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 From BICA (15) 1995: The 1995 Kirkman Medals of the ICA The 1995 Kirkman Medals of the ICA are awarded to members of the Institute who received their doctoral degrees in 1991, 1992, or 1993, and who have already produced a substantial amount of research work of exceptional quality. The Kirkman Medals were inaugurated in 1994, and the 1995 Kirkman Medals, the first to be granted, have been awarded to Jonathan Jedwab and Robert Craigen. We give summaries of the much more extensive citations and publication lists that were supplied by the nominators of these two outstanding young researchers. Robert Craigen received his Bachelor's degree from the University of British Columbia and both his Master's and Doctorate from the University of Waterloo; his supervisor for the Ph.D. (1991) was Larry Cummings. Since graduation, he has at the University of Lethbridge. Robert Craigen has developed a very original method of composing matrices that he calls the "weaving method" ...

 From BICA (15) 1995: The 1995 Hall Medals of the ICA The Hall Medals of the ICA are awarded to Fellows of the Institute who have not passed age 40 and who have already produced a distinguished corpus of significant research work. The Hall Medals were inaugurated in 1994, and the 1995 Hall Medals, the first to be granted, have been awarded to Ortrud Ruth Oellerman, Christopher Andrew Rodger, and Douglas Robert Stinson. We herewith give summaries of the much more extensive citations and publication lists that were supplied by the nominators of these three scholars. Doug Stinson did his undergraduate work in Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo. After a master's degree at Ohio state, under Rick Wilson, he returned to Waterloo where he worked under Ron Mullin and produced an outstanding doctoral thesis on frames. After spending eight years as a University Research Fellow at the University of Manitoba, during which time he reached the rank of Full Professor,...

 From BICA (15) 1995: The 1995 Hall Medals of the ICA The Hall Medals of the ICA are awarded to Fellows of the Institute who have not passed age 40 and who have already produced a distinguished corpus of significant research work. The Hall Medals were inaugurated in 1994, and the 1995 Hall Medals, the first to be granted, have been awarded to Ortrud Ruth Oellerman, Christopher Andrew Rodger, and Douglas Robert Stinson. We herewith give summaries of the much more extensive citations and publication lists that were supplied by the nominators of these three scholars. After obtaining a master's degree at the University of Sydney in Australia, under Jennifer Seberry, Chris Rodger went to the University of Reading for a Ph.D. under the direction of Tony Hilton. He is currently at Auburn University where he holds the position of Alumni Professor in the Department of Discrete and Statistical Science. Author of over seventy papers in a wide diversity of journals, he has made many signif...

 From BICA (15) 1995: The 1994 Hall Medals of the ICA   The Hall Medals of the ICA are awarded to Fellows of the Institute who have not passed age 40 and who have already produced a distinguished corpus of significant research work. The Hall Medals were inaugurated in 1994, and the 1995 Hall Medals, the first to be granted, have been awarded to Ortrud Ruth Oellerman, Christopher Andrew Rodger, and Douglas Robert Stinson. We herewith give summaries of the much more extensive citations and publication lists that were supplied by the nominators of these three scholars. After a master's degree at the University of Natal, in Durban, South Africa, under the direction of Henda Swart, Ortrud Oellerman completed her doctorate at Western Michigan University under Gary Chartrand. After five years on the faculty at the University of Natal, she followed her husband, who is a medical   doctor, to Canada and now holds an adjunct appointment at Brandon University. She has contribut...