The department is pleased to announce that Bálint Virág is the recipient of the 2014 John L. Synge Award awarded by the Royal Society of Canada for his outstanding research. The John L. Synge Award is named in honour of the late John Lighton Synge, FRS, FRSC, one of the first mathematicians working in Canada to obtain international recognition through research in mathematics and was a Professor at the University of Toronto from 1920 to 1925.
Bálint will be honoured at the 2014 RSC Induction and Awards Ceremony in Quebec City. The complete announcement has been posted on the RSC website here.
The Department extends a hearty congratulations to Professor Virag.