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May 23, 2013

THE FIELDS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

Dean’s Distinguished Visiting Professorship

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The Dean's Distinguished Visiting Professorship is a joint program of the Fields Institute with the Faculty of Arts and Science, and the Department of Mathematics of the University of Toronto. Each year, the program brings a leading international researcher in the mathematical sciences to give a full-term course connected to a Fields Institute program, for graduate and advanced undergraduate students of the University of Toronto and other students participating in the program.

The Dean's Distinguished Visiting Professorhip currently provides a stipend of $50,000, for a visitor to be in residence throughout a term. The Dean's Distinguished Visiting Professor is selected by a committee representing the Fields Institute and the Department of Mathematics. Nominations can be made either to the Director of the Institute or to the Chair of the Department of Mathematics.

Archives of the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach	Nikita Karpenko (Université Paris 6) January to June 2013 Graduate Course on Algebraic and Geometric Theory of Quadratic Forms Thematic Program on Torsors, Nonassociative Algebras and Cohomological Invariants
	Artur Avila (IMPA and Paris VI) January to April 2011 Course from on Ergodic and Spectral Theory of Quasiperiodic Cycles Thematic Program on Dynamics and Transport in Disordered Systems
	Nizar Touzi (Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées, Ecole Polytechnique) January to June, 2010 Course on Stochastic control, BSDEs, and Applications to Finance January - June, 2010 Thematic Program on Quantitative Finance: Foundations and Applications Nizar Touzi is world expert in control problems of stochastic differential equations. He obtained major results in probabilistic representations of solutions of nonlinear partial derivative equations. The lecture notes especially prepared by Touzi for the graduate course he gave during the Thematic Program on Quantitative Finance were published as a Fields Institute Monograph
	Lenore Blum (Carnegie Mellon) September to October, 2009 Course on Complexity and Accuracy in Numeric Computations Thematic Program on the Foundations of Computational Mathematics
	Yum-Tong Siu (Harvard University) September to December, 2008 Course on Transcendental Methods in Algebraic Geometry Thematic Program on Arithmetic Geometry, Hyerbolic Geometry and Related Topics Yum-Tong Siu gave an enlightening and entertaining course on transcendental techniques in complex geometry. One of his themes in the course can be summed up by the following analogy: in both arithmetic geometry and hyperbolic geometry, metrics play a central role; in arithmetic geometry, one tries to concentrate the curvature at points, while in complex geometry, one tries to spread the curvature out over the entire space. Through this analogy, Siu suggested ways to think about the correspondence between the two areas.
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