Celebrated Mathematician Anthony To-Ming Lau receives 2018 David Borwein Distinguished Career Award

OTTAWA, Ontario — The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) is pleased to announce that Professor Anthony To-Ming Lau (Alberta) has been named the recipient of the 2018 David Borwein Distinguished Career Award for his exceptional, continued, and broad contributions to mathematics. Lau will receive his award and present at Prize Lecture at the upcoming CMS Winter meeting in Vancouver, BC, December 7-10, 2018.

Awarded every four years, the David Borwein Distinguished Career Award is, by definition, reserved for those individuals who have made exceptional, broad, and continued contributions to Canadian mathematics. Over nearly five decades, Professor Lau has done precisely this, on a truly remarkable number of levels. From research central, to the development of abstract harmonic analysis in Canada and internationally, to teaching of such a high calibre that it has been recognized with a 3M Teaching Award, and award-winning service.

Lau has published more than 150 research articles and monographs, and served as Department Chair (Mathematical and Statistical Sciences) at the University of Alberta, as well as CMS President (2008 – 2010).

Distinguished Award Selection Committee Chair, Dr. Michael Bennett noted that Dr. Lau epitomized the spirit of the award, stating “perhaps Dr. Lau’s greatest contribution to Canadian mathematics lies in his mentorship and supervision of more than two dozen Ph.D. students, many of whom have themselves gone on to distinguished careers as scholars, educators and leaders, attaining prominence in Canada, the US and beyond”.