Contact Info
Pure MathematicsUniversity of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
N2L 3G1
Departmental office: MC 5304
Phone: 519 888 4567 x43484
Fax: 519 725 0160
Email: puremath@uwaterloo.ca
Welcome to Pure Mathematics
We are home to 25 faculty, four staff, approximately 50 graduate students, several research visitors, and numerous undergraduate students. We offer exciting and challenging programs leading to BMath, MMath and PhD degrees. We nurture a very active research environment and are intensely devoted to both ground-breaking research and excellent teaching.
News
- June 21, 2021Brian E. Forrest named fellow of the Canadian Mathematical Society
Brian E. Forrest, professor of Pure Mathematics, has been named a Fellow of the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS). The fellowship is awarded for outstanding contributions in research, teaching and learning and service in fulfillment of CMS mandates and goals.
"It's an honour and something I'm pretty proud of," says Forrest. "This is a wonderful way to stay connected to the Canadian Mathematical Society, a group that's been a valuable part of my career."
- June 18, 20212021 Alumni Gold Medal awarded to Spencer Whitehead
His unwavering commitment to excellence and outstanding academic performance makes Spencer Whitehead (BMath ’21) the recipient of the Alumni Gold Medal for the Faculty of Mathematics.
- June 1, 2021Spencer Whitehead recipient of the Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research
Spencer Whitehead, a Pure Mathematics major with and a minor in East Asian studies, is the recipient of the prestigious Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research.
Events
- Aug. 4, 2021Student Number Theory Seminar
Nolan Pyott, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"How Prime Gaps Were Bounded"
- Aug. 4, 2021Differential Geometry Working Seminar
Caleb Suan, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Monogenic Forms and Decomposition of Spinor-Valued Forms"
In this talk, we follow the text by Delanghe, Sommen, and Souček and demonstrate a splitting of the space of spinor-valued forms. We describe some important operators and their identities as well as properties of the exterior covariant derivative when restricted to certain subspaces of spinor-valued forms. Time permitting, we will define monogenic forms and some of their homological properties.
- Aug. 4, 2021Differential Geometry Working Seminar
Nicholas Kayban, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Riemannian Submersions and the O'Neill Tensors"