Full-Time Faculty

Janusz Adamus
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Local analytic geometry, singularities, local algebra
Biography: Ph.D., University of Toronto (2003)

Tatyana Barron
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Analysis on manifolds, complex geometry, symplectic geometry, automorphic forms, quantization
Biography: Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University (1998)

Jason Bertram
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Theoretical population genetics, evolutionary dynamics, stochastic processes, population dynamics
Biography: Ph.D., Australian National University (2015)

Taylor Brysiewicz
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Numerical algebraic geometry, symbolic-numeric algorithms, computer algebra, polyhedral geometry, combinatorics
Biography: Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2020

Dan Christensen
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Algebraic topology, homotopy type theory, derived categories, modular representation theory, mathematical physics, algebraic and scientific computation
Biography: Ph.D., MIT, 1997

Matt Davison
Dean (on study leave), Faculty of Science, ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Financial Mathematics, particularly Commodity Finance Mathematics and Data Science to study Financial Wellness Stochastic Optimal Control including Hamilton Jacobi Bellman PDE, Applied Probability Theory, Industrial Mathematics

Graham Denham
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Arrangements of hyperplanes; algebraic aspects of matroid theory; combinatorial algebraic geometry
Biography: PhD at the University of Michigan in 1999

Ajneet Dhillon
Associate ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Algebraic geometry, algebraic stacks, moduli of bundles, essential dimension and derived categories. Currently I am studying derived categories of root stacks with a view to applications in arithmetic geometry.

Matthias Franz
Associate ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Transformation groups, toric topology, homological algebra, computer algebra

Asghar Ghorbanpour
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Noncommutative geometry, spectral geometry, and mathematical physics

Chris Hall
Associate Professor, Acting ChairResearch Interests / Specializations: Number Theory, Arithmetic Geometry

David Jeffrey
SMSS Outreach and Research Director, ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Microhydrodynamics, Low Reynolds Number Flow, Lubrication, Suspensions of particles, Flows in Industrial Machinery, Computer Algebra Systems

Chris Kapulkin
Associate Professor, Associate Chair (Graduate)Research Interests / Specializations: Homotopy Theory, Category Theory, Formalization of Mathematics, Cryptography

Masoud Khalkhali
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Noncommutative geometry, mathematical physics, noncommutative spectral geometry and geometric analysis, cyclic cohomology, operator algebras, quantum groups and Hopf algebras.

Nicole Lemire
Associate ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Associate Professor Birational invariant theory, multiplicative invariants, algebraic groups, Galois cohomology, Lie theory, representation theory, lattices, essential dimension, vector bundles over curves

Anibal Medina-Mardones
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Algebraic topology and homotopy theory, applied and computational topology, higher algebra, mathematical physics, and machine learning

Ján Mináč
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Class field theory, Galois cohomology, absolute Galois groups, group cohomology, motivic cohomology, anabelian geometry, Langlands program

Lyle Muller
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Spectral methods, Signal/image processing, Computational neuroscience, Random-graph theory

Khoa Nguyen
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Quantum Field Theory, Stochastic processes, Control Systems, Differential equations

Martin Pinsonnault
Associate ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Symplectic geometry, Gromov-Witten invariants, Hamiltonian groups actions, low dimensional topology
Teaching: Metric Space Topology, Lie Groups
Biography: Ph.D., UQAM, 2002

Greg Reid
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Nonlinear differential equations (especially PDE), Algorithms (especially for Computer Algebra), Geometric & Algebraic Algorithms

David Riley
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Combinatorial associative and Lie algebra; the relationship between actions, gradings, and identities.

Hristo Sendov
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Joint with the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Science

Rasul Shafikov
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Several complex variables: holomorphic mappings and CR geometry; polynomial and rational convexity and approximation theory; Levi-flat sets.

Gord Sinnamon
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Hardy inequalities, Fourier inequalities, function spaces, positive operators

Yvon Verberne
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Low dimensional topology and geometric group theory, with a specific interest in studying the geometry of the mapping class group

Lindi Wahl
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Theoretical population genetics, Mathematical models of experimental evolution, Microbial evolution

Geoff Wild
Professor, Associate Chair (Undergraduate)Research Interests / Specializations: Mathematical Biology, Evolutionary Biology, Modelling Animal Behaviour

Pei Yu
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Nonlinear dynamical systems, Stability, bifurcation, and chaos, Mathematical biology, Hilbert's 16th problem and limit cycles theory, Normal form computation

Xingfu Zou
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Applied differential equations (PDEs, ODEs and DDEs) and dynamical systems, mathematical biology (or biomathematics)