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The third annual Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research will be awarded to graduating student Gareth Davies (PDF) at convocation on June 13.

Gareth was nominated by Professor Janusz Brzozowski, with whom he worked as an undergraduate research assistant. He is completing a Bachelor of Mathematics degree, with a Pure Mathematics major and Computer Science (CS) minor.

“Ping had never smoked in her life, but was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer in September 2010. She underwent a slew of treatments over the next three years, which did forestall the advance of the disease for periods of time.

Since 2004, the local control community has held a regional meeting on systems and control every two years. The primary objectives of these meetings are to share ideas and create a forum for interaction among local colleagues. The meeting has successfully been held at Queen's University (2004, 2010), the University of Toronto (2006, 2012), and the University of Waterloo (2008).

The future looks bright for University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics graduates, based on the results of this year's 'best jobs' ranking by CareerCast.

The top eight jobs for 2014 are listed as:

1. Mathematician
2. University professor (tenured)
3. Statistician
4. Actuary
5. Audiologist
6. Dental hygienist
7. Software engineer
8. Computer systems analyst

The University of Waterloo team did extremely well in the 2013 Putnam Mathematical Competition, finishing seventh overall, and first among Canadian universities. The top five teams were Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, Harvard, and California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech).

Congratulations to UWaterloo team members Kangning (Colin) Chen, Volodymyr Lyubinets, and Hao Sun, and to coach Professor Stephen New of the Pure Mathematics department.

Professor Sprott played a fundamental role for his department and faculty, serving both as founding chair starting in 1967, and also as the founding dean of the Faculty of Mathematics.

The award will be presented at convocation in June.

The inaugural Murray Martin Prize for the Best Research Paper by a Mathematics Graduate Student is awarded to Omar Léon Sánchez. His paper, “Relative D-groups and differential Galois theory in several derivations” was nominated by his supervisor, Rahim Moosa, of the Department of Pure Mathematics.

Patrick Hannigan (4A Computer Science (CS)), William Zhou (3B CS), Edward Yang (4A CS) and Daniel Yaroslavski (4B CS), were given the opportunity to showcase their learnings in front of peers and faculty along with a brief pitch of their ventures today at an Enterprise Co-op (E-Co-op) presentation session.

Seven subjects at the University of Waterloo rank among the top 100 universities in the world, according to results published this week.

The rankings, published today by U.K. firm Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), put UWaterloo 24th in the world in computer science and also 24th in the world in mathematics.

“We attract outstanding students and faculty members from around the world and I am delighted that their hard work is reflected in these results," says Ian Goulden, Dean of Mathematics.