Professor Henri Darmon elected to the 2025 Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Professor Henri Darmon has been elected to the 2025 Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS).
Professor Christian Genest awarded Parzen Prize (2024)
Professor Christian Genest has been awarded the 2024 prestigious Parzen Prize.
Rosalie Bélanger-Rioux - Winner of President’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching in the category of Faculty Lecturer (2024)
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.
Vitaliy Kurlin (University of Liverpool)
Title: Can we geometrically sense the shape of a molecule?
Mathematics and Statistics Department Picnic
PhD Oral Defence of Mr. Renaud Alie
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PhD Oral DefenceofMr. 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
Professor David Stephens elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC)
Professor David Stephens has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Celebrating International Pi Day with the Office of Indigenous Initiatives
Earlier this year, McGill’s Office of Indigenous Initiatives celebrated International Pi Day with a talk from mathematician Dr. Edward Doolittle followed by a student panel on Indigenous experiences in STEM and, of course, some delicious pie.
Professor Eyal Goren awarded prestigious Frontiers of Science Award (2024)
Professor Eyal Goren has received a prestigious Frontiers of Science Awardfor his co-authorship in his landmark publicationFaltings heights of abelian varieties with complex multiplicationbyAndreatta Fabrizio, Goren Eyal, Howard Benjamin, Keerthi Sampath Madapusi. Annals of Mathematics (2018).
Professor Christian Genest - recipient of the 2024 Lise Manchester Award from The Statistical Society of Canada (SSC)
Professor Christian Genest is one of the three recipients of the 2024 Lise Manchester Award from The Statistical Society of Canada (SSC).
Professor Henri Darmon named Guggenheim Fellow (2024)
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced their 2024 fellows, which includes one faculty member from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Professor Henri Darmon.
Ed Doolittle and Panel on March 14th
Asha Basu and Antoine Labelle – Winners of the 2023 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition
Asha Basu and Antoine Labelle were ranked in the top 100 receiving the accolade of Honorable Mention in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, a preeminent mathematics competition for undergraduate students in the United States and Canada.
Courtney Y. Paquette receives 2024 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
It is a great pleasure to announce that our colleague Courtney Paquette has been named a 2024 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Computer Science.
Machine learning relies heavily on probabilistic optimization algorithms.
While machine learning papers are written at a staggering rate, there is much less foundational mathematical work that addresses the success of machine learning.
Ryan O’Loughlin (Université Laval)
Title: Symmetric Tensor Products: An Operator Theory Approach