Dr. Eric Katz and Dr. Laura Sanita from the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization have been named recipients of this year's Early Researcher Awards. A total of 14 researchers were selected for this award from the University of Waterloo.
Congratulations to today's graduates and honorees!
From the University of Waterloo Daily Bulletin
It's a by-the-numbers situation today as two ceremonies will see 1,079 Mathematics graduates cross the stage to receive their degrees.
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What is it? An open and online teaching and learning platform. On-screen text with synchronized audio and interactive investigations teach the concepts from Grade 12 Advanced Functions (Pre-Calculus) and Grade 12 Calculus and Vectors.
The Waterloo International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) team, composed of students from the Faculties of Mathematics, Engineering, Science, and Applied Health Sciences, won a gold medal for designing Staphylocide. Staphylocide is a synthetic bacterium that is designed to turn off the antibiotic-resistance gene in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), making it responsive to treatment again.
From the University of Waterloo Daily Bulletin
This afternoon will see 509 students from the Faculty of Mathematics receive their degrees at the 2:30 pm ceremony, along with graduates of the Faculty of Environment.
Congratulations to University of Waterloo BMath alumnus Martin Wainwright, winner of the 2014 Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) Award.
The award is presented annually to a young member of the statistical community in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession.
Past Waterloo alumni to receive this honour include Ross Prentice (University of Washington), Nancy Reid (University of Toronto) and Rob Tibshirani (Stanford).
On September 19, more than 375 first- and second-year students participated in the 2014 Small c Math Contest. I am thrilled at the turnout for an hour of math fun on a Friday evening!
The following students earned a perfect score of 150 out of 150.
First-year students: Dancheng Hu, Antonio Molina Lovett, and Nihal Pednekar.
Second-year student: Daniel Spivak.
Honourable mentions go to Letian Chen, Xinle Dai, Tianxiao Liu, Kassem Bazzi, and Charles Zinn.
Thanks to generous alumni donors, scholarships have been established and awarded to female graduate students in the Faculty of Mathematics.
Troy Vasiga and I are happy to report from the 2014 International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) in Taipei, Taiwan. Jacob Jackson, Timothy Li, Ben Zhang and Zihao Zhang represented Canada at this year's algorithm and programming competition.
The team is bringing home one gold medal and two bronze medals.
Jacob, Timothy and Ben will be returning to high school in the Toronto area this fall. Zihao, from Windsor, is looking forward to his first year as a UWaterloo computer science student.