The C&O department has 36 faculty members and 60 graduate students. We are intensely research oriented and hold a strong international reputation in each of our six major areas:
- Algebraic combinatorics
- Combinatorial optimization
- Continuous optimization
- Cryptography
- Graph theory
- Quantum computing
Read more about the department's research to learn of our contributions to the world of mathematics!
News
Laura Pierson wins Governor General's Gold Medal
The Governor General’s Gold Medal is one of the highest student honours awarded by the University of Waterloo.
Sepehr Hajebi wins Graduate Research Excellence Award, Mathematics Doctoral Prize, and finalist designation for Governor General's Gold Medal
The Mathematics Doctoral Prizes are given annually to recognize the achievement of graduating doctoral students in the Faculty of Mathematics. The Graduate Research Excellence Awards are given to students who authored or co-authored an outstanding research paper.
Three C&O faculty win Outstanding Performance Awards
The awards are given each year to faculty members across the University of Waterloo who demonstrate excellence in teaching and research.
Events
Tutte Colloquium - Felipe Fidalgo- A suitable splitting strategy for Discretizable Distance Geometry graphs using inherent symmetries
| Speaker: | Felipe Fidalgo |
| Affiliation: | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina |
| Location: | MC 5501 |
Abstract: Discretizable Distance Geometry Problems (DDGP) consist in a subclass of Distance Geometry Problems (DGP) where the search space can be discretized and reduced to a binary tree. Such problems can be tackled by applying a Branch-and- Prune algorithm (BP), which is able to perform an exhaustive enumeration of the solution set.