“I am humbled to be joining this year’s cadre of Faculty of Mathematics Research Chairs,” Professor Assadi said.
The Golden Jubilee Research Excellence Award provides $2,500 to one or two early or mid-career faculty in the Faculty of Mathematics, in recognition of “the outstanding research contributions of our colleagues.”
Sivaloganathan is the twelfth recipient of the annual award, which recognizes “exceptional research in any area of industrial mathematics conducted in Canada.”
Consultations are underway to develop the new Math Strategic Framework, which will inform decisions and guide activity in support of Faculty of Mathematics goals.
Currently, the Math Planning Office is sharing themes that emerged during the initial consultations and inviting students, faculty and staff to participate in a survey to reflect on and help focus the new Strategic Framework.
The workshop is sponsored by the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI) and the United States’s National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS).
The recent announcement by a group of major tech companies about watermarking AI-generated content might have been greeted with a sigh of relief by many, but cybersecurity researchers are already suggesting this new approach has several flaws.
Spirkl is an assistant professor of Combinatorics and Optimization, and has been at the University of Waterloo since 2020.
Pragmatica is a joint venture by Computer Science master’s student Karthik Prasad and recent Waterloo Engineering graduate Thomas Mastantuono.
A team of computer scientists and designers based out of the University of Waterloo have developed a tool to help people use colour better in graphic design.
The Velocity $5K competition is a competition hosted by the Velocity incubator that happens every term. Student teams deliver three-minute pitches to a panel of expert judges for a chance to win one of four $5000 prizes.