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Welcome to Combinatorics and Optimization

Spring 2021 Undergraduate Research Assistantship Program (URA). ***ON-LINE APPICATIONS OPEN November 9, 2020 - December 15, 2020.***

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 2020 applications now open

 New Deadline: February 1, '20

News

  1. Nov. 13, 2020Collaborating to advance quantum technologies in Canada and the UK
    A quantum key distribution setup

    Earlier this year, Canada and the United Kingdom (UK) joined together to put a call out for proposals of collaborations between leading-edge scientists and potential innovative users from industry and government sectors to accelerate the development of quantum technologies.

  2. Nov. 12, 2020Unsolved puzzles
    Rose McCarty

    “When I was a kid, I always begged my parents to buy me those little Mind Benders puzzles,” remembered Rose McCarty. “My favorite puzzles were the ones that were so difficult that I wasn’t sure whether or not I could actually solve them. At Waterloo Math, I’m the one coming up with different puzzles to solve. I have an opportunity to tackle big, imprecise, unwieldly problems that determine what my field will look like in 20 years.”

  3. Oct. 30, 2020A secret hero's cyber legacy
    Bill Tutte

    Craig Daniels, in an article for Communitech News, traces the rise of the cybersecurity industry in Waterloo, from Bill Tutte's work at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, to the formation of Certicom Corp. by Professors Gord Agnew, Ron Mullin and Scott Vanstone, to the present time.

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Events

  1. Dec. 3, 2020Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar - Loïc Foissy

    Title: Twisted Hopf algebras

    Speaker: Loïc Foissy
    Affiliation: Université du Côte d'Opale
    Zoom: Contact Karen Yeats

    Abstract:

    A twisted Hopf algebra is a Hopf algebra in the category of linear species. The Fock functors allow to recover "classical" Hopf algebras from twisted ones. Numerous constructions and results can be lifted to the level of twisted bialgebras, such that cofreeness, shuffle and quasi-shuffles products, etc.

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