Recent News

• Congratulations to Benny Wai, Alex Liu, and Lawrence Huen for their paper “Selecting Optimal Locations of Food Trucks: A Case Study for the City of Vancouver”, which has been selected as a Finalist for the CORS 2013 Student Paper Competition (Undergraduate Category). They will be presenting their paper at the CORS annual conference held in Vancouver from May 27-29, 2013 to compete for first/second prize.

• Congratulations to Bo Chen, Luheng Wang, Wenjiao Chen, and Xiao Luo for their paper “The University Course Selection Problem: Efficient Models and Experimental Analysis”, which has been selected as a Finalist for the CORS 2013 Student Paper Competition (Undergraduate Category). They will be presenting their paper at the CORS annual conference held in Vancouver from May 27-29, 2013 to compete for first/second prize.

• Read about our very own Bob Russell in the SFU News: Influential math prof retires

• Congratulations to Tom Archibald who has received a SSHRC Insight Award! 
  

• Please join us in congratulating Natalia Kouzniak on her 2013 Pims Education Prize!

• Pancakes with a side of math - The work of Maurizio Ceseri and John Stockie is feautured on the SIAM website!

• 2012 Excellence in Teaching award recipient Natalia Kouzniak: Triumphing over “not good enough”

• Bob Russell is retiring! Join us on February 28th, 2013 to celebrate Bob's career! For event details, please visit: http://www.math.sfu.ca/

• 2013 - Veselin Jungic is the new Associate Chair for Department of Mathematics! 

• Checkout the Teaching Excellence video interview with Jamie Mulholland on the Teaching and Learning News blog!

• Congratulations to ORS students Hans Aisake, Issac He (absent), Mark Strange, Svyatoslav Glazyrin, Sam Maggs and Michelle Leung for accepting the first and second place prizes for their ugrad research papers at the annual Canadian Operational Research Society meeting in Niagara, July 2012.

• Congratulations to Dr. Natalia Kouzniak who has been awarded the Faculty of Science Excellence in Teaching Award for 2011/2012!

• Congratulations to Stephen Melczer who has won the Governor General’s silver medal for academic excellence (2012)!

• Check out our Open House 2012 pictures!

• Congratulations to Scott Shi (Top 200), Steven Melczer (Top 500) and Andrew Poelstra (Top 500) for their results in the 2011 Putnam Competition!

• Check out our brand new Facebook page and  Twitter page!

• SFU Pi Day is featured in the Vancouver Sun!

• Dr. Veselin Jungic wins the Excellence in Teaching award (2012)

• Jamie Mulholland awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award  (2011)
  

• David Muraki awarded the Dean of Graduate Studies Leadership Award (Nov 2011)
  

• Jamie Mulholland awarded the Faculty of Science Teaching Award  (Nov 2011)
  

• Karel Casteels awarded the Governor General's Gold Medal (Nov 2011)
  

• John Stockie awarded NSERC Accelerator Supplement (Nov 2011)

• Adam Oberman awarded NSERC Accelerator Supplement (Nov 2011)
  

• Veselin Jungin awarded the PIMS Education Prize (Nov 2011)
  

• Steve Ruuth awarded the SIAM Dalquist Prize (Nov 2011) 
  

• Annie Zhang awarded Faculty of Science Graduate Student Teaching Award (Sept, 2011)

• Jemma Lorenat awarded Mathematics Dept Graduate Student Teaching Award (Sept 2011)

• Sophie Burrill awarded Mathematics Dept Graduate Student Teaching Award (Sept 2011)