The International Scientific Advisory Committee of the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) recently announced that the  Probability Lab member Louis-Pierre Arguin from the Université de Montréal and the City University of New York (Baruch College and Graduate Center) is the 2015 André Aisenstadt Prize recipient. The André Aisenstadt Mathematics Prize, which recognizes outstanding research achievement by a young Canadian mathematician in pure or applied mathematics, consists of a $3,000 award and a medal. Previous recipients of the prize working in probability include: Omer  Angel (2010), Jonathan Taylor (2008) and Ander Holroyd (2007). 

For a short description of Louis-Pierre’s research see: http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/prix/prixAA15_an.shtml