Awards

Elina Robeva has been awarded the 2023 André Aisenstadt Prize

Elina Robeva has been awarded the 2023 André Aisenstadt Prize of the CRM in Montreal. This award, which includes a scholarship and a medal, recognizes outstanding research results in pure or applied mathematics by a young Canadian mathematician. The award text reads, "Professor Robeva’s work... read more

Charlotte Trainor is the winner of 2022/2023 UBC Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award (2023)

Detail here: https://academic.ubc.ca/awards-funding/award-winners/killam-teaching-service-winnersread more

Katie Faulkner is the winner of 2022/2023 UBC Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award (2023)

Detail here: https://academic.ubc.ca/awards-funding/award-winners/killam-teaching-service-winnersread more

Fok-Shuen Leung is the recipient of the 2023 CMS Excellence in Teaching Award (2023)

Detail here: https://cms.math.ca/news-item/dr-fok-shuen-leung-to-receive-2023-excellence-in-teaching-award/read more

Sophia Sanborn has been awarded a PIMS-Simons fellowship for 2023-24

Sophia Sanborn has been awarded a PIMS-Simons fellowship for 2023-24, as an "outstanding young researcher in the mathematical sciences”.read more

Sujatha Ramdorai has been awarded the Padma Shri (2023)

Sujatha Ramdorai has been awarded the Padma Shri, India’s fourth highest civilian honor “for distinguished service in any field.” These awards are conferred by the President of India every year. More details can be found here: https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/diaspora/padma-awards-for-2-indian-... read more

Stephanie van Willigenburg has been named in the 2023 class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society

"For contributions to algebraic combinatorics, mentorship and exposition, and inclusive community building" Detail here: List of 2023 Fellowsread more

Joseph Tam has received the Science Excellence in Service Award (2022)

The citation is "For sustained leadership in the construction and support of essential IT services” and here are some quotes from his nomination letter: Joseph Tam is the rock of the Mathematics Department’s IT team… for over 30 years… (he) oversees a large diverse ecosystem of network and... read more

Yinon Spinka has won the Bernoulli Society’s Wolfgang Doeblin Prize

This Prize is awarded biannually to a single individual who is in the beginning of his or her mathematical career, for outstanding research in the field of probability theory. Yinon will submit to the journal Probability Theory and Related Fields a paper for publication as the Wolfgang Doeblin... read more

Joshua Zahl has won the UBC/PIMS mathematical sciences early career award

This prize was created by two founding donors, Anton Kuipers and Darrell Duffie , to recognize UBC researchers for their leading edge work in mathematics or its applications in the sciences. Josh will receive a "monetary award” and deliver a PIMS/UBC Distinguished Colloquium lecture... read more