Alumni Awarded Artin Junior Prize

January 6, 2011 By
Dr. Hrant Hakobyan, a University of Toronto, Department of Mathematics postdoctoral fellow from July 2007 to June 2010 with Professor Ilia Binder, has been awarded the 2010 Emil Artin Junior Prize in Mathematics.
An excerpt from the AMS notices posting: “Hrant Hakobyan of Kansas State University has been awarded the 2010 Emil Artin Junior Prize in Mathematics.

Established in 2001, the Emil Artin Junior Prize in Mathematics carries a cash award of US$1,000 and is presented usually every year to a student or former student of an Armenian university under the age of thirty-five for outstanding contributions to algebra, geometry, topology, and number theory—the fields in which Emil Artin made major contributions”

The full article can be found here: http://www.ams.org/notices/201011/rtx101101481p.pdf

Our congratulations go to Dr. Hakobyan on this accomplishment.

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2010 Malcolm Slingsby Robertson Prize Awarded

January 6, 2011 By

Congratulations go to Dr. Ian Zwiers as the winner of this year’s Malcolm Slingsby Robertson prize.  This prize is awarded to a graduating PhD student who has demonstrated excellence in research.

Dr. Zwiers’ research was in the area of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations under the supervision of Professor James Colliander.  His thesis was entitled “Standing ring blowup solutions for the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation”.

Dr. Zwiers’ is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences in Vancouver.

Our congratulations go to Dr. Zwiers and we wish him all the best in his future endeavors.

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2011 André-Aisenstadt Prize Goes to One of our Own

January 6, 2011 By

Our congratulations go to Professor Joel Kamnitzer, winner of the 2011 André-Aisenstadt Prize.

Professor Joel Kamnitzer

Professor Joel Kamnitzer in Kyoto at RIMS for a conference in May, 2007. Photo courtesy of Professor Dror Bar-Natan.

The André Aisenstadt Mathematics Prize, is awarded to recognize outstanding research achievement by talented, young Canadian mathematician in pure or applied mathematics.  It will be awarded to Dr. Kamnitzer at a ceremony to be held at the CRM on February 18, 2011.

From the official announcement: “Dr. Kamnitzer obtained his Bachelor in Mathematics at the University of Waterloo in 2001 and his PhD at the University of California (Berkeley) in 2005, under the supervision of Allen Knutson. He held a prestigious AIM Five-Year Fellowship as well as post-doctoral postitions at MIT, MSRI, and the University of California (Berkeley). He has been a professor at the University of Toronto since 2008. Dr. Kamnitzer has made substantial and deep contributions to the field of geometric representation theory and related topics.”

The Department wishes to offer Professor Kamnitzer a well deserved congratulations for this prestigious award.

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