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News

  1. Aug. 4, 2021HouseAI and SAFI win Concept $5K startup contest
    Velocity startup incubator

    Faculty of Mathematics-linked teams HouseAI and SAFI were named among the four winners of the bi-annual Concept $5K challenge for spring 2021.

  2. July 30, 202111 things you never knew about mathematical symbols
    By the Numbers

  3. July 29, 2021Award-winning PhD student Yuyu Chen sharpens risk assessment models in actuarial science
    Yuyu Chen

    For many of us, risk is something unknown or somehow tied to chance and fortune. But for Yuyu Chen, a PhD candidate in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, there is no guesswork to risk at all.

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