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Dr. Ian Stewart is an emeritus professor of mathematics at Warwick University in Great Britain, math communicator, and the author of more than a hundred scholarly and popular books, including Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos (1989), Flatterland (2001), and The Science of Discworld books [co-authored with Terry Pratchett and Jack Cohen] (1999-2013).

New software helps users understand where large language models get their information and whether their sources are trustworthy.

Congratulations to Applied Math master’s student Chichi Zhou, who is this year’s two recipients of the Mehta-Jenner Climate Change Mitigation Graduate Scholarship.

From April 24 to 26, current and retired math educators gathered on campus and online to grade the submissions to the Euclid, Fryer, Galois, and Hypatia (EFGH) contests held earlier that month. 

Researchers use machine learning to identify hate speech with 88 per cent accuracy

Members of Waterloo-founded milk pasteurization start-up Safi were recently invited to present at the United Nations as part of a Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals from May 9 to 10.

On May 27, 2024, delegates from the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) met with representatives of the Centre for Education in Math and Computing (CEMC) and the larger Faculty of Mathematics to celebrate a new phase in their continuing partnership.

The award was established in 2010 by the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society’s (CAIMS) and recognizes “exceptional research in any branch of applied mathematics,” conducted primarily in Canada or in affiliation with a Canadian university.

Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Jo Atlee has been named a recipient of the 2023 CS-Can | Info-Can’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science.

On May 11, University of Waterloo students were invited to participate in the GOODHack24 challenge held at Communitech in downtown Kitchener.