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.
In 2013, seven Applied Math faculty members received support from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI). This federal government funding helps pay for equipment, building additions and other infrastructure associated with research.
Recent research of Applied Math Professor Chris Bauch shows that societal pressures about vaccination affect whether parents have their children vaccinated, and hence on the spread of disease.
More detail can be found on the Waterloo News Website.
From left to right: Mia Van De Vondervoot, Sue Ann Campbell (Applied Mathematics Chair), Kay Wentzell, Alexander Stubbs, Paul Bendevis.