Prof. Karl Dilcher to receive the 2019 Graham Wright Award for Distinguished Service

OTTAWA, Ontario — The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) is pleased to announce that Prof. Karl Dilcher (Dalhousie) has been named the recipient of the 2019 Graham Wright Award for Distinguished Service. Prof. Dilcher will receive his award at the CMS Winter meeting in Toronto, ON, December 6-9, 2019.

President and Chair of the CMS Distinguished Awards Selection Committee Prof. Mark Lewis (Alberta) states, “Karl Dilcher exemplifies mathematical service, both to the CMS and to the broader mathematical community. He has provided 25 years of dedicated service to a wide variety of committees and editorial boards for the Society.” His work with CMS publications has been longstanding, and has ranged from Co-Editor-in-Chief of the CMS Books in Mathematics Series, Contributing Editor of book reviews for the CMS Notes, and to selecting and coordinating with a publishing house partner for CMS journals. He has also served on the CMS Board of Directors as Vice-president and Director, among other CMS committees and activities.

His service is impressive and extends to other activities beyond the CMS. He served his University as Department Chair including serving in various panels, committees and ad-hoc committees over the years, and he maintains a thriving and productive research group at Dalhousie. He is also very instrumental to the operations of The Fibonacci Association and their journal, Fibonacci Quarterly.

Since 2016, Dilcher has devoted much of this personal time to finding good homes for mathematics books donated by retiring mathematicians (or just those who are clearing their bookshelves) by developing a special recycling program for reuse of mathematical books where the fairly substantial revenues are divided equally between the CMS and Dalhousie University’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

Prof. Karl Dilcher earned his doctorate at Queen’s University in 1983, became an Assistant Professor in 1987 at Dalhousie University where since 1999 he continues to teach as a Professor.