Sloan Research Fellowship / en Ila Varma awarded Sloan Research Fellowship /celebrates/ila-varma-awarded-sloan-research-fellowship <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Ila Varma awarded Sloan Research Fellowship</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2020-02-12T14:29:57-05:00" title="Wednesday, February 12, 2020 - 14:29" class="datetime">Wed, 02/12/2020 - 14:29</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/sloan-research-fellowship" hreflang="en">Sloan Research Fellowship</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-mathematics" hreflang="en">Department of Mathematics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/women-stem" hreflang="en">Women in STEM</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/DSC_0140.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="Portrait of Ila Varma"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">(photo by Diana Tyszko)</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>Ila Varma</strong>, an assistant professor with&nbsp;the department of mathematics in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science has been awarded a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship for 2020.</p> <p>Sloan Research Fellowships recognize extraordinary early career researchers at U.S. and Canadian institutions who set high standards for achievement, creativity and leadership.&nbsp; Varma will receive USD $75,000 over a two-year period to support her&nbsp;research&nbsp;into the statistical properties of abstract objects to order better understand the fundamental properties of counting numbers –&nbsp;also known as integers.</p> <p>“While the field of arithmetic statistics is a fairly new area of number theory, it is rooted in the study of classical open questions dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries,” says Varma. “I thank the Sloan Foundation for recognizing the potential in furthering this research on these fundamental mysteries in arithmetic.”</p> <h3><a href="https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/three-remarkable-arts-science-scholars-receive-prestigious-sloan-research-fellowships">Read the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science story</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Wed, 12 Feb 2020 19:29:57 +0000 lanthierj 162637 at