Tom Hutchcroft has won the 2018 Canadian Mathematical Society Doctoral Prize! The Doctoral Prize recognizes outstanding performance by a doctoral student. Tom will receive his award and present a prize lecture during the CMS Winter Meeting here in Vancouver, December 7-10, 2018.

Today's official announcement in Ottawa says "he is regarded as one of the top recent Ph.D.s in probability theory in the world" with "an impressive collection of results ... published in leading journals, such as Inventiones Mathematicae" and "has made remarkable progress in the study of uniform spanning trees on unimodular and planar graphs" amongst many other achievements, including recently winning the Governor General's Gold Medal. 

The full media release is at
https://cms.math.ca/MediaReleases/2018/Doctoral