CMS Doctoral Prize

The CMS Doctoral Prize recognizes outstanding performance by a doctoral student who graduated from a Canadian university in the preceding year (January 1st to December 31st). The CMS Doctoral Prize consists of an award of $500, a two-year complimentary membership in the CMS, a framed Doctoral Prize Certificate and a stipend for travel expenses to attend the CMS meeting to receive the award and present a plenary lecture. The first award was presented in 1997.

Recipients

• 2010 Award : Call for Nominations ( deadline: Jan. 31, 2010 )
• 2009 Prize awarded to: Dr. Mark Braverman
• 2008 Prize awarded to: Dr. Matthew Greenberg
• All recipients

Selection:

The CMS Doctoral Prize Selection Committee (DPSC) is a sub-committee of the Research Committee consisting of four members, each for two-year terms. The Chair of the DPSC is to be a member of the Research Committee but the other three members of the DPSC need not be members of the Research Committee.

In cooperation with the CMS Executive Office, the DPSC ensures bilingual promotional materials related to the CMS Doctoral Prize are produced and that appropriate information is distributed and that calls for nominations appear in the October, November and December issues of the CMS Notes (with January 31 as the deadline for nominations).

Nominations are limited to doctoral students who graduated from a Canadian University in the preceding year (January 1 to December 31). Nominations that were not successful in the first competition, will be kept active for a further year (with nopossibility of updating the file) and will be considered by the Doctoral Prize Selection Committee in the following year's competition.

The DPSC receives copies of all nominations and selects the recipient for the CMS Doctoral Prize, at least six months in advance of the meeting at which the Prize will be presented and the recipient will present a plenary lecture.