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Board of DirectorsThe Board of Directors is elected from among the Members of the Corporation. It meets at least twice per year to ensure that the Institute is fulfilling its mandate for research, mathematics education and collaboration with external bodies. Board members can access the Board of Directors Information Page.
Chair, John Gardner is a corporate
director, currently serving on the boards of RGA Canada and Angoss
Software. A graduate of the University of Toronto (1959) with a
bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics and the recipient of
the Governor General's medal, he studied as one of the first Commonwealth
Scholars philosophy, politics and economics at Merton College, Oxford,
where he was granted bachelor's (1961) and master's (1965) degrees.
Returning to Canada he joined Sun Life of Canada and pursued actuarial
studies, earning his fellowship in the Society of Actuaries and
the Canadian Institute of Actuaries (1965). From 1967 to 1973 he
taught theory of interest and life contingencies at McGill University.
He concluded a thirty-five year career at Sun Life in 1996, having
served for ten years as President of the company, directing its
world-wide operations. During that period he was a member for nine
years of the University of Toronto's Governing Council. Since 1996
he has served on various corporate boards including those of the
Workplace Safety & Insurance Board of Ontario, Avista Real Estate
Investment Trust and Concordia Life. Always interested in the community,
he has been President of Boy Scouts of Canada for the Greater Toronto
Area, and served on the boards of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra,
Sunnybrook Hospital, and the Salvation Army. This year will be his
seventeenth on the Fields Board. Edward Bierstone, Director began
serving as Director of the Fields Institute July 1, 2009. He is
a professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University of
Toronto. He earned his B.Sc. from the University of Toronto (1969)
and his Ph.D. from Brandeis University (1973). He has held visiting
positions at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), l'Institut
des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (Bures-sur-Yvette) and IMPA (Rio
de Janeiro). Ed's honours include Fellowship in the Royal Society
of Canada (1992), an invited address at the American Mathematical
Society Annual Meeting (1997), the Jeffery-Williams Prize of the
Canadian Mathematical Society (2005), and the Excellence in Teaching
Award of the CMS (2008). Ed has made groundbreaking contributions
in the areas of algebraic geometry and singularities of differentiable
functions. His work on resolution of singularities (in collaboration
with Pierre Milman) has played a major part in a revival of activity
in the area; the constructive techniques involved have led to applications
in fields as diverse as logic and analysis. This year is his third
on the Fields Board. Matheus Grasselli, Deputy Director,
earned an undergraduate degree in Physics from the University of
Sao Paulo in 1994, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from King's College
London in 2002, for his thesis on Quantum and Classical Information
Geometry under the supervision of Raymond Streater. After a postdoctoral
fellowship, he was appointed Sharcnet Chair in Financial Mathematics
at McMaster University in 2003, where he is currently an Associate
Professor and co-director of PhiMac, the Financial Mathematics Laboratory.
He has published research papers on information geometry, statistical
physics, and numerous aspects of quantitative finance, including
interest rate theory, optimal portfolio, real options and executive
compensation, as well as an undergraduate textbook on numerical
methods. His consulting activities include projects with CIBC, Petrobras,
EDF, and Bovespa. He is a regular speaker in both academic and industrial
conferences around the world, and was the lead organizer of the
Thematic Program on Quantitative Finance: Foundations and Applications,
at the Fields Institute in 2010. Starting in 2011, he began serving
as the first managing editor for the newly created book series Springer
Briefs on Quantitative Finance. The coming year will be his first
on the Fields Board. Ian
Ainsworth C.
James Cooper has successfully built Maplesoft into the world's
premier advanced mathematics, modeling and simulation software provider.
He is responsible for the company's financial performance, and oversees
all aspects of the company's operations including strategic business
planning, product direction as well as sales and marketing. Walter
Craig earned his undergraduate degree from Berkeley, and
received his PhD from the Courant Institute in 1981 with doctoral
advisor L. Nirenberg. He held faculty and research positions in
the mathematics departments at the California Institute of Technology,
Stanford University, and Brown University, before moving to McMaster
University as the Canada Research Chair of Mathematical Analysis
and its Applications in the year 2000. His research interests are
in nonlinear partial differential equations and dynamical systems,
with a focus on problems stemming from classical mechanics, fluid
dynamics, and quantum mechanics. He has worked on the problem of
free surface water waves, on KAM theory for partial differential
equations and other systems with infinitely many degrees of freedom,
on the propagation of singularities for Schroedinger's equations,
on the singular set of solutions of the Navier - Stokes equations,
and on the general theory of Hamiltonian partial differential equations.
He is particularly interested in research in which surprising connections
are uncovered between seemingly disparate parts of mathematics,
as well as in situations in which theoretical results in mathematical
analysis influence experimental or numerical approaches to a physical
problem, and vice versa. Dr. Craig is a Fellow of the Fields Institute,
the AAAS, and the Royal Society of Canada. He has served in various
capacities at the Fields Institute, including as a member of the
Scientific Advisory Panel, and as well he has worked with other
of the Canadian mathematics institutes, including service on the
Comité Consultatif of the CRM and the Scientific Review Panel
of PIMS. His research awards include a Sloan Research Fellow, a
Bantrell Fellow and a NSF Presidential Young Investigator, and he
has recently been awarded a 2009 Killam Research Fellowship. He
has been elected to the AMS Council and Executive Committees, and
he is currently serving on a number of editorial boards of mathematics
journals. The coming year will be his third on the Fields Board.
Charles
Fefferman is an American mathematician at Princeton University.
His primary field of research is mathematical analysis. Janet
Halliwell is currently working at JEH Associates Inc., specializing
in Public policy, S&T and PSE policy and is the former Executive
Vice-President at SSHRC, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada. She has chaired the Nova Scotia Council on High
Education, and is a recipient of the Walter Hitschfeld Prize for
university research administration. This year will be her twenty
first on the Fields Board. Lila
Kari is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Biocomputing
at the University of Western Ontario. She received her M.Sc. in
1987 from the Univesity of Bucharest, Romania, and her Ph.D. in
1991 for her thesis "On Insertions and Deletions in Formal
Languages", for which she received the Nevanlinna Prize for
the best mathematics thesis in Finland. Author of more than 170
peer reviewed articles, Professor Kari is widely regarded as one
of the world's leading experts in the area of biomolecular computation,
that is using biological, chemical and other natural systems to
perform computations. She has served as Steering Committee Chair
for the DNA Computing conference series, as Steering Committee member
for the Unconventional Computation conference series, as well as
on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the International Society
for Nano-Scale Science and Engineering. She serves on the editorial
boards of the journals Theoretical Computer Science, Natural Computing
and Universal Computer Science, and as section editor for molecular
computing for the upcoming Natural Computing Handbook. She has additionally
served as a member of the Board of Directors of the FIELDS Institute
for Research in Mathematical Sciences, the UK EPSRC peer review
college, on the NSERC grant selection committee on computing and
information systems and the NSERC Herzberg-Brockhouse-Polanyi Prize
joint selection committee. At the University of Western Ontario
she has received numerous awards, including the Florence Bucke Science
Prize and the Faculty of Science Award for Excellence in Undergraduate
Teaching. Professor Kari's current research focuses on theoretical
aspects of bioinformation and biocomputation, including models of
cellular computation, nanocomputation by DNA self-assembly and Watson-Crick
complementarity in formal languages. Barbara
Lee Keyfitz served as Director of the Fields Institute for
Mathematical Sciences for the period July 2004-December 2008. In
January 2009, she assumed a faculty position in mathematics at the
Ohio State University. Barbara Keyfitz received her undergraduate
education in mathematics at the University of Toronto and her M.S.
and Ph.D. from NYU's Courant Institute. Her research area is Nonlinear
Partial Differential Equations. She is a Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, and the recipient of
the 2005 Krieger-Nelson Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society.
Until August 2008, she was John and Rebecca Moores Professor of
Mathematics at the University of Houston, which she joined in 1983,
following appointments at Columbia, Princeton, and Arizona State
University. She is Treasurer of the International Council of Industrial
and Applied Mathematics. This year will be her eighth on the Fields
Board. Jason
Marks is Chief Executive Officer, Chief Information Officer,
and Managing Partner at GMP Investment Management L.P. Prior to
joining the Investment Adviser, Jason Marks was a Vice Chair at
TD Securities and a Senior Vice President at TD Bank. Over his 11
years at TD Securities, Mr. Marks was responsible for various businesses
including: international proprietary trading, equity derivatives,
interest rate derivatives, energy trading and structured products.
In addition to his various sales and trading responsibilities, Mr.
Marks was a Senior Vice President of TD Bank. In that capacity he
held two senior risk management roles. In 1998, he served as the
Head of Market Risk Management for TD Bank then in 2003, as the
Chief Credit Policy Officer responsible for overseeing Credit Risk
at TD Bank. Prior to being employed at TD Bank Mr. Marks was a Vice
President at Citibank Canada. In that capacity he was responsible
for a number of derivative and structured product businesses. Mr.
Marks has a M.B.A. from Harvard University (1989) and a B.E.Sc.
from the University of Western Ontario (1986). The coming year will
be his second on the Fields Board. Janet Mason is Assistant Deputy Minister for Planning and Research in the Cabinet Office for the Ontario Government. Prior to this appointment, she has held positions of Assistant Deputy Minister of the Post Secondary Education Division in the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, and Assistant Deputy Minister, Policy Division, Ministry of Municipal Affairs. Ms. Mason joined the Ontario public service in 1981. Before joining
the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing in 1992, Janet was
Director of Policy for the Ministry of Skills Development. Ms. Mason
was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Ontario Innovation
Trust in July 2005.She was also 2008-2009 Visiting Fellow in Residence
(Ontario Public Service). Janet holds a Bachelor of Journalism degree
and a Master of Arts in Political Science from Carleton University.
The coming year will be her second on the Fields Board.. Bob
Roberts is the Gordon F. Henderson Chair in Leadership,
President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Scientific Officer
at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. He is also Director
of the Ruddy Canadian Cardiovascular Genetics Center and retains
an Adjunct Professorship of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine
in Houston, Texas. He has been recognized as an important leader
in the research and practice of cardiology worldwide, in addition
to being named the Most Highly Cited Researcher in 2002. Dr. Roberts
received his MD from Dalhousie University in Halifax and completed
his Residency in Internal Medicine and Fellowship in Cardiology
at the University of Toronto. He has held several leadership roles
with the National Institutes of Health. The coming year will be
his second on the Fields Board. Anne
Swift is Founding President of Young Inventors International
and Co-Founder of Solar Tomorrow Inc. Young Inventors has grown
to support over 2,000 student university innovators from around
the world. She has conducted research on innovation and entrepreneurship
for the Innovation Systems Research Network at the University of
Toronto and the Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Technological Change
Program at Carnegie Mellon University, and holds certificates in
the management of intellectual capital from the World Intellectual
Property Organization. Anne was also principal at Anne Swift Enterprises
Inc. and Innovators Hub Inc., as well as an "As Prime Minister,
I Would..." Scholarship intern at Magna International. She
completed her B.A. in Economics and Political Science with Highest
Distinction at the University of Toronto. The coming year will be
her second on the Fields Board. Mary
Thompson holds the title of University Professor at the
University of Waterloo, where she has been a member of the Department
of Statistics and Actuarial Science since 1969. Her areas of interest
include statistical estimation theory, inference for stochastic
processes, biostatistics and survey methods. She is a past President
of the Statistical Society of Canada (2003-2004), and a current
member of Statistics Canada's Advisory Committee on Statistical
Methods. Dr. Thompson is an elected member of the International
Statistical Institute, and Fellow of the American Statistical Association
and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. She is the 2003 recipient
of the Gold Medal of the Statistical Society of Canada, and was
elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2006. The coming
year will be her third on the Fields Board. James Wong is the Chairman of Chinney
Holdings Limited and its three subsidiaries listed in Hong Kong
Stock Exchange, namely Chinney Investments Ltd., Hon Kwok Land Investments
Co. Ltd., and Chinney Alliance Group Ltd. He received his PhD in
Mathematics at the California Insitute of Technology in 1965. Currently,
he holds the Honorary Professorship of Mathematics at the City University
of Hong Kong since 1995 and the Honorary Professor of Mathematics
at the University of Hong Kong since 2009. He is the Associate Editor
for the Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications since
2002, and the Associate Editor for the Differential Equations &
Applications since 2009. The coming year will be his first on the
Fields Board. Paul
Young, Vice President, Research at the University of Toronto,
is a renowned engineering geophysicist. He was previously Chair
of U of T's Department of Civil Engineering and holds the Keck Chair
of Seismology and Rock Mechanics. An outstanding scientist and teacher,
Young was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2007.
A native of Britain, Young was recruited to U of T in 2002 as the
founding director of the Lassonde Institute for Engineering Geoscience,
an international centre of excellence that draws on expertise across
multiple disciplines. As chair of Civil Engineering, he led the
development of the department's new framework for urban engineering,
building cities that work for people. His leadership of the department
was singled out for high praise by external reviewers in 2005 and
2006. He was previously chair of Earth Sciences at the University
of Liverpool and head of Earth Sciences at Keele University in the
U.K. He also established the Geomechanics and Rock Physics Laboratory
at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont. The coming year will be
his third on the Fields Board. Yiqiang
Zhao is a Full Professor in the School of Mathematics and
Statistics, Carleton University, and was the former Director of
the School from 2004 to 2007. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University
of Saskatchewan in 1990. Besides serving as a former Director of
the School, Yiqiang's extensive administrative experience includes
that as a member of Carleton University Senate, as Executive of
the Faculty Association (Winnipeg), and also as Chair or Vice Chair
of various committees at different levels. He has been very actively
involved with professional society/community work, such as serving
as a former President of the Canadian Operational Society Manitoba
Sector, and President-Elect of the Probability Sector of the Statistical
Society of Canada. Yiqiang is a dedicated teacher, and has taught
approximately 30 different courses at various undergraduate and
graduate levels. He was awarded the Carleton Faculty of Science
Teaching Award for 2002-2003. Yiqiang's research interests are in
applied probability and stochastic processes, with particular emphasis
on computer and telecommunication network applications. He is currently
an editor of the journal Stochastic Models, and an associate editor
of the journals Queueing Systems, OR Letters and dvances in Operations
Research. The coming year will be his third on the Fields Board.
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