The department is proud to announce the results of this year’s Sloan competition with two of our colleagues receiving an award!
The Department wishes to send a hearty congratulations to Jacob Tsimerman and Hau-tieng Wu.
The Sloan fellowships are meant to recognize early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. Only 126 awards were made this year.
More details about the fellowships can be found at:
http://www.sloan.org/fellowships/2015-sloan-research-fellows/
photo credit: Diana Tyszko
Our congratulations to Professor James Arthur, University Professor and Ted Mossman Chair, for being awarded the 2015 Wolf Prize in Mathematics.
Jim received the prize for “his monumental work on the trace formula and his fundamental contributions to the theory of automorphic representations of reductive groups.”
It is only the second time that any Canadian has won it in Mathematics (the first being Robert Langlands of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton). Moreover, Jim is the first Canadian to win it who did his work in Canada.
The citation and complete announcement has been posted on the Wolf Foundation website:
http://www.wolffund.org.il/index.php?dir=site&page=winners&cs=807
Hearty congratulations to Professor Arthur on this tremendous achievement!
Update: the UofT Arts and Science News did an article on this as well here:
http://news.artsci.utoronto.ca/all-news/james-arthur-awarded-wolf-prize-mathematics/
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.
The Department is pleased to announce that Professor Stevo Todorcevic is the recipient of the 2013 Shoenfield Prize for his book Introduction to Ramsey Spaces. The Shoenfield Prize is awarded by the Association of Symbolic Logic (ASL) and is named in honour of the late Joseph R. Shoenfield for his many outstanding contributions to logic and to the ASL.
Stevo was honoured at the 2014 ASL North American Annual Meeting in Boulder, Colorado.
Further information and the complete announcement can be found here
Our congratulations to Professor Florian Herzig on being awarded the 2014 Ribenboim Prize of the Canadian Number Theory Association. The Ribenboim Prize is named in honour of Paulo Ribenboim and is awarded for distinguished research in Number Theory.
The complete announcement has been posted here.
Our congratulations go to Professor James Arthur (University Professor and Ted Mossman Chair) for being honoured by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He was elected to the prestigious organization as one of 21 foreign associates out of 15 countries.
From their website: “The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a private, non-profit society of distinguished scholars. Established by an Act of Congress, signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, the NAS is charged with providing independent, objective advice to the nation on matters related to science and technology. Scientists are elected by their peers to membership in the NAS for outstanding contributions to research. The NAS is committed to furthering science in America, and its members are active contributors to the international scientific community.”
Further information on the award and a conversation about mathematics and math education with Professor Arthur can be found in a recent article by UofT News here.
A hearty congratulations to Professor Arthur on this esteemed honour!
The Department is pleased to announce that Professor Marco Gualtieri is the recipient of the 2014 Coxeter-James Prize.
The Coxeter-James Prize was inaugurated to recognize young mathematicians who have made outstanding contributions to mathematical research.
The complete announcement has been posted on the CMS website:
http://cms.math.ca/MediaReleases/2014/cj-prize