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CONTRIBUTORS
David Andrews was a graduate in 1965 of the Mathematics,
Physics, and Chemistry program (MPC) at the University
of Toronto. Following his PhD at the University of Toronto
in 1968, he was appointed to Imperial College, London, and
Princeton University before returning to the University of
Toronto in 1971. He served as Chair of the Department of
Statistics (1984–92) and thus was present at the creation.
James Arthur works on the theory of automorphic forms at
the University of Toronto. He has been elected to the Royal
Society of Canada, the Royal Society (London), the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he served as President of
the American Mathematical Society (2005–07). Arthur was
awarded the Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2015), and the Leroy
P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2017).
Edward Bierstone served as Director of the Fields
Institute (2009–13). In 2012, in collaboration with the
International Mathematical Union, he founded the Fields
Medal Symposium. He is a founding Fellow of the Fields
Institute, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, and has been a
member of the Department of Mathematics at the University
of Toronto since 1973.
John Chadam is Professor of Mathematics at the University
of Pittsburgh, and served as Scientific Director and Director