News

Professor Emeritus Frank Zorzitto was awarded the Honorary Member of the University designation at the Spring 2016 convocation for his extraordinary administrative service to the university. Frank served as the Pure Mathematics Department Chair for over 11 years and has also served on the Senate, the Board of Governors and the FAUW executive.

Harvard University's Gerhard Gade University Professor Barry Mazur was granted an Honorary Doctor of Mathematics at the June 2016 convocation.

Congratulations to BMath alumnus Jimmy He for winning the fifth annual Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research! Jimmy, who graduated with a double-honours degree in Pure Mathematics and Statistics in June 2016, was nominated by his undergraduate research assistantship supervisor, Kathryn Hare.

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.