Outstanding Administrative Staff Honoured

March 16, 2010 By

Each year the Faculty of Arts and Science, through the Dean’s office, honours administrative staff for their extraordinary contributions to the Faculty.  This year the Mathematics Department is proud to honour two of it’s own.

Ms. Beverley Leslie, Department Manager, was awarded with the Dean’s Distinguished Service award.  This award is presented to a non-academic staff member who has, over the course of their years of service to the Faculty of Arts and Science, distinguished themselves in ways that are beyond the expectations of administrative peers, academic colleagues and students.

In addition, Ms. Ida Bulat, Graduate Administrator, is the recipient of the Dean’s Student Life Award.  This award recognizes an administrative staff member who has improved the quality of the student experience in the Faculty of Arts and Science. This award recognizes innovations and demonstrated improvements to the services provided to students.

Support for both these awards was strong from both faculty and students in the department.  It is a well deserved honour for them both, please join us in wishing them congratulations!

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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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Former Students Win Prestigious Awards

February 25, 2010 By

Two former students of Professor Askold Khovanskii have won significant awards in Mathematics.

Valentina Kiritchenko

Valentina Kiritchenko was one of 3 winners of the
2009 Dynasty Foundation Award

Vladelen Timorin

Vladlen Timorin was one of 2 winners of the
2009 Pierre Deligne Award.

From their websites: “The Pierre Deligne Contest is a competition of young mathematicians of Russia, Ukraine and Byelorussia. The contest winner is awarded a three-year research grant. The aim of the contest is to help young mathematicians to carry out scientific research staying in their home countries. It was established in 2005 to support the most active young mathematicians working in Russia, Ukraine and Byelorussia. Any person not older than 35 who has a PhD in mathematics and lives in any of the countries: Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia, is eligible for the competition.”

The Dynasty Foundation contest for young mathematicians takes place in parallel with the Pierre Deligne Contest and pursues the same goals.

The department sends it’s warmest congratulations to both of them and wishes them all the best!

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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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