Mathletes Do It Again!

Good News Everyone!  The Mathletes VI have done it again, this year placing 1st in the Goodlife Toronto Team Marathon.

You can read all the results here

The winning runners were captained by Elio Mazzeo, and included Alex Bloemendal, Nataliya Laptyeva, Robert McCann, Matt Rideout, Didier Smets, and Mitsuru Wilson.  They reached the podium at a time of 3:2:34.6, five minutes less than last year’s run when the team came in second.

On the same day, our graduate student Henning Petzka finished third in the half marathanon at a time of 1:14:48.0.

Thanks to the members of the department who contributed money to help towards the cost of running.

A further article on the event can be found here

Congratulations, Mathletes and Henning, we’re very proud of you all!

Rollo Davidson Prize Announced

Our congratulations go to Assistant Professor Gábor Pete for being announced as this year’s Rollo Davidson Prize winner.

Along with Dr. Chritophe Garban from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon this year’s Rollo Davidson prize was jointly award for “striking and important new results for planar random processes, particularly in establishing a theory of noise sensitivity for critical percolation and the application of this theory to dynamical percolation.”

More information on the award, including past winners, can be found at the official Rollo Davidson Trust page.

Our congratulations go to them both!