Ahmad Abdi (BMath 2013) is the winner of the second Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award for Excellence in undergraduate research in the Faculty of Mathematics. Ahmad was an Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) undergraduate research assistant in spring 2011 and spring 2012, working with Professors Ricardo Fukasawa and Bertrand Guenin.
Congratulations to Combinatorics and Optimization Professor Andrew Childs for being named recipient of a 2013 Outstanding Performance Fund Award. In 2003, the University of Waterloo established the Outstanding Performance Fund to reward faculty members for outstanding contribution in teaching and scholarship.
Laura Mancinska, a Combinatorics and Optimization PhD student being co-supervised by Professors Debbie Leung and Andrew Childs, is the 2013 recepient of the IQC Achievement Award. The $5,000 award is given to a graduate student with an outstanding research contribution.
