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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.

Avneet Kaur was selected as 2^nd 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.”

Congratulations, Avneet!

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. She has served as president-elect since 2021.

(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.

Professor Siv Sivaloganathan of the Department of Applied Mathematics was awarded the 2023 CAIMS-Fields Industrial Mathematics Prize at the annual meeting of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematical Society/ Société Canadienne de Mathématiques Appliquée et Industrielle (CAIMS/SCMAI) in June 2023. The prize recognizes exceptional research in any area of industrial mathematics conducted in Canada. Professor Sivaloganathan is the 12^th recipient of the prize, which was first awarded in 2010.

Professor Hans De Sterck began his appointment as Chair of the Department of Applied Mathematics on 1 July 2023.