Awards

Ben Williams: UBC Mathematics and Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Faculty Award (2018)

Ben Williams has won the 2017 UBC Mathematics and Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Faculty Award. The prize has a cash component, and winners are invited to give a prestigious invited lecture. Thus we can look forward to hearing Prof Williams describe his work sometime later this... read more

Alejandro Adem: Corresponding Member (2017)

Alejandro Ádem has been named as a Corresponding Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences . His installation will occur at the Mathematical Institute of the UNAM on 22 April 2017, where he will lecture on "Navegando entre grupos, representaciones y topologÍa". The promotional is at http://amc.edu... read more

Kai Behrend and Brian Marcus: Fells of the American Mathematical Society (2017)

Kai Behrend and Brian Marcus had been named in the 2018 class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society . Kai Behrend "For contributions to algebraic geometry." Brian Marcus "For contributions to dynamical systems, symbolic dynamics and applications to data storage problems, and service to... read more

Sabin Cautis: CMS Coxeter-James Prize (2017)

Sabin Cautis has been awarded the 2017 CMS Coxeter-James Prize for his outstanding contributions to mathematical research. "Prof. Cautis is a leader in the new and rapidly developing field of categorification as it relates to geometric representation theory, algebraic geometry, mathematical physics... read more

James J. Feng: CAIMS Research Prize (2017)

James J. Feng is the winer of the CAIMS Research Prize 2017. It recognizes Feng's influential contributions to the study of complex fluids, through a combination of challenging computations, novel theoretical insights, and physical experiments. The full citation is available at: http://www.caims.ca... read more

Faculty Research Awards (2016)

UBC's 2016 Faculty Research Awards were announced: Dragos Ghioca won a Killam Research Fellowship to support him while on sabbatical. Christoph Hauert won a Killam Research Prize, in recognition of his outstanding research and scholarly contributions. Dong Li won the Charles A McDowell Award for... read more

Julia Gordon: Michler Prize (2017)

Congratulations to Julia Gordon for winning the 2017-2018 Michler Prize, co-sponsored by the Associaton for Women in Mathematics and Cornell University. The AWM website says, "The prize provides a fellowship for the awardee to spend a semester in the Mathematics Department of Cornell University... read more

Graduate Research Awards (2017)

The winners of the Mathematics Department's Graduate Research Awards for 2017 have now been named: Oliver Leigh, winner for Pure Mathematics, and Josh Scurll and Cole Zmurchok , joint winnners for Applied Mathematics. Please join us in congratulating Oliver, Josh and Cole on their excellent... read more

Stilianos Louca: Governor General's Gold Medal (2017)

Stilianos Louca has been awarded a Governor General's Gold Medal for his PhD work and dissertation. This annual prize is given to the graduating doctoral student who has achieved the most outstanding academic record at UBC. https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/governor-generals-gold-medal Dr Louca... read more

Yaniv Plan: UBC Mathematics and Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Faculty Award (2017)

Yaniv Plan has won the 2016 UBC Mathematics and Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Faculty Award. The prize has a cash component, and the winner is invited to give a prestigious invited lecture. So we can look forward to hearing Prof Plan describe his work sometime later this year. The... read more