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Professor Levent Tuncel was announced a winner of the 2012 Faculty of Mathematics Award for Distinction in Teaching.

Professor Tuncel was recognized for his outstanding teaching as well as his development of optimization courses at all levels.

At the spring 2012 convocation, Peter Nelson was awarded an Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies honour.

Congratulations to Ricardo Fukasawa in the University of Waterloo Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, recipient of an Early Researcher Award.

The title of his funded project was "Increasing the applicability of mixed-integer programming".

Alfred Menezes was announced as a recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award. Alfred Menezes is an instructor in cryptography, coding theory and introductory combinatorics and algebra. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate students, Alfred is an active graduate supervisor with more than 25 successful supervisions at Waterloo.

Michele Mosca was appointed a University Research Chair in recognition of his exceptional research and scholarly achievements. The appointment will be held from 2012 to 2019. Michele is a professor in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization. He also serves as deputy director of the Institute for Quantum Computing.

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.