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Marek Stastna and co-principal investigator Francis Poulin, both professors at the Department of Applied Mathematics, received $1.65 million in research grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for their Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) program “Training for Novel Directions in Quantitative Climate Science.”

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Professors David Del Rey Fernández and Achim Kempf from the Department of Applied Mathematics received research grants from the National Research Council of Canada (NRC).

Hans De Sterck, a professor and the chair of the Department of Applied Mathematics, has been named as one of the Class of 2024 Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in recognition of his “contributions to scientific computing methods including multilevel and nonlinear solvers, and for exemplary scientific leadership and service to SIAM.”

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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.”

Ten graduate degrees in Applied Mathematics were awarded at the 2023 Fall Convocation. Congratulations to the graduates!

(Left to right): Kaiwen Jiang, Akihiro Takigawa, Hans De Sterck, Cameron Meaney, Sue Ann Campbell, Shervin Hakimi.

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.

On September 20, Applied Math professors Hans De Sterck and Anita Layton hosted the first Math + X Inter-Faculty Research Workshop.

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.