Jun
25
We are very pleased to announce that our PhD graduate (2011) Brendan Pass has been awarded the 2012 Cecil Graham Doctoral Dissertation Award, an award given by CAIMS (Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society). His thesis was entitled "Structural results on optimal transportation plans" and was supervised by Robert McCann. Brendan is now a Max Wyman Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta. You can see more at http://wiki.math.toronto.edu/TorontoMathWiki/index.php/2012_Cecil_Graham_Doctoral_Dissertation_Award Brendan is in town today, Monday, June 25, to give a talk on Multi-marginal optimal transportation, as part of the 2012 CAIMS Annual Meeting. A schedule of events is available here: http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/11-12/CAIMS_SCMAI/program.html Brendan's talk is at 4:45 p.m., in Room MS 2158 (Auditorium), Medical Sciences Building, 1 King's College Circle.