2017 Fields Institute Fellows
Five inductees were honoured for their outstanding contributions to the Fields Institute and its activities.
The Fields Institute is proud to announce its 2017 Fields Institute Fellows.
Henri Rene Darmon (McGill): Darmon is the winner of the 2017 CRM-Fields-PIMs Prize and well known mathematician specializing in number theory. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada and will receive the 2017 AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory "for his contributions to the arithmetic of elliptic curves and modular forms." He is currently a James McGill Professor of Mathematics at McGill University.
Nassif Ghoussoub (UBC): Ghoussoub is a founder of BIRS (Banff International Research Station) and has been its Scientific Director since 2004. He was also the founding Director of PIMS (Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences) for the period 1996-2003, a co-founder of the MITACS Network of Centres of Excellence (Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems). He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1993, and was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in December 2015. Ghoussoub is currently a Professor of Mathematics and a "Distinguished University Scholar” at the University of British Columbia.
Donna Kotsopoulos (Wilfrid Laurier): Kotsopolous is an Ontario Certified Teacher (OCT) and the founding and current co-editor of the Fields Mathematics Education Journal. She was recently awarded the Hoffman-Little Award for Faculty for excellence in teaching, research, and professional endeavor. Currently, Kotsopolous is a professor in the Faculty of Education, cross appointed to the Department of Mathematics in the Faculty of Science at Wilfrid Laurier.
Robert Prichard: Prichard was the thirteenth president of the University of Toronto from 1990 to 2000. During his ten years as president, the U of T's endowment rose to $1.4 billion, the most of any Canadian university. Prichard is currently the Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Montreal as well as the chair of the board of Metrolinx and Penguin Group Canada, and the chair of Toronto law firm Torys LLP.
Matheus Grasselli (McMaster): Grasselli was the Deputy Director of the Fields Institute from 2012 to 2016. He is Managing Editor of Springer Briefs in Mathematical Finance, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Banking and Finance. Grasselli is currently a Professor of Financial Mathematics working with the PhiMac group in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University.
The designation of Fields Institute Fellow is awarded in recognition of outstanding contributions to the Fields Institute and its activities.
Congratulations to all!
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