Annual Report 2005 - Fields Institute - University of Toronto

93, serving as chair; was a member of the NSERC Strategy
Implementation Task Force in 1995, and on the Mathematics
Steering Committee 1996-98. He served on the Fields
Scientific Advisory Panel 1991-96, and was a co-organizer
of the C*-algebra year at the institute. He served as Director
of the Fields Institute during 2001-2004.
LISA JEFFREY obtained her BA degree in 1986 from
Princeton University, her MA from Cambridge University
in 1988, and her doctorate in mathematics from the
University of Oxford in 1992. She is currently Professor
in the Department of Mathematics at the University of
Toronto. Prior to her present appointment she taught at
McGill University and Princeton University. Her research
involves symplectic geometry and mathematical aspects of
quantum field theory. She has received a Sloan Fellowship,
a Premier’s Research Excellence Award, the University
of Toronto’s McLean Award, the Aisenstadt Prize of the
Centre de recherches mathématiques and an NSERC Steacie
Fellowship (2004-6) as well as the 2001 Krieger-Nelson
Lectureship and the 2002 Coxeter-James Lectureship of the
Canadian Mathematical Society.
Her research group obtained an NSERC LSI (Leadership
Support Initiative) grant (2003-6). She is a past member
of the Council of NSERC, and is on the editorial board of
the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
and a member of the BIRS Scientific Advisory Panel and
the AARMS Scientific Advisory Panel. She is one of the
organizers of the 2004-2005 thematic program at the Fields
Institute, on the Geometry of String Theory, and is a new
Fields Institute Fellow.
BARBARA LEE KEYFITZ received her undergraduate education
at the University of Toronto and her MS and PhD
from NYU’s Courant Institute. She is currently serving as
Director of the Fields Institute and she continues as John
and Rebecca Moores Professor of Mathematics at the University
of Houston. Her research area is Nonlinear Partial
Differential Equations. She is a Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science and serves on
the editorial boards of Mathematical Methods in the Applied
Sciences, and CMS Treatises in Mathematics. She serves on
the Board of Directors of MITACS and of AARMS. Before
joining the faculty at the University of Houston in 1983,
she was a faculty member in Engineering at Columbia and
Princeton, and in mathematics at Arizona State University.
She has held visiting positions at the University of Nice,
at Duke University, at Berkeley, at the Institute for Mathematics
and its Applications in Minneapolis, at the Fields
Institute, and at Brown University. She is President of the
G o v e r n a n c e
Association for Women in Mathematics, Chair of Section
A of the American Association for the Advancement of Science;
and treasurer of ICIAM.
ANGUS MACINTYRE is a Professor of Mathematics at Edinburgh
University and the past scientific director of the
International Centre for the Mathematical Sciences. He
received his PhD from Stanford in 1969. His work over the
past thirty years on the applications of model theory to
other parts of mathematics has contributed significantly
to the field of model-theoretic algebra. He gave a plenary
address at the International Congress of Mathematicians in
1978 and has been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 1993.
He has held professorships at Oxford and Yale, and visiting
positions at numerous universities and research institutes.
He is an editor of a wide variety of journals and a past editor
of the Annals of Mathematics. He is the author of over
fifty research articles and has been thesis advisor to more
than thirty students.
ROBERT MIURA received his BS and MS in Mechanical
Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley
and his MA and PhD in Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences
from Princeton University. He held postdoctoral
positions at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and
the Courant Insitute. He has taught at New York University,
Vanderbilt University, and the University of British Columbia,
and currently is Professor of Mathematical Sciences
and of Biomedical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute
of Technology, where he is Acting Chair of the Department
of Mathematical Sciences. His main research interests are
in applied mathematics with applications to mathematical
biology, especially excitable cells and physiology. He has
been a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and is a Fellow
of the Royal Society of Canada. He has served on many
editorial boards, and presently is on the editorial boards of
the Canadian Applied Mathematics Quarterly and Integrative
Neuroscience, and is co-editor-in-chief of Analysis and
Applications. He has been a member of various committees
and boards.
MICHAEL L. OVERTON received his BSc from UBC in 1974,
along with the Governor General’s Gold Medal for Arts and
Sciences. He received the MS and PhD degrees in Computer
Science from Stanford University. He is currently Professor
of Computer Science and Mathematics at the Courant
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.
He is the chair of the Board of Trustees of SIAM (Society
for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) and has also
served on the SIAM Council. He is a member of the Council
of FoCM (Foundations of Computational Mathematics)
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