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

Adapted from the University of Waterloo Daily Bulletin

At 2:30 this afternoon, 180 students from Environment and 575 students from Mathematics will receive their degrees. Students in the Software Engineering program will graduate with the Faculty of Mathematics.

Congratulations go to the following top-performing students.

1st year students: Chun Ho Lau and Anqi (Joyce) Yang

This is a repeat presentation of the Crowdmark grading session. 

The Faculty of Mathematics has contracted with Crowdmark Inc. to provide campus-wide on-line midterm/exam marking and results distribution starting Fall 2015 for all course instructors who are interested.

Students write exam papers with Crowdmark-generated QR codes on each page. Exams are later scanned and uploaded to Crowdmark for marking.

Professor Eric Katz of the University of Waterloo and his colleagues Karim Adiprasito (Max Planck Society and Hebrew University) and June Huh(Clay Mathematical Institute and Princeton University) have proved Rota's 45-year old conjecture on the log concavity of the characteristic polynomial of matroids.

The Faculty of Mathematics has contracted with Crowdmark Inc. to provide campus-wide on-line midterm/exam marking and results distribution starting Fall 2015 for all course instructors who are interested.

Students write exam papers with Crowdmark-generated QR codes on each page. Exams are later scanned and uploaded to Crowdmark for marking.

    Photo courtesy of Crowdmark, Inc.

Benefits include:

The Velocity Fund is a non-equity grant program for startups. Each year Velocity produces three pitch competition events where the Velocity Fund awards at least $115,000 in money to winners. To read more about the Velocity Fund Finals, please visit their website.

At the Velocity Fund Finals, Spring 2015, the following students from the Math faculty pitched their ideas: