Faculty Awards
Professor Vinod Vaikuntanathan has been awarded a Sloan Fellowship for 2013 19-02-2013
As you all know Sloan Fellowship is a very prestigious award. Established in 1955 it aims to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars" in physics, chemistry, mathematics, neuroscience, economics, computer science and molecular biology.
Vinod has already performed groundbreaking work in the area of "homomorphic encryption", a technique that allows one to compute on encrypted data and that has many applications, most notably to Cloud Computing. This fellowship will help Vinod to improve, expand upon, and generalize these ideas in ways that will have wide-ranging uses, including applications to code obfuscation and copy-protection of programs.
Professor Andrew Petersen wins University of Toronto Mississauga's Teaching Excellence Award! 08-08-2012
In August 2012, it was announced by the Vice President and Principal Deep Saini, that Andrew Petersen, along with Professor Joseph Leydon from the department of Geography, were selected as the joint recipients of the UTM Teaching Excellence Award for Faculty.
This award recognizes excellence in undergraduate teaching.The selection committee felt that Andrew's teaching effectiveness was demonstrated by the degree to which he is able to stimulate and challenge the intellectual ability of students, to communicate academic material effectively and to maintain a mastery of his subject areas.
Andrew Petersen wins Best Zone Paper for 2011 ASEE Annual Conference Best Paper Awards. 11-06-2012
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Charlie Rackoff wins 2011 RSA Conference Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics
15-02-2011
Established in 1998, the RSA Conference Awards are presented to acknowledge the outstanding contributions of individuals and organizations in the field of cryptography, public policy and information security. The RSA Conference Award for Mathematics recognizes innovation and ongoing contribution to the field of cryptography.
From the citation: Rackoff's research interests are in computational complexity. For some time now he has been specializing in Cryptography, Security, and Security protocols. He was a co-originator of the important concepts of "interactive proofs" and "zero-knowledge proofs", for which he co-won the 1993 Godel Prize.
For more information, see
http://www.rsaconference.com/about-rsa-conference/rsa-conference-awards.htm
Professor Yael Karshon is awarded the 2009 Krieger-Nelson Prize from the Canadian Mathematical Society. 1-04-08
The Krieger-Nelson Prize recognizes outstanding research by a female mathematician.
Dr. Yael Karshon is one of Canada's leading experts in symplectic geometry. Symplectic geometry is the geometry underlying classical mechanics, and has close relations with quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. The tools of symplectic geometry appear in algebraic geometry and representation theory, and in connection with convex polytopes. Symplectic spaces arising in physics and mathematics often admit many symmetries.
Dr. Karshon's work has focused on symmetries of symplectic manifolds, formalized as Hamiltonian group actions. She has obtained deep results on the classification of such structures. One of her significant contributions is the idea of "abstract moment maps", which are maps between (not necessarily symplectic) manifolds with group actions, and which generalize moment maps on symplectic manifolds. She is the author (jointly with Guillemin and Ginzburg) of an authoritative monograph that provides new connections between moment maps, cobordisms and Hamiltonian group actions. Some of her recent work is in symplectic topology, involving symplectic capacities and symplectomorphism groups.
Dr. Karshon completed her Ph.D. in 1993 under the supervision of Shlomo Sternberg at Harvard, and then held a C.L.E. Moore Instructorship at MIT. In 1995 she moved to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she obtained tenure. She joined the University of Toronto Mississauga in 2002, and was promoted to Full Professor in 2006. In 2005 she received the University of Toronto's McLean Award, which is given each year to one faculty member in the mathematical or physical sciences or engineering, within 12 years of Ph.D. Dr. Karshon takes pride in the achievements of her Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows.
Dr. Karshon will present the 2009 Krieger-Nelson Prize Lecture at the CMS Summer Meeting in St. John's (June 2009).
SOURCE: The Canadian Mathematical Society
118 Early Career Researchers Receive Prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships.
20-02-08
Dr. Valentin Blomer, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto Mississauga has been named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow.
The Sloan Research Fellowship awards are intended to enhance the careers of the very best young faculty members (in American and Canadian University and Colleges) in specified fields of science which include: chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience and physics.
The Sloan Research Fellowships have been awarded since 1955, initially in only three scientific fields: physics, chemistry, and mathematics. Since then, 35 Sloan Research Fellow have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in their fields;and 14 have received the Fields Medal, the top honour in mathematics.
Source: www.sloan.org
Synergy Awards Recognize Real-world Applications of Research.
30-10-07
Luis Seco honoured by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada October 29, 2007, for his work in bringing university research to the marketplace.
Luis Seco, a faculty member of the Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences won a $25,000 Synergy Award for his collaboration with Algorithmics, a risk management company. Their partnership has yeided financial software that identifies and manages the risks involved in complex financial instruments. Seco and Algorithmics were the first to apply financial engineering --the confluence of math and computer science-- to practical challenges within the financial industry.
The UofT news story is available here.
SOURCE: News@UofT -- Science and Technology
For the second year in a row, one of our lecturers receives University of Toronto Mississauga's Best Lecturer Award. 03-07-07
Professor Arnold Rosenbloom wins University of Toronto Mississauga's Teaching Excellence Award!
In June 2007, it was announced by the Acting Vice President and Principal, Professor Cheryl Misak, that Arnold Rosenbloom was chosen as the recipient of the UofTM Teaching Excellence Award 'for oustanding teaching by a faculty member'.
This was the second year in a row that a lecturer from Mathematical and Computational Sciences won this award. This department is very proud of this well-deserved honour received by Arnold.
This award recognizes excellence in undergraduate teaching at the University of Toronto Mississauga.
Teaching effectiveness is demonstrated by the degree to which the faculty member is able to stimulate and challenge the intellectual ability of students, to communicate academic material effectively and to maintain a mastery of his/her subject areas. It also involves maintaining accessability to students and the ability to influence the intellectual and scholarly development of students.
Professor Avner Magen awarded the Early Researcher Award.
July 2007
The Early Researcher Awards program (ERA) helps promising, recently-appointed Ontario researchers build their research teams of graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, research assistants and associates. The goal of the program is to improve Ontario’s ability to attract and retain the best and brightest research talent from around the world. Each researcher receives $140,000 funding through the program.
Valentin Blomer Awarded DFG 2005 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize.
18-03-2005
The prize is presented annually to six young researchers in recognition of outstanding scientific achievements in their field. Of the 94 candidates, this year's prizewinners include a mathematician, a botanist, a dermatologist, a Germanist, an astrophysicist and an Anglicist. The prize represents both recognition of their scientific achievements to date as well as a stimulus to continue to excel in the future. See the full story. (<-- broken)
Yael Karshon awarded the 2005 McLean Award.
The 2005 McLean Award, is presented by the Connaught Committee, which administers the Connaught Fund at the University of Toronto. The award is based on Peer review and it recognizes an outstanding researcher at an early stage of his or her career.
Michael Yampolsky receives PREA Award.
01-08-2002
Michael Yampolsky, Professor of Mathematics, was one of 34 university researchers in Ontario who earned the Premier's Research Excellence Award. Awarded by the Ministry of Enterprise, Opportunity and Innovation, the award recognizes scholarly ability, creativity and excellence. See the full story. (<-- broken)