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Wednesday, October 9, 2013

University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Math students compete in iGEM competition

Our UÀ¶Ý®ÊÓƵ iGEM (international Genetically Engineered Machine) team presented their 2013 project at the North American Regional competition on October 5.ÌýThe competition involved 64 undergraduate teams from across the US and Canada. Their project, on "Retransmittable and Modifiable Intercellular DNA Messaging" won them the prize for Best Poster Presentation in their division and Gold Medal Standing overall. They were also among the teams selected to advance to the World Championship competition at MIT in November.
Thursday, September 5, 2013

Applied Math Graduate students win Presentation Awards at AMMCS-2013

At the international conference AMMCS-2013, which was held at Wilfrid Laurier University,Ìýthree Applied Mathematics graduate students were recognized for their presentations:
First Prize, Contributed Talk: Amenda Chow, Control of the Landau-Lifshitz Equation.
First Prize, Poster Presentation: Matt Kloosterman, A Closed NPZ Model with Delayed Nutrient Recycling.
Second Prize, Special Session: Krishan Rajaratnam, Orthogonal separation of the Hamilton-JacobiÌýequation on Spaces of ConstantÌýcurvature.
Thursday, July 4, 2013

Applied Math professors host global exchange students

Professors Hans De Sterck and Kevin Lamb are hosting international
undergraduate student researchers through the MITACS Globallink program.
Professor De Sterck's student, Xu Yuzhi, is from Renmin University and is working on, advanced algorithms for social network analysis with Hadoop/MapReduce.
Professor Lamb's student, Aritra Sasmal, is from the Indian Institute
of Technology and is working on a project on internal water waves.
This project was recently written up in the "
Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Quantum sounds could reveal the shape of the universe

Applied Mathematics Professor and Canada Research Chair Achim KempfÌýrecently published work which develops new tools that may help unify quantum theory and the theory of general relativity. The tools involve calculating the shape of an object just from its sound. Theoretically this could be used to determine the shape of spacetime from the ringing caused by quantum fluctuations. More detail can be found here: /news/quantum-sounds-could-reveal-shape-universe.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Applied Mathematics Graduate student wins (another) teaching award

Applied Mathematics PhD candidate Alex Shum has been selected as one
of the recipients of the 2013 Amit & Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional
Teaching by a Student. The award is given "in recognition of excellence
in teaching of all kinds by registered students". More details can
be found at:
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Applied Mathematics Graduate student wins teaching award

Applied Mathematics PhD candidate Alex Shum has won the first
Feds Teaching Award. This award comes from the Federation of Students,
the undergraduate student society at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ.
More detail can be found at:Ìý
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Applied Mathematics Graduate student wins faculty 3-minute thesis competition

Applied Mathematics PhD candidate Robert Jonsson won the Faculty of Mathematics 3-minute thesis competition held on March 1, 2013, with his talk titled "Relativistic Quantum Information". Robert will be one of two representatives of the Faculty at the University-wide competition, to be held on March 27, 2013.

For more information about the 3-minute Thesis please click on the following:Ìý/three-minute-thesis/.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Applied Mathematics Graduate student participates in conversation with Chris Hadfield

Applied Mathematics PhD candidate Nancy Soontiens was one of theÌýUniversity of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ students chosen to ask a question of astronautÌýChris Hadfield during a live downlink between the International Space StationÌýand the university on Friday, February 15. Nancy asked for advice forÌýaspiring astronauts.ÌýÌýCommander Hadfield's response: get an advanced degree,Ìýbe in good physical condition and show that you have the ability to makeÌýgood decisions when consequences matter.ÌýThe entire event can be viewed below.