Friday, February 26, 2016
Yujie Zhong wins Murray Martin Prize
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Monday, February 8, 2016
Computer Science Courseware Launched by CEMC
The Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing has added four new computer science courses to the suite of online courseware:
Friday, November 20, 2015
Big E and Special K contests 2015
The Big E and Special K contests were held on Saturday November 7th. These are mathematics contests for undergraduate University of Waterloo students.
The Special K contest is for 1st year students and the Big E contest is for upper year students.
Both contests consist of 6 problems, and complete written solutions are required.
This year, 35 students participated.
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Yueshan He recipient of Fong Computational Mathematics Graduate Award
Friday, October 23, 2015
Fall Convocation 2015
Adapted from the University of Waterloo Daily Bulletin
At 2:30 this afternoon, 180 students from Environment and 575 students from Mathematics will receive their degrees. Students in the Software Engineering program will graduate with the Faculty of Mathematics.
Friday, September 25, 2015
Small c Math Contest 2015
Congratulations go to the following top-performing students.
1st year students: Chun Ho Lau and Anqi (Joyce) Yang
Friday, August 21, 2015
Making Exam Marking Easier - repeat session
This is a repeat presentation of the Crowdmark grading session.
The Faculty of Mathematics has contracted with Crowdmark Inc. to provide campus-wide on-line midterm/exam marking and results distribution starting Fall 2015 for all course instructors who are interested.
Students write exam papers with Crowdmark-generated QR codes on each page. Exams are later scanned and uploaded to Crowdmark for marking.
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Adiprasito, Huh and Katz announce a proof of Rota's log-concavity conjecture
Professor Eric Katz of the University of Waterloo and his colleagues Karim Adiprasito (Max Planck Society and Hebrew University) and June Huh(Clay Mathematical Institute and Princeton University) have proved Rota's 45-year old conjecture on the log concavity of the characteristic polynomial of matroids.
Friday, August 7, 2015
Making Exam Marking Easier
The Faculty of Mathematics has contracted with Crowdmark Inc. to provide campus-wide on-line midterm/exam marking and results distribution starting Fall 2015 for all course instructors who are interested.
Students write exam papers with Crowdmark-generated QR codes on each page. Exams are later scanned and uploaded to Crowdmark for marking.
Photo courtesy of Crowdmark, Inc.
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Tuesday, August 4, 2015
IOI 2015
Team Canada returned home from the 27th International Olympiad in Informatics in Almaty, Kazakhstan with four medals.
Each contestant finished in the top half of all international competitors. Jacob Jackson finished in 9th place winning a gold medal. Timothy Li won a silver medal.