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Dr. Francis Poulin, Professor of Applied Mathematics, leads the University of Waterloo’s part of WxAlliance, a Concordia-led initiative awarded a $5 million NSERC Alliance Society grant. The team is combining mathematical modelling with modern computing power to build a weather forecasting model that draws on the strengths of both classical and machine learning approaches.

Dr. Sophie Spirkl, newly named a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Graph Structure and Algorithms, studies “structural graph theory,” the mathematics of large-scale complex networks. Her research shows how local patterns, such as recipe blogs linking to other recipes, shape the big picture and lead to new algorithms.

Current Faculty of Mathematics PhD students across all five units each received a Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral (CGRS D). Valued at $40,000 per year, the scholarship runs for three years.