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NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

The C&O Department announces an upcoming Conference:

Matching, Matroids and Extensions

 A Conference in Honour of
Bill Cunnngham's 65th Birthday
June 11, 12 and 13, 2012.
To be held at the University of Waterloo.
  • Jie Ning (William) Fu and Yixuan Zhao received the C&O and OR Book Prizes at the Math Faculty Awards Banquet on January 26 for their superb performances in their undergraduate studies. Congratulations Jie Ning and Yixuan!!
  • Penny Haxell was awarded a 2012 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in recognition of her past accomplishments in research and teaching.
  • Bill Cook (Ph.D. 1983, C&O) awarded a Faculty of Mathematics Alumni Achievement Medal for fundamental contributions to combinatorial optimization and, in particular, the travelling salesman problem.
  • Congratulations to Andrew Childs, Early Researcher Award (ERA) winner, part of the $12 million in research support from the Ontario Research Fund announced at University of Waterloo
  • Congratulations to the recipients of NSERC's prestigious Julie Payette Research Scholarship. Of the 7 UW receipients, 4 of the 5 Math Faculty recipients have ties to C&O: Elyot Grant, C&O Major, Steven Karp, C&O Major, Geoff Stanley, C&O Undergraduate Research Assistant, Robert Xiao, C&O Double Major with Computer Science
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UPCOMING EVENTS

  • Seminar WebNotices:
    Selected Listings: by Department

    Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo
    WebNotice Brief Listings - by Department
    06-Feb-2012 through 06-Feb-2013

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    Postings for Departments:

    • Combinatorics and Optimization
    Tuesday, 14 February 2012, 2:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization (Graduate Student Seminar), MC 5136 [Newish]
    Speaker 1. Michal Kotowski, Speaker 2. Yu Feng: -- Talk 1. Bell inequalities and nonlocal games, Talk 2. Global Portfolio Optimization--Black-Litterman Model
     
    Thursday, 16 February 2012, 1:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization (Algebraic Combinatorics), MC 5136 [Newish]
    Xavier Dahan: -- Construction of large girth regular graphs
     
    Friday, 17 February 2012, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization (Tutte Seminar), MC 5158 [Newish]
    Thomas Rothvoss: -- Some 0/1 polytopes need exponential size extended formulations
     
    Tuesday, 28 February 2012, 1:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization , MC 5158 [Newish]
    Ahmad Abdi: -- Weakly Cycling Even-Cycle Matroids
     

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