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Krieger–Nelson Prize
The Krieger–Nelson Prize is presented by the Canadian Mathematical Society in recognition of an outstanding woman in mathematics. It was first awarded in 1995. The award is named after Cecilia Krieger and Evelyn Nelson (mathematician), Evelyn Nelson, both known for their contributions to mathematics in Canada.Krieger–Nelson Prize Canadian Mathematical Society. Recipients While the award has largely been awarded to a female mathematician working at a List of universities in Canada, Canadian University, it has also been awarded to Canada, Canadian-born or -educated women working outside of the country. For example, Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Cathleen Morawetz, past president of the American Mathematical Society, and a faculty member at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (a division of N ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Mathematical Society
The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) (french: Société mathématique du Canada) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research, outreach, scholarship and education in Canada. It serves the national community through the publication of academic journals, community bulletins, and the administration of mathematical competitions. It was originally conceived in June 1945 as the Canadian Mathematical Congress. A name change was debated for many years; ultimately, a new name was adopted in 1979, upon its incorporation as a non-profit charitable organization. The society is also affiliated with various national and international mathematical societies, including the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. The society is also a member of the International Mathematical Union and the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. History The Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanta Gupta
Chander Kanta Gupta (8 October 1938 – 27 March 2016) was a Canadian distinguished professor of mathematics at the University of Manitoba, known for her research in abstract algebra and group theory. Much of her research concerns the automorphisms in different Variety (universal algebra), varieties of groups. Education Gupta earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Jammu and Kashmir, a master's degree from the Aligarh Muslim University, another master's degree from the Australian National University, and a Ph.D. in 1967 from ANU under the supervision of Michael Frederick Newman.6th Krieger–Nelson Prize Lecture Citation Canadian Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-06-09. Recognition She was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1991, and awarded the Krieger–Nelson ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gail Wolkowicz
Gail Susan Kohl Wolkowicz is a Canadian researcher in differential equations, dynamical systems, and mathematical biology who works as a professor of mathematics and statistics at McMaster University. She is known, among other contributions, for her proof that the competitive exclusion principle holds for inter-species competition in the chemostat. After earning bachelor's and master's degrees at McGill University, Wolkowicz completed her doctorate in 1984 at the University of Alberta, under the supervision of Geoffrey J. Butler. Her dissertation was entitled "An Analysis of Mathematical Models Related to the Chemostat." After postdoctoral studies at Emory University and Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ..., she joined the McMaster faculty in 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal David
Chantal David (born 1964) is a French Canadian mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at Concordia University. Her interests include analytic number theory, arithmetic statistics, and random matrix theory, and she has shown interest in elliptic curves and Drinfeld modules. She is the 2013 winner of the Krieger–Nelson Prize, given annually by the Canadian Mathematical Society to an outstanding female researcher in mathematics. Education and career David completed her doctorate in mathematics in 1993 at McGill University, under the supervision of Ram Murty. Her thesis was entitled ''Supersingular Drinfeld Modules''. In the same year, she joined the faculty at Concordia University. She became the deputy director of the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques in 2004. In 2008, David was an invited professor at Université Henri Poincaré. She spent September 2009 through April 2010 at the Institute for Advanced Study. From January through May 2017, she co-or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ailana Fraser
Ailana Margaret Fraser is a Canadian mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia. She is known for her work in geometric analysis and the theory of minimal surfaces.UBC Mathematician Recognized for Research Excellence: Ailana Fraser to Receive CMS 2012 Krieger-Nelson Prize , April 12, 2012, retrieved 2013-01-21. Her research is particularly focused on extremal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Kuske
Rachel Ann Kuske (born 1965) is an American-Canadian applied mathematician and Professor and Chair of Mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Professional career Kuske received her PhD in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern University in 1992. Her dissertation, ''Asymptotic Analysis of Random Wave Equations'', was supervised by Bernard J. Matkowsky. From 1997 to 2002, she was Assistant Professor and then associate professor at the University of Minnesota. She is an expert on stochastic and nonlinear dynamics, mathematical modeling, asymptotic methods, and industrial mathematics. She served on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), and as of 2021 she serves on ICERM's board of trustees. Awards and honours Kuske was awarded a Sloan Fellowship in 1992 and was made a Canada Research Chair in 2002. In 2011 Kuske was a recipient of the Canadian Mathematical Society Krieger–Nelson Prize, g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lia Bronsard
Lia Bronsard (b. 14 March 1963) is a Canadian mathematician and the former president of the Canadian Mathematical Society. She is a professor of mathematics at McMaster University. Contributions In her research, she has used geometric flows to model the interface dynamics of reaction–diffusion systems. Other topics in her research include pattern formation, grain boundaries, and vortices in superfluids. Education and career Bronsard is originally from Québec. She did her undergraduate studies at the Université de Montréal, graduating in 1983, and earned her PhD in 1988 from New York University under the supervision of Robert V. Kohn. After short-term positions at Brown University, the Institute for Advanced Study, and Carnegie Mellon University, she moved to McMaster in 1992. She was president of the Canadian Mathematical Society for 2014–2016. Recognition Bronsard was the 2010 winner of the Krieger–Nelson Prize. In 2018 the Canadian Mathematical Society The Canad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yael Karshon
Yael Karshon (born 1964) is an Israeli and Canadian mathematician who has been described as "one of Canada's leading experts in symplectic geometry". She works as a professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga and Tel Aviv University . Education and career Karshon took part in the 1982 International Mathematical Olympiad, on the Israeli team. She earned her Ph.D. in 1993 from Harvard University under the supervision of Shlomo Sternberg. After working as a C. L. E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and then earning tenure at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, she moved to the University of Toronto Mississauga in 2002. Selected publications Karshon is the author of the monographs ''Periodic Hamiltonian flows on four dimensional manifolds'' (Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society 672, 1999), which completely classified the Hamiltonian actions of the circle group on four-dimensional compact manifolds. With Viktor Ginzburg and Victor Guillemi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Izabella Łaba
Izabella Łaba (born 1966) is a Polish-Canadian mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia. Her main research specialties are harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory, and additive combinatorics. Professional career Łaba earned a master's degree in 1986 from the University of Wrocław. She received her PhD from the University of Toronto in 1994, under the supervision of Israel Michael Sigal, after which she was a postdoctoral scholar at University of California, Los Angeles and then an assistant professor at Princeton University before moving to UBC in 2000. She is one of three founding editors of the ''Online Journal of Analytic Combinatorics''. Contributions Łaba's thesis research proved the asymptotic completeness of many n-body systems in the presence of a constant magnetic field. While at UCLA, with Nets Katz and Terence Tao, she made important contributions to the theory of Kakeya sets, including the best known lower bound on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Van Den Driessche
Pauline van den Driessche (born 1941) is a British and Canadian applied mathematician who is a professor emerita in the department of mathematics and statistics at the University of Victoria, where she has also held an affiliation in the department of computer science. Her research interests include mathematical biology, matrix analysis, and stability theory. Education and career Van den Driessche earned bachelor's and master's degrees in 1961 and 1963 respectively from Imperial College London. She completed her doctorate in 1964 from the University College of Wales; her dissertation concerned fluid mechanics. She stayed on for a year in Wales as an assistant lecturer; she was hired as an assistant professor at the University of Victoria in 1965, and retired in 2006.. Contributions In mathematical biology, van den Driessche's contributions include important work on delay differential equations and on Hopf bifurcations, and the effects of changing population size and immigrati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penny Haxell
Penelope Evelyn Haxell is a Canadian mathematician who works as a professor in the department of combinatorics and optimization at the University of Waterloo. Her research interests include extremal combinatorics and graph theory. Education and career Haxell earned a bachelor's degree in 1988 from the University of Waterloo, and completed a doctorate in 1993 from the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Béla Bollobás. Since then, she has worked at the University of Waterloo, where she was promoted to full professor in 2004. Research Haxell's research accomplishments include results on the Szemerédi regularity lemma, hypergraph generalizations of Hall's marriage theorem (see Haxell's matching theorem), fractional graph packing problems, and strong coloring of graphs. Recognition Haxell was the 2006 winner of the Krieger–Nelson Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) (french: Société mathématique du Canada) is an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Keyfitz
Barbara Lee Keyfitz is a Canadian-American mathematician, the Dr. Charles Saltzer Professor of Mathematics at Ohio State University. In her research, she studies nonlinear partial differential equations and associated conservation laws. Professional career Keyfitz did her undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto, and earned a Ph.D. in 1970 from New York University, under the supervision of Peter Lax. Before taking her present position at Ohio State, she taught at Columbia University, Princeton University, Arizona State University, and the University of Houston; at Houston, she was the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Mathematics. She was also the director of the Fields Institute from 2004 to 2008. She was president of the Association for Women in Mathematics from 2005 to 2006, and in 2011 she became president of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. She was Vice-President of the American Mathematical Society from 2011 - 2014. Awards and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |