Mathieu Guay-Paquet was awarded an Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies honour at the spring 2013 convocation.
Bob E. Bixby received an honorary Doctor of Mathematics (DMath). He is well known for his early work on matroid connectivity and representability, and his later work on linear optimization. His CPLEX software for linear optimization and mixed integer programming is widely used around the world.
The following Combinatorics and Optimization students received their graduate degrees at the spring 2013 convocation. Congratulations to all and best of luck for the future!
Grotzsch's Theorem (PDF)
Supervisor: Bruce Richter
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.
We are delighted to announce that Bill Cook joined the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization as of June 1, 2013.
David Qian, an MMath student in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, was a finalist in the University of Waterloo's Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. David's presentation "Mathematical Optimization and Skull Surgery" can be seen on YouTube.
In an article published in Science, Childs, Gosset and Webb propose a new notion of multiparticle quantum walks with interactions on graphs. This new computing model is capable of universal quantum computation and can potentially be used as an architecture for building a scalable quantum computer with no need for time-dependent control.
