The Department of Mathematics and Statistics is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025–2026 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards.
Congratulations to Zakary Horton, Helena Heinonen, and Boris Zupancic, who have been selected as this year's award winners. We also extend our congratulations to Damien LeBlanc, who received an Honourable Mention in recognition of his outstanding contributions.
Congratulations to Professor Henri Darmon, Distinguished James McGill Professor at McGill University and CRM member, on receiving the 2026 Jeffery‑Williams Prize from the Canadian Mathematical Society. Darmon is an internationally recognized leader in number theory, known for his groundbreaking work on elliptic curves, L‑functions, and automorphic forms, including the introduction of Stark‑Heegner points and real quadratic analogues of singular moduli.
We are delighted to announce that Marcin Sabok has been awarded the Ryll-Nardzewski Prize.
The prize was established to honour the great Polish mathematician Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski, and is awarded by the Ryll-Nardzewski Center at Wrocław University of Science and Technology. The prize is for outstanding achievements in mathematics in areas related to the work of Ryll-Nardzewski.
Professor Christian Genest is the winner of the 2025 Acfas Urgel-Archambault prize.
Le Prix Acfas Urgel-Archambault 2025 pour les sciences physiques, mathématiques, informatique et génie, est remis à Christian Genest, professeur titulaire au Département de mathématiques et de statistique de l'Université McGill.
Professor Courtney Paquette from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics is featured in SIAM News—the journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The publication showcases the state of the art in applied mathematics, computational science, and data science, while highlighting real-world applications of mathematical research. In doing so, it helps lay the groundwork for scientific advances and new discoveries, supports efforts to address pressing global challenges, and enables leaders and policymakers to make informed decisions.
Dr. Marco Carone, a former McGill undergraduate student in Probability and Statistics, has been awarded the prestigious 2025 Myrto Award from Harvard's School of Public Health.
Clockwise from top left: Robert Brandenberger (Physics), Christian Genest (Mathematics and Statistics), Joel Kamnitzer (Mathematics and Statistics), Bärbel Knäuper (Psychology), Milica Miočević (Psychology), Adrian Liu (Physics), Nagissa Mahmoudi (Earth and Planetary Sciences), and Galen Halverson (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Eight Faculty of Science professors are among this year’s cohort of Distinguished James McGill Professors, James McGill Professors, and William Dawson Scholars.
Professor Courtney Paquette is the winner of the 2025 CAIMS/PIMS Early Career Award.
Congratulations to Professor David Stephens (Department of Mathematics and Statistics), former Vice Dean of the Faculty of Science, who has been named Academic Lead for Horizon McGill.
McGill University, DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
PhD Oral Defence of Mr. Gavin Barill
DATE: Monday, April 15, 2025
TIME / PLACE: Pre-Defence - 1:15 p.m. (Burnside Hall, Room 1234) ; Defence - 1:30 p.m. (Burnside Hall, Room 1025)
TITLE: Establishing Limit Theorems using Finite Difference Schemes
CHAIR: Prof. Niky Kamran
SUPERVISOR: Prof. Jessica Lin
INTERNAL MEMBER: Prof. Louigi Addario-Berry
McGill University DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
PhD Oral Defence of Ms. Wendy Wang
DATE: Monday, March 31, 2025
TIME / PLACE: Pre-Defence - 10:15 a.m. (Burnside Hall, Room 1234)
Defence - 10:30 a.m. (Burnside Hall, Room 1025)
TITLE: Applications and dynamics of delay differential equations with threshold state-dependent delay
CHAIR: Prof. Jérôme Vétois
Title: Asymptotically commuting measures share the Furstenberg-Poisson boundary
Dear Students and Fellow Colleagues,
It gives me great pleasure to announce the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award winners for the Fall 2024 term.
Congratulations to Rudy Ariaz (MATH 242), Ruben Calzadilla-Badra (MATH 141), Edward Chernysh (MATH 254), Maxwell Kaye (MATH 223), Othmane Oukrid (MATH 223), and Aaron Shalev (MATH 242).
Honorable mention goes to William Holman-Bissegger (MATH 475) and Kevin Xiao (MATH 242).
Professor Henri Darmon has been elected to the 2025 Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS).
"Forty-one mathematical scientists from around the world have been named Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2025, the program's 13th year. Recognized by their peers, AMS members designated as Fellows of the AMS have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics".
