[cmath] 2010 PIMS Education Prize Awarded to Andy Liu at U.Alberta

[Alejandro Adem]

Andy Liu from University of Alberta
Awarded 2010 PIMS Education Prize

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) is
pleased to announce that the winner of the 2010 PIMS Education
Prize is Prof. Andy Liu from the University of Alberta. This prize
is intended to recognize individuals from the PIMS universities,
or other educational institutions in Alberta, British Columbia,
and Saskatchewan who have played a major role in encouraging
activities which have enhanced public awareness and appreciation
of mathematics, as well as fostering communication among various
groups and organizations concerned with mathematical training at
all levels.

Prof. Liu is an outstanding mathematical educator who has been
internationally recognized for his tireless work in education
and outreach over a period of many years. He is a winner of the
Deborah and Franklin Teppo-Haimo Award from the Mathematical
Association of America (2004), the Adrienne Poulot Award from the
Canadian Mathematical Society (2003), the Distinguished
Teaching Award from the Pacific Northwest Section of the MAA
(2002), the Delta Chi Teaching Excellence Award (2000), the
3M National Teaching Fellowship (1999), and was Canadian
University Professor of the Year (1998). He was also the leader
of the Canadian team to the International Mathematical Olympiad
in 2000 and 2003.

Prof. Liu is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of
Alberta and has been highly influential through his popular courses
for future elementary school teachers. He also serves as Director
of "Saturday Mathematical Activities, Recreations and Tutorials"
(SMART), an enrichment program for students in Edmonton which has
captured the imagination of several generations of junior high
school students. He has helped organize and promote the highly
successful SNAP (Student-oriented, Non-competitive, All-inclusive, 
Problem-based) Math Fairs. He is Chair of the Alberta High School
Mathematics Competition Board, and serves as Vice-President of the
International Mathematics Tournament of Towns. He has also been the
organizer for the CMS Regional Mathematics Summer Camps held in
Edmonton in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008.

The 2010 PIMS Education Prize will be awarded at a special event
during the annual Changing the Culture conference at Simon Fraser
University on May 21, 2010. PIMS is grateful to CGG Veritas &
Hampson-Russell for sponsoring this award.

For more information on the PIMS Education Prize please see

http://www.pims.math.ca/pims-glance/prizes-awards