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Citation of the New Fellows, elected to The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada.

Professor Alfred Menezes was announced a winner of the 2010 Faculty of Mathematics Award for Distinction in Teaching.

Michele Mosca is named as a recipient of the Waterloo Region 40 under 40: Honouring those making a difference in our region.

Professor Shamir is best known for his invention, with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman, of the Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) public-key encryption and digital signature schemes in 1977.

In research, Professor Schellenberg was very successful, publishing about 40 scholarly papers. In teaching, he was also very successful; his file is filled with glowing testimonials from chairs and associate deans. But it was in service - to the department, faculty and university - that he was really remarkable.

For more than thirty years, Arkadi Nemirovski has been a leader in continuous optimization. He has played central roles in three of the major breakthroughs in optimization, namely, the ellipsoid method for convex optimization, the extension of modern interior-point methods to convex optimization, and the development of robust optimization.

Professor Paul Seymour received an honorary Doctor of Mathematics (DMath) at the University of Waterloo's Fall Convocation.

The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. These two-year fellowships are awarded yearly to 118 researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.