Congratulations to today's graduates and honorees!
Watch webcasts of the morning ceremony and the afternoon ceremony.
From the University of Waterloo Daily Bulletin:
Friday the 13th is Mathematics' day to shine at convocation, as 353 St. Jerome's University and UWaterloo students receive their degrees in Applied Mathematics, Combinatorics and Optimization, Computational Mathematics, Information Technology Management, Mathematical Economics, Mathematical Finance, Mathematical Physics, Mathematical Studies, Mathematics/Business Administration, Mathematics/Charted Accountancy, Mathematics/Financial Analysis and Risk Management, Mathematics/Teaching, Mathematics Three Year General, Operations Research, Pure Mathematics, and Scientific Computation/Applied Mathematics.
Professor Dan-Virgil Voiculescu will receive and honorary Doctor of Mathematics. Professor Voiculescu is professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. Born in Bucharest, Romania, he studied mathematics at the University of Bucharest, earning his doctorate in 1977. Since his appointment at Berkeley in 1986, he has held visiting positions at Centre de Recherches Mathématiques (CRM) in Montreal, at the Institut Henri Poincare in Paris, and at Université Paris 7. In his distinguished career, he has published more than 100 research papers in the fields of operator theory and operator algebras, and his work has been recognized by fellowships and awards. He has been invited to address the International Congress of Mathematicians on two occasions, in 1983 and 1994.
Vithushan Jeyakumaran will deliver the valedictory address.
Levent Tunçel will receive the Distinguished Teacher Award.
In the afternoon ceremony, beginning at 2:30 pm, 734 graduands will cross the stage to receive their degrees in Actuarial Science, Bioinformatics, Business Administration and Mathematics, Computer Science, Computing and Financial Management, Health Informatics, Quantitative Finance, and Statistics.
Professor Ronald Rivest will receive an honorary Doctor of Mathematics. Professor Rivest is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is one of the world’s pre-eminent cryptographers. His most well-known achievement is the co-invention in 1977 of the RSA public-key encryption and digital signature schemes, and he has co-founded several successful companies including RSA Data Security and Verisign. As well, he is co-author of Introduction to Algorithms, arguably the most widely-used algorithms textbook in the world. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including the 2002 A.M. Turing Award.
Carmen Quan will deliver the valedictory address.
Jeromy Carriere will receive the J. Wesley Graham Medal in Computing and Innovation.
Jeremy Roman will receive the Governor General’s Silver Medal, which is given out for the highest standing in an undergraduate degree program.
Luke Schaeffer will receive receive the Governor General’s Gold Medal, given out for the highest standing in a master's program.
Pravin Varadarajan will receive the University of Waterloo Alumni Gold Medal in recognition of academic achievement.
Alexander Shum will receive the Amit and Meena Chakma Awards for Exceptional Teaching by a Student.
The Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research will go to Gareth Davies.
Niall MacGillivray will receive the Samuel Eckler Medal for highest standing in actuarial science.
Marcel Silva will receive the award for Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies (doctoral).