Mike Miniou joined our Faculty recently as the Mathematics liaison and outreach officer. In this new role, he has been visiting high schools and talking to students about "Mathematics in the real world". His visits to two of the schools are shared here.
By Sasha (grade 8), St. Michaels University School
Congratulations to today's graduates!
Notes from the University of Waterloo media release and Daily Bulletin:
Applied Math Professor Chris Bauch and co-author Alison Galvani of the Yale School of Public Health recently published "Social factors in epidemiology" in Science.
They found that disease control efforts can be improved using mathematical modelling to understand the interplay between social and biological contagions.
On Saturday, September 28, approximately 230 students spent part of a beautiful autumn day indoors writing the 13th annual 2013 Small c Contest (PDF).
The following students were the top-ranked students:
Professor Jim Geelen of the University of Waterloo and his colleagues, Professor Bert Gerards of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica and the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, and Professor Geoff Whittle of Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand have proved the famous Rota’s Conjecture.
Welcome math and computing teachers!
Troy Vasiga and J.P. Pretti have wrapped up their time with "Team Canada" at the 25th International Olympiad in Informatics in Brisbane, Australia.
Approximately 80 countries and 300 students participated. Contestants competed by writing computer programs to solve challenging algorithmic tasks on two five-hour days of competition.
Congratulations to Professors Yu-Ru Liu and Dan Wolczuk, winners of the 2013 Faculty of Mathematics Award for Distinction in Teaching!
Professor Liu has achieved consistently excellent student evaluation scores both in first-year core courses and in the fourth-year/graduate Pure Mathematics course on Fields and Galois Theory. Her students have high praise for the preparation, delivery and effectiveness of her teaching.
From today's UWaterloo Daily Bulletin with photos by Anna Beard.
Congratulations to all!
1,044 mathematics students will cross the stage today in two ceremonies as convocation continues.
The second annual Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research will be awarded to graduating student Ahmad Abdi at convocation on June 14. Ahmad is seen here with Dean Ian Goulden (right) and Associate Dean Research Robin Cohen (left).