Full-Time Faculty

Janusz Adamus

Associate Professor

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

Tatyana Barron

Associate Professor

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

Dan Christensen

Professor, Associate Chair (Graduate)

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

Graham Denham

Associate Professor, Acting Chair

Research Interests / Specializations: Algebraic combinatorics; arrangements of hyperplanes and subspaces; configuration spaces; combinatorial aspects of rational homotopy theory
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

Chris Hall

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Number Theory, Arithmetic Geometry

Rick Jardine

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Homotopy theory and its applications, algebraic geometry, category theory

Chris Kapulkin

Assistant Professor, Chair of Graduate Admissions

Research Interests / Specializations: Category Theory, Homotopy Theory, Homotopy Type Theory, Categorical Representation Theory, 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, Associate Chair (Undergraduate)

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

Ján Mináč

Professor

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

Vicki Olds

Assistant Professor

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

Lex E. Renner

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Algebraic groups and monoids, related combinatorics. Algebraic transformation groups, invariant theory. Standard canonical form for linear transformations over DVRs.
Biography: Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 1982

David Riley

Professor

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

Rasul Shafikov

Associate 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