The awards subcommittee of the Graduate Committee decided on the recipients for the 2013 Malcolm Slingsby Robertson Prize in Mathematics for “a graduating PhD student who has demonstrated excellence in research“. The theses and external examiner reports of several excellent graduating students were considered.

The department is happy to announced that this year’s winners are:

Brent Pym and Shibing Chen

Brent’s thesis on “Poisson structures and Lie algebroids in complex geometry” was written under the supervision of Marco Gualtieri; the thesis contains three separate remarkable results which earned him a three-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Oxford.

Shibing’s thesis on “Convex solutions to the power-of-mean curvature flow, conformally invariant inequalities and regularity results in some applications of optimal transportation” was written under the supervision of Robert McCann. During the course of his doctorate, Shibing produced five results on his own. He is currently an MSRI Postdoctoral Fellow.

The prize carries a $350 monetary award. We congratulate Brent and Shibing for their excellent work and wish them great success!

We are delighted to announce that our student Louis-Philippe Thibault has been awarded the prestigious 2013 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.

The Vanier CGS program aims to attract and retain world-class doctoral students by supporting students who demonstrate both leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement in graduate studies in social sciences and humanities, natural sciences and engineering, and health.

Louis-Phillipe is a second year PhD student of Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz and is working on problems in noncommutative algebraic geometry and homological algebra.

We are very excited to announce that the 2013-14 Connaught Scholarships for Doctoral Students has been awarded to two of our newly admitted students:

Marcin and Michal Kotowski

The Connaught International Scholarship for Doctoral Students provides financial support to outstanding international doctoral students and assists Graduate Units in recruiting and supporting top international graduate students.

Marcin and Michal are brothers and work in the fields of discrete probability and geometric group theory.  They are graduates from the University of Warsaw.