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Thursday, September 22, 2005

Carsten Thomassen awarded a Faculty of Mathematics Alumni Achievement Medal

Professor Carsten Thomassen (PhD 1976, Combinatorics and Optimization) was awarded a Facuty of Mathematics Alumni Achievement Medal for his fundamental research and extraordinary academic accomplishments as one of the foremost graph theorists in the world. Carsten is professor of Mathematics at the Technical University of Denmark.

Saturday, January 1, 2005

Canada Research Chair appointments

N. Wormald, M. Mosca, J. Geelen, D. Leung.
The Canada Research Chairs Program stands at the centre of a national strategy to make Canada one of the world's top five countries for research and development.

In 2000, the Government of Canada allocated $900 million to establish 2,000 research professorships Canada Research Chairs in universities across the country.

Thursday, September 26, 2002

Neil Robertson awarded an Alumni Achievement Medal

Neil Robertson
Professor Neil Robertson (PhD, University of Waterloo, 1969, supervisor: Professor William Tutte) has been awarded the 2002 Alumni Achievement Medal. This new alumni achievement medal is awarded annually to Alumni of the Faculty of Mathematics for outstanding accomplishments in professional, business, or community life.

Friday, June 14, 2002

Lex Schrijver awarded an honorary DMath Degree

Alex Schrijver
Alexander (Lex) Schrijver, of CWI, Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam, was awarded an honorary degree at the June 2002 convocation at the University of Waterloo. Professor Schrijver is one of the world's leading researchers in discrete optimization, as well as the subject's foremost scholar.

Thursday, October 11, 2001

Ron Mullin awarded an honorary Doctorate from University of Rostock

Ron Mullin
Professor Ron Mullin, of the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, recently received an honorary doctorate from Universitat Rostock. Professor Mullin received his PhD from Waterloo in 1964 and became a Professor in Combinatorics and Optimization in 1969. Professor Mullin became a distinguished professor emeritus in 1996.