Mathematics and Statistics - News /mathstat/channels_item/2 en 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 ƽ岻 Axel Hundemer awarded Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching /mathstat/node/3304 <p>Congratulations to Professor Axel Hundemer, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, for being awarded the 2024 <a href="/science/staff/teaching-prizes" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching</a>!  This award is given each year to recognize a faculty member for superior teaching at the undergraduate level in the Faculty of Science.  </p> <p>Read below the citation for the announcement of the award. </p> Wed, 19 Jun 2024 14:38:01 +0000 ƽ岻 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 ƽ岻 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 ƽ岻 Real Data and Real Solutions in MATH 527 /mathstat/node/3278 <p>On a cloudy afternoon this past December, a group of ƽ岻 students gathered in a downtown Montréal boardroom to give a data science presentation to Citera, a sustainability analytics company. This presentation wasn’t for an internship or any other extracurricular activity – it was part of one of ƽ岻’s newest and most innovative courses: <a href="/study/2023-2024/courses/math-527d1">MATH 527</a>, Statistical Data Science Practicum.</p> Wed, 03 Apr 2024 13:39:01 +0000 ƽ岻 Ed Doolittle and Panel on March 14th /mathstat/node/3262 Tue, 05 Mar 2024 17:10:54 +0000 ƽ岻 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 ƽ岻 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 ƽ岻 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 ƽ岻 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 ƽ岻 Robin Khanfir (ƽ岻) /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 ƽ岻 Former PhD student James Rickards featured in Quanta Magazine /mathstat/node/3120 &;&;&;/&; Mon, 28 Aug 2023 19:38:19 +0000 ƽ岻 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 ƽ岻