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Welcome to Combinatorics and Optimization
Spring 2018 Undergraduate Research Assistantship Program (URA). Applications for the Spring 2018 program are now closed.
Tutte's 100th Distinguished Lecture Series
University of Waterloo, May 5 - August 18, '17
*Recordings of occurred talks are all available on C&O's YouTube Channel.
Grad Studies: Fall 2018 applications now open
New Deadline: February 9, '18
News
- July 12, 2018Operations Research Challenge (TORCH)
On March 17, 2018, over 40 high school students from the Waterloo Region tested their math skills and learned more about the field of operations research at the The Operations Research Challenge (TORCH).
- July 7, 2018C&O faculty member honoured with Italian Knighthood
On June 28, 2018, the Government of Italy announced the appointment of Michele Mosca as a Knight of the Order of Merit for his significant contributions in quantum computing and cybersecurity, including research, training, outreach and commercialization efforts.
- July 1, 2018Douglas Stebila joins the C&O department
On July 1, Douglas Stebila joined the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization as an Associate Professor.
Events
- July 20, 2018Tutte Colloquium - Peter Nelson
Title: Claw-free matroids
Speaker: Peter Nelson Affiliation: University of Waterloo Room: MC 5501 Abstract: A simple binary matroid is claw-free if it has no independent rank-3 flat. I will discuss a structure theorem, obtained jointly with Kazuhiro Nomoto, that classifies these objects exactly.
- July 26, 2018Graphs and Matroids Seminar
Title: Acyclic Colouring of Graphs on Surfaces
Speaker: Shayla Redlin Affiliation: University of Waterloo Room: MC 5479 Abstract: An acyclic k-colouring of a graph G is a proper k-colouring of G with no
- July 27, 2018Tutte Colloquium - Bernhard von Stengel
Title: Algorithms for Rank-1 Bimatrix Games
Speaker: Bernhard von Stengel Affiliation: London School of Economics Room: MC 5501 Abstract:
The rank of a bimatrix game is the matrix rank of the sum of the two payoff matrices.