Stephanie Van Willigenburg has been named the recipient of the 2017 CMS Krieger-Nelson Prize for her exceptional contributions to mathematical research.

Today's official announcement in Ottawa says, among other things, that "Prof. van Willigenburg is a leading expert in algebraic combinatorics, a vibrant area of mathematics that connects with many other fields of study including representation theory, algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, topology and probability. Her research and subsequent discoveries have focused on Schur functions, skew Schur functions and quasisymmetric Schur functions, central topics within the field of algebraic combinatorics."

Steph will present a lecture and receive her award in conjunction with the Mathematical Congress of the Americas (https://mca2017.org/) in July 2017.

For additional information, visit https://cms.math.ca/MediaReleases/2017/kn-prize.