The PREA program was introduced in 1998 "to help Ontario's world-class researchers attract talented people to their research teams and to encourage innovation among the province's brightest young researchers at universities, colleges, hospitals and research institutes". In 2006 the program was reintroduced under the new name ERA. It's slated to spend $85 million in provincial funding over ten years, matched by $42.5 million from other sources. To date, 15 faculty members in Combinatorics and Optimization have received awards.
Peter Nelson - 2018
Emergent structure in matroid theory
Luke Postle - 2016
Maximum average degree, chromatic number and the 4-flow conjecture
Eric Katz - 2015
Tropical geometry: structure and degeneration
Laura Sanita - 2015
New algorithmic approaches for network design problems
Ricardo Fukasawa - 2012
Increasing the applicability of mixed-integer programming
Andrew Childs - 2011
Algorithms for quantum computers
David Jao - 2009
Mathematical foundations of elliptic curve cryptography
Chaitanya Swamy - 2009
Design for game-theoretic environments and settings with uncertainty
Jochen Koenemann - 2007
Algorithmic game theory and approximate network design
Ashwin Nayak - 2006
Quantum algorithms and protocols
Edlyn Teske - 2004
Number-theoretic security of public-key cryptosystems
Bertrand Guenin - 2003
Jim Geelen - 2000
Penny Haxell - 2000
Michele Mosca - 2000
Levent Tuncel - 1999
