2010 Malcolm Slingsby Robertson Prize Awarded

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.