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Spring 2019 Undergraduate Research Assistantship Program (URA). Applications for the Spring 2019 program are now closed.

Tutte's Distinguished Lecture Series

The very successful Tutte's 100th Distinguished Lecture Series has now completed. That success has led to a Tutte Distinguished Lecture once per term. The next lecture will happen in the Spring term.

*Recordings of occurred talks are all available on C&O's YouTube Channel.

Grad Studies: Fall 2019 applications now open

New Deadline: February 1, '19

News

Apr. 11, 2019Mathematicians help build better surgical plans
Professors Ricardo Fukasawa's and Jochen Koenemann's work on optimizing craniosynostosis operations with surgeons at SickKids Hospital in Toronto was featured in the University of Waterloo's Global Impact site.
Apr. 1, 2019Stefan Sremac wins the 2019 Huawei Prize for Best Research Paper
Combinatorics and Optimization Mathematics PhD student Stefan Sremac was one of six students who won the 2019 Huawei Prize for Best Research Paper by a Mathematics Graduate Student. This award recognizes the impact of his paper, Maximum determinant positive definite Toeplitz completions, with a prize of $4,000.
Mar. 27, 2019Caelan Wang is a recipient of an Amit and Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student
PhD student Caelan Wang, is a recipient of an Amit and Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student for 2019. Four awards are given annually in recognition of excellence in teaching of all kinds by registered students (e.g., teaching assistant, laboratory demonstrator, sessional lecturer).

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Events

Apr. 25, 2019Continuous Optimization Seminar - Tao Jiang
Title: Recovery of a mixture of Gaussians by sum-of-norms clustering

Speaker: Tao Jiang
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Room: MC 5417
Abstract:

Sum-of-norms clustering is a method for assigning n points in R^d to K clusters, 1 ≤ K ≤ n, using convex optimization.