The G. de B. Robinson Award was inaugurated to recognize the publication of excellent papers in the Canadian Journal of Mathematics (CJM) and the Canadian Mathematical Bulletin (CMB) and to encourage the submission of the highest quality papers to these journals.
The first award was presented for papers that appeared in the Canadian Journal of Mathematics in 1994-1995.
Recipients
Selection
The prize rotates annually among the Canadian Journal of Mathematics (CJM), the Canadian Mathematical Bulletin (CMB), and Canadian Mathematical Communications (CMC). In each year, the last two complete volumes of the journal under consideration are eligible. The Editors-in-Chief for the journal under consideration nominate papers from the respective two volumes, and the Chair of the Publications Committee may invite additional nominations from members of the Selection Jury.
The Selection Jury consists of the Associate Editors of the CJM, CMB, and CMC. At the December meeting, the CMS Publications Committee appoints a non-voting Chair from among its members, or may delegate this role to the Editors-in-Chief of the journal under consideration, in which case they hold a single tie-breaking vote. The Jury strives for consensus in selecting the winning paper; where consensus cannot be reached, jurors allocate votes among the nominated papers.
The jurors exercise their own mathematical judgement in distributing their votes. Some of the characteristics they may consider include clarity, elegance, conciseness, depth and difficulty, and potential impact.
Please note that, throughout the selection process, selection committees must abide by the Conflict of Interest Instructions for Awards & Prizes Selection Committees.
The G. de B. Robinson Award is named in honour of:
Gilbert de Beauregard Robinson (1906 - 1992)
Gilbert Robinson was the third president of the CMS from 1953-1957. He specialized in the study of symmetric groups on which he became a recognized authority, writing some forty papers on the topic. Along with H.S.M Coxeter he established the Canadian Journal of Mathematics and served as Managing Editor for 30 years. In his retirement years he founded the Mathematical Reports of the Academy of Sciences, of which he was production editor from 1976 to 1990.