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”.
The recently-established Ping Yang Memorial Graduate Scholarship will be offered annually to a full-time masters or doctoral student in Applied Mathematics conducting research in the field of Mathematical Oncology.
One current and one former PhD student from Applied Math gave keynote talks this week at the Southwestern Ontario Graduate Mathematics and Statistics Conference at the University of Guelph.
Eleven students have received NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Awards to work on research projects in Applied Math. These students will spend 16 weeks working closely with Applied Math professors on problems in a variety of different research areas:
Applied Math PhD candidate Peter Stechlinski and recent PhD graduate Nancy Soontiens have each been awarded a prestigious NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship.