Matthew Kennedy (Pure Mathematics (PM), PhD, 2011) has won the 2012 Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) Doctoral Prize. He will give a talk, and receive the award, in December at the CMS meeting in Montreal.
His PhD thesis supervisor was Professor Ken Davidson.
Congratulations to the Waterloo Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) team - students Tyson Andre, Benoit Maurin, and Anton Raichuk with coach Professor Ondrej Lhotak - on their bronze medal at the 2012 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals!
The competition was held in Warsaw, Poland.
His funded project title: "Increasing the applicability of mixed-integer programming".
Earlier today, the Waterloo Black team (Tyson Andre, Benoit Maurin, Anton Raichuk) finished first in the University of Chicago Invitational Programming Contest. The contest brought together all 22 Canadian and U.S. teams that have qualified for the World Finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest to be held May 14 to 18 in Warsaw, Poland. Waterloo solved nine problems, beating runners-up Harvard, Stanford, and Princeton. Alberta finished eighth, UBC 10th and Toronto 13th.