From Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin’s return to campus to the beginning of construction on Mathematics 4, it’s been an action-packed year in the Faculty of Mathematics. Here are twelve great stories from 2024 that you might have missed.
How Nathan Hoel uses AI to save farmers’ lives, time, and money
An alum Q&A with the founder of BinSentry, a start-up that uses AI-sensors to determine feed bins’ inventories
Faculty of Mathematics breaks ground on Mathematics 4 building
Five-storey, 120,000-square-foot building will connect mathematical disciplines and advance green computing
Lucía Martín-Merchán disproves long-standing pure mathematics conjecture
In her upcoming article, “Compact holonomy G2 manifolds need not be formal,” Martín-Merchán makes an important intervention at the intersection of the pure mathematics fields of differential geometry and algebraic topology
Math research is for everyone
How a Waterloo researcher is partnering with underprivileged mathematicians to increase equity in mathematics
The math behind Olympic sports
Researchers from the University of Waterloo explore the math behind fencing, swimming, badminton, and rock climbing.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin visits Waterloo
Former computer science student turned tech billionaire talks cryptocurrency, innovation and the math behind the blockchain
No black holes from light
The impossibility of the kugelblitz: quantum effects forbid the formation of black holes from high concentrations of intense light
Waterloo Math’s ‘Hidden Figure’
How Marian Forster became one of the first female employees in Wes Graham’s computing group
Can you tell AI-generated people from real ones?
Research shows survey participants duped by AI-generated images nearly 40 per cent of the time
Colour Theory
Muralist Stephanie Boutari on mathematical inspiration, her journey as an artist, and the murals she created for the fourth floor of the Math and Computing building
Faculty of Mathematics launches Equity and Inclusive Communities Principles
The eleven principles were developed over the last two years for the Faculty of Mathematics by a committee of eighteen faculty, staff, and students
Developing personalized cancer vaccines
Deep learning technology is making immunotherapy treatment more accurate and affordable