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 20, 2019Timing of vaccinations are key to controlling disease outbreaks
$Vaccine vials$
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have found that the most effective way to prevent disease outbreaks is for the majority of the population in a particular region to be vaccinated at the same time.

Their study, which builds on an existing mathematical model of epidemics, affirms that the timing of vaccination is critical in controlling outbreaks.

Vaccine vials
June 14, 2019The 40,000th Faculty of Mathematics alumnus will cross the stage today
$A graduate smiles with his diploma after the ceremony$
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.