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A team of researchers in applied mathematics has created a sophisticated computational model that simulates the dynamics of COVID-19 community transmission and the effects of vaccinations and other non-pharmaceutical interventions.

The team includes Anita Layton, professor of applied mathematics and Canada 150 Research Chair in mathematical biology and medicine, and Mehrshad Sadria, a PhD candidate in applied mathematics.

The Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC) has partnered with the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) to support their innovative Girls in Mathematical Sciences program.

The nine-month program brings young women together from across Ghana’s 16 regions to dive deep into how math and technology can solve big problems — in Ghana and across Africa.

Richard Cook, a professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences, is the recipient of a major Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) funding award.

Faculty of Mathematics alumni and students featured prominently in the new ranking of top 100 tech companies to watch for in 2022, a listing created by the FoundersBata network.

Waterloo-affiliated companies account for a third of the list, while Faculty of Mathematics graduates are involved in several of the ventures.

Jeremy Hartmann recently defended his PhD dissertation in the Cheriton School of Computer Science, where he worked with the Human Computer Interaction Lab under the supervision of professor Daniel Vogel.

Now, Hartmann has launched a new venture, which offers virtual reality streaming services to gamers as well as a virtual club house.

Reserchers in applied mathematics have developed models to better understand what happens to a woman’s kidneys during pregnancy.

The research team includes Anita Layton, professor of applied mathematics and Canada 150 Research Chair in mathematical biology and medicine, and Melissa Stada, a master’s researcher in applied mathematics.

The Faculty of Mathematics welcomes the 2022 Waterloo.AI and Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) joint workshop on “Artificial Intelligence for Science & Engineering.”

The three-day virtual workshop runs from January 18 to 20 and features several researchers affiliated with the Faculty of Mathematics.

Researchers from the Department of Applied Mathematics are part of a team using artificial intelligence to analyze sentiment and interaction about contentious topics in social media.

Two researchers in the Cheriton School of Computer Science are part of a research team that was recently awarded $24 million CAD by Canada’s New Frontiers in Research Fund as part of the BIOSCAN project, which aims to catalogue biodiversity.

Professors Lila Kari and M. Tamer Özsu are bringing their expertise in biodiversity informatics and data science to the research team.

Computer science undergraduate students (l-r) Nicholas Vadivelu, Kelvin Jiang, Sourav Biswas, and Vikram Subramanian were named in the annual CRA awards program.