Vasilisa Shramchenko wins Governor General’s graduate gold medal

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At the morning convocation ceremony for the Faculty of Arts and Science, Vasilisa Shram-chenko was presented with the Governor-General’s Gold Medal for being top graduate student.

Shramchenko, who is originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, completed her PhD in physical mathematics at Concordia last spring. She has since moved to Europe to embark on not one but two postdoctoral projects there. Shramchenko will spend one year at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, and three years at Oxford. She returned to Montreal to attend the ceremony.

She remembers her time at Concordia fondly. “The math department was my second home. It was actually at Concordia that I realized what it means to do research and what fun it can be.”

Concordia’s Thursday Report published an article about her outstanding academic work in the issue of May 15, 2005, under the title, “For Vasilisa Shramchenko, mathematics is an art form.” You can read it at http://ctr.concordia.ca/2004-05/may_05/15/index.shtml.