The University of Waterloo Advisory Committee on Graduate Scholarships and Awards has selected two Faculty of Mathematics students for Alumni Gold Medal and Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies designation. "The selection was made from a group of exceptional nominees," says Sue Horton (Associate Provost, Graduate Studies).
An Alumni Gold Medal for outstanding academic performance in a master's program will be awarded to John Doucette (Computer Science) at fall convocation. John's MMath thesis "An ex-ante rational distributed resource allocation system using transfer of control strategies for preemption with applications to emergency medicine" was supervised by Robin Cohen. He has already received numerous achievements and awards, including an NSERC CGS and an OGS, as well as recently securing an extremely competitive NSERC Vanier scholarship for his PhD studies.
Bei Chen (Statistics) will be honoured with Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies designation at the doctoral level. Her work was recognized earlier this year by the Statistical Society of Canada as winner of the 2011 Pierre Robillard Award for the best PhD thesis in probability or statistics. Bei’s doctoral thesis is entitled “Linearization methods in time series analysis”. It was written under the supervision of Bovas Abraham and Yulia Gel.