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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."

Seven of our graduate students were awarded degrees at Spring Convocation:

- Martin Fuhry (MMath)

- Jonathan Murley (MMath)

- Janelle Resch (MMath)

- Boglarka Soos (MMath)

- Killian Miller (PhD)

- Ruibin Qin  (PhD)

- Rahul Rahul (PhD)

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Applied Mathematics Professor and Canada Research Chair Achim Kempf recently published work which develops new tools that may help unify quantum theory and the theory of general relativity. The tools involve calculating the shape of an object just from its sound. Theoretically this could be used to determine the shape of spacetime from the ringing caused by quantum fluctuations. More detail can be found here: https://uwaterloo.ca/news/quantum-sounds-could-reveal-shape-universe.

Applied Mathematics PhD candidate Robert Jonsson won the Faculty of Mathematics 3-minute thesis competition held on March 1, 2013, with his talk titled "Relativistic Quantum Information". Robert will be one of two representatives of the Faculty at the University-wide competition, to be held on March 27, 2013.

For more information about the 3-minute Thesis please click on the following: https://uwaterloo.ca/three-minute-thesis/.

A recent New York Times article features the University of Waterloo's innovation-focused campus culture, starting off by saying that "The University of Waterloo, ... , is one of the world’s best technology schools". Check out this article if you want to learn about Waterloo's unique campus environment.