On November 23, the family of the late Applied Mathematics Distinguished Professor Emeritus Josef Paldus unveiled a memorial tree and bench outside the Mathematics 3 building to commemorate the life and contributions of Professor Paldus, who passed away on January 15, 2023. Professor Paldus joined the then-new Department of Applied Mathematics in 1968, became a full professor in both the Applied Mathematics and Chemistry departments in 1975, and retired in 2001 but remained active as a distinguished professor emeritus until his death.
Anita Layton, a professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Canada 150 Research Chair of Mathematical Biology and Medicine, has received the 2023 Federation of Chinese Canadian Professionals (Ontario) Education Foundation Award of Merit.
Graeme Smith, a professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), has been named as one of the Fellows of the American Physical Society for 2023 in recognition of his “fundamental contributions on quantum channel capacities including proving continuity, elucidating the phenomenon of superactivation, and for providing a classification of all the additive entropic formulas.”
Anita Layton, a professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Canada 150 Research Chair of Mathematical Biology and Medicine, has been selected as the recipient of the John L. Synge Award for 2023. The award, which will be presented by the Royal Society of Canada in November, was named after one of the first mathematicians working in Canada to obtain international recognition through research in mathematics. It recognizes outstanding research in any of the branches of the mathematical sciences.
Avneet Kaur was selected as 2nd place for the best student paper in a contributed session at the Applied Mathematics, Modeling and Computational Science (AMMCS) 2023 conference at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo. The title of the presentation was “Comparison of extended Kalman filter and recurrent neural networks for state estimation.”
Andrew Grace, who was a PhD student at the Department of Applied Mathematics and defended his PhD thesis in July 2022, was awarded the Tertia M. Hughes Memorial Graduate Student Prize of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society for his thesis. The award, which recognizes contributions of special merit in meteorology or oceanography, was presented in absentia at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society in St. John’s.
Professor Sue Ann Campbell began her term as president of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematical Society/ Société Canadienne de Mathématiques Appliquée et Industrielle (CAIMS/SCMAI) in June 2023.
(Left to right) Marina Chugunova, Kevin Lamb, Brittany Howell, Nat Kendal-Freedman, Alexandra Kirillova, Ruikun Zhou
The Department of Applied Mathematics recognized excellence in graduate students with eight Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards and a Doctoral Award, which will be presented on 14 July 2023.
