2014 John L. Synge Award

January 27, 2015 By

The department is pleased to announce that Bálint Virág is the recipient of the 2014 John L. Synge Award awarded by the Royal Society of Canada for his outstanding research. The John L. Synge Award is named in honour of the late John Lighton Synge, FRS, FRSC, one of the first mathematicians working in Canada to obtain international recognition through research in mathematics and was a Professor at the University of Toronto from 1920 to 1925.

Bálint will be honoured at the 2014 RSC Induction and Awards Ceremony in Quebec City. The complete announcement has been posted on the RSC website here.

The Department extends a hearty congratulations to Professor Virag.   

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2013 Shoenfield Prize Awarded to Faculty Member

June 18, 2014 By

The Department is pleased to announce that Professor Stevo Todorcevic is the recipient of the 2013 Shoenfield Prize for his book Introduction to Ramsey Spaces. The Shoenfield Prize is awarded by the Association of Symbolic Logic (ASL) and is named in honour of the late Joseph R. Shoenfield for his many outstanding contributions to logic and to the ASL.

Stevo was honoured at the 2014 ASL North American Annual Meeting in Boulder, Colorado.

Further information and the complete announcement can be found here

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Graduate Students and PDFs recognized

June 18, 2014 By
award winners

From left to right (top): Ivan Livinskyi (Graduate Student), Abe Igelfeld (Senior Lecturer), Alex Rennet (PDF), Chris Eagle (Graduate Student), Asif Zaman (Graduate Student)
From left to right (bottom): Eckhard Meinrenken (Professor), Almut Burchard (Professor), Daniel Soukup (Graduate Student)

The Department was proud to celebrate the accomplishments of our Graduate Students and PostDoctoral Fellows last week with a reception honouring recipients of three Departmental awards and one University wide award.

Teaching Assistants’ Training Program’s (TATP) Teaching Excellence Award

The TATP Teaching Excellence Award was created in 2003 to recognize the outstanding contributions of teaching assistants at the University of Toronto.   The award seeks to value the work of TAs who regularly inspire and challenge undergraduate students.  This year’s winner was Asif Zaman. Asif is a second year PhD student of John Friedlander and is working in the area of analytic number theory.

Further information this award can be found here

Frederick V. Atkinson Teaching Award

Given annually by the department this award recognizes excellence in teaching by PostDoctoral Fellows.   This year it was awarded to:

  • Prashant Athavale
  • David Penneys
  • Alex Rennet

Daniel B. DeLury Teaching Awards

This annual departmental award recognizes excellence in instruction for graduate students in mathematics.  This year’s winners were:

  • Peter Crooks
  • Christopher Eagle
  • Daniel Soukup

Vivekananda Graduate Scholarship for International Students

Ivan Livinskyi (L) and Professor Almut Burchard (R)

Ivan Livinskyi (L) and Professor Almut Burchard (R)

This was the inaugural year for this award.  The award is based on donations from individuals, charitable organizations and companies from the VEDANTA Society of Toronto, and they are matched, dollar for dollar by the Provost. These donations will allow the department to be able to endow several new Fellowships for graduate students.

Vivekananda was a philosopher and spiritual teacher (1863-1902). He founded the Ramakrishna Mission in India and the Vedanta Society is a branch center of that Mission. The Vivekananda Fellowship is meant to fund the study of an international doctoral student in mathematics.

This year, the committee chose Ivan Livinskyi as the recipient of this scholarship. Ivan is a second year doctoral student working under the supervision of Professor Steve Kudla.

Congratulations to all our winners and our sincere appreciation for all your hard work and effort!

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2014 TATP Teaching Excellence Award

June 2, 2014 By

Congratulations to our graduate student, Asif Zaman, one of the four the recipients of the 2014 TATP Teaching Excellence Award. The Teaching Assistants’ Training Program’s (TATP) Teaching Excellence Award was created in 2003 to recognize the outstanding contributions of teaching assistants at the University of Toronto. The award seeks to value the work of TAs who regularly inspire and challenge undergraduate students.

Asif is a second year PhD student of John Friedlander and is working in the area of analytic number theory.

Further information about this award can be found here 

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Professor Herzig wins prestigious award

May 30, 2014 By

Our congratulations to Professor Florian Herzig on being awarded the 2014 Ribenboim Prize of the Canadian Number Theory Association. The Ribenboim Prize is named in honour of Paulo Ribenboim and is awarded for distinguished research in Number Theory.

The complete announcement has been posted here.

 

 

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James Arthur recognized by U.S. National Academy of Sciences

May 30, 2014 By

Our congratulations go to Professor James Arthur (University Professor and Ted Mossman Chair) for being honoured by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.  He was elected to the prestigious organization as one of 21 foreign associates out of 15 countries.

From their website: “The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a private, non-profit society of distinguished scholars. Established by an Act of Congress, signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, the NAS is charged with providing independent, objective advice to the nation on matters related to science and technology. Scientists are elected by their peers to membership in the NAS for outstanding contributions to research. The NAS is committed to furthering science in America, and its members are active contributors to the international scientific community.”

Further information on the award and a conversation about mathematics and math education with Professor Arthur can be found in a recent article by UofT News here.

A hearty congratulations to Professor Arthur on this esteemed honour!

 

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2014 CMS Coxeter-James Prize

April 8, 2014 By

The Department is pleased to announce that Professor Marco Gualtieri is the recipient of the 2014 Coxeter-James Prize.

The Coxeter-James Prize was inaugurated to recognize young 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/cj-prize

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