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When people picture a mathematician, they often imagine someone serious and anti-social, working alone in an office.

Not so in the real world of mathematics, and not so at the Canadian Team Mathematics Contest (CTMC)! The University of Waterloo’s Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC) hosts this challenging, collaboration-based contest on Wednesday, April 10.

Two of the four recipients of the 2013 Amit & Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student are PhD students in the Faculty of Mathematics.

Congratulations to Alex Shum (Applied Mathematics) and Shuntaro Yamagishi (Pure Mathematics). Today's Daily Bulletin describes their teaching accomplishments with high praise from their students.

The University of Waterloo Co-operative Education and Career Action (CECA) department recognizes one student from each faculty as Co-op Students of the Year.

Faculty of Mathematics honouree, Computer Science co-op student of the year Henry Shi, was also named top co-op student in Canada!

First-year Waterloo Computer Science student Celeste Anderson added another accolade to her glowing resume of accomplishments in the world of math, computer science, and gaming by earning the ultimate title of King as the first-place winner of the popular reality-tv series, “King of the Nerds.” Competing in challenges that required mathematical skills

Congratulations to graduate students Robert Jonsson and David Qian, chosen to represent the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) final competition.

45 students with offers of admission to MMath or PhD programs at the University of Waterloo gathered on campus for an open house today. Some came from as far away as Newfoundland, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Boston and Rochester, N.Y.

Computer Science Professor Srinivasan Keshav is the University of Waterloo’s latest fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The 2012 ACM fellows were chosen from leading universities and corporations all over the world. Their contributions to computing innovation are advancing technologies in the information age.

The Big E and Special K contests (PDF) were held on Saturday, November 3, 2012. These are mathematics contests for undergraduate University of Waterloo students.

The Special K contest is for first year students and the Big E contest is for upper year students. Both contests consist of six problems, and complete written solutions are required.

The winners of the Big E contest:

The University of Waterloo was selected to recruit a Canada Excellence Research Chair in the area of Security and Privacy for the New Digital Economy.

More information is available on the University of Waterloo media release.

2012 Small c Mathematics Competition

On Friday, September 21, over 400 first and second year University of Waterloo students wrote the 12th annual Small c Mathematics Competition (PDF). It is a multiple-choice contest based largely on high-school mathematics.

The top-ranked students were: