Often called the Nobel Prize of math, the medal was established in 1936 to recognize brilliant work by a mathematician under 40. Maryam Mirzahkhani was the first woman to win the medal, almost 80 years later.
Benoit Charbonneau on how pure mathematics helps push back the frontiers of ignorance.
Congratulations to David Del Rey Fernández, assistant professor of Applied Mathematics, who has received over $120,000 total in Alliance grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for two projects.
William Wang, a third-year undergraduate computer science student, earned one of the top prizes at ETHDenver, held from February 23 to March 3, 2024.
StarterHacks, the beginner-friendly hackathon returning to Waterloo campus this May, grew out of a friendship between co-founders William Nippard and Marium Kirmani based on the principle that opposites attract.
The research consortium, titled INPUT, is focused on re-designing the input pipeline in interactive systems.
Janani’s paper titled “Hidden Permutations to the Rescue: Multi-Pass Semi-Streaming Lower Bounds for Approximate Matchings” was co-authored with her doctoral advisor Professor Sepehr Assadi.
The Mathematical Economics program empowers students to predict future economic behaviour and solve real-life problems.
Professor Yaoliang Yu has been awarded $100,000 by the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Early Researcher Awards program to develop deep generative machine learning models.
In 1874, Sofya Kovalevskaya became the first woman to earn a modern PhD in mathematics.