Annual Report 2005 - Fields Institute - University of Toronto

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Members of the Corporation 2004–2005 Principal Sponsoring University Members AMITAVA BOSE Carleton University IRWIN PRESSMAN Carleton University BENJAMIN STEINBERG Carleton University BRADD HART McMaster University PETER SUTHERLAND McMaster University MATTHEW VALERIOTE McMaster University MAYER ALVO University of Ottawa ERHARD NEHER University of Ottawa VLADIMIR PESTOV University of Ottawa JOHN BLAND University of Toronto JOHN CHALLIS University of Toronto SAFWAT G. ZAKY University of Toronto ANDU NICA University of Waterloo CAMERON STEWART University of Waterloo DOUG STINSON University of Waterloo RICK JARDINE University of Western Ontario PAUL J. SULLIVAN University of Western Ontario PATRICK W. DYMOND York University GEORGE O’BRIEN York University STEVEN X. WANG York University Directorate Members BARBARA LEE KEYFITZ Fields Institute THOMAS SALISBURY Fields Institute KENNETH R. DAVIDSON University of Waterloo Corporate Affiliate Members RON DEMBO 0footprint DAVID FIELD General Motors MILORAD KRNETA Generation 5 MOSHE MILEVSKY The Individual Finance and Insurance Decisions (IFID) Centre DAVID RUDD Sigma Analysis and Management G o v e r n a n c e Affiliate University Members ROBERT ERDAHL Queen’s University ANNA LAWNICZAK University of Guelph ABBA GUMEL University of Manitoba PATRICK M. FITZPATRICK University of Maryland STEPHEN BERMAN University of Saskatchewan Members-at-Large IAN AINSWORTH Mackenzie Universal Future Fund RICHARD BOND University of Toronto, CITA JOHN CROW Lawrence and Company Inc. JOHN R. GARDNER Fields Institute JOHN GUCKENHEIMER Cornell University JANET E. HALLIWELL SSHRC HON. ROY MACLAREN PETER J. NICHOLSON J. ROBERT PRICHARD Torstar Corporation WILLIAM PULLEYBLANK IBM Global Services PHILIP SILLER Hexagram & Co. CLAUDINE SIMSON Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. KAREN UHLENBECK University of Texas HARI VENKATACHARYA Cyrca Mathematical Sciences Societies Members CHRISTIANE ROUSSEAU Université de Montréal & CMS KEN JACKSON University of Toronto & CAIMS MICHAEL EVANS University of Toronto & SSC STEPHEN WATT University of Western Ontario & CACS Fields Institute 2005 ANNUAL REPORT 124
Scientific Advisory Panel 2004–2005 The Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) provides the scientific leadership of the Institute. The SAP, which is chaired by the Director, includes the Deputy Director and a rotating membership of at least seven distinguished mathematicians from Canada and abroad. The panel makes recommendations to the Board of Directors on the selection of thematic programs and other major activity JENNIFER CHAYES is Manager of the Theory Group at Microsoft Research. The group includes mathematicians, physicists and theoretical computer scientists working on problems at the interface of these three fields. In addition to managing the Theory Group at Microsoft, Chayes has been Professor of Mathematics at UCLA and is Affiliate Professor of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Washington. She has been Vice-President of the American Mathematical Society. Chayes has also served on numerous other boards and advisory committees. Chayes received her BA in biology and physics from Wesleyan University, where she graduated first in her class. She received her PhD in mathematical physics from Princeton University. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Physics and Mathematics departments at Harvard University, and at the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and the Army Mathematics Center at Cornell University. Chayes was awarded a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mathematics and a Sloan Foundation Fellowship. She has also won several teaching awards including the Distinguished Teaching Award in Mathematics at UCLA. She has twice been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Chayes is the author of over sixty-five papers in mathematics and physics. She is one of the world’s experts on phase transitions, particularly on the probabilistic and stochastic geometric approach to statistical physics. Since joining Microsoft in 1997, Chayes has begun to apply methods from mathematics and physics to problems in theoretical computer science, networking, and information technology. WALTER CRAIG received his MS and PhD from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. His research focuses on the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations and Hamiltonian dynamical systems, and their applications. He has taught at Caltech, Stanford University, and Brown University, and is currently Professor of Mathematics and Canada Research Chair at McMaster University. He has lectured extensively at G o v e r n a n c e conferences and institutes around the world, including the Tata Institute, the ICMS Edinburgh, the ETH, the INI, and IHES. He is currently on the Council of the AMS, and is a member of the editorial boards of the SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, the AMS Graduate Studies, the Proceedings of the Royal Society, the Canadian Journal of Mathematics, and the Mathematical Physics Electronic Journal. He helped organize the Institute’s 2003 thematic program in Partial Differential Equations. HENRI DARMON received his BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from McGill University in 1987 and his PhD in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1991. He is currently Professor in the Department of Mathematics at McGill University. Prior to his present appointment he taught at Princeton University. He has received a Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Award, the G. De B. Robinson Award, the Coxeter-James Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society, the CRM’s André Aisenstadt Prize, NSERC’s E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship, and the Ribenboim Prize of the Canadian Number Theory Association. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2003. Darmon is currently editor-in-chief (with Niky Kamran) of the Canadian Journal of Mathematics and has served on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Number Theory, Commentari Mathematici Helvetici, the Journal of Number Theory, and the Annales des Sciences Mathématiques du Quebec. He is a member of NSERC’s Grant Selection Committee and of the CMS prize committee. His main research interests are in p-adic analysis and the theory of automorphic forms with special emphasis on elliptic curves and explicit class field theory. KENNETH R. DAVIDSON received his undergraduate degree at the University of Waterloo in 1972 and his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1976. He was a C.L.E. Moore instructor at M.I.T. for two years before moving to the University of Waterloo in 1978. His research interests are in operator theory and operator algebras, and he won the Israel Halperin prize in this area in 1985. He was an E.W.R. Steacie fellow 1988-90 and a Killam Research Fellow 1995-97. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1992. He has been on the editorial boards of various journals including the CMS journals and is an editor of the Journal of Operator Theory. He has served the CMS in various capacities including Vice-President (Ontario) in 1995-97. He sat on the NSERC mathematics GSC in 1990- Fields Institute 2005 ANNUAL REPORT 125
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