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".
Professor Christian Genest has been awarded the 2024 prestigious Parzen Prize.
Rosalie Bélanger-Rioux is the 2024 recipient of the President’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching in the category of Faculty Lecturer.
The President's Prize for Excellence in Teaching was established to recognize educators who have distinguished themselves both in their teaching abilities and in their ability to motivate their students.
Title: Can we geometrically sense the shape of a molecule?
Abstract: Can we hear the shape of a drum? This question was negatively answered decades ago by many authors including Gordon, Webb, Wolpert, who constructed non-isometric planar shapes that have the identical eigenvalues of the Laplace operator (Bull. AMS, v.27 (1992), p.134-138). The more general question: can we sense the shape of a rigid object such as a cloud of atomic centers representing a molecule?
McGill University DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
PhD Oral Defence of Mr. Renaud Alie
DATE: Friday, October 18, 2024
TIME / PLACE: Defence 10:00 a.m. (BURN 1025)
TITLE: Tractability and Scalability in Multitype Gaussian
Cox Process Models
CHAIR: Prof. Rustum Choksi
SUPERVISOR: Prof. David A. Stephens
INTERNAL MEMBER: Prof. Christian Genest
Professor David Stephens has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
