Coxeter–James Prize
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The Coxeter–James Prize is presented annually by the Canadian Mathematical Society
. The award is presented to young mathematicians in recognition of outstanding contributions to mathematical research. The first award was presented in 1978. The prize was named in honor of the mathematicians Donald Coxeter and Ralph James.
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 young mathematicians in recognition of outstanding contributions to mathematical research. The first award was presented in 1978. The prize was named in honor of the mathematicians Donald Coxeter and Ralph James.
Recipients of the Coxeter–James Prize
- 2010 Bálint VirágBálint VirágBálint Virág is a Hungarian mathematician working in Canada, known for his work in probability theory, particularly determinantal processes, random matrix theory, and random walks and other probabilistic questions on groups. He received his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 2000, under the direction of...
- 2009 Patrick BrosnanPatrick BrosnanPatrick Brosnan is an American mathematician, known for his work on motives, Hodge theory, and algebraic groups. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1998 under the direction of Spencer Bloch...
- 2008 Ravi VakilRavi VakilRavi D. Vakil is an American-Canadian mathematician working in algebraic geometry.Vakil attended high school at Martingrove Collegiate Institute in Etobicoke, Ontario, where he won several mathematical contests and olympiads. After earning a BSc and MSc from the University of Toronto in 1992, he...
- 2007 Vinayak Vatsal
- 2006 Jim GeelenJim GeelenJames F. Geelen is a professor at the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization in the faculty of mathematics at the University of Waterloo, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Combinatorial optimization. He is known for his work on Matroid theory and the extension of the Graph Minors...
- 2005 Robert McCann
- 2004 Izabella Laba
- 2003 Jingyi Chen
- 2002 Lisa Jeffrey
- 2001 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...
- 2000 Damien Roy
- 1999 Maciej Zworski
- 1998 Henri DarmonHenri DarmonHenri Rene Darmon is a French Canadian mathematician specializing in number theory. He works on Hilbert's 12th problem and its relation with the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture...
- 1997 Michael Ward
- 1996 Nigel Higson
- 1995 Gordon Slade
- 1994 Mark Spivakovsky
- 1993 Jacques Hurtubise
- 1992 J.F. Jardine
- 1991 K. Murty
- 1990 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...
- 1989 Alan Dow
- 1988 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:...
- 1987 Jonathan BorweinJonathan BorweinJonathan Michael Borwein is a Scottish mathematician who holds an appointment as Laureate Professor of mathematics at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Noted for his prolific and creative work throughout the international mathematical community, he is a close associate of David H...
- 1986 Edwin A. Perkins
- 1985 Paul Selick
- 1984 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...
- 1983 Man-Duen Choi
- 1982 John Mallet-Paret
- 1981 John James Millson
- 1980 Francis Clarke
- 1979 David W. Boyd
- 1978 Robert MoodyRobert MoodyRobert Vaughan Moody, OC, FRSC is a Canadian mathematician. He is the co-discover of Kac-Moody algebra, a Lie algebra, usually infinite-dimensional, that can be defined through a generalized root system....