“Ryerson is delighted to be furthering our partnership with
the Fields Institute as a Principal Sponsoring University.
The application of knowledge in the area of math sciences
continues to grow at an unprecedented pace as computational
technology and access to data and analytics are present in
nearly every field of study,” says Professor Steven Liss, Vice-
President, Research and Innovation, Ryerson University.
“Our ongoing collaboration with the Fields Institute reaffirms
our commitment to mathematical studies and contribution to
fundamental knowledge and its applications.”
The Fields Institute aims to expand the impact of
mathematics in modern society by prom oting contact and
collaboration between professional mathematicians and the
increasing numbers of users of mathematics.
The nine Principal Sponsoring Universities are essential
for the success of this mission. Together we provide a
wide variety of opportunities through the excellence of our
research programs to benefit the mathematical sciences
community across Canada.
2017 Fields Institute
Fellows
HENRI RENE DARMON (MCGILL) :
Darmon is the winner of the 2017 CRM-
Fields-PIMS Prize and a 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.
GHOUSSOUB
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.
DONNA
Five inductees were honoured for their
outstanding contributions to the Fields
Institute and its activities.
NASSIF
Mathematical Sciences) for the period 1996-2003, a
cofounder 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.
(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
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, Kotsopoulos 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 (TORYS LLP,
BANK OF MONTREAL, METROLINX):
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.
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