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Ronald Garth Dunkley (C.M), aged 92, of ��ݮ��Ƶ, Ontario, passed away on February 19, 2023. Dunkley was a long time professor in the Faculty of Mathematics, the founding director of the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC), and the co-creator of the Canadian Mathematics Competition. 

RBC President and CEO Dave McKay (BMath ’87) has been named . This prestigious award is presented annually by Bennett Jones LLP, Caldwell Partners International Inc., and the National Post to recognize outstanding business leadership in Canada.

The Faculty of Mathematics will be partnering with the IC3 Institute, an institution that seeks to promote and nurture guidance and career counselling as a profession. In many countries, including the IC3’s home of India, high school students often do not have access to qualified guidance counselors to help them prepare for higher education and careers after graduation.

Sepehr Assadi, who is joining the Cheriton School of Computer Science as an Associate Professor in July 2023, is one of 125 recipients of a  from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Sophie Spirkl, an assistant professor of Combinatorics and Optimization, has received a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Spirkl is one of 125 early career researchers in the United States and Canada who received a Fellowship this year.

Master’s candidate Niki Hasrati and Professor Shai Ben-David have received the ��������, the 34^th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory. This year, the annual meeting that explores the theoretical and algorithmic aspects of machine learning will take place in Singapore from February 20 to 23.

When Sarah Wilson graduated high school a year early and started in the Computer Science program at ��ݮ��Ƶ, there were big expectations. As a high school student, Wilson was elected as a student trustee for the ��ݮ��Ƶ Catholic District School Board, served as chair of the Ontario Student Voice Awards with the Ontario Student Trustee Association and volunteered in several community roles.

The Faculty of Mathematics would like to express its concern and condolences to the families and communities throughout Türkiye and Syria devastated by Monday’s earthquakes.

Having levels of potassium that are too high or too low can be fatal. A new mathematical model sheds light on the often mysterious ways the body regulates this important electrolyte.

Potassium, a common mineral abundant in food like bananas and leafy greens, is essential to normal cellular function. It helps the cardiac muscle work correctly and aids in the transmission of electrical signals within cells.

Cheriton students Jeremy Chen, Yuqing Huang and Mushi Wang and Professors Semih Salihoğlu and Ken Salem have received a 2022 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award for their paper “Accurate summary-based cardinality estimation through the lens of cardinality estimation graphs.”