Awards

Ailana Fraser wins a Simons fellowship (2022)

This award supports her upcoming sabbatical leave. Congratulations Ailana! For more information, visit https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2022/02/18/2022-simons-fellows-in-mathematics-and-theoretical-physics-announced/read more

Guodong Gai receives the Mathematics Department Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Postdoctoral Fellow (2022)

The undergraduate committee makes this award each semester to recognize the teaching contributions of our postdoctoral fellows. We rely heavily on their efforts, especially but not exclusively in 100- and 200- level classes. Congratulations to Guodong and Farid, and thanks for all you do for the... read more

Farid Aliniaeifard receives the Mathematics Department Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Postdoctoral Fellow (2022)

The undergraduate committee makes this award each semester to recognize the teaching contributions of our postdoctoral fellows. We rely heavily on their efforts, especially but not exclusively in 100- and 200- level classes. Congratulations to Guodong and Farid, and thanks for all you do for the... read more

Fok-Shuen Leung wins Killam Teaching Prize (2021/2022)

The Killam teaching prize is awarded every year to an elite group across the university. It recognizes outstanding achievements as a teacher and reflects enthusiasm and commitment to our students. More information about the prize is available at: https://academic.ubc.ca/awards-funding/award-winners... read more

Elyse Yeager wins Killam Teaching Prize (2021/2022)

The Killam teaching prize is awarded every year to an elite group across the university. It recognizes outstanding achievements as a teacher and reflects enthusiasm and commitment to our students. More information about the prize is available at: https://academic.ubc.ca/awards-funding/award-winners... read more

Ailana Fraser wins the Cathleen Synge Morawetz Prize (2021)

Ailana has been awarded the Cathleen Synge Morawetz Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society for her work on Steklov eigenvalues. https://cms.math.ca/awards/cathleen-synge-morawetz-prize/read more

Caleb Marshall is a recipient of a Vanier Scholarship (2021)

This is a tremendous recognition for a graduate student. https://vanier.gc.ca/en/scholar_search-chercheur_recherche_2021.html (select the NSERC tab)read more

Malabika Pramanik is now a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2021)

Her citation reads: "For contributions to complex and harmonic analysis and mentoring and support for the participation of -represented groups in mathematics.” So far as I can tell, we now have eleven colleagues in this group (not counting emeritus professors). More details here: https://www.ams... read more

Leah Edelstein-Keshet wins the premier research prize in applied mathematics, SIAM’s von Neumann prize (2022)

"The 2022 John von Neumann Prize – the highest honor and flagship lecture of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) – is awarded to Leah Edelstein-Keshet, University of British Columbia, in recognition of her far-reaching contributions to mathematical biology. Her work on cellular... read more

Michael Ward: Julian Cole lecture at the SIAM annual meeting (2022)

This is like an Olympic gold or the World Cup because it is only awarded every four years, "for an outstanding contribution to the mathematical characterization and solution of a challenging problem in the physical or biological sciences, or in engineering, or for the development of mathematical... read more