The Faculty of Math was well-represented in this year’s Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s (NSERC) Discovery Program.
Recently, the Canadian government announced $693.8 million in funding for R&D and outreach initiatives like the Canada Research Chair Program and the PromoScience Program. Among these was the NSERC Discovery Program, which had an investment of approximately $554 million. This program’s goal is to support researchers, encourage international collaborations, and recruit top talent to Canada.
“Whether it’s through discovery or applied research, these recipients have the potential to reveal unexpected findings and have a significant impact on our society and well-being. Today’s announcement provides funding for the full gamut of research impact, from the earliest stages of discovery to the final stages of bringing innovations to communities,” says NSERC’s President Alejandro Adem, who is also a professor at the University of British Columbia. “It also provides support to inspire students in their most formative years, and to spur our research leaders to even greater success. I applaud the dedication of all our discoverers and innovators in tackling the world’s toughest problems and their determination to find bold solutions.”
Thirty-eight Waterloo Math and Computer Science professors received NSERC grants, amounting to $1,811,766.
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Scalable Algorithms for Processing Massive Graphs: Graph Streaming, Communication Games, and Beyond |
$81,500 |
Discovery Grant ($69,000) & Discovery Launch Supplement ($12,500) |
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Computational creativity and aesthetics: theory and practice in an age of change |
$35,000 |
Discovery Grant |
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Computational efficient algorithms for statistical problems |
$21,000 |
Discovery Grant |
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Development, Testing, Launch, Analysis Computer to Frontend Experimental Cluster |
$32,631 |
Discovery Grant |
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Computability Theory and its Applications |
$27,000 |
Discovery Grant |
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Dynamic Data Systems |
$48,000 |
Discovery Grant |
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Discovering and Applying Patterns in Declarative Modelling and Verification |
$48,000 |
Discovery Grant |
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Multi-Agent Communication and Collaboration for Specialized Large Language Models |
$46,500 |
Discovery Grant ($34,000) & Discovery Launch Supplement ($12,500) |
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Risk-Sharing Markets: Efficiency, Equilibria, and Allocation Mechanisms |
$27,000 |
Discovery Grant |
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Partitions, transversals and colouring in graphs and hypergraphs |
$27,000 |
Discovery Grant |
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Computational analysis of microbial population dynamics |
$67,000 |
Discovery Grant |
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Operator-algebraic boundary theory |
$43,000 |
Discovery Grant |
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Quantitative Risk Management of actuarial risks |
$43,000 |
Discovery Grant |
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Supporting Cooperation in Multiagent Systems |
$55,000 |
Discovery Grant |
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Fast and Safe: GPU-Enabled Formal Methods for Control of Safety-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems |
$131,635 |
Discovery Grant |
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Number Theory in Function Fields |
$27,000 |
Discovery Grant |
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Moduli spaces of sheaves on complex manifolds |
$21,000 |
Discovery Grant |
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Statistical Methods for Analyzing Binary Bivariate Outcome Data from Multiple Primary Studies |
$31,500 |
Discovery Grant ($19,000) & Discovery Launch Supplement ($12,500) |
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Assumption-Lean and Adaptive Statistical Learning |
$35,500 |
Discovery Grant ($23,000) & Discovery Launch Supplement ($12,500) |
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Execution-Guided Machine Learning Models for Test Generation and Maintenance |
$37,500 |
Discovery Grant ($25,000) & Discovery Launch Supplement ($12,500) |
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Disaggregated and Heterogeneous Computing Platform |
$150,000 |
Research Tools and Instruments grants program |
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Advanced Topics in Graph Data Management and Processing |
$48,000 |
Discovery Grant |
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Geography of four-manifolds with nonnegative signature |
$24,000 |
Discovery Grant |
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Versatile Reinforcement Learning |
$48,000 |
Discovery Grant |
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Architectural Principles of Modern Datalog Database Management Systems |
$48,000 |
Discovery Grant |
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Mathematical Methods for Climate Risk Management |
$31,000 |
Discovery Grant |
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Rough trajectories: analysis, estimation, and financial applications |
$43,000 |
Discovery Grant |
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Physiological constraints on bacterial gene expression |
$34,000 |
Discovery Grant |
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Novel Applications of Logic and Automata Theory to Number Theory and Combinatorics on Words |
$48,000 |
Discovery Grant |
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Towards General-Purpose Machine Pragmatic Reasoning |
$46,500 |
Discovery Grant ($34,000) & Discovery Launch Supplement ($12,500) |
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Physical Light Transport |
$46,500 |
Discovery Grant ($34,000) & Discovery Launch Supplement ($12,500) |
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Language-Agnostic Program Reduction for Debugging Language Implementations |
$29,000 |
Discovery Grant |
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Developing Highly Skilled Dexterous Interactions |
$64,000 |
Discovery Grant |
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Uncertainty, dependence, and e-inference in risk management |
$55,000 |
Discovery Grant |
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Representation theory and 3-dimensional quantum field theory |
$37,000 |
Discovery Grant |
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Strengthening Relaxations for Efficient Solutions of Hard Numerical Problems |
$31,000 |
Discovery Grant |
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Taming Deep Generative Models: Faster, Stronger and More Trustworthy |
$55,000 |
Discovery Grant |
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Designing Serving Systems for Large Language Models with Low Latency, High Utilization, and Good Scalability |
$41,500 |
Discovery Grant ($29,000) & Discovery Launch Supplement ($12,500) |
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Teaching machines to learn more efficiently and more generally by reading problem descriptions |
$46,500 |
Discovery Grant ($34,000) & Discovery Launch Supplement ($12,500) |