However, new theoretical physics research by a team of researchers at the University of Waterloo and Universidad Complutense de Madrid demonstrates that kugelblitze are impossible in our current universe.
With the rising cost of housing, aging infrastructure, climate change and disruptive technology at the forefront of urban planning, cities require data-driven tools and expertise to prosper today, and into the future.
Campbell is a professor of applied mathematics, and the associate dean for research in the Faculty of Mathematics.
University Professor M. Tamer Özsu has received the ACM Presidential Award for long-standing and significant contributions to the computing field and its scientific community in general, as well as to ACM in particular.
“We are very proud of the research that our faculty do across every department,” says Mark Giesbrecht, dean of the Faculty of Mathematics.
Former Cheriton School of Computer Science staff member, Lawrence Folland, has been named an Honorary Member of the University of Waterloo.
Dr. Ian Stewart is an emeritus professor of mathematics at Warwick University in Great Britain, math communicator, and the author of more than a hundred scholarly and popular books, including Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos (1989), Flatterland (2001), and The Science of Discworld books [co-authored with Terry Pratchett and Jack Cohen] (1999-2013).
New software helps users understand where large language models get their information and whether their sources are trustworthy.
Congratulations to Applied Math master’s student Chichi Zhou, who is this year’s two recipients of the Mehta-Jenner Climate Change Mitigation Graduate Scholarship.
From April 24 to 26, current and retired math educators gathered on campus and online to grade the submissions to the Euclid, Fryer, Galois, and Hypatia (EFGH) contests held earlier that month.