Faculty of Science and Information Technology

Professor Jonathan M. Borwein

• B.A. (Honours Math) 1971, University of Western Ontario
• M. Sc., 1972, Oxford University (Jesus College)
• D. Phil., 1974, Oxford University (Jesus College), Rhodes Scholar

• Pure Mathematics - Analysis, Functional Analysis
• Applied Mathematics - Optimisation
• Computational mathematics - Numerical and computational analysis
• High performance computing
• Collaborative mathematics

• Computer Assisted Research Mathematics and its Applications (CARMA)

• Received various awards including the Chauvenet Prize of the MAA (1993), Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada (1994), Fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2002), an honorary degree from Limoges (1999), and foreign membership in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (2003).
• Chair of The International Math Union's Committee on Electronic Information and Communications 2002-2008
• Member of the board of The Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada 2007-2009
• Member of the selection committee for the Canadian Science and Technology Hall of Fame 2006-2008
• Highly Cited Researchers Database (ISI) http://isihighlycited.com

• Supervised over 20 research higher degree students

• 2008 Visiting Professor Laureate at The University of Newcastle
• 2004 - 2011 Canada Research Chair in Distributed and Collaborative Research, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, cross-appointed in Mathematics, with an adjunct appointment at Simon Fraser University
• 2001- 2008 Canada Research Chair in Information Technology, Simon Fraser University
• 1993-2003 Shrum Professor of Science, Simon Fraser University
• 1991-93 Professor, Dept of Combinatorics and Optimization, Waterloo University
• 1980-82 Associate Professor, Carnegie-Mellon University
• 1974-91 various academic positions, Dalhousie University