The Department is proud to announce that Professor Askold Khovanskii is the recipient of the 2014 Jeffery-Williams Prize.
The Jeffery-Williams Prize was inaugurated to recognize 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/jw-prize.html
Professor James Arthur was recently featured in an article by UofT News entitled Teaching and learning math: what your child needs now.
The article speaks to current issues in mathematics education and how best to approach the instruction of this subject. The article is partially a response to various news articles about the subject of mathematics education and the current situation with Alberta parents over how mathematics is being taught. It’s also a response to the recent drop in the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)’s ranking of Canada in math ability among 15-years-olds.
We are delighted to announce that four of our faculty members have been invited to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) to be held in Seoul, Korea in 2014.
Being invited to speak at the ICM is often regarded as one of the highest honours that a mathematician can receive. It is a truly international recognition of the depth and ground breaking impact of their research.
In addition, two graduates of our doctoral program have been invited to speak as well.
They are now faculty members at UBC and York University respectively.
Our congratulations to all the speakers!
On January 31st the Department of Mathematics welcomed 18 Grade 11 and 12 students to participate in a Mentorship program with our Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
So far the topics covered have been far ranging and of various interests. A sampling of topics:
… and much more.
We are looking forward to seeing their poster presentations in April on the fascinating mathematics they have learned.
Professor Adrian Nachman had the honour of being chosen to give the SIAM Invited Address at the SIAM Sessions of the Joint Mathematics Meeting which took place in San Diego on January 9 – 12, 2013.
Further information on the seminar, including Professor Nachman’s talk, can be found at the SIAM website (http://www.siam.org/meetings/jmm13/index.htm).
Our congratulations go to Professor Spyros Alexakis for being awarded the highly prestigious André-Aisenstadt Prize in Mathematics for 2013.
This is the 3rd year in a row a member of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Toronto has been awarded this prize by the CRM and the 6th time since it’s inception in 1992.
The official announcement from the CRM can be found here
Full information on the prize and it’s history can be found here
Our congratulations to Professor Alexakis on this remarkable achievement!
Our hearty congratulations go to László Lovász and Balázs Szegedy this year’s Fulkerson Prize winners.
The Fulkerson Prize is one of the most prestigious prizes in discrete math and it is awarded every three years.
From their website: “This award is sponsored jointly by the Mathematical Optimization Society (formerly the Mathematical Programming Society) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Up to three awards of US$1500 are presented at each (triennial) International Symposium of the MPS.”
This year it went to László Lovász and Balázs Szegedy for their paper on the “Limits of dense graph sequences”
A full list of winners, including this year’s, can be found here
The prize was announced on August 18, 2012 at the International Symposium on Mathematical Programming in Berlin.