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Journal Award of the Investment Management Consultants’
Association.
Sivabal Sivaloganathan is University Research Chair and
Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of
Waterloo, and former faculty member of the Department of
Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Alberta. He
is a Fellow of the Fields Institute and the founding and current
Director of the Centre for Mathematical Medicine at the Fields
Institute.
Victor Snaith was educated at Cambridge University and
received his PhD at Warwick University. He taught at
Cambridge before moving to Canada where he became a
member of the group of algebraic topologists at the University
of Western Ontario (1976–88). A Fellow of the Royal Society
of Canada, he also held the University of Western Ontario
Science Faculty Distinguished Research Professorship. In
1988, he moved to McMaster University as the first R. F.
Britton Professor, specializing in number theory and algebraic
K-theory. He was an early, strong supporter in the founding
of the Fields Institute.
Mary E. Thompson is Distinguished Professor Emeritus
in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at
the University of Waterloo.
She served on the Board
of Directors of the Fields Institute (2009–12), and was
the founding Scientific Director of the Canadian Statistical
Sciences Institute (2012–15). She is a Fellow of the Fields
Institute.
Matt Valeriote earned his BMath at the University of
Waterloo and his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley.
His research activities are centred on problems arising in
mathematical logic, theoretical computer science, and abstract
algebra.
He is a former Chair of the Department of
Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, and is a
Fellow of the Fields Institute.