The C&O department has 36 faculty members and 60 graduate students. We are intensely research oriented and hold a strong international reputation in each of our six major areas:
- Algebraic combinatorics
- Combinatorial optimization
- Continuous optimization
- Cryptography
- Graph theory
- Quantum computing
Read more about the department's research to learn of our contributions to the world of mathematics!
News
Three C&O faculty win Outstanding Performance Awards
The awards are given each year to faculty members across the University of Waterloo who demonstrate excellence in teaching and research.
Sina Kalantarzadeh wins Governor General's Gold Medal
The Governor General’s Gold Medal is one of the highest student honours awarded by the University of Waterloo.
Two C&O faculty win Outstanding Performance Awards
The awards are given each year to faculty members across the University of Waterloo who demonstrate excellence in teaching and research.
Events
Introduction to Quantum Computing
Abstract: For this term's reading group we will be hosting a study group on quantum tools in cryptography. A week-by-week plan outline. For the first week, we start with a motivation on quantum computing including the basic definitions and discussion on complexity classes. This will serve as a elementary foundation for the rest of the reading group.
Generating and utilizing various types of negative dependence
| Speaker: | Aravind Srinivasan |
| Affiliation: | University of Maryland |
| Location: | MC 5501 |
Abstract: Various notions of negative dependence arise naturally and/or are desirable in various random processes and randomized algorithms. We survey how to generate and utilize a few such notions of negative dependence, and sketch applications to concentration inequalities, fairness, and approximation algorithms.