John L. Synge Award is an award by the

Royal Society of Canada The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; french: Société royale du Canada, SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bil ...

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 John Lighton Synge (; 23 March 1897 – 30 March 1995) was an Irish mathematician and physicist, whose seven-decade career included significant periods in Ireland, Canada, and the USA. He was a prolific author and influential mentor, and is cre ...

Winners

Source
Royal Society of Canada
*2023 – Anita Layton, FRS *2022 –

Kevin Costello Kevin Joseph Costello FRS is an Irish mathematician, since 2014 the Krembil Foundation's William Rowan Hamilton chair of theoretical physics at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Education Costello was educated at the Uni ...

, FRS *2021 – Paul McNicholas *2020 – Christian Genest, FRSC *2018 –

Bojan Mohar Bojan Mohar (born September 21, 1956) is a Slovenian and Canadian mathematician, working in graph theory. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Ljubljana and the holder of a Canada Research Chair in graph theory at Simon Fraser Unive ...

, FRSC *2014 –

Bálint Virág Bálint Virág (born 1973) is a Hungarian mathematician working in Canada, known for his work in probability theory, particularly determinantal processes, random matrix theory, and random walks and other probabilistic questions on groups. He recei ...

*2008 –

Henri Darmon Henri Rene Darmon (born 22 October 1965) is a French-Canadian mathematician. He is a number theorist who works on Hilbert's 12th problem and its relation with the Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. He is currently a James McGill Professor of Ma ...

, FRSC *2006 –

Stephen Cook Stephen Arthur Cook (born December 14, 1939) is an American-Canadian computer scientist and mathematician who has made significant contributions to the fields of complexity theory and proof complexity. He is a university professor at the Univ ...

, FRSC *1999 – George A. Elliott, FRSC *1996 – Joel Feldman, FRSC *1993 –

Israel Michael Sigal Israel Michael Sigal (born 31 August 1945 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR) is a Canadian mathematician specializing in mathematical physics. He is a professor at the University of Toronto Department of Mathematics. He was an invited speaker at Internat ...

, FRSC *1987 – James G. Arthur, FRSC

References

External links

RSC page for the award
{{DEFAULTSORT:Synge Award Canadian science and technology awards Mathematics awards Royal Society of Canada

Winners

See also

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