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A regional team linked with the University of Waterloo was named among the winners of the global Technovation Girls app development competition.

But for the second-year PhD student in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, the research is fully grounded and relevant. Van Dyk’s research finds practical application for one of the largest companies in the world, Amazon.

Movies are a cultural mirror that shows us who we are. They reflect our values and aspirations, but also our preconceived notions and assumptions. Movies about math and mathematicians are no different.

For example, many movies featuring mathematicians depict them as savants. The stereotypical savant character ranges from quirky genius to troubled outsider to dangerous deviant.

Congratulations to Ruodu Wang from the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science for being the first recipient of the Society of Actuaries (SOA) Actuarial Science Early Career Award. 

Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Mathematics and Communitech

The following opinion piece originally appeared in the Report on Business section of The Globe and Mail on July 26, 2021.

Contemporary mathematics resulted from advances and exchanges of knowledge between cultures from every corner of the globe. Math is, historically speaking, a genuinely multicultural project.

Faculty of Mathematics-linked teams HouseAI and SAFI were named among the four winners of the bi-annual Concept $5K challenge for spring 2021.

Mathematics is like a language.

Nowadays, it’s a language with the same symbols and meaning in every place it’s used. A multiplication sign is a multiplication sign everywhere, and everybody agrees on what a multiplication sign means.

But it wasn’t always so.