Bzz bzz bzz! UTM Math Club’s inaugural Integration Bee was a buzzing success! From across MCS, nearly fifty UTM students joined us in MN1270 last April 3, 2023 to compete for the title of Integration Champion (and to enjoy some pizza). In teams of three, participants solved as many integrals as possible within the 45-minute time limit. Some integrals were the type you would see on a MAT136 exam, but others required out-of-the-box thinking!

Three of Professor Luai Al Labadi's and his USRA/independent studies supervisees' papers get accepted in various Statistics journals:

Student: Mark Asuncion - USRA

• Al-Labadi, L, Alzaatreh, A., and Asuncion, M. (2022). Model Checking with Right Censored Data Using Relative Belief Ratio. To appear in Entropy.

Student: Kyuson Lim– Independent Study

Watch Professor Jessica Burgner-Kahrs’ TEDx Toronto Renew 2022 talk to find out what obstacles she overcame to create tiny robots that move like an elephant’s trunk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9JZ4Tqah44&t=1086s

The 2022 André Aisenstadt Prize is awarded to Yevgeny Liokumovich for his numerous and fundamental contributions to geometric analysis, in particular his proof with F. Marques and A. Neves of a famous conjecture due to Gromov providing an appropriate Weyl Law for the volume spectrum of general Riemannian manifolds. Created in 1991 by the CRM, the André Aisenstadt Prize in Mathematics, which includes a scholarship and a medal, recognizes outstanding research results in pure or applied mathematics by a young Canadian mathematician.

MCS TA Day 2022 back in person!

Laura Maldonado beams as she describes her first day learning in U of T Mississauga’s Undergraduate Robotics Teaching Laboratory.

“It’s a really cool place,” she says, as she proudly takes out her phone to show a video of one of the lab’s robots in action. “We actually play with these robots and get hands-on experience.”

The computer science specialist student was among the first group of undergrads in the third-year Fundamentals of Robotics class to use the new lab, which officially opened its doors on Sept. 7.