Interview with a mathematician: Nassif Ghoussoub
Nassif Ghoussoub is the founder and current director of the Banff International Research Station, the founding director of the Pacific Institute of Mathematics, and the co-founder of MITACS NCE. On top of all that, he is an award-winning mathematician, whose most recent work focuses on differential equations and mass transport theory. I met Nassif when he…
Interview with a mathematician: Ken Ono
Ken Ono is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Emory University. His highly accomplished research program focuses on number theory, algebra, and combinatorics. Ken graduated from UCLA with his doctorate of mathematics in 1993. Before joining Emory in 2010, he has held several academic positions including one at the Institute for Advanced Study at…
Interview with a mathematician: Izabella Laba
Izabella Laba is a leading mathematician working at the University of British Columbia. Her research spans several fields such as harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory, mathematical physics, and the relatively new (but fast-breaking) area of additive combinatorics. She is highly awarded, having won the prestigious Coxeter-James and Krieger-Nelson Prizes of the Canadian Mathematical Society. In 2012, she became a fellow…
Interview with a mathematician: Alan Frieze
Alan Frieze (born 1945 in London, England) is one of the world’s leading experts on random graphs and the probabilistic method in combinatorics. He is a Professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Alan is very productive. At last count, he has 351 papers (and counting) referenced on Mathscinet. His…