## Canadian Mathematical Society Student Committee

**Our grad student Jerrod Smith is a member of the CMS Student
Committee and he is organizing the student poster session at the
2011 Winter CMS meeting to be held in Toronto.**

Hi everyone,

CMS Student Committee is inviting you to present a poster
at the CMS Student Poster Session. The poster session will take
place on December 10-11, 2011 at the site of the CMS Winter
meeting in Toronto.

This is great opportunity to present your research in a more relaxed
atmosphere without the pressure of giving a talk. The poster can be on
your current or previous research, it could simply be a survey of the
topic you are planning to start your research in or even just a fun
and interesting topic of mathematics. There will be judging and the
top three posters will be awarded cash prizes as well as two
complimentary banquet tickets each.

to http://math.ca/Events/winter11/students. The deadline for the
registration is October 31st.

All the best,
Student Committee.

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# YOUNG MATHEMATICIAN TO RECEIVE PRESTIGIOUS AWARD

Youness Lamzouri to Receive 2011 CMS Doctoral Prize

Youness Lamzouri

OTTAWA, Ontario — The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) is pleased to announce that Youness Lamzouri is the recipient of the 2011 Doctoral Prize. The CMS Doctoral Prize recognizes outstanding performance by a doctoral student. Lamzouri will receive his award and present a plenary lecture at the 2011 CMS Winter Meeting in Toronto.

“Students pursuing a doctorate in mathematics are crucial to the growth and development of mathematics in Canada as well as to discovery and advancement in the fields of science and technology,” said Jacques Hurtubise, President of the CMS. “Youness Lamzouri has made considerable contributions to mathematics through his doctoral research and is highly deserving of this prize.”

“Youness Lamzouri emerges from his doctoral studies as a fully fledged mathematician,” said Andrew Granville (University of Montreal), Lamzouri’s PhD thesis supervisor. “He is a strong researcher, a very good writer of mathematics, and a clear effective teacher and lecturer who is popular with students at different levels.”

Lamzouri’s research is in the area of analytic number theory. His thesis provides a first good understanding of extreme values of the Riemann zeta-function (and of all -functions) at the edge of the critical strip, an area involved in some of the most difficult and central problems in analytic number theory.

“There was already a good understanding of the distribution of in its full range, as varies, but Lamzouri was able to give some idea of the distribution of in the same range, showing that it is more dense near the real axis than had perhaps been expected,” said Granville.

Another striking aspect of Lamzouri’s thesis work is his use of analytic techniques to understand questions on diophantine approximation (and thus settle a dispute as to the basis of the Lang-Waldschmidt conjecture on the limit of linear forms in logarithms); and in using diophantine approximation techniques (the Lang-Waldschmidt conjecture) to greatly extend the range of Fourier analysis involving ‘s.

Youness Lamzouri obtained his PhD in mathematics from the University of Montreal in 2009. After graduation, he obtained an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship, and participated in the 2009-2010 special year on Analytic Number Theory at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He was the recipient of the 2004 Jean-Maranda Award for the best finishing undergraduate student in mathematics from the University of Montreal, and the 2006 Carl Herz Prize from the Institut des sciences mathématiques (ISM). Youness is currently a J. L. Doob Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

 Laura Alyea Communications and Special Projects Officer Canadian Mathematical Society (613) 733-2662 ext. 728 commsp@cms.math.ca or Dr. David Brydges, Chair CMS Research Committee Department of Mathematics University of British Columbia (604) 822-3620 chair-resc@cms.math.ca

## Call for submissions to Notes from the Margin

Hi everyone,

The CMS Student Committee (Studc) would like to invite you to submit
research-related articles, opinion pieces and math-related stories to
the second edition of Notes from the Margin.

We distribute the Margin to over 50 universities in Canada and very
soon we hope to have a copy of it available at every university across
the country. Meanwhile, you can find the electronic version of the first
issue of the Margin at
CMS Studc.