The department is proud to announce that Professor Catherine Sulem has been announced as a new member of the Royal Society of Canada in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

From the Royal Society: “Catherine Sulem is one of Canada’s most prominent and productive applied mathematicians. Her research on nonlinear waves has made deep and lasting contributions to ocean wave dynamics, to stability theory for nonlinear optical systems, to magneto-hydrodynamics and to plasmas. Her predictions of singularities in optical fibres are internationally recognized as a major achievement. Her work presents the highest standards of mathematical analysis and its physical applications.”

The full announcement can be read here:
http://rsc-src.ca/sites/default/files/candidates/SULEM%20%20Catherine.pdf

Our congratulations go to Professor Jacob Tsimerman who was awarded the 2015 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize recognizing young mathematicians whose work is influenced by mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.

In honour or Ramanujan the award, established in 2005, is only presented to mathematicians under the age of 32 which was the age Ramanujan sadly passed away at.

Professor Tsimerman is being honoured for his work in making “deep and highly original contributions to diverse parts of number theory, and most notably to the famous Andre-Oort Conjecture. He is one of the few mathematicians to have complete mastery over two very different areas of mathematics – analytic number theory and algebraic geometry.”

Further information on the award and it’s history can be found here:
https://www.facebook.com/sastra.univ/posts/705411549589731