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