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Friday, June 15, 2007

Richard Stanley awarded an honorary DMath Degree

Richard Stanley
Richard Stanley is the world's leader in algebraic and enumerative combinatorics. He has written over 140 scientific papers, with more than 40 co-authors, and has supervised 44 PhD students. His two volume book "Enumerative Combinatorics" (1986 and 1999) is the definitive work on the subject, and has had an immense influence on today's combinatorialists.

Friday, June 16, 2006

Dominic Welsh awarded an honorary DMath Degree and addressed convocation

Dominic Welsh
Dominic Welsh is a leading contributor to combinatorial mathematics in several ways. In research, his significant contributions began with his doctoral thesis, "On stochastic processes, with special reference to percolation theory". This was a basis for much further work, including the Russo-Seymour-Welsh theorem.

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Penny Haxell awarded the 2006 Krieger-Nelson Prize

Professor Penny E. Haxell works in combinatorics and graph theory, focussing on combinatorial, probabilistic and, more recently, topological tools in a very fascinating manner. In all her work she exhibits impressive capability, originality and technical ability, and her pioneering work is well known internationally.

Her work in 1995 with Kohayakawa and Luczak, led to a profound study of Szemeredi's lemma in a sparse setting, and their methods are still being developed fruitfully by others.

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Mike Newman awarded CMS Doctoral Prize

As a graduate student of Professor Christopher Godsil, University of Waterloo, Michael Newman wrote an outstanding dissertation which presents extensions and applications of the Delsarte-Hoffman bound on the size of independent sets in graphs. The thesis interweaves the solutions of three intriguing yet ostensibly unrelated problems into a unified tapestry by virtue of their common methodological treatment. The results obtained are important and the exposition first-rate.

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Jim Geelen awarded the Coxeter-James Prize

Professor Jim Geelen is already a world leader in the areas of combinatorial optimization and matroid theory. The referees describe him as an "outstanding talent" and a "very creative and original researcher" with a "huge international reputation".

Thursday, September 22, 2005

Carsten Thomassen awarded a Faculty of Mathematics Alumni Achievement Medal

Professor Carsten Thomassen (PhD 1976, Combinatorics and Optimization) was awarded a Facuty of Mathematics Alumni Achievement Medal for his fundamental research and extraordinary academic accomplishments as one of the foremost graph theorists in the world. Carsten is professor of Mathematics at the Technical University of Denmark.

Saturday, January 1, 2005

Canada Research Chair appointments

N. Wormald, M. Mosca, J. Geelen, D. Leung.
The Canada Research Chairs Program stands at the centre of a national strategy to make Canada one of the world's top five countries for research and development.

In 2000, the Government of Canada allocated $900 million to establish 2,000 research professorships Canada Research Chairs in universities across the country.