Mathematics and Statistics - News /mathstat/channels_item/2 en Professor Henri Darmon elected to the 2025 Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) /mathstat/node/3369 <p><strong>Professor Henri Darmon</strong> has been elected to the 2025 Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS).</p> <p>"Forty-one mathematical scientists from around the world have been named <a href="https://www.ams.org/grants-awards/ams-fellows/ams-fellows">Fellows of the American Mathematical Society</a> (AMS) for 2025, the program's 13th year. Recognized by their peers, AMS members designated as Fellows of the AMS have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics".</p> Mon, 04 Nov 2024 18:32:04 +0000 SM Professor Christian Genest awarded Parzen Prize (2024) /mathstat/node/3363 <p><b>Professor Christian Genest</b> has been awarded the 2024 prestigious <b>Parzen Prize</b>.</p> Wed, 30 Oct 2024 18:12:16 +0000 SM Rosalie Bélanger-Rioux - Winner of President’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching in the category of Faculty Lecturer (2024) /mathstat/node/3352 <p>Rosalie Bélanger-Rioux is the 2024 recipient of the <b>President’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching in the category of Faculty Lecturer.</b></p> <p>The President's Prize for Excellence in Teaching was established to recognize educators who have distinguished themselves both in their teaching abilities and in their ability to motivate their students.</p> Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:26:14 +0000 SM Vitaliy Kurlin (University of Liverpool) /mathstat/node/3348 <p><strong>Title</strong>:<b> </b>Can we geometrically sense the shape of a molecule?</p> <p><strong>Abstract:</strong> Can we hear the shape of a drum? This question was negatively answered decades ago by many authors including Gordon, Webb, Wolpert, who constructed non-isometric planar shapes that have the identical eigenvalues of the Laplace operator (Bull. AMS, v.27 (1992), p.134-138). The more general question: can we sense the shape of a rigid object such as a cloud of atomic centers representing a molecule?</p> Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:12:03 +0000 SM Mathematics and Statistics Department Picnic /mathstat/node/3337 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:30:21 +0000 SM PhD Oral Defence of Mr. Renaud Alie /mathstat/node/3326 &;&;&;/&; <p><a name="_Hlk146115370" id="_Hlk146115370"><b>SM </b></a><b>DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS</b> </p> <p><b>PhD Oral Defence of Mr. Renaud Alie</b></p> <p><b>DATE:</b> Friday, October 18, 2024</p> <p><b>TIME / PLACE:</b> Defence 10:00 a.m. (BURN 1025)</p> <p><b>TITLE:</b><b> </b>Tractability and Scalability in Multitype Gaussian</p> <p>Cox Process Models</p> <p><b>CHAIR</b><b>: </b>Prof. Rustum Choksi</p> <p><b>SUPERVISOR</b><b>:</b> Prof. David A. Stephens</p> <p><b>INTERNAL MEMBER</b><b>: </b>Prof. Christian Genest</p> Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:30:19 +0000 SM Professor David Stephens elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) /mathstat/node/3315 <p>Professor<b> David Stephens</b> has been elected a <a href="https://rsc-src.ca/sites/default/files/24_New%20Members_EN_0.pdf"><b>Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada</b>.</a></p> Thu, 05 Sep 2024 14:14:19 +0000 SM Celebrating International Pi Day with the Office of Indigenous Initiatives /mathstat/node/3373 <p>Earlier this year, SM’s <a href="/indigenous/">Office of Indigenous Initiatives</a> celebrated International Pi Day with a talk from mathematician Dr. Edward Doolittle followed by a student panel on Indigenous experiences in STEM and, of course, some delicious pie.</p> Mon, 12 Aug 2024 18:07:35 +0000 SM Professor Eyal Goren awarded prestigious Frontiers of Science Award (2024) /mathstat/node/3305 <p>Professor <b>Eyal Goren</b> has received a prestigious <b>Frontiers of Science Award</b> for his co-authorship in his landmark publication <a href="https://annals.math.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/annals-v187-n2-p03-p.pdf"><b>Faltings heights of abelian varieties with complex multiplication</b> by <b>Andreatta Fabrizio, Goren Eyal, Howard Benjamin, Keerthi Sampath Madapusi. Annals of Mathematics (2018).</b></a></p> Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:22:37 +0000 SM Professor Christian Genest - recipient of the 2024 Lise Manchester Award from The Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) /mathstat/node/3299 &;&;&;/&; <p>Professor Christian Genest is one of the three recipients of the 2024 <a href="https://ssc.ca/en/awards/2024/jonathan-jalbert-christian-genest-and-luc-perreault-lise-manchester-award-2024"><strong>Lise Manchester Award from The Statistical Society of Canada (SSC).</strong></a></p> <p>The award recognizes excellence in state-of-the-art statistical work which considers problems of public interest and which is potentially useful for formation of Canadian public policy. </p> Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:08:45 +0000 SM Professor Henri Darmon named Guggenheim Fellow (2024) /mathstat/node/3286 <p>The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced their 2024 fellows, which includes one faculty member from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, <b><a href="https://www.math.mcgill.ca/darmon/">Professor Henri Darmon</a></b>.</p> <p>Professor Darmon is among 188 scholars to receive fellowships, from a pool of almost 3,000 applicants — “a distinguished and diverse group of culture-creators working across 52 disciplines,” according to the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation press statement.</p> Mon, 15 Apr 2024 17:35:36 +0000 SM Ed Doolittle and Panel on March 14th /mathstat/node/3262 Tue, 05 Mar 2024 17:10:54 +0000 SM Asha Basu and Antoine Labelle – Winners of the 2023 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition /mathstat/node/3258 &;&;&;/&; <p><b>Asha Basu </b>and<b> Antoine Labelle </b>were ranked in the top 100 receiving the accolade of Honorable Mention in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lowell_Putnam_Mathematical_Competition">William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition</a>, a preeminent mathematics competition for undergraduate students in the United States and Canada.</p> Thu, 29 Feb 2024 23:29:45 +0000 SM Courtney Y. Paquette receives 2024 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship /mathstat/node/3257 <p>It is a great pleasure to announce that our colleague <b>Courtney Paquette</b> has been named a <a href="https://sloan.org/fellowships/2024-Fellows"><b>2024 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Computer Science.</b></a></p> <p>Machine learning relies heavily on probabilistic optimization algorithms.</p> <p>While machine learning papers are written at a staggering rate, there is much less foundational mathematical work that addresses the success of machine learning.</p> <p>Since her PhD, Courtney has been at the forefront of this foundational work.</p> Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:19:45 +0000 SM Ryan O’Loughlin (Université Laval) /mathstat/node/3224 <p>Title:<b> Symmetric Tensor Products: An Operator Theory Approach</b></p> Fri, 02 Feb 2024 16:02:48 +0000 SM TA Award (Fall 2023) /mathstat/node/3214 &;&;&;/&; <p>Dear Students and Fellow Colleagues,</p> <p>It gives me great pleasure to announce the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award winners for the Fall 2023 term.</p> <p>Congratulations to<b> Gabriel Crudele </b>(MATH 356), <b>Shereen Elaidi</b> (MATH 133),<b> Christopher Karpinski </b>(MATH 235), and <b>Aaron Shalev</b> (MATH 242).</p> <p>This prestigious award recognizes exceptional performance from TAs in our Department each Fall and Winter term. Winners are selected based on course evaluations received by the Department.</p> <p>Thank you all very much for your excellent work!</p> Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:14:41 +0000 SM Robin Khanfir (SM) /mathstat/node/3198 <table> <tr> <td> <p><strong>TITLE / TITRE</strong><br /> The Horton-Strahler number and the Brownian tree<br /> <br /> <strong>ABSTRACT / RÉSUMÉ </strong></p></td></tr></table> Tue, 21 Nov 2023 21:34:37 +0000 SM Former PhD student James Rickards featured in Quanta Magazine /mathstat/node/3120 &;&;&;/&; Mon, 28 Aug 2023 19:38:19 +0000 SM Prof. Dave Stephens part of groundbreaking study on SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in Canada, 2020-2023 /mathstat/node/3118 <p>Read the article, published in the <em>Canadian Medical Association Journal</em>:</p> Fri, 25 Aug 2023 15:42:50 +0000 SM