A powerhouse of discovery and innovation

$coin icon$ 17.3
million dollars in research funding (2017/18)

$earth icon$ 38,882
graduates in 105 countries

$badge icon$ Top 40
in the world for mathematics and computer science

$Math ambassadors ready to greet students at an Open House$ Future students

$Students smiling and laughing at a laptop$ Undergraduate students

$students working at a whiteboard$ Graduate students

$Graduate students in the fluid lab$ Research

$David McKay addresses 2018 Spring Convocation$ Alumni and friends

June 14, 2019The 40,000th Faculty of Mathematics alumnus will cross the stage today
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Today over the course of two ceremonies, the Faculty of Mathematics added 1,286 alumni for a total of 40,750 in more than 100 countries. We also gave out one award for leadership, one Doctoral Prize, had two valedictorians, handed out six medals, and three Honorary Doctor of Mathematics degrees.
June 12, 2019Third woman to win Turing Award to receive an honorary doctorate
$Shaffi Goldwasser$
Shafira (Shafi) Goldwasser is one of today’s leading computer scientists, known for her contributions to the foundations of cryptography, privacy, and security. In 2018, Goldwasser became the Director of the world’s leading venue for collaborative research in theoretical computer science, the Simons Institute for Theory of Computing at the University of California, Berkeley.
June 12, 2019Convocation is twice as nice for twin Computer Science graduates
$Orkhan and Elkhan Mammedov$
Elkhan and Orkhan Mammedov’s journey to Convocation started seven years ago, with a school visit. The Faculty of Mathematics and Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing visited the brothers’ home country of Azerbaijan, and instantly captured their attention.

June 17, 2019Waterloo Alumni Cybersecurity Panel and Networking Event
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Please join us for a cybersecurity panel discussion and networking event with Engineering and Math alumni and friends in London. Dean of Math Stephen Watt will be moderating the panel, which will include experts in this area as well as policy experts.
June 19, 2019Journey to Leadership
The Equity Office and the Research, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Council invite you to attend a unique opportunity to hear from UWaterloo women identified Deans and Senior Administrators, as they share details about their path to leadership, the ways they overcame barriers and what they wished they had known along the way.
Sep. 27 to 29, 2019Waterloo Mathematics Undergraduate Research Conference
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Applications are due by June 30, 2019.

Meet leaders in mathematical, computer and statistical sciences at a two-day, all-expenses-paid conference hosted by the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo.