Niky Kamran

James McGill Professor, McGill University

Niky Kamran James McGill Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McGill University received his licence en sciences mathematiques from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles in 1980 and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Waterloo in 1984, where he was the Ph.D. gold medalist. He was the first recipient of the Andre Aisenstadt Prize in 1991 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2002. From 2006 to 2008, he held a Killam Research Fellowship awarded by the Canada Council for the Arts. His research interests are in differential geometry, partial differential equations and mathematical physics.

Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize Lecture: Niky Kamran
April 7, 2014
University of British Columbia
It is well known that Einstein's general theory of relativity provides a geometrical description of gravity in terms of space-time curvature. Einstein's theory poses some fascinating and difficult mathematical challenges that have stimulated a great...