creation of the Applied Mathematics Doctoral Award.
Although there were clouds in the sky on Friday, it was a sunny day for the Applied Mathematics Department. A number of graduate students received their degrees. Shown in the photo from left to right: Nancy Soontiens (PhD), John Laden (MMath), Mikhail Panine (MMath), Rasha al Jamal (PhD ), and Alex Shum (PhD).
A team from the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, including Applied Math professor Joseph Emerson and former graduate student Victor Veitch, has made an important breakthrough in the area of quantum computing.
The Applied Mathematics Department is pleased to announce the creation of two new scholarships and awards for undergraduate students, due to the generosity of alumni, friends and faculty members of the department.
Former PhD student Nancy Soontiens was awarded the Tertia Hughes Memorial Graduate Student Prize for her thesis, which is entitled “Stratified Flow Over Topography: Steady Nonlinear Waves, Boundary Layer Instabilities and Crater Topography”.