News

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.

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.

Congratulations go out to Ken Davidson as the recipient of the 2014 CMS David Borwein Distinguished Career Award.  The award recognizes individuals who "have made a sustained outstanding contribution to the advancement of mathematics."  The full news release from the CMS can be found here:

http://cms.math.ca/MediaReleases/2014/db-award

Pure Math PhD student Stanley Xiao won first place in the Math Faculty heat of the Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. Congratulations, Stanley!

The University-wide finals will be held in the Humanities Theatre on Thursday, March 27 from 2:30 – 4:00 pm. More information about the competition can be found at the 3MT website. Come out and cheer Stanley on!