David McKinnon, chair of the Department of Pure Mathematics, is one of three recipients of the Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision, an annual distinction bestowed by Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs in collaboration with the Graduate Student Association. Since joining the Faculty of Ma
Sepehr Assadi, who is joining the Cheriton School of Computer Science as an Associate Professor in July 2023, is one of 125 recipients of a 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Master’s candidate Niki Hasrati and Professor Shai Ben-David have received the best paper award at ALT 2023, the 34th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory. This year, the annual meeting that explores the theoretical and algorithmic aspects of machine learning will take place in Singapore from February 20 to 23.
Anita Layton, professor of Applied Mathematics and the Canada 150 Research Chair in Mathematical Biology and Medicine, is one of ten recipients of funding from the newly created Graham Seed Fund.
The Faculty of Mathematics helped save thousands of liters of water and hundreds of pounds of carbon this November through its “Meatless Math Mondays” campaign. The initiative, which aimed to increase environmental health and sustainability within the Faculty, encouraged students, staff, faculty, and post-docs to choose meatless options once a week to decrease their environmental impact.
Dr. Aukosh Jagannath, assistant professor of Statistics and Actuarial Science and Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, has won a prestigious Outstanding Paper award at NeurIPS 2022. NeurIPS, short for Neural Information Processing Systems, is the foremost international conference for research on AI and Machine Learning.
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The Faculty of Mathematics is introducing a “Meatless Math Mondays” initiative this November to increase departmental sustainability and improve environmental wellness among students, faculty and staff.
On Saturday, October 1, distinguished professor emeritus Don Cowan (MSc ’61, PhD ’65) received an honorary J.W. Graham Medal in Innovation and Computing at the Wes Graham Symposium.
Today the Government of Canada, through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), announced an investment of $64 million in research infrastructure to support 251 projects at 40 universities across the country.