Alex Song, perfect IMO scorer in this year’s competition, and Jacob Tsimerman, faculty member here in the department, were interviewed by Canada AM this morning on their success in this year’s International Mathematics Competition.
Canadian IMO Team Places 9th out of 104
July 22, 2015 By
Congratulations go to our Canadian IMO team which last week took 9th place in the contest out of 104 participating countries. In addition, team member Alex Song received a perfect score on the contest (the only student to do so).
The team was lead by the Department’s own members Lindsey Shorser and Jacob Tsimerman.
Participant Michael Pang attended the Canada Math Camp in 2012 which was hosted here in the Department and is sponsored by the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS). The CMS also supports the Canadian IMO team each year.
We are very proud of this year’s team, congratulations to them all!
Further details can be found on the CMS press release.
2015 Award Winners and Scholarship Recipients
June 26, 2015 By
The Department would like to congratulate the following 2015 award winners and scholarship recipients:
Frederick V. Atkinson Teaching Award (excellence in teaching by Postdoctoral Fellows):
- Nicholas Hoell (working with Adrian Nachman)
- Geoffrey Scott (working with Marco Gualtieri)
Daniel B. DeLury Teaching Awards (excellence in instruction for graduate students in mathematics):
- Yuri Cher, student of Catherine Sulem
- Ali Mousavidehshikh, student of Ragnar Buchweitz
- Yuan Yuan Zheng, student of Stevo Todorcevic
- Trefor Bazett, student of Lisa Jeffrey/Paul Selick
Vivekananda Graduate Scholarship (academic excellence in graduate studies for international students):
- Benjamin Briggs, student of Ragnar Buchweitz
We thank the faculty members, undergraduate students and course instructors who took the time to submit their nominations. We have many excellent instructors and teaching assistants who are hardworking and regularly inspire and challenge their students.
The department held a ceremony in the Math lounge on Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. to celebrate. At this same ceremony we also took the opportunity to honor our graduating master’s and doctoral students. - (photos coming soon)
Congratulations once again to Nicholas, Geoffrey, Yuri, Ali, Yuan Yuan, Trefor and Benjamin! And very best wishes to our graduating class!
Department Members Lead Canada’s IMO Team Training
June 25, 2015 By
Department members Jacob Tsimerman and Lindsey Shorser are spending the last two weeks of June in Banff training Canada’s IMO team for their competition in Chiang Mai, Thailand, from July 4 to 16, 2015.
The team is hard at work preparing for this year’s contest. Canada has participated in the IMO since 1981. Last year, Math Team Canada placed 9th overall at the IMO in Cape Town, South Africa.
The 2015 Canadian Math Team with coaches Lindsey Shorser (far left) and Jacob Tsimerman (far right)
The full media release about this year’s team can be found on the Canadian Mathematical Society’s website:
https://cms.math.ca/MediaReleases/2015/2015MathTeamCanada
The CMS is responsible for the oversight and training of Canada’s Math Olympiad Team.
A video of the training, as featured on CTV Calgary, can be found here:
http://calgary.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=644143&binId=1.1201914&playlistPageNum=1
(please note the caption for Lindsey Shorser incorrectly identifies her as Alexandra Whately and Professor Jacob Tsimerman is un-captioned – he is the last speaker in the clip)
UofT Math Graduate Co-Winner of 2015 CMS Doctoral Prize
May 29, 2015 By
Yuval Filmus, who completed his PhD in 2013 for his thesis Spectral methods in extremal combinatorics at the University of Toronto, was recently awarded the 2015 CMS Doctoral Prize along with Hector H. Pasten Vasquez (Queen’s University).
This is the first time the award was given to two recipients which speaks to the quality of both their work.
Further information on the award, this year’s recipients and the CMS can be found here:
https://cms.math.ca/MediaReleases/2015/dp-award
Congratulations to both Yuval and Hector on this prestigious award.
Sloan Awards
February 23, 2015 By
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/
Professor James G. Arthur Winner of the 2015 Wolf Prize in Mathematics
February 2, 2015 By
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/