We are delighted to welcome new faculty members Matt Kennedy, Vern Paulsen and Matt Satriano to the Pure Math Department.
Matt Kennedy has come to us from Carleton University. Matt lists his research areas as operator algebras, noncommutative function theory, and analytic group theory.
Congratulations to Rahim Moosa who was recently awarded an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement. These supplements provide an extra funding boost to individuals with top-tier research programs. Rahim’s work explores the special role that model theory plays in recognising, formalising and facilitating analogies between different geometric contexts.
Pure Mathematics is pleased to announce the undergraduate award winners for 2014/15! Congratulations go out to Rutger Campbell, Chuning Li, Kevin Matthews, Ritvik Ramkumar, Liyu Wang and Lirong Yang. Please see our undergraduate awards page for more information on the awards and their recipients.
From June 15-19, 2015, Pure Mathematics is hosting the 43rd Canadian Operator Symposium on Operator Theory and Operator Algebras (COSy 2015). The conference brings together researchers from all over the world for five days of research talks and collaboration. For more information, please see the COSy 2015 conference website.
Pure Math Professor Cam Stewart was honoured as the Dressler Lecturer for 2014. Cam's talk, entitled “Arithmetic and Transcendence” showcased some of his most recent results in number theory. The prestigious Dressler lectures are given annually at Kansas State University. For more information on the lecture series as well as past speakers, please visit the Kansas State University website.
Pure Math Professor Jason Bell recently visited the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, to present a distinguished lecture on game theory. Check out his press in a recent edition of Communique, the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, news publication.
Sobhan Seyfaddini, BMath 2006, completed his PhD at Berkeley in 2012.
After a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at Ecole Normale Superieure in
Paris, he is now a C.L.E. Moore Instructor and NSF postdoctoral fellow
at M.I.T. He works in symplectic geometry.
Sabin Cautis, who graduated with an Honours BMath degree in Pure Mathematics from University of Waterloo in 2001, has been awarded the 2014 André Aisenstadt Prize by the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM). The prize "recognizes outstanding research achievements in pure or applied mathematics by a young Canadian mathematician". Sabin is an assistant professor in Mathematics at the University of British Columbia.
The Department of Pure Mathematics hosted the 2013 Ostrowski Prize presentation on June 10 and 11, 2014. The prize was awarded to Yitang (Tom) Zhang from the University of New Hampshire who presented a lecture on his work on small gaps between prime numbers and was subsequently honored at the prize ceremony.
Alex Wright, who graduated with a degree in Pure Math from University of Waterloo in 2008, has just completed his PhD at U. Chicago and has won a prestigious Clay Research Fellowship. See http://www.claymath.org/people/alex-wright.