Fields 2019-2020 Board of Directors
The Fields Institute is pleased to announce its new slate of Board of Directors for the 2019-2020 academic year along with newly elected members!
July 1, 2019, Toronto, ON. New Board of Directors members include Sarah Bevan, Octav Cornea, and Barbara Keyfitz. Fields Institute Board members elected the three candidates to serve three-year terms from 2019 to 2022. These appointments were confirmed by vote of the Members of the Corporation at the Institute’s 2019 Annual General Meeting on June 27. The complete 2019-20 Board of Directors slate is available here.
Sarah Bevan, Managing Director, President and CEO of UBS Bank (Canada), a wholly-owned subsidiary of UBS AG. With over 30 years of experience in the field of international wealth management, Ms. Bevan demonstrates a depth of expertise as a versatile and dynamic business leader. She brings to Canada decisive leadership and extensive management skills, with a proven ability to significantly increase revenues in an intensively competitive environment.
Prior to moving to Toronto five years ago, Ms. Bevan spent 15 years in New York, working for Barclays Bank plc which was then acquired by RBC. At RBC she headed the international wealth management division in New York until she joined UBS AG in 2007. Prior to New York, she worked 15 years in London, England where she started her financial markets career with Nesbitt Thomson Bongard Limited followed by Credit Suisse and Citibank NA, covering and traveling to Latin America and various corners of the world. Ms. Bevan was educated in England and holds a B.A. (Honours) in Modern Languages (French/Spanish) and History from CCAT in Cambridge. She sits on the Boards of UBS Bank (Canada), Mitacs, BIRS and Advisory Board of start-up company Palette. 2019-20 will be her first year on the Fields Board.
Octav Cornea obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Rochester in 1993 and, in 1994, he became Professeur des Universités at the Université de Lille 1, France. He has been a Professor of Mathematics at the Université de Montréal since 2003. He served as director of the Institut des Sciences Mathématiques (2006-2009), director of the Séminaire de Mathématiques Supérieures (2010 – 2019) and deputy director of the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques (2011-2014). He works in geometry and topology, with contributions to algebraic topology, dynamical systems and, in the last fifteen years, mainly to symplectic topology. He was a Simons Fellow (2015-2016), a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2015-2016), a Research Professor at the Mathematical Science Research Institute in Berkeley (2009), and an Invited Speaker at the Inaugural Mathematical Congress of the Americas in 2013. 2019-20 will be his first year on the Fields Board.
Barbara Keyfitz is the Dr. Charles Saltzer Professor of Mathematics at Ohio State University, which she joined in January 2009, after 21 years at the University of Houston and four and a half years as Director of the Fields Institute in Toronto, Canada. Barbara Keyfitz received her undergraduate education at the University of Toronto and her M.S. and Ph.D. from the Courant Institute, New York University. Her research area is Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations. She has contributed to the study of nonstrictly hyperbolic conservation laws. With Herbert Kranzer, she developed the concept of singular shocks, which have since been observed in some fluid systems. With Suncica Canic and others, she was a pioneer in the mathematical theory of self-similar solutions of multidimensional conservation laws. She has supervised five Ph.D. students and ten postdoctoral visitors.
Keyfitz is a SIAM Fellow, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, a Fellow of the Fields Institute, and the recipient of the 2012 SIAM Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession. She has served on the editorial boards of the AMS Proceedings, the AMS Transactions, JMAA, SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, Fields Institute Monographs and Communications, Chinese Journal of Engineering Mathematics, and as a member of the Mathematical Reviews Editorial Committee.
In 2012 she was the Noether Lecturer at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, and the Kovalevsky Lecturer at the SIAM Annual Meeting. She received the 2005 Krieger-Nelson Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society, and an Honorary Doctor of Mathematics degree (2010) from the University of Waterloo. She was President of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 2005-2006, and was a Vice-President of SIAM, 1998-2003, and of the American Mathematical Society from 2011-2014. She recently completed a four-year term (2011-2015) as President of the International Council on Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
