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Winter 2020 Undergraduate Research Assistantship (URA) Opportunities.

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

July 14, 2019Crypto 2019 Best Young Researcher Award
C&O graduate students Samuel Jaques and John Schanck have won the Best Young Researcher Paper Award at Crypto 2019, the 39th Annual International Cryptology Symposium. Their paper, Quantum cryptanalysis in the RAM model: Claw-finding attacks on SIKE, will be presented on August 20 in Santa Barbara.
July 9, 2019Chaitanya Swamy appointed Chair of C&O
Professor Chaitanya Swamy has been appointed to a ten-month term as chair of the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization. His term begins on September 1, 2019.
June 26, 2019SAC 2019 (August 12-16, 2019)
The Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC) conference will be held at the University of Waterloo from August 14-16, 2019. The conference co-chairs are Kenneth Paterson (University of London/ETH Zurich) and C&O professor Douglas Stebila.

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Events

Sep. 3, 2019Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar - Jason Brown
Title: Independence Polynomials and Their Roots

Speaker: Jason Brown
Affiliation: Dalhousie University
Room: MC 5417
Abstract:

Independence polynomials are generating functions for the number of independent sets of each cardinality in a graph G.
Sep. 27, 2019Tutte Distinguished Lecture - Carsten Thomassen

Title: Countable weighted graphs with no unfriendly partitions