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ABOUT THE FIELDS INSTITUTE |
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| February 9, 2010 |
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Scientific Advisory PanelOur Directorate and the Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) provide 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 workshops. Members of the SAP can access the SAP Information Page Members
Edward Bierstone 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 deJaneiro). 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). He is currently Chair of the Research Committee of the CMS. 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. Back to Top Steven
Boyer is a Professor of Mathematics at the Université
du Québec à Montréal. His undergraduate studies
were at the University of New Brunswick and graduate work at Cornell
University, where he obtained a Ph. D. in Mathematics in 1983. After
two years as an NSERC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge,
he spent several years at the Mathematics Department of the University
of Toronto before moving to the Université du Québec
à Montréal. He has held visiting positions in Geneva,
Dijon, Rennes, Institut Henri Poincaré, Marseille, and Toulouse.
Currently, he is on the editorial boards of the Canadian Journal
of Mathematics, the Canadian Mathematics Bulletin, the
Annales Mathématiques Blaise Pascal, and the Annales
des sciences mathématiques du Québec. Over the
last few years he has served terms on NSERC grant selection committee
336 and as vice-president (Quebec) of the Canadian Mathematical
Society. His research area is the topology and geometry of low-dimensional
manifolds and he has been the director of the Centre Interuniversitaire
de Recherche en Géométrie et Topologie since 2001.
Back to Top David Jackson is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. He was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, and received his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge. He has taught at the University of Warwick, Ohio State University, Cornell and Cambridge, and has had visiting positions at MIT and the Theoretical Division at the Los Alamos National Laboratories. He has given a series of advanced seminars at Academia Sinica in Beijing. Over the past thirty years he has made significant contributions to algebraic combinatorics itself, and to the interaction between algebraic combinatorics and other areas of mathematics. These include representation theory, algebraic geometry, algebra, topology, mathematical physics and statistical mechanics. He is currently working on approaches to intersection theory on the moduli space of curves through algebraic combinatorics and, in particular, he is working on Faber's top intersection number conjecture for the moduli space of smooth curves. He is a founding Joint Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics, and is on editorial boards of several research journals. He was a member of the original committee at Waterloo that initiated plans for what eventually became the Fields Institute. He has served on one of the CMS prize committees, and has co-organized several international meetings and workshops. For a number of years he served as a mathematical consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary. He is the co-author of two research texts, one on enumerative combinatorics and the other on the enumerative theory of 2-cell embeddings of graphs in orientable and non-orientable surfaces. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Member of the Academy of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. Back to Top 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. Back to Top Philip Maini is a Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University. He received his B.A. in mathematics from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1982 and his DPhil in 1985 under the supervision of Prof J.D. Murray, FRS. After completing his studies he spent a year as an Assistant Master at Eton College before returning to the CMB in 1987 as a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. In 1988 he was appointed Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City for two years, before returning to Oxford, initially as a University Lecturer and then as Professor and Director of the CMB. He is currently on the editorial boards of a large number of journals, including serving as the managing editor for the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. He has also been an elected member of the Boards of the Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB) and European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ESMBTB). Recently he was elected to the Council of the IMA. His research projects include the modelling of avascular and vascular tumours, normal and abnormal wound healing, collective motion of social insects, bacterial chemotaxis, rainforest dynamics, pathogen infections, immunology, vertebrate limb development and calcium signalling in embryogenesis. He has over 170 publications in the field and has held visiting positions at the Universities of Ancona, Cambridge, Central de Venezuela, Degli Studi Di Modena E Reggio Emila, Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Minnesota, South Florida, Washington, Williams College, Queensland University of Technology, National Tsing Hua University of Taiwan and was Distinguished Foreign Visiting Fellow, Hokkaido University (2002). He was awarded a Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship for 2001-2. He serves on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Fields' Centre for Mathematical Medicine. Back to Top Charles
M. Newman, Professor of Mathematics at the Courant Institute
of Mathematical Sciences, was director from 2002 to 2006. Born in
Chicago, he received two B.S. (1966) degrees (Mathematics and Physics)
from MIT, and M.A. (1966) and Ph.D. (1971) degrees in Physics from
Princeton. His specialties are probability theory and statistical
physics, with over 180 published papers in those and related areas.
Beginning his academic career at NYU campus in 1971, he went on
to the mathematics departments of Indiana University and the University
of Arizona, and returned to NYU in 1989. Newman has been a Sloan
Fellow (1978-81) and a Guggenheim Fellow (1984-85), and is a member
of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences and the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. He is currently
the Principal Investigator of a grant in the NSF PIRE (Partnerships
in International Research and Education) program involving collaborations
between students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty from Courant,
Latin American and Europe. Back to Top Robert Russell is a Professor of Mathematics and Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. He received his PhD from the University of New Mexico in 1971. After a year as Assistant Professor at Colorado State University, he joined the faculty at SFU. He has held visiting positions at Stanford, University of New Mexico, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Imperial College London, Universidad Catolica de Chile, University of Auckland, McGill University, Universitat de Barcelona, and University of Bath. His area of research is scientific computing, primarily adaptive methods and software for solving time dependent PDEs. His journal editorships include SIAM J. on Numerical Analysis, the SIAM Book Series Fundamentals of Algorithms, and previously, SIAM J. on Scientific Computing. In 2004 he received the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society Research Prize. His service on various committees for SIAM, CAIMS, NSERC, ICIAM, Fields and PIMS include being current President of CAIMS, Director of the SFU Centre for Scientific Computing, and a member of the PIMS Scientific Review Panel. Back to Top Juris
Steprans is Professor of Mathematics at York University
and is currently serving as Deputy Director of the Fields Institute.
He obtained his BMath degree from the University of Waterloo in
1977 and completed his PhD thesis under the supervision of Franklin
D. Tall at the University of Toronto in 1982. His research has focussed
on the applications of set theory to other areas of mathematics,
notably, group theory, topology, real analysis and the theory of
Banach spaces. He has held visiting positions at various universities
and institutions including Dartmouth College, the University of
Warsaw, the Fields Institute, the University of Wisconsin at Madison
and Rutgers University. He has served in various capacities with
the CMS and at NSERC. He was elected a Fellow of the Fields Institute
in 2004. Back to Top Eva
Tardos is a Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University.
She was awarded the George B. Dantzig Prize at the SIAM Annual Meeting
in 2006. She received the prize in recognition for her deep and
wide-ranging contributions to mathematical programming, including
the first strongly polynomial-time algorithm for minimum-cost flows,
several other variants of network flows, integer programming, submodularity,
circuit complexity, scheduling, approximation algorithms, and combinatorial
auctions. Tardos' research interest focuses on the design and analysis
of efficient methods for combinatorial-optimization problems on
graphs or networks. Her recent work focuses on algorithmic game
theory, an emerging new area of designing systems and algorithms
for selfish users. Eva Tardos received her Ph.D. at Etvos University
in Budapest, Hungary in 1984. After teaching at Etvos and the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, she joined Cornell in 1989. She is currently
a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an ACM
Fellow. Tardos was a Guggenheim Fellow, a Packard Fellow, a Sloan
Fellow and an NSF Presidential Young Investigator. She received
the Fulkerson Prize in 1988. Back to Top Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann received her Master's (1968) and Ph.D. (1974) degrees from Warsaw University, where she held a position until moving to the University of Alberta in 1983. There she holds a Canada Research Chair in Geometric Analysis. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, lectured at the 1998 ICM, and has won the CMSs Krieger-Nelson Prize Lectureship. She has served the Canadian and international research community in many ways, including her current position on the BIRS Scientific Advisory Board and previously as a Site Director of PIMS in Alberta. Dr. Tomczak-Jargermann received the CRM-Fields-PIMS prize in 2006. She is one of the world's leading mathematicians working in functional analysis. She has made outstanding contributions to infinite dimensional Banach space theory, asymptotic geometric analysis, and the interaction between these two streams of modern functional analysis. She is one of the few mathematicians who have contributed important results to both areas. In particular, her work constitutes an essential ingredient in a solution by the 1998 Fields Medallist W.T. Gowers of the homogeneous space problem raised by Banach in 1932. Back to Top Dan- Virgil Voiculescu is a Professor of Mathematics at U.C. Berkeley. His research is in operator algebras and operator theory, focusing in recent years on free probability theory and the connections of random matrix theory to von Neumann algebras. After receiving his Doctor in Mathematics degree at the University of Bucharest under the supervision of Ciprian Foias in 1977 , he held positions at the University of Bucharest, the Mathematics Institute in Bucharest and the INCREST Department of Mathematics and then joined the faculty at UC Berkeley in 1986. The visiting positions he held include the Aisenstadt Chair at CRM Montreal in 1991 and an International Blaise Pascal Research Chair in Paris in 2003 - 2004. He gave invited addresses at the ICM in 1983, the European Congress of Mathematics in 1992 and plenary invited addresses at the ICM in 1994 and at the International Congress of Mathematical Physics in 2003. Professor Voiculescu is the recipient of the 2004 Award in Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences. Back to Top Shou-Wu Zhang is a professor of mathematics at Columbia University. He specializes in number theory and arithmetical algebraic geometry. He got his bachelor’s degree from Zhongshan University in 1983, master’s degree from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1986, and Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1991. Before he jointed Columbia in 1996, he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study and an assistant professor at Princeton University. Professor Zhang was an invited speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians at Berlin in 1998 and was awarded a Morningside Gold Medal of Mathematics in the same year by the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians for his work on Bogomolov conjecture and Gross–Zagier formula. He was a Sloan Research Fellow, a L.-K. Hua Chair Professor at Chinese Academy of Sciences, a Changjiang Chair Professor at Tsinghua University, and a Prize Fellow at Clay Mathematical Institute. He is in the editor boards of the Journal of American Mathematical Society, the Journal of Number Theory, the Journal of Algebraic Geometry, the Journal of Differential Geometry, Science in China, etc. Back to Top Maciej Zworski |
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