Dmitry Panchenko a UNM PhD graduate (2002, advisor Vladimir Koltchinskii)
and currently a Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada,
was awarded a 2019 Simons Fellow. These are very competitive awards. For the list of 2019 awardees see
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-fellows-in-mathematics/?tab=awardees
