Jeffery–Williams Prize
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The Jeffery–Williams Prize is a mathematics award presented annually by the Canadian Mathematical Society
. The award is presented to individuals in recognition of outstanding contributions to mathematical research. The first award was presented in 1968. The prize was named in honor of the mathematicians Ralph Lent Jeffery and Lloyd Williams
.
Canadian Mathematical Society
The Canadian Mathematical Society is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and education in Canada.It was originally conceived in June 1945 as the Canadian Mathematical Congress...
. The award is presented to individuals in recognition of outstanding contributions to mathematical research. The first award was presented in 1968. The prize was named in honor of the mathematicians Ralph Lent Jeffery and Lloyd Williams
Lloyd Williams
Lloyd W. Williams was an officer in the United States Marine Corps who served and died in World War I.A famous saying is attributed to Captain Williams, who was serving as a company commander in the 5th Marines...
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Recipients of the Jeffery–Williams Prize
- 2011 Kai BehrendKai BehrendKai Behrend is a German mathematician. He is a professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.His work is in algebraic geometry and he has made important contributions in the theory of algebraic stacks, Gromov-Witten invariants and Donaldson–Thomas theory.He is the recipient of the...
- 2010 Mikhail LyubichMikhail LyubichMikhail Lyubich is Professor of Mathematics at Stony Brook University. He received the 2010 Jeffery–Williams Prize from Canadian Mathematical Society.-Notes:...
- 2009 Stephen Kudla
- 2008 Martin Barlow
- 2007 Nassif GhoussoubNassif GhoussoubNassif Ghoussoub is a Canadian mathematician working in the fields of non-linear analysis and partial differential equations. He is currently a Professor of Mathematics, a Distinguished University Scholar, and an elected member of the Board of Governors of the University of British Columbia.He did...
- 2006 Andrew GranvilleAndrew GranvilleAndrew James Granville is a British mathematician, working in the field of number theory.He has been a faculty member at the Université de Montréal since 2002. Before moving to Montreal he was a mathematics professor at University of Georgia from 1991 until 2002...
- 2005 Pierre Milman Pierre MilmanPierre D. Milman is a mathematician and a professor at the University of Toronto.Milman graduated with a B.A. from the University of Moscow in 1967. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Tel Aviv in 1975 after an interlude of several years as researcher at the Institute of Chemical Physics...
- 2005 Edward Bierstone
- 2004 Joel Feldman
- 2003 M. Ram MurtyM. Ram MurtyMaruti Ram Pedaprolu Murty, FRSC is an Indo-Canadian mathematician, currently head of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Queen's University, where he holds a Queen's Research Chair in mathematics.-Career:...
- 2002 Edwin Perkins
- 2001 David Boyd
- 2000 Not Awarded
- 1999 John FriedlanderJohn FriedlanderJohn Benjamin Friedlander is a Canadian mathematician specializing in analytic number theory. He received his B.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 1965, an M.A. from the University of Waterloo in 1966, and a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 1972. He was a lecturer at M.I.T...
- 1998 George Elliott
- 1997 S. Halperin
- 1996 Mark GoreskyMark GoreskyRobert Mark Goresky is a Canadian mathematician who invented intersection homology with Robert MacPherson.He received his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1976. His thesis, titled Geometric Cohomology and Homology of Stratified Objects, was written under the direction of MacPherson...
- 1995 R.V. Moody
- 1994 D. Dawson
- 1993 J. Arthur
- 1992 I. Sigal
- 1991 P. Lancaster
- 1990 Robert SteinbergRobert SteinbergRobert Steinberg is a mathematician at the University of California, Los Angeles who invented the Steinberg representation, the Steinberg group in algebraic K-theory, and the Steinberg groups in Lie theory that yield finite simple groups over finite fields. He received his Ph.D...
- 1989 E.C. Milner
- 1988 J. Lambeck
- 1987 Louis NirenbergLouis NirenbergLouis Nirenberg is a Canadian mathematician, and one of the outstanding analysts of the twentieth century. He has made fundamental contributions to linear and nonlinear partial differential equations and their application to complex analysis and geometry.He was born in Hamilton, Ontario and...
- 1986 C. Herz
- 1985 Laurent C. SiebenmannLaurent C. SiebenmannLaurent Carl Siebenmann is a Canadian mathematician based at the Université de Paris-Sud at Orsay, France. After working for several years as a Professor at Orsay he became a Directeur de Recherches in the French CNRS in 1976...
- 1984 Cathleen Synge MorawetzCathleen Synge MorawetzCathleen Synge Morawetz is a mathematician. Morawetz's research was mainly in the study of the partial differential equations governing fluid flow, particularly those of mixed type occurring in transonic flow...
- 1983 Raoul BottRaoul BottRaoul Bott, FRS was a Hungarian mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad sense...
- 1982 J. Lipman
- 1981 Jerrold E. MarsdenJerrold E. MarsdenJerrold Eldon Marsden , was an applied mathematician. He was the Carl F. Braun Professor of Engineering and Control & Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology. Marsden is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.-Career:Marsden earned his B.Sc...
- 1980 Robert LanglandsRobert LanglandsRobert Phelan Langlands is a mathematician, best known as the founder of the Langlands program. He is an emeritus professor at the Institute for Advanced Study...
- 1979 Israel HalperinIsrael HalperinIsrael Halperin, was a Canadian mathematician and social activist.Born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Russian immigrants Solomon Halperin and Fanny Lundy, Halperin attended Malvern Collegiate Institute, Victoria University in the University of Toronto, graduated from the University of Toronto in...