The Department is proud to announce that Professor Askold Khovanskii is the recipient of the 2014 Jeffery-Williams Prize.
The Jeffery-Williams Prize was inaugurated to recognize 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/jw-prize.html
Professor James Arthur was recently featured in an article by UofT News entitled Teaching and learning math: what your child needs now.
The article speaks to current issues in mathematics education and how best to approach the instruction of this subject. The article is partially a response to various news articles about the subject of mathematics education and the current situation with Alberta parents over how mathematics is being taught. It’s also a response to the recent drop in the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)’s ranking of Canada in math ability among 15-years-olds.
UofT alumnus Rick Ross was recently featured in an article profiling alumni and in it he discusses his involvement with our Summer Math Kangaroo camp and his other volunteer activities in math, engineering and business.
The full article can be found here
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The awards subcommittee of the Graduate Committee decided on the recipients for the 2013 Malcolm Slingsby Robertson Prize in Mathematics for “a graduating PhD student who has demonstrated excellence in research“. The theses and external examiner reports of several excellent graduating students were considered.
The department is happy to announced that this year’s winners are:
Brent Pym and Shibing Chen
Brent’s thesis on “Poisson structures and Lie algebroids in complex geometry” was written under the supervision of Marco Gualtieri; the thesis contains three separate remarkable results which earned him a three-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Oxford.
Shibing’s thesis on “Convex solutions to the power-of-mean curvature flow, conformally invariant inequalities and regularity results in some applications of optimal transportation” was written under the supervision of Robert McCann. During the course of his doctorate, Shibing produced five results on his own. He is currently an MSRI Postdoctoral Fellow.
The prize carries a $350 monetary award. We congratulate Brent and Shibing for their excellent work and wish them great success!
Congratulations to a past graduate student from the department, Logan Hoehn (2011) who was the winner of the inaugural Mary Ellen Rudin Young Researcher Award Fund.
Further information on the prize can be found here
We are delighted to announce that our student Louis-Philippe Thibault has been awarded the prestigious 2013 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.
The Vanier CGS program aims to attract and retain world-class doctoral students by supporting students who demonstrate both leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement in graduate studies in social sciences and humanities, natural sciences and engineering, and health.
Louis-Phillipe is a second year PhD student of Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz and is working on problems in noncommutative algebraic geometry and homological algebra.