Births, Deaths, Marriages, Migrations, etc.
Born 12:30, November 11, 1979, at York Finch Hospital in North York (now
Toronto), Ontario, Canada
First child born to
Father: Roderick Thomas Coward (born Aug. 8, 1948 in Toronto, Ontario,
Canada)
Mother: Teresa Regina Kolowska (born Sept. 14, 1948 in Straduny, Poland)
Attending physician: Dr. Arnold Louis Ein
Birth Weight: 3830g
Birth registered with governments of Ontario (Canada) and the United States of
America.
Stefanie Elizabeth Coward (sister) Born October 27, 1982
Married to name withheld
September 23, 2005 by Fr. Jeremy Crow
in the (gnostic) Church of the Glorious Christ. (The marriage was not registered
with the government, as a protest concerning marriage policies under consideration
at the time)
Fathered name withheld by aforementioned wife;
Birth: 20:22 February 10, 2006, at St. Joseph's Health Centre in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada
Married to Jess
Dobkin October 20, 2006 by her website. (This marriage is neither
registered with any government, nor with any church, and the marriage
contract specifically stipulated that we will "not allow any government to
determine or define our loving relationships". My first wife also married
Jess a few days before me, and we agreed that the nature of the different
ceremonies and sets of vows still left us considerably closer to each other
than to Jess -- though we subsequently shared a stage with her).
Marriage to name withheld ended March 25, 2012. End of marriage
finalized on September 2, 2012 by the immolation of notes regarding the
marriage and its breakdown in
The Temple
of Juno (since the government was uninvolved, there was no divorce
paperwork, and this seemed a fitting substitute to provide
finality/closure).
Education
Kindergarten to Grade 3: Kenollie Public School (1984-1988)
Grade 4 to Grade 8:
Tecumseh Public School (Mississauga)
(1988-1993)
Secondary School:
Lorne Park Secondary School
(1993-1997)
B.Sc.: University of Toronto
(1997-2001)
M.Sc.: University of Toronto
(2001-2002) Stable Rank, Perforation, and Dimension Growth in Simple
C*-Algebras, Supervisor: George A. Elliott
Ph.D.:
University of Toronto
(2002-2007) The Cuntz semigroup as a classification functor for C*-algebras
Defense Committee:
George A. Elliott (Advisor),
Mikael Rørdam (External examiner),
Man-Duen Choi,
Chandler Davis,
Peter Rosenthal,
Michael Carter (Chair)
Other Notables
May 3 - July 23, 2008: Bicycled across Canada.
"However, sometimes we must come out of our cocoons and do things that are necessary, even
if we don't have the ability to do such things especially well."
--Donald Ervin Knuth