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A team of Faculty of Mathematics students, led by Prof. Olga Kanj, took 2^nd place globally and 1^st in Canada in the prestigious 2024 Bloomberg Global Trading Challenge!

The team members are:

Wei (Steven) Gao, 2A Math/Bus Admin HC – Team Leader

Jin Ruohan, 2A BCS HC

Wenqi Yu, 2B Act Sci HC

Yidan Wang, 2B BCS HC

Kaiwen Xu, 2A Math/CPA HC

Jeff Wang (second from right in the picture), 3B Mathematics/Business Administration with Computing Minor student won prestigious Toronto McKinsey Case Competition.

Jeff was one of five-member combined team of students from Queens, Western and Waterloo University competing at the Toronto McKinsey Challenge which is a two-day annual interactive event where students collaborate to design solutions for a challenge faced by a local organization. During the Challenge, students have the opportunity to work in teams and apply McKinsey’s problem-solving approach to a real business problem, network with McKinsey consultants. Congratulations to Jeff and his teammates for this achievement!

Congratulations to the McGill International Portfolio Challenge (MIPC) 2023 Team

Math faculty students Aditya Dhanasekharan, Michael Jung, Renee Ysabella Barredo, and Yuqi Gu participated in the prestigious annual Rotman International Trading Competition (RITC) held on February 24, 2023 virtually. The University of Waterloo students competed against over 40 teams from universities around the world. Congratulations to Adi, Michael, Renee, and Yuqi for their great efforts and valuable experience gained during the competition.

New Data Analytics Specialization is introduced for the Mathematics/Chartered Professional Accountancy program. 

We are happy to announce that the Math Business Finance Lab is now open!

The lab is located in MC-3004. It is open Monday - Friday from 9:00am - 4:30pm.

It contains 6 Bloomberg terminals that are located along the wall with appropriate labelling.

During the Winter 2021 term, a team consisting of two FARM students Katherine (Xinyi) Hu (4B) and Mavis Xiao (4B) participated in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), an international contest for high school students and college undergraduates. It challenges teams of students to clarify, analyze, and propose solutions to open-ended problems. The contest attracts diverse students and faculty advisors from over 900 institutions around the world.

It took Ludwig Lie a while to get used to the University of Waterloo. Compared to Jakarta, it was cold, he was very homesick, and he didn’t feel like he belonged in the program he had chosen.

Ludwig chose Waterloo because it had the largest Faculty of Mathematics, and it had a co-op program. He knew his interest lay in finance, and once he discovered the Financial Analysis and Risk Management (FARM) program, he made the switch, and his experience improved.

“Waterloo is a place where students have the opportunity to try so many different things.”