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Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Mike Newman awarded CMS Doctoral Prize

As a graduate student of Professor Christopher Godsil, University of Waterloo, Michael Newman wrote an outstanding dissertation which presents extensions and applications of the Delsarte-Hoffman bound on the size of independent sets in graphs. The thesis interweaves the solutions of three intriguing yet ostensibly unrelated problems into a unified tapestry by virtue of their common methodological treatment. The results obtained are important and the exposition first-rate.

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Jim Geelen awarded the Coxeter-James Prize

Professor Jim Geelen is already a world leader in the areas of combinatorial optimization and matroid theory. The referees describe him as an "outstanding talent" and a "very creative and original researcher" with a "huge international reputation".

Thursday, September 22, 2005

Carsten Thomassen awarded a Faculty of Mathematics Alumni Achievement Medal

Professor Carsten Thomassen (PhD 1976, Combinatorics and Optimization) was awarded a Facuty of Mathematics Alumni Achievement Medal for his fundamental research and extraordinary academic accomplishments as one of the foremost graph theorists in the world. Carsten is professor of Mathematics at the Technical University of Denmark.

Saturday, January 1, 2005

Canada Research Chair appointments

N. Wormald, M. Mosca, J. Geelen, D. Leung.
The Canada Research Chairs Program stands at the centre of a national strategy to make Canada one of the world's top five countries for research and development.

In 2000, the Government of Canada allocated $900 million to establish 2,000 research professorships Canada Research Chairs in universities across the country.

Thursday, September 26, 2002

Neil Robertson awarded an Alumni Achievement Medal

Neil Robertson
Professor Neil Robertson (PhD, University of Waterloo, 1969, supervisor: Professor William Tutte) has been awarded the 2002 Alumni Achievement Medal. This new alumni achievement medal is awarded annually to Alumni of the Faculty of Mathematics for outstanding accomplishments in professional, business, or community life.