{"id":22563,"date":"2026-07-07T14:32:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/2026\/07\/07\/former-crm-postdoctoral-fellow-arthur-chatton-awarded-2026-banting-discovery-prize\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:25:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:25:35","slug":"james-maynard-appointed-regius-professor-of-mathematics-at-the-university-of-oxfordformer-crm-postdoctoral-fellow-arthur-chatton-awarded-2026-banting-discovery-prize-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/en\/2026\/07\/07\/james-maynard-appointed-regius-professor-of-mathematics-at-the-university-of-oxfordformer-crm-postdoctoral-fellow-arthur-chatton-awarded-2026-banting-discovery-prize-2\/","title":{"rendered":"James Maynard appointed Regius Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1420.64px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>The CRM warmly congratulates James Maynard, a former CRM-ISM postdoctoral fellow who worked under the supervision of Professor Andrew Granville (Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al), on his appointment to the prestigious position of Regius Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.<\/p>\n<p>We would also like to highlight James Maynard\u2019s longstanding ties to the CRM and the Montreal mathematics community. In addition to receiving the Fields Medal in 2022, he shared the 2023 Frontiers of Science Award with Dimitris Koukoulopoulos (University of Montreal) for their paper \u201c<em>On the Duffin-Schaeffer Conjecture.<\/em>\u201d He also delivered a Grande conference publique at the CRM on the magic of prime numbers in September 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ox.ac.uk\/news\/2026-07-02-james-maynard-appointed-new-regius-professor-of-mathematics\">Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":22567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-prizes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22579,"href":"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22563\/revisions\/22579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crmath.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}