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Last Friday 7 April, several of our most outstanding students were awarded prizes at our annual School Prize-Giving Ceremony.
Deputy Head of School Prof John Roberts led the proceedings, following a relaxed lunch attended by School members and students in the staff common room.
Standout students for the 2016 round of prizes included Matthew Di Meglio and Aidan Wong, who each received two prizes, and Gregory Karanikas who was awarded three. Honours student Daniel Altman again proved his academic excellence by winning an award for his fourth year in a row.
Please see the full list of prize winners below. A very big congratulations to these outstanding students!
A photo album of prize winners can be viewed via our Facebook page.
2016 Prize Winners
Kevin Luxa | School of Mathematics and Statistics Prize for the best performance in First Year Mathematics |
Victoria Xu | The Women in Mathematics and Statistics Prize for best performance in Level 1 courses |
Jack Jiang | School of Mathematics and Statistics Prize for the best performance in First Year Actuarial Mathematics |
Brittany Evat | The Women in Mathematics and Statistics Prize for best performance in Level 2 courses |
Matthew Di Meglio | School of Mathematics and Statistics Prize for the best performance in Level 2 Higher Mathematics Units in a Bachelor Program The C.H. Peck Prize – for best performance in Year 2 Mathematics by a student proceeding to Year 3 in the School of Mathematics and Statistics |
Madeleine Kyng | The Women in Mathematics and Statistics Prize for best performance in Level 3 courses |
Zachary Murphy | J.R. Holmes Prize – for excellence in pass-level Pure Mathematics Level 3 courses in a Bachelor of Science Program |
Gregory Karanikas | J.R. Holmes Prize – for excellence in Level 3 Pure Mathematics courses in a Bachelor of Science Program Head of School's Prize - for excellence in Undergraduate Maths leading to the Honours year The George Szekeres Prize for the best performance leading into the Honours Year in Pure Mathematics |
Aidan Wong | Applied Mathematics Prize - for excellence in Level 3 Applied Mathematics courses in a Bachelor Program Head of School's Prize - for excellence in Undergraduate Maths leading to the Honours year |
Audrey Mak | The Weather Zone Prize - for the best performance in MATH2241 Introduction to Atmospheric and Ocean Dynamics |
Brett Ryall | The Weather Zone Prize - for the best performance in MATH3261 Fluids, Oceans and Climate |
Tsz-Kit Jeffrey Kwan | The Alma Douglas prize for Statistics for the best performance in Statistics |
Kenny Lau | Buchwald Award for the best performance leading into the Honours Year in Applied Mathematics |
Daniel Altman | The Michael Mihailavitch Erihman Award - for the best performance in examinations in a mathematics major offered by the School of Mathematics and Statistics in any one year |