[cmath] 2011 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize Awarded to Mark Lewis

[Andrea Yeomans]

From: Centre de recherches mathématiques

      Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences

      Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

 

Date: December 9, 2010

 

Re: CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize

 

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Mark Lewis of the University of
Alberta has been named the winner of the 2011 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize.

 

The CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize is a premier Canadian award for research
achievements in the mathematical sciences. The prize winner is selected each
fall by an independent international committee with six members, two named
by each of the three institutes. The prize winner is invited to give a
lecture at each of the institutes in the following year. The prize includes
a cash award of $10,000.

 

Mark Lewis holds a Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Biology, and is the
Director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of
Alberta.

 

His research involves mathematical modeling of biological processes, and is
an example of the best interplay of science and mathematics, where ideas
from each lead to advances in the other.

 

Mark Lewis's work develops techniques in stochastic processes, dynamical
systems and partial differential equations and has led to significant
advances, for example, in modeling territorial pattern formation in wolf
populations, predicting population spread in biological invasions like the
West Nile virus, and assessing the effect of habitat fragmentation on
species survival.

 

The entire mathematical sciences community is invited to attend Mark Lewis's
prize lecture at either the CRM, the Fields Institute or PIMS in 2011. The
dates of the lectures will be announced shortly.

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