Israel Michael Sigal (born 31 August 1945 in

Kiev Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

) is a

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mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

specializing in

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. He is a professor at the

University of Toronto Department of Mathematics The University of Toronto Department of Mathematics is an academic department within the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto. It is located at the university's main campus at the Bahen Centre for Information Technology. The ...

. He was an invited speaker at

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...

, Kyoto—1990 and in

International Congress on Mathematical Physics The International Congress on Mathematical Physics (ICMP) is the largest research congress in mathematical physics. It is held every three years, on behalf of the International Association of Mathematical Physics (IAMP). Prizes The Henri Poi ...

, Lausanne—1979, W. Berlin—1981, Marselle—1986.

Education

Born in

, Sigal obtained his bachelor's degree at Gorky University and his Ph.D. at Tel-Aviv University

Research interests

Partial differential equation of quantum physics, Quantum mechanics and

quantum information Quantum information is the information of the state of a quantum system. It is the basic entity of study in quantum information theory, and can be manipulated using quantum information processing techniques. Quantum information refers to both th ...

theory, Quantum field theory, Statistical mechanics, Non-linear equations, Mathematical biology, Pattern recognition

Awards

* The Jeffrey-Williams Lectureship, CMS Summer Meeting, 1992. *

John L. Synge Award John L. Synge Award is an award by the Royal Society of Canada for outstanding research in any branch of the mathematical sciences. It was created in 1986 and is given at irregular intervals. The award is named in honor of John Lighton Synge. Winn ...

, 1993. *

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Canada judges to have "made remarkable contributions in the arts, the humanities and the sciences, as well as in Canadian public life ...

, 1993. *

University Professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professors ...

, 1997. * Norman Stuart Robertson Chair in Applied Mathematics, 1998. *

CRM-Fields-PIMS prize The CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize is the premier Canadian research prize in the mathematical sciences. It is awarded in recognition of exceptional research achievement in the mathematical sciences and is given annually by three Canadian mathematics institu ...

, 2000. * Fellow of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

, 2012.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2013-07-20.

Selected works

* * * *with Volker Bach,

Jürg Fröhlich Jürg Martin Fröhlich (born 4 July 1946 in Schaffhausen) is a Swiss mathematician and theoretical physicist. He is best known for introducing rigorous techniques for the analysis of statistical mechanics models, in particular continuous symmetry ...

: *with Peter D. Hislop: *with F. Ting: *with Stephen J. Gustafson:

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* Living people Canadian mathematicians Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Scientists from Kyiv University of Toronto faculty Ukrainian emigrants to Canada 1945 births {{Mathematician-stub