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Melanie Chanona, an undergraduate student in the Mathematical Physics program, was selected the winner of the Faculty of Mathematics Work Report Award for Spring 2013. 

The title of her report is "Boson Stars and Black Holes in 2+1 Dimensions".  Melanie spent her work term doing research with Prof. Robert Mann of the Physics Department, who is cross-appointed to the Applied Mathematics Department.

Dr. Josef Paldus, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Applied Mathematics, has been elected to Fellowship in the American Physical Society (APS). The citation for his election reads as follows:

"For the development of theoretical and methodological aspects of atomic and molecular electronic structure, primarily of the unitary group and coupled cluster approaches to the many-electron correlation problem, and their exploitation in computational quantum chemistry and chemical physics."

Our UWaterloo iGEM (international Genetically Engineered Machine) team presented their 2013 project at the North American Regional competition on October 5. The competition involved 64 undergraduate teams from across the US and Canada. Their project, on "Retransmittable and Modifiable Intercellular DNA Messaging" won them the prize for Best Poster Presentation in their division and Gold Medal Standing overall. They were also among the teams selected to advance to the World Championship competition at MIT in November.
At the international conference AMMCS-2013, which was held at Wilfrid Laurier University, three Applied Mathematics graduate students were recognized for their presentations:
First Prize, Contributed Talk: Amenda Chow, Control of the Landau-Lifshitz Equation.
First Prize, Poster Presentation: Matt Kloosterman, A Closed NPZ Model with Delayed Nutrient Recycling.
Second Prize, Special Session: Krishan Rajaratnam, Orthogonal separation of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation on Spaces of Constant curvature.
Professors Hans De Sterck and Kevin Lamb are hosting international
undergraduate student researchers through the MITACS Globallink program.
Professor De Sterck's student, Xu Yuzhi, is from Renmin University and is working on, advanced algorithms for social network analysis with Hadoop/MapReduce.
Professor Lamb's student, Aritra Sasmal, is from the Indian Institute
of Technology and is working on a project on internal water waves.
This project was recently written up in the "