2012

• Dr. Bei Chen is the winner of the 2011 Pierre Robillard Award, which is a prize given by the Statistical Society of Canada in recognition of the best PhD thesis in probability or statistics defended at a Canadian university. Bei Chen’s thesis is entitled “Linearization Methods in Time Series Analysis” and was written at the University of Waterloo under the supervision of Bovas Abraham and Yulia Gel.
  
  
• Dr. Chung Pang Mok has won an Early Researchers Award from the Provincial Government that will provide $100,000 in support of his research program in algebraic number theory. He proposes research that will explore the periods of automorphic representations, which involve a number of questions and problems that lie at the forefront of modern number theory.
  
  
• Dr. Roman Viveros-Aguilera is the recipient of the 2012 Distinguished Service Award of the Statistical Society of Canada. The award recognizes Roman's substantial contributions to the running or welfare of the SSC over a period of several years, as well as his devotion and service to building Canadian Statistics.