[cmath] CANADIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY'S 2008 DOCTORAL PRIZE WINNER

[Graham Wright]

For release: IMMEDIATE (September 11, 2008)

CANADIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY'S 2008 DOCTORAL PRIZE WINNER

The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) is pleased to award the 2008 
CMS Doctoral Prize to Dr. Matthew Greenberg (Calgary). The award will 
be presented at the Society's Winter Meeting in Ottawa, Ontario 
(December 2008).

Matthew Greenberg's Ph.D. thesis develops a strikingly elegant 
approach to computing the overconvergent modular symbols attached to 
automorphic forms on certain higher rank groups. Greenberg's method, 
which builds on a fundamental idea of Pollack and Stevens, has found 
applications to the efficient calculation of p-adic L-functions 
attached to forms on GL(n), and of Mordell-Weil groups of elliptic 
curves defined over imaginary quadratic fields.  Greenberg's more 
recent work makes substantial strides towards generalizing the 
definition of so-called "Stark-Heegner points", and provides the most 
satisfactory general framework for studying these objects.

Matthew Greenberg received his B.Sc. in 2000 from the University of 
Manitoba and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from McGill University in 
2002 and 2006 under the supervisions of Eyal Goren and Henri Darmon, 
respectively. Subsequently, he was awarded an NSERC postdoctoral 
fellowship which he held at Harvard University and at the Max Planck 
Institute for Mathematics in Bonn (Germany).  In January 2008, Matthew 
took up a tenure-track position at the University of Calgary.  His 
research interests include theoretical and computational aspects of 
algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry, with a focus on 
applications of the theory of modular forms to the construction of 
rational points on elliptic curves.

For more information, contact:


Dr. Graham P. Wright
Executive Director
Canadian Mathematical Society
director at cms.math.ca
(613) 562-5702


Dr. Edward Bierstone
Chair, CMS Research Committee
Department of Mathematics,
University of Toronto
chair-resc at cms.math.ca
(416) 978-4347
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