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When Sarah Wilson graduated high school a year early and started in the Computer Science program at Waterloo, there were big expectations. As a high school student, Wilson was elected as a student trustee for the Waterloo Catholic District School Board, served as chair of the Ontario Student Voice Awards with the Ontario Student Trustee Association and volunteered in several community roles.

The Faculty of Mathematics would like to express its concern and condolences to the families and communities throughout Türkiye and Syria devastated by Monday’s earthquakes.

Having levels of potassium that are too high or too low can be fatal. A new mathematical model sheds light on the often mysterious ways the body regulates this important electrolyte.

Potassium, a common mineral abundant in food like bananas and leafy greens, is essential to normal cellular function. It helps the cardiac muscle work correctly and aids in the transmission of electrical signals within cells.

Cheriton students Jeremy Chen, Yuqing Huang and Mushi Wang and Professors Semih Salihoğlu and Ken Salem have received a 2022 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award for their paper “Accurate summary-based cardinality estimation through the lens of cardinality estimation graphs.”

Students at the University of Waterloo continue to push the limits of autonomous vehicles as members of a multi-school racing team.

More than a hundred students spent the weekend working in teams learning to detect fraud as part of the inaugural Scotiabank Data Science Discovery Days competition.

Anita Layton, professor of Applied Mathematics and the Canada 150 Research Chair in Mathematical Biology and Medicine, is one of ten recipients of funding from the newly created Graham Seed Fund.

mathNEWS, the freewheeling Faculty of Math undergrad newsletter, turns 50 today. The first issue, published January 25, 1973, was introduced as an informal alternative to existing student publications, containing “not much math and even less news.”

We are very greatly saddened to announce that our beloved friend and colleague, Professor Ken Seng Tan, passed away on January 1, 2023. 

Professor Jimmy Lin has been named a 2022 ACM Fellow for his contributions to question answering, information retrieval, and natural language processing.