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Jonathan M. Borwein
JONATHAN M. BORWEIN is the director of the Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC. He was an Ontario Rhodes Scholar (1971), D.Phil (Oxford) 1974 under Michael Dempster, the 1987 Coxeter-James lecturer, won the 1988 Atlantic Provinces Gold Medal for Sciences, and the Shrum Professorship of Science at Simon Fraser University. His research background includes (nonsmooth) optimization theory, functional and classical analysis, computational complexity, and, of course, π; however, lately he has been seduced by the transformation of mathematics by computation and the internet. He also enjoys good food, good whisky, good books, and good fast conversation.
Robert M. Corless
ROBERT M. CORLESS, Ph.D. UBC 1987 (Mech. Eng.), is Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation, Chair of the ISAAC Steering Committee, Deputy Director of the Ontario Research Centre for Computer Algebra, and Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at The University of Western Ontario. His research interests include computer algebra (especially symbolic-numeric algorithms for polynomials), numerical analysis, dynamical systems, and flow-induced vibrations. He is a member of SIAM, CMS, a life member of The Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society, and has been an MAA member since he won a one-year membership in his final undergraduate year in 1980. Like Jon, he enjoys good food, wine, books, music, and conversation.