Israel Michael Sigal

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Israel Michael Sigal
Born Kiev, Ukrainian SSR
Residence Toronto, Canada
Citizenship Canadian
Fields Mathematics
Institutions University of Toronto
Alma mater N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Tel-Aviv University
Doctoral students Izabella Łaba
Notable awards Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada 1998
Fellow of American Mathematical Society, 2012

Israel Michael Sigal [1] is a Canadian mathematician specializing in mathematical physics. He is a professor at the University of Toronto Department of Mathematics.

He was an invited speaker at International Congress of Mathematicians, Kyoto—1990[2] and in International Congress on Mathematical Physics, Lausanne—1979, W. Berlin—1981, Marselle—1986.

Education

Born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR,[1] Sigal obtained his bachelor¹s degree at Gorky University and his Ph. D. at Tel-Aviv University[3]

Research interests

Partial differential equation of quantum physics, Quantum mechanics and quantum information theory, Quantum field theory, Statistical mechanics, Non-linear equations, Mathematical biology, Pattern recognition[4]

Awards

  • The Jeffrey-Williams Lectureship, CMS Summer Meeting, 1992.[5]
  • John L. Synge Award, 1993.
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 1993.
  • University Professor, 1997.
  • Norman Stuart Robertson Chair in Applied Mathematics, 1998.
  • CRM/Fields Institute Prize,[6] 2000.
  • Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2012.[7]

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