The cover page editorial article for this month’s CMS Notes was written by Professor Kumar Murty, Chair of the Department of Mathematics. He also holds the position of Vice-President of the CMS.
The article is entitled “Mathematics in a Changing World” and describes the many challenges faced by mathematics departments across the country and the different ways to make the most of these changes.
The department would like to send out congratulations to the winners of this year’s Undergraduate Mathematics Contest.
The contest, started by Professor Edward Barbeau in the spring of 2001, provides an opportunity for undergraduate students to compete in mathematics and practice their competition skills. The contest is open to all undergraduate students. This year there were 31 participants.
This year’s winners are:
Congratulations to all participants!
If you are interested in writing the competition or would like to view previous year’s winners please visit the official Undergraduate Mathematics Contest page.
Each year the Faculty of Arts and Science, through the Dean’s office, honours administrative staff for their extraordinary contributions to the Faculty. This year the Mathematics Department is proud to honour two of it’s own.
Ms. Beverley Leslie, Department Manager, was awarded with the Dean’s Distinguished Service award. This award is presented to a non-academic staff member who has, over the course of their years of service to the Faculty of Arts and Science, distinguished themselves in ways that are beyond the expectations of administrative peers, academic colleagues and students.
In addition, Ms. Ida Bulat, Graduate Administrator, is the recipient of the Dean’s Student Life Award. This award recognizes an administrative staff member who has improved the quality of the student experience in the Faculty of Arts and Science. This award recognizes innovations and demonstrated improvements to the services provided to students.
Support for both these awards was strong from both faculty and students in the department. It is a well deserved honour for them both, please join us in wishing them congratulations!
We are delighted to announce the Department of Mathematics is the recipient of three (3) Sloan Fellowship Research Awards.
The winners are Larry Guth, Spyros Alexakis and Balazs Szegedy
“The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. These two-year fellowships are awarded yearly to 118 researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.” - http://www.sloan.org/fellowships
“With three Sloan recipients, the Department of Mathematics has set a new U of T record for the number of fellowships going to a single department. Of 19 Sloans awarded to mathematicians this year, three went to U of T, two went to SUNY, Stony Brook and 14 other universities got one each.”
Congratulations to the winners!
The department is proud and honoured to announce that Professor James Colliander is a recipient of one of this year’s Outstanding Teaching Awards given out by the Faculty of Arts and Science.
The criteria for the awards is as follows:
The awards are made on the basis of continuing excellence in undergraduate teaching and other contributions to undergraduate education in the Faculty of Arts and Science (St. George). The following attributes are considered:
We are very proud of our distinguished faculty member for receiving this honour.