SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

December 22, 2024

Day Celebrating New Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
October 24, 2003

The Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Science, has recently elected new Fellows for the 2003 year. The Fields Institute will be hosting an event on October 24, 2003, to celebrate the achievements of this year's new Fellows in the mathematical and physical sciences from this area. There will be 4 talks by newly elected Fellows of the Royal Society between 1:10pm and 4:30pm, followed by a reception.

Audio and Slides of talks are available here.

Speakers:

1:10 p.m.

Ian F. Blake,
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Toronto
Directions in Cryptography

2:10 p.m. Keith J. Worsley,
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill
The geometry of random images in astrophysics and brain mapping
Tea Break  
3:30 p.m. J. Ian Munro,
School of Computer Science, Waterloo
Succinct Data Structures
4:30 p.m. Henri Darmon,
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill
Elliptic curves and Kronecker's solution to Pell's equation
Reception  

A complete listing of all new Fellows elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2003 is available here. The new Fellows will be inducted into the Society in a ceremony set to take place at Rideau Hall on Friday, November 22, 2002.

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