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Convocation
Monday, October 7, 2019

Fall 2019 convocation

Nine MMath. and six PhD C&O students will be awarded their degrees at the Fall 2019 convocation ceremonies.

Isaac Ellmen
Monday, September 30, 2019

C&O alumnus’ Biotech company wins at Velocity pitch competition

Isaac Ellmen (BMath ’19) and his co-founder Danielle Rose (BSc ‘19, University of Guelph) were one of the recipients of the grand prize of direct equity investments worth $50,000 in the Velocity Fund Competition in Toronto on September 19, 2019. SquidBio was started in November of 2018 and later joined Velocity Science.

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Sunday, July 14, 2019

Crypto 2019 Best Young Researcher Award

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C&O graduate students Samuel Jaques and John Schanck have won the Best Young Researcher Paper Award at Crypto 2019, the 39th Annual International Cryptology Symposium. Their paper, Quantum cryptanalysis in the RAM model: Claw-finding attacks on SIKE, will be presented on August 20 in Santa Barbara.

Chaitanya Swamy
Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Chaitanya Swamy appointed Acting Chair of C&O

Professor Chaitanya Swamy has been appointed to a ten-month term as acting chair of the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization. His term begins on September 1, 2019.

SAC 2019
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

SAC 2019 (August 12-16, 2019)

SAC 2019
The Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC) conference will be held at the University of Waterloo from August 14-16, 2019. The conference co-chairs are Kenneth Paterson (University of London/ETH Zurich) and C&O professor Douglas Stebila. 

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Wednesday, June 26, 2019

David Gosset appointed CIFAR Fellow

David Gosset
C&O Professor David Gosset has been appointed a Fellow of the CIFAR program in Quantum Information Science. The fellowship is for a five-year term, beginning on July 1, 2019.