Two doctoral students in mathematics from the Université de Montréal have obtained international postdoctoral fellowships. As of this fall, Dustin Connery-Grigg will join the ranks of the Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris and Jean-Philippe Chassé those of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich for a minimum period of two years.
Dustin Connery-Grigg is one of six people selected to participate in the postdoctoral program of the Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris. He will receive a monthly allowance of €2,500 (CA$3,400), in addition to benefiting from various social benefits and being able to take part in various seminars and working groups specially set up for the establishment’s scholarship holders. He will work in one of the Foundation’s affiliated research laboratories alongside mathematician Vincent Humilière, an expert in symplectic topology and Hamiltonian dynamics.
Jean-Philippe Chassé will be a postdoctoral fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, better known as ETH Zurich. The UdeM lecturer will thus obtain two annual allowances, ie a salary of approximately 92,000 SF (122,000 $ CA) as well as a supplement of 2,500 SF (3,325 $ CA) to cover his travel expenses. This renowned grant will allow him to work with mathematician Paul Biran, a specialist in symplectic topology and algebraic geometry.
The two students did their doctoral thesis at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of UdeM in the area of research in geometry and topology. Dustin Connery-Grigg presented his thesis, written under the supervision of François Lalonde and entitled Floer Theory on Surfaces, on March 31 before a jury made up of five members from UdeM, Stanford University, Paris-Sorbonne University and Tel-Aviv University. As for Jean-Philippe Chassé, who was supervised by Octavian Cornea, he will present his thesis in July. It deals with the relationship between metrics of a symplectic nature and the Hausdorff metric in the presence of Riemannian bounds.
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