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Sun Life Financial Asia (Sun Life) and the University of Waterloo have reached an agreement to partner on building critical actuarial and risk capacity in Indonesia. As part of Sun Life’s commitment to Indonesia, Sun Life will donate CAD $500,000 to establish a Fellowship in International Actuarial Science, to be launched by University of Waterloo in 2016 with the goal of contributing to the development of the actuarial sciences field in Indonesia.

The Waterloo Black Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest competition team has placed 13th overall at the 2016 world finals in Phuket, Thailand.

L-R: ACM ICPC Waterloo Black competition team - Antonio Molina Lovett, Andy Huang, coach Troy Vasiga, and Jacob Jackson.

The late Professor William Tutte was inducted into the Waterloo Region Hall of Fame today. This honour is a tribute to the inductees' accomplishments and outstanding contributions to the community.

More information can be found on Tutte's home Department of Combinatorics and Optimization site.

The results of the 2015 Putnam Competition have arrived.

The top 5 universities were as follows.

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2. Carnegie Melon University 3. Princeton University 4. Stanford University 5. Harvard University.

The next 5 universities, in alphabetical order, were University of California-Los Angeles, Duke University, Harvey Mudd College, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Washington University at St Louis.

"Ian joins an elite group of math educators," says nominator Serge D'Alessio. "The only other Waterloo faculty member to receive this prestigious award was Brian Forrest back in 2007."

The Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing has added four new computer science courses to the suite of online courseware:

The Big E and Special K contests were held on Saturday November 7th. These are mathematics contests for undergraduate University of Waterloo students.

The Special K contest is for 1st year students and the Big E contest is for upper year students.

Both contests consist of 6 problems, and complete written solutions are required.

This year, 35 students participated.