UTSC Mathematics Professor Wins Coxeter-James Award

April 22, 2010 By

Professor Bálint Virág of the Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences (UTSC) and the Graduate Departments of Mathematics and Statistics on the St. George campus has been awarded this year’s Coxeter-James prize in Mathematics.

From their website: The Coxeter-James Prize was inaugurated to recognize young mathematicians who have made outstanding contributions to mathematical research. The first award was presented in 1978.

Since it’s inception in 1978 eight other winners of the prize have been affiliated with the University of Toronto.

Congratulations to Professor Virag!

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CMS Cover Page Article

March 25, 2010 By

V. Kumar MurtyThe cover page editorial article for this month’s CMS Notes was written by Professor Kumar Murty, Chair of the Department of Mathematics.  He also holds the position of Vice-President of the CMS.

The article is entitled “Mathematics in a Changing World” and describes the many challenges faced by mathematics departments across the country and the different ways to make the most of these changes.

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3 Sloans! A New Record!

March 11, 2010 By

We are delighted to announce the Department of Mathematics is the recipient of three (3) Sloan Fellowship Research Awards.

The winners are Larry Guth, Spyros Alexakis and Balazs Szegedy

“The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. These two-year fellowships are awarded yearly to 118 researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.” - http://www.sloan.org/fellowships

“With three Sloan recipients, the Department of Mathematics has set a new U of T record for the number of fellowships going to a single department. Of 19 Sloans awarded to mathematicians this year, three went to U of T, two went to SUNY, Stony Brook and 14 other universities got one each.”

Congratulations to the winners!

Official UofT Article

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Faculty Honoured for Excellence in Teaching

March 6, 2010 By

The department is proud and honoured to announce that Professor James Colliander is a recipient of one of this year’s Outstanding Teaching Awards given out by the Faculty of Arts and Science.

The criteria for the awards is as follows:

The awards are made on the basis of continuing excellence in undergraduate teaching and other contributions to undergraduate education in the Faculty of Arts and Science (St. George). The following attributes are considered:

  • excellence in communication skills
  • mastery of subject area
  • ability to stimulate critical and analytical thinking in students
  • ability to stimulate enthusiasm in students
  • innovations and creativity in teaching methods, course design, and curriculum development

We are very proud of our distinguished faculty member for receiving this honour.

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Faculty Honoured

February 6, 2010 By

Professor’s Yael Karshon and Stephen Kudla were recently honoured by the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) for their great contributions to teaching and research.

Professor Yael Karshon was honoured with the 2009 Krieger-Nelson Prize. Awarded for her work with symmetries of symplectic manifolds, formalized as Hamiltonian group actions.

Professor Stephen Kudla was honoured with the 2009 Jeffery-Williams Prize. He was awarded for his work on forming connections between the theory of automorphic forms and the theory of algebraic cycles on Shimura varieties.

Further information on both these prestigious awards can be found in the CMS Notes, Volume 41, No. 6 (October 2009) (pages 8 and 9)

Congratulations to them both!

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Math Marathon

January 15, 2010 By


Congratulations to members of the math department for their participation in the 2009 Toronto Marathon.

The Math Relay Team consisted of seven (7) graduate students and one faculty member and was named “Mathletes IV”. This is the 3rd time the math department has entered a relay team into the race. In 2006, there were 2 teams, which placed 29th (Mathlete I) and 23rd (Mathletes II). Last year the team (Mathletes III) placed 13th and this year (Mathletes IV) placed 3rd out of over 200 teams.

The team members (in order of their legs of the race) were:

  1. Elio Mazzeo
  2. Peter Lee
  3. Marco Gualtieri
  4. Steven Corkey
  5. Matt Rideout
  6. Geordie Richards
  7. Artem Dudko
  8. Alex Bloemendal

The total length of the course is 42 km meaning seven of the runners ran 5km and one ran 7km.  The goal of the team was to place in the top 10!

Mission accomplished!

The total time for the course from the team was 3 hours, 9 minutes and 9 seconds.

The marathon raises funds for various charities, including Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto General Hospital, Diabetes Canada, and Sick Kids.

Congratulations on a job well done!

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