The award is given annually to individuals who have made “significant and sustained contributions to mathematics education in Canada.”
Businesses need to not only prepare for quantum attacks, but also ready their organizations to tap into the economic benefit of adopting quantum technologies.
The award recognizes the research team’s paper, Vizing’s Theorem in Near-Linear Time, which introduces a randomized algorithm that computes a (∆ + 1)-edge colouring in near-linear time with high probability, a near-optimal result for this classic problem in graph theory.
Congratulations to Leyi Yan and Hadas Barabash, the winners of the 2025 Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research.
In addition to two students who wish to remain anonymous, the awardees include Jerry Bao, Kacie Phillippo, and Yujie Wen.
Disney Lam’s (BMath ’14) father supported her love of technology from a young age, giving her tasks like setting up computer networks in the family’s home.
Don Cowan, a distinguished professor emeritus at Waterloo, explained that Wes Graham, who was known as the “father of computing” at Waterloo, wanted to make using computers “as natural to people as pen and paper.”
Christian Garmann Sørli is leveraging AI to enhance and accelerate student learning.
The Germain-Erdős award is given annually in recognition of “remarkable contributions to basic mathematical research” by a student who has done a successful Undergraduate Research Assistant placement.
The Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science proudly celebrates the remarkable first-place victory by a team of its students, Team Factuarial, in the prestigious 2025 Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute Student Research Case Study Challenge.