Bridges Lecture - Deep Surfaces: Geometrical Challenges in Digital Design
Second, third and fourth-year undergraduate students are invited to come out and learn more about graduate studies in Faculty of Mathematics.
There will be an overview of Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Mathematics including a brief description from:
Mike Stonebraker
MIT and Turing Award Winner
Monday, September 14
Humanities Theatre
2:00 p.m.
Abstract:
This Turing Award talk intermixes a bicycle ride across America during the summer of 1988 with the design, construction and commercialization of Postgres during the late 80’s and early ‘90’s. Striking parallels are observed, leading to a discussion of what it takes to build a new DBMS. Also, indicated are the roles that perseverance and serendipity played in both endeavours.
Biography:
Friday, October 2nd - Pub Night in Uptown Waterloo!
Plan to arrive on Friday and join fellow alumni and faculty for a pub night in uptown Waterloo. Huether Hotel (a.k.a. The Kent) 59 King St N, Waterloo
Gather in the Billiards Room from 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. (or whenever the night ends) Complimentary pool, appetizers and 2 drink tickets will be provided. Registration is required.
The Velocity Fund is a non-equity grant program for startups. Each year Velocity produces three pitch competition events where the Velocity Fund awards at least $115,000 in money to winners. To read more about the Velocity Fund Finals, please visit their website.
At the Velocity Fund Finals, Spring 2015, the following students from the Math faculty pitched their ideas:
The David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science presents:
Margaret Martonosi
Princeton Friday, June 12
DC 1302
4:30 p.m
The University of Waterloo team did extremely well in the 2014 Putnam Competition, finishing in 4th place.
Pictured, from left to right: Dean Ian Goulden, 2014 Waterloo Putnam team members Daniel Spivak and Sam Eisenstat, with coach Prof. Stephen New.
The Bernoulli Trials Contest (PDF) was held on Saturday, March 7th.
This is a recreational contest in which contestants are given a sequence of statements, and they must decide (or guess) whether the statements are true or false.
This year, contestants were being eliminated after their third incorrect answer.