Professor Craig S. Kaplan has received this year鈥檚 Faculty of Mathematics Award for Distinction in Teaching.聽Up to two awards are conferred each year to teachers who have consistently demonstrated outstanding pedagogical skills and a deep commitment to the education of our students.
Professor Kaplan has been at the University of 蓝莓视频 since 2003. He was also an undergraduate student at 蓝莓视频 in the 1990s, where he 鈥渉ad the pleasure of taking courses from a couple of the past winners of this award!鈥
Professor Kaplan is interested in a broad range of interdisciplinary topics, with a particular focus on interactions between mathematics and art. He uses mathematical ideas to create tools and algorithms that generate ornamental patterns and that empower artists and designers. His work incorporates knowledge from computer graphics, classical and computational geometry, human-computer interaction, graph theory, symmetry and tiling theory, and perceptual psychology.
鈥淚t makes me a little emotional,鈥 Professor Kaplan says of the award. 鈥淔or decades I鈥檝e poured a lot of time and energy into every aspect of teaching. It鈥檚 good to know that this work as gone into something important. I鈥檓 grateful for the recognition, but more importantly I鈥檓 happy to know that my efforts have had a positive impact on the lives of the students I鈥檝e taught.鈥
Read the full article about Professor Kaplan and co-awardee, Professor Henry Shum of the Department of Applied Mathematics, on the Faculty of Mathematics website.