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Ian Vanderburgh in India
Friday, September 1, 2023

CEMC's Ian VanderBurgh visits India

by Lata Punetha

The Director of the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing shared a message of the magic of math.

The trip was organized along with colleagues from the Faculty of Mathematics Undergraduate Recruitment team to attend conferences and special events. A highlight of this trip was VanderBurgh’s talk at the International Career and College Counseling (IC3) Conference and Expo, which took place late August in Hyderabad.

Key Clues
Friday, September 1, 2023

Building community through puzzles

by Robin Morden

Q&A with Key Clues Principal Enigmatologist Ty Ghaswala    

Ty Ghaswala (PhD ’17) is a Lecturer in the CEMC, an adjunct professor in Pure Math and the organizer (or Principal Enigmatologist) for the Key Clues Competition. Key Clues, which ran from September 27 to October 3, is a team-based community engagement and development activity that encourages undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, alumni, staff and faculty members to work together in groups of 3-6 to solve a series of puzzles. 

Robert Horvick
Friday, September 1, 2023

Exploring the marvels of mathematics

by Melodie Roschman

Professor David McKinnon shares his perspective on the beauty, purpose and fun of pure mathematics

David McKinnon, chair of the Department of Pure Mathematics, is known throughout the Faculty of Mathematics for his sense of humour and enthusiasm for teaching.

Russell Hiscock
Friday, September 1, 2023

Russell Hiscock creates new statistics and actuarial science lab in M4

by Robin Morden

The former President and CEO of the CN Investment Division wants to see the Faculty take the next step in its evolution

When Russell Hiscock (BMath ’75) speaks to current students about his time at Waterloo, he tells them about having to wait in line in the Red Room, punch card in hand, to test a small snippet of code. Or about not being able to afford a calculator until his third year and having to do complex calculations, like standard deviation, manually.