News for Future students

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Sophie Spirkl receives Sloan Foundation Fellowship

Sophie Spirkl, an assistant professor of Combinatorics and Optimization, has received a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Spirkl is one of 125 early career researchers in the United States and Canada who received a Fellowship this year.

Monday, March 21, 2022

Laura Bumbulis wins Co-op Student of the Year Award

Laura Bumbulis, an undergraduate student in combinatorics and optimization, hadn’t completed much science-related work since taking grade 11 biology.

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

First lecture of new optimization series a success!

July 28 was the date of the first presentation of the new: "Optimization: Theory, Algorithms, Applications Lecture Series" organized by The Fields Institute and the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization.

Thursday, January 28, 2021

The optimal career path

Jodie Wallis (BMath ’93) was a natural fit for Operations Research at the Faculty of Mathematics. “I liked how Operations Research brought together different disciplines and applied directly to business problems,” she affirmed. “That process of taking a problem, considering multiple layers of solutions, and ending up with something that’s elegant and workable in the real world was appealing to me.”

Thursday, November 12, 2020

Unsolved puzzles

“When I was a kid, I always begged my parents to buy me those little Mind Benders puzzles,” remembered Rose McCarty. “My favorite puzzles were the ones that were so difficult that I wasn’t sure whether or not I could actually solve them. At Waterloo Math, I’m the one coming up with different puzzles to solve. I have an opportunity to tackle big, imprecise, unwieldly problems that determine what my field will look like in 20 years.”