We are home to 30 faculty, four staff, approximately 60 graduate students, several research visitors, and numerous undergraduate students. We offer exciting and challenging programs leading to BMath, MMath and PhD degrees. We nurture a very active research environment and are intensely devoted to both ground-breaking research and excellent teaching.
News
Two Pure Math professors 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.
Pure Math PhD student wins Amit and Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching
The award ($1000), which is given to up to four recipients annually, recognizes excellence in teaching by students, including intellectual vigour, skill in communication and presentation of subject matter, and concern for the needs of students.
Spring 2023 Graduands
Congratulations to Clement Wan, MMath and Eric Boulter, PhD, who convocated in Spring 2023. Best of luck in your future endeavours!
Events
Model Theory Working Seminar
Rahim Moosa, University of Waterloo
Zilber dichotomy in DCF_m
We will start reading Omar Leon Sanchez' recent paper by that name.
MC 5403
Graduate Student Colloquium
Jacques van Wyk, University of Waterloo
The Mathematics of Tuning an Instrument; or, Why a Piano Is Always out of Tune
Have you ever wondered why a musical scale is seemingly arbitrarily split into twelve notes? Why twelve? And, how are these notes related? As we will see, there is no one answer to this question—there are multiple systems to define the twelve-note scale, and each one has its own advantages and disadvantages. I will be bringing my guitar and my trumpet to demonstrate how this ambiguity affects the way each instrument is tuned and played, and how, with some instruments like the piano, compromises are made that affect music in subtle ways.
MC 5501
Snacks will be served after.
Mirror Symmetry Seminar
Andrew Hanlon, Dartmouth College
Mirror Symmetry Seminar: Compactifying 2D mirror symmetry for the algebraic torus