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The Big E and Special K contests 2013 (PDF) were held on Saturday November 9. 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 were:

Tom Higgins still has an old certificate from a University of Waterloo math contest that he wrote when he was a kid. He had it framed and on his wall when he was 14 years old. It meant that much to him.

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.

Mathematics: The key to the universe

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.

Welcome math and computing teachers!

The Waterloo Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC) will host 150 elementary and secondary school teachers from across the province and around the world at two conferences this month.

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.