2022/23 award winners
Pure Mathematics Department Silver Medals
Award description: Pure Math offers four silver medals, with a prize value of $1000 each. The medals are for outstanding academic achievement by current undergraduates in Pure Math or Mathematical Finance. The department will ensure a diverse gender profile amongst the winners of these medals. No silver medal shall be awarded to any student who is the winner of the Mike Vangoch Memorial Award in the same year.
2022/23 recipients:
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Maya Gusak
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Yixuan Wu
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Zev Friedman
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Sam Senko
Pure Mathematics Department Research Award
Award description: Value $1000. This award should go to an undergraduate student who has demonstrated outstanding research accomplishments in Pure Mathematics and has not won the Jessie W.H. Zou Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research.
2022/23 recipient:
- Xinyue Xie
2021/22 award winners
Pure Mathematics Department Silver Medals
Award description: Pure Math offers four silver medals, with a prize value of $1000 each. The medals are for outstanding academic achievement by current undergraduates in Pure Math or Mathematical Finance. The department will ensure a diverse gender profile amongst the winners of these medals. No silver medal shall be awarded to any student who is the winner of the Mike Vangoch Memorial Award in the same year.
2021/22 recipients:
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Lila Huang
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Sam Senko
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Zhi Quan Shu
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Ziyu Chi
Pure Mathematics Department Research Award
Award description: Value $1000. This award should go to an undergraduate student who has demonstrated outstanding research accomplishments in Pure Mathematics and has not won the Jessie W.H. Zou Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research.
2021/22 recipient:
- Max Chemtov
2020/21 award winners
Pure Mathematics Department Silver Medals
Award description: Pure Math offers four silver medals, with a prize value of $1000 each. The medals are for outstanding academic achievement by current undergraduates in Pure Math or Mathematical Finance. The department will ensure a diverse gender profile amongst the winners of these medals. No silver medal shall be awarded to any student who is the winner of the Mike Vangoch Memorial Award in the same year.
2020/21 recipients:
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Xinyue Xie
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Anzo Zhao Teh
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Weixi Zhuo
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Ziyu Chi
Pure Mathematics Department Research Award
Award description: Value $1000. This award should go to an undergraduate student who has demonstrated outstanding research accomplishments in Pure Mathematics and has not won the Jessie W.H. Zou Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research.
2020/21 recipient:
- Zhi Ying (Daniel) Yu
2019/20 award winners
Pure Mathematics Department Silver Medals
Award description: Pure Math offers four silver medals, with a prize value of $1000 each. The medals are for outstanding academic achievement by current undergraduates in Pure Math or Mathematical Finance. The department will ensure a diverse gender profile amongst the winners of these medals. No silver medal shall be awarded to any student who is the winner of the Mike Vangoch Memorial Award in the same year.
2019/20 recipients:
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Jun Yan
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Spencer Whitehead
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Jose Avilez
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Wanchun (Rosie) Shen
Pure Mathematics Department Research Award
Award description: Value $1000. This award should go to an undergraduate student who has demonstrated outstanding research accomplishments in Pure Mathematics and has not won the Jessie W.H. Zou Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research.
2019/20 recipient:
- Alex Rutar
2018/19 award winners
Pure Mathematics Department Silver Medals
Award description: Pure Math offers four silver medals, with a prize value of $1000 each. The medals are for outstanding academic achievement by current undergraduates in Pure Math or Mathematical Finance. The department will ensure a diverse gender profile amongst the winners of these medals. No silver medal shall be awarded to any student who is the winner of the Mike Vangoch Memorial Award in the same year.
2018/19 recipients:
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Qisi Deng
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Simon Huang
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Mike Li
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Wanchun (Rosie) Shen
Pure Mathematics Department Research Award
Award description: Value $1000. This award should go to an undergraduate student who has demonstrated outstanding research accomplishments in Pure Mathematics and has not won the Jessie W.H. Zou Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research.
2018/19 recipient:
- Wanchun (Rosie) Shen
Non-departmental student research award winners
Maria Esipova, Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award for Undergraduate Research, 2023
- Current status: Graduate student, University of British Columbia
Spencer Whitehead, Faculty of Mathematics Alumni Gold Medal, 2021
- Current status: Graduate student, Duke University
Spencer Whitehead, Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award for Undergraduate Research, 2021
- Current status: Graduate student, Duke University
Jordan Long, K.D. Fryer Gold Medal, 2021
- Current status: Data Scientist, Wish
Jun Yan, Faculty of Mathematics Alumni Gold Medal, 2020
- Current status: Prospective graduate student, Cambridge University
Wanchun (Rosie) Shen, Mathematical Faculty Jessie Zou Award , 2020
- Supervisor: K.E. Hare and K.G. Hare
- Current status: Prospective PhD student, Harvard University
Shouzhen (Bailey) Gu, Governor General Silver Medal, 2018
- Current status: PhD student, Caltech
Jimmy He, Mathematics Faculty Jessie Zou Award for Undergraduate Research, 2016
- Supervisor: K.E. Hare
- Current status: PhD student, Stanford University
Alex Wright, Canadian Math Society G. de B. Robinson Award, 2013
- Supervisor: K. Davidson
- Current status: Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Matthew Harrison-Trainor, Mathematics Faculty Jessie Zou Award for Undergraduate Research, 2012
- Supervisor: R. Moosa
- Current status: Post-doctoral Fellow, Victoria University of Wellington
Karen Yeats, American Math Society Morgan Prize for Research by an Undergraduate, Runner-up, 2003
- Supervisor: K.E. Hare
- Current status: Associate Professor, University of Waterloo
Wai Ling Yee, American Math Society Morgan Prize for Research by an Undergraduate, Runner-up, 2000
- Supervisor: K.E. Hare
- Current status: Assistant Professor, University of Windsor