Penny Haxell was awarded a 2012 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in recognition of her past accomplishments in research and teaching.
Bill Cook (PhD 1983, Combinatorics and Optimization) was awarded a Faculty of Mathematics Alumni Achievement Medal for fundamental contributions to combinatorial optimization and, in particular, the travelling salesman problem.
Scott Vanstone was named a 2011 fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) for his work on the deployment of elliptic curve cryptography, sustained educational leadership in applied cryptology, and service to the IACR.
Congratulations to Andrew Childs, ERA winner, part of the $12 million in research support from the Ontario Research Fund announced at University of Waterloo.
Congratulations to the recipients of Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada's (NSERC) prestigious Julie Payette Research Scholarship. Of the seven UWaterloo receipients, four of the five math faculty recipients have ties to C&O:
