News

Chaitanya Swamy

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

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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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.

Samuel Jaques

Samuel Jaques

Samuel Jaques will be awarded the Governor General's Gold Medal (Master) at the June 14th convocation ceremony for his outstanding academic performance.

Harmony Zhan

This new prize will be awarded annually to recognize the achievement of graduating doctoral students in the Faculty of Mathematics.

Spring 2019 convocation

Spring 2019 convocation

Congratulations to the 12 M.Math. and 3 Ph.D. C&O students who will be awarded their graduate degrees at the Spring 2019 convocation ceremonies!

Walaa Moursi

Walaa Moursi

Photo credit: University of British Columbia, Okanagan

The C&O department is very pleased to welcome Professor Walaa Moursi, its newest faculty member.

Quantum and Vassiliev knot invariants

The book "An Introduction to Quantum and Vassiliev Knot Variants", written by C&O

Introduction to Quantum and Vassiliev Know Invariants

Distinguished Professor Emeritus David Jackson and Professor Iain Moffatt (University of London), has been published by Springer.

Waterloo Coloring Conference

Professors Michelle Delcourt, Zdenek Dvorak and Luke Postle are organizing a conference on graph colorings (September 23-27, 2019).

Eddie Cheng

Eddie Cheng

Professor Cheng will receive his award at the Alumni Achievement Awards luncheon at 12:30 pm on June 13.