The University of Waterloo team did extremely well in the 2014 Putnam Competition, finishing in 4th place.
Pictured, from left to right: Dean Ian Goulden, 2014 Waterloo Putnam team members Daniel Spivak and Sam Eisenstat, with coach Prof. Stephen New.
The Bernoulli Trials Contest (PDF) was held on Saturday, March 7th.
This is a recreational contest in which contestants are given a sequence of statements, and they must decide (or guess) whether the statements are true or false.
This year, contestants were being eliminated after their third incorrect answer.
What is it? An open and online teaching and learning platform. On-screen text with synchronized audio and interactive investigations teach the concepts from Grade 12 Advanced Functions (Pre-Calculus) and Grade 12 Calculus and Vectors.
The Waterloo International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) team, composed of students from the Faculties of Mathematics, Engineering, Science, and Applied Health Sciences, won a gold medal for designing Staphylocide. Staphylocide is a synthetic bacterium that is designed to turn off the antibiotic-resistance gene in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), making it responsive to treatment again.
Patrick Hannigan (4A Computer Science (CS)), William Zhou (3B CS), Edward Yang (4A CS) and Daniel Yaroslavski (4B CS), were given the opportunity to showcase their learnings in front of peers and faculty along with a brief pitch of their ventures today at an Enterprise Co-op (E-Co-op) presentation session.
Congratulations to Stephen New and Levent Tuncel, winners of the 2012 Faculty of Mathematics Award for Distinction in Teaching!
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.