Updated July 27, 2015 KILGOUR, Maggie, Faculty of Arts, McGill University. Maggie Kilgour's distinguished work is characterized by intellectual depth and breadth and by an overarching concern with the remaking of traditions over time. She has published pioneering monographs on the cultural meaning of cannibalism and its role in literature from the ancient world to the present, on gothic fiction of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and on the reception of classical literature in the Renaissance and later periods

Updated July 27, 2015 L'oeuvre éminente de Maggie Kilgour se caractérise par sa profondeur et son ampleur intellectuelles et par sa préoccupation pour les traditions littéraires d'une période à l'autre. Elle a publié des monographies innovatrices sur la signification culturelle du cannibalisme et son rôle en littérature depuis l'ancien monde jusqu'au présent, sur la fiction gothique aux dix-huitième et dix-neuvième siècles, et sur la réception de la littérature classique depuis la Renaissance.

Yong Baek Kim is a theoretical condensed matter physicist and a professor at the University of Toronto. He has made significant contributions to theoretical understanding of emergent quantum phenomena in strongly spin-orbit coupled quantum materials, which include quantum spin liquids and novel quasiparticles. He received Guggenheim Fellowship (2022), Simons Fellowship (2022), Killam Fellowship (2018), Brockhouse Medal (2017), Fellow of American Physical Society (2012), Canada Research Chair (2002), Sloan Fellowship (1999).

Yong Baek Kim est un physicien théoricien spécialiste de la matière condensée et professeur à l’Université de Toronto. Il a apporté des contributions importantes à la compréhension théorique des phénomènes quantiques émergents dans les matériaux quantiques à fort couplage spin-orbite, qui comprennent les liquides de spin quantiques et les nouvelles quasi-particules. Il a éé boursier Guggenheim (2022), Simons (2022) et Killam (2018), a reçu la médaille Brockhouse (2017), a été nommé membre de l’American Physical Society (2012), a été titulaire d’une Chaire de recherche du Canada (2002) et est lauréat d’une bourse Sloan (1999).

Kayla King is a Professor and Canada Excellence Research Chair at UBC. She is an expert on the ecology and contemporary evolution of host-parasite interactions. Her research seeks to understand how host and parasite species coevolve, as well as to study the impact of biodiversity and environmental conditions on parasite transmission and virulence over time. Her findings have helped advance our understanding of adaptation and wildlife health in a changing world.

Kayla King est professeure et titulaire d’une chaire d’excellence en recherche du Canada à la UBC. Elle est spécialiste de l’écologie et de l’évolution contemporaine des interactions hôte-parasite. Ses recherches visent à comprendre comment les espèces d’hôtes et de parasites coévoluent, ainsi qu’à étudier l’impact de la biodiversité et des conditions environnementales sur la transmission et la virulence des parasites au fil du temps. Ses découvertes ont contribué à faire progresser notre compréhension de l’adaptation et de la santé de la faune dans un monde en mutation.

Dr. Leslie J. King has a long and outstanding record of scholarly research and publication, journal editing, and professional leadership in urban and economic geography. He was a pioneer in introducing mathematical models to geography and was a founding member of the interdisciplinary field of regional science. He has made major contributions in developing the theoretical underpinnings of economic geography, in quantitative modelling, central place theory and the systematic analysis of fluctuations in economic activity across space and over time. His research, publications and pedagogical contributions continue to shape the work of an entire generation of geographers and spatial analysts.

KINGWELL, Mark - Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto Mark Kingwell is one of Canada’s leading philosophers and art critics. In his work, he covers topics such as citizenship, happiness, politics, art, architecture, and music. He argues that justice depends not only on political institutions but also on how we conduct civic discourse, the built environments we inhabit, and the aesthetic worlds we create together. Kingwell is also celebrated for bringing philosophy into the public sphere.

David Kirkpatrick is internationally recognized for many seminal contributions to the design and mathematical analysis of algorithms and data structures. His research has significantly enriched our understanding of the intrinsic complexity of a wide collection of fundamental computational and communication tasks. ------------------ KIRKPATRICK, David –Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia David Kirkpatrick is internationally recognized for many seminal contributions to the design and mathematical analysis of algorithms and data structures. His research has significantly enriched our understanding of the intrinsic complexity of a wide collection of fundamental computational and communication tasks. His work has broad application, from algorithms for acoustic simulation of concert halls, virtual machining and video-on-demand broadcasting, to fundamental techniques in computer graphics, robot motion planning and geographic information systems. He is considered a pioneer in the field of computational geometry, where his major contributions include the introduction and application of object-based hierarchical search structures, generalized Voronoi diagrams, alpha-shapes and output-size-sensitive complexity analysis.

Un des fondateurs et actuel co-président de l'Association franco-canadienne d'études stratégiques, Stanislav Kirschbaum est reconnu internationalement dans ce domaine. Il a dirigé plusieurs ouvrages sur des questions d'actualité internationale qui ont attiré l'attention des spécialistes, notamment le dernier La paix a-t-elle un avenir? Auteur de multiples publications en plusieurs langues, il jouit aussi d'une renommée internationale en études slovaques. Son ouvrage A History of Slovakia: The Struggle for Survival, première histoire de la Slovaquie en langue non-slovaque, fait autorité dans le domaine et son dictionnaire historique reste l'instrument de référence fondamental pour ceux qui s'intéressent à ce pays.

In German history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Professor Kitchen has established himself as an authority and a brilliant writer on many subjects ranging from Prussian economic history to Austrian politics in 1934. His six books and several major articles constitute an astonishing 'corpus' of learning and interpretation for so young a man, and some of them have drawn high praise from the old masters in the field, such as F.L. Carsten and Gordon Craig. Kitchen is without a doubt the leading German historian in Canada; his accomplishments merit the highest recognition.

Amira Klip pioneered critical studies of glucose and ion transport, key biological phenomena. Using cellular and molecular tools, she was the first to observe that insulin and exercise cause translocation of glucose transporters (GLUT) and Na/K-pumps to the surface of rodent and human muscle. She introduced muscle cell lines to study anti- diabetic drug action. She discovered: the participation of the enzyme Akt and the cytoskeleton in GLUT translocation; the key proteins involved in GLUT fusion with the cell surface; a bimodal regulation of GLUT biosynthesis by insulin and glucose. These discoveries have had major impact in the field of diabetes research.

KLOOSS, Wolfgang – Centre for Canadian Studies at Trier University Wolfgang Klooss is a well known and highly respected figure in Canadian Studies in Germany and one of the leading European scholars studying Canada and Canadian literatures. In twenty books, authored and edited, and over sixty articles, among them seminal studies on literary representations of the Métis, he has developed a far-reaching analysis of Canada, emphasizing its multicultural diversity through creative interdisciplinary work.

Wolfgang Klooss est un chercheur reconnu et respecté en études canadiennes en Allemagne et un des scientifiques européens les plus renommés en matière d’études sur le Canada et la littérature canadienne. Dans vingt livres, en tant qu’auteur et éditeur, et plus de soixante articles, dont des études novatrices sur les représentations littéraires des Métis, il a présenté une analyse étendue du Canada, soulignant sa diversité multiculturelle à travers des travaux créatifs et interdisciplinaires.