On September 7, 2011 the Royal Society of Canada named it’s newest members and Professor Stephen Kudla of the Math Department made the list.
Professor Kulda was honoured in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Division
From the RSC’s official media bulletin:
- Stephen S. Kudla is an international leader in the field of automorphic forms and arithmetic geometry. His research continues the development of the arithmetic theory of quadratic forms and theta functions, a subject that has deep historical roots. His work has had a wide impact on the study of special values of L-functions and their derivatives, a topic of central importance in modern number theory.
Professor Kudla was one of 78 new fellows and one of 12 from the University of Toronto.
More information on the prestigious honour and this year’s list and media release can be found here.