Doctoral and distinguished service awards

[Graham Wright]

For release: IMMEDIATE (June 4, 2004)

TWO HONOURED FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS

OTTAWA, Ontario    The winner of the Canadian Mathematical Society's
2004 Doctoral Prize is Dr. Nicolaas Spronk and Dr. Edgar Goodaire will
receive the CMS Distinguished Service Award for 2004. Both awards will
be presented at the CMS 2004 Winter Meeting Banquet on December 12th
at Hilton Bonaventure Hotel, Montréal.

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2004 CMS Doctoral Prize - Dr.Nicolaas Spronk (University of Waterloo)
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The CMS Doctoral Prize recognizes outstanding performance by a
doctoral student who graduated from a Canadian university.

Nicolaas Spronk received his B.Sc. from the University of Alberta in
1995 and his M.Math. from the University of Waterloo in 1997. He was a
graduate student of Professor Brian Forrest at the University of
Waterloo and completed his Ph.D. in 2002. Since then he has held an
NSERC postdoctoral fellowship at Texas A&M University.

It is with great enthusiasm that the Canadian Mathematical Society
awards the 2004 Doctoral Prize to Nicolaas Spronk. As a graduate
student of Professor Brian Forrest at the University of Waterloo,
Nicolaas Spronk wrote a remarkable thesis in the area of abstract
harmonic analysis. He has used the new and highly technical theory of
operator spaces to solve hard problems in non-commutative harmonic
analysis. Nicolaas Spronk has launched a productive and promising
research career with almost ten papers published or accepted for
publication.

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2004 CMS Distinguished Service Award - Dr. Edgar Goodaire (Memorial
University of Newfoundland)
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The CMS Distinguished Service Award was created in 1995 to recognize
individuals who have made sustained and significant contributions to
the Canadian mathematical community and, in particular, to the
Canadian Mathematical Society.

The recipient of the 2004 Canadian Mathematical Society Distinguished
Service Award is Edgar G. Goodaire from the Department of Mathematics
and Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's. The
award recognizes lifelong work to the development of mathematics in
the country and commitment and service to the Canadian mathematical
community, to the Canadian Mathematical Society and to the Atlantic
mathematical community.

Edgar Goodaire has a very long history of service to the CMS and has
occupied many strategic positions. He started as an being
Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Mathematical Bulletin from 1981 to
1985. He was a member of the Publications Committee (1983-88) and he
Chaired the Committee from 1986 to 1988. He served on the Nominating
Committee on two occasions: as member (1982-83 and 1994-97) and as
Chair (1995-97). He was Treasurer from 1990 to 1992 and a member of
the Task Force on Office Strategies from 1999 to 2000. He served on
the Electronic Services Committee for three years and was Chair from
1999 to 2000. From 2001 to 2003, he was the CMS Vice-President for the
Atlantic Region. During this period he was Deputy President, Board
member, member of the Distinguished Service Award Committee and the
President's delegate on the Publications Committee. He has just become
a member of the Advancement of Mathematics Committee and served on the
jury for the first CMS Excellence in Teaching Award.

Apart from his service to the CMS, Edgar Goodaire has worked all his
life for mathematics in Atlantic Canada. Currently, he is very
involved in the Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical
Sciences (AARMS) and, in particular, the organization of the AARMS
summer schools. He has done a lot of work with APICS (Atlantic
Provinces Council on the Sciences)   and has been Chair of the APICS
Mathematics and Statistics Committee since 2001.

Dr. Goodaire went to Memorial University in 1973 after completing a
Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia and an undergraduate
degree at the University of Toronto. He was promoted to Full Professor
in 1989. He has served on every major committee in the Department of
Mathematics and the Faculty of Science and was Head of the Department
during the period 1991-1994. Outside the university, he is an
accomplished violinist who, for many years, played in the Newfoundland
Symphony Orchestra. He enjoys watching professional football and
avidly follows his beloved Toronto Argonauts on television.

Dr. Goodaire is a leading world expert on certain non-associative
algebraic structures known as loops, in particular Bol and Moufang
loops. He founded the field of alternative loop rings.  He has
published over 60 research articles and four books, including a recent
undergraduate textbook in Linear Algebra. His popular text "Discrete
Mathematics with Graph Theory" with Michael M. Parmenter is scheduled
for a third edition. His research has been funded continuously by
NRC/NSERC throughout his career.


For more information, contact:


Dr. Graham P. Wright
Executive Director
Canadian Mathematical Society
Tel: (613) 562-5702
Cel: (613) 290-3046

director at cms.math.ca


Dr. Christiane Rousseau
President
Canadian Mathematical Society
Tel: (514) 343-7729
Fax: (514) 343-5700

president at cms.math.ca


Nathalie M. Blanchard
Assistant to the Executive Director

Canadian Mathematical Society
577 King Edward, Suite 109
Ottawa, Ontario  K1N 6N5
Tel: 613-562-5800, ext. 3484
FAX: 613-565-1539
E-mail: assist at cms.math.ca
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