Caleb Jonker and Xincheng Zhang have been awarded the 2025 Malcolm Slingsby Robertson Prize in Mathematics in recognition of their excellence in research.
Caleb Jonker completed his PhD under Professor Marco Gualtieri, focusing on Generalized Complex and Kähler geometry, particularly the Generalized Kähler–Ricci Flow. He is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mathematical Institute of Charles University, Czech Republic. During his undergrad, he earned two NSERC USRA awards, and during his PhD, he concurrently held an NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship and a FAST Fellowship.
Xincheng Zhang completed his PhD in Mathematics at the University of Toronto, working under the supervision of Professor Jeremy Quastel. His thesis, titled "TASEP and the KPZ fixed point in the half-space," focuses on the random surface growth model, specifically investigating the large-time fluctuation of TASEP in the half-space and how boundary conditions affect these fluctuations. His work provides new insights into establishing the universal random process in the half-space for the KPZ universality class. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech.
We congratulate them on this well-deserved recognition and wish them continued success in their research careers.