List of fellows of the Fields Institute

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Fellowship of the Fields Institute
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Awarded for"outstanding contributions to the Fields Institute and its activities" [1]
Sponsored by Fields Institute
Date2002 (2002)
Location Toronto
Country Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada
Website fields.utoronto.ca/honours-and-fellowships/fields-institute-fellows

In 2002, the Fields Institute initiated its fellowship program to recognize outstanding contributions to activities at the Fields Institute and within the Canadian mathematical community. [1] The following is a list of fellows of the Fields Institute by year of appointment.

Fellows

YearFellowAffiliationFieldBornDiedRefs
2002 James Arthur University of Toronto 1944
2002 Edward Bierstone University of Toronto 1946
2002 David Brillinger University of California, Berkeley Statistics 1937
2002 Arthur Carty National Research Council 1940
2002 John Chadam University of Pittsburgh
2002 Stephen Cook University of Toronto Complexity theory 1939
2002 H. S. M. Coxeter University of Toronto Geometry 19072003
2002 George A. Elliott University of Toronto 1945
2002 Peter Fillmore Dalhousie University
2002 John Friedlander University of Toronto
2002 J. Alan George University of Waterloo Computer science 1943
2002 Mark Goresky Institute for Advanced Study Topology 1950
2002 Stephen Halperin University of Maryland 1942
2002 Vaughan Jones University of California, Berkeley 19522020
2002 Richard Kane University of Western Ontario Algebraic topology 19442010 [2]
2002 Manfred Kolster McMaster University
2002 Peter Lancaster University of Calgary 1929
2002 William Langford University of Guelph
2002 François Lalonde Université de Montréal 1955
2002 Jerrold E. Marsden California Institute of Technology 19422010
2002 Moshe Milevsky York University 1967
2002 Robert Moody University of Alberta 1941
2002 Eric Muller Brock University
2002 Peter J. Nicholson OECD
2002 Josef Paldus University of Waterloo Applied mathematics 1935
2002 Nicholas Pippenger University of British Columbia Computer science
2002 Carl Riehm McMaster University
2002 Tom Salisbury York University Probability
2002 Luis A. Seco Sigma Analysis & Management Mathematical finance
2002 William F. Shadwick Finance Development Centre
2002 Israel Michael Sigal University of Toronto Mathematical physics
2002 Victor Snaith University of Southampton
2002 James Stewart McMaster University Analysis 19412014
2003 Gila Hanna Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Mathematics education
2003 Ed Perkins University of British Columbia Probability 1953
2003 Anna Lawniczak University of Guelph
2003 William R. Pulleyblank IBM Operations research
2003 John McKay Concordia University Group theory 1939
2003 Nancy Reid University of Toronto Statistics 1952
2003 V. Kumar Murty University of Toronto Number theory 1956
2004 Derek Corneil University of Toronto Graph theory 1942
2004 Donald A. Dawson McGill University Probability 1937
2004 Bradd Hart McMaster University Logic
2004 M. Ram Murty Queen's University Number theory 1953
2004 Claudine Simson Motorola, Inc. [3]
2004 Juris Steprāns York University 1953
2005 David William Boyd University of British Columbia Analysis 1941
2005 Walter Craig McMaster University Analysis 19532019
2005 Lisa Jeffrey University of Toronto
2005 John Mighton JUMP Mathematics education 1957
2005 Tamás Terlaky McMaster University
2006 Hermann Brunner Memorial University of Newfoundland
2006 Kenneth Davidson University of Waterloo 1951
2006 George Gadanidis University of Western Ontario Mathematics education
2006David RuddSigma Analysis & Management
2006 Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann University of Alberta Analysis
2006 Noriko Yui Queen's University Algebraic geometry
2007 Ron Dembo Zerofootprint
2007 Joel Feldman University of British Columbia Mathematical physics 1949
2007 Huaxiong Huang York University
2007 George O'Brien York University Probability 19442018
2007 Amit Oza Princess Margaret Hospital
2007 Sivabal Sivaloganathan University of Waterloo Applied mathematics
2008 Allan Borodin University of Toronto Computer science 1941
2008 Jennifer Tour Chayes Microsoft Research 1951
2008 Rick Jardine University of Western Ontario Homotopy theory
2008 Angus Macintyre University of Oxford Logic 1941
2008 Cameron Leigh Stewart University of Waterloo
2008 Karen Uhlenbeck University of Texas 1942
2009 Martin Barlow University of British Columbia 1953
2009 Stephen Kudla University of Toronto 1950
2009 Izabella Łaba University of British Columbia 1966
2009 Catherine Sulem University of Toronto 1957
2009Radford de Peiza Mathematics education
2009Larry Rice Mathematics education
2010 Tom Hurd McMaster University
2010Elaine Riehm
2010Dan RosenR² Financial Technologies, Inc.
2010 Michael Shub University of Toronto 1943
2010 Gordon Douglas Slade University of British Columbia Probability 1955
2011 Mark A. Lewis University of Alberta Mathematical biology 1962
2011 Grigory Margulis Yale University 1946
2011 Dragana Martinovic University of Windsor Mathematics education
2011 Éva Tardos Cornell University 1957
2011 Jianhong Wu York University Applied mathematics 1964
2012 Nantel Bergeron York University
2012 Matthias Neufang Carleton University
2012 Margaret P. Sinclair York University Mathematics education 19502012
2012 Stevo Todorčević University of Toronto Logic 1955
2012 Matt Valeriote McMaster University
2012 Stephen M. Watt University of Western Ontario
2013 Jean-Pierre Bourguignon Institut des hautes études scientifiques Differential geometry 1947
2013 Barbara Keyfitz Ohio State University
2013 Bruce Reed McGill University Graph theory
2013 Patrick Speissegger McMaster University
2014 Antoine Deza McMaster University
2014 Adrian Nachman University of Toronto
2014 Mary E. Thompson University of Waterloo Statistics 1944
2014 Niky Kamran McGill University 1959
2014 Peter Taylor Queen's University
2014James S. WongChinney Capital
2015 Mayer Alvo University of Ottawa
2015 Kai Behrend University of British Columbia Algebraic geometry
2015 Matt Davison University of Western Ontario
2015 Susan P. Holmes Stanford University Biostatistics
2015 Miroslav Lovric McMaster University
2015 Robert McCann University of Toronto
2016John Gardner Angoss Software
2016Janet HalliwellJ. E. Halliwell Associates, Inc.
2016 John C. Hull University of Toronto Mathematical finance
2016 Claire Voisin Collège de France Algebraic geometry 1962
2016 Daniel Wise McGill University
2017 Henri Darmon McGill University Number theory 1965
2017 Nassif Ghoussoub University of British Columbia 1953
2017 Matheus Grasselli McMaster University [4]
2017 Donna Kotsopoulos Wilfrid Laurier University
2017 Robert Prichard Bank of Montreal 1949
2018 Thierry Giordano University of Ottawa
2018 Megumi Harada McMaster University
2018 Robert M. Miura New Jersey Institute of Technology 19382018
2018 Jeremy Quastel University of Toronto 1963
2019Roberta Buiani York University
2019James Mingo Queen's University
2020Kasra Rafi University of Toronto
2020 Dusa McDuff University of Toronto 1945
2020Sebastian Jaimungal University of Toronto
2020 Arvind Gupta University of Toronto
2021 Almut Burchard University of Toronto
2021 Andrew Granville Université de Montréal 1962
2021 Vivek Goel University of Waterloo
2021Ian Hambleton McMaster University
2021George Papanicolau Stanford University
2021 Gigliola Staffilani Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1966
2022 Charmaine Dean University of Waterloo
2022Taha Jaffer Scotiabank
2022Sharmistha Mishra St. Michael's Hospital
2022 Neil Seeman University of Toronto
2022 Vahid Tarokh Duke University 1967
2022 Bálint Virág University of Toronto 1973
2023Ayman Chit University of Toronto
2023 Christian Genest McGill University 1957
2023 Richard Kenyon Yale University 1964
2023 Javad Mashreghi Université Laval 1968
2023 Messoud Efendiyev 1953
2023 Sylvia Serfaty Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences 1975
2024 Robert J. Birgeneau University of California, Berkeley 1942
2024 Michael Harris Columbia University 1954
2024 Sujatha Ramdorai University of British Columbia 1962
2024 Ulrike Tillmann Oxford University

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