Tom Hutchcroft has been awarded a Governor General's Gold Medal. This recognizes Tom as the UBC doctoral graduate with the most outstanding academic record. Dr Hutchcroft made a strong impression during his time here, with a paper in the Inventiones in 2016, two productive summers as an intern at Microsoft Research, and the Math Department's Graduate Research Prize in 2015. 

Tom's dissertation (supervised by Omer Angel and Asaf Nachmias) is entitled Discrete Probability and the Geometry of Graphs. It has 10 chapters, and each one after the introduction corresponds to a peer-reviewed publication in a top-quality journal.
Here is a direct link: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62595

Tom is now a Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge and a Junior Research Fellow in Trinity College. (This sentence comes from his new home page, at href="http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~th361/ .) All indicators point to a bright future and ongoing success