Full-Time Faculty

Janusz Adamus

Professor

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

Tatyana Barron

Professor

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

Jason Bertram

Assistant Professor

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

Taylor Brysiewicz

Assistant Professor

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

Dan Christensen

Professor

Research 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, Professor

Research 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

Professor

Research 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 Professor

Research 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 Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Transformation groups, toric topology, homological algebra, computer algebra

Asghar Ghorbanpour

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Noncommutative geometry, spectral geometry, and mathematical physics

Chris Hall

Associate Professor, Acting Chair

Research Interests / Specializations: Number Theory, Arithmetic Geometry

David Jeffrey

SMSS Outreach and Research Director, Professor

Research 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

Professor

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

Nicole Lemire

Associate Professor

Research 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 Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Algebraic topology and homotopy theory, applied and computational topology, higher algebra, mathematical physics, and machine learning

Ján Mináč

Professor

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

Lyle Muller

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Spectral methods, Signal/image processing, Computational neuroscience, Random-graph theory

Khoa Nguyen

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Quantum Field Theory, Stochastic processes, Control Systems, Differential equations

Martin Pinsonnault

Associate Professor

Research 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

Professor

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

David Riley

Professor

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

Hristo Sendov

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Joint with the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Science

Rasul Shafikov

Professor

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

Gord Sinnamon

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Hardy inequalities, Fourier inequalities, function spaces, positive operators

Yvon Verberne

Assistant Professor

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

Lindi Wahl

Professor

Research 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

Professor

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

Xingfu Zou

Professor

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