The Israel Halperin Prize is awarded every five years by the Canadian Annual Symposium on Operator Theory and Operator Algebras to a member of the Canadian mathematical community who has recently obtained a doctorate and has made contributions to operator theory or operator algebras. It honors Israel Halperin, the founder of a group of researchers in operator algebras and operator theory at the University of Toronto who strongly influenced the field across Canada. First awarded in 1980.

Recipients

The recipients of are:

Israel Halperin Prize

1980: Man-Duen Choi

1985: Kenneth R. Davidson

1985: David Handelman

1990: Ian F. Putnam

1995: Nigel Higson

2000: Guihua Gong

2000: Alexandru Nica

2010: Andrew Toms

2015: Serban Belinschi

2015: Zhuang Niu

2020: Matthew Kennedy

2020: Aaron Tikuisis

See also

List of mathematics awards

References

Mathematics awards

Israel Halperin Prize