2010 Putnam Results

April 4, 2011 By

We are pleased to announce the Putnam results for 2010.

Konstantin Matveev was the best Canadian contestant and among the top twenty in North America. He will receive the Nathan Mendelsohn Prize for this honour.

In addition, Alexander Remorov received an honorable mention with the score among the thirty best in North America. Keith Ng and Jonathan Zung also ranked in 101-200 range.

The University of Toronto team consisting of Alexander Remorov, Konstantin Matveev and Sida Wang ranked tenth.

The top five teams in order were Caltech, MIT, Harvard, Berkeley and University of Waterloo.

Duke, Princeton, Stanford and University of British Columbia placed among the top ten.

All told, 4296 students from 546 institutions competed; there were teams from 442 institutions.

Congratulations to all our participants!

Filed Under: Competitions, Students

Professor Braverman Wins Sloan

April 4, 2011 By

Professor Mark Braverman of the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science has won one of this year’s prestigious Sloan Fellowship awards.

The full list of winners can be found here

Our hearty congratulations go to Professor Braverman on this great accomplishment!

Filed Under: Awards, Faculty

AMS Centennial Research Fellowship for 2011-12 Winner

April 4, 2011 By

Professor George Elliott’s former PhD student, Andrew Toms, now at Purdue, has been awarded this year’s AMS Centennial Research Fellowship.

The Purdue announcement can be found here.

Filed Under: Alumni, Awards

2011 Undergraduate Mathematics Competition

April 4, 2011 By

The eleventh annual University of Toronto Undergraduate Mathematics Competition was written on Sunday, March 6,2011. There were twenty-six candidates writing on all three campuses.

We would like to thank Nick Cheng for organizing the Scarborough site and John Inciura for organizing the Mississauga site.

The top two papers were very close; after checking by Ed Barbeau, Felix Recio, Ilia Binder and Franklin Vera Pachebo, it was decided to award a tie for first place.

The paper and solutions can be seen at www.math.utoronto.ca/barbeau/torcontest11.pdf

A full list of previous winner can be found at: http://www.math.toronto.edu/cms/undergraduate-mathematics-contest-list-of-winners/

Rankings

Honour students in order of rank [Scores 27-58]

1. Remorov, Alexander     III AS Mathematics & Statistics
1. Ng, Keith              III AS Mathematics & Physics
3. Sagatov, Sergei        IV  AS Mathematics
4. Chen, Philip           II  Engineering Science
5. Sun, Fengwei           UTSC
6. Huo, Jungwei           II  AS Economics & Statistics
7. Hua, Mengdi            II  AS Economics

Second category in alphabetical order [Scores 10-21]

Baydina, Viktoriya        II  AS Mathematics & Physics
Dhillon, Amanjit          I   Engineering Science
Guo, Kinyan
Hu, Shufeng
Jiang, Lin
Kidwai, Omar
Park, Sang Hee
Rumsey, Susan Elizabeth

There were 11 additional candidates with scores in the range 0 to 6.

Congratulations to the candidates for their participation and solutions to the problems.

Filed Under: Competitions, Students

In Memory

February 4, 2011 By

It is with great sadness that we report the death of Daryl Geller, professor of mathematics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and former University of Toronto mathematics specialist. Daryl grew up in Toronto and attended the University of Toronto as a mathematics specialist winning many awards including high placements on the Putnam Competition. Upon his graduation in 1972 he attended Princeton University obtaining his Ph.D. in 1976 under the supervision of Elias Stein.

Filed Under: Alumni

Alumni Awarded Artin Junior Prize

January 6, 2011 By
Dr. Hrant Hakobyan, a University of Toronto, Department of Mathematics postdoctoral fellow from July 2007 to June 2010 with Professor Ilia Binder, has been awarded the 2010 Emil Artin Junior Prize in Mathematics.
An excerpt from the AMS notices posting: “Hrant Hakobyan of Kansas State University has been awarded the 2010 Emil Artin Junior Prize in Mathematics.

Established in 2001, the Emil Artin Junior Prize in Mathematics carries a cash award of US$1,000 and is presented usually every year to a student or former student of an Armenian university under the age of thirty-five for outstanding contributions to algebra, geometry, topology, and number theory—the fields in which Emil Artin made major contributions”

The full article can be found here: http://www.ams.org/notices/201011/rtx101101481p.pdf

Our congratulations go to Dr. Hakobyan on this accomplishment.

Filed Under: Alumni, Awards

2010 Malcolm Slingsby Robertson Prize Awarded

January 6, 2011 By

Congratulations go to Dr. Ian Zwiers as the winner of this year’s Malcolm Slingsby Robertson prize.  This prize is awarded to a graduating PhD student who has demonstrated excellence in research.

Dr. Zwiers’ research was in the area of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations under the supervision of Professor James Colliander.  His thesis was entitled “Standing ring blowup solutions for the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation”.

Dr. Zwiers’ is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences in Vancouver.

Our congratulations go to Dr. Zwiers and we wish him all the best in his future endeavors.

Filed Under: Alumni, Awards
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