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Friday, September 25, 2015

Small c Math Contest 2015

small-c contest in M3
Last Friday, September 25, was a beautiful sunny evening but over 475 first and second year students still showed up to write the Fifteenth Annual Small c Mathematics Competition. This is a record number of participants!

Congratulations go to the following top-performing students.

1st year students: Chun Ho Lau and Anqi (Joyce) Yang

This is a repeat presentation of the Crowdmark grading session. 

The Faculty of Mathematics has contracted with Crowdmark Inc. to provide campus-wide on-line midterm/exam marking and results distribution starting Fall 2015 for all course instructors who are interested.

Students write exam papers with Crowdmark-generated QR codes on each page. Exams are later scanned and uploaded to Crowdmark for marking.

±Ê°ù´Ç´Ú±ð²õ²õ´Ç°ùÌý of the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ and his colleagues  (Max Planck Society and Hebrew University) and (Clay Mathematical Institute and Princeton University) have proved Rota's 45-year old conjecture on the log concavity of the characteristic polynomial of matroids.

Friday, August 7, 2015

Making Exam Marking Easier

The Faculty of Mathematics has contracted with Crowdmark Inc. to provide campus-wide on-line midterm/exam marking and results distribution starting Fall 2015 for all course instructors who are interested.

Students write exam papers with Crowdmark-generated QR codes on each page. Exams are later scanned and uploaded to Crowdmark for marking.

crowdmark transition

    Photo courtesy of Crowdmark, Inc.

Benefits include:

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

IOI 2015

Team Canada returned home from the  in Almaty, Kazakhstan with four medals.
Each contestant finished in the top half of all international competitors. Jacob Jackson finished in 9th place winning a gold medal. Timothy Li won a silver medal.

Dr. Eric Katz and Dr. Laura Sanita from the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization have been named recipients of this year's Early Researcher Awards. A total of 14 researchers were selected for this award from the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ.

Friday, June 12, 2015

Spring convocation 2015

Congratulations to today's graduates and honorees!

From the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Daily Bulletin

It's a by-the-numbers situation today as two ceremonies will see 1,079 Mathematics graduates cross the stage to receive their degrees.