Fields Institute 2020-2021 Scientific Advisory Panel
The Fields Institute announces new members joining its Scientific Advisory Panel: Michael Harris, Sujatha Ramdorai, and Ulrike Tillmann
July 1, 2020, Toronto, ON. The Fields Institute announces new members joining its Scientific Advisory Panel. Michael Harris, Sujatha Ramdorai, and Ulrike Tillmann join the Scientific Advisory Panel for a three-year term. The complete 2020-21 Scientific Advisory Panel slate is available here.
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Michael Harris is Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University and is on extended leave from the Université Paris-Diderot, where he taught for 20 years; before that he was a Professor at Brandeis University. He obtained his PhD in 1977 from Harvard University, under the direction of Barry Mazur. He has organized or co-organized more than 20 conferences, workshops, and special programs in his field of number theory, and until 2018 directed the European Research Council project “Arithmetic of Automorphic Motives” at the Institut des Hautes-Études Scientifiques outside Paris. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Bethlehem University in Palestine and a National Academy of Sciences Exchange Scholar at the Steklov Institute in Moscow. His book Mathematics without Apologies won the 2016 PROSE award in Mathematics from the Association of American Publishers. He is a member of the Institut Universitaire de France and the Academia Europaea, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. For his contributions to the Langlands program he obtained the Grand Prix Sophie Germain de l’Académie des Sciences in 2006; in 2007 he shared the Clay Research Award with Richard Taylor. |
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Sujatha Ramdorai holds a Canada Research Chair position at the Mathematics Department, University of British Columbia. She has served as a Member of several national and international committees on education, research and international cooperation. She is a winner of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award (2004), International Centre for Theoretical Physics Ramanujan Prize (2006), Canadian Mathematical Society Krieger-Nelson Prize (2018). As a Board Member of India-Canada Centre for Innovative Multidisciplinary Partnerships to Accelerate Community Transformation and Sustainability, she has contributed to deepening ties between India and Canada in the areas of education and research. |
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Ulrike Tillmann has worked broadly in topology, K-theory, and non-commutative geometry. Her work on the moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces and manifolds of higher dimensions has been inspired by problems in quantum physics and string theory, while new challenges in data science have motivated some of her recent work. After finishing school in Germany, Tillmann went to Brandeis University as a Wien International Scholar and studied for her PhD under Ralph Cohen at Stanford University. She then worked with Graeme Segal at Cambridge University before she took a position in Oxford where she has been a professor since 2000. Tillmann was awarded the Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society in 2004 and the Bessel-Humboldt Forschungs Preis in 2008. She was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 2008, an inaugural fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012, and a member of the Leopoldina in 2017. She is a fellow of the Alan Turing Institute since its establishment, and serves on scientific boards of several international institutions, including the Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics and the Austrian Science Foundation. Currently, she is a member of Council of the Royal Society where she also served as (interim) Vice President in 2018. |
