First computer science teach-off a success
Three computer science professors – Dave Tompkins, Troy Vasiga, and Carmen Bruni – competed to see who could most improve a group of students’ understanding of an unfamiliar concept in only one hour.
Three computer science professors – Dave Tompkins, Troy Vasiga, and Carmen Bruni – competed to see who could most improve a group of students’ understanding of an unfamiliar concept in only one hour.
Mathematician Dr. Chris Bauch is addressing this gap in research and considering the social processes driving greenhouse gas emissions.
HyLIoS provides insight into appearance and behaviour of skin cancer before it becomes life-threatening
On December 18, 2024, Math alumni and philanthropists Michael Barnstijn (BMath ’82, MMath ’85) and Louise MacCallum (BMath ’85) were named Members of the Order of Canada.
Jiří Čížek, distinguished professor emeritus of applied mathematics, died on December 24, 2024.
Thirteen University of Waterloo researchers have received $16.2 million for 16 projects advancing quantum science and technology.
Karsten and his co-author, Computer Science grad student Peter Cai, realized that the way that data centres were processing network traffic was inefficient and devised a small change to make it far more efficient.
They were recognized for their paper, Finding Their Data Voice: Practices and Challenges of Dashboard Users.
Congratulations to Jerry Wang, professor of Pure Mathematics, who recently won the John Coates Best Paper Award for Number Theory at the 2024 International Consortium of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM).
The paper, “Variational benchmarks for quantum many-body problems,” was published in Science in October 2024.