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Thursday, February 28, 2013

Grad student visit day

Graduate students having lunch.

45 students with offers of admission to MMath or PhD programs at the University of Waterloo gathered on campus for an open house today. Some came from as far away as Newfoundland, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Boston and Rochester, N.Y.

Thursday, December 13, 2012

ACM fellowship for S. Keshav

Srinivasan Keshav
Computer Science Professor Srinivasan Keshav is the University of Waterloo’s latest fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The 2012 ACM fellows were chosen from leading universities and corporations all over the world. Their contributions to computing innovation are advancing technologies in the information age.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Big E and Special K contest results

The Big E and Special K contests (PDF) were held on Saturday, November 3, 2012. These are mathematics contests for undergraduate University of Waterloo students.

The Special K contest is for first year students and the Big E contest is for upper year students. Both contests consist of six problems, and complete written solutions are required.

The winners of the Big E contest:

Monday, November 12, 2012

Canada Excellence Research Chair

The University of Waterloo was selected to recruit a Canada Excellence Research Chair in the area of Security and Privacy for the New Digital Economy.

More information is available on the University of Waterloo media release.

Quantum computing and nanotechnology aim to map the next groundbreaking frontier in technological innovation. The University of Waterloo is launching a brand new, state of the art facility with the opening of the Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre (QNC). Michele Mosca, deputy director of the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), joins Steve Paikin to talk about the enormous potential of bringing two giants of tiny research together in one facility.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Graduate student honours

The University of Waterloo Advisory Committee on Graduate Scholarships and Awards has selected two Faculty of Mathematics students for Alumni Gold Medal and Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies designation. "The selection was made from a group of exceptional nominees," says Sue Horton (Associate Provost, Graduate Studies).

The Record's Linda Givetash captured the story of "UW summer school encourages women in math".

Waterloo — Some of the brightest young minds in the country are spending two weeks in the region exploring the possibilities of careers in mathematics.

The University of Waterloo is hosting a two-week summer school for 16 top female undergraduate students from across Canada to give them a taste of graduate studies in math-related fields...

The Fong Education Foundation Limited has established the Industrial Mathematics Research Fund and the Fong Computational Mathematics Graduate Award at the University of Waterloo.

Mr. Eddie Fong graduated from the University of Waterloo in 1980 with a BMath (Actuarial Science/Computer Science) degree. Since graduating, Mr. Fong has enjoyed an extremely successful career and is pleased to support his alma mater.