The Faculty of Mathematics Golden Jubilee Research Excellence Award was established to recognize the outstanding research contributions of our colleagues. The research accomplishments of our world-class faculty are presented at the fall Faculty Reception and provides a mechanism for promoting and encouraging research within the University of Waterloo.
This award provides $2,500 for one or two early or mid-career faculty members in the Faculty of Mathematics.
Eligibility:
- The award may be based on a body of work developed over the past five years, or for a single influential paper published in the past five years, measuring the quality, quantity and impact of the work.
- Nominee should be early or mid-career faculty.
- Members of the Math Research Excellence Award committee are ineligible.
- Chairs/Director, Associate Deans, and the Dean are ineligible while holding their administrative positions.
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Winners would not be eligible for the next four competitions. Researchers who have had release time for the purpose of research (for example, Steacie and Killam winners) would not be eligible until two years later after their term has ended.
Nomination and selection process:
The unit Chair/Director or delegate are to nominate people for the award and there is a limit of one nominee per department/school. The deadline to submit the nomination packages each year is May 17 (if the deadline falls on the weekend, then the deadline is automatically extended to the next business day). The nominator should forward the nomination package of their nominee to the Math Research Office (mathres.office@uwaterloo.ca).
The nomination package must include:
- A letter of nomination (limited to two pages) indicating the candidate’s career stage and a discussion, as appropriate, of candidate’s research achievement in relation to peers at the same career stage; quantity and quality of contributions; leadership in research community; research impact in (or outside) of discipline; awards received; etc.
- The candidate’s full CV.
The recipient of the award is selected by the Faculty of Mathematics Distinguished Award Committee in June with an announcement to follow in July.
Award Winners: